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Welcome to Blackbird

Blackbird is an API development platform designed to help developers design, build, test, and manage APIs efficiently with AI-powered code gen, mocking in minutes, and prod-like test environments.

With Blackbird you can:

Design APIs instantly

Generate OpenAPI-standardized specs in seconds. Fix your specs from within Blackbird. Start coding immediately without spending an entire sprint on API design.

Mock APIs in minutes

Create dynamic or static, shareable mock APIs in seconds without writing or maintaining code manually. Easily validate and refine your APIs.

AI-Powered code generation

Skip the tedious common code. Blackbird automatically generates client and server-side API boilerplate code.

Test effectively

Run and deploy code in an Ambassador-hosted production-like test environment.

Debug seamlessly

Set breakpoints and debug directly from your preferred IDE with Blackbird's integrated debugging tools.

Features

Out-of-the-box API dev tools: Create and edit specs, mock, write boilerplate code, debug your APIs faster, and test in a production-like environment—all with simple, intuitive tools that leverage AI and Blackbird proprietary technology.

Easy collaboration: Validate your specs, mock, run tests in a live environment, and debug with your team in Blackbird, letting you deploy your API to production with confidence.

Prod-like test environment: Total control of your own test environment on your local machine or in your dedicated Blackbird Dev Environment – always available in your Blackbird account with no cloud costs.

Documentation and tutorials

Dive into our documentation, visit our blog, and demo center for interesting use cases, product demos and tutorials.

Stay updated

Keep up with the latest improvements and new features by checking out our public release notes.

Get started for free

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