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Stories about API profiling, discovery, and the future of spec-driven integration across the APIs.io network.
October 21, 2026
Scalar says the interesting work is making the FastAPI OpenAPI accurate
Scalar has started a vendor-neutral series with the sentence most FastAPI teams need to hear. In OpenAPI with FastAPI, part one of three, the post notes that FastAPI generates an OpenAPI document automatically from ty...
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October 21, 2026
ZoomInfo scores 86.6, exemplar, and its weakest facet is the migration it is in the middle of
ZoomInfo scores 86.6 on the Kin Score, exemplar band, down 1.2 from 87.8 at the last run. Its Agent Readiness is 65.8, agent-ready, and the rubric records that it would have been agent-native if a gate had not held it...
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October 21, 2026
The Security area: the companies that sell API security average 24.4 on their own APIs
The Security area on apis.io ranks 30 providers. It splits cleanly into two groups. The first is 21 API-security specialists: the companies that test, discover, protect and govern other people’s APIs. Twenty of them a...
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October 21, 2026
Port says a skills registry governs the skill at rest, not the skill in use
Port has written a competitor explainer that is more useful than most. In What does the JFrog Agent Skills Registry do?, the internal developer portal company describes JFrog’s new registry fairly: it “stores, scans, ...
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October 21, 2026
Wagtail ships five skills, and one evergreen skill to load them
The Wagtail project has published its official agent skills, and the design is more interesting than the count. In Agent-friendly documentation for your Wagtail tasks, the open source Django CMS announces five skills:...
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October 21, 2026
Pharmaceutical on apis.io: the drug makers publish nothing, and their vendors carry the industry
The Pharmaceutical industry on apis.io has 720 member providers. 533 of them, 74 percent, score in the minimal band. Only one is exemplar and three are strong. The more telling number concerns the companies that actua...
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October 21, 2026
Marketing automation tells agents how fast to send, and not how to send once
The Marketing Automation tag on apis.io holds 139 providers and 27 APIs, and the number that frames it is a pair: 92.7% of its scored members document a rate limit an agent can read, and 15.3% document idempotency. Th...
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October 21, 2026
The GitHub Actions OIDC API is four operations, and they decide what every cloud trusts
GitHub Actions publishes 11 APIs on apis.io with 82 operations between them. The GitHub Actions OIDC API has 4 of them, tied with Cache for the smallest surface in the set. It is still the most interesting API in the ...
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October 21, 2026
FinOps on apis.io: 7,145 profiles, and one written by the provider
The FinOps collection on apis.io holds 7,145 FinOps profiles across 7,124 providers, with 16,129 billable meters among them. 6,478 of those profiles are marked method: generated. Exactly one is marked provider-publish...
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October 21, 2026
Cloudflare serves its skills through its own MCP server
Cloudflare has shipped the shortest changelog entry in this series, and one of the more consequential. In Cloudflare API MCP server serves Cloudflare skills, the company says its API MCP server “now serves Cloudflare ...
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October 21, 2026
Tessl says agent skills are supply chain components, not just markdown
Tessl has published the talk every team installing agent skills should hear. In Agent skills are supply chain components, a security researcher writes up an AI Native DevCon London session titled “Your AI Agent Instal...
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October 20, 2026
VComply says start with read, and its record has nothing to read
VComply has written a sensible case for MCP in compliance software. In MCP Servers, AI Agents, and the Next Era of Compliance, the governance, risk and compliance vendor describes the work agents could remove: a secur...
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October 20, 2026
MadeOnSol says MCP, x402 and subscriptions are not peers
MadeOnSol has written the clearest separation yet of three things the agent market keeps conflating. In MCP vs x402 vs API Subscriptions for AI Agents, the Solana and Robinhood Chain data provider starts by refusing t...
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October 20, 2026
Hashnode ships an MCP server with no token to handle
Hashnode has shipped the smallest possible setup for an agent to run a blog. In Hashnode MCP server: manage your blog from Claude, ChatGPT, and Cursor, the post describes a remote server that lets AI clients “publish,...
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October 20, 2026
Cloudflare gives agents web search through AI Gateway, with verified crawlers only
Cloudflare has started with an honest description of how agents read the web today. In Introducing Web Search API via AI Gateway, the post explains that when an agent needs a live page, it “usually just guesses the UR...
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October 20, 2026
TestMu AI says CLI is cheaper per call, and Slack measured it costing more per task
TestMu AI, the company formerly known as LambdaTest, has written the most careful entry yet in the CLI-versus-MCP argument. In Playwright CLI vs Playwright MCP vs Kane CLI: What the Docs Say, What the Data Shows, the ...
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October 19, 2026
Upstash ships MCP Tasks and Events before the clients support them
Upstash has written the clearest status report yet on two MCP features most builders have not tried. In MCP Tasks and Events, Explained: Long-Running Tools and Agents That Wake Up, the post names the two blind spots o...
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October 19, 2026
Kong prices every AI request, and attributes it to the agent that made it
Kong has turned its AI gateway toward the question finance keeps asking. In Take Control of the Economics of AI with Kong AI Gateway, the release starts from a sentence most platform teams will recognise: enterprises ...
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October 19, 2026
Cloudflare builds an OHTTP gateway so no single party sees both halves
Cloudflare has finished the other half of a privacy product it started in 2022. In Announcing Cloudflare OHTTP Gateway, the company opens a closed beta of a managed gateway for Oblivious HTTP, the IETF standard that l...
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October 19, 2026
arXiv limits submitters to two papers a month after submissions double
arXiv has applied the oldest tool in API management to scholarly publishing. In Fair Moderation, Equitable Access, and AI: arXiv’s Updated Rate Limit Policy, the preprint server limits every submitter, from October 1,...
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October 19, 2026
Obot puts every MCP server behind one endpoint, and publishes no contract
Obot has simplified the way it hands MCP servers to people and agents. In Virtual MCP Servers in Obot: One Endpoint for Every MCP Connection, Craig Jellick describes virtual MCP servers, introduced in v0.26.0: “one MC...
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October 15, 2026
Kardinal says agents model routing wrong 80 percent of the time, and fixes it in the harness
Kardinal has rebuilt a route optimization API for a reader it did not have a year ago. In Kardinal opens a route optimization API designed to be driven by AI agents, the last-mile specialist, building optimisation sof...
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October 15, 2026
Databricks says AIOps keeps a human on higher-risk actions, and its record has no dry run
Databricks has published a primer on a term Gartner coined in 2017, and it explains why it is writing one now. In What is AIOps?, the answer is that “the infrastructure running your applications in 2026 looks nothing ...
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October 15, 2026
Contentful says your content layer is your context for agents
Contentful has answered the question marketing teams keep asking about agents, and the answer is to stop asking it. In How to prepare your website for AI agents without rebuilding everything, the post rejects the worr...
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October 15, 2026
Cloudflare runs a third-party agent harness on Durable Objects
Cloudflare has opened its Agents SDK to a harness it did not write. In Run the Pi Durable harness on Cloudflare with the Agents SDK, the changelog adds a PiHarness class so developers can build long-running agents wit...
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October 15, 2026
MuleSoft applies one policy across Kong, Apigee and Azure, and its record has no MCP server
MuleSoft has gone after the most ordinary problem in enterprise API management. In How Open Policies in Omni Gateway Secure Federated API Gateways in Minutes, the post describes the estate everyone has: “MuleSoft mana...
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October 14, 2026
NVIDIA measures agents at 19 percent on DOCA without skills, and 100 with them
NVIDIA has published the clearest before-and-after this series has seen for agent skills on specialist software. In Build Applications on NVIDIA BlueField Faster with NVIDIA DOCA Agent Skills, Claudia Martinez, Matan ...
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October 14, 2026
Jenkins says a passing build is the evidence an agent cannot reason its way to
The Jenkins project has answered the prediction that agents make CI obsolete, and the answer is short. In Jenkins and AI Agents: The Trusted Engine for Faster Software Delivery, a long-time contributor writes that “ge...
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October 14, 2026
Geoapify publishes 34 OpenAPI specs, and scores 0 on governance
Geoapify has written the guide every API provider should publish this year. In How to Use Geoapify OpenAPI Specifications with AI Coding Tools and API Clients, the team explains that “for an AI coding tool, a specific...
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October 14, 2026
AWS says a skill's description decides whether the agent ever reads it
AWS has written the most practical guide yet to the part of agent skills nobody tests. In Best practices for writing AWS DevOps Agent Skills, Nisha Notani and Damini Kumar start from the 2 AM page: investigation quali...
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October 14, 2026
SerpApi adds an eBay Seller API, and its own contract maps three operations
SerpApi has added another structured surface over a page that was never built to be one. In How to scrape eBay Seller API for product catalogs, feedback, and promos, the post describes an API that “turns any eBay stor...
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October 13, 2026
Zuplo argues one gateway for consuming and providing MCP
Zuplo has written the gateway vendor’s case for MCP, and it is more careful than most. In Consuming or Providing MCP Servers: Why A Gateway Matters for Both, the argument is that the two sides of MCP, the platform tea...
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October 13, 2026
ToolJet builds an incident room from one prompt, and its record lights five dimensions
ToolJet has published another worked build in its MCP series, and this one is aimed at the people least likely to trust it. In Build a Live Incident Room App with ToolJet MCP and Jev, a coding agent connected through ...
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October 13, 2026
The AWS MCP Server reaches eight regions, and the AWS record still shows none
AWS has put its managed MCP server closer to the developers using it. In The AWS MCP Server is now available in six additional AWS Regions, the release names Singapore, Sydney, Tokyo, Ireland, London and Oregon, joini...
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October 13, 2026
Sentry says Seer, the MCP and your coding agent are not competing options
Sentry has answered the question its users keep asking in webinars, and the answer refuses the premise. In Seer, the Sentry MCP and CLI, or your own coding agent: where each one fits, the post lists the three versions...
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October 13, 2026
Webflow lets an agent write native Interactions, and its own guidelines
Webflow has given its MCP server the one job agents have been worst at on a design platform. In Interactions, agent instructions, and Cloud deploys in Webflow MCP, the post walks three new abilities: an agent can now ...
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October 12, 2026
Supabase gives every app an MCP server, and its own access clarity scores 34
Supabase has moved the backend into the repo where the coding agent already works. In Build anything: Supabase from code, and an MCP server for your app, Wen Bo Xie, Lakshan Perera, Julien Goux, Andrew Valleteau, Rand...
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October 12, 2026
Google Cloud puts hundreds of gcloud commands behind two MCP tools, and BigQuery's record has no server
Google Cloud has shipped the remote MCP server that most cloud agents were going to need first. In Empower your agents with the Google Cloud CLI remote MCP server, Prosper Nwankpa and Adam Hwang describe a managed ser...
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October 12, 2026
Cloudflare splits the OAuth provider in two, and its record is already agent-native
Cloudflare has taken the library most remote MCP servers use for authorization to a 1.0, and changed its shape on the way. In The best way to do MCP auth just got better, the changelog describes a split API for the Wo...
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October 12, 2026
Apify measures what an MCP server costs in context, and who chooses the next tool
Apify has published the most measured answer yet to a question that usually gets a slogan. In AI agent vs. MCP server: which one should you build?, Satyam Tripathi starts from the protocol text: the 2026-07-28 revisio...
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October 12, 2026
Lit Protocol gives an agent a secret it never sees, and its record has no delegated identity
Lit Protocol has written the clearest short answer to a problem this series ran into itself last week. In How to give Claude Code and MCP servers secrets without handing them the keys, the team opens with the rule: “T...
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October 09, 2026
Teradata benchmarks Tera against Claude Code, and its record has no delegated identity
Teradata has turned its assistant into what it calls an agentic coworker, and announced it with benchmarks against named competitors. In Teradata Transforms Tera into an Agentic Coworker, the company introduces three ...
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October 09, 2026
Buf says generate OpenAPI from Protobuf, and its own API ships as Protobuf only
Buf has published a practical walkthrough of getting two more formats out of a schema you already have. In Protobuf, JSON Schema, and OpenAPI, Kevin McDonald takes a small inventory service with Protovalidate rules an...
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October 09, 2026
Basis says agentic advertising is a data question, and its record shows one API
Basis has written a readiness guide for agencies that want an agent to spend their clients’ money. In Is Your Agency Ready for Agentic Advertising?, the argument is that the tool is the wrong first question: “what act...
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October 09, 2026
Atlassian keeps the prompt thin and the skill rich for feature-flag cleanup
Atlassian has published the kind of agent story that is useful because it is small. In How we automated feature-flag cleanup with Agentic Pipelines, Arthy Vijayaraghavan describes how one internal team has, since Apri...
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October 09, 2026
Nutrient accepts seven JSON Schema keywords, and publishes no contract of its own
Nutrient has written an unusually candid post about a constraint in its own API. In AI Schema Generator: Auto-draft a JSON Schema for extraction, Marija Trpkovic explains that the Data Extraction API’s extract endpoin...
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October 08, 2026
Vercel counts a million skills in seven months, and publishes none for its own API
Vercel has published the first market report on agent skills, and the numbers are large enough to need the comparisons it gives them. In State of agent skills, Amelia Charles, Andrew Qu, and Jonathan Hefner report tha...
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October 08, 2026
AWS names uncontrolled delegation as the root flaw, and Bedrock's record has no delegated identity
AWS’s public sector team has written the clearest security framing for agents I have read from a cloud vendor. In Controlling delegation in agentic AI with Amazon Bedrock Agent Core, Brigette Bucke and Marc Cressall o...
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October 08, 2026
Apify shows what the MCP server does to a schema before an agent sees it
The most useful MCP post of the month is an audit by a seller, not a vendor. In What the Apify MCP Server Does to Your Actor Before an AI Agent Ever Sees It, published on Apify’s blog, Olivier Reynaud takes his own 12...
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October 08, 2026
Amazon SES ships skills for the AWS MCP server, and its record already lights them
AWS has added agent skills for its messaging services to the AWS MCP Server, and the announcement is as short as an AWS release note gets. In AWS End User Messaging and Amazon SES now offer AI agent skills for the AWS...
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October 08, 2026
Zyte lets an agent into a running Scrapy crawl, with no read-only mode
Zyte has shipped an MCP server for the thing Scrapy users actually struggle with, which is a crawl that has been running for hours and started doing something odd. In Announcing Scrapy MCP, John Rooney describes a ser...
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October 07, 2026
The A2A CLI turns any script into an agent, and refused our own card
The A2A project has shipped an official command-line client, and it fills a gap the protocol had since the start. In Introducing the A2A CLI, the pitch is one sentence: “The A2A CLI closes both gaps: a single, standar...
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October 07, 2026
Retool says the CLI is you under the sink, and MCP is the chat window
Retool has added its answer to the question every developer platform is now asked. In Retool MCP vs. CLI, Prajya Sharma lays out two surfaces for building with agents, an MCP server and a CLI, and the metaphor is the ...
