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 12 Complete, well-documented, and agent-ready

OpenAI Containers APIThe Containers API from OpenAI — 5 operation(s) for containers.84.8 GitLab Container Registry APIThe GitLab Container Registry API provides programmatic access to manage container images stored in the Git...80.8 Cloudflare Containers APIThe Cloudflare Containers API allows developers to run container workloads on Cloudflare's global network, ...80.6 Datadog Container Images APIThe Container Images API allows you to get all container images for your organization. It provides visibili...79.1 Datadog Containers APIThe Containers API allows you to get all containers for your organization. It provides programmatic access ...79.1 Palo Alto Networks Containers API{'$ref': 'desc/containers/containers.md'}76.9 Canonical Containers APIThe containers API from Canonical — 6 operation(s) for containers.76.3 Microsoft Azure Containers APIOperations on blob containers76.2 dotCMS Containers APIEndpoints for managing Container objects and their content71.9 IBM Cloud Code EngineRun containerized workloads without managing servers.69.1 IBM Cloud Container RegistryStore and distribute container images in a managed private registry for IBM Cloud Kubernetes and other cont...69.1 IBM Cloud Kubernetes ServiceCreate and manage Kubernetes cluster infrastructure to deploy and manage containerized applications on IBM ...69.1

Strong 19 Solid coverage with minor gaps

F5 NGINX Ingress Controller APIKubernetes Ingress Controller implementation for NGINX and NGINX Plus providing load balancing, SSL/TLS ter...66.1 OCI Container Engine for Kubernetes APIFully managed Kubernetes service for deploying and managing containerized applications, supporting virtual ...66.0 OCI Container Registry APIREST APIs for managing Docker container images in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Container Registry, a managed...66.0 Google Tag Manager Containers APIOperations for managing containers within a Google Tag Manager account.65.1 Paperspace Container Registries APIManage container registry credentials used by Paperspace Deployments to pull private images, including a te...65.1 Paperspace Deployments APIContainer-as-a-service deployments that run user-provided images on Paperspace GPU machines with a managed ...65.1 Benchling Container APIA Container is a physical vessel (such as a tube, vial, or cryotube) that holds biological or chemical samp...64.5 Benchling Containers APIContainers are the backbone of sample management in Benchling. They represent physical containers, such as ...64.5 Modal Images and GPUDefine container images programmatically with modal.Image (from_registry, debian_slim, pip_install, run_com...64.5 Modal Images APIBuilds, caches, and rehydrates container images with pip / conda / apt / uv layers and supports custom Dock...64.5 JFrog Container RegistryJFrog Container Registry is a free, hybrid, and multi-cloud Docker registry and Helm chart repository for m...60.6 GZW Data API Containers APIThe Containers API from GZW Data API — 4 operation(s) for containers.59.7 AWS Fargate APIAWS Fargate is a serverless compute engine for containers that works with both Amazon ECS and Amazon EKS re...59.6 Aptible Containers APIThe Containers API from Aptible — 4 operation(s) for containers.58.5 Amazon ECS Anywhere APIAmazon ECS Anywhere extends Amazon ECS to support registering external instances such as on-premises server...58.4 Amazon ECS Service Connect APIAmazon ECS Service Connect provides management of service-to-service communication as Amazon ECS configurat...58.4 AWS Copilot CLIAWS Copilot is an open source command line interface that simplifies building, releasing, and operating pro...58.4 Azure Blob Storage Containers APIOperations on blob containers58.3 TensorDock Containers APIDeploy, scale, terminate, and inspect containers56.5

