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API Governance

Score 20.0 / 100 25 providers 15 APIs Search apis.io →
Variants seen in the corpus: API Governanceapi-governance

Providers using this tag (25)

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

Exemplar 2 Complete, well-documented, and agent-ready
APIs.ioAPI AggregationAPI DirectoryAPI DiscoveryAPI Indexing11 APIs76.1API EvangelistAPI EvangelistDeveloper PortalAPI Research17 APIs69.8
Strong 2 Solid coverage with minor gaps
PostmanAI Agent BuilderAI AgentsAPI CatalogAPI Client39 APIs64.5ApigeeAdvanced API SecurityAgentic AIAnalyticsAPI Gateway40 APIs59.5
Developing 4 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
LunarAPI ManagementAPI GatewayAI GatewayMCP Gateway8 APIs52.9Bump.shAPI ChangelogAPI DocumentationAPI Hub8 APIs47.3Google ApigeeAPI GatewayAPI ManagementEnterpriseGoogle Cloud5 APIs44.2NaftikoCompanyAi DataAPI Integration40.5
Thin 4 Limited public surface area
Cequence SecurityAPI SecurityAI GatewayMCPAgentic AI1 API36.3StoplightAPI DesignAPI DocumentationAsyncAPI6 APIs35.3Test Rate Limit CheckAPI ManagementAPI TestingPerformance Testing9 APIs32.3SpecmaticAPI Contract TestingAPI MockingBackward Compatibility1 API26.2
Emerging 12 Early or largely undocumented
API PulseAPI BenchmarkingAPI EvangelistAPI Maturity1 API25.1Agent ReadinessAgent ReadinessAI AgentsAPI Discovery15 APIs25.0APIs.jsonAPI AggregationAPI CatalogingAPI CommonsAPI Discovery1 API22.3API Style GuidesAPI Style GuidesAPI DesignREST11 APIs20.0APIGovernance.DevAPI DesignBest PracticesCompliance1 API19.4Test SpecificationsAcceptance TestingContract TestingDocumentationOpenAPI8 APIs18.1APIwizAPI DesignAPI GatewayAPI Lifecycle1 API17.8Apinity.ioAPI MarketplaceComplianceDiscovery1 API17.2ApiShareAPI LifecycleAPI ManagementCatalog1 API16.7KonfigSDK GenerationClient LibraryAPI DocumentationDeveloper Tools5 APIs16.1API LintingAPI DesignAPI LintingAPI Style Guide10 APIs14.4OpticBreaking ChangesContract TestingDiff1 API11.8
Minimal 1 Almost no public developer surface
PlatformableConsultancyDigital HealthEcosystems1 API7.4

APIs with this tag (15)

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 →

Developing 1 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Google Apigee API HubApigee API Hub is a centralized repository and governance platform for discovering, managing, and analyzing...44.2
Thin 4 Limited public surface area
Cequence AI GatewayEnterprise AI Gateway that makes applications agent-ready through governed Model Context Protocol integrati...36.3Stoplight PlatformStoplight Platform is a SaaS collaborative API design and documentation management tool providing a visual ...35.3Stoplight SpectralSpectral is an open-source JSON and YAML linter for creating automated API style guides and governance rule...35.3SpecmaticSpecmatic provides contract testing, intelligent service virtualization, and API mocking by transforming AP...26.2
Emerging 9 Early or largely undocumented
APIGovernance.DevAPIGovernance.Dev provides automated API governance reviews using AI trained on 10,000 public APIs. It offe...19.4Optic APIOptic is a developer tool that uses API specifications as the source of truth for testing. It tracks specif...18.1SpectralSpectral is an open-source JSON/YAML linter and specification validator. It evaluates OpenAPI, AsyncAPI, an...18.1APIwizAPIwiz is a low-code, end-to-end API management platform enabling the complete API lifecycle including desi...17.8Apinity.io APIThe Apinity API enables organizations to manage their compliant API marketplace programmatically, including...17.2ApiShareApiShare provides a unified catalog of APIs, applications, assets, MCP servers, and AI agents with role-bas...16.7Konfig OpenAPI LintingCapability area (endpointsModeled). A configurable linter that inspects an OpenAPI Specification for errors...16.1Postman API GovernancePostman Spec Hub's governance engine applies linting rules to OpenAPI 2.0, 3.0, and 3.1 specifications, sur...14.4Sweater CombSnyk's TypeScript ruleset built on Optic CI that enforces consistency standards across OpenAPI specificatio...14.4
Minimal 1 Almost no public developer surface
PlatformablePlatformable's API governance training resources and tools help your organisation to build a comprehensive,...7.4

