Protobuf
Providers using this tag (12)
Ranked by API Evangelist rating — Exemplar and Strong are expanded by default.
Strong 1 Solid coverage with minor gaps
Developing 4 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Thin 4 Limited public surface area
Emerging 2 Early or largely undocumented
Unrated 1 Not yet scored
APIs with this tag (30)
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 2 Complete, well-documented, and agent-ready
Strong 1 Solid coverage with minor gaps
Developing 12 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Tailor Platform Operator APIThe Tailor Platform control plane. A single tailor.v1.OperatorService with 254 RPCs covering organizations,...bitdrift Public APIThe bitdrift Capture public API — schema-first protobuf service definitions exposed over gRPC, Connect, and...Antimetal Agent APIs (Protobuf)Public protobuf/Connect definitions for the Antimetal system agent — the component that connects customer i...Picarro Edge — SAM FOUP gRPC APIThe first-party gRPC/ProtoBuf interface Picarro publishes for external access to Picarro SAM (semiconductor...Picarro Platform Server APIThe gRPC interface to the host computer underneath a Picarro SAM deployment. `platformserver` exposes NetCo...Gloo Mesh EnterpriseGloo Mesh Enterprise (documented as "Gloo Mesh (Gloo Platform APIs)", current version 2.14, released 2026-0...LinQ Wallet Public APIgRPC / Protocol Buffers API for integrating a game with LinQ Wallet services. Covers geo restriction checks...KurrentDB gRPC APIThe primary protocol for KurrentDB. The published protocol buffer definitions cover the v2 streams service ...Envoy API V3The Envoy API v3 is the current stable protobuf-based configuration and extension API for Envoy proxy. It d...Sui gRPC APIThe Sui full-node gRPC API (Protobuf, sui.rpc.v2) exposing LedgerService, StateService, TransactionExecutio...Analog Devices 3D Time-of-Flight SDKThe ADI 3D Time-of-Flight SDK (libaditof, and the ADCAM application layer built on it) drives ADI depth cam...Sora APIgRPC service for collecting, storing and analysing device location time series. DeviceService (5 RPCs) take...
Thin 11 Limited public surface area
FernFern transforms a single API source of truth (OpenAPI, AsyncAPI, Protobuf, OpenRPC, or the Fern Definition ...Proemion CANlink mobile 10000 APIIntegrate the CANlink mobile 10000 telematics control unit with other platforms over an HTTPS/WebSocket pro...Akka gRPCAkka gRPC provides support for building streaming gRPC servers and clients on top of Akka Streams, with cod...Bitquery Kafka StreamsProtobuf-encoded streams of decoded blockchain data delivered via managed Kafka topics. Designed for scale-...Code Protobuf APIThe Code payments gRPC/Protobuf API — account, currency, messaging, and transaction (intent/swap) services ...Redpanda Schema Registry APIThe Redpanda Schema Registry API is a Confluent-Schema-Registry-compatible REST API for managing Avro, JSON...Apicurio RegistryApicurio Registry is a high-performance, runtime registry for schemas and API designs. It stores and manage...LiveKit Signaling Protocol (WebSocket)Bi-directional WebSocket signaling protocol used by LiveKit clients to coordinate WebRTC sessions with the ...Sozu Command APIThe Sozu Command API provides programmatic control of the Sōzu HTTP reverse proxy at runtime. External tool...Protocol BuffersProtocol Buffers (Protobuf) is Google's language-neutral, platform-neutral, extensible mechanism for serial...Helium Protobuf DefinitionsCanonical protocol buffer definitions for Helium message formats used across packet routing, oracles, and r...
Emerging 3 Early or largely undocumented
gRPC and Protocol BuffersgRPC is a high-performance RPC framework using HTTP/2 and Protocol Buffers (Protobuf) as its IDL and wire f...Apicurio RegistryRed Hat's open-source API/schema registry that stores and validates OpenAPI, AsyncAPI, JSON Schema, Avro, P...Retrofit ConvertersPluggable serialization converters for Retrofit supporting Gson, Moshi, Jackson, Kotlinx Serialization, JAX...
Companies reaching this through an API (27)
These companies publish an API, specification or operation carrying “Protobuf” 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.
Akka
Analog Devices
Antimetal
API Linting
API Specifications
Apicurio
bitdrift
Bitquery
Code
Confluent | the Data Streaming Platform
Envoy
Helium Network
Kurrent
Linq.gg
LiveKit
Mysten Labs
Picarro
Proemion
Qlik Sense APIs
Redpanda
RegScale
Retrofit
Rubicon Project
Sift Stack
Sozu
Swift Navigation
Tailor
Score breakdown
Frequency
43.6
log-scaled weighted occurrences
Breadth
0.3
spread across providers
Quality lift
41.7
mean composite of providers using it
Cohesion
13.9
strength of nearest seed neighbor
Related tags
Schema Registry 6 co-occurrences
gRPC 22 co-occurrences
Avro 5 co-occurrences
JSON-Schema 6 co-occurrences
AsyncAPI 6 co-occurrences
Streaming 7 co-occurrences
Cloud 5 co-occurrences
SDK 6 co-occurrences
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