Speakeasy
Speakeasy is a San Francisco-based developer infrastructure company that generates type-safe SDKs, Terraform providers, CLIs, and MCP servers from OpenAPI specs, and provides an enterprise AI Control Plane to govern AI agents, MCP servers, and skills across Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, and Copilot deployments.
- Company typePrivate
- Founded2022
- HeadquartersSan Francisco, United States
- Headcount11–50
- GTM typeB2B
- OfferingSoftware
What Speakeasy does
Speakeasy Development, Inc. is a San Francisco-based developer infrastructure company founded in 2022 that operates a two-pronged platform: an API Platform that generates idiomatic, type-safe SDKs, Terraform providers, command-line interfaces, and MCP servers from OpenAPI specifications, and an AI Control Plane (centered on the Gram hosted product and the MCP Gateway) that lets enterprises connect, control, secure, and observe AI agents, MCP servers, and skills across Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Copilot, and Codex deployments. The platform is orchestrated by an open-source Go-based CLI, integrates OAuth 2.1 with DCR and PKCE, supports air-gapped and self-hosted deployments, and meets SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001 certifications. Technical differentiators include a uniquely small TypeScript runtime dependency footprint, Zod-based runtime type safety, and the only SDK generator (alongside OpenAPI Generator) that supports fully air-gapped deployment, per a company-published comparison.
Speakeasy makes money primarily through tiered subscription SaaS plans (monthly or annual in advance) covering both the API Platform and the AI Control Plane, with a freemium entry tier and a publicly cited per-language usage price of approximately $600 per month for SDK generation that supports a land-and-expand motion. An enterprise tier layers on custom contracts, 99.99% uptime SLAs with credit structures, P0/P1/P2 support SLAs, dedicated Slack/Teams channels, and forward-deployed engineering teams. Customer acquisition is hybrid: self-serve signup at app.speakeasy.com and app.getgram.ai for individuals and SMBs, enterprise field sales for larger deployments, and developer-relations-led distribution through the GitHub Marketplace, package managers, an open-source CLI, and an active Slack community.
The customer base spans enterprise engineering and security teams adopting AI tooling, API-producing SaaS and fintech companies (SolarWinds, Prove, Mistral, Fivetran, LaunchDarkly, Cloudinary, PlanetScale, Polar, Unified.to, ConductorOne, Codat, Apex, Kong, Airbyte, Apiture, Docusign, Google, Verizon, Fifth Third Bank, Redis, Glean, Vercel), and AI-first companies building MCP servers and agents. The company has raised approximately $26 million in total disclosed funding across a $3.3M pre-seed (2022, Quiet Capital), a $7.6M seed (June 2023, GV-led), and a $15M Series A (Feb 2024, FPV Ventures-led with GV and Quiet Capital), and is led by co-founder and CEO Sagar Batchu and co-founder and CPO Simon Yu.
Speakeasy firmographics
Firmographics- Name
- Speakeasy
- Legal name
- Speakeasy Development, Inc.
- Website
- https://speakeasy.com
- Company type
- Private
- Founded year
- 2022
- Operating status
- Operating
- Headcount range
- 11–50 employees
- Short description
- Speakeasy is a San Francisco-based developer infrastructure company that generates type-safe SDKs, Terraform providers, CLIs, and MCP servers from OpenAPI specs, and provides an enterprise AI Control Plane to govern AI agents, MCP servers, and skills across Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, and Copilot deployments.
