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Utility

Score 22.3 / 100 55 providers 38 APIs Search apis.io →
Variants seen in the corpus: Utilityutility

Providers using this tag (55)

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

Exemplar 1 Complete, well-documented, and agent-ready
Strong 6 Solid coverage with minor gaps
Developing 15 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Thin 11 Limited public surface area
Emerging 10 Early or largely undocumented
Minimal 12 Almost no public developer surface

APIs with this tag (38)

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 1 Complete, well-documented, and agent-ready
Strong 6 Solid coverage with minor gaps
Developing 15 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Thin 11 Limited public surface area
Emerging 5 Early or largely undocumented

Score breakdown

Frequency
54.5
log-scaled weighted occurrences
Breadth
1.5
spread across providers
Quality lift
38.5
mean composite of providers using it
Cohesion
3.8
strength of nearest seed neighbor

Related tags

Natural Gas 15 co-occurrences Smart Meter 7 co-occurrences Green Button 6 co-occurrences Electric 5 co-occurrences Energy 22 co-occurrences Electricity 6 co-occurrences Fortune 500 13 co-occurrences Application 6 co-occurrences

Where this tag comes from

Api tag38
Provider tag21
Openapi tag28
Openapi op tag81

Cohort brief

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The 55 providers in the APIs.io catalog tagged Utility, scored on the Kin Score. Every figure below is computed from the catalog — nothing here is written.

Providers
55
all scored
Mean Kin Score
31.3
+10.6 vs catalog 20.7
Mean Agent Readiness
18.5
+8.8 vs catalog 9.7
Spread
2.4–68.1
median 33.7 · σ 19.2
How the 55 split by band
Exemplar 1Strong 6Developing 15Thin 11Emerging 10Minimal 12
Facet averages, against the whole catalog
FacetThis cohortCatalogDifferenceScored
Contract Quality 34.9 17.5 +17.4 55
Operational Transparency 21.9 11.3 +10.6 55
Developer Ergonomics 28.3 17.9 +10.4 55
Access Clarity 31.2 22.3 +8.9 55
Discoverability 67.3 60.4 +6.9 55
Contract Governance 10 6.4 +3.6 55

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) 16% 16% 0
MCP server (first-party) 7% 7% 0
Agent Skills 0% 0% 0
OAuth scopes 16% 9% +7
Security 100% 88% +12
Arazzo workflows 4% 2% +2
Governance rules 27% 13% +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.

Top by Kin Score
  1. 1 Context.dev 68.1
  2. 2 Shodan 63.6
  3. 3 Cisco Umbrella 61.1
  4. 4 Sendle 59.9
  5. 5 GreyNoise Intelligence 58.4
  6. 6 ALTR 56.3
  7. 7 GC AI 55.3
  8. 8 Tensor 53.2
  9. 9 Coins.ph 51.2
  10. 10 Nym Technologies 51.2
Top by Agent Readiness
  1. 1 GC AI 58.8
  2. 2 Context.dev 57.7
  3. 3 HealthSherpa 48.9
  4. 4 ALTR 47.9
  5. 5 Coins.ph 38.6
  6. 6 PassiveLogic 37.2
  7. 7 AhaSend 32.3
  8. 8 Cisco Umbrella 31.8
  9. 9 GreyNoise Intelligence 30.6
  10. 10 Nuix 30.6
All 55 members of this roster resolve to a scored provider in the catalog.Generated from the catalog build of 25 August 2026, across 26891 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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