Service Mesh
Providers using this tag (43)
Ranked by API Evangelist rating — Exemplar and Strong are expanded by default.
Exemplar 1 Complete, well-documented, and agent-ready
Developing 8 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Thin 20 Limited public surface area
Emerging 12 Early or largely undocumented
Minimal 2 Almost no public developer surface
APIs with this tag (33)
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 7 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Amazon ECS Service Connect APIAmazon ECS Service Connect provides management of service-to-service communication as Amazon ECS configurat...Kong MeshKong Mesh is an enterprise-grade service mesh built on Kuma and Envoy, providing universal service mesh cap...Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh APIRed Hat OpenShift Service Mesh, based on Istio, Kiali, Jaeger, and Prometheus, provides traffic management,...Tetrate Service Bridge Platform APIThe Tetrate Service Bridge (TSB) Platform API provides programmatic management of the TSB control plane, in...Tetrate Service Bridge Security APIThe TSB Security API provides configuration resources for enforcing security policies in a Tetrate Service ...Tetrate Service Bridge Traffic APIThe TSB Traffic API provides configuration resources for managing service-to-service traffic within a Tetra...Traefik MeshLightweight service mesh built on Traefik Proxy. Offers traffic management and observability for service-to...
Thin 12 Limited public surface area
Google Cloud Network Security APIThe Network Security API manages security policies for Cloud Service Mesh, including authorization policies...Google Cloud Service Mesh xDS Control Plane APICloud Service Mesh uses the open-source xDS v3 control plane API to distribute configuration to Envoy sidec...Istio Mesh Config APIThe Istio Mesh Config API (istio.mesh.v1alpha1) provides global configuration for the Istio service mesh co...Istio Operator APIThe Istio Operator API (istio.operator.v1alpha1) defines the IstioOperator custom resource used to install,...Istio Telemetry APIThe Istio Telemetry API (telemetry.istio.io) provides configuration resources for managing observability wi...A10 Thunder Kubernetes Connector (TKC)The Thunder Kubernetes Connector (TKC) runs inside Kubernetes and configures upstream Thunder ADC objects a...Envoy Proxy Rate Limit Service APIThe Envoy Rate Limit Service (RLS) is a gRPC-based API that allows Envoy to delegate rate limiting decision...HCP Consul APIThe HCP Consul API enables management of HCP Consul clusters, including provisioning, scaling, and federati...Envoy Admin APIEnvoy Proxy's administration API for inspecting and modifying Envoy runtime configuration, stats, clusters,...Istio APIIstio's configuration APIs define traffic management, security policy, and observability for microservice m...Consul APIHashiCorp Consul provides service discovery, health checking, key-value storage, and service mesh capabilit...HashiCorp ConsulConsul is a service networking solution that enables teams to manage secure network connectivity between se...
Emerging 14 Early or largely undocumented
Envoy Proxy Admin APIEnvoy is a high-performance, open-source edge and service proxy, and the underlying data plane for Istio, L...Istio Service Mesh APIIstio is the leading open-source service mesh providing traffic management, security (mTLS), and observabil...Linkerd APILinkerd is a lightweight, security-first service mesh for Kubernetes. Built on Rust-based micro-proxy (link...Gloo MeshGloo Mesh is an enterprise service mesh management platform from Solo.io built on Istio, providing multi-cl...Buoyant Enterprise Linkerd (BEL)Buoyant Enterprise Linkerd is the enterprise-supported distribution of Linkerd with additional features inc...Linkerd Service MeshLinkerd is a CNCF-graduated service mesh for Kubernetes that transparently adds mutual TLS encryption, late...Ambient MeshAmbient Mesh provides a sidecar-less service mesh via the Kubernetes Gateway API and Istio ambient mode. It...Greymatter Platform APIThe Greymatter Platform API provides programmatic access to configure and manage the Greymatter zero trust ...Greymatter Service Connectivity APIThe Greymatter Service Connectivity layer provides APIs for connecting services across all environments inc...Gloo Mesh CoreGloo Mesh Core extends a single Istio service mesh with insights, operational tooling, and lifecycle manage...Gloo Mesh EnterpriseGloo Mesh Enterprise (also called Gloo Platform) is a service mesh management platform built on Istio that ...MerbridgeMerbridge uses eBPF to accelerate service mesh data planes by replacing iptables-based traffic interception...MOSNMOSN is a cloud-native network proxy that supports multiple protocols (HTTP/1.1, HTTP/2, gRPC), dynamic rou...Open Service MeshService mesh control plane for Kubernetes that implements the Service Mesh Interface (SMI) specification, p...
Score breakdown
Frequency
49.6
log-scaled weighted occurrences
Breadth
1.2
spread across providers
Quality lift
38.1
mean composite of providers using it
Cohesion
11.9
strength of nearest seed neighbor
Related tags
Traffic Management 11 co-occurrences
Envoy 9 co-occurrences
mTLS 8 co-occurrences
Istio 7 co-occurrences
Multi-Cluster 6 co-occurrences
Kubernetes 32 co-occurrences
Microservices 13 co-occurrences
Service Discovery 5 co-occurrences
Where this tag comes from
Api tag33
Provider tag35
Cohort brief
Auto-generatedThe 43 providers in the APIs.io catalog tagged Service Mesh, scored on the Kin Score. Every figure below is computed from the catalog — nothing here is written.
Providers
43
all scored
Mean Kin Score
31.8
+11.1 vs catalog 20.7
Mean Agent Readiness
16.5
+6.8 vs catalog 9.7
Spread
5–68.4
median 34 · σ 13.1
How the 43 split by band
Exemplar 1Strong 0Developing 8Thin 20Emerging 12Minimal 2
Facet averages, against the whole catalog
| Facet | This cohort | Catalog | Difference | Scored |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Contract Quality | 39.1 | 17.5 | +21.6 | 43 |
| Operational Transparency | 24.6 | 11.3 | +13.3 | 43 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 29 | 17.9 | +11.1 | 43 |
| Contract Governance | 13 | 6.4 | +6.6 | 43 |
| Discoverability | 65.6 | 60.4 | +5.2 | 43 |
| Access Clarity | 24.5 | 22.3 | +2.2 | 43 |
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
| Artifact | This cohort | Catalog | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| MCP server (any) | 9% | 16% | -7 |
| MCP server (first-party) | 2% | 7% | -5 |
| Agent Skills | 0% | 0% | 0 |
| OAuth scopes | 5% | 9% | -4 |
| Security | 95% | 88% | +7 |
| Arazzo workflows | 0% | 2% | -2 |
| Governance rules | 60% | 13% | +47 |
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 Solo.io 68.4
- 2 Amazon ECS 52.9
- 3 AWS App Mesh 52
- 4 Kong 51.2
- 5 Red Hat OpenShift 47.8
- 6 Amazon App Mesh 46.2
- 7 Amazon VPC Lattice 40.6
- 8 Tetrate 40.6
- 9 Traefik Labs 40.3
- 10 Google Cloud Service Mesh 38.9
Top by Agent Readiness
- 1 Solo.io 37.6
- 2 AWS App Mesh 37.1
- 3 Kong 35.8
- 4 Amazon App Mesh 31.7
- 5 Traefik Mesh 26.7
- 6 Google Cloud Service Mesh 26.5
- 7 APIClarity 25.5
- 8 Envoy 25.5
- 9 Amazon ECS 24.8
- 10 Google Anthos 24.8
All 43 members of this roster resolve to a scored provider in
the catalog.Generated from the catalog build of
25 August 2026, across 26891
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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