- Ownership category
- akta.pro rank
Speakeasy industry classification
Industry- Product category
- API Infrastructure & Developer Tools
- NAICS
- Software Publishers (5132)
- SIC
- Services-Prepackaged Software (7372)
- akta.pro primary industry
- AI Application Enablement Platforms (Copilot/Agent Frameworks, SDKs) (HDAEANAJ)
- akta.pro secondary industries
- Managed Application Platforms (App PaaS & Runtime Services) (HDABAAAD), Enterprise PaaS (App Runtime & Managed Application Platforms) (HDAEAKAB)
Keywords
Where Speakeasy is headquartered
LocationHeadquarters
- HQ city
- San Francisco
- HQ country
- United States
- HQ region
- North America
Offices1 record
Markets served
Speakeasy business model
Business model- GTM type
- B2B
- Offering type
- Software
- Cost components
- Personnel, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Operations, Infrastructure
Revenue model
- Subscription SaaS (API Platform & AI Control Plane): Primary revenue stream: tiered subscription plans for both the API Platform (SDK/Terraform/CLI/MCP generation) and the AI Control Plane (MCP gateway, identity, observability). Plans are billed monthly or annually in advance via a hosted payment link and third-party payment processor.
- Freemium Tier: Complimentary access tier available to all users with optional upgrade to paid subscriptions; downgrades from paid to freemium take effect at the start of the next billing cycle.
- Per-Language Usage Pricing: Per-language unit pricing model where customers pay per language for SDK generation (publicly cited at $600 per month per language for Speakeasy SDK), enabling land-and-expand as customers add additional target languages.
- Enterprise Contracts & Forward-Deployed Engineering: Enterprise tier with custom contracts, dedicated customer support channel (Slack/Teams), P0/P1/P2 SLAs with response credits, 99.99% uptime SLA with service credits, and forward-deployed engineering teams that integrate alongside customers.
Pricing tiers
| Model | Billing | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Usage-based | Monthly | Per-language pricing for SDK generation, cited at $600/month per language |
| Freemium | Monthly | Freemium tier for complimentary access |
| Subscription | Annual | Paid subscription plans (monthly or annual) |
| Other | Multi-year contract | Enterprise tier with custom contracts, 99.99% uptime SLA, and P0/P1/P2 support SLAs |
Go-to-market motion1 record
Distribution channels5 records
Marketing channels9 records
Speakeasy product offering
Product offeringCore offering
Speakeasy sells a software platform that generates idiomatic, type-safe SDKs, Terraform providers, CLIs, and MCP servers from OpenAPI specifications, plus an enterprise AI Control Plane (delivered via the Gram hosted MCP platform and an MCP Gateway) that connects, secures, controls, and observes AI agents and MCP servers across an organization. The platform is delivered as a subscription SaaS with freemium entry, per-language usage pricing, and enterprise contracts that include SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, air-gapped deployment, and forward-deployed engineering support.
Product overview
Speakeasy operates as a platform-plus-modules architecture with two main product lines. The API Platform is the legacy/SDK-generation suite, comprising SDK Generation (Managed SDKs), Terraform Provider Generation, and CLI Generation — all orchestrated through the open-source Speakeasy CLI and driven from OpenAPI specifications. The MCP Platform is the newer growth axis, built around the AI Control Plane (the enterprise governance layer that connects, controls, secures, and observes AI agents and MCP servers), the MCP Gateway (a central enforcement point), Gram (the hosted MCP build/deploy/observe runtime), MCP Server Generation (producing MCP servers from OpenAPI), and Docs MCP (documentation agents can query). All products share underlying infrastructure including the CLI, the Insights/Code Samples/Gram Agents APIs, and a unified identity layer that integrates with Okta, Entra ID, Clerk, Ping Identity, and Google Workspace, while the SDK products integrate with docs providers (Mintlify, Scalar, Bump.sh, README.com) and the AI products integrate with a broad ecosystem of AI agents (Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Codex, Claude Code) and agent frameworks (LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, Pydantic AI, Mastra, Vellum, Vercel AI SDK).
Differentiator
Problem solved
Functional benefit
Brands
- Gram: Separate web application powering Speakeasy's AI Control Plane and MCP platform, accessible at app.getgram.ai.
Products and services
- AI Control Plane Enterprise control plane for AI that provides four core functions — Connect, Control, Secure, and Observe — to safely scale MCP servers, skills, and AI assistants across an organization with fine-grained permissions, threat detection, and full observability.
