Axure API
No network API exists. The only programmatic surface is a downloadable .NET library that reads .rp file contents, shipped as a technical preview for RP 8 and 9. Axure Cloud has no public REST API or webhooks; integrations are first-party plugins for Jira, Confluence, and Slack.
Frequently asked questions
Axure scores C on the API Report Card. No network API exists. The only programmatic surface is a downloadable .NET library that reads .rp file contents, shipped as a technical preview for RP 8 and 9. Axure Cloud has no public REST API or webhooks; integrations are first-party plugins for Jira, Confluence, and Slack.
Axure has an official API, but teams routinely hit its limits: gated access, partial coverage, or paid tiers. Most end up supplementing it with exports or an unofficial API layer like Supergood.
Axure (Axure Software Solutions, Inc., San Diego, CA; founded 2002) builds Axure RP, a desktop-first UX prototyping and specification tool, alongside Axure Cloud (hosting, sharing, handoff, comments, embeds) and Axure Whiteboards (collaborative ideation canvas).
Vertical: misc, horizontal UX prototyping / wireframing / specification. Not a vertical SaaS in any Supergood-named vertical. High-fidelity functional prototyping: conditional logic, dynamic panels, variables, math, repeaters bound to data, building 'looks and feels like the real app' demos for usability testing or stakeholder sign-off.
Low-to-medium and declining as a standalone, but entrenched in pockets. TrustRadius/6sense puts Axure RP at ~0.76% market share in collaborative design and prototyping (~1,026 tracked customers) versus Figma's ~38% (~52K customers).
Data that flows through / lives inside Axure RP + Axure Cloud on behalf of customer organizations: Prototype contents (.rp files): pages, widgets, masters, dynamic panels, repeaters, variables, conditional logic, interactions, animations, adaptive view breakpoints, text/rich-text, images, embedded fonts.
Founded 2002; Axure RP first released 2003. Desktop-first (Windows-native originally, later macOS) C#/.NET codebase, the Axure RP API is itself a .NET 4.5+ library, which signals the underlying architecture.
API is .NET-only and Windows-centric, no Node/Python/Java SDKs, no cross-platform story. Officially labeled 'technical preview' with 'interfaces subject to change', discourages production use. Full sourced list under Sources below.
Common alternatives include Figma, Sketch, Adobe XD, InVision, UXPin, Proto.io. Graded alternatives appear under "More from the report card" below.
Grades measure one thing: can a customer's engineering team get their own data out programmatically? We check six things (whether a real API exists, how access is gated, data coverage, auth quality, docs and developer experience, and stability) and roll them into a letter grade. Grades get re-verified, and they only move on evidence.