REST API
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Providers using this tag (188)
Ranked by API Evangelist rating — Exemplar and Strong are expanded by default.
Exemplar 3 Complete, well-documented, and agent-ready
Strong 17 Solid coverage with minor gaps
Developing 74 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Thin 54 Limited public surface area
Emerging 35 Early or largely undocumented
Minimal 5 Almost no public developer surface
APIs with this tag (110)
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 6 Complete, well-documented, and agent-ready
Strong 8 Solid coverage with minor gaps
Developing 38 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Thin 36 Limited public surface area
Emerging 19 Early or largely undocumented
Minimal 3 Almost no public developer surface
Score breakdown
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Cohort brief
Auto-generatedThe 188 providers in the APIs.io catalog tagged REST API, scored on the Kin Score. Every figure below is computed from the catalog — nothing here is written.
| Facet | This cohort | Catalog | Difference | Scored |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Contract Quality | 39.4 | 17.5 | +21.9 | 188 |
| Operational Transparency | 27.5 | 11.3 | +16.2 | 188 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 33.5 | 17.9 | +15.6 | 188 |
| Access Clarity | 37.9 | 22.3 | +15.6 | 188 |
| Discoverability | 71.1 | 60.4 | +10.7 | 188 |
| Contract Governance | 11.5 | 6.4 | +5.1 | 188 |
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.
| Artifact | This cohort | Catalog | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| MCP server (any) | 25% | 16% | +9 |
| MCP server (first-party) | 7% | 7% | 0 |
| Agent Skills | 0% | 0% | 0 |
| OAuth scopes | 16% | 9% | +7 |
| Security | 97% | 88% | +9 |
| Arazzo workflows | 4% | 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.
- 1 OpenMercantil 87.9
- 2 Squarespace 75.8
- 3 Canvas Medical 70.1
- 4 Autoderm – AI Dermatology API 66.2
- 5 SiftingIO 66.1
- 6 Zillapi 63.8
- 7 SugarCRM 63.3
- 8 Beeketing 62.9
- 9 1Lookup 61.9
- 10 Act! CRM 61.5
- 1 Zillapi 58.3
- 2 1Lookup 55.4
- 3 Navattic 49.7
- 4 Jane 48.4
- 5 supernormal 48
- 6 Sweep 46.8
- 7 MongoDB 44.8
- 8 Adobe Photoshop 43.5
- 9 Android 43.5
- 10 OpenMercantil 42.3
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curl "https://apis.io/api/v1/tags/rest-api"
curl "https://apis.io/api/v1/tags?limit=25"
curl "https://apis.io/api/v1/cohorts/tag/rest-api"
curl "https://apis.io/api/v1/cohorts/tag/rest-api/stats" \
-H "X-API-Key: $APIS_IO_KEY"
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