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Application Security

Score 20.9 / 100 87 providers +3 via APIs 12 APIs Search apis.io →

Providers using this tag (87)

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

Exemplar 2 Complete, well-documented, and agent-ready
Strong 8 Solid coverage with minor gaps
Developing 13 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Thin 18 Limited public surface area
Emerging 21 Early or largely undocumented
Minimal 22 Almost no public developer surface
Unrated 3 Not yet scored

APIs with this tag (12)

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
Strong 1 Solid coverage with minor gaps
Developing 3 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Thin 3 Limited public surface area
Emerging 3 Early or largely undocumented

Companies reaching this through an API (3)

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

Datadog Synopsys Tufin

Score breakdown

Frequency
54.6
log-scaled weighted occurrences
Breadth
2.3
spread across providers
Quality lift
33.2
mean composite of providers using it
Cohesion
0.0
strength of nearest seed neighbor

Related tags

DevSecOps 40 co-occurrences SAST 18 co-occurrences Vulnerability Management 30 co-occurrences DAST 13 co-occurrences API Security 14 co-occurrences ASPM 9 co-occurrences SCA 10 co-occurrences

Where this tag comes from

Provider tag87
Api tag12

Cohort brief

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The 77 providers in the APIs.io catalog tagged Application Security, scored on the Kin Score. Every figure below is computed from the catalog — nothing here is written.

Providers
77
all scored
Mean Kin Score
29.4
+6.5 vs catalog 22.9
Mean Agent Readiness
13.5
+1.6 vs catalog 11.9
Spread
0–86.3
median 28.1 · σ 19.2
How the 77 split by band
Exemplar 2Strong 8Developing 13Thin 18Emerging 21Minimal 15
Facet averages, against the whole catalog
FacetThis cohortCatalogDifferenceScored
Developer Ergonomics 32.6 23.2 +9.4 77
Operational Transparency 21.6 13.7 +7.9 77
Access Clarity 34.2 26.5 +7.7 77
Discoverability 62.4 58.1 +4.3 77
Contract Governance 8.7 6.3 +2.4 77
Contract Quality 19.7 17.6 +2.1 77

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) 26% 14% +12
MCP server (first-party) 24% 12% +12
Agent Skills 0% 0% 0
OAuth scopes 8% 11% -3
Security 96% 98% -2
Arazzo workflows 3% 2% +1
Governance rules 18% 14% +4

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 Dynatrace 86.3
  2. 2 Snyk 80.6
  3. 3 Mend 63.4
  4. 4 OpenText Cybersecurity 60.3
  5. 5 Kondukto 59
  6. 6 Fortify 58.9
  7. 7 Veracode 58.8
  8. 8 Checkmarx 58.5
  9. 9 Contrast Security 58.5
  10. 10 Xbow 57.5
Top by Agent Readiness
  1. 1 Contrast Security 56.3
  2. 2 Dynatrace 48.7
  3. 3 DataDome 44.6
  4. 4 Snyk 43.7
  5. 5 OpenText Cybersecurity 36.7
  6. 6 Checkmarx 35.6
  7. 7 Qwiet Ai 33.7
  8. 8 Cequence Security 33.6
  9. 9 Rapid7 31.2
  10. 10 Tidelift 30.8
All 87 members of this roster resolve to a scored provider in the catalog.Generated from the catalog build of 5 October 2026, across 29093 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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