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Service Mesh

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Providers using this tag (31)

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

Exemplar 3 Complete, well-documented, and agent-ready
KongKongAPI GatewayAI GatewayAI Connectivity2 APIs73.8Amazon VPC LatticeAmazon Web ServicesMicroservicesService Networking73 APIs73.5CalicoCNIContainerseBPFKubernetes1 API67.3
Strong 3 Solid coverage with minor gaps
Solo.ioCompanyAPI GatewayKubernetes5 APIs62.3GlooAPI GatewayCloud-NativeDeveloper PortalEnvoy4 APIs60.4Google Cloud Service MeshGoogle CloudIstioKubernetesMicroservices4 APIs59.7
Developing 8 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Gloo MeshIstioKubernetesMulti-ClusterOpen Source2 APIs51.9BuoyantAI ObservabilityKubernetesLinkerdmTLS3 APIs51.2KumaEnvoyKubernetesMicroservicesSecurity1 API40.4Google AnthosContainer PlatformHybrid CloudKubernetesMulti-Cloud2 APIs54.0EnvoyEnvoyCloud-NativeLoad BalancingProxy3 APIs43.9Apache DubboApacheGoJavaMicroservices1 API42.3Envoy GatewayAPI GatewayCNCFEnvoyKubernetes3 APIs41.9IsovalentCompanyNetworkingKuberneteseBPF2 APIs41.7
Thin 10 Limited public surface area
LinkerdKubernetesmTLSObservabilitySecurity3 APIs37.1TetrateEnterpriseEnvoyIstioKubernetes1 API36.2IstioIstioCNCFKubernetesMicroservices3 APIs34.5Ambient MeshIstioKubernetesZero Trust1 API33.8Consul ConnectConsulEnvoyHashiCorpIntentions1 API33.6Traefik MeshKubernetesOpen SourceSMI1 API30.4HashiCorp ConsulACLConfigurationHealth ChecksKey-Value Store1 API36.9APIClarityAPI ObservabilityAPI SecurityAPI Traffic AnalysisCisco12 APIs36.4VMware TanzuCloud-NativeContainersEnterpriseKubernetes2 APIs32.0MesheryCloud-NativeCNCFKubernetes29.9
Emerging 5 Early or largely undocumented
Open Service MeshCloud-NativeEnvoyKubernetesMicroservices1 API21.9MOSNProxyAPI GatewayCloud-Native1 API15.4MerbridgeCNCFeBPFNetworkingPerformance1 API15.2SaarasCompanyAPI GatewayKubernetes4 APIs20.1GreymatterEnterpriseKubernetesNetworking3 APIs15.6
Minimal 2 Almost no public developer surface
NGINX Service MeshContainer NetworkingEnd of SaleF5Kubernetes1 API7.5OctarineCompanySecurityKubernetesCloud-Native2.6

APIs with this tag (27)