Developing 25 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close

SpecterOps Containers APIThe Containers API from SpecterOps — 2 operation(s) for containers.53.1 APIClaw Containers APIThe containers API from APIClaw — 10 operation(s) for containers.52.4 Tanzu Kubernetes Grid APIAPI for managing enterprise-ready Kubernetes clusters.52.3 Scaleway Containers APIA container is a web application, packaged as an OCI image, that runs inside Scaleway infrastructure and sc...51.6 Gremlin Containers APIGet all active containers50.8 WeChat Cloud Hosting APIWeChat Cloud Hosting (微信云托管) is Tencent's cloud-native, ops-free container deployment service tightly integ...50.4 OpenShift Image APIAPI for managing container images and image streams.49.5 VesselFinder Containers APIReal-time container track-and-trace.48.8 Maersk Container Maintenance and Repair APIContainer Maintenance and Repair (M&R) API surfacing equipment-management events and repair workflow data f...48.1 Maersk Containers APISupported container size and type combinations.48.1 Weka Containers APIThe Containers API from Weka — 17 operation(s) for containers.47.7 IronWorkerIronWorker is a container-based, massively parallel, multi-language work-on-demand platform. The REST API l...47.4 University of Amsterdam Containers APIThe containers API from University of Amsterdam — 10 operation(s) for containers.46.5 Smol Machines Containers APIContainer management within sandboxes46.2 OpenMetadata Containers APIA Container is an abstraction for any path(including the top level eg. bucket in S3) storing data in an Obj...45.7 SAP HANA Deployment Infrastructure (HDI) APIAPI for managing HDI containers used to deploy database artifacts in isolated schemas with dependency manag...44.8 AMCS Group Container APIThe Container API from AMCS Group — 3 operation(s) for container.44.1 Coder Workspace Agents APIEndpoints for workspace agent lifecycle, authentication (AWS/Azure/GCP instance identity), PTY terminal acc...44.1 QuantCDN Containers APIContainer management and operations42.9 Cosign CLICosign is a command-line tool for signing, verifying, and storing container images and OCI artifacts. It su...42.5 Aqua Security Containers APIRunning container monitoring and enforcement42.1 Qovery Containers APIThe Containers API from Qovery — 7 operation(s) for containers.42.0 Radius Containers APIThe Containers API from Radius — 2 operation(s) for containers.41.6 Cognite Containers APIThe Containers API from Cognite — 9 operation(s) for containers.41.5 Docker Container APICreate and manage containers.41.1

Thin 24 Limited public surface area

InfoScale for Kubernetes APIAPI for administering and monitoring InfoScale in Kubernetes and OpenShift container environments. Provides...39.1 Veritas InfoScale for Kubernetes EnvironmentsInfoScale container support for Kubernetes and OpenShift, providing CSI-compliant storage drivers for dynam...38.8 CRI-O Containers APIEndpoints that return information about live containers.37.9 OpenStack Object Storage (Swift) APISwift is the OpenStack object storage service. The API exposes endpoints for accounts, containers, and obje...37.6 Port Community Systems Containers APIContainer tracking and inspection36.1 IO Cloud Container-as-a-Service APIContainer-as-a-Service REST API for deploying GPU-backed containers across io.net's decentralized network. ...35.8 Aikido Security Containers APIThe Containers API from Aikido Security — 3 operation(s) for containers.35.7 Podman Containers APIActions related to containers35.6 Terminal49 Containers APIThe Containers API from Terminal49 — 4 operation(s) for containers.35.5 watchTowr Containers APIThe Containers API from watchTowr — 3 operation(s) for containers.34.7 CosignCosign is the Sigstore tool for signing and verifying container images and other OCI artifacts. It enables ...34.5 Expeditors Tracking APIRead-only REST/JSON API that lets a contracted Expeditors customer pull real-time shipment, container, orde...34.4 Trivy CLIThe primary interface for Trivy is its command-line tool, which scans container images, filesystems, Git re...34.2 Inspur Cloud Container Engine (ICE/CKS) APIREST API for Inspur Cloud's Kubernetes container engine — application and instance management, service mesh...34.0 CargoSmart Containers APIContainer tracking and event history33.9 Runcrunc is a CLI tool for spawning and running containers on Linux according to the OCI (Open Container Initia...33.9 Fatcat Containers API**Container** entities represent publication venues like journals, # TAGLINE conference proceedings, book s...32.0 Prisma CloudPrisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks provides comprehensive cloud native security across the full application...31.0 systemd-importd (org.freedesktop.import1)D-Bus API of systemd-importd for importing, exporting, downloading, listing, and removing container/VM mach...30.1 LabVantage Solutions Containers APISample containers and storage management28.7 BMW ConnectedDrive Containers APIManagement of containers28.6 AWS Batch APIREST API for managing AWS Batch compute environments, job queues, job definitions, scheduling policies, con...28.3 Testcontainers Cloud Agent APIThe Testcontainers Cloud Agent API enables CI/CD pipelines and desktop environments to allocate hosted Dock...27.2 Garden Container ProviderProvider for building, tagging, and publishing OCI container images used by other Garden actions.26.6

