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Cryptography

Score 20.6 / 100 50 providers 16 APIs Search apis.io →
Variants seen in the corpus: Cryptographycryptography

Providers using this tag (50)

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

Strong 3 Solid coverage with minor gaps
Developing 12 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Thin 16 Limited public surface area
Emerging 13 Early or largely undocumented
Minimal 6 Almost no public developer surface

APIs with this tag (14)

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Developing 7 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Thin 3 Limited public surface area
Emerging 4 Early or largely undocumented

Score breakdown

Frequency
49.3
log-scaled weighted occurrences
Breadth
1.4
spread across providers
Quality lift
36.3
mean composite of providers using it
Cohesion
4.6
strength of nearest seed neighbor

Related tags

Key Management 10 co-occurrences Encryption 13 co-occurrences Zero-Knowledge Proofs 7 co-occurrences Certificates 6 co-occurrences Privacy 11 co-occurrences Smart Contracts 8 co-occurrences Ethereum 9 co-occurrences Blockchain 21 co-occurrences

Where this tag comes from

Provider tag45
Api tag16
Openapi tag2
Openapi op tag3

Cohort brief

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The 50 providers in the APIs.io catalog tagged Cryptography, scored on the Kin Score. Every figure below is computed from the catalog — nothing here is written.

Providers
50
all scored
Mean Kin Score
30.2
+9.5 vs catalog 20.7
Mean Agent Readiness
12.8
+3.1 vs catalog 9.7
Spread
5.5–61.1
median 30.4 · σ 14
How the 50 split by band
Exemplar 0Strong 2Developing 11Thin 16Emerging 16Minimal 5
Facet averages, against the whole catalog
FacetThis cohortCatalogDifferenceScored
Developer Ergonomics 43.9 17.9 +26 50
Contract Quality 26.6 17.5 +9.1 50
Discoverability 67.8 60.4 +7.4 50
Contract Governance 12.6 6.4 +6.2 50
Operational Transparency 16.9 11.3 +5.6 50
Access Clarity 20.9 22.3 -1.4 50

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) 28% 16% +12
MCP server (first-party) 10% 7% +3
Agent Skills 0% 0% 0
OAuth scopes 8% 9% -1
Security 100% 88% +12
Arazzo workflows 2% 2% 0
Governance rules 24% 13% +11

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 Amazon KMS 61.1
  2. 2 IronCore Labs 56.4
  3. 3 Amazon Payment Cryptography 53.6
  4. 4 Azure Key Vault 53.4
  5. 5 Nym Technologies 51.2
  6. 6 SandboxAQ 49.1
  7. 7 Google Cloud KMS 46.9
  8. 8 Syndicate 46.8
  9. 9 Fortanix 45.4
  10. 10 Aleo 44.6
Top by Agent Readiness
  1. 1 Seismic Systems 36.7
  2. 2 Syndicate 34.9
  3. 3 ProofDraw 31.5
  4. 4 SandboxAQ 28.1
  5. 5 BlindInsight 27.9
  6. 6 IronCore Labs 26.8
  7. 7 Amazon Payment Cryptography 24.8
  8. 8 Google Cloud KMS 24.8
  9. 9 Starkware 23.8
  10. 10 Aleo 23.6
All 50 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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