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October 07, 2026
Instrumentl's only public API is an MCP server, with eleven write tools and no contract
Instrumentl, the grant management platform used by non-profits to find and track funding, has put its first public machine interface into the world, and it is an MCP server rather than a REST API. In Instrumentl MCP s...
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October 07, 2026
Crawlbase says judge an MCP server by where the fetch comes from, and its own record cannot tell
Crawlbase has written a vendor comparison that is better than most because it names its own criterion up front. In The Best MCP Servers for Web Scraping: Nine Options Compared for 2026, Viktor Petrov lines up nine ser...
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October 07, 2026
Cloudflare's MCP portals go GA, and its own record is already agent-native
Cloudflare has moved MCP server portals from beta to general availability, and the changelog entry is short enough to quote almost whole. In MCP server portals are now generally available, the product is one sentence:...
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October 07, 2026
Kong gives every Dev Portal an MCP server, and the catalog lost track of Kong's
Kong has shipped the piece that turns a developer portal into something an agent can read without scraping it. In Kong Introduces the Portal MCP Server for Developer Portal, Amit Shah, Jason Harmon, and Nathanael Sher...
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October 06, 2026
ToolJet builds a pricing command centre with zero code files, and the record has not moved
ToolJet has published a second worked example of an agent building a whole internal application, and this one is bigger than the first. In Build Inventory and Pricing Command Centre with ToolJet MCP, Athulya R hands T...
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October 06, 2026
Vonage measures the token tax on JSON Schemas, and the advice cuts against the contract
Vonage has published a measurement that anyone paying for structured output should read. In The Hidden Token Tax on JSON Schemas, Nimrod Taiblum of Vonage’s AI Center of Excellence starts from the mechanism: “JSON sch...
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October 06, 2026
LangChain puts a System One model in the loop to block a tool call before it runs
LangChain has published a short guide to a different kind of model in the agent loop. In Building a Harness with Jev, Sydney Runkle and Hunter Lovell start from the cost of the loop itself: “Agents run in a loop: an L...
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October 06, 2026
APIs.io Insights reads 343,299 job postings for the APIs 984 companies name, and joins them to the catalog
The rest of APIs.io is the supply side: which APIs are published, and how good they are on the Kin Score. Insights is the demand side. We read companies’ own job postings for the APIs, tools, standards and regulations...
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October 06, 2026
Google turns REST into MCP tools with one flag, and its own record has no MCP server
Google Cloud API Gateway can now serve an existing REST API as MCP tools, and the configuration is one line in the OpenAPI document. In Turn your REST APIs into MCP tools with Google Cloud API Gateway, Sanjay Pujare, ...
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October 06, 2026
Netlify adds a model that answers typed questions, with no keys to create
Netlify has added TypeSafe’s Jev to its AI Gateway, and the changelog is a clean example of what a platform can take off a developer’s plate. In TypeSafe Jev now available in AI Gateway, the whole onboarding is one se...
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October 05, 2026
The most programmable vendor in the Gartner Magic Quadrants is Harness, and seven quadrants go to a vendor Gartner did not name a Leader
We took the vendors from 16 Gartner Magic Quadrants, covering API management, iPaaS,
observability, cloud databases, security, coding agents and the rest, and profiled every one of
them in the catalog. The result is t...
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October 05, 2026
Redocly builds the spec from traffic, and says exactly where the AI is allowed
Redocly has shipped a second command for getting an API surface written down, and this one starts from the only source that cannot be wrong about behavior. In Generate OpenAPI from real traffic (with AI), Adam Sobanie...
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October 05, 2026
LogicMonitor says monitor the agent journey like an API, and its own record mostly holds up
LogicMonitor has written the first operations post about WebMCP I have seen, and it makes one point that will outlast the product pitch around it. In WebMCP Monitoring: Why Website Uptime Isn’t Enough for AI Agents, t...
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October 05, 2026
GitHub says Skills did not kill MCP, and its own record ships both
GitHub has published a short piece that takes five confident sentences about AI and asks under what conditions each is true. In Should you read the code, is RAG dead, and did Skills kill MCP?, the framing is the usefu...
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October 05, 2026
Atlassian's JSM spec models a Java class where a document should be
The best bug report I have read this month is on Atlassian’s developer community, and it is about one schema in one OpenAPI document. In FormAnswer.adf schema in JSM Cloud OpenAPI spec models Jackson JsonNode internal...
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October 05, 2026
Routebase asks which copy of the spec is current, and its own governance scores 4.5
Routebase has reframed an argument most API teams think they settled. In Where Should Your OpenAPI Spec Live?, the post opens with a lobby wall of four clocks, all labelled with the same city and showing four differen...
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October 04, 2026
Veeva scores 72.8, exemplar, on sixteen operations and a tenant no agent can reach
Veeva scores 72.8 on the Kin Score, exemplar band, down 2.9 from 75.7 at the last run. Its Agent Readiness is 41.5, agent-ready, and the rubric notes it would have been agent-native if a gate had not held it back. Tha...
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October 04, 2026
Logistics has 670 providers, and the carriers score below the software built on top of them
Logistics is one of the deepest verticals in the catalog: 670 providers publishing 3,257 APIs. Of those, 623 are scored, and their mean Kin Score is 21.4, against a catalog mean of 23. The top of the list is not who y...
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October 04, 2026
Kleiner Perkins backs 230 companies on the network, and only 87 of them publish an API
Kleiner Perkins has 230 portfolio companies tracked on APIs.io. 87 of them, 38%, publish APIs indexed here. The book’s portfolio rating is 33.5, thin, which ranks it 47th of the 108 funds on the network. The best comp...
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October 04, 2026
APIs.io renders 1,419 cohort briefs from the same code as its API, and one sentence in 970 of them is wrong
Scroll to the bottom of almost any tag, industry, region, area or VC page on APIs.io and you will find a section titled Cohort brief, marked Auto-generated. There are 1,419 of them: 985 on tag pages, 216 on regions, 9...
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October 04, 2026
Losant's Workflow Engine publishes 25 actions, and our contract for it keeps 11 under the wrong names
The Losant Workflow Engine API is the most interesting of the six APIs Losant has on the network. It is the programmable side of Losant’s visual workflow engine, the drag-and-drop logic that runs its IoT platform in t...
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October 03, 2026
The Things Network scores 79.2, exemplar, and its agent layer is still one we wrote
The Things Network scores 79.2 on the Kin Score, exemplar band, up from 78.3. Its Agent Readiness is 33.7. That is a 45-point gap between how well the surface is built for a developer and how ready it is for an agent,...
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October 03, 2026
Tax compliance software has 124 providers on apis.io, and six of them score strong or better
Tax & Compliance Software indexes 124 providers publishing 492 APIs. Only six of them score strong or better on the Kin Score: one exemplar and five strong. The rest sit in developing (19), thin (32), emerging (38...
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October 03, 2026
Our identity and access use case lists 27 providers, and the identity companies are not all among them
The Identity & Access Management use case on apis.io covers the job every integration starts with: authenticate the user or the machine, then control what it can reach. SSO and MFA, OAuth and OIDC flows, provision...
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October 03, 2026
Eighteen providers expose feature flags on apis.io, and the flag specialists score below the platforms that bolt them on
Feature Flag Management is the capability that decouples deploying code from releasing it: create a flag, target it to a cohort, roll it out, retire it. The catalog maps 37 API surfaces from 18 providers onto it, seve...
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October 03, 2026
Twelve Data streams prices over a real WebSocket, and the only contract for it is one we wrote
The most interesting of the 15 APIs Twelve Data publishes on apis.io is the one that is not REST. The Twelve Data WebSocket Streaming API is a persistent, bidirectional connection at wss://ws.twelvedata.com/v1/quotes/...
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October 02, 2026
Privacy has 178 providers on apis.io, and one of them tells agents what it consents to
The Privacy area covers 178 providers: consent management, data subject rights, data classification, PII detection, and the privacy-first analytics tools that grew up around GDPR. The median Kin Score across the 176 t...
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October 02, 2026
The MX Members API is where aggregation happens, and the record publishes all 13 of its operations twice
MX Technologies has 31 API pages on apis.io. The one to read is the MX Technologies Members API. In MX’s model a user is a person, and a member is that person’s connection to one financial institution. Every account, ...
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October 02, 2026
Event management software has 122 providers on apis.io, and Cvent holds every exemplar
Event Management Software indexes 122 providers publishing 1,046 APIs. Three score exemplar, and all three are Cvent: Cvent at 78.0, Cvent Registration at 76.9 and Cvent Event Cloud at 71.9. Cvent Social Tables adds a...
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October 02, 2026
Acronis scores exemplar, ships its own MCP server, and describes none of its 90 OAuth scopes
Acronis scores 83.9 on the Kin Score, band exemplar, up 2.6 from 81.3 at the last run. Its Agent Readiness is 56.3, band agent-native. For a cyber protection vendor whose customers are mostly managed service providers...
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October 02, 2026
Latin America has 403 providers on apis.io, and only 41 say they are headquartered there
The Latin America region maps 403 providers publishing 1,266 APIs. apis.io admits a provider to a region on one of three signals: a tag, a name pattern, or a headquarters stated in the provider’s own description. In L...
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October 01, 2026
Travel technology runs on distribution, and its distributors score thin
Travel Technology indexes 53 providers publishing 385 APIs on the network, and exactly one of them scores exemplar. It is not a flight-shopping engine or a global distribution system. It is a hotel property management...
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October 01, 2026
The apis.io Playground re-proves every example request nightly, but not the score that admitted it
The first thing the apis.io MCP server tells a newly connected agent is to call get_playground_apis. It returns a curated list of APIs that need no key, cost nothing, and come with an example request that has already ...
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October 01, 2026
ElevenLabs scores exemplar on one 390-operation contract, and stops a band short for agents
ElevenLabs scores 83.8, band exemplar, up 2.3 points from 81.5 at its last scoring. Its Agent Readiness is 50.9, band agent-ready, and the record says something unusual about that band: it was gated down from agent-na...
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October 01, 2026
DoorDash Drive Refunds puts the whole refund policy in one operation, and the policy lives in the enums
The DoorDash Drive Refunds API has exactly one operation: POST /drive/v2/deliveries/{external_delivery_id}/refunds. You send a reason. DoorDash decides. It is the smallest of the 20 API pages DoorDash carries on the n...
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October 01, 2026
The catalog indexes 127,757 JSON Schemas, and most never say which fields are required
The schemas collection holds 127,757 JSON Schema pages across 3,363 providers. It is where an integrator or an agent learns what an object actually looks like. Read the 113,666 schemas whose source JSON parses cleanly...
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September 30, 2026
The rail industry on apis.io holds a Jeopardy API and misses BNSF, the best-scoring freight railroad on the network
The Rail industry page describes itself as “companies operating freight railroad networks.” It lists 29 providers publishing 157 APIs. The top three members by score are American Express Global Business Travel at 49.2...
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September 30, 2026
Hygraph's agent door scores twice its developer door
Hygraph has put its MCP connector in the Claude Directory, and the announcement makes a bigger claim than a connector usually carries. In Announcing Hygraph’s MCP Connector for Claude, Paul Biggs calls it “another ste...
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September 30, 2026
Google judges an agent's intent at runtime, and the catalog cannot see the gateway
Google has published the clearest worked example of runtime governance for agents I have read. In Build zero-trust AI agents that judge intent, not just syntax, Eric Dong and Shubham Saboo start from the limit of buil...
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September 30, 2026
Dynatrace scores 85.7 and ships its own MCP server, but 14 of the 23 contracts we hold never say where to call
Dynatrace is the software intelligence platform behind Davis AI and the Grail data lakehouse. Its Kin Score is 85.7, exemplar, up 2.0 from 83.7 on the last run. The catalog holds 48 API pages, one AsyncAPI for problem...
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September 30, 2026
AWS ships 38 healthcare agent skills with a benchmark, and Bedrock's own record lights none
AWS has published the first agent-skills release I have seen that arrives with a measured result instead of a demo. In Improving HCLS AI reasoning with open-source agent skills, Michael Hsieh opens with the failure: “...
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September 30, 2026
The Atlassian estate counts ten members and 27 APIs, and leaves out Trello, Loom and 183 APIs on its own parent profile
The Atlassian estate says Atlassian’s API surface spans 10 provider profiles and 27 APIs. The estate rating is 30.8, thin, and the rated members run from 76.2 down to 0.0. Both numbers understate how much Atlassian pu...
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September 30, 2026
a16z's twelve agent-native companies mostly move money, and OpenAI is not one of them
Andreessen Horowitz has 1,100 portfolio companies tracked on the network. 379 of them publish APIs. Of those, 12 reach the agent-native band, the top tier of Agent Readiness. The firm’s highest-rated API provider, Ope...
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September 30, 2026
LaunchDarkly's Flag Triggers API mints a URL that flips production, and our page shows only two of its five operations
LaunchDarkly publishes 30 API pages on the network. The smallest one carries the most risk. The Flag Triggers API exists to “create triggers that allow external services to toggle feature flags via unique webhook URLs...
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September 29, 2026
SocialCrawl returns 150 TikTok followers per credit, and bills nothing for a hidden list
SocialCrawl has published the kind of pricing documentation most usage-based APIs avoid: exactly what one unit buys. In TikTok API documentation: 150 followers per credit, the company leads with the number: “One credi...
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September 29, 2026
The Nordics grew to 165 providers, and the region still cannot see Spotify, Tink or Trustly
The Nordics region now maps 165 providers, up from 99 when this blog last looked in August. Only four of them score strong or better. And the page’s own description names Spotify and Mojang as proof of the region’s in...
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September 29, 2026
Kinde scores exemplar, and its own MCP server is not allowed to update or delete
Kinde scores 87.5, exemplar band. It is an Australian identity and customer-auth platform that bundles authentication, authorization, B2B organizations, billing and feature flags, and it publishes two OpenAPI contract...
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September 29, 2026
The Svix Message Attempt API is the receipt for every webhook, and eight of its nine operations only read
Every webhook platform promises delivery. The Svix Message Attempt API is where Svix proves it. Its description is one line, “Attempts to deliver Messages to Endpoints”, and its nine operations are the audit trail beh...
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September 29, 2026
The fraud detection use case ranks an email validator first, and eleven fraud vendors are not on it
Fraud Detection & Prevention now resolves 24 providers and 158 APIs. The highest-rated of them is Mailboxlayer, an email validation API, at 68.9. Behind it come Amazon SageMaker and Amazon Neptune. The companies w...
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September 29, 2026
DigitalOcean measured structured output under load, and its own managed endpoint slipped
DigitalOcean has published the most rigorous piece on LLM structured output I have read, and it includes a result against its own product. In Structured Output Reliability at Scale: When JSON Schema Validity Breaks Do...
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September 29, 2026
Agriculture has 288 providers on apis.io, and the only strong one sells commodity prices
Agriculture resolves 288 providers on the network, membership computed from provider tags rather than a fixed list. Exactly one of them scores in the strong band, and it is not a farm company. It is Barchart, a market...
