Places
Variants seen in the corpus:
Placesplaces
Providers using this tag (46)
Ranked by API Evangelist rating — Exemplar and Strong are expanded by default.
Exemplar 1 Complete, well-documented, and agent-ready
Strong 4 Solid coverage with minor gaps
Developing 16 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Thin 18 Limited public surface area
Emerging 6 Early or largely undocumented
Minimal 1 Almost no public developer surface
APIs with this tag (51)
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
Strong 5 Solid coverage with minor gaps
CycleCalcs Places APIThe Places API from CycleCalcs — 1 operation(s) for places.IPinfo places APIIPinfo Places API - Building-level IP intelligence for physical locations.Serper Places APILocal business and place searchSerper Reviews APIGoogle place reviews by cid, fid or placeId, cursor-paginated with nextPageToken. The only Serper endpoint ...Voygr Business Validation APIBusiness existence and operating-status validation. POST /v1/business-status takes a business name and a fu...
Developing 20 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Viator Partner Attractions APIAttraction search and attraction detail endpoints, letting partners build attraction landing pages and tie ...GoSpotCheck Places APIThe Places API from GoSpotCheck — 2 operation(s) for places.Localytics Places APIPoint-of-interest sync for location-triggered messaging — upload and manage the geofence/POI set an app mon...Places Aggregate APICompute statistical insights and aggregate data about places within a specified area.Places APIAccess information about places using HTTP requests including search, details, and autocomplete.Places InsightsQuery places data in BigQuery to derive statistical insights for site selection, market analysis, and busin...Places SDK for AndroidAccess rich place information including names, addresses, ratings, and photos in Android applications.Places SDK for iOSAccess rich place information including names, addresses, ratings, and photos in iOS applications.KISI Places APIThe Places API from KISI — 6 operation(s) for places.Uber Places APISaved rider locationsFlickr Places APIPlace IDs, hierarchies, and resolutionPaedae Places APIThe Places API from Paedae — 5 operation(s) for places.Google Aggregate Places APIThe Google Places Aggregate API delivers aggregated insightssuch as the count or list of Place IDsfor place...Google Places Insights APIThe Google Places Insights API (now generally known as the Places Aggregate API) provides aggregated intell...MusicBrainz Places APILookup, browse, and search for places (venues, studios, etc.).ETH Zurich – Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Places APIThe Places API from ETH Zurich – Swiss Federal Institute of Technology — 3 operation(s) for places.Roblox Engine API Places APIPlace publishing and managementiContainers Brutus APIThe Brutus API is iContainers' published REST contract for programmatic freight quoting and booking. It exp...iNaturalist Places APISearch and fetchTransportAPI Places APITransport stops, stations, and points of interest
Thin 18 Limited public surface area
Google Places Places APIOperations for retrieving place details and media.Precisely APIs Places APIThe Places API from Precisely APIs — 9 operation(s) for places.PredictHQ Places APIThe Places API from PredictHQ — 1 operation(s) for places.Zoca Public APIZoca's unauthenticated public surface — the 69 operations behind the free self-serve tools on zoca.com. Cov...Jawg Maps Places APIThe Places API from Jawg Maps — 4 operation(s) for places.Fleetbase Places APIAddressable geocoded locations.Bing Local Business Search APIThe Bing Local Business Search API returns information about local businesses based on search queries and l...Politecnico di Torino Places APIThe Places API from Politecnico di Torino — 7 operation(s) for places.Kakao Local APIKakao Local API offers address-to-coordinate (and reverse) geocoding, keyword and category place search, an...Ola Maps APIOla Maps is an AI-powered geospatial platform providing routing, geocoding, places search, and map visualiz...GT Places APIDocumented by the Georgia Tech Research Network Operations Center (RNOC), the GT Places API provides access...HERE Geocoding and Search APIForward and reverse geocoding, address lookup, place discovery, browse, and details. Returns rich location ...ArcGIS Places ServiceThe ArcGIS Places Service provides search and retrieval of global points of interest spanning over 1,000 fe...ESRI ArcGIS Places APIPoints of interest search and retrievalArt Institute of Chicago Places APIGeographic places linked to artworks (uses Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names).National Park Service Places APIThe Places API from National Park Service — 1 operation(s) for places.CoreLogic Australia Places APIPlaces of interest attached to a property. The portal FAQ is explicit about its scope — "Currently, only Sc...FakerAPI Places APIGenerate fake geographic coordinates.
