Pete Nelson

Allows tweaking of several REST API settings
<ul>
<li>Disable the REST API</li>
<li>Remove WordPress core endpoints</li>
<li>Require authentication for core endpoints</li>
<li>Force SSL</li>
<li>WP-CLI commands: wp rest-api-toolbox</li>
</ul>
Find us on GitHub at https://github.com/petenelson/wp-rest-api-toolbox
(Creative commons toolbox image provided by James Tworow https://www.flickr.com/photos/sherlock77/)

REST API Toolbox

Allows tweaking of several REST API settings

arminmeth

While WordPress is slowly but surely becoming a complete application framework and JSON REST API is huge step in this direction, there is a large number of WordPress users that do not need advanced features like those offered by WordPress JSON REST API. This plugin helps them to turn those advanced features off and not worry about it.
While other similar plugins disable JSON REST API functionality only for anonymous users, Kill JSON REST API completely disables the framework for all users and removes links and tags from head element.

Kill JSON REST API

Completely disables JSON REST API for both registered and anonymous users in WordPress 4.7.* and removes API links and tags.

REST API Toolbox vs Kill JSON REST API