Emerging 22 Early or largely undocumented

OpenEBSOpenEBS is an open source Container Native Storage solution that provides persistent storage for Kubernetes...25.8 CNI Reference PluginsA collection of reference and example networking plugins maintained by the containernetworking team that im...25.4 Kata ContainersKata Containers is an open source container runtime that uses lightweight virtual machines to provide the s...24.3 Proxmox VE Containers APIThe Containers API from Proxmox VE — 2 operation(s) for containers.24.3 gVisorgVisor is an open-source application kernel written in Go that provides an additional layer of isolation be...24.2 NeuVector Container APIOperations about Container24.1 Nebius Managed Kubernetes APIThe Managed Kubernetes API provisions Kubernetes clusters with GPU and InfiniBand support for distributed t...23.9 MirantisMirantis enterprise Kubernetes and container platform overview, indexing product, documentation, and develo...22.1 Resurface ContainersOfficial Helm charts and container images for deploying the Resurface API security database on Kubernetes.21.9 IBM Cloud KubernetesIBM Cloud Kubernetes Service is a managed Kubernetes offering that delivers powerful tools, an intuitive us...21.2 Kata ContainersKata Containers provides secure, lightweight, CRI-compatible virtualized containers, combining the speed of...21.1 Kuehne+Nagel Container APIThe container API from Kuehne+Nagel — 2 operation(s) for container.20.2 DistrolessDistroless images by Google contain only the application and its runtime dependencies, stripping out packag...18.8 Cartography Kubernetes Intel ModuleIngests Kubernetes cluster objects (nodes, pods, services, service accounts) for graph-based cluster-securi...16.5 Anyscale Container Images APIBuilds, tags, and manages container images that bundle Python, system, and Ray dependencies for reproducibl...16.3 Flux CDFlux is a set of continuous and progressive delivery solutions for Kubernetes that are open and extensible,...15.7 GrypeGrype is an open source vulnerability scanner for container images and filesystems developed by Anchore. It...15.6 Koko is a simple, fast container image builder for Go applications that does not require Docker, producing sm...13.1 KustomizeKustomize is a Kubernetes-native configuration management tool that lets you customize untemplated YAML fil...13.1 FlannelFlannel is a simple overlay network that satisfies the Kubernetes networking requirements. It allocates sub...12.2 JibJib is an open-source container image builder from Google that builds optimized Docker and OCI images for J...12.2 Multus CNIMultus CNI is a meta-plugin for Kubernetes that enables attaching multiple network interfaces to pods. It s...12.2

Minimal 1 Almost no public developer surface

OctoAI Compute Service APIContainer-deployment API ("Compute Service") that let customers build, register, and serve their own custom...0.0

Companies reaching this through an API (51)

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

Aikido Security Amazon Web Services AMCS Group Anyscale APIClaw Aptible Azure Blob Storage Benchling BMW ConnectedDrive Cartography Coder Cognite Datadog dotCMS Expeditors International of Washington F5 Fatcat Garden GitLab Google Tag Manager Gremlin GZW Data API Iron.io Kuehne+Nagel LabVantage Solutions Maersk Microsoft Azure Modal Nebius OctoAI OpenAI OpenInfra Foundation OpenMetadata OpenStack Oracle Palo Alto Networks Port Community Systems Qovery QuantCDN Radius Resurface SAP HANA SpecterOps Terminal49 University of Amsterdam Veritas Volume Manager VesselFinder VMware watchTowr WeChat

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Weka

Score breakdown

Frequency

66.7

log-scaled weighted occurrences

Breadth

3.4

spread across providers

Quality lift

43.7

mean composite of providers using it

Cohesion

17.9

strength of nearest seed neighbor

Where this tag comes from

Api tag104

Provider tag132

Openapi tag27

Openapi op tag121

Cohort brief

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The 125 providers in the APIs.io catalog tagged Containers, scored on the Kin Score. Every figure below is computed from the catalog — nothing here is written.

Providers

125

all scored

Mean Kin Score

36.9

+14.0 vs catalog 22.9

Mean Agent Readiness

18.7

+6.8 vs catalog 11.9

Spread

0–80.6

median 36.9 · σ 17.6

How the 125 split by band

Exemplar 6Strong 15Developing 29Thin 38Emerging 30Minimal 7

Facet averages, against the whole catalog

Facet	This cohort	Catalog	Difference	Scored
Contract Quality	35.4	17.6	+17.8	125
Developer Ergonomics	40.4	23.2	+17.2	125
Operational Transparency	27.5	13.7	+13.8	125
Access Clarity	34.5	26.5	+8	125
Contract Governance	12	6.3	+5.7	125
Discoverability	61.2	58.1	+3.1	125

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)	16%	14%	+2
MCP server (first-party)	9%	12%	-3
Agent Skills	0%	0%	0
OAuth scopes	16%	11%	+5
Security	91%	98%	-7
Arazzo workflows	10%	2%	+8
Governance rules	43%	14%	+29

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 Cloudflare 80.6
2 Canonical 76.3
3 Amazon Lightsail 75.3
4 Azure Kubernetes Service 73.5
5 Red Hat 70.6
6 IBM 69.1
7 Calico 66.3
8 Paperspace 65.1
9 Koyeb 63.5
10 Azure Container Apps 62.6

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