AI Model Routing
Frontier, converging by mediation. The Kin Score Market layer reads each provider in its market: who it integrates with, how deep those integrations go, and where the market publishes its own structure. Methodology.
Where this market publishes its structure
- OpenRouter /models and /endpoints machine-readable
- LiteLLM model_prices json machine-readable
- LLM Gateway /v1/models machine-readable
- Portkey gateway adapters machine-readable
- Cloudflare AI Gateway provider docs machine-readable
Own = declares at least one integration itself; covered = visible only because an aggregator, standards body, regulator or partner contract names it; distribution-only = listed only on cloud marketplaces it sells through, a channel reported beside, never counted as its own declared integrations; undeclared = nothing we can read, so no number; declares_compatibility = providers with a `compatible` shape vote, report only (kin, 2026-10-13): never counted as own, never in depth or position.
Taxonomy how this market maps onto apis.io
Derived 2026-10-23 from the 31 providers in this market we could resolve in the catalog. The percentage is the share of those providers carrying each one; it describes the market, not the tag or industry. Tag groups have no page of their own yet, so they are listed unlinked.
| Tags | LLM 65%, Foundation Models 39%, Generative AI 35%, Inference 35%, Embeddings 26%, Agents 23%, Image Generation 23% |
|---|---|
| Tag groups | LLM 74%, Generative AI 45%, MCP 39%, RAG 39%, Foundation Models 39% |
| Industries | Artificial Intelligence 90%, Developer Tools & DevOps 23% |
| Areas | Machine Learning 42%, Agents 23%, Gateway 16% |
| Capabilities | Information & Data Management 74% |
share of resolved cohort carrying it; tags >=0.20 & >=3 members (max 12, junk dropped), tag_groups >=0.20 (cooccurrence, non-cross-cutting; max 8), industries >=0.20 (max 6), areas >=0.10 (max 6; areas are keyword-matched and sparse), capabilities L1 >=0.20 (max 8); derive-market-taxonomy.py
Leaders by position (provisional)
Provisional: grouped by position, depth compared within a position only. Distribution (cloud marketplaces) and iPaaS bridges are counted beside position, never inside it. Unknown-builder listings are left out of position shares and counted here.
gravity 1 · other companies invest to build on it
| Provider | Depth | Integrations | In / out | Unknown builder | Distribution | iPaaS bridge | Mix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hugging Face | 51.8 | 217 | 189 / 28 | 0 | 0 | 4 | partner-built 94%, ipaas-bridge 1%, standard 1%, coverage 3%, covered 1%, builds-on-platform 1% |
coverage 5 · reaches banks, carriers, systems or channels (an aggregator)
| Provider | Depth | Integrations | In / out | Unknown builder | Distribution | iPaaS bridge | Mix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenRouter | 50.0 | 73 | 0 / 73 | 1 | 0 | 2 | ipaas-bridge 3%, standard 3%, coverage 85%, covered 4%, builds-on-platform 4%, unknown 1% |
| Portkey | 47.1 | 58 | 0 / 58 | 0 | 1 | 0 | coverage 95%, builds-on-platform 3%, distribution 2% |
| Cloudflare AI Gateway | 46.0 | 22 | 0 / 22 | 0 | 0 | 0 | coverage 100% |
| LiteLLM | 46.0 | 74 | 0 / 74 | 0 | 0 | 0 | coverage 100% |
| LLM Gateway | 46.0 | 31 | 0 / 31 | 0 | 0 | 0 | coverage 100% |
covered 20 · reached mainly through aggregators
| Provider | Depth | Integrations | In / out | Unknown builder | Distribution | iPaaS bridge | Mix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Microsoft Azure AI Foundry | 51.8 | 5 | 0 / 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | covered 100% |
| Mistral AI | 51.8 | 25 | 0 / 25 | 0 | 3 | 3 | ipaas-bridge 12%, standard 12%, covered 44%, builds-on-platform 20%, distribution 12% |
| Perplexity | 51.8 | 17 | 0 / 17 | 1 | 0 | 4 | ipaas-bridge 24%, covered 35%, builds-on-platform 35%, unknown 6% |
| Amazon Bedrock | 51.7 | 8 | 0 / 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | covered 100% |
| Azure OpenAI Service | 51.7 | 7 | 0 / 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | covered 100% |
| Novita AI | 51.7 | 4 | 0 / 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | covered 100% |