- MCP Gateway Central enforcement point that sits between every AI agent and every MCP server, providing OAuth 2.1 with DCR and PKCE, role-based permissions, audit logging, shadow MCP detection, and network-level access controls.
- Gram Hosted MCP platform that lets teams build, deploy, curate, secure, and observe MCP servers, including Gram Functions (TypeScript-native framework for agent tools), private server OAuth, internal MCP registry, dynamic toolsets, and shadow MCP detection.
- SDK Generation (Managed SDKs) Generates idiomatic, type-safe client SDKs directly from OpenAPI specifications for TypeScript, Python, Go, Java, C#, PHP, Ruby, Unity/C#, Rust, and C++ with minimal dependencies, forward compatibility, automated testing, and continuous maintenance.
- Terraform Provider Generation Generates Terraform providers from OpenAPI specifications with support for custom types, ephemeral resources, actions, polling, globals, pagination, per-resource security, and JQ transformations; can be wrapped for Pulumi.
- CLI Generation Generates command-line interfaces from OpenAPI specifications with agent-friendly patterns, an `agent` subcommand (context, feedback, setup-skills), and an `ask` subcommand for conversational API interaction.
- Docs MCP Beta product that makes API documentation understandable and queryable by AI agents via the Model Context Protocol, enabling natural-language retrieval over API references and reducing token usage via dynamic toolsets.
- MCP Server Generation Generates Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers from OpenAPI documents with custom prompts, custom resources, customizable tools, eval command for testing, OAuth support, and standalone/self-hostable deployments including Cloudflare Workers.
- Speakeasy CLI Open-source Go-based command-line interface that orchestrates creation of SDKs, Terraform providers, Postman collections, documentation, CLIs, and MCP servers; runs locally on developer machines or as a verified GitHub Action in CI/CD workflows.
Quantifiable outcome
- 100% Employee AI rollout achieved at Fermat
- +7 more outcomes
Companies that use Speakeasy
Customer profileNamed customers26 records
Segments5 records
Ideal customer profiles5 records
Speakeasy technology and API
TechnologyTechnology focussed Yes
API detail
- Has API
- Yes
- API docs
- API detail
Core technology
AI maturity
App detail
Integration40 records
AI capability10 records
Feature10 records
Speakeasy partnerships and signals
Strategic signalPartnerships
26 partnerships are on record, tiered core integration, standard integration, strategic, flagship (model partner) and flagship (coding assistant partner).
- Microsoft Entra IDcore integrationIdentity provider integration for Speakeasy's AI Control Plane, enabling OAuth/SAML SSO, automated provisioning, and role-based access control by connecting Entra ID.
- Oktacore integrationIdentity provider integration for Speakeasy's AI Control Plane, enabling OAuth/SAML SSO and existing-roles-based access.
- Clerkcore integrationIdentity provider integration for Speakeasy's AI Control Plane supporting user authentication and access control flows.
- Ping Identitycore integrationIdentity provider integration for the AI Control Plane supporting enterprise SSO and identity workflows.
- Google Workspacecore integrationIdentity provider integration for the AI Control Plane, enabling Google Workspace SSO and directory-based provisioning.
- Salesforcestandard integrationPre-built integration as part of Speakeasy's SaaS tool catalog for connecting AI agents to Salesforce with one click and governed access.
- Slackstandard integrationPre-built integration for the AI Control Plane and incident alerting (e.g., real-time security alerts to Slack channels).
- GitHubstrategicPre-built integration enabling governed AI agent access to GitHub (read/write). Also central to SDK distribution via Speakeasy's verified GitHub Action and customer GitHub workflows.
- Linearstandard integrationPre-built integration for AI agents in the AI Control Plane catalog with per-team access controls.
- Snowflakestandard integrationPre-built integration enabling governed AI agent access to Snowflake for data workloads.
