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Hardware

Score 28.6 / 100 686 providers +19 via APIs 27 APIs Search apis.io →

Providers using this tag (686)

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

Strong 5 Solid coverage with minor gaps

ParticleIoTInternet of ThingsCellularWi-Fi2 APIs63.6 IonQQuantum ComputingTrapped IonQPUARIA1 API57.4 Google Quantum AIQuantum ComputingQuantumNISQ1 API57.3 Device Specs APIMobileSmartphonesPhone SpecsChipsets1 API57.2 Wahoo FitnessFitnessCyclingEndurance TrainingBike Computers1 API56.7

Developing 20 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close

Alice BobCompanyQuantum ComputingQuantumCloud Computing1 API49.0 Dell ServersInfrastructureManagementMonitoring2 APIs46.9 First ResonanceCompanyInfrastructureManufacturingMES1 API46.2 NestCompanySmart HomeIoT1 API46.0 OxideCloud ComputingInfrastructureComputeVirtualization1 API45.8 CofactrCompanyPhysical AIComponent IntelligenceElectronics1 API45.1 Google Distributed CloudDistributed InfrastructureEdge ComputingHybrid Cloud1 API45.0 AgiBotCompanyRoboticsHumanoid RobotsEmbodied AI3 APIs44.6 IQM Quantum ComputersQuantum ComputingQuantum CloudHigh Performance ComputingResearch1 API44.6 FuriosaAIArtificial IntelligenceMachine-LearningInferenceSemiconductors2 APIs43.8 Tarana WirelessCompanyNetworkingTelecommunicationsFixed Wireless Access1 API43.5 ColdSnapCompanyCommerceE-CommerceRetail3 APIs43.4 RenesasCompanySemiconductorsMicrocontrollersElectronics1 API42.8 Analog DevicesEmbedded SystemsIoTSemiconductors4 APIs42.5 RokidSmart GlassesAugmented RealityWearablesArtificial Intelligence2 APIs42.2 WingtraCompanyDronesUAVAerial Surveying2 APIs42.0 Advanced NavigationCompanyNavigationInertial NavigationGNSS1 API41.2 CloverRestaurantPoint-of-SalePaymentsRetail14 APIs40.0 PrintNodePrintingCloud PrintingRemote PrintingPrint Jobs1 API39.5 Cisco HardwareInfrastructureNetworkingRouter1 API39.4

