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CDN

Score 22.6 / 100 44 providers +22 via APIs 37 APIs Search apis.io →
Business capabilities this tag reaches
Information Technology Management 1
Variants seen in the corpus: Content Delivery NetworkCDN

Providers using this tag (44)

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

Exemplar 6 Complete, well-documented, and agent-ready
CloudflareAI GatewayAPI GatewayArtificial Intelligence25 APIs80.6Amazon LightsailCloudComputeVirtual Private ServerHosting3 APIs75.3Microsoft Azure CdnEdgeCachingCloud Infrastructure2 APIs72.8NetlifyCloudContinuous DeploymentDeveloper Tools2 APIs71.5GumletVideoStreamingImage Optimization24 APIs71.1CloudFrontCachingContent DeliveryEdge Computing1 API67.2
Strong 5 Solid coverage with minor gaps
FastlyEdge CloudEdge ComputeWebAssembly22 APIs65.2Webscale NetworksE-CommerceCloud HostingApplication Delivery2 APIs62.3Amazon Global AcceleratorAvailabilityGlobalLoad Balancing1 API57.8Google Cloud CDNCachingContent DeliveryGoogle Cloud1 API54.8WowzaVideoStreamingLive StreamingVideo-on-Demand2 APIs54.4
Developing 8 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
ezoicCompanyAdvertisingAdTechPublisher Monetization2 APIs53.1AkamaiCloudEdge ComputingNetworks12 APIs48.0MacrometaCompanyInfrastructureEdge ComputingDatabase8 APIs45.9ImageKitImageVideoMedia1 API44.8QuantCDNEdgeStatic HostingJAMstack1 API42.9MotomarksAutomotiveLogoImage CDNManufacturer3 APIs41.7UploadcareFile UploadFile ManagementImage Transformation2 APIs41.3QwiltCompanyMediaEdge Computing3 APIs40.9
Thin 12 Limited public surface area
Bunny.netEdgeVideoStorage1 API38.9Azure Front DoorEdgeGlobal RoutingLoad Balancing2 APIs38.3BrightcoveVideoMediaStreamingLive Streaming11 APIs37.2BytescaleFile UploadStorageImage Processing1 API36.9UCloudCompanyEnterpriseCloud ComputingInfrastructure-as-a-Service1 API36.4ByteArkVideoStreamingVideo-on-DemandLive Streaming1 API34.5DatumCompanyDataCloudNetworking1 API34.1GcoreEdge CloudStreamingEdge AI1 API33.5Qiniu CloudCompanyCloudObject Storage2 APIs30.9LocizeLocalizationInternationalizationi18nTranslation Management1 API30.7ImgixImage OptimizationImage ProcessingMedia1 API28.3API.VideoArtificial IntelligenceAnalyticsEncoding3 APIs27.7
Emerging 5 Early or largely undocumented
PantheonWebOpsWordPressDrupalCMS1 API25.8StellateGraphQLEdge CachingAPI Management1 API23.0LottielabCompanyAnimationMotion DesignLottie22.3Pipe NetworkCompanyCrypto Web3StorageDecentralized Storage1 API17.4ChinaCache (EdgeNext)CompanyEdge ComputingCloud Security1 API17.2
Minimal 8 Almost no public developer surface
NetflixContent DeliveryDevice CertificationEntertainment1 API10.7StreamrootCompanyInfrastructure SaasVideoStreaming5.1AgotoZ TechnologySD-WANNetwork as a ServiceNetwork AccelerationEnterprise Networking1 API4.8EdgewareCompanyVideoStreaming4.4BitGravityEnterprise SoftwareCloud NetworkingVideo Streaming3.0Instart LogicCompanyContent DeliveryWeb Performance0.0StackPathCompanyEdge ComputingWeb Application Firewall0.0SubspaceCompanyNetworkingReal-TimeWebRTC1 API0.0

APIs with this tag (36)