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September 29, 2026
Postman says generate the SDK, the CLI and the MCP server from one spec
Postman has published a clear answer to a question every API team with an agent roadmap is asking. In SDK vs CLI vs MCP, a dev story, Anthony Viard builds a small GitHub release-readiness tool, four API calls and abou...
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September 28, 2026
VMware now publishes the VCF specs, and the catalog has not caught up
VMware has made a small announcement that matters more than it reads. In SDK generation for VCF APIs using OpenAPI Specifications, Jatin Purohit opens with the fact that carries the post: “Starting with VMware Cloud F...
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September 28, 2026
Salesforce vs OpenAI: OpenAI wins or ties every facet, and finishes second
Salesforce and OpenAI are the two providers the Artificial Intelligence tag page ranks first, at 91.8 and 86.0 on the Kin Score, both exemplar, 5.8 points apart. It is the biggest tag in the catalog, 3,655 providers a...
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September 28, 2026
The monitoring area sells visibility, and its providers median 26.3 on operational transparency
The Monitoring area on apis.io covers 222 providers: application performance monitoring, observability, uptime, log aggregation, error tracking and distributed tracing. These are the companies you pay to tell you when...
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September 28, 2026
Maritime has 67 providers on apis.io and not one scores above developing
The Maritime industry on apis.io indexes 67 providers publishing 451 APIs. The highest Kin Score among them is 48.8. Not one provider in the vertical reaches the strong band, and 30 of the 67 are minimal. Global trade...
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September 28, 2026
The GraphQL index points at 352 providers and shows none of their schemas
GraphQL’s promise to an integrator, and now to an agent, is that the schema is the contract. You introspect it, you see every type and field, and you ask for exactly what you need. So the useful question about the Gra...
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September 28, 2026
Confluent's Agents API makes an AI agent a SQL resource, and it is still in Preview
Of the 127 APIs Confluent publishes on apis.io, the one worth reading this week is five operations long. The Confluent Agents (sql/v1) API defines an Agent as “an AI agent that uses a specified model, prompt, and set ...
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September 28, 2026
Checkout.com explains A2A payments, and the catalog scored the wrong contract
Checkout.com has published a clear primer on a term that now means two different things. In What are A2A payments?, Huilin Tu uses A2A in its original sense, account-to-account: “Account-to-account (A2A) payments move...
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September 28, 2026
Auth0 lets an agent audit a tenant, and never lets it write without asking
Auth0 has published the clearest example I have seen of an agent skill with its permissions designed first. In Audit Your Auth0 Tenant with Auth0 Agent Skills, Carlos Aguilar walks through HealthCheck, a skill install...
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September 28, 2026
Harness ships one contract, the catalog reads it as 488 APIs, and it scores 89.3
Harness is listed with 488 APIs on apis.io. That number is ours, not theirs. The provider record says api_count: 1 on a published basis and source_spec_count: 1, split into 488 pages. Harness publishes one OpenAPI for...
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September 25, 2026
ToolJet builds a whole app for seventeen cents, and its API scores 23.8 on ergonomics
ToolJet has published a worked example of an agent building an entire internal application, not a screen. In Build a Geofence Compliance Register with ToolJet MCP, Athulya R hands ToolJet’s MCP server a single consoli...
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September 25, 2026
Redocly documents MCP servers in OpenAPI, and its own agent door is undocumented
Redocly has shipped the first tool I have seen that writes an MCP server down where humans can read it. In Document your MCP server with introspect-mcp, the company introduces an experimental command in the Redocly CL...
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September 25, 2026
Payments is the one category that documents how to undo a call, and still cannot rehearse one
The Payments tag is the biggest scored category on apis.io that is clearly ahead of the market: 1,476 providers and 997 APIs, with 1,449 of them scored, averaging 31.9 on the Kin Score against 21.9 for the rest of the...
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September 25, 2026
WorkOS says the authorization model is the product, and its record lights the identity layer
WorkOS has written the best reading of Sierra’s MCP gateway field notes I have seen, and it is really a post about what an MCP gateway is. In The hard part of an MCP gateway is auth, Maria Paktiti takes Mihai Parparit...
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September 24, 2026
Vespa built a public MCP server, measured it against the CLI, and the catalog has not lit it yet
Vespa has published one of the few MCP posts with a control group. In Deploy, Discover, Inspect, Observe: A Summer Spent Making a Public Vespa MCP Server, four interns, Eivin Bingen, Øystein Berntzen, Viktor Myrland, ...
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September 24, 2026
Confluence vs APIMatic: five facets to one, and the one is a contract APIMatic never published
Confluence and APIMatic are the two providers the Documentation tag page ranks first, at 67.4 and 60.6 on the Kin Score, exemplar against strong, 6.8 points apart. The tag holds 84 providers and 133 APIs with a mean o...
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September 24, 2026
AWS puts a user interface inside MCP, and Bedrock's own record has no MCP server
AWS has published a full reference architecture for MCP Apps, the extension that lets a Model Context Protocol server ship a user interface alongside its tools. In Build interactive MCP Apps using Amazon Bedrock Agent...
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September 24, 2026
Nango explains MCP elicitation, and its own consent dimension is dark
Nango has written the clearest explanation of MCP elicitation I have found. In MCP elicitation: how agents ask users for input mid-tool-call, Emmanuel Oyibo lays out the mechanism by which a server pauses inside a too...
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September 23, 2026
Transactional email is forty points ahead of the market, and still cannot take a send back
The Transactional Email tag is small, 37 providers and 692 published APIs, and it is the best-scoring corner of the catalog I have profiled in this series. The 36 scored members average 63.2 on the Kin Score against 2...
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September 23, 2026
Sofy says API testing's hard problem is coverage, and its own API is not yet open to an agent
Sofy has published the sharpest one-line diagnosis of API testing I have read in a while. In API Test Automation with AI Agents: Solving the Coverage Problem, Syed Hamid writes: “UI testing’s hard problem is maintenan...
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September 23, 2026
Lili vs Intuit: a bank beats QuickBooks on the regulatory layer, not the API
Lili and Intuit are the two providers the Accounting tag page ranks first, at 64.5 and 62.7 on the Kin Score, both in the strong band and 1.8 points apart. The tag holds 220 providers and 95 APIs, with a mean of 27.1,...
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September 23, 2026
Google routes models through an OpenAPI extension, and the gateway's own contract is agent-aware at best
Google Cloud API Gateway now routes AI traffic between models, and the whole feature is configured inside an OpenAPI document. In Model routing with Google Cloud API Gateway, Mak Ahmad and Sanjay Pujare describe a Pub...
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September 23, 2026
TestMu AI's API testing guide, read against the 20 APIs it ships
TestMu AI, still LambdaTest in the catalog, maintains a long-form learning hub entry called API Testing: Types, Tools, and Examples (2026 Guide), updated by Piyusha Podutwar on September 11. It is a reference piece ra...
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September 22, 2026
TestMu AI puts a number on skills versus MCP, and the catalog lights both
TestMu AI, the company the catalog still knows as LambdaTest, has published the first skills-versus-MCP piece that measures instead of analogizes. In MCP vs Agent Skills: What Each Is For and When to Use Both, Anubhav...
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September 22, 2026
Codehooks says store the webhook before you process it, and its own idempotency signal is dark
Codehooks has written the plainest account of webhook auditing I have read this year. In How to audit whether a webhook was ever received, co-founder Martin starts from the questions that arrive weeks late: did a Stri...
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September 22, 2026
Cloudflare vs Azure API Management: two roads to an AI gateway
Cloudflare and Microsoft Azure API Management rank first and second on the AI gateway tag, and both are exemplars: Cloudflare at 71.1, Azure API Management at 67.3. The Kin Score measures the public API surface a comp...
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September 22, 2026
Finlight ships news four ways, and the catalog can only see two of them
Finlight delivers the same enriched financial news article over REST, WebSocket, webhooks, and an MCP server, and Kevin Bartsch’s REST vs WebSocket vs Webhooks vs MCP: Which to Use is the company’s guide to picking on...
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September 21, 2026
Microsoft Foundry Publishes the Agent Card So You Do Not Have To
Microsoft published a walkthrough of enabling an A2A endpoint and agent card for a Foundry-hosted agent, and the design decision at the centre of it is who owns the transport. Your container listens on port 8088 and s...
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September 21, 2026
CockroachDB: The Communication Layer Has an Owner. The State Layer Does Not.
Cockroach Labs published an argument about what the A2A protocol deliberately leaves out, and the timeline it opens with is the context for everything after: Google released A2A in April 2025, donated it to the Linux ...
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September 21, 2026
GitLab: Read Runs Unasked, Write Waits for a Human
GitLab shipped a set of MCP tools for platform teams in 19.4, and the framing is the governance question stated before the feature list: “the more an agent can do, the more a platform team has to think about what it s...
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September 17, 2026
Red5 Reviews Its Rivals' Agent Skills Alongside Its Own
Red5 published a review of the agent skills available for building live streaming apps, and the unusual thing about it is the list. A vendor writing about skills could have written about its own. Red5 reviewed four pu...
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September 17, 2026
Qlik vs Sigma: five facets won and still second
Qlik Sense and Sigma Computing rank first and second on the embedded analytics tag, and both are exemplars — Qlik at 69.7, Sigma at 68.8. The Kin Score measures the public API surface a company publishes, not the prod...
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September 17, 2026
Port: Files Don't Scale. Databases Do.
Port followed its framing piece with a harder one about what context engineering actually takes at scale, and it opens with a line that will annoy anyone currently maintaining a folder of markdown for their agents: “f...
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September 17, 2026
Faros: Webhooks for Now, Connectors for History
Faros AI published a comparison of webhooks and API connectors as ways to feed an engineering-intelligence platform, and it resists the usual framing where one of them wins. A connector pulls: the platform holds crede...
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September 17, 2026
Webhook Providers Score Twice the Market and Still Skip Idempotency
Webhook is not a market. It is a capability — 633 providers carry it and 980 reach it through at least one of their APIs, 1,406 APIs in all, spread across email, shipping, social data, payments and public records. Onl...
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September 16, 2026
The Last 25 APIs Added to APIs.io Are Increasingly Built for Agents
Anyone can add an API to APIs.io — paste a URL at apis.io/add, and if there is a machine-readable surface behind it, it gets profiled, scored on the Kin Score, and listed. That form is one of the more honest instrumen...
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September 16, 2026
One Missing Field Keeps 53 Agent Cards Out of the Registry
We index 226 A2A Agent Cards across the APIs.io network — every provider we can find serving a machine-readable agent manifest at /.well-known/agent-card.json. We grade each one against the A2A 1.0.0 specification rat...
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September 16, 2026
Healthcare Is the Biggest Tag on APIs.io and the Least Agent-Ready
Healthcare is the largest industry tag in the catalog — 2,017 companies claim it, and 99.4% of them claim it as part of their own identity rather than having it applied to them. It branches into nine narrower tags, fr...
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September 16, 2026
Bindbee vs Deel: one contract against ninety-nine
Bindbee and Deel sit first and second on the payroll tag, 1.3 points apart — Bindbee at 67.0, an exemplar, Deel at 65.7, strong. The Kin Score measures the public API surface a company publishes, not the company or th...
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September 16, 2026
Atlassian Indexes the Codebase and Keeps the Permissions
Atlassian shipped Code Context, an AI context engine for the whole codebase, and the problem statement is the same one every agent platform has arrived at this month from a different direction: “when an agent starts i...
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September 16, 2026
Activepieces: Retrying Instantly Is a DoS You Aimed at Yourself
Activepieces published a guide to webhook retry logic, and its best line is a diagnosis rather than a tip: “attempting to resend a failed webhook notification the instant a network error occurs transforms a transient ...
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September 16, 2026
Qodo Ships Seven Skills for the Work Agents Skip
Qodo published seven agent skills for the engineering work coding agents miss, and the list is notable for what it refuses to be about. Not one of the seven makes an agent write code faster. software-build-plan forces...
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September 15, 2026
ScrapingBee Draws the Line Between a Skill and an MCP Server
ScrapingBee published a guide to using Agent Skills to make coding agents more reliable, and it contains the cleanest one-sentence separation of the two things everyone is currently conflating: “a skill teaches the ag...
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September 15, 2026
JetBrains Verifies 129 Agent Skills. The Catalog Reads Zero.
JetBrains shipped Agent Skills in IntelliJ IDEA, and the part that matters is not the feature but the governance model around it. There is a Skills Manager in AI Assistant that installs skills globally, per-project or...
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September 15, 2026
Luciq Serves Its Agent Skills Through the MCP Server
Luciq shipped agent skills that arrive with the MCP server rather than being installed, and it is the first genuinely different answer to skill distribution I have seen. The mechanism is a tool: get_luciq_skills, call...
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September 14, 2026
Seven In Ten Gated MCP Servers Will Let An Agent In Unaided
We hold 1,661 MCP servers we have proven are real by POSTing a tools/list at them and reading what came back. Of those, 1,055 answer with a 401.
We used to record that as one fact: gated. It is not one fact. It is th...
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September 14, 2026
Port Calls It a Context Lake. The Catalog Calls It Sixteen APIs.
Port published an argument that context engineering and prompt engineering are complements rather than rivals, and the image they use to separate them is a good one: “the differences between context and prompt enginee...
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September 14, 2026
Open Source Predicts a Good API. Biotechnology Does Not.
Every tag on APIs.io carries a quality lift — how much better, on average, the providers wearing that tag score than the catalog as a whole. It is a small number sitting in the tag record, and we had never ranked it.
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September 14, 2026
n8n Tells You to Check for Idempotency Keys. Theirs Are Undeclared.
n8n published a guide to building reliable workflows with API idempotency, and it is the clearest short treatment of the problem I have read from a workflow vendor. The setup is the one every automation platform event...
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September 14, 2026
Reform Explains JWT and RBAC. Its Own Door Is a Signed Webhook.
Reform published a walkthrough of JWT and RBAC in APIs that gets the distinction right in one line: “JWT proves identity, RBAC controls access, and short-lived tokens limit stale access risk.” The detail holds up. RS2...
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September 13, 2026
An Agent Cannot Fill In a Form
Agent onboarding is still manual almost everywhere, and the reason is not authentication. OAuth solved authentication decades ago. The reason is the signup form.
A form is where a provider collects what it needs to k...
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September 12, 2026
Fifty-Eight of a Hundred and Thirty-Nine Agent-Readiness Points Are Files
Agent Readiness is nineteen dimensions and a hundred and thirty-nine points. Fifty-eight of those points are earned by publishing documents about an API you already have — not by changing a line of it.
That number is...
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September 11, 2026
CoinGate Says Its Payout API Is Not Idempotent. Its Contract Does Not.
CoinGate published a guide to their Payout Links API, and the product idea is a good one: a merchant creates a payout knowing only an email address, and the recipient supplies their own wallet address and identity det...
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September 11, 2026
APIMatic Benchmarks Its Own Claim Down
APIMatic published a head-to-head benchmark of OpenAPI, a docs MCP server and their Context Plugin, and the most interesting sentence in it works against the headline they ran five days earlier. The task was real: add...
