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Backend-as-a-Service

Score 16.9 / 100 25 providers 4 APIs Search apis.io →

Providers using this tag (25)

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

Exemplar 1 Complete, well-documented, and agent-ready
Strong 2 Solid coverage with minor gaps
Developing 6 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Thin 7 Limited public surface area
Emerging 6 Early or largely undocumented
Minimal 3 Almost no public developer surface

APIs with this tag (4)

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Developing 2 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Thin 2 Limited public surface area

Score breakdown

Frequency
37.3
log-scaled weighted occurrences
Breadth
0.3
spread across providers
Quality lift
33.8
mean composite of providers using it
Cohesion
5.1
strength of nearest seed neighbor

Related tags

Serverless 8 co-occurrences Database 7 co-occurrences Configuration 5 co-occurrences Real-Time 9 co-occurrences File 6 co-occurrences Authentication 11 co-occurrences Open Source 6 co-occurrences Artificial Intelligence 6 co-occurrences

Where this tag comes from

Provider tag25
Api tag4

Cohort brief

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The 22 providers in the APIs.io catalog tagged Backend-as-a-Service, scored on the Kin Score. Every figure below is computed from the catalog — nothing here is written.

Providers
22
of 25 in the catalog
Mean Kin Score
37.1
+13.0 vs catalog 24.1
Mean Agent Readiness
24.2
+10.1 vs catalog 14.1
Spread
6.8–78.8
median 35 · σ 17.2
How the 22 split by band
Exemplar 1Strong 2Developing 6Thin 6Emerging 6Minimal 1
Facet averages, against the whole catalog
FacetThis cohortCatalogDifferenceScored
Developer Ergonomics 48 24.5 +23.5 22
Operational Transparency 28.8 13.2 +15.6 22
Contract Quality 31 18.6 +12.4 22
Discoverability 68.9 59.1 +9.8 22
Access Clarity 34.4 30 +4.4 22
Contract Governance 13.5 9.7 +3.8 22

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) 41% 18% +23
MCP server (first-party) 36% 16% +20
Agent Skills 0% 0% 0
OAuth scopes 14% 13% +1
Security 100% 99% +1
Arazzo workflows 0% 1% -1
Governance rules 55% 36% +19

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 Dify 78.8
  2. 2 Insforge 63.7
  3. 3 Google Firebase 61.3
  4. 4 PlayFab 54.2
  5. 5 Toolhouse 50.2
  6. 6 Supabase 48.7
  7. 7 formcarry-com 44.7
  8. 8 Medable 44.1
  9. 9 Result 42.3
  10. 10 Nhost 38
Top by Agent Readiness
  1. 1 Insforge 56.6
  2. 2 Supabase 48.1
  3. 3 Nhost 46.4
  4. 4 Xano 42.4
  5. 5 formcarry-com 42.3
  6. 6 Dify 40.8
  7. 7 Google Firebase 40.3
  8. 8 Result 38.5
  9. 9 Toolhouse 27.3
  10. 10 Parse 25.9
All 25 members of this roster resolve to a provider in the catalog; 22 carry a score (88%). The figures above describe the scored members only.
Coverage caveat. 15 of 22 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 14 November 2026, across 41591 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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