API Management
Grouped by Kin Score band and ranked by composite score within each, with the separate agent-readiness score alongside. Click the scores on any row to open the full facet and dimension breakdown behind both numbers, and click again to close it.
36 providers
Exemplar 2 66.5+ Reference-quality API operations across every facet.
Amazon API Gateway Exemplar agent aware Gateways, Ingress and the Data Plane
Amazon API Gateway is a fully managed service that makes it easy to create, publish, maintain, monitor, and secure APIs at any scale. It acts as the front do...
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Microsoft Azure API Management Exemplar agent aware Full-Stack API Management Platforms
Microsoft Azure API Management is a hybrid, multicloud management platform for APIs across all environments. It is composed of an API gateway (data plane), a...
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Strong 8 54.3 – 66.4 Solid contracts, transparent operations, and an easy start.
Solo.io Strong agent ready Gateways, Ingress and the Data Plane
Solo.io is a cloud-native application-networking company founded in 2017 that builds enterprise and open-source API gateways, service mesh, and agentic-AI in...
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Apigee Strong agent aware Full-Stack API Management Platforms
Apigee is Google Cloud's native API management platform for building, managing, and securing APIs across any use case, environment, or scale. It provides API...
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Boomi Strong agent aware Full-Stack API Management Platforms
Boomi is a leading integration platform that allows organizations to connect applications, data, and people across cloud and on-premise environments. By leve...
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WSO2 Strong agent ready Full-Stack API Management Platforms
WSO2 API Manager is an open-source API management platform supporting REST, SOAP, and GraphQL with flexible hybrid deployment. It provides a unified control ...
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Zuplo Strong agent ready Full-Stack API Management Platforms
Zuplo is the API management platform for developers. Build, deploy, and scale APIs faster with Zuplo.
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Kong Strong agent ready Full-Stack API Management Platforms
Kong is the AI Connectivity Company. Its platform spans Kong Gateway (the open-source API gateway built on NGINX and Lua), Kong Konnect (the SaaS control pla...
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Gravitee Strong agent ready Full-Stack API Management Platforms
Gravitee.io is an open-source API management platform from GraviteeSource, combining a high-performance API Gateway, full-lifecycle API Management, Access Ma...
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Tyk Strong agent ready Full-Stack API Management Platforms
Tyk is an open-source API gateway and management platform supporting REST, GraphQL, gRPC, and Async APIs with a developer portal, analytics, and flexible dep...
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Developing 15 39.3 – 54.2 Real signal across most facets with visible, nameable gaps.
Apidog Developing agent aware Full-Stack API Management Platforms
Apidog is an all-in-one API development platform that connects the entire API lifecycle: visual API design, multi-protocol debugging (HTTP, REST, GraphQL, gR...
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MuleSoft Developing agent aware Full-Stack API Management Platforms
MuleSoft Anypoint Platform is an enterprise integration and API management platform offering an API gateway, design center, exchange marketplace, and monitor...
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Bifrost Developing agent ready Gateways, Ingress and the Data Plane
Bifrost is a high-performance open-source AI gateway that unifies access to 20+ AI providers through a single OpenAI-compatible API. It supports 1,000+ model...
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Red Hat 3scale Developing agent aware Full-Stack API Management Platforms
Red Hat 3scale API Management is an enterprise-grade API management platform that enables organizations to share, secure, distribute, control, and monetize A...
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Google Cloud API Gateway Developing agent aware Gateways, Ingress and the Data Plane
Google Cloud API Gateway enables you to provide secure access to your backend services through a well-defined REST API that is consistent across all of your ...
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Axway Developing agent ready Full-Stack API Management Platforms
Axway provides API management, integration, and security solutions enabling organizations to connect, secure, and manage APIs across hybrid IT environments. ...
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Apache APISIX Developing agent aware Gateways, Ingress and the Data Plane
Apache APISIX is a dynamic, real-time, high-performance cloud-native API gateway built on NGINX and etcd, developed by the Apache Software Foundation. It sup...
