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Virtualization

Score 19.3 / 100 39 providers +11 via APIs 18 APIs Search apis.io →
Business capabilities this tag reaches
Information Technology Management 1
Variants seen in the corpus: Virtualizationvirtualization

Providers using this tag (39)

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

Strong 2 Solid coverage with minor gaps
Cisco IntersightInfrastructureCloud OperationsData-CenterCompute11 APIs55.8VMwareCloud ComputingContainer ManagementHybrid CloudInfrastructure1 API54.3
Developing 9 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
NutanixCloud ManagementHyperconvergedInfrastructure2 APIs47.9SlideCompanyBackupDisaster RecoveryBusiness Continuity1 API47.4Smol MachinesCompanyMicroVMSandbox2 APIs46.0OxideCloud ComputingInfrastructureCompute1 API45.8KubeVirtCloud-NativeIncubatingKubernetesMigration2 APIs44.5IncusContainersVirtual MachinesLinux1 API43.6CitrixApplication DeliveryDesktop as a ServiceNetworking6 APIs42.7VagrantDevOpsDevelopment EnvironmentsBoxes2 APIs41.0VersCompanyComputeMicroVM1 API39.8
Thin 14 Limited public surface area
Solaris ZonesContainersKernel ZonesOperating SystemsOracle9 APIs38.5OpenStackCloud PlatformInfrastructure-as-a-ServiceOpen-Source2 APIs38.4Veritas InfoScaleClusteringData ManagementDisaster RecoveryHigh Availability13 APIs38.3Apache CloudStackApacheCloudInfrastructure-as-a-ServiceInfrastructure4 APIs38.1FirecrackerContainersMicroVMsOpen-SourceServerless1 API37.5Platform9CompanyInfrastructurePrivate CloudOpenStack1 API36.5Scale ComputingEdge ComputingHyperconverged InfrastructureInfrastructure Management4 APIs36.4Google Cloud VMware EngineComputeGoogle CloudMigrationPrivate Cloud1 API32.8BroadcomCloud InfrastructureGatewaysManagementNetworks3 APIs32.6HyporiCompanySecurityMobile1 API30.8SimpliVityCompanyBig DataHyperconverged Infrastructure1 API30.7Parallels (SWSoft)CompanyRemote DesktopApplication Delivery1 API30.3ParallelsCompanyRemote DesktopVDI1 API27.3NanoVMsCompanyUnikernelsCloud Infrastructure26.5
Emerging 4 Early or largely undocumented
Proxmox VEKVMContainersLXC1 API24.8TintriCompanyStorageData ManagementInfrastructure1 API22.5Green Hills SoftwareCompanyEmbedded SystemsReal-Time Operating SystemsRTOS13.0KerysCompanyCybersecurityType 1 Hypervisor11.4
Minimal 8 Almost no public developer surface
UnideskCompanyInfrastructureDesktop Virtualization6.4Bedrock SystemsCompanySecurityCybersecurityHypervisor6.1LimaContainersLinuxmacOS5.7Calista TechnologiesCompanyDesktop VirtualizationGPU5.0CloudPhysicsCompanyEnterpriseAnalytics5.0GreenBytesCompanyStorageData Deduplication5.0PlatespinCompanyWorkload MigrationData-Center5.0QumranetCompanyKVMSPICE5.0
Unrated 2 Not yet scored
CloudsimpleCompanyDefunctAcquiredCloud ComputingCloudSwitchCompanyInfrastructureCloudCloud Migration

APIs with this tag (18)

