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Stories about API profiling, discovery, and the future of spec-driven integration across the APIs.io network.

Profiling Herald — One API Across Many Insurance Carriers
July 12, 2026

Profiling Herald — One API Across Many Insurance Carriers

Herald is a small surface — 7 APIs — but it’s one of the more structurally interesting entries in the insurance vertical, because the whole point of the design is to make many carriers look like one. It’s the aggregat...
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Insurance on APIs.io: Carriers, Aggregators, and InsurTech
July 12, 2026

Insurance on APIs.io: Carriers, Aggregators, and InsurTech

Insurance is a small vertical in the catalog — 84 providers, 313 APIs — and one of the least API-mature relative to its size as an industry. That gap is the story: insurance moves enormous amounts of money on top of s...
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Profiling Docusign — The Agreement Cloud as Six APIs
July 11, 2026

Profiling Docusign — The Agreement Cloud as Six APIs

Docusign is famous for one thing — electronic signatures — but the catalog surfaces six distinct APIs that show how a single feature grew into an agreement platform. Walking it is a good lesson in how a category-defin...
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Legal on APIs.io: Agreements, Discovery, and Research
July 11, 2026

Legal on APIs.io: Agreements, Discovery, and Research

Legal is one of the smaller verticals in the catalog — 53 providers, 307 APIs — and one of the least API-mature, which is exactly what makes it interesting to watch. This is a profession built on documents and precede...
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Profiling Chainstack — 26 APIs of Multi-Chain Node Infrastructure
July 10, 2026

Profiling Chainstack — 26 APIs of Multi-Chain Node Infrastructure

Chainstack carries 26 APIs, and the count tells you exactly what the company does: it runs blockchain nodes as managed infrastructure, and nearly every API is a different chain’s node interface. It’s one of the cleane...
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Blockchain and Web3 on APIs.io: Infrastructure, Exchanges, and Chains
July 10, 2026

Blockchain and Web3 on APIs.io: Infrastructure, Exchanges, and Chains

Blockchain and Web3 is a deep vertical in the catalog — 236 providers, 1,097 APIs — and its structure is unusually clean, because the domain naturally splits into a few well-defined layers: the infrastructure that run...
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Profiling Soracom — 18 APIs and a Connectivity Control Plane
July 09, 2026

Profiling Soracom — 18 APIs and a Connectivity Control Plane

Soracom carries 18 APIs, and it’s one of the cleanest examples in the catalog of a company that turned a physical thing — a cellular SIM — into a fully programmable cloud platform. The surface is what you get when con...
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IoT and Robotics on APIs.io: The Physical World Gets a Control Plane
July 09, 2026

IoT and Robotics on APIs.io: The Physical World Gets a Control Plane

IoT and robotics is a substantial vertical in the catalog — 177 providers, 812 APIs — and it’s where the physical world grows a programmable control plane. The interesting thing about walking it is how many of the big...
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Profiling Pluralsight — 30 APIs Across Learning and Engineering Metrics
July 08, 2026

Profiling Pluralsight — 30 APIs Across Learning and Engineering Metrics

Pluralsight carries 30 APIs in the catalog, and the interesting thing about the surface is that it’s really two products stitched together: the skills-and-learning platform everyone knows, and Flow, an engineering-int...
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Education on APIs.io: Platforms, Campuses, and Skills
July 08, 2026

Education on APIs.io: Platforms, Campuses, and Skills

Education is one of the largest verticals in the catalog — 312 providers, 959 APIs — but it’s also one of the most mixed, because “education” here spans commercial learning platforms, open-source LMS projects, and hun...
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Profiling Autodesk — 33 APIs Behind the Design Platform
July 07, 2026

Profiling Autodesk — 33 APIs Behind the Design Platform

Autodesk carries 33 APIs in the catalog, and unlike a fragmented product, they’re one coherent platform: Autodesk Platform Services (APS), the cloud layer under AutoCAD, Revit, Fusion, and the construction cloud. Walk...
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Construction and Real Estate on APIs.io: From Blueprint to Portfolio
July 07, 2026

Construction and Real Estate on APIs.io: From Blueprint to Portfolio

Construction and real estate is a mid-sized but deep vertical in the catalog — 103 providers, 399 APIs — and it’s one where the physical asset (a building, a jobsite, a property) is slowly acquiring a programmable twi...
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Profiling Atlassian — 138 APIs Across Three Products
July 04, 2026

Profiling Atlassian — 138 APIs Across Three Products

Atlassian carries one of the largest surfaces in the catalog — 138 distinct APIs — and unlike most high-count providers, it isn’t one product fragmented. It’s three: Jira, Confluence, and Bitbucket, each decomposed to...
AtlassianJiraConfluenceBitbucket
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Energy and Utilities on APIs.io: The Grid Goes Programmable
July 04, 2026

