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What 28,042 people actually searched apis.io for last
week — and where the index came up empty.
Week of June 29 – July 5, 2026 · 8,329 providers
indexed
Most "API news" is somebody's launch. This
isn't that. Every Monday I open up what people
actually typed into
apis.io
— the search box and the MCP server — and read it as a
demand signal for the whole API economy. Nobody else has
this data, so nobody else can send you this email.
Here's what the week told us.
📈 The Demand Report
Search volume jumped hard:
28,042 searches last week, up 49%
week-over-week
(18,819 the week before) across 5,758 unique terms. But
the number I care about most went the other way —
unmet queries fell from 2,955 to 1,255, down
58%.
That gap between "what people ask for" and
"what the index can answer" is the whole game,
and it closed by more than half in a week as new providers
landed.
The demand clustered around two themes:
1. Data infrastructure is the quiet giant.
Look at the top of the rising list — it's a wall of
Data: Data Management (13), Data Platform (10),
Data Protection (10), Data Transfer (10), Data Collection,
Change Data Capture. People aren't searching for
"an API," they're searching for the
plumbing that moves and governs data between
systems.
If you run a data-movement or data-governance API and
you're not in the index, you are invisible to this
demand.
2. Generative + agentic AI keeps pulling.
Image Generation (10), Video Generation, RAG (9),
Knowledge Graph (10), Vector Tiles (9), Human in the Loop,
Anti-Bot. The agent-native crowd is shopping for building
blocks, not chatbots.
🕳️ The Gaps (demand we couldn't answer)
These are the top zero-result searches —
real people, multiple times each, who got
nothing back. Every one is an opening for a
provider to own a category:
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SMART on FHIR
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6
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Healthcare interop is being asked for by name. No
indexed provider answered.
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Edge Computing
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5
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Compute-at-the-edge APIs are wanted and unlisted.
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Urban Air Mobility
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5
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Drone / eVTOL airspace APIs — a whole frontier,
zero coverage.
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Video Generation
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5
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The AI gap: image gen is indexed, video gen
isn't.
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Change Data Capture
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4
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Ties straight to the Data-infrastructure demand
above.
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FX Trading
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4
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Real-time foreign-exchange APIs.
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Freight Payment
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4
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Logistics fintech, unanswered.
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kWh Rates
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4
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Energy-pricing data — an emerging climate/energy
ask.
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If you build in one of these lanes, this is your
invitation.
Add your API to the index in about two minutes:
apis.io/add
— or point your agent at the
apis.io MCP server
and have it submit for you.
🆕 New to the Index
The arrivals board — providers profiled into the catalog
this week, one industry at a time:
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Autodesk — 33 APIs behind the design
platform (Construction & Real Estate)
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Pluralsight — 30 APIs of learning +
engineering metrics (Education)
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Soracom — the IoT connectivity
control plane (IoT & Robotics)
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Chainstack — multi-chain node
infrastructure (Blockchain & Web3)
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DocuSign — the agreement cloud as six
APIs (Legal)
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Herald — one API across many
insurance carriers (Insurance)
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Duffel — nine APIs and the
flight-booking flow
(Travel & Hospitality)
Full profiles publish daily on the
apis.io blog
through July 13.
⭐ Rated This Week: Soracom
Every provider in the index carries a composite rating
across six facets — contract quality, developer
ergonomics, commercial clarity, operational transparency,
governance, discoverability. This week's standout is
quietly excellent, not flashy:
Soracom — 62.9 / 100 · Band: STRONG 🟢
The IoT connectivity control plane scores in the top band
because it does the unglamorous things right:
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Commercial clarity: 84.2 — you can
actually tell what it costs and how it's
packaged.
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Governance: 65.8 — a real, public
OpenAPI 3.0 spec maintained in the
soracom-cli
GitHub repo, not a PDF.
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Contract quality: 57.6 · Developer ergonomics:
60.9
— solid, coverage-aware REST surface.
Where it leaves points on the table:
operational transparency (36.8) — no
strong public status/reliability signal surfaced in the
index. That single facet is the difference between
strong and exemplar, and it's the
cheapest 8 points Soracom could earn.
The rubric, for reference: exemplar 70+ · strong 60–69
· developing 45–59 · thin 30–44 · minimal 0–29.
🤖 Reproduce this yourself
Everything above came out of public apis.io surfaces.
Paste this into your agent (apis.io MCP) to pull the
strong-band IoT providers for yourself:
find_providers(industry=["iot"], band=["strong"], sort="score", limit=10)
Or just hit the search:
https://apis.io/search?q=change+data+capture
8,329 providers indexed. 28,042 searches. 1,255 still
unanswered.
See a gap that's yours? →
apis.io/add
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