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 14 Complete, well-documented, and agent-ready

Azure Kubernetes Service Kubectl APIKubernetes API accessible via kubectl for cluster operations.77.3 Azure Kubernetes Service Maintenance Configurations APIREST API for managing planned maintenance configurations, used to configure when updates can be deployed to...77.3 Azure Kubernetes Service Private Endpoint Connections APIREST API for managing private endpoint connections for AKS clusters, enabling secure private network access...77.3 Azure Kubernetes Service Snapshots APIREST API for creating, updating, deleting, and managing node pool snapshots in AKS, including listing snaps...77.3 Azure Kubernetes Service Trusted Access Role Bindings APIREST API for managing trusted access role bindings that give Azure services secure access to AKS API server...77.3 Charmhub APIDeveloper-facing REST API for Charmhub, Canonical's marketplace for charms (Kubernetes and machine operator...74.9 F5 NGINXNGINX provides cloud-native delivery and security for modern applications, Kubernetes, and APIs. The NGINX ...74.7 F5 NGINX Ingress Controller APIKubernetes Ingress Controller implementation for NGINX and NGINX Plus providing load balancing, SSL/TLS ter...74.7 Kong MeshKong Mesh is an enterprise-grade service mesh built on Kuma and Envoy, providing universal service mesh cap...73.8 Nutanix Karbon APIAPI for managing Kubernetes clusters through Nutanix Karbon, including cluster lifecycle, upgrades, and con...72.2 OCI Container Engine for Kubernetes APIFully managed Kubernetes service for deploying and managing containerized applications, supporting virtual ...70.4 Calico Kubernetes CRDsCalico exposes its networking and security primitives through Kubernetes Custom Resource Definitions (CRDs)...67.3 Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management APIAPI for managing multiple Kubernetes clusters across hybrid cloud environments, providing cluster lifecycle...67.3 Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security APIREST API for managing Kubernetes-native security including vulnerability management, compliance, network se...67.3

Strong 17 Solid coverage with minor gaps

Gravitee Kubernetes OperatorThe Gravitee Kubernetes Operator (GKO) is a Go-based Kubernetes operator that lets platform teams declare G...66.2 IBM Cloud Kubernetes ServiceCreate and manage Kubernetes cluster infrastructure to deploy and manage containerized applications on IBM ...65.8 IBM Cloud Tekton PipelineCreate and manage Tekton-based continuous integration and continuous delivery pipelines within Kubernetes c...65.8 UpCloud Kubernetes APIKubernetes is a container orchestration system for automating, managing and scaling software deployment. Ma...63.4 Crusoe Cloud APIThe Crusoe Cloud API is the primary control plane for provisioning and managing GPU compute, storage, netwo...62.5 CloudChipr MCP ServerHosted, fully remote Model Context Protocol server at https://mcp.cloudchipr.com/mcp exposing 25 read-only ...62.3 GroundcoverThe groundcover platform REST API. Data query endpoints run gcQL pipelines against logs (POST /api/logs/v2/...61.9 Traefik Hub API GatewayCommercial Kubernetes-native API gateway built on Traefik Proxy. Adds a native WAF (claimed 23x faster than...61.1 Traefik Hub API ManagementKubernetes-native API management on top of the Hub API Gateway. Surfaces a declarative CRD set - API, APIVe...61.1 Traefik MeshLightweight service mesh built on Traefik Proxy. Offers traffic management and observability for service-to...61.1 Traefik ProxyTraefik Proxy is the flagship open-source (MIT) cloud-native reverse proxy, ingress controller, and load ba...61.1 Gloo EdgeGloo Edge is a feature-rich, Kubernetes-native ingress controller and API gateway built on Envoy Proxy, sup...60.4 NVIDIA NIM Health APILiveness, readiness, and startup probes exposed by self-hosted NIM containers (/v1/health/live, /v1/health/...59.7 Keploy Kubernetes Proxy REST APISelf-hosted REST API of the Keploy Kubernetes Proxy, an in-cluster control plane (Helm chart k8s-proxy) tha...58.9 Antimetal Agent APIs (Protobuf)Public protobuf/Connect definitions for the Antimetal system agent — the component that connects customer i...58.4 Portainer Kubernetes APIManage Kubernetes cluster57.1 TektonTekton is a Kubernetes-native open source framework for creating CI/CD systems. It defines Custom Resource ...56.2

