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Service Mesh

Score 22.7 / 100 36 providers +8 via APIs 34 APIs Search apis.io →

Providers using this tag (36)

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

Exemplar 1 Complete, well-documented, and agent-ready
CalicoCNIContainerseBPFKubernetes1 API71.0
Strong 3 Solid coverage with minor gaps
Solo.ioCompanyAPI GatewayKubernetes5 APIs62.3KongAPI GatewayAI GatewayAI ConnectivityAgent Gateway2 APIs58.0GlooAPI GatewayCloud-NativeDeveloper PortalEnvoy4 APIs56.3
Developing 10 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
BuoyantAI ObservabilityKubernetesLinkerdmTLS3 APIs52.5AWS App MeshDeprecatedEnvoyMicroservicesNetworking1 API51.5Gloo MeshIstioKubernetesMulti-ClusterOpen-Source2 APIs48.9Amazon App MeshMicroservicesNetworking2 APIs44.4EnvoyCloud-NativeLoad BalancingProxy3 APIs44.0Apache DubboApacheGoJavaMicroservices1 API43.4KumaEnvoyKubernetesMicroservicesSecurity1 API43.2Amazon VPC LatticeMicroservicesService Networking73 APIs43.0Envoy GatewayAPI GatewayCNCFEnvoyKubernetes3 APIs42.6TetrateEnterpriseEnvoyIstioKubernetes1 API40.8
Thin 14 Limited public surface area
HashiCorp ConsulACLConfigurationHealth CheckingKey-Value Store1 API38.9LinkerdKubernetesmTLSObservabilitySecurity3 APIs38.6Google Cloud Service MeshGoogle CloudIstioKubernetesMicroservices13 APIs38.2IstioCNCFKubernetesMicroservicesOpen-Source3 APIs37.7Consul ConnectConsulEnvoyHashiCorpIntentions1 API36.4VMware TanzuCloud-NativeContainersEnterpriseKubernetes2 APIs36.4Google AnthosContainer PlatformHybrid CloudKubernetesMulti-Cloud1 API36.1APIClarityAPI ObservabilityAPI SecurityAPI Traffic AnalysisCisco5 APIs35.3Ambient MeshIstioKubernetesZero Trust1 API35.0Scalable ServicesAPI GatewayCloud-NativeContainersDistributed Systems1 API33.7IsovalentCompanyNetworkingKuberneteseBPF2 APIs32.9Scalable ArchitectureCloud ArchitectureCloud-NativeDistributed SystemsHigh Availability8 APIs32.8Traefik MeshKubernetesOpen-SourceSMI1 API31.1MesheryCloud-NativeCNCFKubernetes28.9
Emerging 6 Early or largely undocumented
Open Service MeshCloud-NativeEnvoyKubernetesMicroservices1 API24.5Service Mesh Interface (SMI)KubernetesTraffic PolicyTraffic Management4 APIs22.6GreymatterEnterpriseKubernetesNetworking3 APIs19.5MOSNProxyAPI GatewayCloud-Native1 API18.7MerbridgeCNCFeBPFNetworkingPerformance1 API18.3NGINX Service MeshContainer NetworkingEnd of SaleF5Kubernetes1 API12.0
Minimal 2 Almost no public developer surface
RESTful MicroservicesArchitectureDistributed SystemsMicroservicesREST8.9OctarineCompanySecurityKubernetesCloud-Native5.0

APIs with this tag (34)

