Feature

Idempotency

Safe retries without duplicate side effects.

20 providers 476 APIs 13 declared variants

Idempotency keys or exactly-once semantics let clients retry after a timeout without double-charging or double-writing. Essential wherever operations move money or state.

20 API providers on the APIs.io network offer idempotency. The highest-rated are Stripe, Amazon Neptune, Knock, Raygun, Novu.

Providers

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

Exemplar 5 Complete, well-documented, and agent-ready
Strong 6 Solid coverage with minor gaps
Developing 6 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Thin 2 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.

ACID TransactionsACID transactions across regionsCrash Reporting — error detection, deduplication into error groups, full stack-trace and breadcrumb contextDeductions endpoints (list types, list, create, update, cancel) with per-row operation_id idempotencyExactly-Once SemanticsHTTPS-only webhook endpoints with retry on non-2xx; idempotency keyed on `(workflowId, status, timestamp)`Idempotency + RateLimit HeadersIdempotency keys on POST/PATCH via UUID v4 with 24-hour response cacheIdempotency via `X-Idempotency-Key` (UUID) returned on retry with `X-Idempotency-Cache-HitIdempotency-Key header support for safe automatic retriesIdempotency-Key support for safe retriesIdempotent requests via Idempotency-KeyMulti-document ACID transactions

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