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JSON:API

Score 21.9 / 100 32 providers +4 via APIs 8 APIs Search apis.io →

Providers using this tag (32)

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

Strong 7 Solid coverage with minor gaps
Developing 14 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Thin 7 Limited public surface area
Emerging 3 Early or largely undocumented
Minimal 1 Almost no public developer surface

APIs with this tag (8)

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
Developing 3 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Thin 2 Limited public surface area
Emerging 1 Early or largely undocumented

Companies reaching this through an API (4)

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

Emory University Fabric Origin Ruby Programming Language and Popular API Gems University of Helsinki

Score breakdown

Frequency
44.1
log-scaled weighted occurrences
Breadth
0.9
spread across providers
Quality lift
51.9
mean composite of providers using it
Cohesion
2.1
strength of nearest seed neighbor

Related tags

Discovery 6 co-occurrences File 6 co-occurrences Content 5 co-occurrences Customers 5 co-occurrences Open Data 5 co-occurrences REST 6 co-occurrences Media 5 co-occurrences User 10 co-occurrences

Where this tag comes from

Provider tag32
Api tag8

Cohort brief

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The 32 providers in the APIs.io catalog tagged JSON:API, scored on the Kin Score. Every figure below is computed from the catalog — nothing here is written.

Providers
32
all scored
Mean Kin Score
42.3
+19.3 vs catalog 23
Mean Agent Readiness
30.3
+18.1 vs catalog 12.2
Spread
0–65.1
median 43.2 · σ 14.6
How the 32 split by band
Exemplar 0Strong 7Developing 14Thin 7Emerging 3Minimal 1
Facet averages, against the whole catalog
FacetThis cohortCatalogDifferenceScored
Contract Quality 45.4 17.8 +27.6 32
Developer Ergonomics 46.6 23.3 +23.3 32
Operational Transparency 30.7 13.8 +16.9 32
Access Clarity 38.1 26.5 +11.6 32
Discoverability 68.3 58 +10.3 32
Contract Governance 11.5 6.3 +5.2 32

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) 31% 15% +16
MCP server (first-party) 25% 13% +12
Agent Skills 0% 0% 0
OAuth scopes 38% 12% +26
Security 100% 98% +2
Arazzo workflows 9% 2% +7
Governance rules 13% 13% 0

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 Commerce Layer 65.1
  2. 2 Unit 64.5
  3. 3 NationBuilder 61.2
  4. 4 Social Fetch 61.2
  5. 5 Apibara.tech 58.4
  6. 6 Drupal 55.6
  7. 7 Credo AI 54.7
  8. 8 Jebbit 52.3
  9. 9 Cobot 51.7
  10. 10 VergeSense 51.7
Top by Agent Readiness
  1. 1 Cobot 58
  2. 2 Social Fetch 56.2
  3. 3 VergeSense 53.8
  4. 4 Padlet 51.3
  5. 5 Decisiv 49
  6. 6 Transistor 47.1
  7. 7 Drupal 42.8
  8. 8 Ankorstore 39
  9. 9 Beyond Pricing 38.3
  10. 10 NationBuilder 35.8
All 32 members of this roster resolve to a scored provider in the catalog.Generated from the catalog build of 26 September 2026, across 27598 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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