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Service Mesh

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Providers using this tag (33)

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

Exemplar 1 Complete, well-documented, and agent-ready
KongKongAPI GatewayAI GatewayAI Connectivity2 APIs71.8
Strong 4 Solid coverage with minor gaps
Solo.ioCompanyAPI GatewayKubernetes5 APIs61.6GlooAPI GatewayCloud-NativeDeveloper PortalEnvoy4 APIs56.3AWS App MeshDeprecatedEnvoyMicroservicesNetworking1 API55.0CalicoCNIContainerseBPFKubernetes1 API64.9
Developing 8 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
BuoyantAI ObservabilityKubernetesLinkerdmTLS3 APIs52.6Gloo MeshIstioKubernetesMulti-ClusterOpen Source2 APIs45.8KumaEnvoyKubernetesMicroservicesSecurity1 API40.7Amazon VPC LatticeMicroservicesService Networking73 APIs50.7EnvoyEnvoyCloud-NativeLoad BalancingProxy3 APIs42.6IsovalentCompanyNetworkingKuberneteseBPF2 APIs41.2Envoy GatewayAPI GatewayCNCFEnvoyKubernetes3 APIs40.9Apache DubboApacheGoJavaMicroservices16 APIs40.3
Thin 13 Limited public surface area
TetrateEnterpriseEnvoyIstioKubernetes1 API37.7Google Cloud Service MeshGoogle CloudIstioKubernetesMicroservices13 APIs37.0LinkerdKubernetesmTLSObservabilitySecurity3 APIs35.9IstioIstioCNCFKubernetesMicroservices3 APIs34.9Ambient MeshIstioKubernetesZero Trust1 API33.8Consul ConnectConsulEnvoyHashiCorpIntentions1 API33.5Traefik MeshKubernetesOpen SourceSMI1 API28.7Service MeshMicroservicesCloud-NativeKubernetes5 APIs27.0Google AnthosContainer PlatformHybrid CloudKubernetesMulti-Cloud1 API36.8HashiCorp ConsulACLConfigurationHealth ChecksKey-Value Store1 API35.7APIClarityAPI ObservabilityAPI SecurityAPI Traffic AnalysisCisco12 APIs34.4VMware TanzuCloud-NativeContainersEnterpriseKubernetes2 APIs33.5MesheryCloud-NativeCNCFKubernetes28.5
Emerging 5 Early or largely undocumented
Open Service MeshCloud-NativeEnvoyKubernetesMicroservices1 API21.5MOSNProxyAPI GatewayCloud-Native1 API15.7MerbridgeCNCFeBPFNetworkingPerformance1 API15.3SaarasCompanyAPI GatewayKubernetes4 APIs19.9GreymatterEnterpriseKubernetesNetworking3 APIs16.5
Minimal 2 Almost no public developer surface
NGINX Service MeshContainer NetworkingEnd of SaleF5Kubernetes1 API8.8OctarineCompanySecurityKubernetesCloud-Native2.6

APIs with this tag (32)

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 1 Complete, well-documented, and agent-ready
Kong MeshKong Mesh is an enterprise-grade service mesh built on Kuma and Envoy, providing universal service mesh cap...71.8
Strong 2 Solid coverage with minor gaps
Amazon ECS Service Connect APIAmazon ECS Service Connect provides management of service-to-service communication as Amazon ECS configurat...57.1Traefik MeshLightweight service mesh built on Traefik Proxy. Offers traffic management and observability for service-to...55.6
Developing 6 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Buoyant CloudBuoyant Cloud is the hosted control surface for Linkerd fleets — health checks, golden metrics, multi-clust...52.6Buoyant Enterprise Linkerd (BEL)Buoyant Enterprise Linkerd is the enterprise-supported distribution of Linkerd with additional features inc...52.6Linkerd Service MeshLinkerd is a CNCF-graduated service mesh for Kubernetes that transparently adds mutual TLS encryption, late...52.6Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh APIRed Hat OpenShift Service Mesh, based on Istio, Kiali, Jaeger, and Prometheus, provides traffic management,...49.4Gloo Mesh CoreGloo Mesh Core extended a single Istio service mesh with insights, operational tooling and lifecycle manage...45.8Gloo Mesh EnterpriseGloo Mesh Enterprise (documented as "Gloo Mesh (Gloo Platform APIs)", current version 2.14, released 2026-0...45.8
Thin 17 Limited public surface area
Tetrate Service Bridge Platform APIThe Tetrate Service Bridge (TSB) Platform API provides programmatic management of the TSB control plane, in...37.7Tetrate Service Bridge Security APIThe TSB Security API provides configuration resources for enforcing security policies in a Tetrate Service ...37.7Tetrate Service Bridge Traffic APIThe TSB Traffic API provides configuration resources for managing service-to-service traffic within a Tetra...37.7Google Cloud Network Security APIThe Network Security API manages security policies for Cloud Service Mesh, including authorization policies...37.0Google Cloud Service Mesh xDS Control Plane APICloud Service Mesh uses the open-source xDS v3 control plane API to distribute configuration to Envoy sidec...37.0Envoy Proxy Rate Limit Service APIThe Envoy Rate Limit Service (RLS) is a gRPC-based API that allows Envoy to delegate rate limiting decision...35.9Istio Mesh Config APIThe Istio Mesh Config API (istio.mesh.v1alpha1) provides global configuration for the Istio service mesh co...34.9Istio Operator APIThe Istio Operator API (istio.operator.v1alpha1) defines the IstioOperator custom resource used to install,...34.9Istio Telemetry APIThe Istio Telemetry API (telemetry.istio.io) provides configuration resources for managing observability wi...34.9Ambient MeshAmbient Mesh provides a sidecar-less service mesh via the Kubernetes Gateway API and Istio ambient mode. It...33.8HCP Consul APIThe HCP Consul API enables management of HCP Consul clusters, including provisioning, scaling, and federati...28.5A10 Thunder Kubernetes Connector (TKC)The Thunder Kubernetes Connector (TKC) runs inside Kubernetes and configures upstream Thunder ADC objects a...27.4AWS App Mesh APIAWS App Mesh is a managed service mesh that provides application-level networking for microservices on AWS....27.0Consul Connect / Service Mesh APIHashiCorp Consul provides service discovery and a service mesh (Consul Connect) with mutual TLS, intentions...27.0Istio APIIstio is the most widely deployed service mesh. Istio's control plane exposes APIs for traffic management (...27.0Linkerd Admin APILinkerd is a lightweight CNCF-graduated service mesh focused on simplicity and security. Linkerd exposes an...27.0Service Mesh Interface (SMI)SMI is a standard interface for service meshes on Kubernetes. It defines common APIs for traffic policy, tr...27.0
Emerging 6 Early or largely undocumented
HashiCorp ConsulConsul is a service networking solution that enables teams to manage secure network connectivity between se...26.0Open Service MeshService mesh control plane for Kubernetes that implements the Service Mesh Interface (SMI) specification, p...21.5Greymatter Platform APIThe Greymatter Platform API provides programmatic access to configure and manage the Greymatter zero trust ...16.5Greymatter Service Connectivity APIThe Greymatter Service Connectivity layer provides APIs for connecting services across all environments inc...16.5MOSNMOSN is a cloud-native network proxy that supports multiple protocols (HTTP/1.1, HTTP/2, gRPC), dynamic rou...15.7MerbridgeMerbridge uses eBPF to accelerate service mesh data planes by replacing iptables-based traffic interception...15.3

