Multi-Purpose

Requiems API vs API Ninjas

API Ninjas provides 135+ production-ready APIs covering finance, AI/vision, health, entertainment, transportation, and more β€” used by 600,000+ developers including Fortune 500 companies. Zero data storage policy.

Validation depth

API Ninjas has breadth but shallow validation APIs. Requiems API's email, phone, and IP validation goes deeper β€” SMTP checks, HLR lookup, threat scoring.

Real-time data

API Ninjas sources some data from static datasets. Requiems API does live checks for email, phone, and IP on every call.

Enterprise-ready billing

Both offer volume pricing. Requiems API adds per-team usage dashboards, per-key rate limits, and invoice-based billing.

Feature comparison

Feature Requiems API API Ninjas
Email validation
Phone validation
IP geolocation
Finance / stock / crypto data
Live SMTP check
IP threat detection
Earnings transcripts
Domain availability
135+ endpoints
OpenAPI 3.1 spec

Benchmarks

Requiems API
Latency (p50)
~120ms p50
Uptime SLA
99.9%
API coverage
100+ APIs
Free tier
500 req/mo
API Ninjas
Latency (p50)
243ms median
Uptime SLA
99.99%
API coverage
135+ APIs
Free tier
Free tier (no card)

Philosophy

API Ninjas is a data catalogue β€” thousands of facts served via REST. Requiems API is a validation and enrichment platform β€” we do live checks against real-world systems, not just database lookups. If you need historical earnings transcripts or animal facts, API Ninjas wins. If you need to know whether an email address actually receives mail right now, Requiems API is the right tool.

Migrating from API Ninjas

  1. 1

    Replace `api.api-ninjas.com/v1/{endpoint}` with `requiems.xyz/v1/{category}/{endpoint}`

  2. 2

    Swap `X-Api-Key` header for `requiems-api-key: <key>`

  3. 3

    Consult per-endpoint migration docs for field mapping

Read full migration docs

Ready to switch from API Ninjas?

500 free API calls per month, no credit card required. Migration takes under an hour.