Open Disease API vs Open Targets API

Two free Health APIs compared on access, reliability and developer ratings, using data from our daily health checks.

The verdict

Choose Open Disease API if its data fits your use case better; on access and reliability it's level with Open Targets API.
Choose Open Targets API if its data fits your use case better; on access and reliability it's level with Open Disease API.

	Open Disease API	Open Targets API
What it does	API for Current cases and more stuff about COVID-19 and Influenza.	Gene-disease-drug target associations. A free health API by Open Targets Platform.
Provider	disease.sh	Open Targets Platform
API key	Not needed	Not needed
HTTPS	Yes	Yes
CORS (browser calls)	Yes	Yes
Status today	Online · 848 ms	Online · 779 ms
Uptime (30 days)	Up	Up
Developer rating	Not rated yet	Not rated yet
Price	Free / free tier	Free / free tier

API for Current cases and more stuff about COVID-19 and Influenza.

An open API for disease-related statistics. No signup required. 100,000,000,000+ Requests & 100+ TB of data served to date!

Strengths

Gene-disease-drug target associations. A free health API by Open Targets Platform.

Strengths

Prototyping or a tutorial? Pick the one that needs no API key (both qualify).
Calling from a web page? You need CORS. Otherwise route requests through your own server or a serverless function.
Going to production? Favour HTTPS, a strong uptime record and a provider with clear rate limits and terms. Check each API's docs before you commit.
Still unsure? Both are free to try: send one request to each and compare the data you get back.

Neither needs an API key; you can call both straight away.