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Virtualization

Score 18.6 / 100 40 providers +10 via APIs 17 APIs Search apis.io →
Business capabilities this tag reaches
Information Technology Management 3

Providers using this tag (40)

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

Strong 3 Solid coverage with minor gaps
NutanixCloud ManagementHyperconvergedInfrastructure2 APIs65.8Cisco IntersightInfrastructureCloud OperationsData CenterCompute11 APIs63.2Smol MachinesCompanyMicroVMSandbox2 APIs56.6
Developing 10 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
VMwareCloud ComputingContainer ManagementHybrid CloudInfrastructure1 API51.3CitrixApplication DeliveryDesktop as a ServiceNetworking7 APIs39.8SlideCompanyBackupDisaster RecoveryBusiness Continuity1 API51.4BroadcomCloud InfrastructureGatewaysManagementNetworks3 APIs48.4OxideCloud ComputingInfrastructureCompute1 API47.8VersCompanyComputeMicroVM1 API47.0ControlPlaneCompanyCloudArtificial Intelligence12 APIs42.0KubeVirtCloud-NativeIncubatingKubernetesMigration2 APIs41.0IncusContainersVirtual MachinesLinux1 API40.3Veritas InfoScaleClusteringData ManagementDisaster RecoveryHigh Availability13 APIs39.8
Thin 13 Limited public surface area
Scale ComputingEdge ComputingHyperconverged InfrastructureInfrastructure Management2 APIs39.0Solaris ZonesContainersKernel ZonesOperating SystemOracle9 APIs37.5SimpliVityCompanyBig DataHyperconverged Infrastructure1 API32.7Parallels (SWSoft)CompanyRemote DesktopApplication Delivery1 API31.4Proxmox VEKVMContainersLXC1 API27.4ParallelsCompanyRemote DesktopVDI1 API26.6VagrantDevOpsDeveloper EnvironmentsBox2 APIs38.7Apache CloudStackApacheCloudInfrastructure-as-a-ServiceInfrastructure4 APIs38.0Platform9CompanyInfrastructurePrivate CloudOpenStack1 API37.8OpenStackOpenStackCloud PlatformInfrastructure-as-a-ServiceOpen Source2 APIs36.1FirecrackerAmazon Web ServicesContainersMicroVMOpen Source1 API35.0Google Cloud VMware EngineComputeGoogle CloudMigrationPrivate Cloud1 API33.5HyporiCompanySecurityMobile1 API28.5
Emerging 4 Early or largely undocumented
TintriCompanyStorageData ManagementInfrastructure1 API23.6NanoVMsCompanyUnikernelsCloud Infrastructure24.9Green Hills SoftwareCompanyEmbedded SystemsReal-Time Operating SystemsRTOS13.5KerysCompanyCybersecurityType 1 Hypervisor11.0
Minimal 9 Almost no public developer surface
PlatespinCompanyWorkload MigrationData Center2.6GreenBytesCompanyStorageData Deduplication0.0UnideskCompanyInfrastructureDesktop Virtualization4.8Bedrock SystemsCompanySecurityCybersecurityHypervisor4.5LimaContainersLinuxmacOS4.2CloudPhysicsCompanyEnterpriseAnalytics3.4QumranetCompanyKVMSPICE2.6CloudsimpleCompanyDefunctAcquiredCloud Computing0.0CloudSwitchCompanyInfrastructureCloudCloud Migration0.0
Unrated 1 Not yet scored
Calista TechnologiesCompanyDesktop VirtualizationGPU

APIs with this tag (17)

