Feature

Multi-Protocol Support

Several interfaces — REST, GraphQL, gRPC, streaming — on one product.

26 providers 372 APIs 9 declared variants

The provider exposes the same capability over more than one protocol so teams can pick the transport that fits. Reduces the odds of an impedance mismatch with an existing stack.

26 API providers on the APIs.io network offer multi-protocol support. The highest-rated are GitLab, Dolby.io, Pinecone, Amazon DataSync, Amazon MQ.

Providers

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

Exemplar 4 Complete, well-documented, and agent-ready
GitLab GitLab Inc. is an open-core company that develops GitLab, a DevOps software platform for building, securing... 44 APIs 74.3 Dolby.io Dolby.io (now branded as Dolby OptiView) is Dolby Laboratories' developer platform for media, streaming, co... 18 APIs 73.4 Pinecone With its vector database at the core, Pinecone is the leading knowledge platform for building accurate, sec... 9 APIs 67.8 Amazon DataSync AWS DataSync is an online data transfer service that simplifies, automates, and accelerates moving data bet... 6 APIs 66.4
Strong 3 Solid coverage with minor gaps
Amazon MQ Amazon MQ is a managed message broker service for Apache ActiveMQ and RabbitMQ that makes it easy to set up... 5 APIs 63.2 WSO2 WSO2 API Manager is an open-source API management platform supporting REST, SOAP, and GraphQL with flexible... 90 APIs 62.6 Aptos Aptos is a Move-based Layer 1 blockchain platform that exposes a REST API for reading on-chain state and su... 10 APIs 60.7
Developing 12 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Magic Eden Magic Eden is a multi-chain NFT marketplace and trading platform supporting Solana, Bitcoin (Ordinals and R... 11 APIs 55.1 Magic Eden Magic Eden is a multi-chain NFT marketplace offering REST and instruction-generation APIs for Solana, EVM c... 19 APIs 54.2 Ant Media Ant Media Server is a scalable, open-source media server for ultra-low latency live streaming and WebRTC-ba... 6 APIs 53.9 Fern Fern is an SDK generation and documentation platform designed for the AI era. It transforms OpenAPI, AsyncA... 1 API 53.8 Apache APISIX Apache APISIX is a dynamic, real-time, high-performance cloud-native API gateway built on NGINX and etcd, d... 18 APIs 53.4 Cerbos Cerbos is an open-core, language-agnostic, scalable authorization platform that decouples access control fr... 13 APIs 51.3 Qdrant Qdrant is a vector similarity search engine that provides a production-ready service with a convenient API ... 9 APIs 50.5 Apache JMeter Apache JMeter is an open-source Java application designed for load testing functional behavior and measurin... 4 APIs 50.3 Apache Guacamole Apache Guacamole is a clientless remote desktop gateway that supports standard protocols like VNC, RDP, and... 7 APIs 50.2 Wowza Wowza is a Denver, Colorado-based video streaming infrastructure provider that has been simplifying live an... 48 APIs 43.1 Authentik Authentik is an open source identity provider with a comprehensive REST API for managing users, groups, flo... 10 APIs 42.8 Apache ActiveMQ Apache ActiveMQ is an open-source, high-performance message broker written in Java, developed by the Apache... 4 APIs 42.4
Thin 4 Limited public surface area
Apache CXF Apache CXF is an open-source Java services framework governed by the Apache Software Foundation that helps ... 1 API 41.8 Apache Thrift Apache Thrift is a software framework for scalable cross-language services development. It provides an inte... 2 APIs 38.5 BFE BFE (Beyond Front End) is an open-source layer 7 load balancer developed by Baidu, providing advanced traff... 3 APIs 35.8 AsyncAPI AsyncAPI is a Linux Foundation project that improves the state of event-driven architectures by providing a... 8 APIs 32.5
Emerging 3 Early or largely undocumented
Model Context Protocol (MCP) Model Context Protocol is an open, JSON-RPC 2.0 protocol from Anthropic that standardizes how AI applicatio... 17 APIs 25.8 EMC EMC Corporation (now Dell EMC, a division of Dell Technologies) provides enterprise storage, data managemen... 2 APIs 23.9 Collibra Collibra is a data intelligence company providing a cloud-based platform for data governance, cataloging, q... 7 APIs 13.6

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.

Broad Protocol SupportMulti-Protocol SupportMulti-protocol support (S3, Swift, Atmos, HDFS)Multiple TransportsProtocol SupportREST and GraphQL APIsREST and gRPC APIsRunes Protocol SupportWHIP and WHEP protocol support for standards-based publish and playback

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