API marketplaces
Where APIs get bought: listing rules, revenue share and discovery mechanics.
Measured 2026-W36 · 2026-08-31 · google.com, gl=us
The shape of this topic
Google answers api marketplaces queries itself more often than it does across the corpus as a whole — 52.6 against 50.8 percent.
Who Google cites here
Who ranks here
Cited more often than ranked
| Domain | Citations | Page-one finishes | Gap |
|---|---|---|---|
| substack.com | 12 | 0 | +12 |
| docs.snowflake-marketplace.dev | 12 | 0 | +12 |
| cloudflare.com | 12 | 0 | +12 |
| docs.nango.com | 11 | 0 | +11 |
| docs.apify.com | 10 | 0 | +10 |
These domains earn a place in Google's own answer more often than they earn a place on page one. Whatever gets a source into an AI Overview, it is not only ranking.
By what the searcher wants
| Intent | Queries | AI Overview |
|---|---|---|
| commercial | 50 | 22.0% |
| informational | 70 | 72.9% |
| comparison | 18 | 72.2% |
| navigational | 8 | 25.0% |
| support | 10 | 50.0% |
Intent is assigned when the query enters the corpus, not inferred afterwards, so this split is stable from week to week.
Result features
Queries in this topic
Measure a topic of your own
Pick your queries, run them on a schedule, keep what comes back. That is the whole method — the endpoint below returns the overview, its citations and the organic results together.
curl --request GET \
--url 'https://serpens.p.rapidapi.com/api/v1/search_ai_overview?q=best%20api%20marketplaces&gl=us&hl=en&format=json' \
--header 'x-rapidapi-host: serpens.p.rapidapi.com' \
--header 'x-rapidapi-key: YOUR_KEY'
Start measuring
Free tier, no card. Same endpoint that produced every number on this page.