Envoy
Envoy is a high-performance, open-source edge and service proxy designed for cloud-native applications and microservice architectures. It provides advanced load balancing, observability, and traffic management features, and serves as the data plane for many service mesh implementations including Istio.
Real signal across most facets with visible, nameable gaps — the contract exists but is thin, or the portal is good while governance and commercial terms are absent.
API Evangelist profiles Envoy the way a machine reads it — 29 machine-readable artifacts across 15 APIs, pulled from the provider's own public surface and indexed so a developer, an analyst, or an AI agent can evaluate it against every other provider on the network.
Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — Envoy scores 52.7/100 (developing), with a separate agent-readiness read of 48/100 (agent ready). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.
Kin Score
This is the API Evangelist rating — a single, repeatable read computed from the artifacts on this page. Green fill is points earned; the red track is points possible, so every bar shows earned-versus-possible at a glance.
How we profile Envoy
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Envoy. For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.
APIs 15
Each API is captured as its own OpenAPI definition — every operation, parameter, and response. This is the single most useful machine-readable description of what an API does, and it's what lets us score, lint, mock, and generate against it without asking the provider for anything.
Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.
Envoy xDS APIs
The xDS (x Discovery Service) APIs provide dynamic configuration for Envoy proxies via a management server, including LDS, RDS, CDS, EDS, SDS, and ADS. xDS APIs are served over ...
Envoy API V3
The Envoy API v3 is the current stable protobuf-based configuration and extension API for Envoy proxy. It defines the configuration types for all Envoy subsystems including list...
Envoy Gateway API
Envoy Gateway manages Envoy Proxy as a standalone or Kubernetes-based application gateway, implementing and extending the Kubernetes Gateway API. It provides Gateway API extensi...
Envoy Certificates API
TLS certificate inspection endpoints
Envoy Chat API
Chat completions endpoints compatible with the OpenAI Chat API. Routes requests to configured AI backends based on AIGatewayRoute rules.
Envoy Clusters API
Upstream cluster inspection and status endpoints
Envoy Configuration API
Configuration dump and inspection endpoints
Envoy Health API
Health check management endpoints
Envoy Listeners API
Listener inspection and drain endpoints
Envoy Logging API
Log level management endpoints
Envoy Models API
Model listing endpoints for discovering available AI models configured in the gateway routes.
Envoy Runtime API
Runtime settings management endpoints
Envoy Server API
Server management, lifecycle, and information endpoints
Envoy Statistics API
Statistics, metrics, and Prometheus endpoints
Envoy Text Completions API
Legacy text completions endpoints compatible with the OpenAI completions API.
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Open Collections 2
Open, tool-agnostic collections carry the same runnable value as Postman without locking you to one client — the portable, forkable form of the same exercise.
Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).
Envoy Admin API
OPEN COLLECTIONEnvoy AI Gateway API
OPEN COLLECTIONPricing Plans 1
Pricing is part of the interface. Machine-readable plans tell you what a tier costs and includes before you commit — one of the six things the Kin Score reads for commercial clarity.
Published pricing tiers and plan structures.
Envoy Plans Pricing
PLANSRate Limits 1
Rate limits are the difference between a demo that works and a production integration that doesn't fall over. Publishing them is an operational-transparency signal — and a hard requirement for any agent that plans its own throughput.
Documented rate limits and quota policies.
Envoy Rate Limits
RATE LIMITSFinOps 1
Cost, billing, and metering signals let a buyer model the financial operations of an API before it's live. We profile them for the same reason we profile pricing: the money is part of the contract.
Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.
Envoy Finops
FINOPSSemantic Vocabularies 1
JSON-LD contexts give the data shared meaning across APIs. We profile them because semantics are what let a machine reconcile 'customer' here with 'customer' somewhere else.
JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.
Envoy Context
JSON-LDSpectral Rules 1
Governance rulesets we run against this provider's specs — the automated checks behind parts of the score. Profiling them makes the quality bar explicit and re-runnable, not a matter of opinion.
Envoy API Rules
SPECTRALJSON Schema 4
Standalone JSON Schema definitions describe the data models behind the API. We profile them so the shapes are validatable on their own — useful long after a single request is forgotten.
Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.
Envoy Bootstrap Configuration
JSON SCHEMAEnvoy Cluster
JSON SCHEMAEnvoy Listener
JSON SCHEMAEnvoy Route Configuration
JSON SCHEMASecurity Posture 2
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.
Agentic Access 1
An x-agentic-access contract marks which operations are safe for an agent to run on its own and which need a human in the loop. It is the difference between an API an agent can use and one it can use safely.
Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.
Resources
Every other property we hold for Envoy — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.
Get Started 1
Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call
Documentation 5
Reference material describing how the API behaves
Agent Surfaces 1
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Design & Contract 1
Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events
Build 2
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
Access & Security 2
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Operate 2
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Company 3
The organization behind the API
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