Why cant Zerodha give a minimal access Testing API

Hi, Im building a trading strategy to trade with some python codings in zerodha api which would take some 5 to six months…but i need access to api for testing before deploying it fully…which requires me to give 2k per month…will there be any testing api

There are multiple threads on Kite Dev Forum which mention about a delay at the OMS side as the reason behind Zerodha’s inability to provide a sandbox environment

If you are a startup, you can ask them for free access (a thread on the Kite Dev forum explains how that can be done)

Someone created an unofficial sandbox (Github repo) of the Kite APIs. That could be used for testing purposes

i tried what you told…but its less than a piece of garbage