Developing 59 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close

Highlight Self-Hosted DeploymentSelf-hosted deployment of the open-source Highlight stack. Three tiers — Dev (single-host docker-compose), ...54.1 Red Hat OpenShift GitOps (ArgoCD) APIOpenShift GitOps is built on Argo CD and provides a GitOps continuous delivery solution for OpenShift clust...53.2 Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines (Tekton) APIOpenShift Pipelines is a cloud-native CI/CD solution based on Tekton that runs pipelines as Kubernetes-nati...53.2 Red Hat OpenShift Serverless (Knative) APIOpenShift Serverless, based on Knative, enables deploying and managing event-driven serverless workloads on...53.2 Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh APIRed Hat OpenShift Service Mesh, based on Istio, Kiali, Jaeger, and Prometheus, provides traffic management,...53.2 Service Bindings ExtensionThe Service Bindings extension specifies how external service credentials and configuration are surfaced to...52.2 Gloo Mesh CoreGloo Mesh Core extended a single Istio service mesh with insights, operational tooling and lifecycle manage...51.9 Gloo Mesh EnterpriseGloo Mesh Enterprise (documented as "Gloo Mesh (Gloo Platform APIs)", current version 2.14, released 2026-0...51.9 Buoyant CloudBuoyant Cloud is the hosted control surface for Linkerd fleets — health checks, golden metrics, multi-clust...51.2 Buoyant Enterprise Linkerd (BEL)Buoyant Enterprise Linkerd is the enterprise-supported distribution of Linkerd with additional features inc...51.2 Linkerd Service MeshLinkerd is a CNCF-graduated service mesh for Kubernetes that transparently adds mutual TLS encryption, late...51.2 TrueFoundry Model Serving APITrueFoundry's Model Serving capability enables deployment and management of LLM and embedding models using ...51.2 Civo Cloud APIThe Civo Cloud API (v2) covers the Civo cloud platform -- instances, Kubernetes clusters, networks and VPCs...50.1 Data Management for VMware Tanzu REST APIREST API for Data Management for VMware Tanzu providing database-as-a-service capabilities for provisioning...49.8 Tanzu Kubernetes Grid APIAPI for managing enterprise-ready Kubernetes clusters.49.8 VMware Data Services Manager Kubernetes APIKubernetes API for VMware Data Services Manager enabling self-service consumption of supported data service...49.8 VMware vSphere Kubernetes Service APIAPI for VMware vSphere Kubernetes Service enabling management of Tanzu Kubernetes clusters on vSphere inclu...49.8 Pixie Plugin System APIPlugin API that allows configuring PxL scripts to export observability data from Pixie at regularly schedul...48.2 Pixie PxL Script APIPython-dialect domain-specific language and API for querying and analyzing telemetry data collected by Pixi...48.2 Portworx Kubernetes APIKubernetes-native data services platform from Pure Storage. Portworx exposes its API surface through Custom...47.7 Knative CLI (kn)The Knative CLI (kn) provides a command-line interface for creating and managing Knative resources includin...47.5 Tufin SecureCloud APIREST API for Tufin SecureCloud, the cloud-native security policy management platform. Provides endpoints fo...47.1 Argo Events APIKubernetes-native API for the Argo Events event-driven automation framework. Exposes CRD-based resources in...47.0 Argo Rollouts APIKubernetes CRD-based API for Argo Rollouts progressive delivery controller. Provides Rollout and AnalysisTe...47.0 KEDA CloudEventSource APIThe CloudEventSource and ClusterCloudEventSource custom resources define HTTP or Azure Event Grid destinati...46.8 KEDA Metrics APIExternal metrics API server that exposes event-driven metrics from configured scalers to the Kubernetes Hor...46.8 KEDA ScaledJob APIThe ScaledJob custom resource defines the mapping between an event source and Kubernetes Jobs that should b...46.8 KEDA ScaledObject APIThe ScaledObject custom resource defines the mapping between an event source and a Kubernetes Deployment, S...46.8 KEDA TriggerAuthentication APIThe TriggerAuthentication and ClusterTriggerAuthentication custom resources