If the company whose api you&#x27;re selling, goes out of business or changes their service to no longer off the service, can you carry on doing business?<p>What if they keep offering the service but at 10x the price?<p>for reference i would say the same about more generic things like app servers, databases, email processors. The moment you rely on a vendor specific thing, you have a dependency on them. Some are unavoidable, and&#x2F;or low risk. Some are avoidable and&#x2F;or high risk.