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Retrieval

Score 22.9 / 100 20 providers +23 via APIs 28 APIs Search apis.io →
Workflows using this tag
Mixpanel Track Event and Segment · Mixpanel Mixpanel Update Profile and Query Engagement · Mixpanel Mixpanel Refresh Lookup Table and Track Enriched Event · Mixpanel Mixpanel GDPR Data Deletion Flow · Mixpanel Mixpanel Annotate Release and Measure Retention · Mixpanel Mixpanel Provision Warehouse Source and Trigger Import · Mixpanel Mixpanel Update Group Profile and Query Insights · Mixpanel Mixpanel Cohort-Driven Segmentation · Mixpanel
Business capabilities this tag reaches
Compliance Management 1

Providers using this tag (20)

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

Strong 2 Solid coverage with minor gaps
Space FrontiersResearchScholarly SearchFull-Text Search1 API63.4AirweaveCompanyArtificial IntelligenceSearchRAG1 API54.6
Developing 7 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
MixedbreadArtificial IntelligenceEmbeddingsRerankingSearch12 APIs53.1SeltzCompanyWeb SearchAI Infrastructure1 API49.0VectaraArtificial IntelligenceAgentsCorporaEmbeddings1 API48.4ZeroEntropyCompanyEnterprise SaasArtificial IntelligenceSearch1 API48.2TopkCompanySearchVector SearchHybrid Search3 APIs43.1Mem0MemoryAI AgentsAgent MemoryContext1 API50.0KenshoCompanyArtificial IntelligenceMachine LearningFinancial Data4 APIs46.3
Thin 6 Limited public surface area
RagieArtificial IntelligenceRAGVector Search1 API37.5VectorizeArtificial IntelligenceRAGVectorizationEmbeddings1 API33.0WikiKVKnowledge ManagementRAGAI AgentsMCP2 APIs32.7SuperlinkedVectorsEmbeddingsVector Search1 API26.2ZepMemoryAI AgentsKnowledge GraphTemporal Graph1 API37.1Samaya AIArtificial IntelligenceFinancial ServicesInvestment ResearchAI Agents1 API35.1
Emerging 3 Early or largely undocumented
LlamaCloudArtificial IntelligenceDocument ParsingExtractionIndexing5 APIs25.5MirielCompanyArtificial IntelligenceContext Engine7 APIs24.9Crossing MindsCompanyArtificial IntelligenceRecommendationsPersonalization1 API24.8
Minimal 2 Almost no public developer surface
xmemCompanyArtificial IntelligenceMemoryLLM1 API10.0INF TechCompanyArtificial IntelligenceMachine LearningLLM5.7

APIs with this tag (28)

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
Twilio Retrieval APIThe Retrieval APIs resolve profiles and return relevant memory at the moment an agent needs them. Profile l...91.6OpenAI Vector stores APIThe Vector stores API from OpenAI — 10 operation(s) for vector stores.84.5
Strong 7 Solid coverage with minor gaps
Machine Library MCP ServerHosted Streamable-HTTP MCP server at https://mcp.machinelibrary.ai (legacy https://mcp.spacefrontiers.org s...63.4Perplexity Embeddings APIThe Embeddings API generates high-quality text embeddings for semantic search and retrieval, offering both ...61.6Kensho Grounding Agent (Alpha)Data retrieval service that translates natural-language queries into structured retrieval tasks across S&P ...61.3NVIDIA NIM Embeddings APIOpenAI-compatible embeddings endpoint (/v1/embeddings) backed by NVIDIA NeMo Retriever text embedding model...60.6NVIDIA NIM Reranking APINeMo Retriever cross-encoder reranking endpoint (/v1/ranking) for scoring candidate passages against a quer...60.6Predoc Retrieval APIThe Retrieval API from Predoc — 2 operation(s) for retrieval.55.0Gloat Retrieval APIThe Retrieval API from Gloat — 3 operation(s) for retrieval.54.5
Developing 8 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Mixpanel Retrieval APISubmit and check data retrieval requests54.0Gemini Embedding APIGenerate text embedding vectors for semantic search, classification, clustering, and retrieval tasks using ...53.5Factiva Retrieval APIProvides retrieval functionality that returns licensed news articles as part of trusted data sources in a r...52.7LlamaParse Retrieval APIThe Retrieval API from LlamaParse — 4 operation(s) for retrieval.52.1Microsoft Copilot Retrieval APIRetrieve relevant text chunks from SharePoint, OneDrive, and Copilot connectors content for Retrieval Augme...50.8Amazon Bedrock Agent Runtime APIThe Amazon Bedrock Agent Runtime API provides operations for invoking Bedrock agents and retrieving content...48.8Kensho LLM-ready API (kfinance)LLM-ready API that connects LLMs, agents, and AI applications to S&P Global's trusted data through flexible...46.3Pryon Retrieval APIThe Retrieval API from Pryon — 4 operation(s) for retrieval.42.5
Thin 4 Limited public surface area
AI RAG Injector PluginAutomates retrieval-augmented generation by injecting retrieved context into prompts at the gateway, so app...37.0kapa.ai Retrieval APISemantic retrieval and keyword search.36.6llamaindex Retrieval APIQuery and retrieve content from indexed pipelines.35.8WikiKV A2A AgentAgent-to-Agent endpoint (JSON-RPC and HTTP+JSON bindings at /a2a, interface protocolVersion 1.0) exposing o...32.7
Emerging 7 Early or largely undocumented
PubMed Retrieval APIOperations for retrieving records from Entrez databases25.9LlamaCloud Retrieval APIQuery a managed index for relevant chunks.25.5Jumio Retrieval APIRetrieves stored transaction details, scanned documents, similarity scores, and decision audit history for ...24.5Voyage AI Rerank APIReranking endpoint that scores a list of candidate documents against a query and returns relevance scores. ...23.5ACM Digital Library Content Retrieval APIIndividual publications, conference papers, and journal articles in the ACM Digital Library are accessible ...22.8KAITO Retrieval APIRetrieve relevant nodes from a RAG index.21.0Augment Context EngineProprietary indexing and retrieval engine that gives Augment's agents codebase-aware context — intelligent ...19.8

Companies reaching this through an API (23)

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

ACM Digital Library Amazon Bedrock Augment Code Factiva Gloat Google Gemini Jumio KAITO kapa.ai Kong AI Gateway Llamaindex LlamaParse Microsoft Copilot Mixpanel NVIDIA NIM OpenAI Perplexity Predoc Pryon PubMed S&P Global Twilio Voyage AI

Score breakdown

Frequency
47.4
log-scaled weighted occurrences
Breadth
0.4
spread across providers
Quality lift
39.3
mean composite of providers using it
Cohesion
20.4
strength of nearest seed neighbor

Related tags

RAG 23 co-occurrences Vector Search 10 co-occurrences Semantic Search 5 co-occurrences Embeddings 11 co-occurrences LLM 18 co-occurrences Foundation Models 5 co-occurrences Pipelines 6 co-occurrences Generative AI 8 co-occurrences

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