Proxy is one of the API Evangelist areas on the APIs.io network — a focused corner of the API landscape. The full area lives at proxy.apievangelist.com.
30 providers on the network work in this area, including Chocodata, Bright Data, SOAX, HAProxy, corsproxy-dev, Envoy, and 24 more — each links out to that provider’s APIs, schemas, and governance artifacts.
Related areas: Service Mesh and Caching. Browse every area at areas.apis.io.
About this area
This is the index of API proxy, reverse proxy, forward proxy, and proxy middleware service and tooling repos being tracked by the API Evangelist network.
Related providers (38)
Top 30 of 38 network providers tagged for this area — search the full set on apis.io.
| Provider | Description | APIs | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chocodata | Web-scraping REST API that returns structured JSON from a large catalog of target sites (e-commerce, search engines, social, real estate, finance, and more), with proxies, CAPTC... | 1 | strong |
| Bright Data | Bright Data is an Israeli web data platform and operator of the world's largest legitimate residential proxy network (400M+ IPs across 195 countries). The platform combines prox... | 10 | developing |
| SOAX | SOAX provides enterprise-grade proxy infrastructure and web data extraction APIs for developers and data teams. With 155M+ residential IPs, 33M+ mobile IPs, and 300K+ datacenter... | 1 | developing |
| HAProxy | HAProxy is a free, very fast and reliable reverse-proxy offering high availability, load balancing, and proxying for TCP and HTTP-based applications. It exposes a Data Plane API... | 1 | developing |
| corsproxy-dev | corsproxy.dev provides a managed CORS relay service that enables browsers to call third‑party APIs without building their own proxy infrastructure. It offers API keys, rate limi... | 1 | developing |
| Envoy | Envoy is a high-performance, open-source edge and service proxy designed for cloud-native applications and microservice architectures. It provides advanced load balancing, obser... | 3 | developing |
| Contour | A Kubernetes ingress controller using Envoy proxy that provides dynamic configuration updates and advanced routing capabilities for managing external access to services in a clu... | 2 | developing |
| crawio-com | Crawio provides a web scraping API that handles proxies, anti-bot detection, and offers a single endpoint to fetch any web page from any country. It supports optional JavaScript... | 2 | thin |
| pncp-dev | pncp.dev provides an unblocked proxy to the public API of Brazil's National Procurement Portal (PNCP). It mirrors the routes of pncp.gov.br, allowing developers to replace the b... | 2 | thin |
| Verdaccio | Verdaccio is an open-source, lightweight private npm proxy registry built in Node.js that enables organizations to host, cache, and manage packages privately. It implements the ... | 1 | thin |
| Squid | Squid is a high-performance caching and forwarding HTTP web proxy used for content caching, access control, and bandwidth management. It supports HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, and other pro... | 1 | thin |
| mpsapi-com | MPS API provides mobile and residential proxy services via a RESTful API for developers and resellers. It offers proxy endpoints in 47 countries for mobile connections and in 17... | 2 | thin |
| Apache HTTP Server | Apache HTTP Server (httpd) is the world's most widely used web server software. It serves static and dynamic content, acts as a reverse proxy and load balancer, and exposes a mo... | 1 | thin |
| HTTP Toolkit | HTTP Toolkit is a beautiful, cross-platform, and open-source tool for debugging, testing, and building with HTTP(S) on Windows, Linux, and Mac. It provides a REST API for interc... | 4 | thin |
| SafeLine | SafeLine is an open-source self-hosted Web Application Firewall (WAF) and reverse proxy developed by Chaitin Technology that protects web applications and APIs from attacks incl... | 1 | thin |
| Zenscrape | Zenscrape is a web scraping API that returns the rendered HTML of any target URL while handling proxy rotation, headless-browser JavaScript rendering, geotargeting, and Cloudfla... | 1 | thin |
| Crawlbase | Crawlbase (formerly ProxyCrawl) is a web crawling and scraping platform that fetches any web page through a large rotating proxy network with optional headless-Chrome JavaScript... | 1 | thin |
| ipvolt-com | ipvolt provides a proxy infrastructure platform tailored for developers and data teams. It offers residential, datacenter, ISP (static residential) and mobile proxies that enabl... | 2 | thin |
| Tinyproxy | Tinyproxy is a lightweight, open-source HTTP/HTTPS proxy daemon designed for POSIX operating systems. It is ideal for use cases in embedded deployments, small networks, and envi... | 1 | thin |
