emerging · -0.3

x402

Score 22.1 / 100 32 providers 16 APIs Search apis.io →
Variants seen in the corpus: X402x402

Providers using this tag (32)

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

Exemplar 2 Complete, well-documented, and agent-ready
Strong 4 Solid coverage with minor gaps
Developing 16 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Thin 4 Limited public surface area
Emerging 6 Early or largely undocumented

APIs with this tag (16)

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Strong 4 Solid coverage with minor gaps
Developing 10 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Thin 1 Limited public surface area
Emerging 1 Early or largely undocumented

Score breakdown

Frequency
47.6
log-scaled weighted occurrences
Breadth
0.9
spread across providers
Quality lift
48.4
mean composite of providers using it
Cohesion
1.8
strength of nearest seed neighbor

Related tags

Agentic Payments 5 co-occurrences Micropayments 5 co-occurrences Agent Payments 5 co-occurrences agent-native 12 co-occurrences Stablecoins 5 co-occurrences Crypto 5 co-occurrences AI Agents 11 co-occurrences MCP 19 co-occurrences

Where this tag comes from

Provider tag32
Api tag16
Openapi tag3
Openapi op tag21

Cohort brief

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The 32 providers in the APIs.io catalog tagged x402, scored on the Kin Score. Every figure below is computed from the catalog — nothing here is written.

Providers
32
all scored
Mean Kin Score
42.7
+18.9 vs catalog 23.8
Mean Agent Readiness
31.5
+19.9 vs catalog 11.6
Spread
17.7–76.1
median 44.6 · σ 14.2
How the 32 split by band
Exemplar 2Strong 4Developing 16Thin 4Emerging 6Minimal 0
Facet averages, against the whole catalog
FacetThis cohortCatalogDifferenceScored
Developer Ergonomics 50.1 23.3 +26.8 32
Contract Quality 40.1 19.8 +20.3 32
Operational Transparency 29.6 13.9 +15.7 32
Access Clarity 41.1 26.3 +14.8 32
Discoverability 75.6 61 +14.6 32
Contract Governance 13.9 6.3 +7.6 32

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) 72% 10% +62
MCP server (first-party) 72% 9% +63
Agent Skills 0% 0% 0
OAuth scopes 16% 11% +5
Security 97% 97% 0
Arazzo workflows 9% 2% +7
Governance rules 6% 14% -8

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 Drippay 76.1
  2. 2 0xArchive 72.7
  3. 3 Pagesnap 57.1
  4. 4 x402 List API 55.9
  5. 5 ByKaranteli 54.5
  6. 6 Hyperbrowser 54.4
  7. 7 FarmDash Agent Hub 53.5
  8. 8 Grade 51.4
  9. 9 AnyAPI 50.5
  10. 10 Sponge 49.3
Top by Agent Readiness
  1. 1 Drippay 66.1
  2. 2 0xArchive 52.6
  3. 3 AnyAPI 50.2
  4. 4 Sponge 47.5
  5. 5 Figment 41.8
  6. 6 ByKaranteli 38.8
  7. 7 HostDeFi 38.2
  8. 8 CommsHarbor 35.6
  9. 9 Pagesnap 35.1
  10. 10 HookPulse 34.2
All 32 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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