As our understanding of a functional API economy increases, it is becoming clearer than ever that SDKs are a crucial Developer Experience component to achieve high API adoption. There could be many approaches API owners can adopt to provide SDKs, but which path will suit your API strategy? what factors to consider when choosing a path? How to minimise the gap between time-to-market vs Quality? We take a business case approach to evaluate each option and try to outline underlying drivers of costs and value on which API providers can pivot their SDK strategy.