Feature

API Discovery & Catalog

A machine-readable index of available APIs.

33 providers 133 APIs 19 declared variants

APIs are indexed in a catalog, registry, or APIs.json-style manifest that humans and agents can search. Prevents the same capability from being rebuilt three times in one organization.

33 API providers on the APIs.io network offer api discovery & catalog. The highest-rated are WSO2, Postman, Adobe Experience Cloud, APILayer, ServiceNow.

Providers

Ranked by API Evangelist rating — Exemplar and Strong are expanded by default.

Exemplar 5 Complete, well-documented, and agent-ready
Strong 3 Solid coverage with minor gaps
Developing 11 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
WunderGraphFull Lifecycle API Management for (Federated) GraphQL. Schema Registry, composition checks, analytics, metr...11 APIs53.0Veritas NetBackupEnterprise-grade data protection and backup solution with comprehensive REST APIs for backup, recovery, and...1 published contract52.8EncoreEncore is a backend application framework and developer cloud that lets engineering teams build type-safe d...2 published contracts52.5Apollo GraphQLApollo Graph, Inc. — trading publicly as Apollo and Apollo GraphQL — is the San Francisco company behind th...11 APIs50.5ChoreoWSO2 Choreo is an enterprise-grade Internal Developer Platform (IDP) and application orchestration platform...3 published contracts50.3Adobe CaptivateAdobe Captivate is an eLearning authoring tool used to create responsive eLearning content, software demons...1 published contract48.5Apache APISIXApache APISIX is a dynamic, real-time, high-performance cloud-native API gateway built on NGINX and etcd, d...2 published contracts48.3Apache DubboApache Dubbo is a high-performance, Java-based open-source RPC framework that provides service discovery, t...1 published contract42.9APIToolkit (Monoscope)APIToolkit (now Monoscope) is an open-source-friendly API observability and monitoring platform that helps ...1 published contract42.8BlockBlock, Inc. is a global technology company building economic empowerment tools through a family of products...5 APIs42.6Apache KnoxApache Knox is a REST API and application gateway for the Apache Hadoop ecosystem. It provides a single acc...1 published contract39.9
Thin 9 Limited public surface area
Emerging 3 Early or largely undocumented
Minimal 2 Almost no public developer surface

What Providers Actually Declared

This feature is a canonical term. These are the free-text strings providers wrote in their own apis.yml that map onto it.

API CatalogAPI Catalog and DocsAPI DiscoveryAPI InventoryAPI Inventory AssessmentAPI MarketplaceBuilt-in API MarketplaceCatalog ManagementCatalog managementCompliant API MarketplaceData Ingestion and Schema RegistryProduct Catalog ManagementSchema RegistryService CatalogService Catalog And Self-ServiceService DiscoveryType-safe service-to-service calls with automatic service discovery and network plumbingUnified API CatalogZurich Exchange API Marketplace

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Work with this as data

Every feature here is available over the APIs.io API and to AI agents over MCP. Features is not yet its own endpoint on the v1 API. Reach it through catalog search and the tag graph, or the MCP server.

MCP server

One button, every client — Claude, Cursor, VS Code and the rest.

https://apis.io/mcp

Tools for features

3 MCP tools reach this
  • apis_io_searchSTART HERE — APIs, providers and tags for one query, each with its total.
  • resolveTurn a domain, URL or GitHub org into the provider it belongs to.
  • find_cohortsEvery scored population of providers in the catalog.
All 92 tools →

Call it yourself

curl for this page
Search the catalog
curl "https://apis.io/api/v1/search?q=api-discovery&limit=10"
Everything under a tag
curl "https://apis.io/api/v1/tags/api-discovery"

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