niche · -1.6 market industry

Utility

Score 17.9 / 100 22 providers +46 via APIs 51 APIs Search apis.io →

Providers using this tag (22)

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

Strong 1 Solid coverage with minor gaps
Developing 1 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Thin 2 Limited public surface area
Emerging 8 Early or largely undocumented
Minimal 10 Almost no public developer surface

APIs with this tag (51)

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 5 Complete, well-documented, and agent-ready
Strong 9 Solid coverage with minor gaps
Developing 17 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Thin 13 Limited public surface area
Emerging 6 Early or largely undocumented
Minimal 1 Almost no public developer surface

Companies reaching this through an API (46)

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

Accurate Background Agent Health Monitor AhaSend ALTR BackBase Black Forest Labs Celsius Network CHAOSS Cisco Umbrella Cito CS2 API Coins.ph Context.dev EDB Everbridge GC AI GreyNoise Intelligence HealthSherpa LoyaltyLion Monocrawl Naver Nuix Nym Technologies Onecli Optilogic Oracle APEX PagoPA PassiveLogic PokéAPI PolySign PrintNode Qorevia Renaissance Scalar Sendle Shodan SocialCrawl Soda SparkyFitness Steam StepFun STRING Tensor Ticket Tailor University of Waikato Verdaccio Zinnia

Score breakdown

Frequency
56.3
log-scaled weighted occurrences
Breadth
0.5
spread across providers
Quality lift
16.3
mean composite of providers using it
Cohesion
2.9
strength of nearest seed neighbor

Where this tag sits

Energy broader Utilities broader

Related tags

Natural Gas 13 co-occurrences Smart Meter 6 co-occurrences Electric 5 co-occurrences Green Button 5 co-occurrences Electricity 6 co-occurrences Energy 21 co-occurrences Fortune 500 12 co-occurrences Profiles 5 co-occurrences

Where this tag comes from

Api tag51
Provider tag22
Openapi tag38
Openapi op tag118

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