# Merge API Inc.
*Also known as Merge*

- Website: https://www.merge.dev
- Agent profile: https://directory.haycion.ai/agents/merge-dev

> A platform delivering a unified API to connect, normalize, and orchestrate data across multiple apps for developers and product teams.

Merge API Inc. is a technology company delivering a unified API platform that helps developers, product teams, and organizations connect, normalize, and orchestrate data across many applications. The company enables software products to embed and manage thousands of data connections without building each integration from scratch, reducing time to value and ongoing maintenance. Through a single, consistent interface, Merge enables reading and writing data across diverse systems, providing governance, observability, and security at every step. The platform is designed to support a wide range of use cases—from accounting data to customer-facing workflows—by offering a scalable, developer-friendly layer that handles data mapping, normalization, and real-time delivery. By focusing on accessibility, reliability, and compliance, Merge serves teams building customer-facing products and internal tools, helping them deliver richer experiences while maintaining data quality and control.

**Mission:** To empower builders to rapidly integrate data from countless applications using a single, secure, and scalable API, enabling faster product development, easier onboarding, and seamless experiences for customers.

## Products & Services

### [Merge Unified](https://www.merge.dev/unified-api)
*Platform*
Enable seamless integrations with hundreds of applications via a single, unified API.

- **Common data models** — Standardizes Data Across Integrations
- **End-to-end integration lifecycle** — Simplifies Integration Management
- **Hundreds of integrations via a single API** — Maximizes Integration Potential
- **Security and compliance** — Protects Customer Data
- **Auto-provisioning** — Automate User Onboarding
- **Govern Employee AI** — Enforce Tool Governance
- **Centralize Tool Monitoring** — Gain Comprehensive Insights
- **Securely Connect AI Agents to Thousands of Tools** — Instantly Access Tools
- **Developer-friendly tooling** — Streamlines Integration Development
- **Normalized data** — Ensures Data Consistency
- **Built-in Authentication** — Simplify User Authentication
- **Observability** — Enhances Integration Monitoring
- **Real-time data syncing** — Delivers Fresh Data Instantly
- **Integration observability** — Boosts Issue Detection
- **Scoped Access** — Customizable Tool Access

### [Merge Gateway](https://www.merge.dev/products/gateway)
*Platform*
Optimizes access to LLMs with intelligent routing and governance, ensuring cost-effectiveness and reliability.

- **Cost, Reliability, and Performance Balance** — Balances Costs Effectively
- **LLM Orchestration Across Providers** — Streamlines LLM Access
- **Robust Security and Compliance** — Protects Sensitive Data
- **Unified API Compatibility** — Simplifies API Integration
- **Automatic Fallbacks** — Guarantees Continuous Service
- **Intelligent Budget Control** — Manages Costs Dynamically

## Market Segments

- **Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS)** (market size $15.6B, CAGR 24.2%): API management, connector library, visual flow builder, data transformation, and orchestration to connect enterprise systems and automate cross-system processes.
- **Data integration and normalization** (market size $3.5B, CAGR 12%): Capabilities that map, normalize, and standardize data schemas across disparate SaaS applications to enable consistent reads, writes, transformations, and real-time syncing for embedded workflows.
- **LLM orchestration and governance** (market size $2.3B, CAGR 32.8%): Services that route requests across multiple language models, manage cost, reliability, and performance tradeoffs, provide automatic failover and budget controls, and enforce security controls such as DLP and prompt-injection protection.
- **Integration observability and security** (market size $1.2B, CAGR 18%): Features for monitoring integration health and performance, access scoping, alerting, auditability, and enterprise-grade compliance to ensure secure, auditable data flows.