Infrastructure & DevOps

Unkey

Last updated 2026-07-08 · benchmark measured 2026-09-10 — deterministic & reproducible

API management platform for deploying, routing, and monitoring APIs.

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Legit.Show scored Unkey 71/100 on 2026-09-10, measured across 5 of 7 frames from its public surface. legit.show/s/unkey-com/2026-09-10

Is Unkey production-ready?

Legit.Show scores Unkey 71 out of 100 — the simple average of its 5 measured frames. Legit.Show ran its deterministic 7-Frame production-readiness benchmark on Unkey (public-surface assessment), measured from the public surface with no LLM in the scoring path. Its strongest frame is Reliability; its weakest is Privacy. 5 of the seven frames returned a score; Performance and Accessibility were not measurable on this service and are recorded as null — not as zero. Every frame it averages is published with its evidence on the Legit.Show listing.

The 7 Frames

• Performance — not measurable on this service (null — not scored as 0)
• Accessibility — not measurable on this service (null — not scored as 0)
• Security — 45/100
  How this compares across the catalogue: The Web Security Baseline
• Privacy — 25/100
  How this compares across the catalogue: The Privacy Gap
• Reliability — 100/100
• Standards — 100/100
• Discoverability — 85/100

What we measured

• Security headers present: HSTS.
• No Content-Security-Policy.
• Served over HTTPS with a valid certificate.
• Real Lighthouse performance run — 1033 ms to first byte.
• Returns a proper 404 for unknown routes.
• 3 of 3 sampled routes reachable.
• No privacy policy found.
• Sets cookies / loads scripts with no consent prompt.

Who built it

James Perkins, Andreas Thomas · product account @unkeydev

Who it's for

API developers · Backend engineers · DevOps teams · SaaS companies · Enterprise infrastructure teams

Pricing

Starter $5/mo (2 vCPU, 2GB RAM), Pro $25/mo (8 vCPU, 8GB RAM), Business $50/mo (16 vCPU, 32GB RAM), Enterprise custom pricing

Sources and updates

Description

Taken from unkey.com's own website on 2026-07-08.

Operator

Unkey Inc., as named in unkey.com's terms, privacy page or footer.

Benchmark

Measured by Legit.Show from the live site, the way any visitor sees it — with no access to its code or accounts. Same method for every product, and no AI decides the score. Last checked 2026-09-10.

Put together from public information, without Unkey's involvement. If anything here is wrong, tell us and a person will check it.

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