# WasmEdge

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/wasmedge/  
**Website:** https://wasmedge.org/  
**APIs profiled:** 5

WasmEdge is a lightweight, high-performance, and extensible WebAssembly runtime for cloud native, edge, and decentralized applications. It powers serverless apps, embedded functions, microservices, smart contracts, and IoT devices. WasmEdge is a CNCF sandbox project providing an LLVM-based AoT compiler for maximum performance, and supporting WASI extensions for non-blocking networking, database access, and AI inference via TensorFlow, PyTorch, and OpenVINO.

## Kin Score — 21.5 / 100 (emerging)

Scored 2026-08-21 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 21.5).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 72.2 |
| Contract Quality | 15.5 |
| Governance | 25.0 |
| Contract Governance | 25.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 10.5 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 14.3 |
| Commercial Clarity | 15.8 |
| Access Clarity | 15.8 |

## Agent readiness — 3.0 (human-only)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| 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 — onboarding: unknown, pricing: freemium, trial: no (confidence: medium).

## APIs (5)

- **WasmEdge C API** — The WasmEdge C API provides a low-level interface for embedding the WasmEdge runtime into C/C++ host applications. It exposes the full WasmEdge runtime capabilities including mo...
- **WasmEdge Rust SDK** — The WasmEdge Rust SDK enables embedding WasmEdge WebAssembly functions in Rust host applications. It provides idiomatic Rust bindings for the WasmEdge C API, supporting module l...
- **WasmEdge Go SDK** — The WasmEdge Go SDK provides Go language bindings for embedding the WasmEdge runtime in Go applications. It enables loading and executing WebAssembly modules from Go, defining h...
- **WasmEdge Node.js SDK** — The WasmEdge Node.js SDK allows embedding and calling WebAssembly functions from Node.js applications. It provides bindings for executing Wasm modules within the WasmEdge runtim...
- **WasmEdge Plugin System** — WasmEdge's plugin system enables extending the runtime with custom host function packages. Plugins can be developed in Rust or C/C++ and loaded at runtime, providing capabilitie...

## Security (1)

- **Wasmedge Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS

## Plans (1)

- **Wasmedge Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Cloud-Native, CNCF, Edge Computing, High Performance, Runtime, Serverless, Wasm, WebAssembly

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