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September 11, 2026
We Found Twenty-Five Live x402 Services. One Was In Our Catalog.
An independent directory, x402-list.com, lists twenty-five API services that accept per-call payment in USDC. We cross-referenced all of them against every registrable domain APIs.io knows — 28,038 of them, drawn from...
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September 11, 2026
Truto: Nineteen Lines of Spec, 76.5% to 99.9%
Truto published an architecture guide to generating MCP tools from OpenAPI specs, and it opens by refusing the obvious framing. “The two are not the same shape.” An OpenAPI document describes an API’s surface; an MCP ...
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September 10, 2026
Pulumi Makes Infrastructure a Graph an Agent Can Query
Pulumi shipped a Context API that turns infrastructure state into a queryable graph, and the design premise is that the useful questions are all about relationships. Not what resources exist but which of them a given ...
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September 10, 2026
Apify Builds a Slack Research Agent, and Everyone Shares One Key
Apify published a build for an AI research analyst in Slack, wiring n8n to their MCP server at mcp.apify.com so a question asked in a channel becomes a scrape run and a synthesised answer in the thread. The interestin...
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September 10, 2026
WorkOS Chose 409 Over an Idempotent Create, On Purpose
WorkOS published an account of shipping a production API out of one Slack thread, and buried inside the process story is a set of API design decisions worth more than the process. The result is the IT Contact API: fiv...
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September 09, 2026
Blues Keeps the API Key Off the Device Entirely
Blues published a walkthrough of keeping API keys off the device using Notehub proxy routes, and the mechanism is worth stating precisely because the security property falls out of it rather than being asserted. The f...
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September 09, 2026
Autodesk Moves Vault Off SOAP and Says What Is Missing
Autodesk published a case for building Vault integrations on the Vault Data API instead of the legacy path, and the shape of the argument is a familiar one told with unusual restraint. The old road is the Vault SDK wi...
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September 09, 2026
IBANforge: Updated Regularly Is Not a Specification
IBANforge published a rubric for choosing an IBAN validation API that is unusually willing to narrow its own product. It opens by dismantling the industry’s default proof of correctness — “a fabricated IBAN can pass m...
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September 08, 2026
Wagtail Ships an Agent API and Refuses the AI Button
Wagtail published a post on 8.0’s new API under a thesis stated in the title — a CMS with AI, not an AI CMS. The distinction is a product decision with a real edge: there will be no AI buttons in your admin unless you...
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September 08, 2026
Blockscout Runs an MCP Server the Catalog Cannot See
Blockscout published an argument that the new API consumer is an agent, and it is unusually concrete about what that costs an operator. “Agents don’t behave like standard browser traffic. They behave like a load test ...
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September 08, 2026
WorkOS: Three Places a Token Can Live, and the Question None of Them Answer
WorkOS published three patterns for letting an AI agent call third-party APIs on behalf of a user, and the piece is organised around a single variable: where the credential physically sits. You store it yourself, and ...
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September 07, 2026
Geoapify: A Compliant Endpoint Is Not a Compliant Application
Geoapify published a walkthrough of building GDPR-compliant applications on maps, geocoding and routing APIs that spends most of its length arguing against the easy sale. “A GDPR-compliant location application is buil...
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September 07, 2026
Postman Ships Orbit: 2,500 Tokens Instead of 69,000
Postman introduced Orbit, a discovery layer that turns a task description into the right API calls, and the framing is blunt about why it exists: “An agent that can reach the right API can send the invoice, pull the c...
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September 07, 2026
899 APIs Can Upsert — 39 Tell You What Happened
An upsert is one write that resolves an existing record by a key you supply and either updates it or creates it. Without one, every write to a CRM starts with a search and a branch: look for the contact, decide, then ...
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September 07, 2026
Entity Sport Publishes Seven Ways to Handle a Rate Limit It Has Not Published
Entity Sport published seven ways to handle NFL API rate limits, built on a football conceit — a rate limit is four downs, a fixed budget you plan around. The seven are the right seven: cache the static data on a sche...
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September 06, 2026
CloudZero Ships Scopes That Update Themselves
CloudZero shipped API keys that keep their own permissions current, and the problem statement is the sharpest part of the announcement: “A new AI telemetry endpoint ships in October, and a key created in August has no...
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September 06, 2026
APIMatic: A Working API Call Was Never the Goal
APIMatic published an experiment in which coding agents wrote 96 API integrations — three APIs, four conditions, eight attempts each, against PayPal, Maxio and Twilio — and the headline result is that every single con...
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September 06, 2026
Archive Writes Down What Its API Cannot Do
Archive published a help center page explaining what you can do with the Archive API, and the interesting half of it is the second list. After walking the reads — social content across Instagram, TikTok and YouTube, e...
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September 05, 2026
WorkOS: A Transient JWKS Failure Is Not a 401
WorkOS published a guide to verifying access tokens in your own API that spends most of its length on the part every other token-verification tutorial skips: what to return when verification fails for a reason that is...
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September 05, 2026
Banuba Moves the KYC Reject Loop Onto the Device
Banuba published a walkthrough of face detection in KYC onboarding that makes an argument worth repeating: the expensive part of identity onboarding is not the verification, it is the round trip. An applicant photogra...
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September 05, 2026
Locus Argues for an Orchestration Layer Above Carrier APIs
Locus published a piece on API integrations for logistics platforms built around a number that should be familiar to anyone who has run a multi-carrier operation: enterprises accumulate 15 to 30 point-to-point integra...
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September 03, 2026
The First 81 WebMCP Deployments — 72 Are One Script
WebMCP is the W3C draft that lets a web page register typed, callable tools with the browser —
document.modelContext.registerTool() — so an agent running in your browser can drive a site’s
actual functionality instead...
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August 27, 2026
Netlify's CLI Is the Door Agents Walk Through
Netlify’s Get started with CLI guide reads like a developer onboarding page — npm install -g netlify-cli, netlify login, netlify init, netlify dev, netlify deploy --prod. Read it again and two of the commands on it ar...
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August 27, 2026
Swedish Digital Health Publishes Five APIs
Sweden exports digital health. KRY runs primary care by video across four countries and operates as Livi in the UK and France. Natural Cycles was the first birth-control app the FDA cleared. Flow Neuroscience got FDA ...
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August 25, 2026
TaskFolk Ships a Checkout for Agents
TaskFolk is a project management platform — issues, sprints, releases, portfolios, forms, automations. The kind of product that has existed for twenty years and usually arrives in the catalog as a REST API and a docs ...
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August 25, 2026
Postiz and Buffer: Two Shapes of Publishing API
There are 18 providers in the catalog carrying both the Publishing and Social-Media tags. Two of them are worth putting side by side, because they solve the same problem — get a post onto a social channel on a schedul...
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August 24, 2026
The Demand Report — What This Catalog Hears, Every Monday
Issue #06 of The Demand Report went out this morning. It is the weekly newsletter we write out of apis.io’s own logs — what people and agents actually typed into the search box and asked of the MCP server in the last ...
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August 24, 2026
Six of Eight New APIs Ship an MCP Server
The fourth and final batch of the submission backlog is profiled and published — eight providers, 222 new artifacts. One number stands out: six of the eight ship a hosted MCP server alongside their REST API.
Not one ...
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August 20, 2026
The API Economy Is Not Anglophone
The third batch of submitted APIs is profiled and published — eight providers, 286 new artifacts. Six of the eight declare a home outside the English-speaking tech centres: Lithuania, Norway, Singapore, Saudi Arabia, ...
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August 18, 2026
The Algolia Recommend API: Trained on Events You Have to Send First
The Algolia Recommend API returns related-products, frequently-bought-together, trending and look-alike recommendations, trained from Insights events and catalog data. It is one of 11 APIs that Algolia publishes on th...
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August 18, 2026
The A2A Agent Card Index: 65 Cards, 10 Conformant
APIs.io indexes 65 A2A agent cards — the machine-readable descriptors that let one agent discover what another agent is, what it can do, and how to talk to it.
We fetch each card from its discovery path, record the H...
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August 18, 2026
Profiling MTN Group: An African Carrier That Scores Agent-Native
MTN Group publishes 119 APIs on the network. Africa’s largest mobile network operator, headquartered in Johannesburg, roughly 290 million subscribers across around 16 markets, and the operator of MoMo — one of the con...
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August 18, 2026
Blockchain, Crypto & Web3 on APIs.io: 1,260 Providers and a 78-Point Spread
Blockchain, Crypto & Web3 indexes 1,260 providers publishing 6,690 APIs on the network.
It has the widest quality spread of any vertical covered this week — from 85.2 at the top to 7.3 at the bottom, among provid...
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August 18, 2026
Bessemer Venture Partners: 519 Portfolio Companies, 13 Exemplars
Bessemer Venture Partners has 519 portfolio companies tracked on the network, and all 519 publish APIs indexed here. Founded in 1911 out of the Phipps steel fortune, more than $20B under management, investing globally...
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August 17, 2026
The Sandbox Tag Across the Catalog: 53 Providers Let You Try It
53 providers and 40 APIs on the network carry the Sandbox tag — a test environment where you can make real calls against fake data before you have an account, a contract, or a reason to trust anyone.
Fifty-three, out...
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August 17, 2026
The Klarna Settlements API: Where the Money Actually Lands
The Klarna Settlements API reads merchant settlement reports and transactions. It is one of 21 APIs that Klarna publishes on the network, tagged Settlements and Reporting, served from api.klarna.com.
Its published ar...
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August 17, 2026
Human Resources & Payroll on APIs.io: 867 Providers Moving Sensitive Data
Human Resources & Payroll indexes 867 providers publishing 4,164 APIs on the network — hiring, onboarding, payroll, benefits, performance and the compliance obligations wrapped around all of it.
Almost every API ...
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August 17, 2026
Building Document Processing From the Catalog
Document Processing & Intelligence is the job of turning PDFs, forms, invoices and contracts into structured data — classification, field extraction, validation, and routing into downstream workflow and systems of...
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August 17, 2026
Profiling Siemens: 152 APIs and Five Contracts
Siemens lists 152 APIs on the network. It publishes five machine-readable contracts.
That gap is the entire profile. It scores 46.0, a developing band, with 30.6 on agent readiness — the lowest of this week’s seven.
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August 16, 2026
The Segment Regulations API: Deletion as a First-Class Operation
The Segment Regulations API handles data privacy regulations and suppression requests. It is one of 23 APIs that Twilio Segment publishes on the network, described by both a machine-readable OpenAPI specification and ...
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August 16, 2026
Profiling Coveo: 152 APIs, an MCP Server, and One Bad Facet
Coveo publishes 152 APIs on the network — an AI-relevance platform delivering search, recommendations and discovery across digital workplaces, service portals, websites and commerce storefronts. It scores 62.0, a stro...
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August 16, 2026
Legal & Compliance Tech on APIs.io: 1,069 Providers Selling Proof
Legal & Compliance Tech indexes 1,069 providers publishing 4,936 APIs — legal software plus the compliance, RegTech and risk platforms companies use to stay inside the rules.
It is a vertical almost entirely comp...
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August 16, 2026
Eight More APIs Land on APIs.io
The second batch of submitted APIs has been profiled, enriched and published — eight providers, 349 new artifacts. The first batch went live last week; submissions have been arriving at better than two a day since lat...
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August 16, 2026
API Coverage Across Japan and Korea: 157 Providers, 436 APIs
Japan & Korea maps to 157 providers publishing 436 indexed APIs on the network — two of the world’s most mature industrial economies, with API concentration in manufacturing, automotive, robotics, gaming, and deep...
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August 16, 2026
The SaaS Management Area: 974 Providers for the Sprawl Problem
The SaaS Management area covers the tools, platforms and practices organisations use to discover, manage, optimise and secure their portfolio of SaaS applications.
974 providers on the network work in this area — the...
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August 15, 2026
The HubSpot Associations API: 652 JSON Schemas and api.example.com
The HubSpot Associations API is one of 93 APIs that HubSpot publishes on the network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.
It exposes 652 JSON Schema definitions — one of the deepest schema sets att...
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August 15, 2026
Supply Chain on APIs.io: 1,218 Providers and a Very Flat Leaderboard
Supply Chain & Procurement indexes 1,218 providers publishing 4,880 APIs on the network — the software layer over sourcing, moving, tracking and paying for physical things.
The distinguishing feature of this vert...
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August 15, 2026
Request and Response Examples Across the Catalog: 62,513 Payloads
The network indexes 62,513 example payloads from 2,603 providers — concrete request and response objects showing the actual shape of the data an API accepts or returns.
It is the largest artifact collection in the ca...
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August 15, 2026
Profiling Webex: 178 APIs, a Strong Band, and 0% Callable
Webex publishes 178 APIs on the network — Cisco’s collaboration platform, covering messaging, meetings, calling, devices and contact-centre workflows. It scores 58.9, a strong band.
Then there is the number that stop...
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August 15, 2026
The Agent Skills Index on APIs.io: 1,535 Skills From 114 Providers
APIs.io indexes 1,535 Agent Skills published by 114 providers. It is the newest artifact type on the network and the fastest-moving one.
An Agent Skill is a small, named unit of instruction that tells an agent when t...
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August 14, 2026
The Snyk AiBom API: Four Operations for the Inventory Problem Nobody Has Solved
The Snyk AiBom API exposes 4 operations. It is one of 48 APIs that Snyk publishes on the network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification, served from api.snyk.io/rest.
Four operations is a small API. T...
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August 14, 2026
Profiling Mastercard: 249 APIs, 100% Callable, and a 36.7 Regulatory Score
Mastercard publishes 249 APIs on the network. It scores 49.5 — a developing band — and it is the most interesting scorecard of this week’s profiles because of where the weakness sits.
The surface is fine
166 contrac...
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August 14, 2026
Lightspeed Venture Partners: 603 Portfolio Companies, 278 Score Minimal
Lightspeed Venture Partners has 603 portfolio companies tracked on the network, and all 603 publish APIs indexed here. Founded in 2000, multi-stage, roughly $25B+ across the platform, with Anthropic, Mistral AI, Eleve...
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August 14, 2026
Banking on APIs.io: 844 Providers Where the Challengers Outscore the Incumbents
Banking & Open Banking indexes 844 providers publishing 4,922 APIs on the network.
The consistent finding in this vertical: the companies that arrived after open banking regulation score better than the instituti...
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August 14, 2026
The SDK Tag Across the Catalog: 664 Providers Shipping Client Libraries
664 providers and 650 APIs on the network carry the SDK tag — companies that ship client libraries alongside their contracts rather than leaving you to generate your own.
Against 26,530 providers in the catalog, that...
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August 13, 2026
Profiling Salesforce: 294 APIs and the Most Balanced Scorecard in the Catalog
Salesforce publishes 294 APIs on the network and scores 80.1 — an exemplar band, and one of the highest composites of any provider its size.
What is unusual is not the number. It is the shape.