- HubSpotstandard integrationPre-built SaaS integration for the AI Control Plane's tool catalog (one-click connection).
- Anthropic (Claude)flagship (model partner)Anthropic's Claude is centrally supported by Speakeasy's AI Control Plane with the same rollout, oversight, and cost controls applied as to other agents.
- OpenAI (ChatGPT, Codex)flagship (model partner)OpenAI's ChatGPT and Codex are centrally supported AI agents under the AI Control Plane with governance, identity, and cost controls.
- Cursorflagship (coding assistant partner)Cursor is centrally supported under the AI Control Plane as a governed coding agent.
- GitHub Copilotflagship (coding assistant partner)GitHub Copilot is centrally supported under the AI Control Plane as a governed coding agent with role-based permissions.
- LangChainstandard integrationLangChain agent framework integration with Speakeasy/Gram-hosted MCP servers, providing usage examples in the documentation.
- OpenAI Agents SDKstandard integrationOpenAI Agents SDK integration with Speakeasy/Gram-hosted MCP servers.
- Mastrastandard integrationMastra agent framework integration with Speakeasy/Gram-hosted MCP servers.
- Pydantic AIstandard integrationPydantic AI agent framework integration with Speakeasy/Gram-hosted MCP servers.
- Vellumstandard integrationVellum Agents framework integration with Speakeasy/Gram-hosted MCP servers.
- Vercel AI SDKstandard integrationVercel AI SDK integration with Speakeasy/Gram-hosted MCP servers (Polar uses Vercel AI SDK on the frontend with a Gram-generated MCP server on the backend).
- Cloudflare (Workers)standard integrationDeployment integration allowing Speakeasy-generated MCP servers to be deployed to Cloudflare Workers.
- AWS (Amazon Web Services)standard integrationAWS is one of the top models/platforms made secure via the Speakeasy AI Control Plane.
- Microsoft Azurestandard integrationAzure is one of the top models/platforms made secure via the Speakeasy AI Control Plane.
- Oraclestandard integrationOracle is one of the top models/platforms made secure via the Speakeasy AI Control Plane.
- PagerDutystandard integrationIntegration for sending security incidents and alerts to PagerDuty in real time as part of Speakeasy's AI Control Plane.
Scale indicators12 records
Recent moves6 records
Expansion highlights6 records
Speakeasy competitors and assessment
Company assessmentEmerging players
- Mintlify: Adjacent developer-tooling company for API documentation that Speakeasy already integrates with as a docs provider. Comparable because Mintlify has its own AI/MCP story for documentation agents, partially overlapping with Speakeasy's Docs MCP product.
- Portkey: Emerging AI gateway offering observability, guardrails, and routing for LLM calls. Compares to Speakeasy's AI Control Plane in the 'govern and observe every AI interaction' wedge but focuses on LLM traffic rather than the broader agent/MCP layer.
- Arcade: Emerging player in MCP/agent tool-calling infrastructure. Comparable as an early-stage alternative in the MCP gateway and AI tool integration space Speakeasy is targeting with the AI Control Plane and Gram.
Broad incumbents
- ReadMe: Established API documentation and developer hub platform that is also a Speakeasy integration partner. Comparable as a broad incumbent targeting the same API-producer buyer with documentation, metrics, and now AI-augmented developer experiences.
- Postman: Broad incumbent in the API development lifecycle (design, testing, mocking, documentation, monitoring). Overlaps with Speakeasy at the API-producer buyer level but as part of a much wider portfolio rather than a focused SDK-generation and AI-governance play.
- Kong: Incumbent API gateway and service connectivity platform that also offers Terraform provider generation and an emerging MCP story. Speakeasy counts Kong as a customer but Kong is a broad incumbent whose overlap with Speakeasy is in API infrastructure and gateway rather than SDK generation per se.
