# Envoy

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/envoy/  
**Website:** https://www.envoyproxy.io/  
**APIs profiled:** 15

Envoy is a high-performance, open-source edge and service proxy designed for cloud-native applications and microservice architectures. It provides advanced load balancing, observability, and traffic management features, and serves as the data plane for many service mesh implementations including Istio.

## Kin Score — 37.7 / 100 (thin)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 37.7).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 63.0 |
| Contract Quality | 61.7 |
| Governance | 9.8 |
| Contract Governance | 9.8 |
| Operational Transparency | 36.8 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 36.9 |
| Commercial Clarity | 13.2 |
| Access Clarity | 13.2 |

## Agent readiness — 35.9 (agent-ready)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | verified |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Freemium · Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: freemium, trial: no (confidence: high).

## APIs (15)

- **Envoy xDS APIs** — The xDS (x Discovery Service) APIs provide dynamic configuration for Envoy proxies via a management server, including LDS, RDS, CDS, EDS, SDS, and ADS. xDS APIs are served over ...
- **Envoy API V3** — The Envoy API v3 is the current stable protobuf-based configuration and extension API for Envoy proxy. It defines the configuration types for all Envoy subsystems including list...
- **Envoy Gateway API** — Envoy Gateway manages Envoy Proxy as a standalone or Kubernetes-based application gateway, implementing and extending the Kubernetes Gateway API. It provides Gateway API extensi...
- **Envoy Certificates API** — TLS certificate inspection endpoints
- **Envoy Chat API** — Chat completions endpoints compatible with the OpenAI Chat API. Routes requests to configured AI backends based on AIGatewayRoute rules.
- **Envoy Clusters API** — Upstream cluster inspection and status endpoints
- **Envoy Configuration API** — Configuration dump and inspection endpoints
- **Envoy Health API** — Health check management endpoints
- **Envoy Listeners API** — Listener inspection and drain endpoints
- **Envoy Logging API** — Log level management endpoints
- **Envoy Models API** — Model listing endpoints for discovering available AI models configured in the gateway routes.
- **Envoy Runtime API** — Runtime settings management endpoints
- **Envoy Server API** — Server management, lifecycle, and information endpoints
- **Envoy Statistics API** — Statistics, metrics, and Prometheus endpoints
- **Envoy Text Completions API** — Legacy text completions endpoints compatible with the OpenAI completions API.

## Agentic access (1)

- **Envoy Agentic Access** — 23 operations · 9 acting · 2 human-in-the-loop

## Security (2)

- **Envoy Authentication** — http · 1 scheme
- **Envoy Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS

## Plans (1)

- **Envoy Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Cloud-Native, Load Balancing, Proxy, Service Mesh

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/envoy/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.