No weak facet
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August 13, 2026
Building Software Supply Chain Security From the Catalog
Software Supply Chain Security is the job of knowing and trusting what goes into a build — dependency inventory, SBOMs, license checks, artifact signing, and provenance across the release pipeline.
16 providers on th...
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August 13, 2026
Biotechnology on APIs.io: 1,060 Providers and Fewer Than One API Each
Biotechnology & Drug Discovery indexes 1,060 providers publishing 905 APIs — drug discovery and development, genomics, clinical research, and the computational biology behind modern therapeutics.
Read those two n...
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August 13, 2026
API Coverage Across the Nordics: 99 Providers, 340 APIs, Disproportionate Influence
The Nordics — Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland and Iceland — map to 99 providers publishing 340 indexed APIs on the network.
That is a small number against Greater China or North America, and it undersells the region...
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August 13, 2026
The Okta Cross-App Access API: An IETF Draft With a Public Sandbox
Cross-App Access (XAA) is one of 28 APIs that Okta publishes on the network. It is an OAuth profile for agent-to-app and app-to-app authorization, built on the IETF draft OAuth Identity Assertion Authorization Grant —...
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August 12, 2026
Developer Tools on APIs.io: 2,860 Providers and the Deepest API Surface of Any Vertical
Developer Tools & DevOps is the largest API surface of any vertical on the network: 2,860 providers publishing 22,192 APIs.
For comparison, Artificial Intelligence indexes more providers — 5,046 — but only 17,174...
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August 12, 2026
Nine New APIs Just Landed on APIs.io
Anyone can add an API to APIs.io. Thirty-six providers have come in through that form since July 25 — better than two a day, and accelerating — and this is the first batch to be profiled, enriched and published.
Nine...
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August 12, 2026
Pricing Plans Across the Catalog: 7,410 Providers With Machine-Readable Money
Pricing is the last part of an API to become machine-readable. Endpoints got OpenAPI in 2011. Events got AsyncAPI. Workflows got Arazzo. What something costs stayed a marketing page with a three-column table and a “Co...
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August 12, 2026
Profiling Microsoft Graph: 564 APIs, 17,655 Acting Operations, 93 Consent Gates
Microsoft Graph publishes 564 APIs on the network — the unified programmability model over Microsoft 365, Entra ID, Teams, OneDrive, SharePoint and the security services. It scores 67.9, an exemplar band, and every on...
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August 12, 2026
The Auth0 for AI Agents API: Selling the Primitive Everyone Else Is Missing
Auth0 for AI Agents is one of 76 APIs that Auth0 publishes on the network. It went GA in 2026, and it is tagged across AI Agents, MCP, Token Vault, GenAI and RAG.
It is worth reading closely, because it is a product ...
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August 12, 2026
The Deprecation Area Has Four Providers
The Deprecation area covers API deprecation, sunset headers, end-of-life management and retirement practice — RFC 8594 Sunset, the Deprecation header, OpenAPI deprecation flags, and consumer notification.
It has four...
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August 11, 2026
The Demand Signal Inside APIs.io Search
For the week of 27 July to 2 August 2026, APIs.io search recorded 123,498 searches across 5,595 unique terms.
That number is almost entirely useless, and explaining why is the most valuable thing on this page.
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August 11, 2026
Index Ventures' Portfolio API Footprint
Index Ventures has 317 portfolio companies tracked on the network, of which 315 — 99% — publish APIs indexed here.
Three hundred and seventeen companies at 99%. Sequoia, covered earlier this week, tracks 116 at 96%. ...
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August 11, 2026
Enterprise Software on APIs.io
Enterprise Software holds 67 providers publishing 2,574 APIs — cloud computing, ERP, and IT service management for large-scale business operations.
Sixty-seven providers. 2,574 APIs. That is 38 APIs per provider, the...
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August 11, 2026
The Mailchimp Actions API: Seven Artifact Types and a Placeholder Host
The Mailchimp Actions API exposes 23 operations. It is one of 120 APIs that Mailchimp publishes on the network, described by both a machine-readable OpenAPI specification and an AsyncAPI event-driven specification, an...
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August 11, 2026
Profiling PostHog: 139 APIs of Product Analytics
PostHog publishes 139 APIs on the network with a composite of 63.7 — strong — and an agent-readiness score of 42.3 (agent-ready). Its agentic-access contract enumerates 1,567 operations, 927 acting, 18 human-in-the-lo...
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August 10, 2026
The ServiceNow CI/CD API: Making the Platform a Deployment Target
The ServiceNow CI/CD API provides REST endpoints for integrating ServiceNow application development with continuous integration and delivery pipelines. It supports applying changes, running ATF test suites, activating...
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August 10, 2026
Profiling Deel: 91 APIs of Global Employment
Deel publishes 91 APIs on the network with a composite of 59.6 — strong — and an agent-readiness score of 42.3 (agent-ready). Its agentic-access contract enumerates 659 operations, 327 acting, and 10 human-in-the-loop...
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August 10, 2026
Gaming and Interactive on APIs.io
Gaming & Interactive holds 667 providers publishing 1,375 APIs — game studios and the engines, multiplayer backends, and immersive platforms behind interactive entertainment.
667 providers, 1,375 APIs. Two APIs p...
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August 10, 2026
Building RAG From the Catalog
Retrieval-Augmented Generation is the job of embedding, indexing, and retrieving private content so a language model can answer from it. The catalog scopes it to 20 providers across 432 APIs.
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August 10, 2026
The Artificial Intelligence Tag Across the Catalog
The Artificial Intelligence tag at apis.io/tags/artificial-intelligence/ is carried by 3,517 providers and 445 APIs. Its composite is 36.0, in the emerging band, up from a previous composite of 31.8 — a 4.2-point move...
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August 09, 2026
Weather and Geospatial on APIs.io
Weather & Geospatial holds 483 providers publishing 2,253 APIs — weather, mapping, geocoding, and the satellite and location data feeding everything from logistics to insurance.
It is the vertical where the small...
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August 09, 2026
The Commerce Layer Addresses API: A Full Artifact Set and a Two-Word Description
The Commerce Layer addresses API is one of 148 APIs that Commerce Layer publishes on the network. Commerce Layer’s provider composite is 69.5 — exemplar.
The entry carries an OpenAPI specification, API documentation,...
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August 09, 2026
Profiling Tenable: 107 APIs of Exposure Management
Tenable publishes 107 APIs on the network with a composite of 58.2 — strong — and an agent-readiness score of 59.2 (agent-ready). Its agentic-access contract enumerates 553 operations, 272 acting, 29 human-in-the-loop...
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August 09, 2026
API Coverage Across the UK and Ireland
United Kingdom & Ireland covers 366 providers publishing 1,349 APIs. The description on the region page calls out a strong concentration in open banking, fintech, and RegTech, driven in part by the FCA’s open-bank...
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August 09, 2026
The Monetization Area on APIs.io
The Monetization area indexes 61 providers — billing engines, subscription management, usage metering, usage-based pricing, revenue recognition, and the ad and affiliate platforms that monetise attention rather than u...
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August 08, 2026
The Docusign ClickWraps API: Twelve Operations, Seven Artifact Types
The Docusign ClickWraps API exposes 12 operations for clickwrap agreements. It is one of 134 APIs that Docusign publishes on the network, described by both a machine-readable OpenAPI specification and an AsyncAPI even...
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August 08, 2026
Rate Limits Across the Catalog
The catalog holds 7,799 rate-limit artifacts covering 25,694 individual documented limits. Against 25,932 providers, that means roughly 30% of the catalog has any reconciled rate-limit description at all.
Seven in te...
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August 08, 2026
Profiling Kaltura: 222 APIs of Video Infrastructure
Kaltura publishes 222 APIs on the network with a composite of 48.6 — the developing band — and an agent-readiness score of 30.6 (agent-aware). Its agentic-access contract enumerates 1,250 operations, of which 1,250 ar...
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August 08, 2026
Build a Stack, Export It as apis.yml
The Stack page is the answer to a question the catalog kept raising and could not previously answer: fine, but what about the twelve providers I actually depend on?
Type-ahead your way through the catalog, add those ...
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August 08, 2026
Music, Audio and the Creator Economy on APIs.io
Music, Audio & Creator Economy holds 826 providers publishing 3,161 APIs — music and audio platforms, podcasting, publishing, social, and the tools creators use to make and monetise what they publish.
It is the o...
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August 07, 2026
The Datadog Agentless Scanning API: Visibility Without Installation
The Datadog Agentless Scanning API provides visibility into risks and vulnerabilities across hosts, running containers, and serverless functions without requiring teams to install agents. It is one of 290 APIs that Da...
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August 07, 2026
Sequoia Capital's Portfolio API Footprint
Sequoia Capital has 116 portfolio companies tracked on the network, of which 111 — 96% — publish APIs indexed here. That is one of the highest in-network rates of any firm profiled so far.
Its highest-rated API provi...
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August 07, 2026
Profiling Grafana: 138 APIs of the Observability Stack
Grafana publishes 138 APIs on the network with a composite of 72.7 — exemplar — and an agent-readiness score of 52.3 (agent-ready). Its agentic-access contract enumerates 378 operations, 204 acting, 24 human-in-the-lo...
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August 07, 2026
Cybersecurity on APIs.io
Cybersecurity is the largest well-scored vertical in the catalog: 1,963 providers publishing 14,135 APIs. Only a handful of industries carry more than ten thousand described APIs, and none of them field a top band thi...
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August 07, 2026
The Payments Tag Across the Catalog
The Payments tag at apis.io/tags/payments/ is carried by 1,561 providers and 933 APIs. Its aggregate composite is 35.9, which places it in the emerging band, and it has not moved: trend flat, delta 0.0 against a previ...
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August 06, 2026
Semiconductors and Hardware on APIs.io
Semiconductors & Hardware holds 1,210 providers publishing 5,488 APIs — chips, compute, consumer electronics, and the data-center hardware everything else is built on.
Almost nothing in its top band is a chip com...
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August 06, 2026
Profiling Telnyx: 168 APIs of Programmable Connectivity
Telnyx publishes 168 APIs on the network — more than Twilio’s 115 — and scores a composite of 36.8, in the thin band. Its agent-readiness score is 46.4 (agent-ready), and its agentic-access contract enumerates 1,038 o...
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August 06, 2026
Building Subscription Billing From the Catalog
Subscription Billing & Invoicing is the job of running recurring revenue: plan and price management, usage metering, proration, dunning, and invoices. The catalog scopes it to 35 providers across 822 APIs, banded ...
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August 06, 2026
API Coverage Across India and South Asia
India & South Asia covers 329 providers publishing 440 APIs across India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, and Nepal. India in particular built a globally distinctive public-API infrastructure — UPI, Aadhaar, Digi...
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August 06, 2026
The Akamai DataStream 2 API: Described by AsyncAPI, Not OpenAPI
The Akamai DataStream 2 API V2 captures edge log data and delivers it to a destination of your choice at low latency. It is one of 204 APIs that Akamai publishes on the network, and its catalog entry is described by a...
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August 05, 2026
The Plaid Identity Verification API: Five Endpoints at the Regulatory Boundary
The Plaid Identity Verification API exposes 5 documented endpoints under the Plaid REST API at production.plaid.com. It is one of 31 APIs that Plaid publishes on the network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI sp...
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August 05, 2026
Profiling GitHub: 384 APIs of the Developer Platform
GitHub publishes 384 APIs on the network — the largest single-provider surface in the developer-tools cohort. It scores a composite of 72.4 in the exemplar band, with an agent-readiness score of 59.5 (agent-ready). It...
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August 05, 2026
Domain Security Across the Catalog
The catalog holds 38,134 security artifacts, of which 22,629 are domain-security probes — a live read of TLS, HSTS, DNSSEC, SPF, and DMARC across every host and registrable domain a provider publishes. That is 26,073 ...
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August 05, 2026
Data and Analytics on APIs.io
Data & Analytics is the largest well-scored vertical in the catalog: 2,184 providers publishing 13,752 APIs — warehouses, catalogs, pipelines, and the analytics and business-intelligence layers companies expose as...
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August 05, 2026
The Agents Area on APIs.io
The Agents area indexes 289 providers — AI agents, agent frameworks, and the runtimes that give them autonomous reasoning, tool use, and multi-step task execution. It is the newest of the 77 areas and, on the evidence...
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August 04, 2026
Y Combinator: Portfolio API Footprint
Y Combinator has 839 portfolio companies tracked on the network, 838 of them matched, at apis.io/vcs/y-combinator/.
Portfolio average: 22.7, an emerging-band composite. Agent readiness across the book: 97 agent-nativ...
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August 04, 2026
The MCP Server Index on APIs.io: 3,042 Servers
The network indexes 3,042 MCP servers across 3,018 providers at apis.io/servers/. Roughly one server per provider — which tells you most of what you need to know about where Model Context Protocol adoption currently s...
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August 04, 2026
Profiling Kong: 139 APIs of API Infrastructure
Kong indexes at apis.io/providers/kong/ with 139 APIs and 132 API specifications, a Kin Score of 63.4 (strong), and an Agent Readiness score of 59.6 in the agent-ready band.
Kong describes itself as the AI Connectivi...
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August 04, 2026
Construction on APIs.io
The Construction vertical at apis.io/industries/construction/ tracks 50 providers and 106 APIs across four sub-sectors — infrastructure and heavy civil, environmental and water infrastructure, engineering and project ...
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August 04, 2026
The Shippo Addresses API: Validation as a Described Surface
The Shippo Addresses API validates and manages shipping addresses. Its catalog entry carries sixteen properties spanning ten artifact types — OpenAPI, Documentation, AsyncAPI, six separate SDK entries, JSONSchema, JSO...
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August 03, 2026
The Ramp Accounts API: Eleven Artifact Types on a Ledger Mapping
The Ramp Accounts API exposes general ledger account resources used to map Ramp activity to accounting systems. Base URL https://api.ramp.com/developer/v1.
Its catalog entry carries eleven distinct artifact types: Op...
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August 03, 2026
Profiling Merge: 118 APIs of Unified Integration
Merge indexes at apis.io/providers/merge/ with 118 APIs and 117 API specifications, a Kin Score of 75.3 (exemplar), and an Agent Readiness score of 63.5 in the agent-native band.
Merge describes itself as the connect...
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August 03, 2026
Building Event Streaming From the Catalog
Event Streaming & Event-Driven Architecture at apis.io/use-cases/event-streaming/ resolves 50 providers and 1,101 APIs — event backbones and message brokers that carry events between producers and consumers, plus ...
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August 03, 2026
Aerospace on APIs.io
The Aerospace vertical at apis.io/industries/aerospace/ tracks 23 providers and 23 APIs across two sub-sectors — aircraft systems and components, and aircraft engines and systems.
Twenty-three companies. Twenty-three...
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August 03, 2026
The Open-Source Tag Across the Catalog
The Open-Source tag at apis.io/tags/open-source/ is carried by 1,087 providers but only 210 APIs. Its aggregate composite is 29.9, which places the tag in the niche band.
