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API Governance

Score 21.6 / 100 19 providers +1 via APIs 11 APIs Search apis.io →

Providers using this tag (19)

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

Exemplar 4 Complete, well-documented, and agent-ready
APIs.ioAPI AggregationAPI DirectoryAPI DiscoveryAPI Indexing20 APIs90.1PostmanEnvironmentFlowSpecificationWorkspace21 APIs79.6StoplightAPI DesignAPI DocumentationAsyncAPI2 APIs71.8ApigeeApigeeAdvanced API SecurityAI AgentsAnalytics5 APIs70.8
Strong 2 Solid coverage with minor gaps
API EvangelistAPI-EvangelistDeveloper PortalAPI Research2 APIs66.2Bump.shAPI ChangelogAPI DocumentationAPI Hub1 API60.6
Developing 3 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
LunarAPI ManagementAPI GatewayAI GatewayMCP Gateway3 APIs50.7ElvaAPI ManagementMCP ServerMCP LogsMCP Insights1 API50.5NaftikoCompanyAi DataAPI Integration40.1
Thin 4 Limited public surface area
ApiShareAPI LifecycleAPI ManagementCatalog1 API29.4APIs.jsonAPI AggregationAPI CatalogingAPI CommonsAPI Discovery1 API28.2Apinity.ioAPI MarketplaceComplianceDiscovery1 API26.9SpecmaticAPI Contract TestingAPI MockingBackward Compatibility1 API26.4
Emerging 5 Early or largely undocumented
APIwizAPI DesignAPI GatewayAPI Lifecycle1 API26.1APIGovernance.DevAPI DesignBest PracticesCompliance1 API25.7API PulseAPI BenchmarkingAPI-EvangelistAPI Maturity1 API22.6OpticBreaking ChangesContract TestingDiff1 API21.0Spotlight RulesAPI LintingSpectralRulesets18.4
Minimal 1 Almost no public developer surface
PlatformableConsultancyDigital HealthEcosystem1 API10.2

APIs with this tag (11)

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 →

Exemplar 3 Complete, well-documented, and agent-ready
Stoplight PlatformStoplight Platform is a SaaS collaborative API design and documentation management tool providing a visual ...71.8Stoplight SpectralSpectral is an open-source JSON and YAML linter for creating automated API style guides and governance rule...71.8Google Apigee API HubApigee API Hub is a centralized repository and governance platform for discovering, managing, and analyzing...70.8
Developing 2 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Spec Scoring APIPublic, no-auth REST API for scoring OpenAPI documents. GET /api/review/checks returns the full set of chec...50.5Cequence AI GatewayEnterprise AI Gateway that makes applications agent-ready through governed Model Context Protocol integrati...42.7
Thin 3 Limited public surface area
ApiShareApiShare provides a unified catalog of APIs, applications, assets, MCP servers, and AI agents with role-bas...29.4Apinity.io APIThe Apinity API enables organizations to manage their compliant API marketplace programmatically, including...26.9SpecmaticSpecmatic provides contract testing, intelligent service virtualization, and API mocking by transforming AP...26.4
Emerging 2 Early or largely undocumented
APIwizAPIwiz is a low-code, end-to-end API management platform enabling the complete API lifecycle including desi...26.1APIGovernance.DevAPIGovernance.Dev provides automated API governance reviews using AI trained on 10,000 public APIs. It offe...25.7
Minimal 1 Almost no public developer surface
PlatformablePlatformable's API governance training resources and tools help your organisation to build a comprehensive,...10.2

Companies reaching this through an API (1)

These companies publish an API, specification or operation carrying “API Governance” 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.

Cequence Security

Score breakdown

Frequency
40.1
log-scaled weighted occurrences
Breadth
0.5
spread across providers
Quality lift
52.1
mean composite of providers using it
Cohesion
7.0
strength of nearest seed neighbor

Where this tag sits

Governance broader

Related tags

API Discovery 5 co-occurrences API Design 5 co-occurrences API Management 6 co-occurrences OpenAPI 7 co-occurrences Discovery 6 co-occurrences Developer Tools 7 co-occurrences MCP 7 co-occurrences

Where this tag comes from

Provider tag19
Api tag11

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