San Francisco, CA — November 19, 2025 — 42Crunch, the leader in DevSecOps for API security, today 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 organizations 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 organizations 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.
“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.”
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Now Available 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.
About 42Crunch
Our standardized approach to securing APIs automates the enforcement of API security compliance across distributed development and security ecosystems. As organizations accelerate their adoption of AI, driving exponential consumption of APIs, the risk landscape for APIs is expanding dramatically. 42Crunch helps enterprises address these challenges by delivering consistent, automated API security at scale. The 42Crunch API security platform provides security testing and runtime protection services used by Fortune 500 enterprises and over 2 million developers worldwide. Learn more at 42Crunch.com
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