define authentication parameter...46.8 Digital Ocean Kubernetes API[DigitalOcean Kubernetes](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/kubernetes/) allows you to quickly deploy ...46.4 NGINX Gateway FabricNGINX Gateway Fabric is a Kubernetes Gateway API implementation using NGINX as the data plane. It provides ...46.1 NGINX Ingress ControllerThe NGINX Ingress Controller is a Kubernetes-native ingress controller built on NGINX that manages external...46.1 SedaiSedai is an AI-driven autonomous cloud optimization platform using reinforcement learning to continuously a...45.7 HAProxy Kubernetes Ingress ControllerThe HAProxy Kubernetes Ingress Controller implements routing rules defined in Kubernetes Ingress resources,...44.0 Envoy Gateway APIEnvoy Gateway manages Envoy Proxy as a standalone or Kubernetes-based application gateway, implementing and...43.9 HAMi WebUI APIThe HAMi WebUI backend API. Four gRPC services — Card, Node, Container and Monitor — expose cluster acceler...43.7 Hubble APIThe Hubble API is a gRPC-based observability API built on top of Cilium and eBPF that provides deep visibil...43.4 Hubble Relay APIThe Hubble Relay API is a gRPC service that aggregates and relays network flow data from multiple Hubble ag...43.4 Tetragon APIThe Tetragon gRPC API provides access to eBPF-based security observability and runtime enforcement capabili...43.4 Vultr Kubernetes APIVultr Kubernetes Engine is a managed Kubernetes offering.43.3 wasmCloud Kubernetes OperatorThe wasmCloud Kubernetes Operator enables running wasmCloud infrastructure natively on Kubernetes clusters....42.3 Kubernetes DNS for Services and PodsKubernetes provides DNS-based service discovery for Services and Pods within a cluster. DNS records are aut...42.2 Rook Ceph Block Storage APIRook provides Ceph block storage (RBD) through Kubernetes StorageClasses and PersistentVolumeClaims. The Ce...42.0 Rook Ceph Custom Resource APIRook extends Kubernetes through Custom Resource Definitions (CRDs) to declaratively manage Ceph storage clu...42.0 Rook Ceph Shared Filesystem APIRook manages CephFilesystem resources to provision shared POSIX-compliant file storage backed by CephFS. Mu...42.0 Envoy GatewayEnvoy Gateway's configuration API is a set of Kubernetes Custom Resource Definitions in the gateway.envoypr...41.9 AlphaSense Private Cloud CLIGo-based CLI (AlphaSense-Engineering/privatecloud-cli, Apache-2.0-ish "Other" license) used by Enterprise I...41.4 CoreWeave Kubernetes Service APIThe CKS API provisions and manages CoreWeave Kubernetes Service clusters and node pools on bare-metal GPU a...41.1 Helm Chart Template APIThe Helm Chart Template API defines the Go template language extensions, built-in objects, and Sprig functi...41.0 Helm Go SDKThe Helm Go SDK provides Go packages for programmatically performing Helm actions such as install, upgrade,...41.0 Helm PluginsThe Helm Plugins API defines the interface for extending the Helm CLI with additional subcommands. Plugins ...41.0 CoreDNS DNS InterfaceCoreDNS implements the standard DNS protocol (RFC 1035) serving both UDP and TCP queries. In Kubernetes, it...40.9 Contour Configuration APIContour's ContourConfiguration Custom Resource Definition (v1alpha1) that provides cluster-scoped configura...40.8 Contour ExtensionService APIKubernetes Custom Resource Definition for binding gRPC-based extension services to the Contour API. Extensi...40.8 Contour Kubernetes Ingress APIContour's support for the standard Kubernetes Ingress v1 resource, enabling basic ingress use cases such as...40.8 Kuma Kubernetes Policy APIKuma extends the Kubernetes API server with Custom Resource Definitions (CRDs) for defining and managing se...40.4 KyvernoKyverno is a Kubernetes-native policy engine that runs as a dynamic admission controller to validate, mutat...40.1 Kyverno CLIThe Kyverno CLI provides a command-line interface for applying and testing Kyverno policies against Kuberne...40.1 Activiti Cloud Runtime Bundle APIThe Activiti Cloud Runtime Bundle provides a cloud-native REST API for executing BPMN 2.0 processes in a di...40.0