Companies reaching this through an API (7)

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 Traefik Labs

Score breakdown

Frequency
47.9
log-scaled weighted occurrences
Breadth
0.7
spread across providers
Quality lift
38.2
mean composite of providers using it
Cohesion
10.9
strength of nearest seed neighbor

Related tags

Envoy 12 co-occurrences Istio 9 co-occurrences mTLS 8 co-occurrences Traffic Management 9 co-occurrences Multi-Cluster 5 co-occurrences Kubernetes 30 co-occurrences Service Discovery 5 co-occurrences Cloud-Native 15 co-occurrences

Where this tag comes from

Api tag32
Provider tag33

Cohort brief

Auto-generated

The 32 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
32
of 33 in the catalog
Mean Kin Score
37.5
+15.3 vs catalog 22.2
Mean Agent Readiness
20.1
+8.1 vs catalog 12
Spread
8.8–71.8
median 36.3 · σ 14.6
How the 32 split by band
Exemplar 1Strong 4Developing 8Thin 13Emerging 5Minimal 1
Facet averages, against the whole catalog
FacetThis cohortCatalogDifferenceScored
Developer Ergonomics 43 23.2 +19.8 32
Contract Quality 36.8 17.2 +19.6 32
Operational Transparency 31.5 13 +18.5 32
Discoverability 65.1 57.9 +7.2 32
Contract Governance 13.5 6.5 +7 32
Access Clarity 24.5 23.9 +0.6 32

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) 16% 13% +3
MCP server (first-party) 9% 12% -3
Agent Skills 0% 0% 0
OAuth scopes 9% 11% -2
Security 97% 98% -1
Arazzo workflows 0% 2% -2
Governance rules 50% 16% +34

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 Kong 71.8
  2. 2 Calico 64.9
  3. 3 Solo.io 61.6
  4. 4 Gloo 56.3
  5. 5 AWS App Mesh 55
  6. 6 Buoyant 52.6
  7. 7 Amazon VPC Lattice 50.7
  8. 8 Gloo Mesh 45.8
  9. 9 Envoy 42.6
  10. 10 Isovalent 41.2
Top by Agent Readiness
  1. 1 Kong 44.3
  2. 2 AWS App Mesh 36.5
  3. 3 Calico 36.3
  4. 4 Solo.io 34.8
  5. 5 Gloo 34.5
  6. 6 APIClarity 30.7
  7. 7 Traefik Mesh 27.3
  8. 8 Gloo Mesh 26.3
  9. 9 Google Cloud Service Mesh 26.3
  10. 10 Envoy 26
All 33 members of this roster resolve to a provider in the catalog; 32 carry a score (97%). The figures above describe the scored members only.
Coverage caveat. 22 of 32 scored members had under half their catalog-attributable points satisfied at all (catalog_earned / catalog_max < 0.5). They are INCLUDED in the mean above. A large share here means the cohort mean is partly a measurement of how far our enrichment reached, not only of how these providers publish.Generated from the catalog build of 24 October 2026, across 31984 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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  • cohort_statsPRO — the distribution across this tag: mean, median, band split, adoption rates.
  • cohort_rankingsPRO — the leaderboard, on composite AND agent-readiness axes.
  • apis_io_searchSTART HERE — APIs, providers and tags for one query, each with its total.
  • resolveTurn a domain, URL or GitHub org into the provider it belongs to.
  • find_cohortsEvery scored population of providers in the catalog.
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