Authentication
AuthOAuthOAuth2OAuth 2.0Authentication
Providers using this tag (390)
Ranked by API Evangelist rating — Exemplar and Strong are expanded by default.
Exemplar 20 Complete, well-documented, and agent-ready
Strong 42 Solid coverage with minor gaps
Developing 111 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Thin 110 Limited public surface area
Emerging 69 Early or largely undocumented
Minimal 36 Almost no public developer surface
Unrated 2 Not yet scored
APIs with this tag (2032)
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 132 Complete, well-documented, and agent-ready
Strong 289 Solid coverage with minor gaps
Developing 635 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Thin 627 Limited public surface area
Emerging 324 Early or largely undocumented
Minimal 25 Almost no public developer surface
Companies reaching this through an API (1620)
These companies publish an API, specification or operation carrying “Authentication” 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
Where this tag sits
390 providers carry this tag directly, and 431 counting the 6 narrower tags below — 41 more to reach.
Related tags
Where this tag comes from
Markets provisional
Kin Score markets whose measured providers carry this tag. Share is the fraction of the market's measured providers that carry it — it describes the market, not this tag.
| Market | Share of the market's providers |
|---|---|
| Identity and Auth | 100% |
| OpenID Certified Implementations (OIDC, FAPI, OpenID4VC) | 54% |
| Official SDKs on JSR (JavaScript Registry) | 21% |
Cohort brief
Auto-generatedThe 383 providers in the APIs.io catalog tagged Authentication, scored on the Kin Score. Every figure below is computed from the catalog — nothing here is written.
| Facet | This cohort | Catalog | Difference | Scored |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Developer Ergonomics | 43.3 | 23.2 | +20.1 | 383 |
| Contract Quality | 31.6 | 17.2 | +14.4 | 383 |
| Operational Transparency | 25.8 | 13 | +12.8 | 383 |
| Access Clarity | 34.8 | 23.9 | +10.9 | 383 |
| Discoverability | 67.8 | 57.9 | +9.9 | 383 |
| Contract Governance | 12.9 | 6.5 | +6.4 | 383 |
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.
| Artifact | This cohort | Catalog | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| MCP server (any) | 22% | 13% | +9 |
| MCP server (first-party) | 20% | 12% | +8 |
| Agent Skills | 0% | 0% | 0 |
| OAuth scopes | 49% | 11% | +38 |
| Security | 99% | 98% | +1 |
| Arazzo workflows | 6% | 2% | +4 |
| Governance rules | 26% | 16% | +10 |
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.
- 1 Twilio 91.6
- 2 Zoho CRM 84.4
- 3 Kinde 82.4
- 4 Appwrite 82.3
- 5 Microsoft Entra ID (formerly Azure AD) 81.8
- 6 Kit 79.7
- 7 Cvent Registration 77.2
- 8 Cvent 77.1
- 9 drchrono 77
- 10 Okta 73.8
- 1 Taskfolk 69.1
- 2 Kann KI das? Sponsoring Agent 66.7
- 3 1F916 66.4
- 4 Kit 64.4
- 5 Comunicate.top API 60.7
- 6 Immutable 59.5
- 7 WorkOS 58.8
- 8 Cobot 58.6
- 9 Lacuna 58.1
- 10 Zuplo 57.3
Coverage caveat. 303 of 383 scored members had under half their catalog-attributable points satisfied at all (catalog_earned / catalog_max < 0.5). They are INCLUDED in the mean above. A large share here means the cohort mean is partly a measurement of how far our enrichment reached, not only of how these providers publish.Generated from the catalog build of 24 October 2026, across 31984 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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