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Backend

Score 20.0 / 100 22 providers +23 via APIs 34 APIs Search apis.io →
Business capabilities this tag reaches
Information Technology Management 1
Variants seen in the corpus: BackendsBackend

Providers using this tag (22)

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

Exemplar 2 Complete, well-documented, and agent-ready
AppwriteApplicationMobileOpen Source2 APIs83.7run402-comArtificial IntelligenceInfrastructureOpen Source1 API73.7
Strong 1 Solid coverage with minor gaps
AmunCoreDatabaseAPI ManagementNo-Code2 APIs58.1
Developing 3 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
EncoreFrameworkCloudTypeScript2 APIs51.9ConvexDatabaseFunctionsReal-Time3 APIs51.1PlayFabAuthenticationMicrosoft AzureBackend-as-a-Service1 API41.7
Thin 7 Limited public surface area
FormspreeFormsStatic SitesEmail1 API38.6Air PipePlatformAutomationArtificial Intelligence3 APIs34.2NakamaGamingGame BackendReal-Time1 API32.9AccelByteGamingBackend-as-a-ServiceLive Services1 API29.9devprimeCompanyArtificial IntelligencePlatform29.0KeelCompanyERPGraphQL31.3InstantDBDatabaseReal-TimeSync1 API31.1
Emerging 2 Early or largely undocumented
RowyLow-CodeFirestoreFirebase1 API19.1NtupleCompanyNo-CodeSoftware-as-a-Service1 API17.6
Minimal 5 Almost no public developer surface
Björn Wilmsmann IT ServicesBaaSEnterpriseData Integration10.7Arclera DigitalCloudArtificial IntelligenceMCP9.9AmplicationCompanyCode GenerationDeveloper Tools9.6Bahdan HalEngineerSymfonyLaravel6.2DjangoMVCORMPython7.2
Unrated 2 Not yet scored
AalyArtificial IntelligenceMulti-TenantSoftware-as-a-Service2 APIsCodehooksDatabaseEventHooks1 API

APIs with this tag (34)

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Exemplar 10 Complete, well-documented, and agent-ready
Microsoft Azure API Management Backend APIThe Backend API from Microsoft Azure API Management — 2 operation(s) for backend.76.2Hint Health Backend APIThe Backend API from Hint Health — 2 operation(s) for backend.75.1Clerk C# / .NET SDKOfficial C# / .NET SDK for the Clerk Backend API.72.0Clerk Go SDKOfficial Go SDK for the Clerk Backend API.72.0Clerk Java SDKOfficial Java SDK for the Clerk Backend API.72.0Clerk Node.js SDKBackend SDK for Node.js (@clerk/backend / @clerk/express / @clerk/fastify) that wraps the Backend API and v...72.0Clerk PHP SDKOfficial PHP SDK for the Clerk Backend API.72.0Clerk Python SDKOfficial Python SDK for the Clerk Backend API.72.0Clerk Ruby SDKOfficial Ruby SDK for the Clerk Backend API, with a Rails integration.72.0Firebase APIFirebase is a comprehensive app development platform that provides backend services, including real-time da...70.1
Strong 5 Solid coverage with minor gaps
Fastly Backend APIOperations for managing backends (origin servers) that a Fastly service routes requests to.65.3Amazon Web Services Backend APIThe Backend API from Amazon Web Services — 29 operation(s) for backend.60.9ibm-quantum Backends APIThe Backends API from ibm-quantum — 5 operation(s) for backends.60.2Firebase Android APIsFirebase SDKs and APIs for Android app development.56.1EUMETSAT Backends APIThe Backends API from EUMETSAT — 2 operation(s) for backends.54.5
Developing 8 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Scaleway Backends APIThe Load Balancer backend object. It represents a set of backend servers that the frontend forwards request...53.6Encore Infrastructure APIEncore's Infrastructure from Code API lets developers declare cloud infrastructure resources — PostgreSQL d...51.9Convex Server SDKThe Convex Server SDK (convex/server) is the TypeScript library for defining backend logic deployed on Conv...51.1WeChat Cloud Hosting APIWeChat Cloud Hosting (微信云托管) is Tencent's cloud-native, ops-free container deployment service tightly integ...50.5HAProxy Backend APIManaging backend configurations (advanced mode)44.1Strangeworks Products GraphQL APIThe product-side GraphQL API used by compute products published on the Strangeworks platform to register an...43.3Wazo Backends APIThe backends API from Wazo — 5 operation(s) for backends.40.6LocalAI Backends APIThe backends API from LocalAI — 11 operation(s) for backends.40.2
Thin 5 Limited public surface area
Kgateway Backend APIDefine routable backends such as AI providers (OpenAI, Azure, Gemini), AWS Lambda functions, or static serv...29.0PhonePe Java Backend SDKServer-side Java SDK that wraps the PhonePe PG REST API, handling X-VERIFY signing, request modelling, and ...27.7PhonePe Node.js Backend SDKServer-side Node.js SDK wrapping the PhonePe PG REST API.27.7PhonePe PHP Backend SDKServer-side PHP SDK wrapping the PhonePe PG REST API.27.7PhonePe Python Backend SDKServer-side Python SDK wrapping the PhonePe PG REST API.27.7
Emerging 3 Early or largely undocumented
HKBU Mobile App Backend (gated)Backend host serving the official HKBU Mobile application (mapp-api.hkbu.edu.hk). The host resolves over TL...23.6Azure PlayFab APIAzure PlayFab provides a complete backend platform for games with APIs for player authentication, data mana...21.8Tekton Dashboard APIThe Tekton Dashboard exposes a web UI and a thin proxy/HTTP API over the Tekton CRDs and Tekton Results, pr...20.8
Unrated 3 Not yet scored
AppDynamics Backends APIRetrieve registered backend components detected by the Controller including their properties and exit point...IonQ Backends APIThe backends API from IonQ — 2 operation(s) for backends.ngrok Backends APIBackends define how traffic is handled, including tunnel group, weighted, failover, HTTP response, and stat...

Companies reaching this through an API (23)

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

Amazon Web Services Android AppDynamics Clerk EUMETSAT Fastly Google HAProxy Hint Health Hong Kong Baptist University IBM Quantum IonQ Kgateway LocalAI Microsoft Azure API Management Microsoft Xbox ngrok PhonePe Scaleway Strangeworks Tekton Wazo WeChat

Score breakdown

Frequency
49.2
log-scaled weighted occurrences
Breadth
0.3
spread across providers
Quality lift
34.9
mean composite of providers using it
Cohesion
4.0
strength of nearest seed neighbor

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