| Stability AI | 51.7 | 4 | 0 / 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | standard 25%, covered 50%, builds-on-platform 25% |
| fal | 49.4 | 12 | 0 / 12 | 0 | 2 | 0 | standard 17%, covered 42%, builds-on-platform 25%, distribution 17% |
| Google Vertex AI | 46.2 | 8 | 0 / 8 | 0 | 0 | 1 | ipaas-bridge 12%, covered 88% |
| NVIDIA NIM | 46.2 | 8 | 0 / 8 | 1 | 0 | 0 | standard 12%, covered 75%, unknown 12% |
| Cerebras Systems | 44.8 | 11 | 0 / 11 | 0 | 2 | 1 | ipaas-bridge 9%, covered 55%, builds-on-platform 18%, distribution 18% |
| SambaNova Systems | 43.1 | 8 | 0 / 8 | 0 | 3 | 0 | standard 12%, covered 38%, builds-on-platform 12%, distribution 38% |
| FriendliAI | 42.5 | 5 | 0 / 5 | 0 | 2 | 0 | covered 40%, builds-on-platform 20%, distribution 40% |
| Google Gemini | 41.9 | 9 | 0 / 9 | 1 | 0 | 1 | ipaas-bridge 11%, covered 78%, unknown 11% |
| AI21 Labs | 40.7 | 4 | 0 / 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | ipaas-bridge 25%, covered 50%, builds-on-platform 25% |
| DeepSeek | 38.3 | 12 | 0 / 12 | 1 | 1 | 3 | ipaas-bridge 25%, covered 50%, builds-on-platform 8%, distribution 8%, unknown 8% |
| Inception | 38.0 | 5 | 0 / 5 | 0 | 3 | 0 | covered 40%, distribution 60% |
| Amazon Nova | 34.5 thin | 2 | 0 / 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | covered 100% |
| Parasail | 34.5 thin | 2 | 0 / 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | covered 50%, builds-on-platform 50% |
| StepFun | 19.7 thin | 2 | 0 / 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | covered 50%, unknown 50% |
mixed 4 · no single mode dominates
| Provider | Depth | Integrations | In / out | Unknown builder | Distribution | iPaaS bridge | Mix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cloudflare | 61.4 | 34 | 0 / 34 | 1 | 5 | 0 | contract 12%, standard 29%, covered 15%, builds-on-platform 26%, distribution 15%, unknown 3% |
| OpenAI | 55.6 | 73 | 0 / 73 | 1 | 6 | 35 | ipaas-bridge 49%, contract 4%, standard 10%, covered 17%, builds-on-platform 10%, distribution 8%, unknown 1% |
| Anthropic | 54.2 | 31 | 0 / 31 | 1 | 10 | 2 | ipaas-bridge 6%, contract 10%, standard 16%, covered 16%, builds-on-platform 16%, distribution 32%, unknown 3% |
| Replicate | 47.1 | 13 | 0 / 13 | 1 | 2 | 1 | ipaas-bridge 8%, standard 15%, covered 31%, builds-on-platform 23%, distribution 15%, unknown 8% |
long-tail 1 · reached only through iPaaS bridges
| Provider | Depth | Integrations | In / out | Unknown builder | Distribution | iPaaS bridge | Mix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Helicone | 2.5 thin | 1 | 0 / 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | ipaas-bridge 100% |
Frontier timeline DRAFT · report only — not weighted
2026-10-13 anchor shape: openai
- Shape gravity: 123 providers declare compatibility with the openai shape in their own contracts.
- Mediation: routers cover 112 providers; 12 are covered by every one (amazon-bedrock, anthropic, cerebras-systems, deepseek, google-gemini, google-vertex-ai, groq, microsoft-azure-openai, mistral, openai, perplexity, xai).
2026-10-15 anchor shape: openai
- Shape gravity: 125 providers declare compatibility with the openai shape in their own contracts.
- Mediation: routers cover 112 providers; 12 are covered by every one (amazon-bedrock, anthropic, cerebras-systems, deepseek, google-gemini, google-vertex-ai, groq, microsoft-azure-openai, mistral, openai, perplexity, xai).
2026-10-17 anchor shape: openai
- Shape gravity: 134 providers declare compatibility with the openai shape in their own contracts.
- Mediation: routers cover 112 providers; 12 are covered by every one (amazon-bedrock, anthropic, cerebras-systems, deepseek, google-gemini, google-vertex-ai, groq, microsoft-azure-openai, mistral, openai, perplexity, xai).
Generated 2026-10-24 from API Evangelist's own files; nothing on this page is a model's judgement. Provisional and unweighted; not part of the Kin Score composite or agent readiness. Read the Market layer methodology. Disagree with an edge? Every edge cites its evidence and can be corrected through the normal correction path.