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Platform Engineering

Score 19.9 / 100 37 providers 9 APIs Search apis.io →
Variants seen in the corpus: Platform Engineeringplatform-engineering

Providers using this tag (37)

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

Exemplar 1 Complete, well-documented, and agent-ready
Developing 12 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Thin 14 Limited public surface area
Emerging 9 Early or largely undocumented
Minimal 1 Almost no public developer surface

APIs with this tag (9)

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 →

Developing 2 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Thin 1 Limited public surface area
Emerging 6 Early or largely undocumented

Score breakdown

Frequency
45.5
log-scaled weighted occurrences
Breadth
1.0
spread across providers
Quality lift
41.6
mean composite of providers using it
Cohesion
0.0
strength of nearest seed neighbor

Related tags

Internal Developer Portal 10 co-occurrences Service Catalog 9 co-occurrences Internal Developer Platform 7 co-occurrences Developer Experience 11 co-occurrences Scorecards 6 co-occurrences Software Catalog 5 co-occurrences Self-Service 6 co-occurrences GitOps 5 co-occurrences

Where this tag comes from

Provider tag36
Api tag9

Cohort brief

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The 37 providers in the APIs.io catalog tagged Platform Engineering, scored on the Kin Score. Every figure below is computed from the catalog — nothing here is written.

Providers
37
all scored
Mean Kin Score
34.2
+13.5 vs catalog 20.7
Mean Agent Readiness
18.1
+8.4 vs catalog 9.7
Spread
10.7–67.8
median 32.7 · σ 12.7
How the 37 split by band
Exemplar 1Strong 0Developing 12Thin 14Emerging 9Minimal 1
Facet averages, against the whole catalog
FacetThis cohortCatalogDifferenceScored
Contract Quality 40.8 17.5 +23.3 37
Access Clarity 33.4 22.3 +11.1 37
Operational Transparency 22.3 11.3 +11 37
Developer Ergonomics 28.9 17.9 +11 37
Discoverability 70.5 60.4 +10.1 37
Contract Governance 12.2 6.4 +5.8 37

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) 27% 16% +11
MCP server (first-party) 5% 7% -2
Agent Skills 0% 0% 0
OAuth scopes 11% 9% +2
Security 100% 88% +12
Arazzo workflows 0% 2% -2
Governance rules 32% 13% +19

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 Akuity 67.8
  2. 2 Nuon 53.7
  3. 3 Release 50.7
  4. 4 Amazon Proton 50.6
  5. 5 Choreo 49.1
  6. 6 Dream Sports 48.2
  7. 7 Crossplane 46
  8. 8 Cycloid 45
  9. 9 Port 44.1
  10. 10 Devtron 43.3
Top by Agent Readiness
  1. 1 Dream Sports 41
  2. 2 Allianz Future Cloud Platform 30.9
  3. 3 Devtron 30.8
  4. 4 Humanitec 30.1
  5. 5 OpsLevel 28.3
  6. 6 Akuity 28.2
  7. 7 Nuon 27.1
  8. 8 Release 25.6
  9. 9 Cycloid 25.4
  10. 10 Choreo 24.8
All 37 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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