Performance is one of the API Evangelist areas on the APIs.io network — a focused corner of the API landscape. The full area lives at performance.apievangelist.com.
30 providers on the network work in this area, including New Relic, Oracle Partitioning, WHOOP, Amazon Global Accelerator, APIContext, Factorial, and 24 more — each links out to that provider’s APIs, schemas, and governance artifacts.
Related areas: Analysis, Caching, AIOps, and Agent Skills. Browse every area at areas.apis.io.
About this area
An index and topic collection covering API and web performance, including load testing, performance benchmarking, real user monitoring (RUM), Core Web Vitals measurement, latency…
Related providers (34)
Top 30 of 34 network providers tagged for this area — search the full set on apis.io.
| Provider | Description | APIs | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Relic | New Relic provides observability platform APIs for monitoring, analyzing, and optimizing your entire software stack with real-time insights into applications, infrastructure, an... | 5 | exemplar |
| Oracle Partitioning | Oracle Partitioning is a licensed option of Oracle Database Enterprise Edition that divides large tables and indexes into smaller, independently manageable segments called parti... | 1 | strong |
| WHOOP | WHOOP is a fitness and recovery wearable platform providing a REST API for accessing sleep, recovery, strain, and workout metrics from the WHOOP band. The API uses OAuth 2.0 aut... | 2 | strong |
| Amazon Global Accelerator | Amazon Global Accelerator is a networking service that improves the performance and availability of applications with local or global users. It provides static IP addresses that... | 1 | developing |
| APIContext | APIContext (formerly APImetrics) is a synthetic API testing, monitoring and conformance platform. It calls the APIs you depend on from cloud locations around the world on a sche... | 2 | developing |
| Factorial | Factorial is an all-in-one HR, payroll, time, talent, finance, and IT management platform headquartered in Barcelona, Spain, used by 16,000+ companies worldwide. The Factorial p... | 1 | developing |
| Virtana (Virtual Instruments) | Virtana (formerly Virtual Instruments) is an AI-powered hybrid infrastructure observability company whose platform monitors and optimizes performance, cost, and risk across on-p... | 3 | developing |
| Unravel Data Systems | Unravel Data Systems is an AI-powered data observability and FinOps platform that helps data teams optimize performance, cost, and reliability across modern data stacks includin... | 1 | developing |
| Google Cloud Trace | Google Cloud Trace is a distributed tracing system that collects latency data from applications and displays it in near real-time. It helps developers understand how requests pr... | 1 | developing |
| Sage HR | Sage HR (formerly CakeHR) is a cloud HRIS for small and mid-sized businesses, owned by Sage Group plc. It bundles core HR records, leave management, performance, recruitment (AT... | 1 | developing |
| Polar Signals | Polar Signals is a continuous profiling company built by the team behind the open-source Parca project. Its Polar Signals Cloud product uses eBPF to continuously profile CPU, me... | 1 | developing |
| Google Cloud Profiler | Google Cloud Profiler is a statistical, low-overhead profiling service that continuously monitors CPU usage and memory allocation in production applications. It attributes resou... | 1 | developing |
| QuestDB | QuestDB is a high-performance open-source time-series database. It exposes three programmatic surfaces — an HTTP REST API for SQL queries and CSV import/export, the InfluxDB Lin... | 1 | thin |
| CodSpeed | CodSpeed is a continuous performance testing and optimization platform that automatically detects performance regressions in pull requests and proposes autonomous optimizations.... | 0 | thin |
| Kotzilla | Kotzilla is a French developer-observability company based in Toulouse, founded by the creators of Koin — the open-source dependency-injection framework for Kotlin, which Kotzil... | 1 | thin |
| Scalability | A subject-matter collection covering APIs, tools, frameworks, and data sources related to application scalability, infrastructure scaling, performance optimization, and elastic ... | 7 | thin |
| Scalable Architecture | A subject-matter collection covering APIs, patterns, tools, and frameworks for building scalable system architecture. This topic encompasses microservices design, service mesh, ... | 8 | thin |
| Grafast | Next-generation PostgreSQL-backed GraphQL planning and execution engine from the Graphile project, replacing graphql-js execution with a plan-based approach to eliminate N+1 que... | 1 | thin |
| Vegeta | Vegeta is an open source HTTP load testing tool and library written in Go for generating constant request rates to measure API performance and reliability under sustained load. ... | 1 | emerging |
