emerging · 0.9

CDN

Score 21.9 / 100 60 providers 32 APIs Search apis.io →
Variants seen in the corpus: CDNcdn

Providers using this tag (60)

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

Strong 8 Solid coverage with minor gaps
Developing 14 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Thin 22 Limited public surface area
Emerging 12 Early or largely undocumented
Minimal 4 Almost no public developer surface

APIs with this tag (32)

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 →

Strong 6 Solid coverage with minor gaps
Developing 7 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Thin 10 Limited public surface area
Emerging 8 Early or largely undocumented
Minimal 1 Almost no public developer surface

Score breakdown

Frequency
51.7
log-scaled weighted occurrences
Breadth
1.6
spread across providers
Quality lift
43.0
mean composite of providers using it
Cohesion
0.0
strength of nearest seed neighbor

Related tags

Content Delivery 9 co-occurrences Edge 9 co-occurrences DDoS Protection 5 co-occurrences Caching 6 co-occurrences Edge Computing 10 co-occurrences WAF 5 co-occurrences DNS 8 co-occurrences Object Storage 6 co-occurrences

Where this tag comes from

Api tag32
Provider tag39
Openapi tag5
Openapi op tag19

Cohort brief

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The 60 providers in the APIs.io catalog tagged CDN, scored on the Kin Score. Every figure below is computed from the catalog — nothing here is written.

Providers
60
all scored
Mean Kin Score
35.6
+14.9 vs catalog 20.7
Mean Agent Readiness
20.1
+10.4 vs catalog 9.7
Spread
5–66.4
median 36.7 · σ 14.4
How the 60 split by band
Exemplar 0Strong 8Developing 14Thin 22Emerging 12Minimal 4
Facet averages, against the whole catalog
FacetThis cohortCatalogDifferenceScored
Contract Quality 41.2 17.5 +23.7 60
Developer Ergonomics 33.5 17.9 +15.6 60
Operational Transparency 25.6 11.3 +14.3 60
Access Clarity 36.4 22.3 +14.1 60
Discoverability 70.4 60.4 +10 60
Contract Governance 8.4 6.4 +2 60

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) 20% 16% +4
MCP server (first-party) 8% 7% +1
Agent Skills 0% 0% 0
OAuth scopes 22% 9% +13
Security 97% 88% +9
Arazzo workflows 7% 2% +5
Governance rules 28% 13% +15

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 Brand API (Brandfetch) 66.4
  2. 2 IBM 62.6
  3. 3 Cloudflare 62
  4. 4 Fastly 60.8
  5. 5 Datadog 57.1
  6. 6 ezoic 56.1
  7. 7 Amazon CloudFront 55.3
  8. 8 Netlify 54.3
  9. 9 Amazon Global Accelerator 50.7
  10. 10 ImageKit 49.1
Top by Agent Readiness
  1. 1 Brand API (Brandfetch) 52.4
  2. 2 ezoic 48.2
  3. 3 Cloudflare 44.5
  4. 4 IBM 39.4
  5. 5 Datadog 38.3
  6. 6 Akamai 36.3
  7. 7 Builder.io 35.4
  8. 8 EVE Online 34.9
  9. 9 QuantCDN 32.3
  10. 10 ImageKit 31.7
All 60 members of this roster resolve to a scored provider in the catalog.Generated from the catalog build of 25 August 2026, across 26891 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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