Energy and Utilities on APIs.io: The Grid Goes Programmable

Energy and utilities is a smaller vertical in the catalog — 113 providers — but it’s one of the most consequential, and one of the least API-mature. This is the band where the physical grid, the meter on your wall, an...
EnergyUtilitiesGridSmart Metering
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Every Artifact Specification You Can Browse on APIs.io
July 04, 2026

Every Artifact Specification You Can Browse on APIs.io

APIs.io indexes 8,968 providers and 32,188 APIs, but an API is never just one file. Behind every provider page is a stack of machine-readable artifacts — the OpenAPI that describes the surface, the Arazzo that sequenc...
OpenAPIAsyncAPIArazzoDiscovery
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The APIs.io MCP Server Is Now in the Official MCP Registry
July 03, 2026

The APIs.io MCP Server Is Now in the Official MCP Registry

APIs.io has always been about making APIs findable — 8,900+ providers, 32,000+ APIs, and 119,000+ schemas you can search from a browser or hit through the REST API. But more and more of the traffic coming to the catal...
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Profiling 15Five — The Public API Behind Performance Management
July 03, 2026

Profiling 15Five — The Public API Behind Performance Management

Next up in the profile-and-onboard video series on apis.io is 15Five, the AI-powered continuous performance management platform used by some 3,000 organizations for check-ins, OKRs, 1-on-1s, pulse surveys, and manager...
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Onboarding with 15Five — When the API Key Sits Behind a Demo
July 03, 2026

Onboarding with 15Five — When the API Key Sits Behind a Demo

In the companion profile I walked the 15Five platform from the outside. This onboarding run is shorter than most in the series — and the reason it’s short is the finding. I run these onboarding walks as a real ...
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Human Resources on APIs.io: The Workforce Stack
July 03, 2026

Human Resources on APIs.io: The Workforce Stack

Human resources is a focused but fast-moving vertical in the catalog — 118 providers — and it’s a clean illustration of how a back-office function got unbundled into a stack of specialist APIs. Hire, onboard, pay, man...
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Profiling Snowflake — 47 APIs and the Data Cloud Control Plane
July 03, 2026

Profiling Snowflake — 47 APIs and the Data Cloud Control Plane

Snowflake is where a lot of the world’s analytical data actually lives, and the catalog shows 47 distinct APIs behind it. What’s striking is how few are about running a query. Most of Snowflake’s surface is a control ...
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Profiling 123FormBuilder — One API for Forms, Submissions, and Workflows
July 02, 2026

Profiling 123FormBuilder — One API for Forms, Submissions, and Workflows

Continuing the profile-and-onboard video series on apis.io, this pair looks at 123FormBuilder — the online form, survey, and workflow builder used to collect, route, and integrate submission data across websites, port...
123FormBuilderOnline FormsForm BuilderSurveys
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One Install Button for Your MCP Server, Across Every Client
July 02, 2026

One Install Button for Your MCP Server, Across Every Client

APIs.io indexes MCP servers alongside OpenAPI, AsyncAPI, Postman, Arazzo, and the rest of the artifacts that describe an API. Discovery is one half of the problem — once someone finds your MCP server, they still have ...
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Onboarding with 123FormBuilder — Free Signup to a JWT and Your First Forms Call
July 02, 2026

Onboarding with 123FormBuilder — Free Signup to a JWT and Your First Forms Call

In the companion profile I walked the 123FormBuilder footprint from the outside. This video gets hands-on — a cold start from the docs to a working call against the REST API v2, narrating the real friction along the w...
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Media and Entertainment on APIs.io: The Content Pipeline
July 02, 2026

Media and Entertainment on APIs.io: The Content Pipeline

Media and entertainment is the single largest vertical in the catalog — 409 providers — which surprises people who expect fintech or dev tools to lead. It makes sense once you see the breadth: this band runs from raw ...
MediaEntertainmentStreamingContent
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Profiling Box — 51 APIs and Content With a Governance Layer
July 02, 2026

Profiling Box — 51 APIs and Content With a Governance Layer

Box looks, from a distance, like cloud file storage with an API. The catalog shows 51 distinct APIs — and the interesting thing is how few of them are actually about files. The bulk of Box’s surface is the governance,...
BoxContent ManagementStorageGovernance
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Marketing and Advertising on APIs.io: The Customer Graph
July 01, 2026

Marketing and Advertising on APIs.io: The Customer Graph

Marketing and advertising is a sprawling vertical on apis.io — 268 providers — and it’s where the catalog’s CRM, customer-experience, and engagement surfaces all live. What ties them together is a single asset: the cu...
MarketingAdvertisingCRMCustomer Experience
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A Look Inside the APIs.io Analytics Page
July 01, 2026

A Look Inside the APIs.io Analytics Page

We publish our own traffic. If APIs.io is going to be the open place you go to discover 8968 providers, 32188 APIs, and 119624 schemas, then how much the directory actually gets used shouldn’t be a number we keep to o...
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Profiling Zendesk — 145 APIs and the Support Operating System
July 01, 2026

