Feature

Caching & Conditional Requests

ETags, cache headers, and conditional GETs.

27 providers 159 APIs 26 declared variants

Cache-control headers, ETags, and If-None-Match support let clients avoid refetching unchanged data. Directly reduces both latency and billable call volume.

27 API providers on the APIs.io network offer caching & conditional requests. The highest-rated are CData, GitHub Actions, GitHub, Anthropic, Grafana.

Providers

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

Exemplar 8 Complete, well-documented, and agent-ready
Strong 3 Solid coverage with minor gaps
Developing 8 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Thin 7 Limited public surface area
Emerging 1 Early or largely undocumented

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.

AI Accelerator semantic caching for OpenAI and Google GeminiAPI CachingAsynchronous container lookups with 202 polling and 12-hour cachingBoost for query result cachingBuilt-in caching (Memcached compatible)Built-in caching for improved performanceConditional requests with ETag/If-None-Match return 304 without consuming rate limitContent CachingContent-addressable local caching of task outputsContext CachingDependency caching for faster buildsDocker layer caching (Performance+)HTTP CachingLocal CachingLocal task caching with input-hash invalidation; worktree-aware in Nx 22.7Metadata CachingNode CachingPer-layer caching with launch/build/cache types in `.toml`Prompt caching with automatic and manual breakpoints, 5-minute and 1-hour TTLs, cache reads at 10% of input priceQuery and resource caching (Enterprise)Query result caching for improved performance and cost reductionRemote Caching and ExecutionResponse CachingSemantic CachingStatic Composer v2 metadata mirror at repo.packagist.org with long-lived cachingStep caching for memoization

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Tools for features

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  • 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.
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Everything under a tag
curl "https://apis.io/api/v1/tags/caching"

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