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Software Development

Score 18.3 / 100 59 providers +2 via APIs 2 APIs Search apis.io →

Providers using this tag (59)

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

Exemplar 1 Complete, well-documented, and agent-ready
Strong 4 Solid coverage with minor gaps
Developing 3 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Thin 9 Limited public surface area
Emerging 13 Early or largely undocumented
Minimal 27 Almost no public developer surface
Unrated 2 Not yet scored

APIs with this tag (2)

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 →

Thin 1 Limited public surface area
Emerging 1 Early or largely undocumented

Companies reaching this through an API (2)

These companies publish an API, specification or operation carrying “Software Development” 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.

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Score breakdown

Frequency
49.2
log-scaled weighted occurrences
Breadth
1.6
spread across providers
Quality lift
23.1
mean composite of providers using it
Cohesion
6.6
strength of nearest seed neighbor

Related tags

Agile 9 co-occurrences Methodology 6 co-occurrences Project Management 13 co-occurrences Consulting 7 co-occurrences Quality Assurance 6 co-occurrences API Testing 5 co-occurrences CI/CD 8 co-occurrences Testing 8 co-occurrences

Where this tag comes from

Provider tag59
Api tag2

Cohort brief

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The 49 providers in the APIs.io catalog tagged Software Development, scored on the Kin Score. Every figure below is computed from the catalog — nothing here is written.

Providers
49
all scored
Mean Kin Score
22.9
-1.0 vs catalog 23.9
Mean Agent Readiness
9.8
-2.2 vs catalog 12
Spread
4.3–67.3
median 15.1 · σ 17.8
How the 49 split by band
Exemplar 1Strong 4Developing 3Thin 9Emerging 13Minimal 19
Facet averages, against the whole catalog
FacetThis cohortCatalogDifferenceScored
Contract Governance 9.5 6.4 +3.1 49
Discoverability 61.1 61.2 -0.1 49
Contract Quality 18.3 19.8 -1.5 49
Operational Transparency 12.5 14 -1.5 49
Access Clarity 24.4 26.5 -2.1 49
Developer Ergonomics 21 23.4 -2.4 49

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) 10% 10% 0
MCP server (first-party) 10% 13% -3
Agent Skills 0% 0% 0
OAuth scopes 12% 11% +1
Security 98% 97% +1
Arazzo workflows 6% 2% +4
Governance rules 29% 14% +15

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 GitHub 67.3
  2. 2 Atlassian 65.6
  3. 3 GitLab 64.4
  4. 4 Shortcut Software 58.1
  5. 5 Plumma 57.5
  6. 6 Hansoft 46.5
  7. 7 CodeProject 45.9
  8. 8 Lightsprint 39.9
  9. 9 Software 37.6
  10. 10 Ellipsis 35.5
Top by Agent Readiness
  1. 1 Shortcut Software 52
  2. 2 GitHub 50.7
  3. 3 Atlassian 47.3
  4. 4 GitLab 45.7
  5. 5 Plumma 34.4
  6. 6 CodeProject 27.8
  7. 7 Test-Driven Development 21.5
  8. 8 Hansoft 20.7
  9. 9 Test Suites 19.8
  10. 10 Test Cases 19.8
All 59 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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