Profiling Zendesk — 145 APIs and the Support Operating System

Zendesk has the largest non-cloud-infrastructure surface in the catalog — 145 distinct APIs. That number is startling for a product most people think of as “the help-desk ticket tool.” Walk the surface and the count m...
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The APIs.io Developer Area: Everything You Can Build On
June 30, 2026

The APIs.io Developer Area: Everything You Can Build On

APIs.io is a directory you can read with your eyes — but the whole point is that you can also read it with code. Behind the website that indexes 8968 providers, 32188 APIs, and 119624 schemas sits a programmable layer...
Developer PortalAPIMCPAgent Skills
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Profiling 0x — Five APIs Behind the DEX Aggregation Layer
June 30, 2026

Profiling 0x — Five APIs Behind the DEX Aggregation Layer

This is the first in a new pair of videos I’m running on apis.io — a profile of a provider, followed by an onboarding walkthrough of the same provider. First up is 0x, the institutional-grade DEX aggregation and crypt...
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Onboarding with 0x — From Signup to Your First Swap Call
June 30, 2026

Onboarding with 0x — From Signup to Your First Swap Call

In the companion profile I walked the 0x API footprint from the outside. This video does the opposite — it gets hands-on and goes all the way from a cold signup to a working curl call against the Swap API, narrating t...
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Government and Public Data on APIs.io: The Civic Surface
June 30, 2026

Government and Public Data on APIs.io: The Civic Surface

Government and public data is quietly one of the largest verticals in the catalog — 368 providers — and one of the most underrated. These aren’t startups chasing revenue; they’re agencies that have, often slowly, turn...
GovernmentPublic DataOpen DataCivic Tech
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Profiling the EPA — 31 APIs of Environmental Public Data
June 30, 2026

Profiling the EPA — 31 APIs of Environmental Public Data

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is not a company, and that’s the point. It’s one of the clearest examples in the catalog of a government body that has turned decades of regulatory data into 31 distinct public...
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Retail and E-commerce on APIs.io: The Composable Stack
June 29, 2026

Retail and E-commerce on APIs.io: The Composable Stack

Retail and e-commerce is one of the largest verticals in the catalog — 325 providers — and one of the most layered. A modern store isn’t one platform anymore; it’s a stack of composable APIs for catalog, checkout, pay...
RetailE-commerceHeadless CommercePayments
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Profiling BigCommerce — 65 APIs and the Headless Commerce Surface
June 29, 2026

Profiling BigCommerce — 65 APIs and the Headless Commerce Surface

BigCommerce sells itself as open SaaS, and the catalog backs the claim: 65 distinct APIs — the largest pure-commerce surface in the index. What makes it worth profiling isn’t the count, though. It’s the deliberate spl...
BigCommerceE-commerceHeadless CommerceStorefront
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Twenty-Seven More Providers Now Ship Agent Skills
June 28, 2026

Twenty-Seven More Providers Now Ship Agent Skills

Agent Skills — the SKILL.md packages that API providers publish so AI coding agents like Claude Code can operate their products correctly — have crossed from a novelty into an expected provider artifact. We just index...
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Profiling Twilio — 35 APIs Behind the Communications Control Plane
June 28, 2026

Profiling Twilio — 35 APIs Behind the Communications Control Plane

Twilio is the company that taught a generation of developers that a phone call could be an HTTP request. Most people still think of it as “the SMS API.” The catalog tells a different story — 35 distinct APIs that toge...
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Telecommunications on APIs.io: From Carrier to Code
June 28, 2026

Telecommunications on APIs.io: From Carrier to Code

Telecommunications is one of the deeper verticals in the catalog — 165 providers — and it’s also one of the most bifurcated. Half of it is the century-old carrier world finally exposing programmable surfaces; the othe...
TelecommunicationsCommunicationsCPaaSMessaging
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What People Searched for on APIs.io Today
June 22, 2026

What People Searched for on APIs.io Today

Every search box is a survey. People type what they actually need, in their own words, and they do it whether or not the thing they’re after exists yet. So once a day we roll up the apisearch events coming off the sea...
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Climate & Sustainability on APIs.io: The Emerging Vertical
June 22, 2026

Climate & Sustainability on APIs.io: The Emerging Vertical

Climate & Sustainability is the smallest of the six hot industries we’re walking this week — 72 providers across 280 APIs — and that’s exactly why it’s interesting. This is what a vertical looks like before it con...
Climate & SustainabilityCarbon AccountingGrid DataESG
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Healthcare & Life Sciences on APIs.io: FHIR Is the Substrate
June 22, 2026

Healthcare & Life Sciences on APIs.io: FHIR Is the Substrate

Healthcare & Life Sciences is smaller than the other hot verticals on apis.io — 215 providers across 743 APIs — but it’s structurally one of the most coherent, because almost everything in it now rides the same st...
Healthcare & Life SciencesFHIRInteroperabilityClinical Data
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Security & Identity on APIs.io: Identity Is Becoming an Agent Problem
June 21, 2026