| HeadSpin | HeadSpin is a real-device digital-experience, functional, and performance testing platform for mobile, web, and OTT applications. Teams test, monitor, and optimize app behavior ... | 1 | emerging |
| ReadySet | Readyset is a realtime SQL caching engine for Postgres and MySQL. It sits between applications and the database as a wire-compatible proxy, automatically caching the results of ... | 0 | emerging |
| Granulate | Granulate is a real-time continuous optimization company acquired by Intel in 2022 and now offered as Intel Tiber App-Level Optimization. Its platform autonomously tunes OS-leve... | 0 | emerging |
| Merbridge | Merbridge is an open source, eBPF-based service mesh acceleration tool that replaces iptables rules with eBPF traffic interception and uses msg_redirect to shorten the datapath ... | 1 | emerging |
| Flarion | Flarion is a data-processing acceleration company that speeds up distributed compute engines — Apache Spark, Hadoop, and Ray — without code or infrastructure changes. It ships a... | 0 | emerging |
| Teamworks | Teamworks is a sports technology company that builds "The Operating System for Sports" — an integrated software platform used by elite collegiate, professional, and national-tea... | 0 | emerging |
| Ethos Systems | Ethos Systems is an AI-powered human readiness platform that unifies learning, performance, and outcomes management in a single system built for enterprise and government deploy... | 0 | emerging |
| The Meta | The Meta is the gaming-performance company behind KovaaK's Aim Trainer (formerly "Kovaak 2.0: The Meta"), a PC esports training platform distributed on Steam that pairs guided, ... | 0 | emerging |
| Big O Notation | Big O Notation is a mathematical notation used in computer science to describe the performance or complexity of algorithms, providing a way to classify algorithms by how their r... | 0 | minimal |
| Nazar | Nazar (nazar.ai) is an AI-powered database performance and cost optimization platform that helps engineering and DBA teams monitor, analyze, and tune their databases. It support... | 0 | minimal |
| HTTP/2 | HTTP/2 is the second major version of the Hypertext Transfer Protocol, defined by the IETF in RFC 7540 and standardized in 2015. It optimizes use of network resources and reduce... | 0 | minimal |
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Cohort brief
Auto-generatedThe 28 providers in the APIs.io catalog working in Performance, scored on the Kin Score. Every figure below is computed from the catalog — nothing here is written.
Providers
28
all scored
Mean Kin Score
34.4
+10.6 vs catalog 23.8
Mean Agent Readiness
16.9
+5.3 vs catalog 11.6
Spread
7.1–68.1
median 33.2 · σ 16.1
How the 28 split by band
Exemplar 1Strong 2Developing 9Thin 6Emerging 9Minimal 1
Facet averages, against the whole catalog
| Facet | This cohort | Catalog | Difference | Scored |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Developer Ergonomics | 38.3 | 23.3 | +15 | 28 |
| Access Clarity | 37.7 | 26.3 | +11.4 | 28 |
| Contract Quality | 30.7 | 19.8 | +10.9 | 28 |
| Operational Transparency | 23.3 | 13.9 | +9.4 | 28 |
| Contract Governance | 12.1 | 6.3 | +5.8 | 28 |
| Discoverability | 62.8 | 61 | +1.8 | 28 |
A facet is averaged over the members that carry it, not over the whole cohort — the “Scored” column is that count. Averaging an absent facet as zero would score our own coverage gaps as the providers’ posture.
What this cohort publishes
| Artifact | This cohort | Catalog | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| MCP server (any) | 25% | 10% | +15 |
| MCP server (first-party) | 25% | 9% | +16 |
| Agent Skills | 0% | 0% | 0 |
| OAuth scopes | 21% | 11% | +10 |
| Security | 89% | 97% | -8 |
| Arazzo workflows | 4% | 2% | +2 |
| Governance rules | 36% | 14% | +22 |
mcp_pct counts any mcp/ artifact including ones API Evangelist derived from the provider OpenAPI; mcp_first_party_pct counts only servers the provider publishes. Prefer the latter.
Top by Kin Score
- 1 New Relic 68.1
- 2 Oracle Partitioning 58.6
- 3 WHOOP 58.2
- 4 Amazon Global Accelerator 52.3
- 5 APIContext 51.9
- 6 Factorial 51.3
- 7 Virtana (Virtual Instruments) 47.7
- 8 Unravel Data Systems 47.2
- 9 Google Cloud Trace 42.3
- 10 Sage HR 42
Top by Agent Readiness
- 1 APIContext 54.9
- 2 Oracle Partitioning 40.1
- 3 Polar Signals 37.6
- 4 New Relic 31.7
- 5 WHOOP 31.7
- 6 Factorial 31.7
- 7 Virtana (Virtual Instruments) 31.3
- 8 Sage HR 26.5
- 9 Amazon Global Accelerator 24.8
- 10 Unravel Data Systems 19.8
All 30 members of this roster resolve to a scored provider in
the catalog.Generated from the catalog build of
9 September 2026, across 27528
providers, using the same computation served by the
APIs.io cohort API. Briefs are published for rosters of
5 or more scored providers; below that a distribution is not meaningful.
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