Inference
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Providers using this tag (160)
Ranked by API Evangelist rating — Exemplar and Strong are expanded by default.
Exemplar 5 Complete, well-documented, and agent-ready
Strong 19 Solid coverage with minor gaps
Developing 40 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Thin 46 Limited public surface area
Emerging 24 Early or largely undocumented
Minimal 25 Almost no public developer surface
Unrated 1 Not yet scored
APIs with this tag (101)
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 →
Exemplar 7 Complete, well-documented, and agent-ready
Strong 22 Solid coverage with minor gaps
Developing 24 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Thin 33 Limited public surface area
Emerging 13 Early or largely undocumented
Companies reaching this through an API (37)
These companies publish an API, specification or operation carrying “Inference” 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.
Score breakdown
Where this tag sits
160 providers carry this tag directly, and 167 counting the 1 narrower tag below — 7 more to reach.
Related tags
Where this tag comes from
Markets provisional
Kin Score markets whose measured providers carry this tag. Share is the fraction of the market's measured providers that carry it — it describes the market, not this tag.
| Market | Share of the market's providers |
|---|---|
| AI Model Routing | 35% |
| Typed Decision Models | 27% |
| MLOps and AI/ML Infrastructure (LF AI & Data, MLPerf, Kubeflow) | 21% |
| Hugging Face Hub Organisations | 20% |
| Speech and Voice AI | 20% |
Cohort brief
Auto-generatedThe 156 providers in the APIs.io catalog tagged Inference, scored on the Kin Score. Every figure below is computed from the catalog — nothing here is written.
| Facet | This cohort | Catalog | Difference | Scored |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Developer Ergonomics | 43.3 | 23.2 | +20.1 | 156 |
| Contract Quality | 31.8 | 17.2 | +14.6 | 156 |
| Access Clarity | 37.1 | 23.9 | +13.2 | 156 |
| Discoverability | 66.7 | 57.9 | +8.8 | 156 |
| Operational Transparency | 21.6 | 13 | +8.6 | 156 |
| Contract Governance | 8.8 | 6.5 | +2.3 | 156 |
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.
| Artifact | This cohort | Catalog | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| MCP server (any) | 26% | 13% | +13 |
| MCP server (first-party) | 27% | 12% | +15 |
| Agent Skills | 0% | 0% | 0 |
| OAuth scopes | 4% | 11% | -7 |
| Security | 96% | 98% | -2 |
| Arazzo workflows | 5% | 2% | +3 |
| Governance rules | 25% | 16% | +9 |
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.
- 1 Telnyx 86.1
- 2 Hive Civilization 74.7
- 3 Segmind 66.9
- 4 Hugging Face 66.7
- 5 NexGen Cloud 66.5
- 6 Amazon SageMaker 65.9
- 7 fal 65.6
- 8 Seekr 63.4
- 9 Roboflow 62.2
- 10 NVIDIA NIM 60.6
- 1 Telnyx 78.1
- 2 brick.blue 60.1
- 3 GMI Cloud 56.3
- 4 Fastino Labs 54.6
- 5 Roboflow 52.8
- 6 Replicate 49.8
- 7 LLM Gateway 48.6
- 8 fal 48.1
- 9 Inference 47.1
- 10 Hive Civilization 45.5
Coverage caveat. 125 of 156 scored members had under half their catalog-attributable points satisfied at all (catalog_earned / catalog_max < 0.5). They are INCLUDED in the mean above. A large share here means the cohort mean is partly a measurement of how far our enrichment reached, not only of how these providers publish.Generated from the catalog build of 24 October 2026, across 31984 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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