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Providers using this tag (27)

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

Exemplar 1 Complete, well-documented, and agent-ready
Strong 4 Solid coverage with minor gaps
Developing 3 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Thin 15 Limited public surface area
Emerging 4 Early or largely undocumented

APIs with this tag (10)

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Exemplar 2 Complete, well-documented, and agent-ready
Strong 3 Solid coverage with minor gaps
Developing 1 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Thin 4 Limited public surface area

Score breakdown

Frequency
36.3
log-scaled weighted occurrences
Breadth
0.2
spread across providers
Quality lift
79.1
mean composite of providers using it
Cohesion
2.8
strength of nearest seed neighbor

Related tags

Open-Source 6 co-occurrences

Where this tag comes from

Provider tag19
Api tag10
Openapi tag3
Openapi op tag10

Cohort brief

Auto-generated

The 27 providers in the APIs.io catalog tagged Free, scored on the Kin Score. Every figure below is computed from the catalog — nothing here is written.

Providers
27
all scored
Mean Kin Score
36.6
+15.9 vs catalog 20.7
Mean Agent Readiness
26.9
+17.2 vs catalog 9.7
Spread
12.4–71.8
median 32.6 · σ 14.3
How the 27 split by band
Exemplar 1Strong 4Developing 3Thin 14Emerging 5Minimal 0
Facet averages, against the whole catalog
FacetThis cohortCatalogDifferenceScored
Contract Quality 49.7 17.5 +32.2 27
Discoverability 74.8 60.4 +14.4 27
Access Clarity 34.9 22.3 +12.6 27
Operational Transparency 23.3 11.3 +12 27
Developer Ergonomics 25.5 17.9 +7.6 27
Contract Governance 13.7 6.4 +7.3 27

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) 19% 16% +3
MCP server (first-party) 19% 7% +12
Agent Skills 0% 0% 0
OAuth scopes 11% 9% +2
Security 100% 88% +12
Arazzo workflows 4% 2% +2
Governance rules 56% 13% +43

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 DeBounce 71.8
  2. 2 Avalara 63.6
  3. 3 Clearbit (HubSpot Breeze Intelligence) 60.6
  4. 4 Scryfall 57.2
  5. 5 Alpha Vantage 57.1
  6. 6 Codag 49.9
  7. 7 Open-Meteo 40.4
  8. 8 Free Currency API 40.2
  9. 9 Bored API 38.6
  10. 10 Sunrise Sunset 36.1
Top by Agent Readiness
  1. 1 DeBounce 69
  2. 2 Alpha Vantage 55.9
  3. 3 Avalara 46.9
  4. 4 IBANforge 39.9
  5. 5 Bored API 32.5
  6. 6 Free Currency API 31.7
  7. 7 Codag 29
  8. 8 Cat Facts API 25.8
  9. 9 Corporate Bullshit Generator API 25.8
  10. 10 ISS Location API (Open Notify) 25.8
All 27 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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