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title = "Consume"
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### Chapter 12

# Consume

In the **Consume** phase, client applications will start consuming your APIs and you might want to have staged plans to match their growing consumption. To ensure a high-quality user experience, you might also want to set up an application validation process to reach your production APIs—if this is part of your API strategy, of course.