Thin 43 Limited public surface area

Loft Labs Kubernetes APIThe Kubernetes API from Loft Labs — 9 operation(s) for kubernetes.38.9 kappkapp is a CLI tool that installs, upgrades, and deletes multiple Kubernetes resources as a single applicati...38.2 kapp-controllerkapp-controller is a Kubernetes controller that provides GitOps-style continuous delivery for applications ...38.2 kbldkbld builds or references container images in Kubernetes configuration in an immutable way by resolving ima...38.2 secretgen-controllersecretgen-controller provides CRDs to generate Kubernetes Secrets, export and import secrets across namespa...38.2 yttytt is a templating tool that understands YAML structure, letting you use familiar YAML constructs and Pyth...38.2 NetApp Astra Control APIAPI for Kubernetes-native application data management.38.1 Docling Kubernetes OperatorGo-based Kubernetes operator that deploys and manages Docling Serve workloads — model cache PVCs, GPU/CPU p...37.9 Envoy AI GatewayEnvoy AI Gateway is an open-source extension to Envoy Proxy and Envoy Gateway, providing a Kubernetes-nativ...37.8 Traefik AI GatewayTraefik AI Gateway is an enterprise, self-hosted, Kubernetes-native AI gateway with safety and governance (...37.8 InfoScale for Kubernetes APIAPI for administering and monitoring InfoScale in Kubernetes and OpenShift container environments. Provides...37.4 Veritas InfoScale for Kubernetes EnvironmentsInfoScale container support for Kubernetes and OpenShift, providing CSI-compliant storage drivers for dynam...37.4 Giant Swarm Platform APIGiant Swarm's platform API is a Kubernetes API that operates on each customer management cluster, offering ...37.2 Linkerd Multicluster APIThe Linkerd Multicluster extension provides Kubernetes CRDs and a gateway component that enables transparen...37.1 Argo CD Application CRDArgo CD defines an Application Custom Resource Definition (argoproj.io/v1alpha1, kind=Application) describi...36.2 Argo CD ApplicationSet CRDArgo CD defines an ApplicationSet Custom Resource Definition (argoproj.io/v1alpha1, kind=ApplicationSet) wh...36.2 Argo CD AppProject CRDArgo CD defines an AppProject Custom Resource Definition (argoproj.io/v1alpha1, kind=AppProject) which scop...36.2 Argo CD Clusters APIThe Argo CD Clusters API (/api/v1/clusters) registers, updates, lists, and removes target Kubernetes cluste...36.2 Platform9 Private Cloud Director APIOpenStack-compatible REST API for Platform9 Private Cloud Director, covering Keystone identity/authenticati...36.0 Inspur Cloud Container Engine (ICE/CKS) APIREST API for Inspur Cloud's Kubernetes container engine — application and instance management, service mesh...34.9 CRI-O CRI gRPC APICRI-O implements the Kubernetes Container Runtime Interface (CRI) gRPC API that the kubelet uses to manage ...34.6 Istio Operator APIThe Istio Operator API (istio.operator.v1alpha1) defines the IstioOperator custom resource used to install,...34.5 cert-manager csi-drivercsi-driver is a Kubernetes Container Storage Interface plugin that works alongside cert-manager to seamless...34.3 cert-manager csi-driver-spiffecsi-driver-spiffe is a Kubernetes CSI plugin that works alongside cert-manager to transparently deliver SPI...34.3 Ternary Kubernetes APIKubernetes cost allocation and pod label management34.3 trust-managertrust-manager is a cert-manager companion project for managing TLS trust bundles in Kubernetes and OpenShif...34.3 Ambient MeshAmbient Mesh provides a sidecar-less service mesh via the Kubernetes Gateway API and Istio ambient mode. It...33.8 Consul Connect Configuration EntriesConsul Connect configuration entries (service-defaults, service-resolver, service-router, service-splitter,...33.6 Codefresh Kubernetes APIkubernetes32.1 Ambassador Telepresence RESTful APITelepresence provides a RESTful API server that runs on the local host, both on the local workstation and i...31.8 Emissary-IngressEmissary-Ingress is an open-source, Kubernetes-native API gateway built on Envoy Proxy and a CNCF incubatin...31.8 Trivy CLIThe primary interface for Trivy is its command-line tool, which scans container images, filesystems, Git re...31.6 Trivy OperatorThe Trivy Operator is a Kubernetes-native security toolkit that automatically scans clusters and generates ...31.6 Vert.x Health CheckA Vert.x component for implementing health check endpoints for Kubernetes liveness and readiness probes. Pr...30.8 Containerd CRI APIContainer Runtime Interface (CRI) implementation that enables Kubernetes to use containerd as its container...30.5 Containerd NRI APIThe Node Resource Interface (NRI) is a framework for plugging extensions into OCI-compatible container runt...30.5 Apache Camel K Operator APIThe Apache Camel K Operator exposes a Kubernetes Custom Resource API for deploying and managing Camel integ...30.0 Speedscale PlatformSpeedscale captures production API traffic and replays it in lower environments for load testing, regressio...30.0 HashiCorp Vault Kubernetes APIKubernetes auth method for pod authentication29.7 Emissary-Ingress Gateway APIEmissary-Ingress supports a subset of the Kubernetes Gateway API standard, including GatewayClass, Gateway,...29.5 Kinference Kubernetes CRD APIKubernetes custom resources in the kinference.buoyant.io/v1alpha1 group (InferencePolicy, InferencePool, In...28.9 Vineyard Kubernetes OperatorThe Vineyard Kubernetes Operator manages vineyard cluster lifecycle and orchestrates shared objects on Kube...26.9 score-k8sscore-k8s is the reference Score implementation that translates Score YAML workload specifications into Kub...26.7