Score breakdown

Frequency
42.7
log-scaled weighted occurrences
Breadth
0.7
spread across providers
Quality lift
38.2
mean composite of providers using it
Cohesion
9.9
strength of nearest seed neighbor

Related tags

Linting 6 co-occurrences API Discovery 5 co-occurrences API Design 7 co-occurrences AsyncAPI 6 co-occurrences API Management 7 co-occurrences OpenAPI 10 co-occurrences API Gateway 5 co-occurrences Standards 5 co-occurrences

Where this tag comes from

Provider tag22
Api tag15

Cohort brief

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The 25 providers in the APIs.io catalog tagged API Governance, scored on the Kin Score. Every figure below is computed from the catalog — nothing here is written.

Providers
25
all scored
Mean Kin Score
32.6
+11.9 vs catalog 20.7
Mean Agent Readiness
14.2
+4.5 vs catalog 9.7
Spread
7.4–76.1
median 25.1 · σ 19
How the 25 split by band
Exemplar 2Strong 2Developing 4Thin 4Emerging 12Minimal 1
Facet averages, against the whole catalog
FacetThis cohortCatalogDifferenceScored
Operational Transparency 27.9 11.3 +16.6 25
Contract Quality 30.9 17.5 +13.4 25
Contract Governance 19.6 6.4 +13.2 25
Access Clarity 35.1 22.3 +12.8 25
Discoverability 69.7 60.4 +9.3 25
Developer Ergonomics 26.3 17.9 +8.4 25

A facet is averaged over the members that carry it, not over the whole cohort — the “Scored” column is that count. Averaging an absent facet as zero would score our own coverage gaps as the providers’ posture.

What this cohort publishes
ArtifactThis cohortCatalogDifference
MCP server (any) 24% 16% +8
MCP server (first-party) 16% 7% +9
Agent Skills 0% 0% 0
OAuth scopes 4% 9% -5
Security 96% 88% +8
Arazzo workflows 12% 2% +10
Governance rules 72% 13% +59

mcp_pct counts any mcp/ artifact including ones API Evangelist derived from the provider OpenAPI; mcp_first_party_pct counts only servers the provider publishes. Prefer the latter.

Top by Kin Score
  1. 1 APIs.io 76.1
  2. 2 API Evangelist 69.8
  3. 3 Postman 64.5
  4. 4 Apigee 59.5
  5. 5 Lunar 52.9
  6. 6 Bump.sh 47.3
  7. 7 Google Apigee 44.2
  8. 8 Naftiko 40.5
  9. 9 Cequence Security 36.3
  10. 10 Stoplight 35.3
Top by Agent Readiness
  1. 1 APIs.io 47.5
  2. 2 API Evangelist 44.8
  3. 3 Postman 36.5
  4. 4 Bump.sh 32.4
  5. 5 Lunar 28.1
  6. 6 Apigee 26.5
  7. 7 API Pulse 24.8
  8. 8 Test Rate Limit Check 22.3
  9. 9 Google Apigee 19.8
  10. 10 Agent Readiness 12.9
All 25 members of this roster resolve to a scored provider in the catalog.Generated from the catalog build of 25 August 2026, across 26891 providers, using the same computation served by the APIs.io cohort API. Briefs are published for rosters of 5 or more scored providers; below that a distribution is not meaningful.

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