Security & Identity on APIs.io: Identity Is Becoming an Agent Problem

Security & Identity is one of the densest verticals on apis.io — 378 providers across 2,323 APIs — and in 2026 it’s also one of the most unsettled, because the thing being secured changed. The question used to be ...
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Payments on APIs.io: Built for Agents to Spend
June 21, 2026

Payments on APIs.io: Built for Agents to Spend

Payments has always been one of the most API-mature verticals — 264 providers across 1,778 APIs — but 2026 added a genuinely new actor to the flow: the agent that initiates the transaction. The plumbing was already th...
PaymentsAgentic CommerceMCPBilling
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AI & Machine Learning on APIs.io: The Hottest Surface in 2026
June 20, 2026

AI & Machine Learning on APIs.io: The Hottest Surface in 2026

If you ask which industry is moving fastest on apis.io in 2026, the answer isn’t close. AI & Machine Learning is the largest single vertical in the catalog — 650 providers across 3,079 APIs — and it’s the one wher...
AI & Machine LearningMCPVector DatabasesInference
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Cloud & Developer Tools on APIs.io: Where the Agent Stack Gets Built
June 20, 2026

Cloud & Developer Tools on APIs.io: Where the Agent Stack Gets Built

Cloud & Developer Tools is the vertical with the largest raw API surface in the catalog — 616 providers across 3,911 APIs. It’s also the one quietly reinventing itself in 2026: the platforms developers already use...
Cloud & Developer ToolsAPI ManagementMCPAI Gateway
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Analytics on APIs.io: Two Sources, Side by Side
June 15, 2026

Analytics on APIs.io: Two Sources, Side by Side

The APIs.io network has a new page in the More dropdown across every site — apis.io/analytics — and it does something most sites keep private: it publishes our own web traffic, in the open, every week. The twist is t...
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10,000 API Providers: What the Catalog Actually Contains
June 14, 2026

10,000 API Providers: What the Catalog Actually Contains

The APIs.io catalog crossed 10,000 providers today. That number got here through 69 rounds of catalog expansion — starting from 8,985 entries, adding 1,015 new provider repos over the past week. But the count is the l...
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Arazzo Lands on APIs.io: 4,540 API Workflows, Provider and Cross-Provider
June 04, 2026

Arazzo Lands on APIs.io: 4,540 API Workflows, Provider and Cross-Provider

The APIs.io network added a new layer this week — arazzo.apis.io — to index the workflows API providers expose, not just the endpoints. It joins the catalog as its own Workflows section in the More dropdown across eve...
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Profiling Notion — One API, Six Capabilities, A Block-Shaped Data Model
June 01, 2026

Profiling Notion — One API, Six Capabilities, A Block-Shaped Data Model

Notion is one of the catalog’s quieter profiles — one API, six capabilities — and a useful counter-example to the “API count equals surface size” framing. The interesting thing about the Notion surface isn’t how big i...
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Logistics and Supply Chain on APIs.io: Tracking, Tendering, and Risk
June 01, 2026

Logistics and Supply Chain on APIs.io: Tracking, Tendering, and Risk

Logistics-and-supply-chain is one of the deepest verticals on apis.io and one of the least talked about. It’s also one of the most agent-relevant — most of the work in this category is multi-step coordination across c...
LogisticsSupply ChainShippingProcurement
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Profiling Pinecone — Six APIs, Two Planes, One RAG Substrate
May 31, 2026

Profiling Pinecone — Six APIs, Two Planes, One RAG Substrate

Pinecone is one of the cleaner examples in the catalog of a vendor that has matured a single product surface into a properly federated API portfolio. Where a younger vector-DB profile shows up as one API, Pinecone’s p...
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Healthcare and Life Sciences on APIs.io: FHIR, Payers, and the Slow Federation
May 31, 2026

Healthcare and Life Sciences on APIs.io: FHIR, Payers, and the Slow Federation

Healthcare is the apis.io vertical where API shape is most directly dictated by regulation. Most providers in this cohort don’t get to design their API from scratch — they have to publish a FHIR-conformant surface for...
HealthcareLife SciencesFHIRHIPAA
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Security and Compliance on APIs.io: GRC, IAM, and the New Surfaces
May 30, 2026

Security and Compliance on APIs.io: GRC, IAM, and the New Surfaces

The security-and-compliance surface on apis.io is one of the broadest in the catalog and one of the most rapidly evolving. Every operational concern in this vertical eventually becomes an API — but the shape of those ...
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Profiling Drata — Compliance Automation, With an MCP Server
May 30, 2026