Emerging 36 Early or largely undocumented

A10 Thunder Kubernetes Connector (TKC)The Thunder Kubernetes Connector (TKC) runs inside Kubernetes and configures upstream Thunder ADC objects a...25.9 Bytewax PlatformSelf-hosted control plane for securely building, deploying, and scaling Bytewax workloads on Kubernetes. Ma...25.9 OpenEBSOpenEBS is an open source Container Native Storage solution that provides persistent storage for Kubernetes...25.6 Strimzi Operator APIThe Strimzi Operator API is expressed through Kubernetes Custom Resource Definitions (CRDs). Operators are ...25.5 Kata ContainersKata Containers is an open source container runtime that uses lightweight virtual machines to provide the s...23.7 Kestrel Kubernetes OperatorThe Kestrel Kubernetes Operator is an open-source Go-based operator that connects Kubernetes clusters to th...23.5 Kestrel PlatformKestrel AI provides an AI-native cloud incident response platform that uses autonomous agents to detect, in...23.5 Nebius Managed Kubernetes APIThe Managed Kubernetes API provisions Kubernetes clusters with GPU and InfiniBand support for distributed t...23.2 Vector Helm ChartsOfficial Helm charts for deploying Vector on Kubernetes as a DaemonSet (agent mode) or Deployment (aggregat...23.1 CNI Reference PluginsA collection of reference and example networking plugins maintained by the containernetworking team that im...22.9 NIST SP 800-207A ZTA for Cloud-Native ApplicationsNIST SP 800-207A extends the original ZTA guidance to cover cloud-native applications in multi-cloud enviro...22.6 kagentkagent open-source framework for running AI agents in Kubernetes, automating DevOps operations and troubles...22.4 Open Service MeshService mesh control plane for Kubernetes that implements the Service Mesh Interface (SMI) specification, p...21.9 Garden Core CLIOpen-source command-line tool and engine that turns a Garden project configuration into a graph of Build, D...20.6 Garden Kubernetes ProviderProvider that connects Garden to remote Kubernetes clusters for builds (in-cluster), deploys (manifests, ku...20.6 Garden Local Kubernetes ProviderProvider optimized for local Kubernetes distributions (minikube, kind, k3s, Docker Desktop) so developers c...20.6 Resurface ContainersOfficial Helm charts and container images for deploying the Resurface API security database on Kubernetes.19.9 Resurface Logger for eBPFeBPF-based kernel-level API call logger that captures HTTP traffic without application code changes for zer...19.9 IBM Cloud KubernetesIBM Cloud Kubernetes Service is a managed Kubernetes offering that delivers powerful tools, an intuitive us...19.7 StormForge CLICommand-line interface for interacting with the StormForge platform to manage clusters, workloads, and opti...19.4 StormForge Optimize LiveStormForge Optimize Live is a Kubernetes resource rightsizing product that uses machine learning to automat...19.4 Spheron GPU Cloud APIREST API for programmatically managing GPU deployments across the Spheron marketplace. Covers provider and ...18.9 KratixKratix is an open-source framework for building internal developer platforms using Kubernetes. Platform tea...18.5 ScaleOps Platform APIThe ScaleOps Platform API provides programmatic access to Kubernetes cost optimization features including w...17.1 K2s Kubernetes Distribution for Windows HostsOpen-source Kubernetes distribution built specifically for Windows hosts, published from the Siemens-Health...16.8 k0sk0s is a single-binary, lightweight, certified Kubernetes distribution that runs on any infrastructure from...16.6 Lens DesktopLens is a Kubernetes IDE for managing, observing, and troubleshooting clusters.16.6 MirantisMirantis enterprise Kubernetes and container platform overview, indexing product, documentation, and develo...16.6 Mirantis K0rdent APIk0rdent is a composable Kubernetes management platform for centrally provisioning, observing, and securing ...16.6 Mirantis Kubernetes EngineMirantis Kubernetes Engine (MKE) is an enterprise container orchestration platform that delivers production...16.6 Mirantis OpenStack for KubernetesMOSK delivers OpenStack on top of Kubernetes for cloud and telco workloads.16.6 Flux CDFlux is a set of continuous and progressive delivery solutions for Kubernetes that are open and extensible,...15.3 Cartography Kubernetes Intel ModuleIngests Kubernetes cluster objects (nodes, pods, services, service accounts) for graph-based cluster-securi...14.2 Rafay Product DocumentationRafay product documentation hub covering Kubernetes Operations Platform, MLOps, GPU PaaS, AI workloads, Tok...12.5 SUSE Rancher APIREST API for SUSE Rancher Prime Kubernetes management platform, used to manage clusters, projects, workload...11.5 K3sK3s lightweight Kubernetes distribution with built-in containerd, Flannel networking, and Traefik ingress c...11.0

