Serverless is one of the API Evangelist areas on the APIs.io network — a focused corner of the API landscape. The full area lives at serverless.apievangelist.com.
30 providers on the network work in this area, including Appwrite, Amazon DynamoDB, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, Prisma, Cloudflare, Netlify, and 24 more — each links out to that provider’s APIs, schemas, and governance artifacts.
Related areas: Containers, Database, Deployment, and Gateway. Browse every area at areas.apis.io.
About this area
An index and topic collection covering serverless compute, function-as-a-service (FaaS) runtimes, and edge function platforms. Serverless platforms abstract away server…
Related providers (132)
Top 30 of 132 network providers tagged for this area — search the full set on apis.io.
| Provider | Description | APIs | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| Appwrite | Appwrite is an open-source backend platform for web, mobile and AI applications, shipped both as a self-hostable BSD-3-Clause server and as the managed Appwrite Cloud. One REST ... | 2 | exemplar |
| Amazon DynamoDB | Amazon DynamoDB is a fully managed NoSQL database service that provides fast and predictable performance with seamless scalability, allowing you to store and retrieve any amount... | 1 | exemplar |
| Oracle Cloud Infrastructure | Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is Oracle's public cloud, exposed as a REST control plane of 159 service APIs covering compute, virtual cloud networking, block and object stor... | 9 | exemplar |
| Prisma | Prisma gives TypeScript and Node.js teams a type-safe ORM, managed serverless Postgres, and Compute for deploying apps and AI agents next to their database. The product line is ... | 7 | exemplar |
| Cloudflare | Cloudflare is a global network designed to make everything you connect to the Internet secure, private, fast, and reliable. | 24 | exemplar |
| Netlify | Netlify is a cloud platform for building, deploying and scaling modern web applications, with continuous deployment from Git, serverless and edge functions, a global CDN, forms,... | 2 | exemplar |
| Amazon API Gateway | Amazon API Gateway is a fully managed service that makes it easy to create, publish, maintain, monitor, and secure APIs at any scale. It acts as the front door for applications ... | 13 | exemplar |
| AWS Lambda | AWS Lambda is a serverless, event-driven compute service that lets you run code for virtually any type of application or backend service without provisioning or managing servers... | 2 | exemplar |
| Microsoft Azure Functions | Azure Functions is a serverless compute platform from Microsoft Azure enabling event-driven code execution triggered by HTTP requests, timers, queues, blobs, and other Azure ser... | 1 | exemplar |
| Segmind | Segmind is a serverless GPU inference platform that puts 200+ generative AI models — image, video, audio, 3D and LLM — behind one REST gateway with a single API key. Calls are m... | 1 | exemplar |
| fal | fal (Features and Labels, Inc.) is a generative media platform providing the world's fastest API for running image, video, audio, and multimodal generative AI models. Through a ... | 3 | exemplar |
| IBM | A collection of IBM's public APIs and developer resources. | 1 | strong |
| Modal | Modal is a serverless cloud for AI, data, and general compute. Developers define infrastructure as code in Python (with JavaScript and Go SDKs) and run functions, GPUs, sandboxe... | 1 | strong |
| Koyeb | Koyeb is a developer-friendly serverless platform for deploying applications, Postgres databases, GPU workloads and isolated code-execution sandboxes across a global edge networ... | 1 | strong |
| Azure Container Apps | Azure Container Apps is a serverless container service for running microservices and containerized applications with built-in autoscaling, traffic splitting, and Dapr integratio... | 1 | strong |
| Amazon EventBridge Pipes | Amazon EventBridge Pipes helps you create point-to-point integrations between event producers and consumers with optional transform, filter, and enrich steps. It reduces the amo... | 1 | strong |
| Amazon EventBridge Scheduler | Amazon EventBridge Scheduler is a fully managed, serverless scheduler that enables you to create, run, and manage tasks from one central, managed service. With EventBridge Sched... | 1 | strong |
| Amazon EventBridge | Amazon EventBridge is a serverless event bus service that makes it easy to connect your applications with data from a variety of sources. EventBridge delivers a stream of real-t... | 1 | strong |