Direct peers
- Stainless: Direct competitor in the high-quality, multi-language SDK generation space. Speakeasy's own published comparison calls out Stainless on dependency footprint and OpenAPI fidelity, indicating closely overlapping offerings for API-producing companies.
- OpenAPI Generator: Open-source SDK generator that serves as the free alternative in Speakeasy's published comparison. Directly comparable as it accepts the same OpenAPI input and produces multi-language SDKs, anchoring the low end of the market Speakeasy competes in.
- Fern: Direct competitor in SDK and API documentation generation from OpenAPI/AsyncAPI specs. Targets the same API-first SaaS and developer-tools buyer as Speakeasy, with comparable language coverage and developer experience positioning.
- APIMatic: Direct competitor in automated SDK and code sample generation from API descriptions, with an enterprise heritage. Speakeasy's own published comparison positions itself against APIMatic on dependency footprint and runtime type safety.
Market position
Strengths4 records
Weaknesses4 records
Competitive moat6 records
Key risks5 records
Key highlights6 records
Customer concentration
Speakeasy social profiles
Digital presenceSpeakeasy compliance and trust
Trust signalCompliance5 records
Speakeasy financial estimates
Financial estimateRevenue estimate
Valuation estimate
Speakeasy leadership team
Management profileNumber of profiles
Profiles2 records
Speakeasy funding detail
Funding detailFunding overview
Funding rounds3 records
Investors7 records
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Speakeasy M&A and investment
M&A and investmentM&A
Investments
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Frequently asked questions about Speakeasy
What does Speakeasy do?
Speakeasy sells a software platform that generates idiomatic, type-safe SDKs, Terraform providers, CLIs, and MCP servers from OpenAPI specifications, plus an enterprise AI Control Plane (delivered via the Gram hosted MCP platform and an MCP Gateway) that connects, secures, controls, and observes AI agents and MCP servers across an organization. The platform is delivered as a subscription SaaS with freemium entry, per-language usage pricing, and enterprise contracts that include SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, air-gapped deployment, and forward-deployed engineering support.
Is Speakeasy a public or private company?
Speakeasy is a private company. It is classified as venture growth investor backed and is currently operating.
When was Speakeasy founded?
Speakeasy was founded in 2022. It employs 11 to 50 people.
Where is Speakeasy based?
Speakeasy is headquartered in San Francisco, United States, in the North America region.
How does Speakeasy make money?
Four revenue lines are on record. Subscription SaaS (API Platform & AI Control Plane) is the primary driver. The others are freemium Tier, per-Language Usage Pricing and enterprise Contracts & Forward-Deployed Engineering.
Who are Speakeasy's main competitors?
Emerging players on record are Mintlify, Portkey and Arcade. Broad incumbents are ReadMe, Postman and Kong. Direct peers are Stainless, OpenAPI Generator, Fern and APIMatic.
Does Speakeasy have an API?
Yes. Speakeasy exposes multiple APIs and platforms: (1) the Speakeasy CLI / API platform (app.speakeasy.com) authenticated via a SPEAKEASY_API_KEY (a GitHub-stored secret) for orchestrating SDK, Terraform, CLI, MCP server, and AI control plane operations; (2) the Code Samples API for generating language-specific code samples and automated code sample URLs; (3) the Insights API (Beta) for MCP observability logs, metrics, and analytics; (4) the Gram Agents API (Beta) for programmatic agent usage; and (5) the standalone MCP platform at app.getgram.ai for deploying MCP servers. The platform supports air-gapped deployment and self-hosted data planes for enterprise customers. Developer documentation is at www.speakeasy.com/docs.
What industry is Speakeasy in?
Speakeasy's product category is API Infrastructure & Developer Tools. Its primary akta.pro industry code is HDAEANAJ, AI Application Enablement Platforms (Copilot/Agent Frameworks, SDKs), with a secondary code of HDABAAAD, Managed Application Platforms (App PaaS & Runtime Services). Its NAICS code is 5132 and its SIC code is 7372.