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API Governance

Score 21.4 / 100 23 providers +4 via APIs 17 APIs Search apis.io →

Providers using this tag (23)

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 Indexing19 APIs90.0PostmanAI Agent BuilderAI AgentsAPI CatalogAPI Client21 APIs72.5StoplightAPI DesignAPI DocumentationAsyncAPI2 APIs69.7API EvangelistAPI EvangelistDeveloper PortalAPI Research2 APIs66.9
Strong 1 Solid coverage with minor gaps
ApigeeAdvanced API SecurityAgentic AIAnalyticsAPI Gateway5 APIs62.1
Developing 4 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
LunarAPI ManagementAPI GatewayAI GatewayMCP Gateway3 APIs52.3ElvaAPI ManagementMCP ServerMCP LogsMCP Insights1 API49.5Bump.shAPI ChangelogAPI DocumentationAPI Hub1 API49.4NaftikoCompanyAi DataAPI Integration40.5
Thin 7 Limited public surface area
Test Rate Limit CheckAPI ManagementAPI TestingDeveloper Tools1 API31.0APIs.jsonAPI AggregationAPI CatalogingAPI CommonsAPI Discovery1 API30.6ApiShareAPI LifecycleAPI ManagementCatalog1 API29.0SpecmaticAPI Contract TestingAPI MockingBackward Compatibility1 API28.0APIGovernance.DevAPI DesignBest PracticesCompliance1 API27.2Agent ReadinessAgent ReadinessAI AgentsAPI Discovery15 APIs26.6API PulseAPI BenchmarkingAPI EvangelistAPI Maturity1 API26.3
Emerging 6 Early or largely undocumented
APIwizAPI DesignAPI GatewayAPI Lifecycle1 API25.2API Style GuidesAPI Style GuidesAPI DesignREST11 APIs21.4OpticBreaking ChangesContract TestingDiff1 API21.1API LintingAPI DesignAPI LintingAPI Style Guide10 APIs20.8Spotlight RulesAPI LintingSpectralRulesets20.0Apinity.ioAPI MarketplaceComplianceDiscovery1 API19.1
Minimal 1 Almost no public developer surface
PlatformableConsultancyDigital HealthEcosystems1 API9.3

APIs with this tag (17)

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 2 Complete, well-documented, and agent-ready
Stoplight PlatformStoplight Platform is a SaaS collaborative API design and documentation management tool providing a visual ...69.7Stoplight SpectralSpectral is an open-source JSON and YAML linter for creating automated API style guides and governance rule...69.7
Strong 1 Solid coverage with minor gaps
Google Apigee API HubApigee API Hub is a centralized repository and governance platform for discovering, managing, and analyzing...62.1
Developing 1 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...49.5
Thin 5 Limited public surface area
Cequence AI GatewayEnterprise AI Gateway that makes applications agent-ready through governed Model Context Protocol integrati...38.2APIClarity Spec Differ Module APICompares observed API traces against the provided or reconstructed specification to surface shadow APIs (ob...35.3ApiShareApiShare provides a unified catalog of APIs, applications, assets, MCP servers, and AI agents with role-bas...29.0SpecmaticSpecmatic provides contract testing, intelligent service virtualization, and API mocking by transforming AP...28.0APIGovernance.DevAPIGovernance.Dev provides automated API governance reviews using AI trained on 10,000 public APIs. It offe...27.2
Emerging 7 Early or largely undocumented
APIwizAPIwiz is a low-code, end-to-end API management platform enabling the complete API lifecycle including desi...25.2Postman API GovernancePostman Spec Hub's governance engine applies linting rules to OpenAPI 2.0, 3.0, and 3.1 specifications, sur...20.8Sweater CombSnyk's TypeScript ruleset built on Optic CI that enforces consistency standards across OpenAPI specificatio...20.8Konfig OpenAPI LintingCapability area (endpointsModeled). A configurable linter that inspects an OpenAPI Specification for errors...20.4Optic APIOptic is a developer tool that uses API specifications as the source of truth for testing. It tracks specif...20.0SpectralSpectral is an open-source JSON/YAML linter and specification validator. It evaluates OpenAPI, AsyncAPI, an...20.0Apinity.io APIThe Apinity API enables organizations to manage their compliant API marketplace programmatically, including...19.1
Minimal 1 Almost no public developer surface
PlatformablePlatformable's API governance training resources and tools help your organisation to build a comprehensive,...9.3

Companies reaching this through an API (4)

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.

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Score breakdown

Frequency
43.3
log-scaled weighted occurrences
Breadth
0.6
spread across providers
Quality lift
44.0
mean composite of providers using it
Cohesion
10.9
strength of nearest seed neighbor

Related tags

API Discovery 7 co-occurrences Linting 5 co-occurrences API Design 8 co-occurrences AsyncAPI 7 co-occurrences API Management 7 co-occurrences OpenAPI 12 co-occurrences Standards 5 co-occurrences Testing 5 co-occurrences

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