Blacksmith vs RapidAPI

Side-by-side comparison of AI visibility scores, market position, and capabilities

RapidAPI leads in AI visibility (77 vs 18)

Blacksmith

EmergingSales & Revenue Operations

General

San Francisco GitHub Actions CI runner at $3.5M ARR with 700+ customers by Sept 2024; $13.5M total ($10M GV Series A) with 2x speed/75% cost reduction through gaming-grade CPUs founded Jan 2024 from YC W24.

AI VisibilityBeta
Overall Score
D18
Category Rank
#498 of 1158
AI Consensus
59%
Trend
up
Per Platform
ChatGPT
26
Perplexity
27
Gemini
12

About

Blacksmith is a San Francisco, California-based high-performance CI/CD infrastructure platform — backed with $13.5 million in total funding including a $10 million Series A in September 2024 led by Google Ventures (four months after a $3.5 million seed round also led by Google Ventures) — providing development teams with drop-in replacement GitHub Actions runners that deliver up to 2x faster CI pipeline execution and up to 75% compute cost reduction through purpose-built gaming-grade CPUs rather than standard AWS/Azure cloud instances. Founded in January 2024 by University of Waterloo alumni Aditya Jayaprakash (CEO), Aayush Shah, and Aditya Maru (Y Combinator Winter 2024 batch), Blacksmith reached $1 million ARR within one month of launch and $3.5 million ARR with 700+ customers by September 2024. Notable angel investors include Spencer Kimball (CEO Cockroach Labs), David Cramer (co-founder Sentry), and other developer tools founders.

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RapidAPI

LeaderDeveloper Tools & Platforms

General

Largest API marketplace with 4M developers and thousands of API providers; unified discovery, testing, and management for public and enterprise internal APIs.

AI VisibilityBeta
Overall Score
B77
Category Rank
#4 of 1158
AI Consensus
49%
Trend
stable
Per Platform
ChatGPT
82
Perplexity
83
Gemini
71

About

RapidAPI is the world's largest API marketplace and developer hub, providing a platform where developers discover, connect to, and manage thousands of public and private APIs through a unified interface. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in San Francisco, RapidAPI connects over 4 million developers with APIs from thousands of providers — weather data, financial data, social media, translation, geolocation, and every category of web service — through a single authentication layer and consistent SDK.

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AI Visibility Head-to-Head

18
Overall Score
77
#498
Category Rank
#4
59
AI Consensus
49
up
Trend
stable
26
ChatGPT
82
27
Perplexity
83
12
Gemini
71
21
Claude
68
29
Grok
88

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