42Crunch, the pioneer in DevSecOps for API security, announced that its freely available API security testing tools for developers—integrated directly into popular IDEs including VS Code, JetBrains, and Eclipse—has surpassed the 2 million downloads worldwide. This milestone reflects the accelerating demand from CISOs for enterprises to adopt a proactive approach to API security.
As AI workloads multiply and organisations rely more heavily on automated systems that consume vast numbers of APIs, the attack surface is expanding at unprecedented speed. The scale and velocity of this API-driven ecosystem demand security approaches that are fully automated, continuously enforced, and built directly into development workflows.
This is driving increased reliance on 42Crunch’s intuitive, shift-left tooling to help teams identify and remediate API vulnerabilities throughout the software development lifecycle—long before they can be exploited in production.
Empowering developers to build secure APIs
With deep integration into the most widely used IDEs and CI/CD pipelines, 42Crunch empowers developers to validate API contracts, detect misconfigurations, and eliminate vulnerabilities early—before they ever reach production. The platform’s continuous protection model supports organisations as they scale API-first architectures across cloud-native, hybrid, and enterprise environments.
Building on this momentum, 42Crunch also launched earlier this year a new freemium version of its API security testing solution, enabling developers and small teams to get started easily and upgrade seamlessly as their API security needs grow.
The freemium tiers (free & paid) provide instant IDE access to detailed security scoring, and guided remediation capabilities—bringing enterprise-grade API security within reach of all development teams.
Explosion of APIs in modern applications
“With the explosion of APIs in modern applications, developers need practical tools that make secure-by-design development the default,” said Jacques Declas, CEO of 42Crunch.
“Reaching 2 million downloads is an exciting milestone that reflects the trust both the security and developer communities have placed in our approach. Our new freemium offering gives every developer—whether in a startup or a global enterprise—the ability to secure their APIs from day one.”
Launched in the Microsoft Security Store
42Crunch is also proud to announce that its developer tooling is now available in the newly launched Microsoft Security Store, giving Microsoft customers a streamlined way to access and deploy API security testing capabilities across their development environments.
This availability strengthens the alignment between the two companies and ensures development and AppSec teams can adopt consistent, automated API security across every stage of the API lifecycle.