15 Best API Courses on Coursera
We compared 15 API courses currently listed on Coursera, priced from $9.99 to $79.00. 3 come from a named university or institution, including University of Michigan, IBM and Saïd Business School, University of Oxford. They are ordered by our CourseAsk score, which is built from how thoroughly each course describes what it teaches, whether it comes from a named institution, and how it compares on price — not from star ratings, which our course data does not include.
- Courses compared
- 15
- Price range
- $9.99 – $79.00
- Providers
- Coursera
- Last updated
- 30 Aug 2026
How these 15 courses were chosen
Every course below is a real, currently listed course from Coursera, matched to this topic by our catalog and ordered by our CourseAsk score. Courses whose own title names the topic rank above those only tagged with it.
There are no star ratings on this page — the course feeds we license do not include them, and we would rather leave a column out than fill it with a number we cannot stand behind. What we do have is price: these range from $9.99 to $79.00, as listed by the provider when we last updated the page.
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Using Python to Access Web Data
Offered by University of Michigan
This course will show how one can treat the Internet as a source of data. We will scrape, parse, and read web data as well as access data using web APIs. We will work with HTML, XML, and JSON data formats in Python. This...
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Python Project for Data Engineering
Offered by IBM
Showcase your Python skills in this Data Engineering Project! This short course is designed to apply your basic Python skills through the implementation of various techniques for gathering and manipulating data. You will...
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Python 3 Programming
Offered by University of Michigan
This specialization teaches the fundamentals of programming in Python 3. We will begin at the beginning, with variables, conditionals, and loops, and get to some intermediate material like keyword parameters, list compre...
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AI in Financial Services: Foundations through future trends
Offered by Saïd Business School, University of Oxford
The financial sector is being reshaped by Artificial Intelligence, Open Finance, and the rise of data-driven innovation. In this three-course specialisation, you’ll explore how AI technologies like machine learning and n...
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Python for Everybody
Offered by University of Michigan
This Specialization builds on the success of the Python for Everybody course and will introduce fundamental programming concepts including data structures, networked application program interfaces, and databases, using t...
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Coursera MOOC / Non-creditEnterprise Architecture with .NET
Offered by Packt
This specialization provides learners with a structured journey to mastering enterprise architecture using .NET, progressing from foundational principles to scalable system implementation. The first course introduces cor...
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Coursera MOOC / Non-creditBuild a Production SaaS Application with AI
Offered by Pragmatic AI Labs
Learn to build and launch a complete Software as a Service (SaaS) application using AI-assisted development techniques. This course walks through the entire product lifecycle, from planning a Minimum Viable Product (MVP)...
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Coursera MOOC / Non-creditModern JavaScript from The Beginning [Second Edition]
Offered by Packt
Updated in May 2025. This course now features Coursera Coach! A smarter way to learn with interactive, real-time conversations that help you test your knowledge, challenge assumptions, and deepen your understanding as yo...
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Coursera MOOC / Non-creditThe Complete Strapi™ Course with Plugins and Deployment
Offered by Packt
This course features Coursera Coach! A smarter way to learn with interactive, real-time conversations that help you test your knowledge, challenge assumptions, and deepen your understanding as you progress through the co...
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Coursera MOOC / Non-creditModern JavaScript Tooling, Modules, and Backend Integration
Offered by Packt
Updated in May 2025. This course now features Coursera Coach! A smarter way to learn with interactive, real-time conversations that help you test your knowledge, challenge assumptions, and deepen your understanding as yo...
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Open AI for Beginners: Programmatic Prompting
Offered by Coursera
In this project you will programmatically prompt an OpenAI model using the OpenAI API, and utilize the AI to enrich data of an existing movie collection. You will use Python to prompt the davinci-003 OpenAI model based o...
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Coursera MOOC / Non-creditChatGPT Prompt Engineering for Developers
Offered by DeepLearning.AI
Go beyond the chat box. Use API access to leverage LLMs into your own applications, and learn to build a custom chatbot. In ChatGPT Prompt Engineering for Developers, you will learn how to use a large language model (LLM...
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Coursera MOOC / Non-creditEnable Vectorization in Weaviate
Offered by Coursera
Enable Vectorization in Weaviate is a focused, intermediate course for developers and ML engineers ready to automate a critical part of the AI workflow. If you're tired of manually generating embeddings, this one-hour, h...
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Coursera CertificateBuilding Real-World Backend Systems with Node.js
Offered by LearnKartS
Ready to build powerful backend applications with Node.js? Mastering backend development begins with understanding key tools and concepts for creating production-ready systems. The problem? Generic Node.js tutorials miss...
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Coursera MOOC / Non-creditDeploy & Optimize ML Services Confidently
Offered by Coursera
Take your machine learning skills beyond the notebook and into production. In this short, practical course, you’ll learn how to turn trained models into reliable RESTful inference services, automate deployment pipelines,...
$49.00listed price
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