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AIS

Score 18.6 / 100 19 providers +16 via APIs 26 APIs Search apis.io →

Providers using this tag (19)

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

Strong 1 Solid coverage with minor gaps
Developing 4 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Thin 6 Limited public surface area
Emerging 5 Early or largely undocumented
Minimal 3 Almost no public developer surface

APIs with this tag (26)

Ranked by the provider's API Evangelist rating — the Kin Score is scored per provider, not per API, so every API of a provider shares its band. How the rating works →

Strong 2 Solid coverage with minor gaps
Developing 8 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Thin 13 Limited public surface area
Kpler AIS Data FeedGlobal vessel-position data feed launched September 2025 (replacing MarineTraffic AIS and the acquired Spir...39.2MarineTraffic APIMarineTraffic data services API (property of Kpler) for real-time and historical vessel tracking - current ...39.2Halifax Account and Transaction Information API (AIS)OBIE Read/Write Account and Transaction Information (AIS) API for authorised AISPs. FAPI-secured (OAuth2/OI...38.1AISStream AIS Stream APIReal-time global AIS vessel-tracking stream delivered over a single WebSocket at "wss://stream.aisstream.io...38.0Handelsbanken UK PSD2 Account Information APIThe Great Britain market Account Information Service (AIS) API - retrieve account details, balances, and tr...37.9Handelsbanken UK PSD2 Card Account Information APIThe Great Britain market Card Account Information (AIS) API - retrieve card account details, balances, and ...37.9Metro Bank Account and Transaction Information APIOBIE Read/Write Account Information Service (AIS) API providing consented access to account details, balanc...37.3OBIE Account & Transaction Information API (AIS - Standard, Out of Scope)The OBIE Read/Write Account and Transaction Information (AISP) standard for reading account, balance and tr...34.2Spire Maritime AIS TCP StreamAlways-on real-time AIS feed delivered over a RAW TCP SOCKET (not HTTP, not WebSocket). Client opens a TCP ...33.6Spire Maritime Messages APIGraphQL query surface for decoded AIS messages (position and static/voyage reports) filtered by MMSI and ti...33.6Spire Maritime Vessels APIGraphQL `vessels` query returning up to 1,000 vessels per page - static data (name, MMSI, IMO, callsign, fl...33.6OBIE Account and Transaction Information API (AIS, shared standard)The OBIE Read/Write Account and Transaction Information (AIS) standard for retrieving account, balance, tra...30.4NAVCEN AIS Vessel Information Verification ServiceThe Vessel Information Verification Service (VIVS) is a NAVCEN web service that allows retrieval of a vesse...28.9
Emerging 2 Early or largely undocumented
Minimal 1 Almost no public developer surface

Companies reaching this through an API (16)

These companies publish an API, specification or operation carrying “AIS” but do not classify their business under it. Listed unranked and kept out of the count above, because one tagged operation is not a statement about what a company does.

AIB Group (UK) Halifax Handelsbanken UK JPMorgan Chase Leeds Building Society Memo Bank Metro Bank Mettle Nationwide Building Society Northmill Principality Building Society Rabobank Starling Bank TSB Bank United States Coast Guard Weatherbys Bank

Score breakdown

Frequency
45.2
log-scaled weighted occurrences
Breadth
0.5
spread across providers
Quality lift
35.7
mean composite of providers using it
Cohesion
0.0
strength of nearest seed neighbor

Related tags

PIS 15 co-occurrences Vessel Tracking 14 co-occurrences CBPII 12 co-occurrences Confirmation of Funds 12 co-occurrences Payment Initiation 14 co-occurrences PCA 10 co-occurrences Maritime 16 co-occurrences BCA 9 co-occurrences

Where this tag comes from

Api tag26
Provider tag19
Openapi tag1
Openapi op tag9

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