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Load Balancing

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Providers using this tag (27)

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

Strong 2 Solid coverage with minor gaps
F5ApplicationSecurityAPI Gateway5 APIs63.7Amazon Elastic Load BalancingAmazon Web ServicesHigh AvailabilityNetworking1 API60.2
Developing 10 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Citrix NetScalerAPI GatewayApplication Delivery ControllerApplication Security1 API52.9Amazon Global AcceleratorAvailabilityCDNGlobal1 API52.3BifrostAI GatewayLLMOpen-Source4 APIs50.2Azure Load BalancerAzureHigh AvailabilityLayer 42 APIs47.9Google Cloud Load BalancingGoogle CloudInfrastructureNetworking1 API44.6EnvoyCloud-NativeProxyService Mesh3 APIs44.0HAProxyHigh AvailabilityNetworkingReverse Proxy3 APIs43.9Kubernetes ServicesContainer OrchestrationKubernetesNetworking5 APIs43.9Google Cloud Certificate ManagerCertificate ManagementCertificatesSecurity1 API43.1Azure Front DoorCDNEdgeGlobal Routing2 APIs39.3
Thin 9 Limited public surface area
Azure Application GatewayLayer-7Reverse ProxyWAF2 APIs38.0Spring Cloud GatewayAPI GatewayCircuit BreakerMicroservices1 API36.9A10 NetworksApplication DeliveryDDoS ProtectionApplication Delivery Controller1 API34.3Scalable SystemsAuto-ScalingCachingCloud InfrastructureDistributed Systems1 API33.9Scalable ServicesAPI GatewayCloud-NativeContainersDistributed Systems1 API33.7ScalabilityAuto-ScalingCloud ComputingDevOpsDistributed Systems7 APIs32.8MoleculerFault ToleranceFrameworksJavaScript1 API32.6F5 Distributed Cloud ServicesApplication SecurityWeb Application FirewallAPI SecurityMulti-Cloud Networking1 API29.4SozuProxyReverse ProxyRust3 APIs27.7
Emerging 2 Early or largely undocumented
Netflix EurekaCloud-NativeFailoverJava1 API25.9AlteonCompanyInfrastructureApplication Delivery18.3
Minimal 2 Almost no public developer surface
AVI NetworksCompanyInfrastructureApplication Delivery8.7ScaleArc (IgniteTech)CompanyAI InfrastructureDatabase6.0
Unrated 2 Not yet scored
ArrowPointCompanyInfrastructureNetworkingContent DeliveryArrowPoint CommunicationsCompanyNetworkingContent Delivery

APIs with this tag (28)

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 7 Solid coverage with minor gaps
Cloudflare Load Balancing APIThe Cloudflare Load Balancing API enables developers to distribute traffic across endpoints to reduce strai...65.1F5 BIG-IPBIG-IP delivers high-performance application and API delivery with load balancing, API gateway, DNS, and se...63.7F5 BIG-IP AS3 (Application Services 3 Extension)AS3 is BIG-IP's declarative application-services API — one document describes tenants, applications, virtua...63.7F5 NGINX Ingress Controller APIKubernetes Ingress Controller implementation for NGINX and NGINX Plus providing load balancing, SSL/TLS ter...63.7F5 NGINX Plus APIREST API for NGINX Plus providing real-time live activity monitoring, dynamic upstream configuration, key-v...63.7Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets REST APIREST API for creating and managing Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets (VMSS). Enables deployment and manageme...54.4VMware Avi Load Balancer APIRESTful API for VMware Avi Load Balancer providing programmatic access to application delivery services inc...54.3
Developing 9 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Spring Cloud Gateway APISpring Cloud Gateway provides an API Gateway built on Spring WebFlux and Reactor. It offers route configura...46.2gRPC Health Checking ServiceThe gRPC Health Checking Protocol defines a standard service that gRPC servers implement to expose health s...45.7HAProxy Data Plane APIThe HAProxy Data Plane API is a REST API for managing HAProxy configuration dynamically. It allows runtime ...43.9HAProxy Kubernetes Ingress ControllerThe HAProxy Kubernetes Ingress Controller implements routing rules defined in Kubernetes Ingress resources,...43.9HAProxy Runtime APIThe HAProxy Runtime API (formerly known as the stats socket) is a socket-based interface for dynamically ma...43.9Citrix Load Balancing APILoad balancing virtual servers and services42.7Tetrate Service Bridge Traffic APIThe TSB Traffic API provides configuration resources for managing service-to-service traffic within a Tetra...40.8AI Proxy Advanced PluginThe AI Proxy Advanced plugin extends AI Proxy with load balancing, weighted distribution, and fallback acro...40.2Rackspace Dedicated Load Balancer APIThe Dedicated Load Balancer V3 (dlbv3) API provisions and manages dedicated load balancers for Rackspace cu...39.3
Thin 10 Limited public surface area
LiteLLMLiteLLM (BerriAI) is an open-source LLM gateway that exposes 100+ LLM providers — OpenAI, Anthropic, Azure,...38.1Qlik Sense Enterprise Load Balancing APIEngine load balancing decisions for distributing app sessions across Qlik Sense Engine Services38.1Spring Cloud Gateway CoreCore routing and filtering capabilities including predicate factories (Path, Host, Method, Header, Query, C...36.9NGINX Plus APINGINX Plus provides an advanced REST API for runtime configuration and statistics of upstream server groups...33.9Envoy Admin APIEnvoy Proxy's administration API for inspecting and modifying Envoy runtime configuration, stats, clusters,...33.7Kong Admin APIKong Gateway's RESTful Admin API for managing services, routes, plugins, consumers, upstreams, and certific...33.7Envoy Proxy Admin APIEnvoy is a high-performance, open-source edge and service proxy, and the underlying data plane for Istio, L...32.8MoleculerMoleculer is a fast, modern, and powerful microservices framework for Node.js. It provides built-in service...32.6Inspur Cloud Server Load Balancer (SLB) APIREST API for Inspur Cloud load balancing: load balancer, listener, backend server group, certificate and fo...32.0F5 Distributed Cloud Services APIComprehensive REST API for managing F5 Distributed Cloud Services including load balancers, WAF/WAAP polici...29.4
Emerging 2 Early or largely undocumented
Feign RibbonFeign Ribbon module integrates Netflix Ribbon for client-side load balancing across a list of HTTP servers.17.3Kamal ProxyKamal Proxy is a minimal HTTP reverse proxy written in Go that powers the zero-downtime deploy switchover b...15.9