| Inngest | Inngest is an event-driven durable execution platform for background jobs, step functions, scheduled workflows, and AI agent orchestration. It exposes a v1 event ingestion and r... | 1 | strong |
| Vercel | Vercel is a cloud platform that helps developers build, deploy, and scale modern web applications quickly and efficiently. It provides an optimized hosting environment for front... | 2 | strong |
| Amazon Redshift | Amazon Redshift is a fast, fully managed cloud data warehouse that makes it simple and cost-effective to analyze all your data using standard SQL and your existing Business Inte... | 2 | strong |
| Freestyle | Freestyle is the infrastructure for code you didn't write — VMs and Git for AI agents. The platform provides Linux microVMs that boot in under 600ms with live-fork, pause-resume... | 8 | strong |
| Amazon EFS | Amazon Elastic File System (EFS) provides a simple, serverless, set-and-forget elastic file system for use with AWS cloud services and on-premises resources. EFS is built to sca... | 1 | strong |
| Formboost | Form-backend-as-a-service with a single unauthenticated HTTP POST submission endpoint for any frontend or static site. Submissions land in an inbox and searchable dashboard and ... | 1 | strong |
| AWS App Runner | AWS App Runner is a fully managed service that makes it easy to build, deploy, and run containerized web applications and APIs at scale. It automatically builds and deploys appl... | 16 | strong |
| Archil | Archil is the cloud filesystem for AI. It turns an existing object-storage bucket (Amazon S3, Google Cloud Storage, Cloudflare R2, Azure Blob, MinIO, Wasabi, Backblaze B2, Digit... | 1 | strong |
| Amazon Proton | AWS Proton is a managed service for platform engineers that helps them publish standardized container and serverless application templates to empower developers. It provides aut... | 1 | strong |
| Cloudflare Queues | Cloudflare Queues is a flexible, scalable message queue service built into the Cloudflare Workers ecosystem. It provides guaranteed message delivery with a REST API for creating... | 1 | strong |
| Fermyon | Fermyon Wasm Functions is a multi-tenant, hosted, globally distributed engine for serverless functions running on Akamai Cloud, the most distributed cloud network. Fermyon is th... | 2 | developing |
| Azure Container Instances | Azure Container Instances (ACI) is the fastest and simplest way to run containers in Azure without having to manage virtual machines or adopt a higher-level orchestration servic... | 1 | developing |
Related areas
Containers (6 shared)
Database (5 shared)
Deployment (3 shared)
Gateway (3 shared)
Machine Learning (2 shared)
Microservices (2 shared)
Cohort brief
Auto-generatedThe 30 providers in the APIs.io catalog working in Serverless, scored on the Kin Score. Every figure below is computed from the catalog — nothing here is written.
Providers
30
all scored
Mean Kin Score
64.3
+41.4 vs catalog 22.9
Mean Agent Readiness
34.9
+22.9 vs catalog 12
Spread
53.4–83.6
median 62.2 · σ 7.8
How the 30 split by band
Exemplar 11Strong 17Developing 2Thin 0Emerging 0Minimal 0
Facet averages, against the whole catalog
| Facet | This cohort | Catalog | Difference | Scored |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Access Clarity | 73.7 | 26.4 | +47.3 | 30 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 70.2 | 23.1 | +47.1 | 30 |
| Contract Quality | 60.7 | 17.6 | +43.1 | 30 |
| Operational Transparency | 53.6 | 13.6 | +40 | 30 |
| Contract Governance | 25.1 | 6.3 | +18.8 | 30 |
| Discoverability | 69.2 | 58.2 | +11 | 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) | 40% | 15% | +25 |
| MCP server (first-party) | 37% | 12% | +25 |
| Agent Skills | 0% | 0% | 0 |
| OAuth scopes | 27% | 11% | +16 |
| Security | 100% | 98% | +2 |
| Arazzo workflows | 50% | 2% | +48 |
| Governance rules | 80% | 13% | +67 |
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 Appwrite 83.6
- 2 Amazon DynamoDB 80.3
- 3 Oracle Cloud Infrastructure 76.9
- 4 Prisma 73.2
- 5 Cloudflare 71.9
- 6 Netlify 71.9
- 7 Amazon API Gateway 70.6
- 8 AWS Lambda 69.8
- 9 Microsoft Azure Functions 69.4
- 10 Segmind 68.8
Top by Agent Readiness
- 1 Cloudflare 65.5
- 2 Netlify 60
- 3 Appwrite 54.5
- 4 Prisma 54.2
- 5 fal 50.6
- 6 Oracle Cloud Infrastructure 49.3
- 7 Vercel 45.7
- 8 Koyeb 39.8
- 9 IBM 37.3
- 10 Amazon EventBridge Scheduler 37.1
All 30 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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