1,087 providers and 210 APIs. That five-to-on...
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August 02, 2026
The Wise 3DS API: Specifying the Part Everyone Skips
The Wise 3DS API covers 3D Secure authentication — the step-up challenge that sits between a card payment and its authorization. Base URL https://api.wise.com/v2. Its catalog entry carries fifteen properties, includin...
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August 02, 2026
Profiling Slack: 115 APIs of Collaboration Surface
Slack indexes at apis.io/providers/slack/ with 115 APIs and 109 API specifications, a Kin Score of 73.1 (exemplar), and an Agent Readiness score of 72.1 in the agent-native band.
Composite 73.1, agent readiness 72.1 ...
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August 02, 2026
Automotive on APIs.io
The Automotive vertical at apis.io/industries/automotive/ tracks 42 providers and 94 APIs across four sub-sectors — vehicle manufacturing, truck leasing and rental, connected vehicles and mobility, and fleet servicing...
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August 02, 2026
API Coverage Across Greater China
Greater China — Mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Macau — indexes 334 providers and 463 APIs at apis.io/regions/greater-china/. The concentration is in mobile-first commerce, super-app integration stacks, and a f...
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August 02, 2026
The Workflow Automation Area on APIs.io
Workflow Automation indexes 648 providers at workflow-automation.apievangelist.com — the fourth-largest area on the network, covering the platforms and tooling that move work between systems.
It is one of the stronge...
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August 01, 2026
The Strava Activities API: A Complete Consumer Surface
The Strava Activities API creates, reads, updates, and deletes workout activities — the recorded runs, rides, and swims that are the core object of the platform. Base URL https://www.strava.com/api/v3.
Its catalog en...
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August 01, 2026
Profiling Palo Alto Networks: 168 APIs of Security Surface
Palo Alto Networks indexes at apis.io/providers/palo-alto-networks/ with 168 APIs and 159 API specifications, a Kin Score of 75.3 (exemplar), and an Agent Readiness score of 65.4 in the agent-native band.
It is the h...
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August 01, 2026
OAuth Scopes Across the Catalog: 14,172 Permissions Made Explicit
The scopes collection at apis.io/scopes/ carries 1,747 provider scope documents describing 14,172 individual OAuth scopes — every named permission a provider will grant, enumerated rather than described.
Each entry c...
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August 01, 2026
Consumer Goods on APIs.io
The Consumer Goods vertical at apis.io/industries/consumer-goods/ tracks 83 providers and 63 APIs across five sub-sectors — food and beverage, athletic apparel and footwear, adhesives and surface technologies, toys an...
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August 01, 2026
Browsing the Catalog by Country
The network now indexes 27 countries at apis.io/countries/, sitting alongside the 17 broader regions. Regions answer “who serves Latin America”; countries answer “who is actually in Brazil.”
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July 31, 2026
The Authentication Tag Across the Catalog
The Authentication tag at apis.io/tags/authentication/ is carried by 1,338 providers and 1,207 APIs — one of the widest tags on the network. Its aggregate Kin Score is 35.8, which places the tag itself in the emerging...
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July 31, 2026
Retail on APIs.io
The Retail vertical at apis.io/industries/retail/ tracks 90 providers and 116 APIs across eight sub-sectors — mass merchants and supercenters, convenience stores, wholesale and warehouse clubs, department stores, spec...
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July 31, 2026
Profiling Shopify: 213 APIs of Commerce Surface
Shopify indexes at apis.io/providers/shopify/ with 213 APIs and 197 API specifications, a Kin Score of 68.7 (strong), and an Agent Readiness score of 53.8 in the agent-ready band.
It is the largest commerce surface o...
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July 31, 2026
Insight Partners: Portfolio API Footprint
Insight Partners — the New York software investor founded in 1995 — has 797 portfolio companies on the network, and every single one of them is matched: 797 of 797. Its profile sits at apis.io/vcs/insight-partners/.
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July 31, 2026
The Mistral Agents API: Twenty-Seven Properties on One Surface
The Mistral AI Agents API handles agent completion operations at https://api.mistral.ai/v1. Its catalog entry carries twenty-seven properties — the widest property spread of any API in this week’s sweep — including Op...
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July 30, 2026
The Xero Accounting API: 140 Operations Behind One Surface
The Xero Accounting API carries 140 operations on a single base URL — https://api.xero.com/api.xro/2.0. Its catalog entry lists fourteen properties, ten of which are Documentation, alongside OpenAPI, AsyncAPI, GraphQL...
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July 30, 2026
Energy on APIs.io
The Energy vertical at apis.io/industries/energy/ tracks 82 providers across nine sub-sectors — refining and petrochemicals, petroleum products and distribution, utilities infrastructure, oil and gas exploration and p...
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July 30, 2026
Building Fraud Detection From the Catalog
Fraud Detection & Prevention at apis.io/use-cases/fraud-detection/ resolves 29 providers and 723 APIs — catching fraudulent signups, payments, and account activity through risk scoring, device and behavioral signa...
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July 30, 2026
API Coverage Across Latin America
Latin America indexes 383 providers and 1,109 APIs at apis.io/regions/latin-america/ — the Spanish and Portuguese-speaking Americas plus the Caribbean. The concentration is unmistakable: fintech, payments, and open ba...
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July 30, 2026
Profiling FactSet: 460 APIs of Market Data
FactSet publishes 460 APIs with 447 API specifications — the deepest single-provider surface in financial data on the network. Its entry sits at apis.io/providers/factset/ with a Kin Score of 73.5 (exemplar) and an Ag...
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July 29, 2026
The Render Audit Logs API: Sixteen Artifact Types Behind One Endpoint
The Render Audit Logs API does one thing: it retrieves audit logs for workspace activity. Base URL https://api.render.com/v1. On the face of it, this is a small API — the kind most catalogs would file and forget.
It ...
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July 29, 2026
Profiling Adyen: 202 APIs and the Payments Control Plane
Adyen sits at apis.io/providers/adyen/ with 202 APIs and 202 API specifications — a one-to-one ratio that is rarer than it sounds. Most payment providers in the catalog ship a documentation site and a handful of specs...
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July 29, 2026
Financial Services on APIs.io
The Financial Services vertical at apis.io/industries/financial-services/ tracks 125 providers and 386 APIs across seven sub-sectors: Banking, Consumer Lending, Wealth Management, Risk Management, Brokerage & Weal...
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July 29, 2026
AsyncAPI Across the Catalog: 4,753 Channels, 661 Providers
The catalog now carries 1,768 AsyncAPI definitions. The events rollup resolves them into 4,753 channels across 661 providers, browsable at apis.io/channels/.
Set that against the OpenAPI side of the house and the asy...
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July 29, 2026
The Machine Learning Area on APIs.io
Machine Learning is the largest area on the network: 1,037 providers, indexed at machine-learning.apievangelist.com. It spans the full ML lifecycle — training platforms, model serving, inference endpoints, MLOps tooli...
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July 28, 2026
Profiling Zoom: 41 APIs and the Communications Platform
Zoom is a communications platform that lets users connect with video, audio, phone, and chat. Its API gives programmatic access to Zoom’s core features including meetings, webinars, recordings, and users. On the APIs....
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July 28, 2026
Healthcare on APIs.io
Healthcare and life sciences is one of the deepest verticals on the network. The Healthcare & Life Sciences industry tracks 376 providers publishing 1,296 APIs, spanning EHR integration, payor systems, telehealth,...
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July 28, 2026
Accel's Portfolio API Footprint
Accel is one of the world’s leading venture firms, founded in 1983 by Arthur Patterson and Jim Swartz and headquartered in Palo Alto. Its “prepared mind” philosophy has backed category-defining companies including Fac...
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July 28, 2026
A Tour of the 77 Areas on APIs.io
Search is great when you know what you are looking for. The Areas index is for when you know the shape of what you need but not the name. APIs.io organizes the catalog into 77 topical Areas drawn from the API Evangeli...
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July 28, 2026
Inside Square's Payments API
The Square Payments API is one of 37 APIs that Square publishes on the APIs.io network, and it is the one that actually moves money. It lets applications take and manage payments by charging the payment methods suppor...
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July 27, 2026
Profiling SendGrid: 44 APIs Behind the Email Delivery Platform
SendGrid, now Twilio SendGrid, is a cloud-based email delivery platform that provides reliable transactional and marketing email services. On the APIs.io network its provider profile carries 44 APIs, which is a lot of...
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July 27, 2026
Inside the Google Maps Routes API
The Routes API is one of the APIs that Google Maps Platform publishes on the APIs.io network. Its job is narrow and load-bearing: compute routes and route matrices with real-time traffic. It is tagged Directions, Rout...
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July 27, 2026
Government on APIs.io
The Government & Public Sector industry on APIs.io covers federal agencies, state and local government, open-data portals, regulatory bodies, courts, public safety, and civic-tech platforms that connect citizens t...
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July 27, 2026
Building Content Moderation from the Catalog
The job is old and unglamorous: review user-generated text, images, and video against policy, then run the automated classification, human review queues, and the appeals and audit trail behind enforcement. The Content...
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July 27, 2026
The Rate Limiting Tag Across the Catalog
Rate limiting is a cross-cutting concern, not a product. It shows up wherever traffic has to be shaped, and in an agentic world that is everywhere. When an autonomous client can fire requests as fast as the network al...
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July 26, 2026
The Webhooks Area on APIs.io
Webhooks are the dominant HTTP pattern for asynchronous, event-driven integration, and the Webhooks area on APIs.io indexes the providers that deliver, ingest, transform, retry, and inspect them. The area spans a prov...
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July 26, 2026
Manufacturing & Industrial on APIs.io
Manufacturing is not a domain people expect to be API-rich, which is exactly why the catalog matters. APIs.io tracks 131 providers and 524 APIs under Manufacturing & Industrial, and the surface runs the full stack...
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July 26, 2026
Inside Salesforce's Agentforce Agent API
The Salesforce Agentforce Agent API is a REST API that lets developers communicate with AI agents directly — starting sessions, sending messages, receiving responses, and ending sessions. It is one of 43 APIs Salesfor...
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July 26, 2026
API Coverage Across Southeast Asia
The Southeast Asia region on APIs.io covers the ASEAN bloc — Singapore, Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia, the Philippines, and others. The catalog indexes 60 providers and 207 APIs from the region, and the shape...
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July 26, 2026
Profiling VTEX: 44 APIs Behind an Enterprise Commerce Platform
VTEX is a global enterprise digital commerce platform, founded in Brazil, serving thousands of merchants across 38 countries. On the APIs.io network VTEX publishes an api_count of 44 OpenAPI-described APIs — one of th...
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July 25, 2026
Who Publishes Arazzo Workflows Across the Catalog
A single API call is rarely the job. The real work is a sequence: authorize an upload, attach the file, then confirm the list. Kick off a migration, then poll until it finishes. Create a resource, then read it back to...
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July 25, 2026
Inside Twilio's Verify API
The Twilio Verify API is Twilio’s answer to a question every product eventually asks: is this user who they claim to be? It lets developers add phone verification to an application, sending one-time codes over SMS or ...
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July 25, 2026
How APIs.io Scores Agent Readiness
A human can paper over a bad API. Missing an example? Guess from the field name. No idempotency guarantee? Retry and eyeball the result. Auth documented in prose? Read it and move on. An agent cannot do any of that. I...
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July 25, 2026
The CRM and Sales API Landscape on APIs.io
CRM is where every go-to-market system meets, and the catalog reflects it. The CRM & Sales industry on APIs.io now tracks 195 providers across 1,099 APIs. That is not a shortlist of the usual suspects. It is the w...
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July 25, 2026
Profiling GitLab: 41 APIs and the DevSecOps Surface
GitLab is not a source-control company that grew an API. It is a DevOps platform whose API is the platform. The provider profile on APIs.io indexes 41 APIs, and reading them in one place makes the design philosophy ob...
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July 24, 2026
Transportation & Logistics on APIs.io
The movement-of-goods-and-people stack is one of the deepest categories on the APIs.io network. The Transportation & Logistics industry indexes 399 providers publishing 1,468 APIs — freight forwarding, ocean and a...
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July 24, 2026
Profiling DHL: 48 APIs and the Logistics Control Plane
DHL is a global logistics company operating in over 220 countries and territories, and its developer surface on the APIs.io network reflects that scale. The provider carries an api_count of 48, spread across the compa...
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July 24, 2026
Inside Stripe's Issuing API
The Stripe Issuing API is one of 57 APIs that Stripe publishes on the APIs.io network, and it does one specific, high-stakes thing: it lets businesses instantly create, manage, and distribute payment cards. Where most...
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July 24, 2026
The a16z Portfolio's API Footprint
Andreessen Horowitz — a16z — is one of the most influential venture firms in the world, founded in July 2009 by Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz, headquartered in Menlo Park, and managing over $90B-$100B+ in assets ac...
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July 24, 2026
The GraphQL Tag Across the Catalog
The GraphQL tag is one of the network’s genuine cross-cuts. It sits at composite 35.2 in the emerging band, but that number understates its reach: the tag links 247 providers and 337 APIs, drawn from provider tags (16...
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July 23, 2026
Profiling Databricks: 57 APIs on the Data Intelligence Platform
Databricks publishes 57 APIs on the APIs.io network, described in the catalog as a “collection of Databricks REST APIs for managing workspaces, clusters, jobs, and data operations.” That is not a single product with a...
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July 23, 2026
Inside Asana's Audit Log API
The Asana Audit Log API is one of 45 APIs that Asana publishes on the APIs.io network, and it is the one you reach for when the question is not “what can users do” but “what did they actually do.” Per the catalog, it ...
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July 23, 2026
Building ETL Pipelines From the Catalog
The job is old and never finished: move data from operational sources into analytical stores, transform it along the way, and keep the whole thing scheduled, retried, and observable. The ETL and Data Pipelines use cas...
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July 23, 2026
API Coverage Across the DACH Region
The DACH region page on APIs.io covers German-speaking Europe — Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and Liechtenstein — and tracks 68 providers and 174 APIs. The catalog description frames the region well: DACH concentrate...
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July 23, 2026
Agent Skills Grew Up in Public: One Month of Provider Signal
I track where the API economy is moving by reading what the providers themselves publish, and every month I pull a thread out of that firehose. Last month it was Model Context Protocol. This month I pulled the Agent S...
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July 23, 2026
Insurance on APIs.io
The insurance industry page on APIs.io tracks 133 providers and 419 APIs across the full value chain — quoting, underwriting, policy issuance, claims, reinsurance, and the InsurTech challengers delivering coverage thr...
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July 22, 2026
The Observability Area on APIs.io
Observability is one of the API Evangelist areas on the APIs.io network — a curated index of services and tooling for API monitoring, logging, tracing, metrics, and analytics. It is a big corner of the landscape: 196 ...