Companies reaching this through an API (15)

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 Scalable Architecture Spring Framework Tetrate VMware

Score breakdown

Frequency
47.9
log-scaled weighted occurrences
Breadth
0.7
spread across providers
Quality lift
42.8
mean composite of providers using it
Cohesion
0.0
strength of nearest seed neighbor

Related tags

High Availability 9 co-occurrences Application Delivery 7 co-occurrences Traffic Management 8 co-occurrences Web Application Firewall 5 co-occurrences Service Discovery 5 co-occurrences Service Mesh 6 co-occurrences Caching 5 co-occurrences Proxy 6 co-occurrences

Where this tag comes from

Provider tag27
Api tag29
Openapi tag2
Openapi op tag9

Cohort brief

Auto-generated

The 25 providers in the APIs.io catalog tagged Load Balancing, scored on the Kin Score. Every figure below is computed from the catalog — nothing here is written.

Providers
25
all scored
Mean Kin Score
37.8
+13.9 vs catalog 23.9
Mean Agent Readiness
19.9
+7.9 vs catalog 12
Spread
6–63.7
median 38 · σ 13.7
How the 25 split by band
Exemplar 0Strong 2Developing 10Thin 9Emerging 2Minimal 2
Facet averages, against the whole catalog
FacetThis cohortCatalogDifferenceScored
Contract Quality 46.7 19.8 +26.9 25
Developer Ergonomics 39.4 23.4 +16 25
Operational Transparency 23.7 14 +9.7 25
Contract Governance 12.7 6.4 +6.3 25
Access Clarity 32.3 26.5 +5.8 25
Discoverability 65.3 61.2 +4.1 25

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) 0% 10% -10
MCP server (first-party) 0% 13% -13
Agent Skills 0% 0% 0
OAuth scopes 19% 11% +8
Security 89% 97% -8
Arazzo workflows 4% 2% +2
Governance rules 56% 14% +42

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 F5 63.7
  2. 2 Amazon Elastic Load Balancing 60.2
  3. 3 Citrix NetScaler 52.9
  4. 4 Amazon Global Accelerator 52.3
  5. 5 Bifrost 50.2
  6. 6 Azure Load Balancer 47.9
  7. 7 Google Cloud Load Balancing 44.6
  8. 8 Envoy 44
  9. 9 HAProxy 43.9
  10. 10 Kubernetes Services 43.9
Top by Agent Readiness
  1. 1 F5 48.7
  2. 2 Bifrost 34.9
  3. 3 Amazon Global Accelerator 31.3
  4. 4 Amazon Elastic Load Balancing 28.7
  5. 5 Kubernetes Services 28.4
  6. 6 HAProxy 27.5
  7. 7 Envoy 27.3
  8. 8 Citrix NetScaler 24.8
  9. 9 Google Cloud Load Balancing 24.8
  10. 10 Google Cloud Certificate Manager 24.8
All 27 members of this roster resolve to a scored provider in the catalog.Generated from the catalog build of 15 September 2026, across 27661 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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