| Sozu | Sōzu is an open-source, fast and lightweight HTTP reverse proxy written in Rust, designed for high-performance traffic management in immutable infrastructure environments. It is... | 3 | emerging |
| RapidProxy (RAPID TERMINAL UK NETWORK LIMITED) | RapidProxy (RAPID TERMINAL UK NETWORK LIMITED) provides a large residential proxy network with over 70 million IP addresses, enabling scalable web scraping, data collection, and... | 1 | emerging |
| agentramp-io | AgentRamp provides hosted MCP (Managed Contract Proxy) servers that sit in front of your API documentation, offering a stable, monitored endpoint that agents can call. The servi... | 1 | emerging |
| Whistle | Whistle is a cross-platform HTTP, HTTPS, HTTP/2, WebSocket, and TCP debugging proxy built on Node.js. It enables developers to inspect, intercept, modify, and replay network tra... | 1 | emerging |
| Oauth2-Proxy | oauth2-proxy is an open-source reverse proxy that provides authentication with Google, Azure, OpenID Connect, and many more identity providers. | 1 | emerging |
| Nginx Proxy Manager | Nginx Proxy Manager is an open-source Docker-based web application that provides a simple, powerful interface for managing Nginx proxy hosts. It enables users to expose services... | 2 | emerging |
| HTTPeep | HTTPeep provides a modern web debugging proxy and HTTP debugger built with Rust. It captures and inspects HTTPS traffic in real-time, supports rule‑based forwarding, mock local ... | 2 | emerging |
| Dev Proxy | Dev Proxy is a Microsoft command-line tool for simulating, testing, and debugging API interactions during development. | 1 | emerging |
| Jackett | Jackett provides a proxy server that translates queries from various torrent clients into a unified API, allowing users to search and retrieve torrent tracker results across man... | 1 | emerging |
| Varnish Cache | Varnish Cache is a high-performance HTTP accelerator and reverse proxy designed for content-heavy dynamic websites and APIs. It sits in front of web servers and caches HTTP resp... | 3 | emerging |
| MOSN | MOSN (Modular Open Smart Network) is a cloud-native network proxy written in Go, open-sourced by Ant Group. It serves as a Service Mesh data plane and can function as L4/L7 load... | 1 | emerging |
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Cohort brief
Auto-generatedThe 30 providers in the APIs.io catalog working in Proxy, scored on the Kin Score. Every figure below is computed from the catalog — nothing here is written.
Providers
30
all scored
Mean Kin Score
31.7
+8.9 vs catalog 22.8
Mean Agent Readiness
20.5
+7.2 vs catalog 13.3
Spread
15.7–66.2
median 30.1 · σ 11.1
How the 30 split by band
Exemplar 0Strong 1Developing 6Thin 12Emerging 11Minimal 0
Facet averages, against the whole catalog
| Facet | This cohort | Catalog | Difference | Scored |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Contract Quality | 35 | 18.2 | +16.8 | 30 |
| Operational Transparency | 22.5 | 12.4 | +10.1 | 30 |
| Contract Governance | 18.3 | 9.4 | +8.9 | 30 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 29.5 | 22.1 | +7.4 | 30 |
| Discoverability | 59.2 | 57.9 | +1.3 | 30 |
| Access Clarity | 25 | 25 | 0 | 30 |
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) | 23% | 16% | +7 |
| MCP server (first-party) | 23% | 14% | +9 |
| Agent Skills | 0% | 0% | 0 |
| OAuth scopes | 20% | 13% | +7 |
| Security | 97% | 98% | -1 |
| Arazzo workflows | 3% | 2% | +1 |
| Governance rules | 90% | 35% | +55 |
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 Chocodata 66.2
- 2 Bright Data 52.1
- 3 SOAX 46
- 4 HAProxy 44.1
- 5 corsproxy-dev 43.1
- 6 Envoy 42.6
- 7 Contour 40
- 8 crawio-com 37.4
- 9 pncp-dev 36.8
- 10 Verdaccio 36.1
Top by Agent Readiness
- 1 Bright Data 46.3
- 2 pncp-dev 41.8
- 3 mpsapi-com 37.3
- 4 Chocodata 32.8
- 5 corsproxy-dev 30.8
- 6 Crawlbase 28.1
- 7 Zenscrape 27.4
- 8 Envoy 26
- 9 crawio-com 25.7
- 10 HAProxy 24
All 30 members of this roster resolve to a scored provider in
the catalog.
Coverage caveat. 17 of 30 scored members had under half their catalog-attributable points satisfied at all (catalog_earned / catalog_max < 0.5). They are INCLUDED in the mean above. A large share here means the cohort mean is partly a measurement of how far our enrichment reached, not only of how these providers publish.Generated from the catalog build of 7 November 2026, across 38912 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.
Coverage caveat. 17 of 30 scored members had under half their catalog-attributable points satisfied at all (catalog_earned / catalog_max < 0.5). They are INCLUDED in the mean above. A large share here means the cohort mean is partly a measurement of how far our enrichment reached, not only of how these providers publish.Generated from the catalog build of 7 November 2026, across 38912 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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