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Device Management

Score 23.9 / 100 60 providers +22 via APIs 46 APIs Search apis.io →

Providers using this tag (60)

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

Strong 8 Solid coverage with minor gaps
Developing 18 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Thin 13 Limited public surface area
Emerging 15 Early or largely undocumented
Minimal 5 Almost no public developer surface
Unrated 1 Not yet scored

APIs with this tag (46)

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 10 Solid coverage with minor gaps
Developing 14 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Nerve Management System APIREST API of the Nerve Management System, the cloud-hosted control plane for Nerve edge nodes. Covers authen...52.2Nerve Node APIREST API served by the Nerve Local UI on each Nerve edge node. Covers node initialization and license activ...52.2Balena Cloud APIThe balenaCloud REST API is the primary interface to the balena platform. It exposes resources for devices,...49.2Picarro Platform Server APIThe gRPC interface to the host computer underneath a Picarro SAM deployment. `platformserver` exposes NetCo...49.1Golioth Remote Procedure Call (RPC)Bidirectional remote-procedure-call service. The cloud invokes device-side methods registered by firmware a...47.0VNC Connect Management APIThe VNC Connect API Access feature enables programmatic management of devices registered to a team account,...46.7Verifone VHQ Device Management APIRemote device control and maintenance for POS terminal estates. The VHQ (VerifoneHQ) API enables automated ...43.3Junos PyEZ (Python API)Python library for automating Junos devices using NETCONF.43.0Rokid Sprite Enterprise OpenAPIThe Rokid Glass3 / Sprite Enterprise cloud API. Device registration lookup and real-time telemetry, message...42.2Cisco Voice Portal Device Management APIManage CVP devices (Call Servers, VXML Servers, Reporting Servers)41.6China Mobile Device Management APIThe Device Management API from China Mobile — 9 operation(s) for device management.41.2OneNET IoT Open Platform APIOneNET is China Mobile's IoT PaaS, operated by its CMIOT subsidiary, for device connection, device manageme...41.2Synse Plugin gRPC API (V3Plugin)The internal gRPC API for bi-directional communication between Synse Server and Synse plugins. The publishe...39.3Synse Server API (v3)Synse Server exposes a uniform HTTP and WebSocket API for reading from and writing to physical and virtual ...39.3
Thin 10 Limited public surface area
Emerging 12 Early or largely undocumented
NMI Customer-Present Cloud APIThe NMI Customer-Present Cloud API enables browser-based point-of-sale payment processing without software ...25.9Mosyle Business APIREST API for the Mosyle Business Apple device management platform. Requests are POSTed to operation endpoin...21.6Zebra Data Services APIZebra Data Services provides cloud REST APIs for managing Zebra devices, printers, and scanners enrolled in...20.1Surface Management APIThe Surface Management API provides enterprise management capabilities for Surface devices through UEFI con...19.7CENTAURI Management APIOn-device RESTful management API served by each CENTAURI wireless laser device over HTTPS with token-based ...19.1Mobile Center Streaming APIsMobile Center APIs from Highway 9 Networks enable partners to integrate configuration, device management, m...18.7TeamViewer Web APIRESTful Web API for managing TeamViewer users, devices, device groups, sessions, session history, and meeti...17.2NTT Communications Things CloudIoT device-management platform exposing a documented OpenAPI specification for device, measurement, alarm, ...17.0Aether Fleet Management (RDFM)The authenticated fleet-management and over-the-air update API behind Aethero's "Aether" user portal at clo...16.1KubeEdge Edge APIKubeEdge extends the Kubernetes API to manage edge nodes and devices. It includes custom resources for devi...13.9Bosch IoT Remote ManagerBosch IoT Remote Manager enables management, updating, control, and servicing of IoT devices throughout the...13.3Bosch IoT RolloutsBosch IoT Rollouts is a software update deployment solution for managing and orchestrating over-the-air fir...13.3

Companies reaching this through an API (22)

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

Aethero Apple AT&T Bosch China Mobile Cisco Voice Portal F5 Highway9 Juniper Networks KubeEdge Lifesize NMI NTT Picarro Point One Navigation Red Hat Samsung TeamViewer Verifone VNC Wazo Zebra Technologies

Score breakdown

Frequency
55.8
log-scaled weighted occurrences
Breadth
1.7
spread across providers
Quality lift
39.8
mean composite of providers using it
Cohesion
10.3
strength of nearest seed neighbor

Related tags

MDM 10 co-occurrences Firmware 9 co-occurrences Devices 22 co-occurrences MQTT 8 co-occurrences Edge Computing 13 co-occurrences Endpoint Management 7 co-occurrences Telemetry 15 co-occurrences IoT 32 co-occurrences

Where this tag comes from

Provider tag60
Api tag46
Openapi tag4
Openapi op tag23

Cohort brief

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The 59 providers in the APIs.io catalog tagged Device Management, scored on the Kin Score. Every figure below is computed from the catalog — nothing here is written.

Providers
59
all scored
Mean Kin Score
35.1
+11.2 vs catalog 23.9
Mean Agent Readiness
17.9
+5.9 vs catalog 12
Spread
5–65.6
median 35.2 · σ 17.6
How the 59 split by band
Exemplar 0Strong 8Developing 18Thin 13Emerging 15Minimal 5
Facet averages, against the whole catalog
FacetThis cohortCatalogDifferenceScored
Developer Ergonomics 38.9 23.4 +15.5 59
Contract Quality 33.2 19.8 +13.4 59
Operational Transparency 27.1 14 +13.1 59
Access Clarity 35.4 26.5 +8.9 59
Discoverability 65.3 61.2 +4.1 59
Contract Governance 10.2 6.4 +3.8 59

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) 12% 10% +2
MCP server (first-party) 10% 13% -3
Agent Skills 0% 0% 0
OAuth scopes 8% 11% -3
Security 98% 97% +1
Arazzo workflows 2% 2% 0
Governance rules 18% 14% +4

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Top by Kin Score
  1. 1 ControlUp 65.6
  2. 2 Kontakt.io 65.3
  3. 3 Cumulocity 64.4
  4. 4 Aeris 63.7
  5. 5 Particle 63.6
  6. 6 ThingsBoard 62.3
  7. 7 Iru 57.5
  8. 8 Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Management 56.8
  9. 9 Kolide 54.1
  10. 10 Amazon IoT Core 53.3
Top by Agent Readiness
  1. 1 Kontakt.io 51.8
  2. 2 Aeris 39
  3. 3 Starlink 38.3
  4. 4 KORE Wireless 38.2
  5. 5 ControlUp 35.7
  6. 6 Iru 35.7
  7. 7 Blues 32.7
  8. 8 Cosmoplat 31.5
  9. 9 ZenAdmin 31
  10. 10 TTTech 30.3
All 60 members of this roster resolve to a scored provider in the catalog.Generated from the catalog build of 15 September 2026, across 27661 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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