Use Case

Workflow & Process Automation

Automating multi-step business processes.

48 providers 383 APIs 27 declared variants

Wiring steps, approvals, and systems into repeatable processes — long-running orchestration, human-in-the-loop approvals, retries, and exception handling across departments.

48 API providers on the APIs.io network offer workflow & process automation. The highest-rated are Postman, Appian, UiPath, Microsoft Power Automate, Workato.

Providers

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

Exemplar 6 Complete, well-documented, and agent-ready
Postman Postman is the world's leading API platform, used by 35+ million developers to design, build, test, documen... 17 APIs 75.3 Appian Appian is a low-code automation platform that accelerates the creation of high-impact business applications... 7 APIs 72.2 UiPath UiPath is an enterprise automation platform offering robotic process automation (RPA), AI-powered automatio... 6 APIs 71.7 Microsoft Power Automate Microsoft Power Automate is a cloud-based service that helps you create automated workflows between your fa... 1 API 71.3 Workato Workato is an enterprise automation and integration platform that enables organizations to integrate their ... 4 APIs 70.5 Oracle Integration Oracle Integration provides native connectivity to Oracle and non-Oracle Software as a Service (SaaS) and o... 4 APIs 70.3
Strong 12 Solid coverage with minor gaps
Slack Slack is a cloud-based team collaboration platform that provides chat, file sharing, and integrations with ... 39 APIs 68.1 Google Sheets API for reading, writing, and formatting data in Google Sheets. 2 APIs 66.2 Workday Studio Workday Studio is an integrated development environment (IDE) for building custom integrations and applicat... 5 APIs 63.6 Cobalt Traditional integrations are slow, fragmented, and hinder growth. Cobalt is changing that. A next-gen integ... 1 API 63.3 Google Workspace A collection of productivity and collaboration tools from Google including Gmail, Drive, Calendar, Meet, an... 27 APIs 63.2 Adobe Creative Cloud Adobe Creative Cloud is a suite of software and cloud services for graphic design, video editing, web devel... 17 APIs 62.6 Amazon Simple Workflow Service Amazon Simple Workflow Service (Amazon SWF) helps developers build, run, and scale background jobs that hav... 1 API 62.6 Absentify Absentify is an absence management platform integrated with Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Teams that helps bu... 1 API 62.4 Amazon Step Functions Amazon Step Functions is a serverless workflow orchestration service that lets you coordinate distributed a... 1 API 62.1 Adobe Creative Suite Adobe Creative Suite is a collection of professional software applications for graphic design, video editin... 16 APIs 61.5 Apifuse Apifuse is a native integration platform that enables SaaS companies to build and embed integrations direct... 1 API 61.5 PolyAPI Poly, built using cutting-edge AI and Kubernetes-native technology, accelerates development and simplifies ... 1 API 60.7
Developing 20 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Barndoor Barndoor AI is the control plane for agentic AI, providing secure access and governance for AI agents and M... 8 APIs 59.8 Salesforce Automation A collection of Salesforce APIs for automating business processes, sales operations, and customer relations... 15 APIs 59.8 Aladdin Studio Aladdin Studio is BlackRock's developer platform enabling institutional investors, asset managers, and weal... 4 APIs 58.4 Google Docs API for creating, reading, and editing Google Docs documents. 1 API 58.3 Microsoft Power Apps Collection of APIs for Microsoft Power Apps platform enabling low-code application development, automation,... 11 APIs 58.2 AWS Step Functions AWS Step Functions is a serverless orchestration service that lets you coordinate distributed applications ... 1 API 57.6 Activepieces Activepieces is an open-source, no-code automation platform that enables users to streamline workflows by c... 1 API 56.1 Amazon App Studio Amazon App Studio is a generative AI-powered low-code application builder that enables business users to cr... 1 API 55.5 Microsoft Power Platform APIs Collection of APIs for Microsoft Power Platform services including Power Apps, Power Automate, Power BI, Co... 9 APIs 55.1 Autodesk Construction Cloud Autodesk Construction Cloud (ACC) is a unified platform connecting workflows, teams, and data across the co... 7 APIs 54.6 Jobber Jobber is field service management software for home and commercial service businesses, serving 100,000+ bu... 1 API 54.3 Axon Framework Axon Framework is a Java framework for building event-driven microservices using CQRS (Command Query Respon... 1 API 53.4 Amnic Amnic is a cloud cost observability platform providing real-time cost monitoring, anomaly detection, and op... 1 API 52.1 Ricoh USA Ricoh USA is the United States operating company of Ricoh Co., Ltd. — a global imaging, printing, document ... 5 APIs 50.8 Oracle APEX Oracle Application Express (APEX) is a low-code development platform that enables you to build scalable, se... 11 APIs 49.3 Azure Service Bus Azure Service Bus is a fully managed enterprise message broker with message queues and publish-subscribe to... 1 API 49.0 Ariba SAP Ariba provides cloud-based procurement and supply chain collaboration solutions. These APIs enable inte... 80 APIs 47.0 Amazon Nova Amazon Nova is a new generation of state-of-the-art foundation models from Amazon that deliver a compelling... 1 API 46.8 Adobe Suite Collection of Adobe Creative Cloud and Experience Cloud APIs. 23 APIs 45.8 Budibase Budibase is an open source low-code platform for building AI agents, internal tools, and workflow automatio... 1 API 45.2
Thin 8 Limited public surface area
Microsoft Power Apps Microsoft Power Apps is a suite of apps, services, and connectors, as well as a data platform, that provide... 7 APIs 44.3 Anchor Browser Anchor Browser is an AI-native cloud browser infrastructure platform that lets AI agents interact with the ... 3 APIs 40.9 Black Knight (Acquired by ICE — Now ICE Mortgage Technology) Black Knight, Inc. was a Jacksonville-based mortgage technology and data provider whose core franchises wer... 10 APIs 38.6 Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is an enterprise automation solution that provides a framework for buil... 4 APIs 38.0 Agent Skills A collection of resources, APIs, and standards related to AI agent skills and capabilities. Agent skills re... 3 APIs 37.8 Apollo API Documentation Apollo.io provides a comprehensive REST API for sales intelligence with over 210 million contacts and 35 mi... 1 API 37.6 Agentic AI Foundation The Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) is a Linux Foundation project formed in December 2025 that brings together... 2 APIs 36.8 Model Context Protocol (MCP) Model Context Protocol is an open, JSON-RPC 2.0 protocol from Anthropic that standardizes how AI applicatio... 17 APIs 31.3
Emerging 2 Early or largely undocumented
Apache Software Foundation The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that provides open source softwa... 1 API 28.0 Automatisch Automatisch is an open source business automation tool and self-hosted alternative to Zapier that connects ... 1 API 26.7

What Providers Actually Declared

This use case is a canonical term. These are the free-text strings providers wrote in their own apis.yml that map onto it.

API Workflow OrchestrationAgentic Workflow OrchestrationAuthenticated Workflow AutomationAutomated WorkflowsBIM Workflow AutomationBusiness Process AutomationCustom Approval WorkflowsDefault Workflow AutomationDocument Workflow AutomationDocument workflow automation and e-signaturesEnterprise IT AutomationFinOps Workflow AutomationHR teams onboarding employees with automated workflows and remindersHuman Approval WorkflowsHuman Task OrchestrationIT AutomationIT Process AutomationMulti-Agent Workflow OrchestrationMulti-Step Workflow AutomationProcess AutomationProcess automation with Power Automate integrationProcurement workflow automationQuote and Job Workflow AutomationTrading Workflow AutomationUI Workflow AutomationWorkflow AutomationWorkflow Orchestration

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