emerging · 1.7 market domain

Platform Engineering

Score 21.9 / 100 35 providers 7 APIs Search apis.io →

Providers using this tag (35)

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

Exemplar 1 Complete, well-documented, and agent-ready
AkuityGitOpsContinuous DeliveryKubernetesArgoCD8 APIs72.9
Strong 6 Solid coverage with minor gaps
Env0FinOpsInfrastructure as CodeDevOpsCloud1 API64.6BackstageDeveloper PortalInternal Developer PlatformSoftware CatalogOpen Source13 APIs62.8FacetsAutomationInfrastructureOrchestration2 APIs61.5Configure8CatalogCloud CostDeveloper ExperienceDevOps1 API57.7NuonCompanyBYOCDeploymentContinuous Delivery2 APIs55.8Amazon ProtonDevOpsInfrastructure as CodeServerless1 API55.5
Developing 9 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
ReleaseCompanyDeveloper ToolsEphemeral Environments1 API52.6ChoreoAi AppsAPI ManagementCI/CDCloud-Native3 APIs50.3Dream SportsCompanySports TechnologyFantasy SportsOpen Source8 APIs49.7CrossplaneApache 2.0CNCFCloud-NativeCOMPOSITION1 API47.2RancherCluster ManagementContainersKubernetesMulti-Cluster1 API45.2SpaceliftInfrastructure as CodeFinOpsDevOps1 API44.2CycloidAsset InventoryCI/CDCloud Cost ManagementCloud Management1 API42.9OpsLevelDeveloper PortalDeveloper ToolsDevOpsExperience1 API41.9DevtronCompanyDevOpsKubernetesCI/CD1 API40.4
Thin 12 Limited public surface area
CortexSoftware CatalogInternal Developer PortalService CatalogDeveloper Experience1 API37.5CloudQueryCloud InfrastructureCloud Asset InventoryCSPMCloud Governance1 API35.8Rely.ioDeveloper ExperienceInternal Developer PortalSoftware Catalog1 API35.2UpboundCloud InfrastructureCrossplaneDeveloper ExperienceInternal Developer Platform1 API35.2RoadieSoftware CatalogInternal Developer PortalBackstageDeveloper Experience1 API34.1HumanitecDeploymentDevOpsInternal Developer Platform1 API32.8PortInternal Developer PortalService CatalogSelf-Service Actions1 API31.4NorthflankCloud DeploymentDeveloper ExperienceInternal Developer Platform4 APIs30.0CodeNOWCompanyDevOpsSoftware Delivery1 API29.9MesheryCloud-NativeCNCFKubernetesService Mesh28.4ScoreCloud-NativeCNCFWorkload Specification3 APIs28.1GardenKubernetesDeveloper ToolsCI/CD9 APIs26.6
Emerging 6 Early or largely undocumented
Allianz Future Cloud PlatformCloud PlatformEnterpriseFinancial ServicesInsurance5 APIs26.1Software Development LifecycleDevelopment ProcessProject ManagementQuality AssuranceSoftware Engineering7 APIs24.2MendralCompanyDevOpsCI/CDSecurity23.9KratixDeveloper ExperienceInternal Developer PlatformKubernetesOpen Source1 API20.8HarpoonCompanyKubernetesDeploymentDevOps14.1NixpacksBuild ToolsBuildpacksDockerOCI5 APIs13.3
Minimal 1 Almost no public developer surface
AmplicationCompanyBackendCode GenerationDeveloper Tools9.1

APIs with this tag (7)

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
Spacelift GraphQL APISpacelift exposes a GraphQL API for programmatic control of all platform resources including stacks, runs, ...44.2OpsLevel GraphQL APIThe OpsLevel GraphQL API allows you to integrate OpsLevel with your other operational tools, enrich interna...41.9
Thin 3 Limited public surface area
Score SpecificationThe Score Specification (score.yaml) is a declarative, platform-agnostic workload definition format that ca...28.1score-composescore-compose is the reference Score implementation that translates Score YAML workload specifications into...28.1score-k8sscore-k8s is the reference Score implementation that translates Score YAML workload specifications into Kub...28.1
Emerging 2 Early or largely undocumented
Developer Platform APIsAPIs for integrated developer experience (IDP) platforms that unify planning, coding, building, testing, an...24.2KratixKratix is an open-source framework for building internal developer platforms using Kubernetes. Platform tea...20.8

Score breakdown

Frequency
44.5
log-scaled weighted occurrences
Breadth
0.9
spread across providers
Quality lift
47.9
mean composite of providers using it
Cohesion
6.3
strength of nearest seed neighbor

Related tags

Internal Developer Portal 8 co-occurrences Internal Developer Platform 8 co-occurrences Service Catalog 8 co-occurrences Developer Experience 10 co-occurrences Terraform 6 co-occurrences Self-Service 5 co-occurrences Infrastructure as Code 6 co-occurrences DevOps 20 co-occurrences

Where this tag comes from

Provider tag35
Api tag7

Cohort brief

Auto-generated

The 35 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
35
all scored
Mean Kin Score
38.9
+16.0 vs catalog 22.9
Mean Agent Readiness
21.9
+10.0 vs catalog 11.9
Spread
9.1–72.9
median 35.8 · σ 15.3
How the 35 split by band
Exemplar 1Strong 6Developing 9Thin 12Emerging 6Minimal 1
Facet averages, against the whole catalog
FacetThis cohortCatalogDifferenceScored
Contract Quality 38.2 17.6 +20.6 35
Developer Ergonomics 37.7 23.2 +14.5 35
Operational Transparency 26.9 13.7 +13.2 35
Access Clarity 37.7 26.5 +11.2 35
Discoverability 66.8 58.1 +8.7 35
Contract Governance 11.9 6.3 +5.6 35

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) 26% 14% +12
MCP server (first-party) 17% 12% +5
Agent Skills 0% 0% 0
OAuth scopes 14% 11% +3
Security 100% 98% +2
Arazzo workflows 0% 2% -2
Governance rules 31% 14% +17

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 72.9
  2. 2 Env0 64.6
  3. 3 Backstage 62.8
  4. 4 Facets 61.5
  5. 5 Configure8 57.7
  6. 6 Nuon 55.8
  7. 7 Amazon Proton 55.5
  8. 8 Release 52.6
  9. 9 Choreo 50.3
  10. 10 Dream Sports 49.7
Top by Agent Readiness
  1. 1 Backstage 60.4
  2. 2 Dream Sports 41
  3. 3 Facets 39.5
  4. 4 Humanitec 39.1
  5. 5 Configure8 37.1
  6. 6 Nuon 36.4
  7. 7 Allianz Future Cloud Platform 30.9
  8. 8 Devtron 30.8
  9. 9 Env0 29.9
  10. 10 CodeNOW 29.9
All 35 members of this roster resolve to a scored provider in the catalog.Generated from the catalog build of 5 October 2026, across 29093 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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