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 2 Solid coverage with minor gaps

IBM Cloud Code EngineRun containerized workloads without managing servers.62.6 IBM Cloud Kubernetes ServiceCreate and manage Kubernetes cluster infrastructure to deploy and manage containerized applications on IBM ...62.6

Developing 9 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close

OCI Container Engine for Kubernetes APIFully managed Kubernetes service for deploying and managing containerized applications, supporting virtual ...53.0 OCI Container Registry APIREST APIs for managing Docker container images in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Container Registry, a managed...53.0 OCI Functions APIFully managed, serverless Functions-as-a-Service platform built on the open source Fn Project engine, suppo...53.0 Tanzu Kubernetes Grid APIAPI for managing enterprise-ready Kubernetes clusters.47.7 Portworx Kubernetes APIKubernetes-native data services platform from Pure Storage. Portworx exposes its API surface through Custom...45.0 Apache APISIX GatewayApache APISIX provides rich traffic management features including load balancing, dynamic upstream configur...42.2 .NET AspireCloud-ready stack for building observable, production-ready distributed applications in .NET with built-in ...41.9 Digital CoreCloud-native core banking platform — the next-generation successor surface alongside SilverLake, CIF 20/20,...40.4 Swimlane Turbine APIThe Swimlane Turbine API provides access to the cloud-native Turbine platform, enabling integration with 50...40.2

Thin 13 Limited public surface area

Envoy Gateway APIEnvoy Gateway manages Envoy Proxy as a standalone or Kubernetes-based application gateway, implementing and...37.3 Artifact Hub APIThe Artifact Hub REST API provides endpoints for searching and retrieving cloud-native packages across all ...37.1 A10 Thunder Kubernetes Connector (TKC)The Thunder Kubernetes Connector (TKC) runs inside Kubernetes and configures upstream Thunder ADC objects a...35.5 Porter Plugins APIPlugin interface that allows extending Porter's core functionality, such as storing installation data, cred...34.8 Prisma CloudPrisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks provides comprehensive cloud native security across the full application...34.0 Vineyard Kubernetes OperatorThe Vineyard Kubernetes Operator manages vineyard cluster lifecycle and orchestrates shared objects on Kube...33.4 AWS Lambda APIAmazon Web Services Lambda API for creating, managing, invoking, and monitoring serverless functions. Core ...32.7 Knative APIKnative provides Kubernetes-based platform APIs for deploying and scaling event-driven serverless workloads...32.7 NGINX Gateway FabricNGINX Gateway Fabric is a Kubernetes Gateway API implementation using NGINX as the data plane. It provides ...31.7 NGINX Ingress ControllerThe NGINX Ingress Controller is a Kubernetes-native ingress controller built on NGINX that manages external...31.7 InfoScale for Kubernetes APIAPI for administering and monitoring InfoScale in Kubernetes and OpenShift container environments. Provides...30.2 NATS Management APINATS is a lightweight, high-performance messaging system for distributed applications. Its management API p...29.5 F5 NGINXNGINX provides cloud-native delivery and security for modern applications, Kubernetes, and APIs. The NGINX ...29.3

Emerging 17 Early or largely undocumented

StarlingXStarlingX is an edge cloud computing infrastructure platform optimized for high performance, ultra-low late...25.3 KratosKratos is a Go framework for building cloud-native microservices, originally created at Bilibili. It provid...23.5 Kubernetes APIThe Kubernetes API is the foundation of the container orchestration ecosystem, providing REST endpoints for...22.9 Gloo GatewayGloo Gateway is the next-generation API gateway from Solo.io built on Envoy Proxy and implementing the Kube...21.6 Runcrunc is a CLI tool for spawning and running containers on Linux according to the OCI (Open Container Initia...20.1 Bloomberg Cloud ConnectCloud-native connectivity to Bloomberg data enabling access from AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud environments ...20.0 Score SpecificationThe Score Specification (score.yaml) is a declarative, platform-agnostic workload definition format that ca...17.9 score-k8sscore-k8s is the reference Score implementation that translates Score YAML workload specifications into Kub...17.9 FlyteFlyte is a production-grade, cloud-native workflow orchestration platform for data and machine learning pro...17.2 The New Stack Podcast FeedRSS feed for The New Stack podcast, featuring discussions with developers, engineers, and operations profes...16.4 The New Stack RSS FeedRSS feed providing the latest articles and news from The New Stack covering cloud native, DevOps, AI, and o...16.4 HigressHigress is a next-generation cloud-native API gateway that provides intelligent routing, traffic management...14.7 Higress AI GatewayHigress AI Gateway extends the core Higress gateway with AI-specific capabilities including LLM proxy routi...14.7 Higress Wasm Plugin APIThe Higress Wasm Plugin API provides a WebAssembly-based extension interface for developing and deploying c...14.7 JayeXJayeX is a customizable cloud developer tool suite hosted by the Continuous Delivery Foundation that provid...14.2 CNCF Cloud Native Interactive LandscapeThe CNCF Cloud Native Interactive Landscape is the canonical map of the cloud-native ecosystem. The landsca...13.4 OpenEBSOpenEBS is an open source Container Native Storage solution that provides persistent storage for Kubernetes...12.8

Minimal 1 Almost no public developer surface

KCLKCL constraint-based record and functional programming language for configuration and policy scenarios in c...9.2

Score breakdown

Frequency

62.1

log-scaled weighted occurrences

Breadth

4.3

spread across providers

Quality lift

33.5

mean composite of providers using it

Cohesion

26.8

strength of nearest seed neighbor

Where this tag comes from

Api tag42

Provider tag141

Cohort brief

Auto-generated

The 157 providers in the APIs.io catalog tagged Cloud-Native, scored on the Kin Score. Every figure below is computed from the catalog — nothing here is written.

Providers

157

all scored

Mean Kin Score

27.9

+7.2 vs catalog 20.7

Mean Agent Readiness

14.6

+4.9 vs catalog 9.7

Spread

1.1–68.4

median 29.3 · σ 13.7

How the 157 split by band

Exemplar 2Strong 3Developing 22Thin 64Emerging 48Minimal 18

Facet averages, against the whole catalog

Facet	This cohort	Catalog	Difference	Scored
Contract Quality	33.8	17.5	+16.3	157
Operational Transparency	20.1	11.3	+8.8	157
Developer Ergonomics	25.5	17.9	+7.6	157
Contract Governance	11.5	6.4	+5.1	157
Discoverability	64.5	60.4	+4.1	157
Access Clarity	20.3	22.3	-2	157

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

Artifact	This cohort	Catalog	Difference
MCP server (any)	15%	16%	-1
MCP server (first-party)	3%	7%	-4
Agent Skills	0%	0%	0
OAuth scopes	6%	9%	-3
Security	92%	88%	+4
Arazzo workflows	3%	2%	+1
Governance rules	48%	13%	+35

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 Solo.io 68.4
2 Akuity 67.8
3 IBM 62.6
4 Kubernetes 55
5 Kubeshop 54.4
6 IBM WebSphere 54.2
7 Oracle 53
8 Spectro Cloud 51.1
9 Tigera 50.8
10 Choreo 49.1

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