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 →

Exemplar 5 Complete, well-documented, and agent-ready
Cloudflare Cache APIThe Cloudflare Cache API enables developers to manage CDN caching behavior across Cloudflare's global netwo...80.6Datadog Cloudflare Integration APIThe Cloudflare Integration API allows you to manage your Datadog-Cloudflare integration directly through th...79.1Datadog Fastly Integration APIThe Fastly Integration API allows you to manage your Datadog-Fastly integration accounts and services direc...79.1Edge Impulse CDN APIThe CDN API from Edge Impulse — 1 operation(s) for cdn.69.4IBM Cloud Internet ServicesProvide DDoS protection, global load balancing, DNS management, WAF, and CDN capabilities for internet-faci...69.1
Strong 6 Solid coverage with minor gaps
Red5 Agent-Native SurfacePublicly hosted llms.txt providing a structured index of Red5 products, use cases, and documentation for AI...65.1Red5 Pro Server APIREST/JSON API embedded in the Red5 Pro media server providing server info/ping/statistics, applications, st...65.1Stream Manager 2.0 APIREST/JSON API used by both Red5 Pro clusters and Red5 Cloud for Auth, Admin, Proxy, Streams, Streams Provis...65.1Orange Business Content Delivery Boost APIManage CDN edge caching, purge, and acceleration policies for content delivered over Orange's networks — pr...64.9Brandfetch Logo Link APILogo Link delivers brand logos directly via CDN URL embedding. Supports lookup by domain, stock ticker, cry...63.4Azure Front Door APIGlobal load balancer and application delivery network that provides fast, reliable, and secure access to we...62.6
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...53.1Alokai (formerly Vue Storefront) cdn APIThe cdn API from Alokai (formerly Vue Storefront) — 2 operation(s) for cdn.46.5Builder.io Image APIAPI for accessing and downloading optimized versions of images uploaded to Builder.io. Supports on-the-fly ...45.9EVE Image Server (IEC)The EVE Image Server (also referred to as IEC, the Image Export Collection) is a public, anonymous HTTP ser...43.4Image CDNToken-authenticated global image CDN delivering car logos in full, badge, and wordmark variants across mult...41.7JSON APIBearer-authenticated REST/JSON API for listing brands and retrieving full brand detail including color pale...41.7MCP ServerHosted streamable-HTTP MCP server exposing read-only brand tools, account tools, resources, and prompts. Au...41.7DatoCMS Content Delivery APIThe DatoCMS Content Delivery API is a CDN-fronted GraphQL endpoint optimized for low-latency reads of publi...41.5
Thin 9 Limited public surface area
Bunny.net Pull Zones APIEndpoints for creating and configuring CDN Pull Zones - origin configuration, edge rules, hostnames, SSL ce...38.9Xiaomi CDN APIThe CDN API from Xiaomi — 2 operation(s) for cdn.38.3Brightcove Delivery Rules APIOperations for reading Delivery Rules37.2Gcore CDN APIContent delivery network resources, rules, origin groups, and purge.33.5Protomaps Hosted Tile APICDN-backed hosted basemap tile API serving OpenStreetMap-derived vector tiles in MVT format. Provides Style...32.4Object Storage (Kodo)REST API for Qiniu Kodo object storage — bucket administration, object upload/download, stat/copy/move/dele...30.9DataDome Server Modules & SDKsDataDome ships 40+ server-side integrations (web servers, CDNs, application frameworks, API gateways) that ...28.9Imgix Rendering APIThe imgix Rendering API can optimize your images, improve your page speed, and make it easy to create respo...28.3JW Player Delivery APIHigh-availability CDN-backed API for content embedding, playback metadata retrieval, poster images, streami...28.3
Emerging 7 Early or largely undocumented
Agility CMS APIREST and GraphQL APIs for fetching, syncing, and managing content from Agility CMS, with CDN delivery acros...23.2Autotrader Images APICDN-backed image storage and management API for vehicle adverts. Allows partners to upload, retrieve, and m...20.1Lazada Image APIUpload images to Lazada's CDN-backed image library and retrieve the image URLs used when creating or updati...18.3Naver Cloud CDN+ / Global Edge APICDN+ and Global Edge are Naver Cloud Platform's Korean and global content delivery services, with cache con...17.7EdgeNext CDN APIREST API for the ChinaCache/EdgeNext CDN and edge platform — manage CDN domains, cache purge and prefetch, ...17.2jQuery CDNContent Delivery Network endpoints for serving jQuery and related plugin library files (jQuery, jQuery UI, ...15.0JD Cloud CDN APIJD Cloud CDN exposes content delivery configuration, cache rule management, purge / prefetch, and usage rep...14.2
Minimal 1 Almost no public developer surface
Netflix Open ConnectNetflix Open Connect is the purpose-built content delivery network that delivers Netflix streaming traffic....10.7