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July 22, 2026
The MCP Surface: One Month of Provider Signal
I track where the API economy is moving by reading what the providers themselves publish, and every month I pull the Model Context Protocol thread out of that firehose. Over the last 30 days — June 22 to July 22, 2026...
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July 22, 2026
Telecommunications on APIs.io
Telecommunications is one of the deepest industries on the APIs.io network: 228 providers exposing 1,292 APIs. It spans carrier network APIs, CPaaS platforms for SMS, voice, and video, unified communications, notifica...
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July 22, 2026
Profiling ServiceNow: 57 APIs and the Enterprise Workflow Platform
ServiceNow provides cloud-based platform services that automate enterprise IT operations. On the APIs.io network it publishes a surface of 57 APIs — one of the deepest single-provider footprints in the catalog, and a ...
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July 22, 2026
Inside Cloudflare's AI Gateway API
The Cloudflare AI Gateway API gives you visibility and control over AI applications — analytics, logging, caching, rate limiting, request retries, model fallback, guardrails, and evaluations — sitting between your app...
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July 22, 2026
Who Publishes MCP Servers Across the Catalog
An MCP server is the adapter that lets an AI agent actually use an API — it exposes a provider’s operations as tools an agent can discover and call over the Model Context Protocol, instead of forcing the agent to reve...
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July 17, 2026
We Ran OWASP API Security Checks on Our Own API
APIs.io spends all day looking at other people’s APIs — indexing them, and rating how well they describe themselves with a Spectral-powered scoring system. It is a fair question to ask right back at us: how does the A...
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July 14, 2026
What API Sprawl Looks Like From the Index
Most of the writing about API sprawl is written from the inside — a team staring at its own environment, trying to figure out how many APIs it actually runs, and coming up short. Surveys keep finding that the majority...
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July 13, 2026
Travel and Hospitality on APIs.io: Flights, Stays, and Tables
Travel and hospitality is a mid-sized vertical in the catalog — 84 providers, 430 APIs — and one of the most API-dependent industries there is, because nothing in travel happens without one system talking to another. ...
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July 13, 2026
Profiling Duffel — Nine APIs That Model the Booking Flow
Duffel carries 9 APIs, and what makes the surface worth studying is that the APIs aren’t organized by system — they’re organized by the flow a traveler actually moves through. It’s a modern, clean-sheet contract laid ...
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July 12, 2026
Profiling Herald — One API Across Many Insurance Carriers
Herald is a small surface — 7 APIs — but it’s one of the more structurally interesting entries in the insurance vertical, because the whole point of the design is to make many carriers look like one. It’s the aggregat...
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July 12, 2026
Insurance on APIs.io: Carriers, Aggregators, and InsurTech
Insurance is a small vertical in the catalog — 84 providers, 313 APIs — and one of the least API-mature relative to its size as an industry. That gap is the story: insurance moves enormous amounts of money on top of s...
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July 11, 2026
Profiling Docusign — The Agreement Cloud as Six APIs
Docusign is famous for one thing — electronic signatures — but the catalog surfaces six distinct APIs that show how a single feature grew into an agreement platform. Walking it is a good lesson in how a category-defin...
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July 11, 2026
Legal on APIs.io: Agreements, Discovery, and Research
Legal is one of the smaller verticals in the catalog — 53 providers, 307 APIs — and one of the least API-mature, which is exactly what makes it interesting to watch. This is a profession built on documents and precede...
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July 10, 2026
Profiling Chainstack — 26 APIs of Multi-Chain Node Infrastructure
Chainstack carries 26 APIs, and the count tells you exactly what the company does: it runs blockchain nodes as managed infrastructure, and nearly every API is a different chain’s node interface. It’s one of the cleane...
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July 10, 2026
Blockchain and Web3 on APIs.io: Infrastructure, Exchanges, and Chains
Blockchain and Web3 is a deep vertical in the catalog — 236 providers, 1,097 APIs — and its structure is unusually clean, because the domain naturally splits into a few well-defined layers: the infrastructure that run...
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July 09, 2026
Profiling Soracom — 18 APIs and a Connectivity Control Plane
Soracom carries 18 APIs, and it’s one of the cleanest examples in the catalog of a company that turned a physical thing — a cellular SIM — into a fully programmable cloud platform. The surface is what you get when con...
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July 09, 2026
IoT and Robotics on APIs.io: The Physical World Gets a Control Plane
IoT and robotics is a substantial vertical in the catalog — 177 providers, 812 APIs — and it’s where the physical world grows a programmable control plane. The interesting thing about walking it is how many of the big...
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July 08, 2026
Profiling Pluralsight — 30 APIs Across Learning and Engineering Metrics
Pluralsight carries 30 APIs in the catalog, and the interesting thing about the surface is that it’s really two products stitched together: the skills-and-learning platform everyone knows, and Flow, an engineering-int...
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July 08, 2026
Education on APIs.io: Platforms, Campuses, and Skills
Education is one of the largest verticals in the catalog — 312 providers, 959 APIs — but it’s also one of the most mixed, because “education” here spans commercial learning platforms, open-source LMS projects, and hun...
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July 07, 2026
Profiling Autodesk — 33 APIs Behind the Design Platform
Autodesk carries 33 APIs in the catalog, and unlike a fragmented product, they’re one coherent platform: Autodesk Platform Services (APS), the cloud layer under AutoCAD, Revit, Fusion, and the construction cloud. Walk...
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July 07, 2026
Construction and Real Estate on APIs.io: From Blueprint to Portfolio
Construction and real estate is a mid-sized but deep vertical in the catalog — 103 providers, 399 APIs — and it’s one where the physical asset (a building, a jobsite, a property) is slowly acquiring a programmable twi...
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July 04, 2026
Profiling Atlassian — 138 APIs Across Three Products
Atlassian carries one of the largest surfaces in the catalog — 138 distinct APIs — and unlike most high-count providers, it isn’t one product fragmented. It’s three: Jira, Confluence, and Bitbucket, each decomposed to...
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July 04, 2026
Energy and Utilities on APIs.io: The Grid Goes Programmable
Energy and utilities is a smaller vertical in the catalog — 113 providers — but it’s one of the most consequential, and one of the least API-mature. This is the band where the physical grid, the meter on your wall, an...
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July 04, 2026
Every Artifact Specification You Can Browse on APIs.io
APIs.io indexes 31,229 providers and 154,842 APIs, but an API is never just one file. Behind every provider page is a stack of machine-readable artifacts — the OpenAPI that describes the surface, the Arazzo that seque...
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July 03, 2026
Profiling Snowflake — 47 APIs and the Data Cloud Control Plane
Snowflake is where a lot of the world’s analytical data actually lives, and the catalog shows 47 distinct APIs behind it. What’s striking is how few are about running a query. Most of Snowflake’s surface is a control ...
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July 03, 2026
Profiling 15Five — The Public API Behind Performance Management
Next up in the profile-and-onboard video series on apis.io is 15Five, the AI-powered continuous performance management platform used by some 3,000 organizations for check-ins, OKRs, 1-on-1s, pulse surveys, and manager...
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July 03, 2026
Onboarding with 15Five — When the API Key Sits Behind a Demo
In the companion profile I walked the 15Five platform from the outside. This onboarding run is shorter than most in the series — and the reason it’s short is the finding.
I run these onboarding walks as a real ...
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July 03, 2026
Human Resources on APIs.io: The Workforce Stack
Human resources is a focused but fast-moving vertical in the catalog — 118 providers — and it’s a clean illustration of how a back-office function got unbundled into a stack of specialist APIs. Hire, onboard, pay, man...
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July 03, 2026
The APIs.io MCP Server Is Now in the Official MCP Registry
APIs.io has always been about making APIs findable — 31,200+ providers, 154,000+ APIs, and 143,000+ schemas you can search from a browser or hit through the REST API. But more and more of the traffic coming to the cat...
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July 02, 2026
Profiling Box — 51 APIs and Content With a Governance Layer
Box looks, from a distance, like cloud file storage with an API. The catalog shows 51 distinct APIs — and the interesting thing is how few of them are actually about files. The bulk of Box’s surface is the governance,...
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July 02, 2026
Profiling 123FormBuilder — One API for Forms, Submissions, and Workflows
Continuing the profile-and-onboard video series on apis.io, this pair looks at 123FormBuilder — the online form, survey, and workflow builder used to collect, route, and integrate submission data across websites, port...
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July 02, 2026
One Install Button for Your MCP Server, Across Every Client
APIs.io indexes MCP servers alongside OpenAPI, AsyncAPI, Postman, Arazzo, and the rest of the artifacts that describe an API. Discovery is one half of the problem — once someone finds your MCP server, they still have ...
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July 02, 2026
Media and Entertainment on APIs.io: The Content Pipeline
Media and entertainment is the single largest vertical in the catalog — 409 providers — which surprises people who expect fintech or dev tools to lead. It makes sense once you see the breadth: this band runs from raw ...
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July 02, 2026
Onboarding with 123FormBuilder — Free Signup to a JWT and Your First Forms Call
In the companion profile I walked the 123FormBuilder footprint from the outside. This video gets hands-on — a cold start from the docs to a working call against the REST API v2, narrating the real friction along the w...
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July 01, 2026
Profiling Zendesk — 145 APIs and the Support Operating System
Zendesk has the largest non-cloud-infrastructure surface in the catalog — 145 distinct APIs. That number is startling for a product most people think of as “the help-desk ticket tool.” Walk the surface and the count m...
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July 01, 2026
A Look Inside the APIs.io Analytics Page
We publish our own traffic. If APIs.io is going to be the open place you go to discover 31229 providers, 154842 APIs, and 143020 schemas, then how much the directory actually gets used shouldn’t be a number we keep to...
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July 01, 2026
Marketing and Advertising on APIs.io: The Customer Graph
Marketing and advertising is a sprawling vertical on apis.io — 268 providers — and it’s where the catalog’s CRM, customer-experience, and engagement surfaces all live. What ties them together is a single asset: the cu...
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June 30, 2026
The APIs.io Developer Area: Everything You Can Build On
APIs.io is a directory you can read with your eyes — but the whole point is that you can also read it with code. Behind the website that indexes 31229 providers, 154842 APIs, and 143020 schemas sits a programmable lay...
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June 30, 2026
Profiling 0x — Five APIs Behind the DEX Aggregation Layer
This is the first in a new pair of videos I’m running on apis.io — a profile of a provider, followed by an onboarding walkthrough of the same provider. First up is 0x, the institutional-grade DEX aggregation and crypt...
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June 30, 2026
Onboarding with 0x — From Signup to Your First Swap Call
In the companion profile I walked the 0x API footprint from the outside. This video does the opposite — it gets hands-on and goes all the way from a cold signup to a working curl call against the Swap API, narrating t...
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June 30, 2026
Government and Public Data on APIs.io: The Civic Surface
Government and public data is quietly one of the largest verticals in the catalog — 368 providers — and one of the most underrated. These aren’t startups chasing revenue; they’re agencies that have, often slowly, turn...
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June 30, 2026
Profiling the EPA — 31 APIs of Environmental Public Data
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is not a company, and that’s the point. It’s one of the clearest examples in the catalog of a government body that has turned decades of regulatory data into 31 distinct public...
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June 29, 2026
Retail and E-commerce on APIs.io: The Composable Stack
Retail and e-commerce is one of the largest verticals in the catalog — 325 providers — and one of the most layered. A modern store isn’t one platform anymore; it’s a stack of composable APIs for catalog, checkout, pay...
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June 29, 2026
Profiling BigCommerce — 65 APIs and the Headless Commerce Surface
BigCommerce sells itself as open SaaS, and the catalog backs the claim: 65 distinct APIs — the largest pure-commerce surface in the index. What makes it worth profiling isn’t the count, though. It’s the deliberate spl...
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June 28, 2026
Twenty-Seven More Providers Now Ship Agent Skills
Agent Skills — the SKILL.md packages that API providers publish so AI coding agents like Claude Code can operate their products correctly — have crossed from a novelty into an expected provider artifact. We just index...
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June 28, 2026
Profiling Twilio — 35 APIs Behind the Communications Control Plane
Twilio is the company that taught a generation of developers that a phone call could be an HTTP request. Most people still think of it as “the SMS API.” The catalog tells a different story — 35 distinct APIs that toge...
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June 28, 2026
Telecommunications on APIs.io: From Carrier to Code
Telecommunications is one of the deeper verticals in the catalog — 165 providers — and it’s also one of the most bifurcated. Half of it is the century-old carrier world finally exposing programmable surfaces; the othe...
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June 22, 2026
What People Searched for on APIs.io Today
Every search box is a survey. People type what they actually need, in their own words, and they do it whether or not the thing they’re after exists yet. So once a day we roll up the apisearch events coming off the sea...
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June 22, 2026
Climate & Sustainability on APIs.io: The Emerging Vertical
Climate & Sustainability is the smallest of the six hot industries we’re walking this week — 72 providers across 280 APIs — and that’s exactly why it’s interesting. This is what a vertical looks like before it con...
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June 22, 2026
Healthcare & Life Sciences on APIs.io: FHIR Is the Substrate
Healthcare & Life Sciences is smaller than the other hot verticals on apis.io — 215 providers across 743 APIs — but it’s structurally one of the most coherent, because almost everything in it now rides the same st...
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June 21, 2026
Payments on APIs.io: Built for Agents to Spend
Payments has always been one of the most API-mature verticals — 264 providers across 1,778 APIs — but 2026 added a genuinely new actor to the flow: the agent that initiates the transaction. The plumbing was already th...
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June 21, 2026
Security & Identity on APIs.io: Identity Is Becoming an Agent Problem
Security & Identity is one of the densest verticals on apis.io — 378 providers across 2,323 APIs — and in 2026 it’s also one of the most unsettled, because the thing being secured changed. The question used to be ...
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June 20, 2026
Cloud & Developer Tools on APIs.io: Where the Agent Stack Gets Built
Cloud & Developer Tools is the vertical with the largest raw API surface in the catalog — 616 providers across 3,911 APIs. It’s also the one quietly reinventing itself in 2026: the platforms developers already use...
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June 20, 2026
AI & Machine Learning on APIs.io: The Hottest Surface in 2026
If you ask which industry is moving fastest on apis.io in 2026, the answer isn’t close. AI & Machine Learning is the largest single vertical in the catalog — 650 providers across 3,079 APIs — and it’s the one wher...
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June 15, 2026
Analytics on APIs.io: Two Sources, Side by Side
The APIs.io network has a new page in the More dropdown across every site — apis.io/analytics — and it does something most sites keep private: it publishes our own web traffic, in the open, every week.
The twist is t...
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June 14, 2026
10,000 API Providers: What the Catalog Actually Contains
The APIs.io catalog crossed 10,000 providers today. That number got here through 69 rounds of catalog expansion — starting from 8,985 entries, adding 1,015 new provider repos over the past week. But the count is the l...
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June 04, 2026
Arazzo Lands on APIs.io: 4,540 API Workflows, Provider and Cross-Provider
The APIs.io network added a new layer this week — arazzo.apis.io — to index the workflows API providers expose, not just the endpoints. It joins the catalog as its own Workflows section in the More dropdown across eve...
