Food Delivery on apis.io counts 105 providers, computed from tags rather than a fixed list. That sounds like depth. It is mostly breadth. By the scores in each provider’s own record, 57 of the 105 are minimal, 28 emerging and 11 thin. Five are developing, one is strong, two are exemplar. Three companies clear 60 on the Kin Score, and the market’s integration surface runs through them.
The functional bands
Food delivery is not one kind of API. It is at least four, and they score very differently.
| Band | Provider | Kin Score | Agent Readiness |
|---|---|---|---|
| Marketplace and dispatch | DoorDash | 76.2 exemplar | 37.6 agent-ready |
| Marketplace and dispatch | Grubhub | 60.1 strong | 48.4 agent-ready |
| Marketplace and dispatch | Uber Eats | 46.9 developing | 31.4 agent-ready |
| Grocery | Instacart | 70.0 exemplar | 37.9 agent-ready |
| Grocery and quick commerce | Getir | 33.4 thin | 31.8 agent-ready |
| Restaurant order middleware | Bevz | 52.5 developing | 27.9 agent-aware |
| Restaurant order middleware | Deliverart | 50.1 developing | 23.9 agent-aware |
| Kitchen operators | CloudKitchens | 45.7 developing | 30.3 agent-ready |
| Rider networks | Barogo | 37.8 thin | 37.9 agent-ready |
All scores are from the provider files, scored 2026-10-17.
What the record shows
The US platforms published; the European ones mostly did not. DoorDash, Instacart and Grubhub are the only three above 60. Deliveroo sits at 31.9, Just Eat at 34.5, Wolt at 38.0, Delivery Hero at 37.7, Bolt at 26.8. These are companies with large partner programs for restaurants and couriers, and the public, machine-readable side of those programs is thin.
Grubhub has the best agent record in the industry, not DoorDash. Grubhub’s Agent Readiness of 48.4 beats DoorDash’s 37.6 even though DoorDash leads by 16 points on the composite. A strong documentation surface and a contract an agent can safely act on are different things, and here they split.
The middleware layer is where the small companies score. Bevz and Deliverart both exist to consolidate DoorDash, Uber Eats, Just Eat, Glovo and Deliveroo orders into one place, and both land in developing, ahead of most of the platforms they aggregate. The integration pain these marketplaces create is the product.
Only 11 of the 105 records list an MCP server.
A catalog note
The industry page’s member rows do not match the provider records. The page lists DoorDash with 49 APIs; DoorDash’s own record says 14 on a published basis. The 296 API header total is the sum of those row counts, so it inherits the same drift. I cite the provider files here, not the page rows. That is our defect to reconcile.
Where to start
If you are dispatching deliveries, start with DoorDash Drive. If you are integrating grocery, Instacart. If you are a restaurant receiving orders from many marketplaces, look at the middleware tier before building five integrations yourself.
What would move the industry is the European marketplaces publishing contracts for the partner programs they already run. Browse the full list at apis.io/industries/food-delivery/.