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Apinizer Developing agent aware Gateways, Ingress and the Data Plane
Apinizer is an API management platform that provides API gateway, API portal, API testing, monitoring, and security capabilities. It enables organizations to...
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NGINX Developing agent ready Gateways, Ingress and the Data Plane
NGINX is a high-performance open-source web server, reverse proxy, and API gateway widely used for load balancing, SSL termination, caching, and traffic mana...
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Apiman Developing agent aware Full-Stack API Management Platforms
Apiman is an open source API management platform featuring a REST API, manager UI, and standalone developer portal with multi-tenancy, events, notifications,...
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Envoy Developing agent aware Gateways, Ingress and the Data Plane
Envoy is a high-performance, open-source edge and service proxy designed for cloud-native applications and microservice architectures. It provides advanced l...
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TIBCO Developing agent aware Full-Stack API Management Platforms
APIs and services provided by TIBCO Software Inc., a global leader in integration, API management, and analytics software.
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IBM API Connect Developing agent aware Full-Stack API Management Platforms
IBM API Connect is a comprehensive end-to-end API management solution that enables organizations to create, secure, manage, share, monetize, and analyze APIs...
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Envoy Gateway Developing agent aware Gateways, Ingress and the Data Plane
Envoy Gateway is a CNCF project that manages Envoy Proxy as a standalone or Kubernetes-based application gateway. It implements the Kubernetes Gateway API an...
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Traefik Labs Developing agent aware Gateways, Ingress and the Data Plane
Traefik Labs builds cloud-native traffic and API infrastructure - the open-source Traefik Proxy (an ingress controller, reverse proxy, and load balancer for ...
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Thin 8 26.2 – 39.2 Limited machine-readable signal beyond documentation a human can read.
KrakenD Thin agent aware Gateways, Ingress and the Data Plane
KrakenD is a stateless, distributed, high-performance open-source API gateway written in Go, focused on API aggregation, transformation, and security with a ...
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SAP API Management Thin agent aware Full-Stack API Management Platforms
SAP API Management is an API platform that enables organizations to design, import, publish, secure, and monitor APIs. It provides a self-service developer p...
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Spring Cloud Gateway Thin agent aware Gateways, Ingress and the Data Plane
Spring Cloud Gateway provides an intelligent, programmable router built on Spring WebFlux that serves as the entry point to microservice architectures. It of...
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APIIDA Thin agent aware Full-Stack API Management Platforms
APIIDA provides market-leading solutions for multi-vendor, cross-platform federated API management. The APIIDA API Control Plane enables enterprises to disco...
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Software AG Thin agent aware Full-Stack API Management Platforms
Software AG provides enterprise integration and API management through webMethods, a platform for connecting applications, processes, and people across hybri...
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APIPark Thin agent aware Full-Stack API Management Platforms
APIPark is an open-source, cloud-native AI gateway and API developer portal that helps developers and enterprises manage, integrate, and deploy AI and API se...
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Broadcom Thin agent aware Full-Stack API Management Platforms
Broadcom is a global technology company that specializes in the design and manufacturing of semiconductors and other hardware components for a wide range of ...
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Emissary-Ingress Thin agent aware Gateways, Ingress and the Data Plane
Emissary-Ingress is a CNCF incubating Kubernetes-native API gateway built on the Envoy proxy. It provides ingress control, load balancing, authentication, ra...
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Emerging 3 11 – 26.1 More than an index entry but still mostly links rather than artifacts.
APIwiz Emerging human only Full-Stack API Management Platforms
APIwiz is a federated API management platform that streamlines the complete API lifecycle from design through monetization. The low-code platform provides ce...
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Higress Emerging human only Gateways, Ingress and the Data Plane
Higress is a cloud-native API gateway built on Istio and Envoy, providing enterprise-grade API gateway capabilities including traffic management, security, o...
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Netflix Zuul Emerging human only Gateways, Ingress and the Data Plane
Netflix Zuul is an open-source L7 application gateway that provides dynamic routing, monitoring, resiliency, and security for edge services. Originally devel...
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