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Load Balancing

Score 21.3 / 100 23 providers +14 via APIs 22 APIs Search apis.io →
Business capabilities this tag reaches
Information Technology Management 1

Providers using this tag (23)

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

Strong 3 Solid coverage with minor gaps
F5ApplicationSecurityAPI Gateway8 APIs66.1Amazon Elastic Load BalancingAmazon Web ServicesHigh AvailabilityNetworking1 API65.8Amazon Global AcceleratorAvailabilityCDNGlobal1 API57.8
Developing 8 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Citrix NetScalerAPI GatewayApplication Delivery ControllerApplication Security1 API52.4BifrostAI GatewayLLMOpen Source4 APIs51.5Google Cloud Load BalancingGoogle CloudInfrastructureNetworking1 API50.6Azure Load BalancerAzureHigh AvailabilityLayer 42 APIs48.4Google Cloud Certificate ManagerCertificate ManagementCertificatesSecurity1 API45.1EnvoyEnvoyCloud-NativeProxy3 APIs44.0HAProxyHigh AvailabilityNetworkingReverse Proxy1 API43.5Kubernetes ServicesContainer OrchestrationKubernetesNetworking5 APIs43.4
Thin 7 Limited public surface area
Azure Application GatewayLayer-7Reverse ProxyWAF2 APIs38.6Azure Front DoorCDNEdgeGlobal Routing2 APIs38.3Spring Cloud GatewayAPI GatewayCircuit BreakerMicroservices1 API35.5A10 NetworksApplication DeliveryDDoS ProtectionApplication Delivery Controller1 API31.4MoleculerFault ToleranceFrameworkJavaScript1 API30.6F5 Distributed Cloud ServicesApplication SecurityWeb Application FirewallAPI SecurityMulti-Cloud Networking1 API28.1SozuProxyReverse ProxyRust3 APIs26.3
Emerging 2 Early or largely undocumented
Netflix EurekaCloud-NativeFailoverJava1 API22.2AlteonCompanyInfrastructureApplication Delivery19.2
Minimal 3 Almost no public developer surface
AVI NetworksCompanyInfrastructureApplication Delivery7.0ArrowPointCompanyInfrastructureNetworkingContent Delivery0.0ArrowPoint CommunicationsCompanyNetworkingContent Delivery0.0

APIs with this tag (22)

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 1 Complete, well-documented, and agent-ready
Cloudflare Load Balancing APIThe Cloudflare Load Balancing API enables developers to distribute traffic across endpoints to reduce strai...80.6
Strong 4 Solid coverage with minor gaps
F5 BIG-IPBIG-IP delivers high-performance application and API delivery with load balancing, API gateway, DNS, and se...66.1F5 NGINX Ingress Controller APIKubernetes Ingress Controller implementation for NGINX and NGINX Plus providing load balancing, SSL/TLS ter...66.1F5 NGINX Plus APIREST API for NGINX Plus providing real-time live activity monitoring, dynamic upstream configuration, key-v...66.1Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets REST APIREST API for creating and managing Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets (VMSS). Enables deployment and manageme...54.9
Developing 7 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
VMware Avi Load Balancer APIRESTful API for VMware Avi Load Balancer providing programmatic access to application delivery services inc...52.3Spring Cloud Gateway APISpring Cloud Gateway provides an API Gateway built on Spring WebFlux and Reactor. It offers route configura...44.4gRPC Health Checking ServiceThe gRPC Health Checking Protocol defines a standard service that gRPC servers implement to expose health s...43.9HAProxy Kubernetes Ingress ControllerThe HAProxy Kubernetes Ingress Controller implements routing rules defined in Kubernetes Ingress resources,...43.5HAProxy Runtime APIThe HAProxy Runtime API (formerly known as the stats socket) is a socket-based interface for dynamically ma...43.5Citrix Load Balancing APILoad balancing virtual servers and services41.3Rackspace Dedicated Load Balancer APIThe Dedicated Load Balancer V3 (dlbv3) API provisions and manages dedicated load balancers for Rackspace cu...39.7
Thin 8 Limited public surface area
Tetrate Service Bridge Traffic APIThe TSB Traffic API provides configuration resources for managing service-to-service traffic within a Tetra...39.2AI Proxy Advanced PluginThe AI Proxy Advanced plugin extends AI Proxy with load balancing, weighted distribution, and fallback acro...37.7LiteLLMLiteLLM (BerriAI) is an open-source LLM gateway that exposes 100+ LLM providers — OpenAI, Anthropic, Azure,...37.4Qlik Sense Enterprise Load Balancing APIEngine load balancing decisions for distributing app sessions across Qlik Sense Engine Services37.3Spring Cloud Gateway CoreCore routing and filtering capabilities including predicate factories (Path, Host, Method, Header, Query, C...35.5Inspur Cloud Server Load Balancer (SLB) APIREST API for Inspur Cloud load balancing: load balancer, listener, backend server group, certificate and fo...34.0MoleculerMoleculer is a fast, modern, and powerful microservices framework for Node.js. It provides built-in service...30.6F5 Distributed Cloud Services APIComprehensive REST API for managing F5 Distributed Cloud Services including load balancers, WAF/WAAP polici...28.1
Emerging 2 Early or largely undocumented
Kamal ProxyKamal Proxy is a minimal HTTP reverse proxy written in Go that powers the zero-downtime deploy switchover b...19.2Feign RibbonFeign Ribbon module integrates Netflix Ribbon for client-side load balancing across a list of HTTP servers.14.8

Companies reaching this through an API (14)

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

AI Gateway Azure Virtual Machines Citrix Cloudflare Feign gRPC Inspur Cloud Kamal Kong AI Gateway Qlik Sense Enterprise Rackspace Technology Spring Framework Tetrate VMware

Score breakdown

Frequency
45.5
log-scaled weighted occurrences
Breadth
0.6
spread across providers
Quality lift
45.2
mean composite of providers using it
Cohesion
4.9
strength of nearest seed neighbor

Related tags

Application Delivery 7 co-occurrences Traffic Management 6 co-occurrences Web Application Firewall 5 co-occurrences Service Discovery 5 co-occurrences Certificates 5 co-occurrences Networking 14 co-occurrences API Gateway 6 co-occurrences Microservices 5 co-occurrences

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