Share

Get Your own API Rating Dashboard

If you’d like to discuss how you could have an API Rating Dashboard of your own, feel free to contact us and our team will assist you.

Key Duffel Resources

Developer Site: TDB

Postman CollectionTDB

Open API Specification: TDB

Authentication Type:  TDB

Duffel API

Latest Duffel News

API Movers and Shakers: Your Weekly API Performance Report

Spring has sprung! And our weekly API performance report is here. For our new readers, hello! This report is culled from our API.expert data and from that info, we give you the movers and shakers in each sector. You can also see on our new slick API Directory! Don’t see your favorite APIs listed? Let […]

API Movers and Shakers: Your Weekly API Performance Report

Once again, U.S. Government APIs are not doing so well. FEMA in the US Government Collection was in the Red Zone with a CASC score of 5.72. This was primarily due to an outage on the 7th of March, which saw the requests to most endpoints timeout. There was also a scattering of failures throughout […]

Weekly API Performance Report: Movers and Shakers

Here are our highlights for the week in APIs. We tell you who’s up, who’s down, and who dropped out completely. Are the APIs you depend on included? If not, let us know and we’ll add them to our collection. And if you still haven’t signed up for a demo, what are you waiting for? […]

Duffel is a UK-based technology company that provides an API for booking flights, hotels, and car rentals. The company was founded in 2017 by Steve Domin, Tom Bates, and Vincent Pastor, and is headquartered in London.

Duffel has been recognized as an innovative and disruptive player in the travel industry, receiving various awards and accolades, including being named one of the Top 100 European Startups by Wired in 2019 and being selected for the Y Combinator accelerator program.

Since its founding, Duffel has continued to evolve as a company, expanding its offerings and partnerships to provide a more comprehensive travel booking experience. The company has raised over $56 million in funding from investors including Benchmark, Blossom Capital, and Index Ventures.

As of now, Duffel is a private company and not publicly traded. It has a corporate structure with a team of over 70 employees, including engineers, product managers, and sales and marketing professionals.

Duffel’s technical specs and infrastructure include a modern technology stack that enables the company to process travel bookings efficiently and securely. The company uses the following APIs:

Sabre: For flight booking and management

Amadeus: For flight booking and management

CarTrawler: For car rental booking and management

Booking.com: For hotel booking and management

Duffel also uses a range of other technologies, including Python, Docker, Kubernetes, and PostgreSQL, to support its platform and provide a seamless experience for its users.

In terms of security protocols, Duffel takes the protection of its users’ data seriously and has not experienced any major data breaches. The company uses encryption to protect sensitive information and regularly undergoes security audits and testing to ensure its systems are secure.

Duffel has a strong relationship with developers, offering an easy-to-use API that allows them to integrate Duffel’s travel booking functionality into their own apps and platforms. The company provides comprehensive documentation, SDKs, and support to help developers get up and running quickly.

In terms of API performance, Duffel has achieved fast response times, with an average latency of less than 50ms. The company uses a distributed architecture and auto-scaling to ensure that its platform can handle high levels of traffic and provide a reliable service to its users.

Duffel has not experienced any significant downtime, with its platform operating with high availability and minimal disruption.

Looking to the future, Duffel aims to continue to innovate and disrupt the travel industry by expanding its offerings and partnerships. The company plans to offer additional travel products, such as travel insurance and activities, and to partner with more airlines, hotels, and car rental providers to offer a more comprehensive and seamless travel booking experience.

With its strong technical infrastructure, commitment to security, and developer-friendly API, Duffel is well-positioned to continue its growth and success in the future.

Ready To Start Monitoring?

Want to learn more? Check out our technical knowledge base, or our sector by sector data, or even our starters guide to the API economy. So sign up immediately, without a credit card and be running your first API call in minutes.