Profiling Drata — Compliance Automation, With an MCP Server

Drata is one of the more interesting compliance surfaces in the catalog because the API portfolio reflects a category that’s actually evolving in 2026 rather than calcifying. Four APIs, each doing distinct work, and o...
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The Agent-Surface Layer: 846 Skills and 239 MCP Servers Land on APIs.io
May 29, 2026

The Agent-Surface Layer: 846 Skills and 239 MCP Servers Land on APIs.io

This week the APIs.io network added two new layers — skills.apis.io and mcp.apis.io — to index the agent-surface artifacts API providers are now shipping alongside their traditional documentation and OpenAPI specs. Th...
Agent SkillsMCPModel Context ProtocolAgent Readiness
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Observability and Monitoring on APIs.io: The Federation Era
May 29, 2026

Observability and Monitoring on APIs.io: The Federation Era

Observability as a category on apis.io has more providers, more capability variation, and faster surface evolution than any other operational vertical. Five years ago it was a tools market. Today it’s a federation of ...
ObservabilityMonitoringAPMLogs
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Profiling Datadog — 85 APIs and the Shape of a Modern Observability Surface
May 29, 2026

Profiling Datadog — 85 APIs and the Shape of a Modern Observability Surface

Datadog is the largest observability profile in the catalog at 85 distinct APIs. That puts it in the same neighborhood as the card networks for sheer breadth — and the comparison is apt. A modern observability platfor...
DatadogObservabilityMonitoringAPM
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Profiling Linear — GraphQL-First, AsyncAPI-Documented Webhooks
May 28, 2026

Profiling Linear — GraphQL-First, AsyncAPI-Documented Webhooks

Linear is the easiest provider in the network to overlook because the API count looks small: 2 APIs. But the shape of those two APIs is unusual enough — and influential enough on the modern dev-tool category — that it...
LinearGraphQLAsyncAPIWebhooks
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Developer Tooling on APIs.io: From Repo to Production
May 28, 2026

Developer Tooling on APIs.io: From Repo to Production

The developer-tooling surface on apis.io is one of the most agent-relevant verticals in the catalog. Almost every autonomous-coding agent (Claude Code, Cursor, Aider, Devin, Codex) talks to some combination of these A...
Developer ToolsSource ControlCI/CDProject Management
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Profiling Replicate — One API, Thirteen Capabilities, a Million Models
May 27, 2026

Profiling Replicate — One API, Thirteen Capabilities, a Million Models

Replicate is one of the most interesting providers on the network because it represents an opposite shape from the enterprise fintech profiles I’ve been writing about. Mastercard has 101 APIs. Plaid has 39. Replicate ...
ReplicateAI InfrastructureModel HostingAsync APIs
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AI Infrastructure on APIs.io: Inference, Vectors, and the Stack Underneath
May 27, 2026

AI Infrastructure on APIs.io: Inference, Vectors, and the Stack Underneath

“AI APIs” is one of the most-searched filters on apis.io. It’s also one of the least useful searches if you take it literally — half of the catalog touches AI in some way now. The more useful question is: what does th...
AI InfrastructureModel HostingVector DatabasesInference
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Profiling Plaid — 39 APIs Behind the Banking Data Fabric
May 26, 2026

Profiling Plaid — 39 APIs Behind the Banking Data Fabric

Plaid is usually described as “the API that connects your app to bank accounts.” That framing was accurate in 2015. In 2026 the catalog shows what the surface has actually grown into — 39 distinct APIs spanning identi...
PlaidBankingOpen BankingFintech
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Banking and Fintech on APIs.io: What's Indexed, What's Useful
May 26, 2026

Banking and Fintech on APIs.io: What's Indexed, What's Useful

The banking-and-fintech surface on apis.io is one of the deepest verticals in the catalog. It spans card networks (Mastercard, Visa), payment processors (Stripe, Adyen, Square, Worldpay), data-fabric providers (Plaid,...
BankingFintechPaymentsOpen Banking
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Two Days at the apis.io Doorway: 8,455 Denies, Zero Unlocks
May 25, 2026

Two Days at the apis.io Doorway: 8,455 Denies, Zero Unlocks

The apis.io unlock gate went live on the evening of 2026-05-23. It does one specific thing: HTML pages stay open to everyone, and machine-readable formats (raw OpenAPI / AsyncAPI / JSON Schema / FinOps YAML, the .well...
Agent ReadinessUnlockBot TrafficWeb Bot Auth
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Just APIs: 30 Stories From One Week That Are Not About MCP, Skills, or CLIs
May 22, 2026

Just APIs: 30 Stories From One Week That Are Not About MCP, Skills, or CLIs

It is easy this year to read every API story through the lens of MCP, skills, and the agent surface. Useful as that lens is, it can hide what is happening at the foundational layer — the actual REST endpoints, OpenAPI...
APIsRESTGraphQLOpenAPI
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Open Source in the Agent Era: 14 Stories From One Week
May 21, 2026