Thin 39 Limited public surface area

VioletlabsCompanyEngineeringManufacturing1 API38.8 NeurableNeurotechnologyBrain-Computer InterfaceEEGNeuroscience6 APIs38.7 QuanergyCompanyLiDARSensorsPhysical Security1 API38.7 AferoCompanyInternet of ThingsIoT PlatformConnected Devices1 API38.3 Looking GlassCompanyHolographic DisplaysLight Field3D1 API37.1 AtmosicCompanySemiconductorsBluetooth Low EnergyWireless36.4 Formlabs3D PrintingAdditive ManufacturingSLASLS1 API36.0 Stanley Black & DeckerToolsManufacturingIoT1 API35.1 EthernoviaCompanySemiconductorsAutomotiveEthernet2 APIs34.7 Liquid InstrumentsCompanyTest and MeasurementInstrumentation2 APIs34.7 TaalasCompanyArtificial IntelligenceAI InferenceSemiconductors3 APIs34.3 Point One NavigationLocationGNSSPositioningGeospatial3 APIs34.2 FlicCompanySmart ButtonsIoTSmart Home33.7 Fabric8LabsCompanyAdvanced ManufacturingAdditive Manufacturing3D Printing8 APIs33.3 HailoArtificial IntelligenceMachine-LearningSemiconductorsEdge Computing2 APIs33.1 Cypress SemiconductorAcquiredBluetoothCapSenseEmbedded Systems6 APIs32.6 Confidential Computing ConsortiumAttestationConfidential ComputingLinux Foundation2 APIs32.1 NominalCompanyDeep TechTest and Measurement1 API31.9 ShapewaysCompany3D PrintingAdditive ManufacturingManufacturing1 API31.0 Ace HardwareRetailHome ImprovementTools3 APIs30.2 SiFiveCompanySemiconductorsRISC-VProcessor IP1 API30.0 ModRetroCompanyConsumer ElectronicsGamingRetro Gaming1 API29.9 MangoBoostCompanyArtificial IntelligenceMachine-LearningInfrastructure3 APIs29.8 Super Micro ComputerServersData-CenterServer Management1 API29.6 Nine FivesCompanyRF Test EquipmentTest and Measurement5 APIs29.0 Unruly StudiosCompanyEducationSTEMEdTech1 API28.8 TindieCompanyMarketplaceElectronics1 API28.7 TelemetronCompanyArtificial IntelligenceCustomer-SupportInternet of Things4 APIs28.6 AccelsiusCompanyData CentersLiquid CoolingThermal Management1 API28.2 MakerbotCompany3D PrintingManufacturingThingiverse1 API28.0 HYPERLABSsignal-integrityTest and MeasurementElectronic ComponentsInstrumentation1 API27.8 Leap MotionCompanyHand TrackingComputer-VisionSpatial Computing2 APIs27.5 VirtuixVirtual RealityGamingAgent Commerce1 API27.4 AIDIN ROBOTICSRoboticsSensorsIndustrial Automation1 API27.2 EFFECT PhotonicsCompanyPhotonicsOptical NetworkingOptical Transceivers6 APIs26.7 EchodyneCompanyRadarDefenseGovernment2 APIs26.6 SeyondCompanyLiDARSensorsAutonomous Driving1 API26.6 VayyarCompanyDeep TechSensorsRadar26.6 DevialetAudioConsumer ElectronicsSmart SpeakersHome Automation1 API26.5

Emerging 145 Early or largely undocumented

Minimal 432 Almost no public developer surface

Unrated 45 Not yet scored

APIs with this tag (27)

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 2 Solid coverage with minor gaps

Testflinger APITestflinger is Canonical's hardware test-orchestration service. Its REST API accepts test jobs against name...64.4 Ubuntu Hardware API (hwapi)The Ubuntu hardware certification API. Given a machine's hardware identifiers it reports whether that confi...64.4

Developing 9 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close

Replicate Hardware APIThe Hardware API from Replicate — 1 operation(s) for hardware.53.9 Livepeer Hardware APIThe Hardware API from Livepeer — 2 operation(s) for hardware.52.8 Pure Storage Hardware APIOperational status is reported by most of the hardware components in an array, including the chassis, contr...49.8 Limitless PendantWearable AI pendant that captures ambient audio, transcribes it, and stores it as Lifelogs in the user's Li...45.8 GDC Hardware Management APIThe GDC Hardware Management API provides programmatic access to manage hardware lifecycle for Google Distri...45.0 OpenShift Provisioning APIAPI for managing bare metal and infrastructure provisioning resources including BareMetalHost, Provisioning...43.7 Skydio Attachment ICDMechanical, electrical, and power interface specification for building custom attachments and payloads for ...43.3 Analog Devices PyADI-IIO Python APIPyADI-IIO provides Python interfaces for ADI hardware with IIO drivers, enabling Python developers to inter...42.5 Clover Android SDKNative SDK for Android apps running on Clover devices, with access to merchant data and device hardware.40.0

Thin 4 Limited public surface area

Together AI Hardware APIThe Hardware API from Together AI — 1 operation(s) for hardware.36.1 Fluence Hardware APIHardware API endpoints35.9 PennyLane PluginsThe PennyLane plugin layer exposes a uniform `qml.device` interface across third-party quantum SDKs and QPU...31.2 Ace Hardware Retail CommerceAce Hardware's online retail platform at acehardware.com offers customers the ability to shop for hardware,...30.2

