---
type: "newsletter"
title: "APIs.io"
handle: "apisio"
owner: "Kin Lane (@kinlane)"
canonical_url: "https://usecommune.com/n/apisio"
markdown_url: "https://usecommune.com/n/apisio.md"
archive_url: "https://usecommune.com/n/apisio/archive"
chat_url: "https://usecommune.com/n/apisio/chat"
articles_total: 12
articles_listed: 12
---

# APIs.io

## Recent articles

The 12 most recent of 12 published articles. Full index: https://usecommune.com/n/apisio/archive.md

- 2026-10-12 - [The Demand Report — Issue #13](https://usecommune.com/n/apisio/a/oqy6qnCm) - The Demand Report issue #13 cover — agents nearly tripled, and the refund question is still climbing. 8,978 MCP searches, an all-time high; 59 searches for refunds, the top human term; 60,502 bounces 
- 2026-10-05 - [The Demand Report — Issue #12](https://usecommune.com/n/apisio/a/8CxksHjE) - The Demand Report issue #12 cover — half a million requests, and the people in them asked how to take money back. 516,891 requests, a record; 48 searches for refunds, new to the top hundred; 3,508 age
- 2026-09-28 - [The Demand Report — Issue #11](https://usecommune.com/n/apisio/a/MxceWsAD) - The Demand Report issue #11 cover — the crawler came back and the agents kept climbing. 5,551 MCP searches, a second consecutive all-time high; Stripe the most-searched name at 89; 15,050 bounces off 
- 2026-09-21 - [The Demand Report — Issue #10](https://usecommune.com/n/apisio/a/9wKgNJLQ) - The Demand Report issue #10 cover — the noise left and the agents stayed. Requests fell 23%, distinct questions rose 8%, and 4,754 of them came from agents, an all-time high.
- 2026-09-14 - [The Demand Report — Issue #09](https://usecommune.com/n/apisio/a/FoFqZui2) - The Demand Report issue #09 cover — demand arrived as a stack, not a lookup. Five terms, 978 requests, one resilience stack: outage, network status, flight tracking, emergency alerts, satellite imager
- 2026-09-07 - [The Demand Report #08 — discovery is free, and judgement is what people tried to buy](https://usecommune.com/n/apisio/a/vvYMHvRk) - The Demand Report issue #08 cover — discovery is free; judgement is what people tried to buy. 13,090 attempts on the paid surface, 27 gated resources reached for, and the first pro and business tier r
- 2026-08-24 - [The Demand Report — Issue #06](https://usecommune.com/n/apisio/a/bBHorUn5) - The Demand Report issue #06 cover — the scarcest layer in the API economy is not contracts, it is permissions. 3,858 gated-resource attempts, 9.1% of providers publish scopes, 26,891 providers indexed
- 2026-08-17 - [The Demand Report #05 — one in sixteen searches is now an agent](https://usecommune.com/n/apisio/a/MNyXfVwR)
- 2026-08-10 - [The Demand Report #04 — agent search hits an all-time high](https://usecommune.com/n/apisio/a/644FHeau)
- 2026-08-05 - [The Demand Report — Issue #03](https://usecommune.com/n/apisio/a/cPzbqKAG)
- 2026-07-27 - [The APIs.io Demand Report #02 — the agents showed up (MCP searches +231%)](https://usecommune.com/n/apisio/a/CMSbR6Jp)
- 2026-07-16 - [The Demand Report #01 — 28,042 searches, 1,255 still unanswered](https://usecommune.com/n/apisio/a/J3C7CmAM)