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Backend

Score 22.9 / 100 14 providers +22 via APIs 33 APIs Search apis.io →
Business capabilities this tag reaches
Information Technology Management 1
Variants seen in the corpus: BackendsBackend

Providers using this tag (14)

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

Exemplar 1 Complete, well-documented, and agent-ready
AppwriteApplicationMobileOpen Source2 APIs83.6
Strong 1 Solid coverage with minor gaps
AmunCoreDatabaseAPI ManagementNo-Code4 APIs55.3
Developing 6 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
EncoreFrameworkCloudTypeScript2 APIs52.5PlayFabAuthenticationAzureBackend-as-a-Service1 API46.1ConvexDatabaseFunctionsReal-Time3 APIs45.4CodehooksDatabaseEventHooks1 API41.5NakamaGamingGame BackendReal-Time1 API41.2InstantDBDatabaseReal-TimeSync1 API39.4
Thin 3 Limited public surface area
AccelByteGamingBackend-as-a-ServiceLive Services1 API36.5FormspreeFormsStatic SitesEmail1 API35.5KeelCompanyERPGraphQL31.2
Emerging 1 Early or largely undocumented
RowyLow-CodeFirestoreFirebase1 API25.2
Minimal 2 Almost no public developer surface
AmplicationCompanyCode GenerationDeveloper Tools9.6DjangoMVCORMPython5.8

APIs with this tag (33)

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Exemplar 10 Complete, well-documented, and agent-ready
Firebase APIFirebase is a comprehensive app development platform that provides backend services, including real-time da...77.9Microsoft Azure API Management Backend APIThe Backend API from Microsoft Azure API Management — 2 operation(s) for backend.73.6Clerk C# / .NET SDKOfficial C# / .NET SDK for the Clerk Backend API.71.9Clerk Go SDKOfficial Go SDK for the Clerk Backend API.71.9Clerk Java SDKOfficial Java SDK for the Clerk Backend API.71.9Clerk Node.js SDKBackend SDK for Node.js (@clerk/backend / @clerk/express / @clerk/fastify) that wraps the Backend API and v...71.9Clerk PHP SDKOfficial PHP SDK for the Clerk Backend API.71.9Clerk Python SDKOfficial Python SDK for the Clerk Backend API.71.9Clerk Ruby SDKOfficial Ruby SDK for the Clerk Backend API, with a Rails integration.71.9Hint Health Backend APIThe Backend API from Hint Health — 2 operation(s) for backend.69.5
Strong 4 Solid coverage with minor gaps
Fastly Backend APIOperations for managing backends (origin servers) that a Fastly service routes requests to.65.2ibm-quantum Backends APIThe Backends API from ibm-quantum — 5 operation(s) for backends.64.3Amazon Web Services Backend APIThe Backend API from Amazon Web Services — 29 operation(s) for backend.59.4IonQ Backends APIThe backends API from IonQ — 2 operation(s) for backends.56.7
Developing 8 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Encore Infrastructure APIEncore's Infrastructure from Code API lets developers declare cloud infrastructure resources — PostgreSQL d...52.5Scaleway Backends APIThe Load Balancer backend object. It represents a set of backend servers that the frontend forwards request...52.2WeChat Cloud Hosting APIWeChat Cloud Hosting (微信云托管) is Tencent's cloud-native, ops-free container deployment service tightly integ...50.4Firebase Android APIsFirebase SDKs and APIs for Android app development.49.9ngrok Backends APIBackends define how traffic is handled, including tunnel group, weighted, failover, HTTP response, and stat...46.8Convex Server SDKThe Convex Server SDK (convex/server) is the TypeScript library for defining backend logic deployed on Conv...45.4HAProxy Backend APIManaging backend configurations (advanced mode)44.0Strangeworks Products GraphQL APIThe product-side GraphQL API used by compute products published on the Strangeworks platform to register an...43.2
Thin 9 Limited public surface area
Wazo Backends APIThe backends API from Wazo — 5 operation(s) for backends.38.9LocalAI Backends APIThe backends API from LocalAI — 11 operation(s) for backends.38.4AppDynamics Backends APIRetrieve registered backend components detected by the Controller including their properties and exit point...37.8PhonePe Java Backend SDKServer-side Java SDK that wraps the PhonePe PG REST API, handling X-VERIFY signing, request modelling, and ...30.7PhonePe Node.js Backend SDKServer-side Node.js SDK wrapping the PhonePe PG REST API.30.7PhonePe PHP Backend SDKServer-side PHP SDK wrapping the PhonePe PG REST API.30.7PhonePe Python Backend SDKServer-side Python SDK wrapping the PhonePe PG REST API.30.7Kgateway Backend APIDefine routable backends such as AI providers (OpenAI, Azure, Gemini), AWS Lambda functions, or static serv...30.5HKBU Mobile App Backend (gated)Backend host serving the official HKBU Mobile application (mapp-api.hkbu.edu.hk). The host resolves over TL...29.7
Emerging 2 Early or largely undocumented
Tekton Dashboard APIThe Tekton Dashboard exposes a web UI and a thin proxy/HTTP API over the Tekton CRDs and Tekton Results, pr...22.3Azure PlayFab APIAzure PlayFab provides a complete backend platform for games with APIs for player authentication, data mana...22.0

Companies reaching this through an API (22)

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 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
50.3
log-scaled weighted occurrences
Breadth
0.4
spread across providers
Quality lift
48.1
mean composite of providers using it
Cohesion
4.3
strength of nearest seed neighbor

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