diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 1df090a28..8ab8b647b 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -1842,6 +1842,13 @@ dependencies = [
 [[package]]
 name = "wasmer"
 version = "0.16.2"
+dependencies = [
+ "wasmer-runtime-core",
+]
+
+[[package]]
+name = "wasmer-bin"
+version = "0.16.2"
 dependencies = [
  "atty",
  "byteorder",
@@ -1854,6 +1861,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "structopt",
  "typetag",
  "wabt",
+ "wasmer",
  "wasmer-clif-backend",
  "wasmer-dev-utils",
  "wasmer-emscripten",
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 0bb2e9a82..e2d955ba1 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 [package]
-name = "wasmer"
+name = "wasmer-bin"
 version = "0.16.2"
 authors = ["The Wasmer Engineering Team <engineering@wasmer.io>"]
 edition = "2018"
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ fern = { version = "0.5", features = ["colored"], optional = true }
 log = "0.4"
 structopt = "0.3"
 wabt = { version = "0.9.1", optional = true }
+wasmer = { path = "lib/api" }
 wasmer-clif-backend = { path = "lib/clif-backend", optional = true }
 wasmer-singlepass-backend = { path = "lib/singlepass-backend", optional = true }
 wasmer-middleware-common = { path = "lib/middleware-common" }
@@ -44,6 +45,7 @@ wasmer-wasi-experimental-io-devices = { path = "lib/wasi-experimental-io-devices
 
 [workspace]
 members = [
+    "lib/api",
     "lib/clif-backend",
     "lib/singlepass-backend",
     "lib/runtime",
diff --git a/fuzz/fuzz_targets/validate_wasm.rs b/fuzz/fuzz_targets/validate_wasm.rs
index f386105ec..c17a87faf 100644
--- a/fuzz/fuzz_targets/validate_wasm.rs
+++ b/fuzz/fuzz_targets/validate_wasm.rs
@@ -2,13 +2,13 @@
 #[macro_use]
 extern crate libfuzzer_sys;
 
-extern crate wasmer;
+extern crate wasmer_bin;
 extern crate wasmer_runtime_core;
 
 use wasmer_runtime_core::backend::Features;
 
 fuzz_target!(|data: &[u8]| {
-    let _ = wasmer::utils::is_wasm_binary(data);
+    let _ = wasmer_bin::utils::is_wasm_binary(data);
     let _ = wasmer_runtime_core::validate_and_report_errors_with_features(
         &data,
         Features {
diff --git a/src/bin/kwasmd.rs b/src/bin/kwasmd.rs
index 79949417b..46492b416 100644
--- a/src/bin/kwasmd.rs
+++ b/src/bin/kwasmd.rs
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ fn handle_client(mut stream: UnixStream) {
     let mut wasm_binary: Vec<u8> = Vec::with_capacity(binary_size as usize);
     unsafe { wasm_binary.set_len(binary_size as usize) };
     stream.read_exact(&mut wasm_binary).unwrap();
-    use wasmer::webassembly;
+    use wasmer_bin::webassembly;
     use wasmer_runtime_core::{
         backend::{CompilerConfig, MemoryBoundCheckMode},
         loader::Instance,
diff --git a/src/bin/wasmer.rs b/src/bin/wasmer.rs
index 0208e2270..b0ae65ea4 100644
--- a/src/bin/wasmer.rs
+++ b/src/bin/wasmer.rs
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ use std::str::FromStr;
 
 use structopt::{clap, StructOpt};
 
-use wasmer::*;
+use wasmer_bin::*;
 #[cfg(feature = "backend-cranelift")]
 use wasmer_clif_backend::CraneliftCompiler;
 #[cfg(feature = "backend-llvm")]