Open Source in the Agent Era: 14 Stories From One Week

The week of May 4-8, 2026 produced 14 stories across the API Evangelist network about the state of open source — CNCF graduations and incubations, Kubernetes releases, supply-chain security incidents, maintainer celeb...
Open SourceCNCFKubernetesSupply Chain
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Incident Response in the Agentic Era: 13 Stories From One Week
May 20, 2026

Incident Response in the Agentic Era: 13 Stories From One Week

Incident response is going through a quiet transition. The week of May 4-8, 2026 produced 13 stories across the API Evangelist network about MTTR, on-call, post-incident reviews, and the operational discipline of runn...
Incident ResponseSREPagerDutyOn-Call
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APIs.io Scores 83 (Level 5 Agent-Native) on the Is Your Site Agent-Ready Scan
May 20, 2026

APIs.io Scores 83 (Level 5 Agent-Native) on the Is Your Site Agent-Ready Scan

Cloudflare just launched Is Your Site Agent-Ready? — a public scanner that grades a domain against the emerging stack of standards that lets AI agents discover and act on the web. I pointed it at apis.io and the resul...
Agent ReadinessMCPAgent SkillsDiscovery
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Observability for the Agent Era: 14 Stories From One Week
May 19, 2026

Observability for the Agent Era: 14 Stories From One Week

Observability is one of the busiest categories in the API Evangelist network, and the week of May 4-8, 2026 was no exception — 14 stories worth tracking, ranging from agent-runtime monitoring to cloud-cost analytics, ...
ObservabilityTelemetryOpenTelemetrySignOz
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Capabilities Go Granular — 32,565 Up From 2,263
May 19, 2026

Capabilities Go Granular — 32,565 Up From 2,263

Today’s network rebuild is unusual. The provider count moved by 8, the API count by 52 — both modest. But the capabilities index expanded from 2,263 to 32,565 entries, a 14× deepening that reshapes how the catalog can...
Network UpdateCapabilitiesCatalog RefreshCategories
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AI Governance Has Operational Stakes Now: 8 Stories From One Week
May 18, 2026

AI Governance Has Operational Stakes Now: 8 Stories From One Week

The AI governance conversation has stopped being a slide deck. The week of May 4-8, 2026 produced 8 stories across the API Evangelist network where the framing has shifted from “we should govern AI” to “here is the to...
AI GovernanceRiskComplianceEvaluation
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AI Cost Is the Story No One Wants to Tell: 8 Stories From One Week
May 17, 2026

AI Cost Is the Story No One Wants to Tell: 8 Stories From One Week

The week of May 4-8, 2026 produced 8 stories across the API Evangelist network about the cost side of AI — what it costs to run, who pays for it, how to attribute it, and what the infrastructure utilization actually l...
FinOpsAI CostCost AttributionGPU
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Fifty-Eight New Providers — Enterprise and Banking Move Into the Index
May 17, 2026

Fifty-Eight New Providers — Enterprise and Banking Move Into the Index

Today’s network rebuild was substantial. Across the upstream api-evangelist provider mirror, 58 new providers and 185 new APIs landed in the catalog, while 2,638 existing provider profiles picked up content refreshes ...
Network UpdateProvidersAPIsCatalog Refresh
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Ten New Providers, Sixteen New APIs — Today's Network Rebuild
May 16, 2026

Ten New Providers, Sixteen New APIs — Today's Network Rebuild

This morning’s rebuild added 10 providers and 16 APIs to the APIs.io catalog. Running totals are now 4,353 providers and 16,034 APIs, with 2,254 capabilities (+18), 42,423 schemas (+66), 3,632 JSON-LD documents (+11),...
Network UpdateProvidersAPIsCatalog Refresh
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Data Platforms Are Going Agent: 16 Stories From One Week
May 16, 2026

Data Platforms Are Going Agent: 16 Stories From One Week

The big data platforms — Snowflake, Databricks, Airbyte — published 16 stories during the week of May 4-8, 2026 that point in the same direction: their next chapter is about agents reading from, writing to, and reason...
Data PlatformsSnowflakeDatabricksAirbyte
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RAG Grows Up: 11 Stories From One Week on Retrieval, Vectors, and Knowledge
May 15, 2026

RAG Grows Up: 11 Stories From One Week on Retrieval, Vectors, and Knowledge

The retrieval layer is doing the heavy lifting in agent systems, and the publication cadence is starting to reflect that. The week of May 4-8, 2026 produced 11 stories across the API Evangelist network about RAG, vect...
RAGRetrievalVector SearchSemantic Search
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Agents Are Doing the Work: 11 Stories From One Week of the New Workforce
May 14, 2026

Agents Are Doing the Work: 11 Stories From One Week of the New Workforce

The week of May 4-8, 2026 produced 11 stories across the API Evangelist network where the framing was not “agents are coming” but “agents are doing the work, and the org chart is reflecting it.” Cloudflare cut 1,100 j...
WorkforceAgentic AIProductivityShadow AI
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Agent Identity Is the Next Layer: 11 Stories From One Week
May 13, 2026