Minimal 9 Almost no public developer surface

CNCF Hosted Projects (Standards Steward)CNCF stewards an open-source project portfolio whose APIs underpin much of modern cloud infrastructure - Ku...10.9 FlannelFlannel is a simple overlay network that satisfies the Kubernetes networking requirements. It allocates sub...10.6 Koko is a simple, fast container image builder for Go applications that does not require Docker, producing sm...10.6 KustomizeKustomize is a Kubernetes-native configuration management tool that lets you customize untemplated YAML fil...10.6 Multus CNIMultus CNI is a meta-plugin for Kubernetes that enables attaching multiple network interfaces to pods. It s...10.6 Komodor REST APIREST API for managing Komodor clusters, services, monitors, RBAC policies, and integrations programmaticall...9.4 KoordinatorKoordinator QoS-based scheduling system for hybrid workloads on Kubernetes with colocation and resource opt...9.1 Kptkpt package-centric toolchain for Kubernetes configuration management and delivery.7.8 NGINX Service Mesh Control Plane APIThe NGINX Service Mesh control plane exposes a REST API used by the `nginx-meshctl` CLI to manage mesh conf...7.5

Companies reaching this through an API (33)

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

Frequency

67.6

log-scaled weighted occurrences

Breadth

3.7

spread across providers

Quality lift

35.6

mean composite of providers using it

Cohesion

27.8

strength of nearest seed neighbor

Where this tag sits

287 providers carry this tag directly, and 288 counting the 1 narrower tag below — 1 more to reach.

Envoy 11 providers

Where this tag comes from

Provider tag287

Api tag179

Openapi tag4

Openapi op tag46

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
Cloud Native (Kubernetes, CNCF, FinOps)	36%
Object Storage	31%
OpenSSF Best Practices Badge Holders	29%
Red Hat Certified Ecosystem (certified partner containers + certified OpenShift operators)	23%
API Management (gateways, portals, service mesh, proxies)	21%
Artifact Hub Cloud-Native Packages	20%
Jenkins Plugins + CD Foundation Landscape	20%

Cohort brief

Auto-generated

The 268 providers in the APIs.io catalog tagged Kubernetes, scored on the Kin Score. Every figure below is computed from the catalog — nothing here is written.

Providers

268

of 287 in the catalog

Mean Kin Score

36.4

+12.3 vs catalog 24.1

Mean Agent Readiness

19.4

+5.3 vs catalog 14.1

Spread

0–77.3

median 36.1 · σ 17.4

How the 268 split by band

Exemplar 14Strong 32Developing 71Thin 70Emerging 59Minimal 22

Facet averages, against the whole catalog

Facet	This cohort	Catalog	Difference	Scored
Developer Ergonomics	42.1	24.5	+17.6	268
Contract Quality	33.9	18.6	+15.3	268
Operational Transparency	27.6	13.2	+14.4	268
Discoverability	65	59.1	+5.9	268
Contract Governance	15	9.7	+5.3	268
Access Clarity	29.9	30	-0.1	268

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)	19%	18%	+1
MCP server (first-party)	17%	16%	+1
Agent Skills	0%	0%	0
OAuth scopes	11%	13%	-2
Security	97%	99%	-2
Arazzo workflows	3%	1%	+2
Governance rules	63%	36%	+27

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.

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