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Exemplar 2 Complete, well-documented, and agent-ready

Microsoft Azure virtual machine APIThe virtual machine API from Microsoft Azure — 7 operation(s) for virtual machine.76.2 Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines APIThe Virtual Machines API from Microsoft Azure — 41 operation(s) for virtual machines.76.2

Strong 4 Solid coverage with minor gaps

NexGen Cloud Virtual Machine APIA virtual machine on Hyperstack is a single-tenant compute instance backed by dedicated GPU and CPU resourc...65.9 TensorDock Instances APIThe current TensorDock Instances API (v2) at https://dashboard.tensordock.com/api/v2/instances for creating...56.5 TensorDock Virtual Machines APIDeploy, list, start, stop, modify, and delete virtual machines56.5 Azure Virtual Machines Virtual Machines APIOperations for creating, updating, deleting, and managing the lifecycle of Azure Virtual Machines including...54.9

Developing 7 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close

Pure Storage Virtual Machines APIThe Virtual Machines API from Pure Storage — 3 operation(s) for virtual machines.52.6 Azure DevTest Labs Virtual Machines APIThe Virtual Machines API from Azure DevTest Labs — 15 operation(s) for virtual machines.48.7 Hyper-V Management APIAPIs for managing Hyper-V virtualization platform including virtual machines, virtual switches, and virtual...48.1 Broadcom Virtual Machines APIOperations for managing virtual machines47.5 KubeVirt Virtual Machines APIOperations for managing VirtualMachine (VM) resources. A VirtualMachine defines the desired state and confi...42.3 Veeam Backup for Microsoft Azure REST APIREST API for Veeam Backup for Microsoft Azure, providing programmatic access to backup and restore operatio...39.5 Apache CloudStack Virtual Machines APIVirtual machine lifecycle management operations.39.4

Thin 10 Limited public surface area

Commvault Virtual Machines APIManage virtual machine backup and recovery39.2 Voltage Park Virtual Machines APIDeploy and manage on-demand GPU virtual machines and instant VMs.38.8 Skytap Cloud REST APIREST API for managing Skytap environments (configurations), VMs, networks, templates, users, projects, asse...37.8 SC//HyperCore REST APIOn-appliance REST API exposed by every SC//HyperCore (HC3) clustered node for automating virtual machines, ...37.2 Fly.io Machines APIThe Fly.io Machines API is a low-level REST interface for provisioning and managing Fly Machines, which are...35.8 CUDO Compute Virtual Machines APIThe Virtual Machines API from CUDO Compute — 10 operation(s) for virtual machines.34.8 Inspur Cloud Elastic Cloud Server (ECS) APIREST API for Inspur Cloud's elastic compute service: create, start, stop, reboot, resize, rebuild and delet...34.0 Machine0 Control PlaneThe machine0 control plane for creating, managing, snapshotting and connecting to persistent cloud VMs. Exp...32.7 SimpliVity Virtual Machines APIA virtual_machine represents a single virtual machine created within an HPE SimpliVity datastore.31.1 HashiCorp VagrantVagrant is the command line utility for managing the lifecycle of virtual machines for isolated, consistent...27.5

Emerging 2 Early or largely undocumented

Kata ContainersKata Containers is an open source container runtime that uses lightweight virtual machines to provide the s...24.3 Nebius Compute APIThe Nebius Compute API provisions and manages virtual machines and GPU clusters with NVIDIA GPUs and Infini...23.9

Companies reaching this through an API (13)

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

Apache CloudStack Broadcom Commvault Fly Io HashiCorp Inspur Cloud Microsoft Azure Microsoft Windows Server Nebius Pure Storage SimpliVity Veeam Voltage Park

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Frequency

49.5

log-scaled weighted occurrences

Breadth

0.5

spread across providers

Quality lift

53.2

mean composite of providers using it

Cohesion

6.6

strength of nearest seed neighbor

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