Agent Identity Is the Next Layer: 11 Stories From One Week

While the discourse has been eating MCP and skills, a quieter story has been forming underneath them: which agent is acting as whom, with what credentials, and on whose behalf. The week of May 4-8, 2026 produced 11 st...
Agent IdentityCredentialsOAuthService Accounts
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Profiling Cloudflare — The Edge Platform as 51 APIs and 5 Capability Domains
May 12, 2026

Profiling Cloudflare — The Edge Platform as 51 APIs and 5 Capability Domains

Cloudflare started as a CDN and DNS provider. Fifteen years later, the developer surface looks nothing like a CDN — it’s a full-stack edge platform spanning serverless compute, AI inference, vector search, object stor...
CloudflareEdge ComputingWorkersAI Gateway
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The CLI Just Got Interesting Again: 16 Stories From One Week
May 12, 2026

The CLI Just Got Interesting Again: 16 Stories From One Week

For most of the last decade the command line was a stable, slightly boring corner of the developer toolchain. Then Claude Code, Cursor, and OpenAI Codex showed up, and the CLI is suddenly the most contested surface in...
CLIClaude CodeCodexCursor
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The Top Tags You Can Search the APIs.io Network By
May 11, 2026

The Top Tags You Can Search the APIs.io Network By

tags.apis.io is the cross-network tag index. Every provider, API, capability, schema, AsyncAPI spec, JSON-LD context, and Spectral ruleset in the catalog can be tagged, and the tag index aggregates those tags across t...
TagsDiscoverySearchTaxonomy
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The Runtime Below MCP: 15 Stories on Agent Frameworks and SDKs From One Week
May 11, 2026

The Runtime Below MCP: 15 Stories on Agent Frameworks and SDKs From One Week

Below the MCP surface and the skill bundle, there is a runtime layer — agent frameworks, agent SDKs, agent gateways, and the orchestration primitives that hold the whole stack together. The week of May 4-8, 2026 produ...
Agent FrameworksAgent SDKsBedrock AgentCoreMicrosoft Agent Framework
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Agent Skills, This Week: 8 Stories From the Layer Above MCP
May 10, 2026

Agent Skills, This Week: 8 Stories From the Layer Above MCP

If MCP is the surface that defines what tools exist, skills are the layer that defines how to use those tools well. The week of May 4-8, 2026 produced fewer skill-related stories than MCP-related ones (8 vs 31), but t...
Agent SkillsClaude SkillsClaude CodeMCP
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The MCP Surface, Mapped: 31 Stories From One Week
May 09, 2026

The MCP Surface, Mapped: 31 Stories From One Week

The week of May 4-8, 2026 produced 31 distinct stories across the API Evangelist network about Model Context Protocol — vendors shipping servers, building gateways, writing how-to guides, hardening the auth and testin...
MCPModel Context ProtocolAgent SkillsAPI Discovery
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Three New Sites — Plans, Rate Limits, and FinOps Now Indexed Across the Network
May 07, 2026

Three New Sites — Plans, Rate Limits, and FinOps Now Indexed Across the Network

The APIs.io network just grew by three sites. Pricing plans, rate limit policies, and FinOps profiles — three of the most operationally important pieces of metadata about an API, and three that have historically been ...
Network UpdatePlansRate LimitsFinOps
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2,136 Capabilities on APIs.io and How to Run Them With the Naftiko Framework
May 06, 2026

2,136 Capabilities on APIs.io and How to Run Them With the Naftiko Framework

The capabilities count on capabilities.apis.io crossed 2,136 capabilities in this morning’s rebuild — a +767 jump from yesterday. That number deserves more than a stats-bump update because each of those capabilities i...
CapabilitiesNaftikoMCPREST
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Profiling Mastercard — 101 APIs Across 13 Capability Areas
May 05, 2026

Profiling Mastercard — 101 APIs Across 13 Capability Areas

When you think of payments APIs, the names that come up first are usually the modern fintech entrants — Stripe, Plaid, Adyen. The card networks that move the actual money tend to sit one layer beneath that conversatio...
MastercardPaymentsOpen BankingFraud Prevention
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Top API Stories From Producers Last Week (Apr 26 – May 3, 2026)
May 04, 2026

Top API Stories From Producers Last Week (Apr 26 – May 3, 2026)

The APIs.io network ingests blog posts from every API-bearing provider it indexes. Last week (Apr 26 → May 3) the feed pulled in 2,104 posts across 884 producers, of which 178 carried API-relevant signals in the title...
RoundupMCPAPI SecurityAgent Skills
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Finding Event-Driven APIs, Webhooks, and Streams in the Index
May 03, 2026

