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Caching

Score 20.9 / 100 20 providers +11 via APIs 15 APIs Search apis.io →
Business capabilities this tag reaches
Content Distribution & Delivery Management 1

Providers using this tag (20)

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

Exemplar 2 Complete, well-documented, and agent-ready
Microsoft Azure CdnCDNEdgeCloud Infrastructure2 APIs72.8CloudFrontCDNContent DeliveryEdge Computing1 API67.2
Strong 2 Solid coverage with minor gaps
Amazon ElastiCacheAmazon Web ServicesDatabaseElastiCache1 API59.2Google Cloud CDNCDNContent DeliveryGoogle Cloud1 API54.8
Developing 4 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Cloudflare AI GatewayAI GatewayLLMObservability1 API54.2ezoicCompanyAdvertisingAdTechPublisher Monetization2 APIs53.1NGINXNGINXAPI GatewayCloud-Native1 API45.3MomentoCompanyAI InfrastructureServerless1 API40.8
Thin 8 Limited public surface area
Apache IgniteCompute GridDistributed DatabaseIn-Memory2 APIs38.4TurborepoBuild SystemsMonorepoJavaScriptTypeScript1 API34.3Apache GeodeApacheData GridDistributed Systems1 API33.7BlacksmithCI/CDGitHub ActionsRunners1 API33.6GridGainData GridDistributed DatabaseIn-Memory Computing1 API32.5TailcallGraphQLAPI GatewayGraphQL RuntimeREST2 APIs31.9AvreaCompanyCI/CDContinuous IntegrationGitHub Actions31.7OpenPipeArtificial IntelligenceLLMFine-TuningDistillation1 API27.0
Emerging 2 Early or largely undocumented
ReadySetCompanyDeveloper ToolsDatabase20.1Varnish CacheCaching ProxyContent DeliveryHTTP Accelerator3 APIs18.5
Minimal 2 Almost no public developer surface
TimesTenCompanyDatabaseIn-Memory DatabaseRelational Databases8.4PicassoAndroidImage LoadingOpen Source4.6

APIs with this tag (15)

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Exemplar 2 Complete, well-documented, and agent-ready
Cloudflare Cache APIThe Cloudflare Cache API enables developers to manage CDN caching behavior across Cloudflare's global netwo...81.3IBM Cloud Databases for RedisFully managed Redis in-memory data store for caching, session management, and high-speed data access on IBM...71.3
Strong 1 Solid coverage with minor gaps
APIClaw Caching APIThe caching API from APIClaw — 4 operation(s) for caching.54.5
Developing 8 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
ezoic CDN APIThe CDN REST API clears and purges cached content on the Ezoic CDN — a single URL, a batch of URLs in group...53.1Encore Infrastructure APIEncore's Infrastructure from Code API lets developers declare cloud infrastructure resources — PostgreSQL d...52.5Gemini Context Caching APICache input tokens for repeated use across multiple requests to reduce costs and improve latency for large ...50.7Keen Cached Queries APIThe Keen Cached Queries API allows developers to create, manage, and retrieve pre-defined queries that are ...49.3University of Amsterdam Caching APIThe caching API from University of Amsterdam — 4 operation(s) for caching.47.0Bazel Remote Execution APIBazel speaks the open Remote Execution API (REAPI), a gRPC protocol for content-addressable storage and dis...45.9ImageKit Caching APIThe Caching API from ImageKit — 2 operation(s) for caching.44.8AI Semantic Cache PluginCaches LLM responses by prompt similarity so semantically equivalent requests can be served from cache, red...39.4
Thin 3 Limited public surface area
Cloudflare AI GatewayCloudflare AI Gateway is an edge-deployed proxy that fronts AI providers — Workers AI, Anthropic, Google Ge...37.4HeliconeHelicone is an open-source AI observability and routing platform centered on requests, sessions, prompts, d...37.4GridGain REST APILegacy GridGain 8 / Apache Ignite REST API for cache operations, SQL and scan queries, cluster activation, ...32.5
Emerging 1 Early or largely undocumented
Varnish Cache CLI APIThe Varnish Cache CLI management interface provides programmatic control over a running Varnish instance. I...18.5

Companies reaching this through an API (11)

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

AI Gateway APIClaw Bazel Cloudflare Encore Google Gemini IBM ImageKit Keen Kong AI Gateway University of Amsterdam

Score breakdown

Frequency
43.3
log-scaled weighted occurrences
Breadth
0.5
spread across providers
Quality lift
46.7
mean composite of providers using it
Cohesion
4.3
strength of nearest seed neighbor

Related tags

CDN 7 co-occurrences Fine-Tuning 5 co-occurrences API Gateway 5 co-occurrences Logs 5 co-occurrences Plugins 5 co-occurrences Policies 5 co-occurrences CI/CD 5 co-occurrences Observability 9 co-occurrences

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