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Smart Metering

Score 25.5 / 100 62 providers 5 APIs Search apis.io →

Providers using this tag (62)

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

Strong 7 Solid coverage with minor gaps
Developing 20 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Thin 18 Limited public surface area
Emerging 13 Early or largely undocumented
Minimal 4 Almost no public developer surface

APIs with this tag (5)

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 1 Solid coverage with minor gaps
Thin 3 Limited public surface area
Emerging 1 Early or largely undocumented

Score breakdown

Frequency
50.2
log-scaled weighted occurrences
Breadth
1.6
spread across providers
Quality lift
43.2
mean composite of providers using it
Cohesion
25.9
strength of nearest seed neighbor

Where this tag sits

Energy broader Energy Retail 11 providers

Related tags

Electricity 57 co-occurrences Gas 30 co-occurrences DER 20 co-occurrences Grid 31 co-occurrences Energy Markets 20 co-occurrences Utilities 58 co-occurrences Green Button 15 co-occurrences Renewables 20 co-occurrences

Where this tag comes from

Provider tag62
Api tag5

Cohort brief

Auto-generated

The 62 providers in the APIs.io catalog tagged Smart Metering, scored on the Kin Score. Every figure below is computed from the catalog — nothing here is written.

Providers
62
all scored
Mean Kin Score
35.1
+12.2 vs catalog 22.9
Mean Agent Readiness
20.7
+8.8 vs catalog 11.9
Spread
3.7–63.8
median 35.2 · σ 15.3
How the 62 split by band
Exemplar 0Strong 7Developing 20Thin 18Emerging 13Minimal 4
Facet averages, against the whole catalog
FacetThis cohortCatalogDifferenceScored
Developer Ergonomics 40.9 23.2 +17.7 62
Operational Transparency 29.2 13.7 +15.5 62
Contract Quality 27.1 17.6 +9.5 62
Discoverability 63.9 58.1 +5.8 62
Contract Governance 11.9 6.3 +5.6 62
Access Clarity 30.2 26.5 +3.7 62

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) 2% 14% -12
MCP server (first-party) 2% 12% -10
Agent Skills 0% 0% 0
OAuth scopes 45% 11% +34
Security 100% 98% +2
Arazzo workflows 2% 2% 0
Governance rules 0% 14% -14

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.

All 62 members of this roster resolve to a scored provider in the catalog.Generated from the catalog build of 5 October 2026, across 29093 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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