Finding Event-Driven APIs, Webhooks, and Streams in the Index

Most of what gets profiled in the catalog is request/response — REST APIs documented with OpenAPI. But a growing slice of the network is the other half of the integration story: events, webhooks, message queues, and s...
AsyncAPIEvent-DrivenWebhooksSearch
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APIs.io Crosses 10,000 APIs as April Profiling Completes
May 02, 2026

APIs.io Crosses 10,000 APIs as April Profiling Completes

The April profiling batch just landed and the numbers are substantial. This rebuild added 609 providers and 1,951 APIs to the catalog, pushing the total API count past 10,000 for the first time — 10,360 APIs across 2,...
Network UpdateProvidersAPIsMilestone
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235 Providers and 717 APIs Added in Latest Rebuild
May 01, 2026

235 Providers and 717 APIs Added in Latest Rebuild

The APIs.io catalog grew by 235 providers and 717 APIs in this rebuild — the largest single-cycle expansion since the agent-readiness work shipped two weeks ago. The running totals now sit at 1,699 providers and 7,810...
Network UpdateCatalog RefreshFederal GovernmentProviders
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Another 245 Providers and 599 APIs Added
May 01, 2026

Another 245 Providers and 599 APIs Added

The APIs.io catalog added another 245 providers and 599 APIs in a second rebuild cycle today, pushing the running totals to 1,944 providers and 8,409 APIs — the first time the network has crossed 8,000 APIs. The /.wel...
Network UpdateCatalog RefreshFederal GovernmentFinancial Services
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Naftiko Capabilities Turn APIs into Business Workflows That Speak REST, MCP, and Agent Skills
May 01, 2026

Naftiko Capabilities Turn APIs into Business Workflows That Speak REST, MCP, and Agent Skills

The APIs.io catalog now indexes 750 capabilities across hundreds of providers. That number is easy to scroll past without understanding what it means, because “capability” sounds like a synonym for “API.” It isn’t. A ...
NaftikoCapabilitiesMCPAgent Skills
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Profiling HubSpot's 63 APIs and 11 Capabilities
April 30, 2026

Profiling HubSpot's 63 APIs and 11 Capabilities

HubSpot is one of the wider provider profiles in the APIs.io catalog — wider than most because the platform has grown well past its CRM origins and now spans marketing, content, commerce, customer service, and a devel...
Provider ProfileHubSpotCRMMarketing
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Building an Agent-Native API Catalog
April 29, 2026

Building an Agent-Native API Catalog

APIs.io has always been a directory of APIs. Over the last two weeks the directory itself became a consumable interface — built so an AI agent can discover, evaluate, and integrate with any of the 7,000+ APIs and 1,40...
Agent-ReadinessAPIs.ioDiscoveryCloudflare Workers
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100+ New Providers Profiled
April 29, 2026

100+ New Providers Profiled

The APIs.io catalog grew by 102 providers and 345 APIs this morning — the largest single network refresh since automatic rebuild posts began. The newly profiled entries push the running totals to 1,464 providers and 7...
Network UpdateCatalog RefreshProvidersAPIs
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Spec-Driven Integration and the Future of API Discovery
April 21, 2026

Spec-Driven Integration and the Future of API Discovery

APIs.io has always been about making APIs discoverable by machines. The APIs.json format provides a machine-readable index of what APIs exist and where to find them. That solves the discovery problem for APIs themselv...
Spec-Driven IntegrationAPI DiscoveryMCPAI Agents
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Profiling Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Most Wanted API
October 18, 2024

Profiling Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Most Wanted API

I recently profiled the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Most Wanted API. There are additional APIs to be profiled, but I wanted to get this one in the system so we could use as part of other work. One thing I t...
CrimeLawPoliceFederal Government
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Profiling Wolfram Alpha LLM API
October 18, 2024

Profiling Wolfram Alpha LLM API

I recently profiled the Wolfram Alpha LLM API. There are additional APIs to be profiled, but I wanted to get this one in the system so we could use as part of other work. One thing I tested with this one was the abil...
LLMArtificial IntelligenceAI
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Profiling Moodys Entity Verification, Screening, and Risk API
September 25, 2024

Profiling Moodys Entity Verification, Screening, and Risk API

I recently profiled the Moody’s KYC API, which was an acquisition they made of Kompany.com. I was able to find the documentation and an OpenAPI, which I added as API properties. I profiled many common properties incl...
Entity VerificationScreeningRisk
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Profiling InfluxDB Cloud Time Series API
September 25, 2024

Profiling InfluxDB Cloud Time Series API

I profiled the InfluxDB time series API. Their cloud API is the one I profiled, and there may be other opportunity to profile their other API offerings. I was able to find the documentation and an OpenAPI, as well as ...
Time SeriesDatabases
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What is API Search
July 03, 2024

What is API Search

APIs.io is all about redefining what API search is. Since we created APIs.json and APIs.io back in 2014 numerous API catalogs, directories, and networks have either disappeared or gone dormant. API discovery is hard t...
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