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
Amazon ECS Service Connect APIAmazon ECS Service Connect provides management of service-to-service communication as Amazon ECS configurat...76.0Kong MeshKong Mesh is an enterprise-grade service mesh built on Kuma and Envoy, providing universal service mesh cap...73.8
Strong 3 Solid coverage with minor gaps
Traefik MeshLightweight service mesh built on Traefik Proxy. Offers traffic management and observability for service-to...61.1Google Cloud Network Security APIThe Network Security API manages security policies for Cloud Service Mesh, including authorization policies...59.7Google Cloud Service Mesh xDS Control Plane APICloud Service Mesh uses the open-source xDS v3 control plane API to distribute configuration to Envoy sidec...59.7
Developing 6 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh APIRed Hat OpenShift Service Mesh, based on Istio, Kiali, Jaeger, and Prometheus, provides traffic management,...53.2Gloo Mesh CoreGloo Mesh Core extended a single Istio service mesh with insights, operational tooling and lifecycle manage...51.9Gloo Mesh EnterpriseGloo Mesh Enterprise (documented as "Gloo Mesh (Gloo Platform APIs)", current version 2.14, released 2026-0...51.9Buoyant CloudBuoyant Cloud is the hosted control surface for Linkerd fleets — health checks, golden metrics, multi-clust...51.2Buoyant Enterprise Linkerd (BEL)Buoyant Enterprise Linkerd is the enterprise-supported distribution of Linkerd with additional features inc...51.2Linkerd Service MeshLinkerd is a CNCF-graduated service mesh for Kubernetes that transparently adds mutual TLS encryption, late...51.2
Thin 10 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...36.4Tetrate Service Bridge Platform APIThe Tetrate Service Bridge (TSB) Platform API provides programmatic management of the TSB control plane, in...36.2Tetrate Service Bridge Security APIThe TSB Security API provides configuration resources for enforcing security policies in a Tetrate Service ...36.2Tetrate Service Bridge Traffic APIThe TSB Traffic API provides configuration resources for managing service-to-service traffic within a Tetra...36.2Istio Mesh Config APIThe Istio Mesh Config API (istio.mesh.v1alpha1) provides global configuration for the Istio service mesh co...34.5Istio Operator APIThe Istio Operator API (istio.operator.v1alpha1) defines the IstioOperator custom resource used to install,...34.5Istio Telemetry APIThe Istio Telemetry API (telemetry.istio.io) provides configuration resources for managing observability wi...34.5Ambient MeshAmbient Mesh provides a sidecar-less service mesh via the Kubernetes Gateway API and Istio ambient mode. It...33.8HashiCorp ConsulConsul is a service networking solution that enables teams to manage secure network connectivity between se...29.4HCP Consul APIThe HCP Consul API enables management of HCP Consul clusters, including provisioning, scaling, and federati...29.4
Emerging 6 Early or largely undocumented
A10 Thunder Kubernetes Connector (TKC)The Thunder Kubernetes Connector (TKC) runs inside Kubernetes and configures upstream Thunder ADC objects a...25.9Open Service MeshService mesh control plane for Kubernetes that implements the Service Mesh Interface (SMI) specification, p...21.9Greymatter Platform APIThe Greymatter Platform API provides programmatic access to configure and manage the Greymatter zero trust ...15.6Greymatter Service Connectivity APIThe Greymatter Service Connectivity layer provides APIs for connecting services across all environments inc...15.6MOSNMOSN is a cloud-native network proxy that supports multiple protocols (HTTP/1.1, HTTP/2, gRPC), dynamic rou...15.4MerbridgeMerbridge uses eBPF to accelerate service mesh data planes by replacing iptables-based traffic interception...15.2

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
44.1
log-scaled weighted occurrences
Breadth
0.4
spread across providers
Quality lift
38.8
mean composite of providers using it
Cohesion
10.6
strength of nearest seed neighbor

Related tags

Envoy 11 co-occurrences Istio 8 co-occurrences mTLS 7 co-occurrences Traffic Management 8 co-occurrences Multi-Cluster 5 co-occurrences Kubernetes 29 co-occurrences Cloud-Native 14 co-occurrences CNCF 5 co-occurrences

Where this tag comes from

Api tag27
Provider tag31

Cohort brief

Auto-generated

The 30 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
30
of 31 in the catalog
Mean Kin Score
40
+15.9 vs catalog 24.1
Mean Agent Readiness
21.8
+7.7 vs catalog 14.1
Spread
7.5–73.8
median 37 · σ 17.1
How the 30 split by band
Exemplar 3Strong 3Developing 8Thin 10Emerging 5Minimal 1
Facet averages, against the whole catalog
FacetThis cohortCatalogDifferenceScored
Developer Ergonomics 46.8 24.5 +22.3 30
Contract Quality 38.2 18.6 +19.6 30
Operational Transparency 32.5 13.2 +19.3 30
Discoverability 66.3 59.1 +7.2 30
Contract Governance 16.2 9.7 +6.5 30
Access Clarity 29.3 30 -0.7 30

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) 20% 18% +2
MCP server (first-party) 13% 16% -3
Agent Skills 0% 0% 0
OAuth scopes 10% 13% -3
Security 100% 99% +1
Arazzo workflows 0% 1% -1
Governance rules 67% 36% +31

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 73.8
  2. 2 Amazon VPC Lattice 73.5
  3. 3 Calico 67.3
  4. 4 Solo.io 62.3
  5. 5 Gloo 60.4
  6. 6 Google Cloud Service Mesh 59.7
  7. 7 Google Anthos 54
  8. 8 Gloo Mesh 51.9
  9. 9 Buoyant 51.2
  10. 10 Envoy 43.9
Top by Agent Readiness
  1. 1 Kong 44.3
  2. 2 Amazon VPC Lattice 42.9
  3. 3 Calico 40.4
  4. 4 Google Cloud Service Mesh 35.8
  5. 5 Solo.io 34.8
  6. 6 Gloo 34.5
  7. 7 Google Anthos 34.1
  8. 8 APIClarity 30.7
  9. 9 Gloo Mesh 29.3
  10. 10 Traefik Mesh 27.3
All 31 members of this roster resolve to a provider in the catalog; 30 carry a score (97%). The figures above describe the scored members only.
Coverage caveat. 21 of 30 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 14 November 2026, across 41591 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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