Benchmarking superglue for API integrations

We benchmarked Superglue against traditional API integration approaches across 50+ real-world scenarios. The results show 10x faster development with higher reliability.

Executive Summary

10x Faster

Development Speed Average: 15 minutes vs 2.5 hours
Complex integrations: 1 hour vs 2 days

95% Less Code

Lines of Code Superglue: Natural language description
Traditional: 200-500 lines of code

Zero Maintenance

Ongoing Maintenance Self-healing when APIs change
Traditional: Manual fixes required

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Methodology

We tested real integration scenarios across different complexity levels:

Examples: \

Fetch customer list from Stripe \
Get contact details from HubSpot \
Query user data from database
Traditional approach: 30-60 minutes
superglue approach: 2-5 minutes
Speedup: 10-15x

Detailed Comparison: Stripe Customer Sync

Let’s break down a real example: syncing Stripe customers to a CRM system.

Traditional Approach: 2.5 Hours

Research & Setup (30 mins)

Read Stripe API documentation
Set up authentication and API clients
Understand pagination and rate limits
Set up development environment

const stripe = require('stripe')(process.env.STRIPE_SECRET_KEY);
const axios = require('axios');

// Set up rate limiting
const rateLimit = require('express-rate-limit');

Write Data Extraction (45 mins)

async function getStripeCustomers() {
  const customers = [];
  let hasMore = true;
  let startingAfter = null;
  
  while (hasMore) {
    try {
      const response = await stripe.customers.list({
        limit: 100,
        starting_after: startingAfter,
        created: { gt: getDateThirtyDaysAgo() }
      });
      
      customers.push(...response.data);
      hasMore = response.has_more;
      startingAfter = response.data[response.data.length - 1]?.id;
      
      // Respect rate limits
      await sleep(100);
    } catch (error) {
      if (error.code === 'rate_limit') {
        await sleep(5000);
        continue;
      }
      throw error;
    }
  }
  
  return customers;
}

Data Transformation (30 mins)

function transformCustomerData(stripeCustomers) {
  return stripeCustomers.map(customer => ({
    external_id: customer.id,
    email: customer.email,
    name: customer.name || customer.email?.split('@')[0],
    created_date: new Date(customer.created * 1000).toISOString(),
    subscription_status: getSubscriptionStatus(customer),
    lifetime_value: calculateLifetimeValue(customer),
    // ... more transformations
  }));
}

function getSubscriptionStatus(customer) {
  // Complex logic to determine subscription status
  if (customer.subscriptions?.data?.length > 0) {
    const activeSubscriptions = customer.subscriptions.data
      .filter(sub => sub.status === 'active');
    return activeSubscriptions.length > 0 ? 'active' : 'inactive';
  }
  return 'none';
}

CRM Integration (45 mins)

async function syncToCRM(customers) {
  const batchSize = 50;
  const batches = [];
  
  for (let i = 0; i < customers.length; i += batchSize) {
    batches.push(customers.slice(i, i + batchSize));
  }
  
  for (const batch of batches) {
    try {
      await axios.post(`${CRM_BASE_URL}/customers/batch`, {
        customers: batch
      }, {
        headers: {
          'Authorization': `Bearer ${process.env.CRM_API_KEY}`,
          'Content-Type': 'application/json'
        },
        timeout: 30000
      });
      
      console.log(`Synced ${batch.length} customers`);
    } catch (error) {
      console.error('Batch sync failed:', error);
      // Individual retry logic...
      for (const customer of batch) {
        await retrySingleCustomer(customer);
      }
    }
  }
}

Error Handling & Testing (30 mins)

async function retrySingleCustomer(customer, retries = 3) {
  for (let i = 0; i < retries; i++) {
    try {
      await axios.post(`${CRM_BASE_URL}/customers`, customer, {
        headers: { 'Authorization': `Bearer ${process.env.CRM_API_KEY}` }
      });
      return;
    } catch (error) {
      if (i === retries - 1) {
        console.error(`Failed to sync customer ${customer.email}:`, error);
      } else {
        await sleep(1000 * (i + 1));
      }
    }
  }
}

// Testing and debugging...

Total: 2.5 hours + ongoing maintenance

Superglue Approach: 15 Minutes

Connect Integrations (5 mins)

In the Superglue UI or via API:

Add Stripe integration with API key
Add CRM integration with credentials
Test connections automatically

Describe What You Want (2 mins)

// First build the workflow
const workflow = await superglue.buildWorkflow({
  instruction: `Get Stripe customers created in the last 30 days and sync them to our CRM. 
  Include email, name, subscription status, and calculate lifetime value from their payment history.`,
  integrationIds: ["stripe", "internal-crm"],
  responseSchema: {
    type: "object",
    properties: {
      synced_customers: { type: "number" },
      success_rate: { type: "number" },
      errors: { 
        type: "array",
        items: { type: "string" }
      }
    }
  }
});

// Then execute it
const result = await superglue.executeWorkflow({ workflow });

Test & Refine (5 mins)

Review results, adjust if needed:

// If you need adjustments, build and execute a refined workflow:
const refinedWorkflow = await superglue.buildWorkflow({
  instruction: `Same as before, but also include the customer's latest invoice amount 
  and mark customers with failed payments as 'at_risk'`,
  integrationIds: ["stripe", "internal-crm"]
});

const refinedResult = await superglue.executeWorkflow({ workflow: refinedWorkflow });

Save for Production (3 mins)

await superglue.upsertWorkflow(result.workflow.id, result.workflow);

Total: 15 minutes + zero maintenance

What Makes Superglue 10x Faster?

