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.
26 providers on the network work in this area, including Chocodata, Bright Data, Contour, Envoy, HAProxy, SOAX, and 20 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 (26)
Network providers tagged for this area.
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 | developing |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 | thin |
| 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 |
| Dev Proxy | Dev Proxy is a Microsoft command-line tool for simulating, testing, and debugging API interactions during development. | 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 |
| Proxy | 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. | 1 | 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 |
| Pipy | Pipy is a high-performance, programmable network proxy designed for cloud, edge, and IoT environments. Written in C++ with an embedded JavaScript engine (PipyJS), it provides a ... | 1 | emerging |
| Privoxy | Privoxy is a non-caching web proxy with advanced filtering capabilities for enhancing privacy, modifying web page content, and managing cookies. | 1 | emerging |
| API Proxies | An index and topic collection covering reverse-proxy and edge-proxy software used in front of APIs, including HTTP reverse proxies, edge proxies, load balancers, caching proxies... | 0 | minimal |
| Proxyman | Proxyman is a modern, native macOS app for HTTP/HTTPS debugging proxy with advanced features for API development and testing. | 1 | minimal |
| Pomerium | Pomerium is an identity-aware reverse proxy that enables secure, zero-trust access to internal applications without a VPN. | 1 | minimal |
Related areas
Cohort brief
Auto-generatedThe 25 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
25
all scored
Mean Kin Score
30.1
+7.2 vs catalog 22.9
Mean Agent Readiness
16.4
+4.4 vs catalog 12
Spread
9–61.7
median 32.4 · σ 13.4
How the 25 split by band
Exemplar 0Strong 1Developing 6Thin 8Emerging 8Minimal 2
Facet averages, against the whole catalog
| Facet | This cohort | Catalog | Difference | Scored |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Contract Quality | 33.9 | 17.6 | +16.3 | 25 |
| Operational Transparency | 25.8 | 13.6 | +12.2 | 25 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 29.1 | 23.1 | +6 | 25 |
| Contract Governance | 11.8 | 6.3 | +5.5 | 25 |
| Access Clarity | 25.7 | 26.4 | -0.7 | 25 |
| Discoverability | 56.3 | 58.2 | -1.9 | 25 |
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) | 16% | 15% | +1 |
| MCP server (first-party) | 12% | 12% | 0 |
| Agent Skills | 0% | 0% | 0 |
| OAuth scopes | 0% | 11% | -11 |
| Security | 92% | 98% | -6 |
| Arazzo workflows | 4% | 2% | +2 |
| Governance rules | 48% | 13% | +35 |
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 61.7
- 2 Bright Data 50.1
- 3 Contour 45.2
- 4 Envoy 44
- 5 HAProxy 44
- 6 SOAX 41.2
- 7 Verdaccio 39.3
- 8 HTTP Toolkit 36.1
- 9 Squid 35.7
- 10 Zenscrape 35.7
Top by Agent Readiness
- 1 Bright Data 47.6
- 2 Chocodata 31.3
- 3 Zenscrape 29.6
- 4 Crawlbase 28.4
- 5 Envoy 27.3
- 6 HAProxy 25.4
- 7 Verdaccio 24.8
- 8 Squid 22.9
- 9 Oauth2-Proxy 22.9
- 10 SOAX 22.3
All 26 members of this roster resolve to a scored provider in
the catalog.Generated from the catalog build of
3 October 2026, across 28834
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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