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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.

agent ready

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.

Kin Score

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.

Kin Score Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
Composite quality — 52.7/100 · developing
Contract Quality 16.4 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 7.4 / 20
Commercial Clarity 5.8 / 20
Operational Transparency 6.8 / 13
Governance 8.8 / 12
Discoverability 7.5 / 10
Agent readiness — 48/100 · agent ready
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 15 / 15
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

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.

Scroll within the panel for all 15 ·

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 COLLECTION

Envoy AI Gateway API

OPEN COLLECTION

Pricing 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

2 plans

PLANS

Rate 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

3 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 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

FINOPS

Semantic 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

0 classes · 10 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral 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

6 rules · 5 warnings

SPECTRAL

JSON 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

10 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Envoy Cluster

17 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Envoy Listener

14 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Envoy Route Configuration

10 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Security 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.

Envoy Authentication

http · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Envoy Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS

SECURITY

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.

Envoy Agentic Access

23 operations · 9 acting · 2 human-in-the-loop

23 operations · 9 acting

AGENTIC

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

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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