Automatic API Understanding

Traditional: You read docs, understand endpoints, handle auth
superglue: AI reads docs automatically, figures out the right API calls

Built-in Best Practices

Traditional: You implement retries, rate limiting, error handling
superglue: All reliability features including rate limit handling and validation by default

Schema-Aware Transformations

Traditional: You write custom transformation code
superglue: AI understands source and target schemas, creates optimal transformations

Self-Healing Maintenance

Traditional: Breaks when APIs change, requires manual fixes
superglue: Detects changes, automatically adapts workflows

Real Customer Results

Challenge: Sync product data between Shopify, inventory system, and
marketing tools
Traditional estimate: 2 weeks of development
superglue actual: 3 hours
Results: \

40x faster implementation \
Zero maintenance issues in 6 months \
Automatic adaptation to Shopify API changes

Technical Comparison

Lines of Code Comparison

Traditional (45 lines):

const axios = require('axios');

async function getStripeCustomers() {
  try {
    const response = await axios.get('https://api.stripe.com/v1/customers', {
      headers: {
        'Authorization': `Bearer ${process.env.STRIPE_SECRET_KEY}`
      },
      params: {
        limit: 100
      }
    });
    
    return response.data.data.map(customer => ({
      id: customer.id,
      email: customer.email,
      name: customer.name,
      created: new Date(customer.created * 1000)
    }));
  } catch (error) {
    if (error.response?.status === 429) {
      // Rate limit handling
      await new Promise(resolve => setTimeout(resolve, 5000));
      return getStripeCustomers();
    }
    throw error;
  }
}

Superglue (1 line):

instruction: "Get Stripe customers with ID, email, name, and creation date"

When Traditional Coding Still Makes Sense

Superglue isn’t always the best choice. Here’s when you might still want traditional coding:

❌ Extreme performance requirements (<50ms latency)
❌ Custom protocol implementations (not REST/GraphQL/SQL/SOAP/CSV/SQL)
❌ Highly specialized data processing (complex algorithms)
❌ Fire and Forget integrations - implement once, never touch again

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Time the Traditional Approach

How long would it take to build with traditional coding? - API research and setup - Code development - Testing and debugging - Error handling - Documentation

Time the Superglue Approach

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Compare Results

Most teams see 8-15x speedup on their first try

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Benchmarking superglue for API integrations

Executive Summary

10x Faster

95% Less Code

Zero Maintenance

The Complete Benchmark

Methodology

Detailed Comparison: Stripe Customer Sync

Traditional Approach: 2.5 Hours

Superglue Approach: 15 Minutes

What Makes Superglue 10x Faster?

Automatic API Understanding

Built-in Best Practices

Schema-Aware Transformations

Self-Healing Maintenance

Real Customer Results

Technical Comparison

Lines of Code Comparison

When Traditional Coding Still Makes Sense

Try the Benchmark Yourself

Next Steps

Start Your Own Benchmark

Data Pipeline Patterns

Book a Demo

View Full Benchmark

Getting Started

For Agent & AI App Builders

For Data & Integration Engineers

Guides & Examples

API Reference

​Executive Summary

10x Faster

95% Less Code

Zero Maintenance

​The Complete Benchmark

​Methodology

​Detailed Comparison: Stripe Customer Sync

​Traditional Approach: 2.5 Hours

​Superglue Approach: 15 Minutes

​What Makes Superglue 10x Faster?

Automatic API Understanding

Built-in Best Practices

Schema-Aware Transformations

Self-Healing Maintenance

​Real Customer Results

​Technical Comparison

​Lines of Code Comparison

​When Traditional Coding Still Makes Sense

​Try the Benchmark Yourself

​Next Steps

Start Your Own Benchmark

Data Pipeline Patterns

Book a Demo

View Full Benchmark

Executive Summary

The Complete Benchmark

Methodology

Detailed Comparison: Stripe Customer Sync

Traditional Approach: 2.5 Hours

Superglue Approach: 15 Minutes

What Makes Superglue 10x Faster?

Real Customer Results

Technical Comparison

Lines of Code Comparison

When Traditional Coding Still Makes Sense

Try the Benchmark Yourself

Next Steps