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Contractors

Score 19.0 / 100 46 providers 15 APIs Search apis.io →

Providers using this tag (46)

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

Strong 5 Solid coverage with minor gaps
Developing 6 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Thin 10 Limited public surface area
Emerging 15 Early or largely undocumented
Minimal 10 Almost no public developer surface

APIs with this tag (14)

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Developing 2 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Thin 8 Limited public surface area
Emerging 4 Early or largely undocumented

Score breakdown

Frequency
49.4
log-scaled weighted occurrences
Breadth
1.3
spread across providers
Quality lift
31.7
mean composite of providers using it
Cohesion
0.0
strength of nearest seed neighbor

Related tags

Global Employment 6 co-occurrences EOR 6 co-occurrences Employer of Record 7 co-occurrences Electrical 5 co-occurrences Estimating 5 co-occurrences Field Service 9 co-occurrences Home Improvement 5 co-occurrences Timesheets 5 co-occurrences

Where this tag comes from

Provider tag40
Api tag15
Openapi tag4
Openapi op tag19

Cohort brief

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The 46 providers in the APIs.io catalog tagged Contractors, scored on the Kin Score. Every figure below is computed from the catalog — nothing here is written.

Providers
46
all scored
Mean Kin Score
26.2
+5.5 vs catalog 20.7
Mean Agent Readiness
13.1
+3.4 vs catalog 9.7
Spread
2.3–64.3
median 20.5 · σ 17.1
How the 46 split by band
Exemplar 0Strong 5Developing 4Thin 11Emerging 16Minimal 10
Facet averages, against the whole catalog
FacetThis cohortCatalogDifferenceScored
Access Clarity 32.8 22.3 +10.5 46
Contract Quality 24.5 17.5 +7 46
Operational Transparency 18 11.3 +6.7 46
Discoverability 65.7 60.4 +5.3 46
Developer Ergonomics 19.9 17.9 +2 46
Contract Governance 4.9 6.4 -1.5 46

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) 17% 16% +1
MCP server (first-party) 7% 7% 0
Agent Skills 0% 0% 0
OAuth scopes 9% 9% 0
Security 93% 88% +5
Arazzo workflows 2% 2% 0
Governance rules 4% 13% -9

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 FieldPulse 64.3
  2. 2 Wingspan 58.9
  3. 3 Coperniq 58.1
  4. 4 CompanyCam 57.1
  5. 5 Deel 55
  6. 6 Arthur Online 51.8
  7. 7 Remote 47.7
  8. 8 Work Market 44.1
  9. 9 Fixflo 44
  10. 10 Service Fusion 37.9
Top by Agent Readiness
  1. 1 FieldPulse 47.3
  2. 2 Fixflo 41.9
  3. 3 Remote 41.3
  4. 4 CompanyCam 39.7
  5. 5 Arthur Online 37.9
  6. 6 Coperniq 34.2
  7. 7 Shovels 29.6
  8. 8 Wingspan 29.6
  9. 9 Deel 25.8
  10. 10 Work Market 25.3
All 46 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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