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June 01, 2026
Profiling Notion — One API, Six Capabilities, A Block-Shaped Data Model
Notion is one of the catalog’s quieter profiles — one API, six capabilities — and a useful counter-example to the “API count equals surface size” framing. The interesting thing about the Notion surface isn’t how big i...
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June 01, 2026
Logistics and Supply Chain on APIs.io: Tracking, Tendering, and Risk
Logistics-and-supply-chain is one of the deepest verticals on apis.io and one of the least talked about. It’s also one of the most agent-relevant — most of the work in this category is multi-step coordination across c...
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May 31, 2026
Profiling Pinecone — Six APIs, Two Planes, One RAG Substrate
Pinecone is one of the cleaner examples in the catalog of a vendor that has matured a single product surface into a properly federated API portfolio. Where a younger vector-DB profile shows up as one API, Pinecone’s p...
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May 31, 2026
Healthcare and Life Sciences on APIs.io: FHIR, Payers, and the Slow Federation
Healthcare is the apis.io vertical where API shape is most directly dictated by regulation. Most providers in this cohort don’t get to design their API from scratch — they have to publish a FHIR-conformant surface for...
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May 30, 2026
Security and Compliance on APIs.io: GRC, IAM, and the New Surfaces
The security-and-compliance surface on apis.io is one of the broadest in the catalog and one of the most rapidly evolving. Every operational concern in this vertical eventually becomes an API — but the shape of those ...
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May 30, 2026
Profiling Drata — Compliance Automation, With an MCP Server
Drata is one of the more interesting compliance surfaces in the catalog because the API portfolio reflects a category that’s actually evolving in 2026 rather than calcifying. Four APIs, each doing distinct work, and o...
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May 29, 2026
The Agent-Surface Layer: 846 Skills and 239 MCP Servers Land on APIs.io
This week the APIs.io network added two new layers — skills.apis.io and mcp.apis.io — to index the agent-surface artifacts API providers are now shipping alongside their traditional documentation and OpenAPI specs. Th...
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May 29, 2026
Profiling Datadog — 85 APIs and the Shape of a Modern Observability Surface
Datadog is the largest observability profile in the catalog at 85 distinct APIs. That puts it in the same neighborhood as the card networks for sheer breadth — and the comparison is apt. A modern observability platfor...
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May 29, 2026
Observability and Monitoring on APIs.io: The Federation Era
Observability as a category on apis.io has more providers, more capability variation, and faster surface evolution than any other operational vertical. Five years ago it was a tools market. Today it’s a federation of ...
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May 28, 2026
Profiling Linear — GraphQL-First, AsyncAPI-Documented Webhooks
Linear is the easiest provider in the network to overlook because the API count looks small: 2 APIs. But the shape of those two APIs is unusual enough — and influential enough on the modern dev-tool category — that it...
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May 28, 2026
Developer Tooling on APIs.io: From Repo to Production
The developer-tooling surface on apis.io is one of the most agent-relevant verticals in the catalog. Almost every autonomous-coding agent (Claude Code, Cursor, Aider, Devin, Codex) talks to some combination of these A...
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May 27, 2026
Profiling Replicate — One API, Thirteen Capabilities, a Million Models
Replicate is one of the most interesting providers on the network because it represents an opposite shape from the enterprise fintech profiles I’ve been writing about. Mastercard has 101 APIs. Plaid has 39. Replicate ...
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May 27, 2026
AI Infrastructure on APIs.io: Inference, Vectors, and the Stack Underneath
“AI APIs” is one of the most-searched filters on apis.io. It’s also one of the least useful searches if you take it literally — half of the catalog touches AI in some way now. The more useful question is: what does th...
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May 26, 2026
Profiling Plaid — 39 APIs Behind the Banking Data Fabric
Plaid is usually described as “the API that connects your app to bank accounts.” That framing was accurate in 2015. In 2026 the catalog shows what the surface has actually grown into — 39 distinct APIs spanning identi...
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May 26, 2026
Banking and Fintech on APIs.io: What's Indexed, What's Useful
The banking-and-fintech surface on apis.io is one of the deepest verticals in the catalog. It spans card networks (Mastercard, Visa), payment processors (Stripe, Adyen, Square, Worldpay), data-fabric providers (Plaid,...
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May 25, 2026
Two Days at the apis.io Doorway: 8,455 Denies, Zero Unlocks
The apis.io unlock gate went live on the evening of 2026-05-23. It does one specific thing: HTML pages stay open to everyone, and machine-readable formats (raw OpenAPI / AsyncAPI / JSON Schema / FinOps YAML, the .well...
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May 22, 2026
Just APIs: 30 Stories From One Week That Are Not About MCP, Skills, or CLIs
It is easy this year to read every API story through the lens of MCP, skills, and the agent surface. Useful as that lens is, it can hide what is happening at the foundational layer — the actual REST endpoints, OpenAPI...
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May 21, 2026
Open Source in the Agent Era: 14 Stories From One Week
The week of May 4-8, 2026 produced 14 stories across the API Evangelist network about the state of open source — CNCF graduations and incubations, Kubernetes releases, supply-chain security incidents, maintainer celeb...
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May 20, 2026
Incident Response in the Agentic Era: 13 Stories From One Week
Incident response is going through a quiet transition. The week of May 4-8, 2026 produced 13 stories across the API Evangelist network about MTTR, on-call, post-incident reviews, and the operational discipline of runn...
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May 20, 2026
APIs.io Scores 83 (Level 5 Agent-Native) on the Is Your Site Agent-Ready Scan
Cloudflare just launched Is Your Site Agent-Ready? — a public scanner that grades a domain against the emerging stack of standards that lets AI agents discover and act on the web. I pointed it at apis.io and the resul...
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May 19, 2026
Observability for the Agent Era: 14 Stories From One Week
Observability is one of the busiest categories in the API Evangelist network, and the week of May 4-8, 2026 was no exception — 14 stories worth tracking, ranging from agent-runtime monitoring to cloud-cost analytics, ...
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May 19, 2026
Capabilities Go Granular — 32,565 Up From 2,263
Today’s network rebuild is unusual. The provider count moved by 8, the API count by 52 — both modest. But the capabilities index expanded from 2,263 to 32,565 entries, a 14× deepening that reshapes how the catalog can...
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May 18, 2026
AI Governance Has Operational Stakes Now: 8 Stories From One Week
The AI governance conversation has stopped being a slide deck. The week of May 4-8, 2026 produced 8 stories across the API Evangelist network where the framing has shifted from “we should govern AI” to “here is the to...
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May 17, 2026
Fifty-Eight New Providers — Enterprise and Banking Move Into the Index
Today’s network rebuild was substantial. Across the upstream api-evangelist provider mirror, 58 new providers and 185 new APIs landed in the catalog, while 2,638 existing provider profiles picked up content refreshes ...
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May 17, 2026
AI Cost Is the Story No One Wants to Tell: 8 Stories From One Week
The week of May 4-8, 2026 produced 8 stories across the API Evangelist network about the cost side of AI — what it costs to run, who pays for it, how to attribute it, and what the infrastructure utilization actually l...
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May 16, 2026
Ten New Providers, Sixteen New APIs — Today's Network Rebuild
This morning’s rebuild added 10 providers and 16 APIs to the APIs.io catalog. Running totals are now 4,353 providers and 16,034 APIs, with 2,254 capabilities (+18), 42,423 schemas (+66), 3,632 JSON-LD documents (+11),...
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May 16, 2026
Data Platforms Are Going Agent: 16 Stories From One Week
The big data platforms — Snowflake, Databricks, Airbyte — published 16 stories during the week of May 4-8, 2026 that point in the same direction: their next chapter is about agents reading from, writing to, and reason...
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May 15, 2026
RAG Grows Up: 11 Stories From One Week on Retrieval, Vectors, and Knowledge
The retrieval layer is doing the heavy lifting in agent systems, and the publication cadence is starting to reflect that. The week of May 4-8, 2026 produced 11 stories across the API Evangelist network about RAG, vect...
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May 14, 2026
Agents Are Doing the Work: 11 Stories From One Week of the New Workforce
The week of May 4-8, 2026 produced 11 stories across the API Evangelist network where the framing was not “agents are coming” but “agents are doing the work, and the org chart is reflecting it.” Cloudflare cut 1,100 j...
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May 13, 2026
Agent Identity Is the Next Layer: 11 Stories From One Week
While the discourse has been eating MCP and skills, a quieter story has been forming underneath them: which agent is acting as whom, with what credentials, and on whose behalf. The week of May 4-8, 2026 produced 11 st...
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May 12, 2026
Profiling Cloudflare — The Edge Platform as 51 APIs and 5 Capability Domains
Cloudflare started as a CDN and DNS provider. Fifteen years later, the developer surface looks nothing like a CDN — it’s a full-stack edge platform spanning serverless compute, AI inference, vector search, object stor...
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May 12, 2026
The CLI Just Got Interesting Again: 16 Stories From One Week
For most of the last decade the command line was a stable, slightly boring corner of the developer toolchain. Then Claude Code, Cursor, and OpenAI Codex showed up, and the CLI is suddenly the most contested surface in...
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May 11, 2026
The Top Tags You Can Search the APIs.io Network By
tags.apis.io is the cross-network tag index. Every provider, API, capability, schema, AsyncAPI spec, JSON-LD context, and Spectral ruleset in the catalog can be tagged, and the tag index aggregates those tags across t...
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May 11, 2026
The Runtime Below MCP: 15 Stories on Agent Frameworks and SDKs From One Week
Below the MCP surface and the skill bundle, there is a runtime layer — agent frameworks, agent SDKs, agent gateways, and the orchestration primitives that hold the whole stack together. The week of May 4-8, 2026 produ...
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May 10, 2026
Agent Skills, This Week: 8 Stories From the Layer Above MCP
If MCP is the surface that defines what tools exist, skills are the layer that defines how to use those tools well. The week of May 4-8, 2026 produced fewer skill-related stories than MCP-related ones (8 vs 31), but t...
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May 09, 2026
The MCP Surface, Mapped: 31 Stories From One Week
The week of May 4-8, 2026 produced 31 distinct stories across the API Evangelist network about Model Context Protocol — vendors shipping servers, building gateways, writing how-to guides, hardening the auth and testin...
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May 07, 2026
Three New Sites — Plans, Rate Limits, and FinOps Now Indexed Across the Network
The APIs.io network just grew by three sites. Pricing plans, rate limit policies, and FinOps profiles — three of the most operationally important pieces of metadata about an API, and three that have historically been ...
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May 06, 2026
2,136 Capabilities on APIs.io and How to Run Them With the Naftiko Framework
The capabilities count on capabilities.apis.io crossed 2,136 capabilities in this morning’s rebuild — a +767 jump from yesterday. That number deserves more than a stats-bump update because each of those capabilities i...
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May 05, 2026
Profiling Mastercard — 101 APIs Across 13 Capability Areas
When you think of payments APIs, the names that come up first are usually the modern fintech entrants — Stripe, Plaid, Adyen. The card networks that move the actual money tend to sit one layer beneath that conversatio...
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May 04, 2026
Top API Stories From Producers Last Week (Apr 26 – May 3, 2026)
The APIs.io network ingests blog posts from every API-bearing provider it indexes. Last week (Apr 26 → May 3) the feed pulled in 2,104 posts across 884 producers, of which 178 carried API-relevant signals in the title...
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May 03, 2026
Finding Event-Driven APIs, Webhooks, and Streams in the Index
Most of what gets profiled in the catalog is request/response — REST APIs documented with OpenAPI. But a growing slice of the network is the other half of the integration story: events, webhooks, message queues, and s...
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May 02, 2026
APIs.io Crosses 10,000 APIs as April Profiling Completes
The April profiling batch just landed and the numbers are substantial. This rebuild added 609 providers and 1,951 APIs to the catalog, pushing the total API count past 10,000 for the first time — 10,360 APIs across 2,...
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May 01, 2026
235 Providers and 717 APIs Added in Latest Rebuild
The APIs.io catalog grew by 235 providers and 717 APIs in this rebuild — the largest single-cycle expansion since the agent-readiness work shipped two weeks ago. The running totals now sit at 1,699 providers and 7,810...
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May 01, 2026
Another 245 Providers and 599 APIs Added
The APIs.io catalog added another 245 providers and 599 APIs in a second rebuild cycle today, pushing the running totals to 1,944 providers and 8,409 APIs — the first time the network has crossed 8,000 APIs. The /.wel...
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May 01, 2026
Naftiko Capabilities Turn APIs into Business Workflows That Speak REST, MCP, and Agent Skills
The APIs.io catalog now indexes 750 capabilities across hundreds of providers. That number is easy to scroll past without understanding what it means, because “capability” sounds like a synonym for “API.” It isn’t. A ...
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April 30, 2026
Profiling HubSpot's 63 APIs and 11 Capabilities
HubSpot is one of the wider provider profiles in the APIs.io catalog — wider than most because the platform has grown well past its CRM origins and now spans marketing, content, commerce, customer service, and a devel...
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April 29, 2026
Building an Agent-Native API Catalog
APIs.io has always been a directory of APIs. Over the last two weeks the directory itself became a consumable interface — built so an AI agent can discover, evaluate, and integrate with any of the 7,000+ APIs and 1,40...
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April 29, 2026
100+ New Providers Profiled
The APIs.io catalog grew by 102 providers and 345 APIs this morning — the largest single network refresh since automatic rebuild posts began. The newly profiled entries push the running totals to 1,464 providers and 7...
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April 21, 2026
Spec-Driven Integration and the Future of API Discovery
APIs.io has always been about making APIs discoverable by machines. The APIs.json format provides a machine-readable index of what APIs exist and where to find them. That solves the discovery problem for APIs themselv...
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October 18, 2024
Profiling Wolfram Alpha LLM API
I recently profiled the Wolfram Alpha LLM API. There are additional APIs to be profiled, but I wanted to get this one in the system so we could use as part of other work.
One thing I tested with this one was the abil...
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October 18, 2024
Profiling Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Most Wanted API
I recently profiled the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Most Wanted API. There are additional APIs to be profiled, but I wanted to get this one in the system so we could use as part of other work.
One thing I t...
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September 25, 2024
Profiling Moodys Entity Verification, Screening, and Risk API
I recently profiled the Moody’s KYC API, which was an acquisition they made of Kompany.com. I was able to find the documentation and an OpenAPI, which I added as API properties.
I profiled many common properties incl...
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September 25, 2024
Profiling InfluxDB Cloud Time Series API
I profiled the InfluxDB time series API. Their cloud API is the one I profiled, and there may be other opportunity to profile their other API offerings. I was able to find the documentation and an OpenAPI, as well as ...
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July 03, 2024
What is API Search
APIs.io is all about redefining what API search is. Since we created APIs.json and APIs.io back in 2014 numerous API catalogs, directories, and networks have either disappeared or gone dormant. API discovery is hard t...
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