Emerging 7 Early or largely undocumented
Places APIDiscover places based on various categories and parameters.Rome2Rio Autocomplete APIThe Rome2Rio Autocomplete API provides place-name suggestions as a user types, returning a ranked list of m...Rome2Rio Geocode APIThe Rome2Rio Geocode API resolves a place-name or address string to a canonical Rome2Rio place record with ...Verizon Connect Geofence APIManages geofences (Places) - the named locations and boundaries used to trigger entry/exit alerts and locat...Overture Places ThemeOpen dataset of global points of interest - businesses, landmarks, and services - released as cloud-native ...Amazon Web Services Places APIThe Places API from Amazon Web Services — 7 operation(s) for places.Wikimapia REST APIThe Wikimapia REST API provides access to crowdsourced geographic data including places, categories, street...
Score breakdown
Frequency
53.4
log-scaled weighted occurrences
Breadth
1.3
spread across providers
Quality lift
46.8
mean composite of providers using it
Cohesion
8.1
strength of nearest seed neighbor
Related tags
Maps 13 co-occurrences
Geolocation 9 co-occurrences
Tiles 6 co-occurrences
Autocomplete 7 co-occurrences
Geocoding 12 co-occurrences
Routing 8 co-occurrences
Location 8 co-occurrences
Addresses 5 co-occurrences
Where this tag comes from
Api tag49
Provider tag9
Openapi tag25
Openapi op tag70
Cohort brief
Auto-generatedThe 46 providers in the APIs.io catalog tagged Places, scored on the Kin Score. Every figure below is computed from the catalog — nothing here is written.
Providers
46
all scored
Mean Kin Score
38.6
+17.9 vs catalog 20.7
Mean Agent Readiness
24.7
+15.0 vs catalog 9.7
Spread
6.8–68.3
median 38.6 · σ 13.1
How the 46 split by band
Exemplar 1Strong 4Developing 16Thin 18Emerging 6Minimal 1
Facet averages, against the whole catalog
| Facet | This cohort | Catalog | Difference | Scored |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Contract Quality | 47.8 | 17.5 | +30.3 | 46 |
| Access Clarity | 41.1 | 22.3 | +18.8 | 46 |
| Operational Transparency | 25 | 11.3 | +13.7 | 46 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 31.4 | 17.9 | +13.5 | 46 |
| Discoverability | 69.7 | 60.4 | +9.3 | 46 |
| Contract Governance | 14.4 | 6.4 | +8 | 46 |
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) | 28% | 16% | +12 |
| MCP server (first-party) | 9% | 7% | +2 |
| Agent Skills | 0% | 0% | 0 |
| OAuth scopes | 17% | 9% | +8 |
| Security | 98% | 88% | +10 |
| Arazzo workflows | 7% | 2% | +5 |
| Governance rules | 43% | 13% | +30 |
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 ValueSERP 68.3
- 2 CycleCalcs 64.4
- 3 IPinfo 61.9
- 4 Serper 59.7
- 5 VOYGR 55
- 6 Viator 50.8
- 7 Google Maps Platform 49.8
- 8 GoSpotCheck 49.8
- 9 Localytics 49.8
- 10 KISI 49.2
Top by Agent Readiness
- 1 CycleCalcs 49.4
- 2 Viator 45.9
- 3 Paedae 42.8
- 4 ValueSERP 41
- 5 Google 39.2
- 6 Zoca 37.6
- 7 ETH Zurich – Swiss Federal Institute of Technology 35
- 8 IPinfo 33.8
- 9 KISI 32.8
- 10 Google Places 32.7
All 46 members of this roster resolve to a scored provider in
the catalog.Generated from the catalog build of
25 August 2026, across 26891
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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