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Exemplar 2 Complete, well-documented, and agent-ready

run402-com Control Plane APIThe ControlPlane API from run402-com — 30 operation(s) for controlplane.73.7 Gravitee CockpitGravitee Cockpit is the multi-environment, multi-installation control plane for Gravitee. It centralizes ma...66.5

Strong 1 Solid coverage with minor gaps

Tailor Platform Operator APIThe Tailor Platform control plane. A single tailor.v1.OperatorService with 254 RPCs covering organizations,...54.9

Developing 6 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close

Azure OpenAI Control Plane APIAzure Resource Manager (ARM) REST API for creating and managing Azure OpenAI accounts, model deployments, n...44.6 Understudy Control Plane APIREST surface behind the dashboard and CLI, served from the gateway host under /admin/v1 and /customer/v1, o...44.4 Accept Control Plane APIThe Control Plane API from Accept — 18 operation(s) for control plane.42.4 Azure Storage Resource Provider API (File Services / Shares)Azure Resource Manager REST API for managing storage accounts, FileService settings, and FileShare resource...41.1 Azure Cosmos DB Resource Provider APIAzure Resource Manager REST API for managing Cosmos DB accounts, databases, containers, throughput, backups...40.9 Kuma Multizone APIKuma's Multizone deployment API enables managing service meshes across multiple Kubernetes clusters and Uni...40.7

Thin 6 Limited public surface area

Google Cloud Service Mesh xDS Control Plane APICloud Service Mesh uses the open-source xDS v3 control plane API to distribute configuration to Envoy sidec...38.6 Spacetime Southbound Interface (SBI / CDPI)The Southbound Interface, also called the Control to Data-plane Interface (CDPI), is the collection of gRPC...36.3 Linkerd Proxy Control Plane APIThe Linkerd Proxy Control Plane gRPC API defines the protobuf service contracts used by the data-plane prox...35.9 Redpanda Cloud Control Plane APIThe Redpanda Cloud Control Plane API manages organization-wide resources — clusters, networks, resource gro...33.2 Temporal Cloud Operations APIThe Temporal Cloud control-plane API (CloudService) for programmatically managing Temporal Cloud resources ...31.8 HUAPI (Hosting Unified API)HUAPI is Newfold's internal hosting control-plane API, versioned under /v1, covering account, hosting, site...31.3

Emerging 1 Early or largely undocumented

AgentOS Control PlaneHosted web UI at os.agno.com for managing, monitoring, debugging, and testing AgentOS deployments. Connects...23.8

Minimal 2 Almost no public developer surface

NGINX Service Mesh Control Plane APIThe NGINX Service Mesh control plane exposes a REST API used by the `nginx-meshctl` CLI to manage mesh conf...8.8 Aserto Control Plane APIManagement API for the Aserto SaaS control plane (wound down May 2025, succeeded by the open-source Topaz p...0.0

Unrated 1 Not yet scored

ALTR Control Plane APIThe Control Plane API from ALTR — 1 operation(s) for control plane.

Companies reaching this through an API (19)

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

Aalyria Accept ALTR Aserto Azure Cosmos DB Azure Files Azure OpenAI Service Google Cloud Service Mesh Gravitee Kuma Linkerd Newfold NGINX Service Mesh Phidata / Agno Redpanda run402-com Tailor Temporal Understudy Labs

Score breakdown

Frequency

36.1

log-scaled weighted occurrences

Breadth

0.1

spread across providers

Quality lift

40.6

mean composite of providers using it

Cohesion

3.3

strength of nearest seed neighbor

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