Companies reaching this through an API (22)

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

Agility CMS Alokai (formerly Vue Storefront) APIs.io Engineering Platform Autotrader Azure Networking Services Brand API (Brandfetch) Builder.io Datadog DataDome DatoCMS Edge Impulse EVE Online IBM JD.com (Jingdong) jQuery JW Player Lazada Naver Orange Business Protomaps Red5 Xiaomi

Score breakdown

Frequency
52.8
log-scaled weighted occurrences
Breadth
1.1
spread across providers
Quality lift
45.4
mean composite of providers using it
Cohesion
0.0
strength of nearest seed neighbor

Related tags

Web Application Firewall 7 co-occurrences Edge 9 co-occurrences Content Delivery 8 co-occurrences DDoS Protection 6 co-occurrences Caching 7 co-occurrences Edge Computing 11 co-occurrences DNS 9 co-occurrences WAF 5 co-occurrences

Where this tag comes from

Api tag37
Provider tag44
Openapi tag5
Openapi op tag19

Cohort brief

Auto-generated

The 41 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
41
all scored
Mean Kin Score
39.6
+16.7 vs catalog 22.9
Mean Agent Readiness
23.9
+12.0 vs catalog 11.9
Spread
0–80.6
median 38.3 · σ 20.8
How the 41 split by band
Exemplar 6Strong 5Developing 8Thin 12Emerging 5Minimal 5
Facet averages, against the whole catalog
FacetThis cohortCatalogDifferenceScored
Access Clarity 46.6 26.5 +20.1 41
Developer Ergonomics 43 23.2 +19.8 41
Contract Quality 36 17.6 +18.4 41
Operational Transparency 29.4 13.7 +15.7 41
Discoverability 65.3 58.1 +7.2 41
Contract Governance 10 6.3 +3.7 41

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) 29% 14% +15
MCP server (first-party) 29% 12% +17
Agent Skills 0% 0% 0
OAuth scopes 24% 11% +13
Security 100% 98% +2
Arazzo workflows 5% 2% +3
Governance rules 27% 14% +13

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 Cloudflare 80.6
  2. 2 Amazon Lightsail 75.3
  3. 3 Microsoft Azure Cdn 72.8
  4. 4 Netlify 71.5
  5. 5 Gumlet 71.1
  6. 6 CloudFront 67.2
  7. 7 Fastly 65.2
  8. 8 Webscale Networks 62.3
  9. 9 Amazon Global Accelerator 57.8
  10. 10 Google Cloud CDN 54.8
Top by Agent Readiness
  1. 1 Cloudflare 72.5
  2. 2 Netlify 60
  3. 3 ezoic 51.3
  4. 4 Gumlet 48.1
  5. 5 Akamai 41
  6. 6 Amazon Global Accelerator 37.1
  7. 7 Motomarks 36.3
  8. 8 Microsoft Azure Cdn 35.8
  9. 9 QuantCDN 32.3
  10. 10 ImageKit 31.7
All 44 members of this roster resolve to a scored provider in the catalog.Generated from the catalog build of 5 October 2026, across 29093 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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