unkeyed/unkey
The Developer Platform for Modern APIs observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
92/100
- Activity 99
- Release rhythm 87
- Longevity 84
Flags: no_license
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: 0
- age_days: 1181
- days_rel: 7
- days_push: 7
- n_releases_24m: 272
Adoption not part of the score
5423 stars · 633 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded
Unkey is an open-source, source-available developer platform for modern APIs that combines instant deployments, a globally distributed gateway, API key issuance and verification, rate limiting, RBAC permissions, analytics, and audit logs in one control plane. It can be used as a hosted service or self-hosted under the AGPL license.
Use cases
- issue and verify API keys with fast global verification
- add rate limiting to my API without running Redis
- deploy an API to production from a git push with multi-region routing
- add per-key permissions and RBAC to my API
- track API usage and latency analytics per key
- self-host an open-source alternative to Kong for API management
- keep immutable audit logs of workspace actions
When to choose
- you want a unified platform for API deployment, authentication, rate limiting, and analytics instead of stitching together multiple vendors
- you need globally consistent rate limiting and fast API key verification
- you want an open-source, self-hostable API management platform
- you want git-based deploys with preview environments and instant rollbacks
When to avoid
- you need a fully permissive OSS license - Unkey is AGPL source-available and not accepting external pull requests
- you only need a simple reverse proxy or load balancer without key management
- you require deep customization of the platform internals or third-party contributions
- you need on-premise deployment outside the supported cloud regions
Facets
service · maturity active
auth authorization rate-limiting api-gateway analytics deployment logging monitoring apis backend developer-tools security self-hosted web-development self-hosted cloud go api-keys api-management gateway rbac audit-logs multi-region open-source web-server
8 sources
- readme: https://github.com/unkeyed/unkey · fetched 2026-08-28 · 9892bef706ca
- homepage: https://go.unkey.com · fetched 2026-08-29 · da16c2bd8261
- site_page: https://unkey.com/docs/introduction · fetched 2026-08-29 · e202e68882c3
- site_page: https://unkey.com/docs/build-and-deploy/regions · fetched 2026-08-29 · 4a66e1006743
- site_page: https://unkey.com/docs/observability/overview · fetched 2026-08-29 · 48336786e84c
- site_page: https://www.unkey.com/about · fetched 2026-08-29 · b01cc8d21cb9
- site_page: https://www.unkey.com/changelog · fetched 2026-08-29 · 9407570c3fc8
- site_page: https://www.unkey.com/pricing · fetched 2026-08-29 · 148e31d74fdb
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| unkeyed/unkey | main | 92 |
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