Open Source
Providers using this tag (1160)
Ranked by API Evangelist rating — Exemplar and Strong are expanded by default.
Exemplar 27 Complete, well-documented, and agent-ready
Strong 63 Solid coverage with minor gaps
Developing 197 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Thin 394 Limited public surface area
Emerging 330 Early or largely undocumented
Minimal 146 Almost no public developer surface
Unrated 3 Not yet scored
APIs with this tag (306)
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 16 Complete, well-documented, and agent-ready
Strong 26 Solid coverage with minor gaps
Developing 50 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Thin 100 Limited public surface area
Emerging 102 Early or largely undocumented
Minimal 12 Almost no public developer surface
Companies reaching this through an API (90)
These companies publish an API, specification or operation carrying “Open Source” 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.
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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.
Cohort brief
Auto-generatedThe 1134 providers in the APIs.io catalog tagged Open Source, scored on the Kin Score. Every figure below is computed from the catalog — nothing here is written.
| Facet | This cohort | Catalog | Difference | Scored |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Developer Ergonomics | 36.4 | 23.2 | +13.2 | 1134 |
| Operational Transparency | 25.6 | 13 | +12.6 | 1134 |
| Contract Quality | 28.4 | 17.2 | +11.2 | 1134 |
| Contract Governance | 11 | 6.5 | +4.5 | 1134 |
| Discoverability | 61.5 | 57.9 | +3.6 | 1134 |
| Access Clarity | 20.3 | 23.9 | -3.6 | 1134 |
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.
| Artifact | This cohort | Catalog | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| MCP server (any) | 17% | 13% | +4 |
| MCP server (first-party) | 16% | 12% | +4 |
| Agent Skills | 0% | 0% | 0 |
| OAuth scopes | 9% | 11% | -2 |
| Security | 97% | 98% | -1 |
| Arazzo workflows | 2% | 2% | 0 |
| Governance rules | 37% | 16% | +21 |
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.
- 1 1F916 66.4
- 2 Grid Status 60.4
- 3 GatiFlow 59.3
- 4 Medusa 59.1
- 5 emem 59.1
- 6 Outline 58.7
- 7 Poggio Labs 58.6
- 8 ClickHouse 58.4
- 9 Novu 58.4
- 10 RudderStack 58.1
Coverage caveat. 866 of 1134 scored members had under half their catalog-attributable points satisfied at all (catalog_earned / catalog_max < 0.5). They are INCLUDED in the mean above. A large share here means the cohort mean is partly a measurement of how far our enrichment reached, not only of how these providers publish.Generated from the catalog build of 24 October 2026, across 31984 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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