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 →

Strong 2 Solid coverage with minor gaps
Kong MeshKong Mesh is an enterprise-grade service mesh built on Kuma and Envoy, providing universal service mesh cap...58.0Gloo MeshGloo Mesh is an enterprise service mesh management platform from Solo.io built on Istio, providing multi-cl...56.3
Developing 11 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...53.5Buoyant CloudBuoyant Cloud is the hosted control surface for Linkerd fleets — health checks, golden metrics, multi-clust...52.5Buoyant Enterprise Linkerd (BEL)Buoyant Enterprise Linkerd is the enterprise-supported distribution of Linkerd with additional features inc...52.5Linkerd Service MeshLinkerd is a CNCF-graduated service mesh for Kubernetes that transparently adds mutual TLS encryption, late...52.5Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh APIRed Hat OpenShift Service Mesh, based on Istio, Kiali, Jaeger, and Prometheus, provides traffic management,...49.1Gloo Mesh CoreGloo Mesh Core extended a single Istio service mesh with insights, operational tooling and lifecycle manage...48.9Gloo Mesh EnterpriseGloo Mesh Enterprise (documented as "Gloo Mesh (Gloo Platform APIs)", current version 2.14, released 2026-0...48.9Traefik MeshLightweight service mesh built on Traefik Proxy. Offers traffic management and observability for service-to...42.5Tetrate Service Bridge Platform APIThe Tetrate Service Bridge (TSB) Platform API provides programmatic management of the TSB control plane, in...40.8Tetrate Service Bridge Security APIThe TSB Security API provides configuration resources for enforcing security policies in a Tetrate Service ...40.8Tetrate Service Bridge Traffic APIThe TSB Traffic API provides configuration resources for managing service-to-service traffic within a Tetra...40.8
Thin 16 Limited public surface area
Envoy Proxy Rate Limit Service APIThe Envoy Rate Limit Service (RLS) is a gRPC-based API that allows Envoy to delegate rate limiting decision...39.1Google Cloud Network Security APIThe Network Security API manages security policies for Cloud Service Mesh, including authorization policies...38.2Google Cloud Service Mesh xDS Control Plane APICloud Service Mesh uses the open-source xDS v3 control plane API to distribute configuration to Envoy sidec...38.2Istio Mesh Config APIThe Istio Mesh Config API (istio.mesh.v1alpha1) provides global configuration for the Istio service mesh co...37.7Istio Operator APIThe Istio Operator API (istio.operator.v1alpha1) defines the IstioOperator custom resource used to install,...37.7Istio Telemetry APIThe Istio Telemetry API (telemetry.istio.io) provides configuration resources for managing observability wi...37.7Ambient MeshAmbient Mesh provides a sidecar-less service mesh via the Kubernetes Gateway API and Istio ambient mode. It...35.0A10 Thunder Kubernetes Connector (TKC)The Thunder Kubernetes Connector (TKC) runs inside Kubernetes and configures upstream Thunder ADC objects a...34.3Consul APIHashiCorp Consul provides service discovery, health checking, key-value storage, and service mesh capabilit...33.9Envoy Admin APIEnvoy Proxy's administration API for inspecting and modifying Envoy runtime configuration, stats, clusters,...33.7Istio APIIstio's configuration APIs define traffic management, security policy, and observability for microservice m...33.7Envoy Proxy Admin APIEnvoy is a high-performance, open-source edge and service proxy, and the underlying data plane for Istio, L...32.8Istio Service Mesh APIIstio is the leading open-source service mesh providing traffic management, security (mTLS), and observabil...32.8Linkerd APILinkerd is a lightweight, security-first service mesh for Kubernetes. Built on Rust-based micro-proxy (link...32.8HCP Consul APIThe HCP Consul API enables management of HCP Consul clusters, including provisioning, scaling, and federati...32.1HashiCorp ConsulConsul is a service networking solution that enables teams to manage secure network connectivity between se...29.2
Emerging 5 Early or largely undocumented
Open Service MeshService mesh control plane for Kubernetes that implements the Service Mesh Interface (SMI) specification, p...24.5Greymatter Platform APIThe Greymatter Platform API provides programmatic access to configure and manage the Greymatter zero trust ...19.5Greymatter Service Connectivity APIThe Greymatter Service Connectivity layer provides APIs for connecting services across all environments inc...19.5MOSNMOSN is a cloud-native network proxy that supports multiple protocols (HTTP/1.1, HTTP/2, gRPC), dynamic rou...18.7MerbridgeMerbridge uses eBPF to accelerate service mesh data planes by replacing iptables-based traffic interception...18.3

Companies reaching this through an API (8)

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

A10 Networks Amazon ECS Envoy Proxy HashiCorp HashiCorp Cloud Platform Red Hat OpenShift Scalable Systems Traefik Labs

Score breakdown

Frequency
49.7
log-scaled weighted occurrences
Breadth
1.0
spread across providers
Quality lift
41.7
mean composite of providers using it
Cohesion
11.4
strength of nearest seed neighbor

Related tags

Envoy 11 co-occurrences Traffic Management 11 co-occurrences mTLS 8 co-occurrences Istio 7 co-occurrences Multi-Cluster 6 co-occurrences Kubernetes 33 co-occurrences Microservices 13 co-occurrences Service Discovery 5 co-occurrences

Where this tag comes from

Api tag34
Provider tag36

Cohort brief

Auto-generated

The 35 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
35
all scored
Mean Kin Score
37.7
+13.8 vs catalog 23.9
Mean Agent Readiness
20
+8 vs catalog 12
Spread
8.9–71
median 37.7 · σ 13.5
How the 35 split by band
Exemplar 1Strong 3Developing 10Thin 14Emerging 6Minimal 1
Facet averages, against the whole catalog
FacetThis cohortCatalogDifferenceScored
Contract Quality 39.8 19.8 +20 35
Developer Ergonomics 41.4 23.4 +18 35
Operational Transparency 28.6 14 +14.6 35
Contract Governance 14.1 6.4 +7.7 35
Discoverability 64.8 61.2 +3.6 35
Access Clarity 28 26.5 +1.5 35

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
ArtifactThis cohortCatalogDifference
MCP server (any) 14% 10% +4
MCP server (first-party) 11% 13% -2
Agent Skills 0% 0% 0
OAuth scopes 9% 11% -2
Security 97% 97% 0
Arazzo workflows 0% 2% -2
Governance rules 57% 14% +43

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. 1 Calico 71
  2. 2 Solo.io 62.3
  3. 3 Kong 58
  4. 4 Gloo 56.3
  5. 5 Buoyant 52.5
  6. 6 AWS App Mesh 51.5
  7. 7 Gloo Mesh 48.9
  8. 8 Amazon App Mesh 44.4
  9. 9 Envoy 44
  10. 10 Apache Dubbo 43.4
Top by Agent Readiness
  1. 1 Calico 42.1
  2. 2 Solo.io 37.6
  3. 3 AWS App Mesh 37.1
  4. 4 Gloo 34.4
  5. 5 Kong 33.2
  6. 6 APIClarity 32.5
  7. 7 Amazon App Mesh 29.5
  8. 8 Gloo Mesh 28.5
  9. 9 Envoy 27.3
  10. 10 Traefik Mesh 26.7
All 36 members of this roster resolve to a scored provider in the catalog.Generated from the catalog build of 15 September 2026, across 27661 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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