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Free Mock APIs & Test Data Services (2026)

Updated for 2026: 26+ realistic dummy data sources, REST endpoints, and mock servers for rapid frontend and mobile prototyping.

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JSONPlaceholder

Development & Testing
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Free fake REST API for prototyping, mock posts, comments, todos, and users with zero configuration.

💎 Free: Unlimited 🔑 No Key

ReqRes

Development & Testing
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A hosted REST-API ready to respond to your AJAX requests with simulated realistic user and auth data.

💎 Free: Unlimited 🔑 No Key

DummyJSON

Development & Testing
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Free dummy REST API with products, carts, users, posts, comments, auth, and image placeholder endpoints.

💎 Free: Unlimited 🔑 No Key

Public directory and queryable dataset of over 9,000 accredited universities and domains worldwide.

💎 Free: Unlimited 🔑 No Key

CountAPI

Development & Testing
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Free, persistent key-value counter API to track page views, hits, and downloads without creating a database.

💎 Free: Unlimited 🔑 No Key

Agify.io

Development & Testing
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Predict someone's age from their first name based on international census records and demographic modeling.

💎 Free: 1,000 req/day 🔑 No Key

Genderize.io

Development & Testing
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Predict gender from first name with international probability scores and database of over 100M profiles.

💎 Free: 1,000 req/day 🔑 No Key

Nationalize.io

Development & Testing
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Estimate nationality and origin country probabilities from given names using statistical country data.

💎 Free: 1,000 req/day 🔑 No Key

RandomUser.me

Development & Testing
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Free API for generating realistic placeholder user data with photos, names, emails, and address models.

💎 Free: Unlimited 🔑 No Key

Httpbin.org

Development & Testing
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HTTP client testing service with endpoints for inspecting headers, status codes, methods, and payloads.

💎 Free: Unlimited 🔑 No Key

RequestBin

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Inspect HTTP requests and webhooks with real-time payload logging and debugging.

💎 Free: Unlimited 🔑 No Key

Postman Echo

Development & Testing
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Echo service to test REST clients, authorization headers, digest auth, and query parameters.

💎 Free: Unlimited 🔑 No Key

JSONBin.io

Development & Testing
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Free cloud storage for JSON data, ideal for prototyping frontend applications with mock backends.

💎 Free: 10,000 req/mo 🔑 Free API Key

Mocky.io

Development & Testing
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Generate custom HTTP responses with custom bodies, headers, and status codes with zero backend setup.

💎 Free: Unlimited 🔑 No Key

Beeceptor

Development & Testing
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Create mock API endpoints in 5 seconds to test incoming webhooks, payloads, and simulated responses.

💎 Free: 50 req/day 🔑 No Key

Query Wikidata's linked open database using SPARQL queries to extract structured facts and entities.

💎 Free: Unlimited 🔑 No Key

Free HTTP microservice to generate customizable high-resolution QR codes on the fly in PNG and SVG.

💎 Free: Unlimited 🔑 No Key

Malicious URL feed and threat intelligence database for automated cybersecurity scanning.

💎 Free: Unlimited 🔑 No Key

K-anonymity search API checking password hashes against billions of compromised breach credentials securely.

💎 Free: Unlimited 🔑 No Key

GitHub API endpoint returning metadata, permissions, and conditions for popular open source licenses.

💎 Free: 60 req/hr 🔑 No Key

Genderize API

Development & Testing
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Predict gender from first name with probability scores and count statistics.

💎 Free: 1,000 req/day 🔑 No Key

Agify API

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Predict age from first names based on statistical demographic modeling.

💎 Free: 1,000 req/day 🔑 No Key

Nationalize API

Development & Testing
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Predict nationality from names returning top country codes and confidence scores.

💎 Free: 1,000 req/day 🔑 No Key

Public APIs Index

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Queryable directory of hundreds of free public APIs categorized by topic and authentication requirements.

💎 Free: Unlimited 🔑 No Key

CurlShot

Development & Testing
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Screenshot API: one GET request renders a URL, HTML, or Markdown to PNG, JPEG, WebP, PDF, or scrolling video (MP4/WebM/GIF), with full-page and element capture, device presets, dark mode, and ad/cookie-banner blocking. Free plan: 100 screenshots/month that resets monthly, no credit card.

💎 Free: 100 screenshots/month (resets monthly), 10 requests/minute; failed renders and cache hits not counted 🔑 Free API Key

Datacircle

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Find the best GTM APIs. Benchmarking GTM APIs with published results at datacircle.dev. Base URL https://api.datacircle.dev/v1.

💎 Free: 60 calls/min 🔑 No Key

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