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 2 Complete, well-documented, and agent-ready
Stripe Test Helpers APIStripe provides a number of resources for testing your integration. Make sure to test the following use cas...79.7VM-Series Licensing APIA REST API for licensing VM-Series virtual firewalls that do not have direct internet access to the Palo Al...71.1
Strong 5 Solid coverage with minor gaps
LXD REST APIThe REST API used by every LXD client. LXD is Canonical's system container and virtual machine manager; the...64.4IBM Cloud VMware SolutionsDeploy and manage VMware workloads on IBM Cloud infrastructure with automated provisioning and lifecycle ma...60.0Cisco Intersight Virtualization APIThe virtualization API from Cisco Intersight — 48 operation(s) for virtualization.55.8Virtual Infrastructure JSON APIHTTP and JSON based wire protocol as an alternative to SOAP and XML for vCenter Server 8.0 Update 1 and lat...54.3vSphere Web Services APIComprehensive SOAP-based API providing access to all vSphere management functionality including virtual mac...54.3
Developing 7 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
NetScaler SDX NITRO APIThe NetScaler SDX NITRO API provides programmatic access to configure and manage NetScaler SDX appliances v...52.9NetBox Labs virtualization APIThe virtualization API from NetBox Labs — 15 operation(s) for virtualization.51.5Hyper-V Management APIAPIs for managing Hyper-V virtualization platform including virtual machines, virtual switches, and virtual...48.3Dell OpenManage Integration for VMware vCenter APIRESTful API for the OpenManage Integration for VMware vCenter (OMIVV), enabling automation of Dell PowerEdg...46.9Vagrant Cloud Ruby ClientAn official Ruby library that wraps the Vagrant Cloud API, providing a convenient interface for managing bo...41.0Vagrant Plugin SDKThe Vagrant Plugin SDK enables developers to build plugins that extend Vagrant with custom commands, provid...41.0NetApp ONTAP Tools for VMware vSphere APIREST API for managing ONTAP tools for VMware vSphere, enabling storage provisioning, virtual machine lifecy...40.4
Thin 2 Limited public surface area
SC//HyperCore REST APIOn-appliance REST API exposed by every SC//HyperCore (HC3) clustered node for automating virtual machines, ...36.4NetBox virtualization APIThe virtualization API from NetBox — 13 operation(s) for virtualization.29.8
Emerging 2 Early or largely undocumented
Proxmox VE APIREST-style management API for Proxmox VE covering nodes, virtual machines, containers, storage, networking,...24.8Kata ContainersKata Containers provides secure, lightweight, CRI-compatible virtualized containers, combining the speed of...23.8

Companies reaching this through an API (11)

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

Canonical Citrix NetScaler Dell Servers IBM Microsoft Windows Server NetApp NetBox NetBox Labs OpenInfra Foundation Palo Alto Networks Stripe

Score breakdown

Frequency
49.1
log-scaled weighted occurrences
Breadth
1.1
spread across providers
Quality lift
33.7
mean composite of providers using it
Cohesion
0.0
strength of nearest seed neighbor

Related tags

VMware 6 co-occurrences VDI 5 co-occurrences Virtual Machines 7 co-occurrences VMs 5 co-occurrences Hybrid Cloud 5 co-occurrences Hosts 5 co-occurrences Cloud Infrastructure 5 co-occurrences Volumes 5 co-occurrences

Where this tag comes from

Provider tag39
Api tag18
Openapi tag2
Openapi op tag18

Cohort brief

Auto-generated

The 33 providers in the APIs.io catalog tagged Virtualization, scored on the Kin Score. Every figure below is computed from the catalog — nothing here is written.

Providers
33
all scored
Mean Kin Score
32.7
+8.9 vs catalog 23.8
Mean Agent Readiness
16.4
+4.8 vs catalog 11.6
Spread
5–55.8
median 36.5 · σ 14
How the 33 split by band
Exemplar 0Strong 2Developing 9Thin 14Emerging 4Minimal 4
Facet averages, against the whole catalog
FacetThis cohortCatalogDifferenceScored
Developer Ergonomics 42.5 23.3 +19.2 33
Contract Quality 33.2 19.8 +13.4 33
Operational Transparency 20 13.9 +6.1 33
Discoverability 65.7 61 +4.7 33
Contract Governance 8.1 6.3 +1.8 33
Access Clarity 24 26.3 -2.3 33

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) 9% 10% -1
MCP server (first-party) 6% 9% -3
Agent Skills 0% 0% 0
OAuth scopes 9% 11% -2
Security 91% 97% -6
Arazzo workflows 0% 2% -2
Governance rules 34% 14% +20

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 Cisco Intersight 55.8
  2. 2 VMware 54.3
  3. 3 Nutanix 47.9
  4. 4 Slide 47.4
  5. 5 Smol Machines 46
  6. 6 Oxide 45.8
  7. 7 KubeVirt 44.5
  8. 8 Incus 43.6
  9. 9 Citrix 42.7
  10. 10 Vagrant 41
Top by Agent Readiness
  1. 1 Scale Computing 35.4
  2. 2 Cisco Intersight 33.6
  3. 3 Solaris Zones 32.3
  4. 4 Vers 30.5
  5. 5 Incus 26.5
  6. 6 Oxide 26.1
  7. 7 SimpliVity 25.3
  8. 8 VMware 24.8
  9. 9 Apache CloudStack 24.8
  10. 10 Google Cloud VMware Engine 24.8
All 39 members of this roster resolve to a scored provider in the catalog.Generated from the catalog build of 9 September 2026, across 27528 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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