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 3 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...81.5VM-Series Licensing APIA REST API for licensing VM-Series virtual firewalls that do not have direct internet access to the Palo Al...68.1Hyper-V Management APIAPIs for managing Hyper-V virtualization platform including virtual machines, virtual switches, and virtual...66.7
Strong 3 Solid coverage with minor gaps
IBM Cloud VMware SolutionsDeploy and manage VMware workloads on IBM Cloud infrastructure with automated provisioning and lifecycle ma...64.9Cisco Intersight Virtualization APIThe virtualization API from Cisco Intersight — 48 operation(s) for virtualization.63.2NetBox Labs Virtualization APIThe virtualization API from NetBox Labs — 15 operation(s) for virtualization.62.3
Developing 4 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Virtual Infrastructure JSON APIHTTP and JSON based wire protocol as an alternative to SOAP and XML for vCenter Server 8.0 Update 1 and lat...51.3vSphere Web Services APIComprehensive SOAP-based API providing access to all vSphere management functionality including virtual mac...51.3NetScaler SDX NITRO APIThe NetScaler SDX NITRO API provides programmatic access to configure and manage NetScaler SDX appliances v...50.9Dell OpenManage Integration for VMware vCenter APIRESTful API for the OpenManage Integration for VMware vCenter (OMIVV), enabling automation of Dell PowerEdg...43.4
Thin 6 Limited public surface area
SC//HyperCore REST APIOn-appliance REST API exposed by every SC//HyperCore (HC3) clustered node for automating virtual machines, ...39.0Vagrant Cloud Ruby ClientAn official Ruby library that wraps the Vagrant Cloud API, providing a convenient interface for managing bo...38.7Vagrant Plugin SDKThe Vagrant Plugin SDK enables developers to build plugins that extend Vagrant with custom commands, provid...38.7NetApp ONTAP Tools for VMware vSphere APIREST API for managing ONTAP tools for VMware vSphere, enabling storage provisioning, virtual machine lifecy...38.4NetBox Virtualization APIThe virtualization API from NetBox — 13 operation(s) for virtualization.35.7Proxmox VE APIREST-style management API for Proxmox VE covering nodes, virtual machines, containers, storage, networking,...27.4
Emerging 1 Early or largely undocumented
Kata ContainersKata Containers provides secure, lightweight, CRI-compatible virtualized containers, combining the speed of...21.2

Companies reaching this through an API (10)

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.

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

Score breakdown

Frequency
44.8
log-scaled weighted occurrences
Breadth
0.6
spread across providers
Quality lift
36.0
mean composite of providers using it
Cohesion
0.0
strength of nearest seed neighbor

Related tags

VMware 7 co-occurrences Virtual Machines 8 co-occurrences VDI 5 co-occurrences VMs 5 co-occurrences Hybrid Cloud 5 co-occurrences Volumes 6 co-occurrences Disaster Recovery 5 co-occurrences Hosts 5 co-occurrences

Where this tag comes from

Provider tag40
Api tag17

Cohort brief

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The 34 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
34
of 40 in the catalog
Mean Kin Score
34.3
+11.5 vs catalog 22.8
Mean Agent Readiness
16.7
+3.4 vs catalog 13.3
Spread
3.4–65.8
median 37.7 · σ 16
How the 34 split by band
Exemplar 0Strong 3Developing 10Thin 13Emerging 4Minimal 4
Facet averages, against the whole catalog
FacetThis cohortCatalogDifferenceScored
Developer Ergonomics 43.1 22.1 +21 34
Contract Quality 31.1 18.2 +12.9 34
Operational Transparency 22.9 12.4 +10.5 34
Discoverability 64.7 57.9 +6.8 34
Contract Governance 13.4 9.4 +4 34
Access Clarity 26.6 25 +1.6 34

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% 16% -7
MCP server (first-party) 6% 14% -8
Agent Skills 0% 0% 0
OAuth scopes 9% 13% -4
Security 94% 98% -4
Arazzo workflows 0% 2% -2
Governance rules 63% 35% +28

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 Nutanix 65.8
  2. 2 Cisco Intersight 63.2
  3. 3 Smol Machines 56.6
  4. 4 Slide 51.4
  5. 5 VMware 51.3
  6. 6 Broadcom 48.4
  7. 7 Oxide 47.8
  8. 8 Vers 47
  9. 9 ControlPlane 42
  10. 10 KubeVirt 41
Top by Agent Readiness
  1. 1 Broadcom 37.5
  2. 2 Scale Computing 35.5
  3. 3 Vers 29.9
  4. 4 Solaris Zones 29.8
  5. 5 Cisco Intersight 28.4
  6. 6 Oxide 28.1
  7. 7 Slide 25.6
  8. 8 Smol Machines 24.7
  9. 9 Apache CloudStack 24.6
  10. 10 Google Cloud VMware Engine 24.6
All 40 members of this roster resolve to a provider in the catalog; 34 carry a score (85%). The figures above describe the scored members only.
Coverage caveat. 26 of 34 scored members had under half their catalog-attributable points satisfied at all (catalog_earned / catalog_max < 0.5). They are INCLUDED in the mean above. A large share here means the cohort mean is partly a measurement of how far our enrichment reached, not only of how these providers publish.Generated from the catalog build of 7 November 2026, across 38912 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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