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Virtual Machines

Score 23.8 / 100 17 providers +14 via APIs 24 APIs Search apis.io →
Variants seen in the corpus: Virtual MachinesVirtualMachines

Providers using this tag (17)

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

Strong 5 Solid coverage with minor gaps
NexGen CloudCompanyCloudGPUArtificial Intelligence3 APIs64.3Amazon EC2Cloud ComputingComputeInfrastructure-as-a-ServiceInfrastructure1 API62.8CoastyCompanyComputer UseAI AgentsAutomation1 API59.6TensorDockGPUCloudMarketplaceCompute1 API56.7Azure Virtual MachinesCloud ComputingComputeInfrastructure-as-a-ServiceInfrastructure1 API54.4
Developing 4 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Azure DevTest LabsAzureDevelopmentInfrastructureLabs1 API47.6Google Cloud Compute EngineComputeGoogle CloudInfrastructure-as-a-ServiceInfrastructure1 API46.0KubeVirtCloud-NativeIncubatingKubernetesMigration2 APIs44.5IncusContainersVirtualizationLinux1 API43.6
Thin 7 Limited public surface area
SkytapCompanyCloudIBM PowerInfrastructure-as-a-Service1 API39.2CUDO ComputeGPUCloud ComputeInfrastructure1 API37.9Scale ComputingEdge ComputingHyperconverged InfrastructureVirtualizationInfrastructure Management4 APIs36.4FluenceCompanyCrypto Web3Cloud ComputeDePIN1 API35.9exe.devCompanyDeveloper ToolsCloud Computing1 API32.0Unto LabsCompanyCryptoBlockchainLayer 12 APIs31.8Machine0CompanyCloudInfrastructure1 API29.9
Emerging 1 Early or largely undocumented
Kata ContainersContainersIsolationKubernetesOpen-Source1 API25.9

APIs with this tag (24)

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Exemplar 1 Complete, well-documented, and agent-ready
Microsoft Azure VirtualMachines APIThe VirtualMachines API from Microsoft Azure — 41 operation(s) for virtualmachines.73.3
Strong 3 Solid coverage with minor gaps
TensorDock Instances APIThe current TensorDock Instances API (v2) at https://dashboard.tensordock.com/api/v2/instances for creating...56.7TensorDock Virtual Machines APIDeploy, list, start, stop, modify, and delete virtual machines56.7Azure Virtual Machines Virtual Machines APIOperations for creating, updating, deleting, and managing the lifecycle of Azure Virtual Machines including...54.4
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.49.8Hyper-V Management APIAPIs for managing Hyper-V virtualization platform including virtual machines, virtual switches, and virtual...48.3Azure DevTest Labs VirtualMachines APIThe VirtualMachines API from Azure DevTest Labs — 15 operation(s) for virtualmachines.47.6KubeVirt VirtualMachines APIOperations for managing VirtualMachine (VM) resources. A VirtualMachine defines the desired state and confi...44.5Amazon EC2Scalable virtual servers in the cloud.40.8Commvault Virtual Machines APIManage virtual machine backup and recovery40.0Veeam Backup for Microsoft Azure REST APIREST API for Veeam Backup for Microsoft Azure, providing programmatic access to backup and restore operatio...39.4
Thin 11 Limited public surface area
Skytap Cloud REST APIREST API for managing Skytap environments (configurations), VMs, networks, templates, users, projects, asse...39.2Apache CloudStack Virtual Machines APIVirtual machine lifecycle management operations.38.1CUDO Compute Virtual Machines APIThe Virtual Machines API from CUDO Compute — 10 operation(s) for virtual machines.37.9SC//HyperCore REST APIOn-appliance REST API exposed by every SC//HyperCore (HC3) clustered node for automating virtual machines, ...36.4Voltage Park Virtual Machines APIDeploy and manage on-demand GPU virtual machines and instant VMs.36.3Fly.io Machines APIThe Fly.io Machines API is a low-level REST interface for provisioning and managing Fly Machines, which are...34.7Broadcom Virtual Machines APIOperations for managing virtual machines32.6Inspur Cloud Elastic Cloud Server (ECS) APIREST API for Inspur Cloud's elastic compute service: create, start, stop, reboot, resize, rebuild and delet...32.0SimpliVity virtual_machines APIA virtual_machine represents a single virtual machine created within an HPE SimpliVity datastore.30.7Machine0 Control PlaneThe machine0 control plane for creating, managing, snapshotting and connecting to persistent cloud VMs. Exp...29.9HashiCorp VagrantVagrant is the command line utility for managing the lifecycle of virtual machines for isolated, consistent...29.2
Emerging 2 Early or largely undocumented
Kata ContainersKata Containers is an open source container runtime that uses lightweight virtual machines to provide the s...25.9Nebius Compute APIThe Nebius Compute API provisions and manages virtual machines and GPU clusters with NVIDIA GPUs and Infini...25.6

Companies reaching this through an API (14)

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.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) Apache CloudStack Broadcom Commvault Fly Io HashiCorp Inspur Cloud Microsoft Azure Microsoft Windows Server Nebius Pure Storage SimpliVity Veeam Voltage Park

Score breakdown

Frequency
50.5
log-scaled weighted occurrences
Breadth
0.5
spread across providers
Quality lift
49.9
mean composite of providers using it
Cohesion
7.1
strength of nearest seed neighbor

Related tags

Infrastructure-as-a-Service 7 co-occurrences Virtualization 7 co-occurrences Instances 6 co-occurrences Networks 6 co-occurrences Compute 9 co-occurrences Cloud Computing 5 co-occurrences GPU 6 co-occurrences Storage 12 co-occurrences

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