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Software Development

Score 17.8 / 100 53 providers +2 via APIs 2 APIs Search apis.io →

Providers using this tag (53)

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

Exemplar 4 Complete, well-documented, and agent-ready
Strong 1 Solid coverage with minor gaps
Developing 5 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Thin 4 Limited public surface area
Emerging 10 Early or largely undocumented
Minimal 28 Almost no public developer surface
Unrated 1 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
47.9
log-scaled weighted occurrences
Breadth
1.4
spread across providers
Quality lift
24.8
mean composite of providers using it
Cohesion
3.2
strength of nearest seed neighbor

Related tags

Agile 5 co-occurrences Consulting 9 co-occurrences Project Management 6 co-occurrences CI/CD 5 co-occurrences Developer Tools 14 co-occurrences DevOps 5 co-occurrences AI Agents 10 co-occurrences Project 5 co-occurrences

Where this tag comes from

Provider tag53
Api tag2

Cohort brief

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The 45 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
45
all scored
Mean Kin Score
23
+0.1 vs catalog 22.9
Mean Agent Readiness
10.4
-1.5 vs catalog 11.9
Spread
0–82.8
median 12.5 · σ 22.9
How the 45 split by band
Exemplar 4Strong 1Developing 5Thin 4Emerging 10Minimal 21
Facet averages, against the whole catalog
FacetThis cohortCatalogDifferenceScored
Contract Governance 9.4 6.3 +3.1 45
Access Clarity 29.3 26.5 +2.8 45
Operational Transparency 15.1 13.7 +1.4 45
Developer Ergonomics 22.6 23.2 -0.6 45
Discoverability 57.3 58.1 -0.8 45
Contract Quality 12.4 17.6 -5.2 45

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) 17% 14% +3
MCP server (first-party) 17% 12% +5
Agent Skills 0% 0% 0
OAuth scopes 17% 11% +6
Security 98% 98% 0
Arazzo workflows 9% 2% +7
Governance rules 15% 14% +1

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 Actions 82.8
  2. 2 GitLab 80.8
  3. 3 GitHub 80.3
  4. 4 Atlassian 75.1
  5. 5 Shortcut Software 61.1
  6. 6 Plumma 53.4
  7. 7 Hansoft 47.7
  8. 8 CodeProject 45.4
  9. 9 Lightsprint 42.8
  10. 10 Software 40.1
Top by Agent Readiness
  1. 1 GitHub 59.9
  2. 2 Shortcut Software 55.6
  3. 3 GitHub Actions 50
  4. 4 GitLab 48
  5. 5 Atlassian 42.2
  6. 6 Plumma 34.4
  7. 7 SursaTech 32
  8. 8 CodeProject 27.8
  9. 9 Hansoft 20.7
  10. 10 Mainframe 18.3
All 53 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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