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Gig Economy

Score 16.9 / 100 42 providers 0 APIs Search apis.io →

Providers using this tag (42)

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

Strong 1 Solid coverage with minor gaps
Developing 6 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Thin 5 Limited public surface area
Emerging 17 Early or largely undocumented
Minimal 13 Almost no public developer surface

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Score breakdown

Frequency
45.2
log-scaled weighted occurrences
Breadth
1.2
spread across providers
Quality lift
24.8
mean composite of providers using it
Cohesion
2.6
strength of nearest seed neighbor

Related tags

Freelance 7 co-occurrences Staffing 12 co-occurrences On-Demand 10 co-occurrences Workforce 8 co-occurrences Home Services 6 co-occurrences Workforce Management 6 co-occurrences Delivery 5 co-occurrences Marketplace 22 co-occurrences

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Provider tag42

Cohort brief

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The 42 providers in the APIs.io catalog tagged Gig Economy, scored on the Kin Score. Every figure below is computed from the catalog — nothing here is written.

Providers
42
all scored
Mean Kin Score
20.6
-0.1 vs catalog 20.7
Mean Agent Readiness
9.8
+0.1 vs catalog 9.7
Spread
2.3–62.8
median 15.3 · σ 15.6
How the 42 split by band
Exemplar 0Strong 1Developing 7Thin 4Emerging 17Minimal 13
Facet averages, against the whole catalog
FacetThis cohortCatalogDifferenceScored
Access Clarity 26.8 22.3 +4.5 42
Discoverability 62.7 60.4 +2.3 42
Developer Ergonomics 18.5 17.9 +0.6 42
Contract Governance 4.6 6.4 -1.8 42
Operational Transparency 8.2 11.3 -3.1 42
Contract Quality 14.2 17.5 -3.3 42

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) 26% 16% +10
MCP server (first-party) 7% 7% 0
Agent Skills 0% 0% 0
OAuth scopes 7% 9% -2
Security 98% 88% +10
Arazzo workflows 5% 2% +3
Governance rules 5% 13% -8

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 Argyle 62.8
  2. 2 Rentahuman 52.9
  3. 3 Palenca (Vech) 48.2
  4. 4 Rollee 46.8
  5. 5 Argyle 45.8
  6. 6 Work Market 44.1
  7. 7 Cachet 42.5
  8. 8 handy 42.3
  9. 9 GoGet 37
  10. 10 Brigad 31.3
Top by Agent Readiness
  1. 1 Rentahuman 38.7
  2. 2 handy 36.9
  3. 3 Argyle 33.7
  4. 4 Rollee 32.2
  5. 5 Instawork 30.9
  6. 6 Palenca (Vech) 30.7
  7. 7 Argyle 26.5
  8. 8 Work Market 25.3
  9. 9 TaskRabbit 24.4
  10. 10 GoGet 22.7
All 42 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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