Emerging 12 Early or largely undocumented

Apache TVM RPC APIThe TVM RPC (Remote Procedure Call) system enables remote compilation, deployment, and profiling of optimiz...25.6 OpenBMC APIAPI for interacting with OpenBMC baseboard management controller firmware, providing programmatic access to...25.6 SenseGlove Core APIThe SenseGlove Core API is a native C++ and C# library (SGCore namespace) that reads sensor and hand-pose d...24.7 Fleet Complete Unity Devices & Cameras APILook up telematics hardware by ID or serial (getDeviceById, getDevicesBySerial; the older getDeviceBySerial...23.2 Clip PinPad APIDrive a Clip PinPad device (fixed, high-volume terminal) from a merchant's own POS software — initiate card...21.5 Velo3D Sapphire PrintersThe Sapphire family (Sapphire, Sapphire XC, Sapphire 1MZ) of laser powder bed fusion metal 3D printers, usi...20.6 CropX Sensor HardwareIn-field IoT hardware - SV soil sensors, ET evapotranspiration sensors, WS weather stations, RG rain gauges...17.4 CerteroX ITAMCerteroX ITAM is Certero's IT asset management module that discovers, inventories, and tracks hardware asse...17.3 CLIPS Seed-Treatment DeviceOn-farm seed-treatment application hardware used to apply biotrinsic products to seed prior to planting. Ha...17.1 udevDevice manager for the Linux kernel handling device nodes and hotplug events under /dev.14.0 Inmarsat Fleet Edge Hardware Replacement APIThe Fleet Edge Hardware Replacement API supports lifecycle workflows for swapping and provisioning Fleet Ed...13.5 Fortune Brands Innovations APIThe Fortune Brands Innovations API provides access to platform services and data for enterprise integration...11.2

Companies reaching this through an API (19)

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

Apache TVM Canonical Certero Clip CropX Fleet Complete Fluence Indigo Agriculture Inmarsat Limitless Linux Livepeer OpenShift Pure Storage Replicate Skydio Together AI Velo3D Xanadu

Score breakdown

Frequency

78.5

log-scaled weighted occurrences

Breadth

18.9

spread across providers

Quality lift

12.8

mean composite of providers using it

Cohesion

11.5

strength of nearest seed neighbor

Where this tag comes from

Provider tag686

Api tag27

Openapi tag5

Openapi op tag14

Cohort brief

Auto-generated

The 558 providers in the APIs.io catalog tagged Hardware, scored on the Kin Score. Every figure below is computed from the catalog — nothing here is written.

Providers

558

all scored

Mean Kin Score

12.4

-11.5 vs catalog 23.9

Mean Agent Readiness

-8 vs catalog 12

Spread

1.2–63.6

median 9.1 · σ 10.7

How the 558 split by band

Exemplar 0Strong 5Developing 20Thin 39Emerging 144Minimal 350

Facet averages, against the whole catalog

Facet	This cohort	Catalog	Difference	Scored
Contract Governance	2.9	6.4	-3.5	558
Discoverability	55.5	61.2	-5.7	558
Operational Transparency	4	13.9	-9.9	558
Developer Ergonomics	12.3	23.4	-11.1	558
Access Clarity	13.1	26.5	-13.4	558
Contract Quality	4.4	19.8	-15.4	558

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

Artifact	This cohort	Catalog	Difference
MCP server (any)	5%	10%	-5
MCP server (first-party)	6%	13%	-7
Agent Skills	0%	0%	0
OAuth scopes	5%	11%	-6
Security	92%	96%	-4
Arazzo workflows	0%	2%	-2
Governance rules	2%	14%	-12

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 Particle 63.6
2 IonQ 57.4
3 Google Quantum AI 57.3
4 Device Specs API 57.2
5 Wahoo Fitness 56.7
6 Alice Bob 49
7 Dell Servers 46.9
8 First Resonance 46.2
9 Nest 46
10 Oxide 45.8

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