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Network Automation

Score 19.2 / 100 20 providers +5 via APIs 10 APIs Search apis.io →

Providers using this tag (20)

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

Strong 4 Solid coverage with minor gaps
NetBox LabsCompanyNetworkingDCIMIPAM1 API60.5MistCompanyNetworkingWirelessWi-Fi1 API60.2Cisco Catalyst CenterIntent-Based NetworkingNetworkingAssurance29 APIs58.8Cisco ACISDNData CenterNetworkingFabric1 API55.6
Developing 5 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Cisco CrossworkService ProvidersOrchestrationNetworking68 APIs49.0OpsMillCompanyInfrastructure SaasSource of Truth1 API45.6BrocadeData CenterDirectorsFibre Channel1 API44.4Forward NetworksCompanyNetworksNetwork Digital Twin1 API43.2Cisco Nexus DashboardData CenterInfrastructureNetworking1 API40.7
Thin 3 Limited public surface area
CienaMEFNETCONFNetwork Management1 API38.1NetBoxData CenterDCIMInfrastructure as CodeIPAM1 API35.6Pica8NetworkingOpen NetworkingSoftware Defined Networking1 API34.8
Emerging 7 Early or largely undocumented
NokiaTelecommunications5G6GMobile Network6 APIs21.1InfineraCompanyHardwareOptical NetworkingTelecommunications17.2Aira TechnologiesCompanyTelecommunicationsWirelessArtificial Intelligence1 API15.4DriveNetsCompanyAi MlNetworkingNetwork Operating System12.9CloudgenixCompanySD-WANNetworkingCloud1 API12.4LabLabeeCompanyTelecommunicationsTraining12.4NileNetworkingEnterprise NetworkingNetwork as a ServiceNaaS12.1
Minimal 1 Almost no public developer surface
StatelessCompanyNetworkingNetwork Function Virtualization0.0

APIs with this tag (10)

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
PAN-OS OpenConfig APIManagement interface for PAN-OS based on OpenConfig standard data models, providing gNMI and gNOI services ...73.4
Strong 2 Solid coverage with minor gaps
Cisco Catalyst Center MCP ServerFirst-party open-source Model Context Protocol server for Catalyst Center, published by Cisco under Apache-...58.8Cisco Catalyst Center APIREST API for Cisco Catalyst Center (formerly DNA Center), providing intent-based networking capabilities in...55.4
Developing 2 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Infoblox NetMRI APIRESTful API for the Infoblox NetMRI network change and configuration management platform. Enables automatio...48.8Aruba AOS-CX REST APIREST API for AOS-CX switches providing full programmability of switches running the AOS-CX operating system...44.0
Thin 2 Limited public surface area
PICOS RESTCONF / NETCONF / gNMI Device APIStandards-based on-device programmability in the PICOS network operating system. RESTCONF (RFC 8040) expose...34.8pfSense REST API (pfSense-pkg-RESTAPI)Community-maintained REST and GraphQL API package for pfSense CE and pfSense Plus exposing 200+ endpoints u...30.8
Emerging 3 Early or largely undocumented
Nokia Network Services Platform (NSP) APIREST-based automation and assurance API for Nokia's multilayer (IP + optical) Network Services Platform. Pr...21.1Nokia SR LinuxModern, Linux-based, fully model-driven network operating system for data-center and service-provider routi...21.1Nokia SR OS pySROS SDK and YANG ModelspySROS is the official Python SDK for model-driven configuration, operational data retrieval, and automatio...21.1

Companies reaching this through an API (5)

These companies publish an API, specification or operation carrying “Network Automation” 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.

Aruba Cisco Infoblox Palo Alto Networks pfSense

Score breakdown

Frequency
40.2
log-scaled weighted occurrences
Breadth
0.5
spread across providers
Quality lift
41.1
mean composite of providers using it
Cohesion
5.5
strength of nearest seed neighbor

Related tags

NETCONF 5 co-occurrences Network Management 8 co-occurrences Wireless 6 co-occurrences Networking 15 co-occurrences Telemetry 7 co-occurrences Data Center 7 co-occurrences Orchestration 5 co-occurrences Telecommunications 7 co-occurrences

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