emerging · 0.8 market domain

Rate Limiting

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Providers using this tag (10)

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

Strong 1 Solid coverage with minor gaps
ZuploAI GatewayAPI ManagementGatewaysPlatform1 API62.3
Developing 5 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Cloudflare AI GatewayAI GatewayLLMObservabilityCaching1 API52.3LunarAPI ManagementAPI GatewayAI GatewayMCP Gateway3 APIs50.7Google Cloud EndpointsAPI GatewayAPI ManagementAuthenticationGoogle Cloud1 API42.8UnkeyAPIKeysAuthenticationDeveloper Platform1 API42.2ReqKeyAPIKeysAuthenticationAuthorization1 API40.7
Thin 2 Limited public surface area
ArcjetSecurityBot DetectionWAF1 API37.1Spring Cloud GatewayAPI GatewayCircuit BreakerLoad BalancingMicroservices1 API35.5
Emerging 2 Early or largely undocumented
Alibaba SentinelAlibabaCircuit BreakerFlow ControlJava1 API23.3StellateGraphQLCDNEdge CachingAPI Management1 API23.0

APIs with this tag (11)

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 3 Complete, well-documented, and agent-ready
MongoDB Rate Limiting APIReturns details about rate limit policies for the Atlas Administration API.78.4Cvent Registration Usage and Quota APIRead the account's REST usage tier (Free / Standard / Premium) and current quota consumption before plannin...76.9Red Hat 3scale API ManagementAPI management platform providing access control, rate limiting, analytics, and developer portal capabiliti...70.6
Developing 3 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Lunar API Consumption GatewayThe Lunar API Consumption Gateway is a proxy-based infrastructure layer that routes outbound HTTP/HTTPS API...50.7RapidAPI Rate Limiting APIEndpoints for configuring rate limiting policies to protect APIs from overuse, including request limits, qu...41.7ReqKey REST APIREST API for API key management, usage credits/metering, rate limiting, and traffic analytics. POST/JSON en...40.7
Thin 4 Limited public surface area
AI Rate Limiting Advanced PluginToken-aware rate limiting tailored for LLM traffic, with per-consumer and per-model budgets rather than jus...37.7Cloudflare AI GatewayCloudflare AI Gateway is an edge-deployed proxy that fronts AI providers — Workers AI, Anthropic, Google Ge...37.4Envoy Proxy Rate Limit Service APIThe Envoy Rate Limit Service (RLS) is a gRPC-based API that allows Envoy to delegate rate limiting decision...37.2UC Berkeley API GatewayThe single centralized entry point for API requests across the Berkeley campus, operated by Berkeley IT on ...33.0
Emerging 1 Early or largely undocumented
api.data.govFree API management gateway operated by the U.S. General Services Administration's Technology Transformatio...22.2

Companies reaching this through an API (9)

These companies publish an API, specification or operation carrying “Rate Limiting” 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.

AI Gateway Cvent Registration Envoy Proxy Kong AI Gateway MongoDB Public Sector RapidAPI Red Hat University of California, Berkeley

Score breakdown

Frequency
37.0
log-scaled weighted occurrences
Breadth
0.3
spread across providers
Quality lift
50.4
mean composite of providers using it
Cohesion
9.6
strength of nearest seed neighbor

Related tags

AI Gateway 5 co-occurrences API Management 8 co-occurrences API Gateway 9 co-occurrences Observability 6 co-occurrences Authentication 7 co-occurrences

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