Let’s be real: if you're building software in 2025 and still paying just to hit an API endpoint, something's broken.

API integration isn’t some premium feature anymore—it’s baseline infrastructure. You use APIs for literally everything: CRMs, billing, inventory, dashboards, Slack notifications, weather forecasts, cat facts. The entire stack runs on APIs now.

So why are so many “developer tools” still locking that behind a paywall?

That’s Why We’re Giving It Away

At Lonti, we decided to stop pretending API access is a feature—and just make it part of our free edition.

We built Martini, a low-code platform made for developers. It’s not another toy drag-and-drop builder. It’s an API-first environment that lets you:

✅ Consume REST/SOAP APIs (or anything you want)

✅ Orchestrate workflows visually or with code

✅ Automate multi-step processes across services

✅ Write custom Java, Groovy, or JS when you need it

✅ Deploy and monitor your integrations

✅ Actually version and reuse your services like a grown-up

And we’re not hiding that behind a sales call or credit card form. You can do it now, for free:

👉 https://console.lonti.com/signup

💀 Why We’re Tired of “Free” That Isn’t

Too many “free” tools offer you a blank canvas, then go, “Oh, you wanted to actually connect this to an API? That’ll be $49/month.”

Nah. That’s not dev-friendly. That’s upsell theater.

We’re devs too. We’ve spent hours writing glue code just to get two services to talk. We’ve been burned by brittle connectors. We’ve hit the rate limits, read the bad docs, and dealt with auth schemes that deserve their own support group.

So we built a tool that just… works. And we made sure you could use it to do real work even on the free plan.

🔌 What You Can Build (Right Now)

Want to:

  • Spin up a quick API gateway for internal services?
  • Build a REST wrapper around a SOAP endpoint?
  • Create a data sync flow between your CRM and your internal DB?
  • Orchestrate a multi-step process that checks inventory, confirms billing, and sends a webhook?

You can do all of that in the free version of Martini.

And yeah, you can version your APIs. You can test in-place. You can deploy them to production. No tricks. No credit card required.

💬 Final Thought

If integration isn’t free, it isn’t developer-first.

You shouldn’t be forced to pay just to connect the systems you already own. You shouldn’t have to justify “premium access” just to do your job.

So stop fighting your stack. Stop waiting for budget approvals to move data from point A to point B.

Integration is table stakes. So we’re giving it to you.

Original source: Integrating APIs Is Now Table Stakes—So We’re Giving It Away for Free