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API statistics.
The catalog, measured.

Documentation, SDKs and specification resources across our provider catalog. Eight findings with downloadable evidence.

Research by the Apideck team · Analysis date: · Historical catalog fields · First edition

18,250Provider profiles
3,973With documentation URLs
846With SDK resource URLs

What developers can find in the catalog

Each bar counts profiles containing at least one qualifying URL. A profile can appear in multiple groups.

API references1,454 · 8.0%
SDK resources846 · 4.6%

Eight findings you can reproduce

All denominators refer to the same 18,250 provider profiles in this export.

Finding 1#profiles

Catalog profiles

18,250

API Tracker’s catalog coverage analysis dated 2026-10-21 found 18,250 provider profiles.

Provider profiles are not a count of API endpoints, active APIs or unique products.

Source & field definitions ↗

Developer documentation

3,973

API Tracker’s catalog coverage analysis dated 2026-10-21 found 3,973 profiles with a recorded developer-portal URL among 18,250 catalog profiles.

This measures recorded catalog links, not validated availability or the proportion of providers supporting this capability.

Source & field definitions ↗
Finding 3#reference

API references

1,454

API Tracker’s catalog coverage analysis dated 2026-10-21 found 1,454 profiles with a recorded API-reference URL among 18,250 catalog profiles.

This measures recorded catalog links, not validated availability or the proportion of providers supporting this capability.

Source & field definitions ↗
Finding 4#sdks

SDK resources

846

API Tracker’s catalog coverage analysis dated 2026-10-21 found 846 profiles with at least one SDK resource URL among 18,250 catalog profiles.

This measures recorded catalog links, not validated availability or the proportion of providers supporting this capability.

Source & field definitions ↗

Specification resources

46

API Tracker’s catalog coverage analysis dated 2026-10-21 found 46 profiles with at least one structured specification URL among 18,250 catalog profiles.

This measures recorded catalog links, not validated availability or the proportion of providers supporting this capability.

Source & field definitions ↗
Finding 6#status

Status pages

1,541

API Tracker’s catalog coverage analysis dated 2026-10-21 found 1,541 profiles with a recorded status-page URL among 18,250 catalog profiles.

This measures recorded catalog links, not validated availability or the proportion of providers supporting this capability.

Source & field definitions ↗
Finding 7#changelog

API changelogs

35

API Tracker’s catalog coverage analysis dated 2026-10-21 found 35 profiles with a recorded API-changelog URL among 18,250 catalog profiles.

This measures recorded catalog links, not validated availability or the proportion of providers supporting this capability.

Source & field definitions ↗
Finding 8#limits

API limits documentation

110

API Tracker’s catalog coverage analysis dated 2026-10-21 found 110 profiles with a recorded API-limits URL among 18,250 catalog profiles.

This measures recorded catalog links, not validated availability or the proportion of providers supporting this capability.

Source & field definitions ↗

Which API profiles list an official MCP?

121Catalog profiles with official MCP evidence
125Catalog profiles with any reviewed MCP
6With archived community references

We have documented official MCP implementations for 121 profiles in the 18,250-profile export, plus 23 curated profiles outside that export. These are reviewed associations, not the total number of providers offering MCP.

Missing evidence means unknown—not “no MCP.” The catalog includes legacy products, developer tools and companies without a confirmed public API. We cannot use it to conclude that most APIs do or do not have official MCPs.

What the expanded review covered

  • 110 of 110 entries in our publisher collection now link to existing profiles. All collection entries now have a reviewed profile association; connection requirements were documented for the 21 entries added in revision 3, and revision 4 adds Fathom, matched by the endpoint in its own MCP documentation.
  • All 81 previously excluded associations were reviewed; 27 now have explicit official evidence.
  • Official and community counts overlap where a provider has a current official implementation and an archived reference. Archived references are not evidence of active support.

Provider ownership and implementation scope are reviewed separately. Developer tools are labeled separately from API/data access. Official status does not promise full API coverage, endpoint availability or security. Source-review dates are preserved per entry; this expansion does not reclassify registry records.

Browse the reviewed associations

Download expanded associations and evidence (JSON) · Original 30-profile review

This revision is separate from the eight frozen catalog-field findings above. Profiles are counted once within each group; multiple implementations do not inflate the profile count.

Source, definitions & limitations

Source: API Tracker’s local provider-catalog export, analyzed October 21, 2026. Identity-matched corrections from our reviewed profile dataset are applied to developer-portal and API-reference fields. This is not a new survey or live provider crawl. The 18,250-record export can differ from the hosted directory count because their observation dates and inclusion rules differ.

  1. Count each exact catalog profile ID once. Do not merge brands or count embedded API records as separate providers.
  2. Documentation, reference, status, changelog and limits use developerPortalUrl, apiReferenceUrl, statusUrl, apiChangelogUrl and apiLimitsUrl respectively. Accept HTTP(S) URLs without embedded credentials; deduplicate URLs within each field group.
  3. SDK coverage requires a URL in websiteUrl, githubUrl or url on an SDK record. It does not establish that the SDK is official, supported or downloadable.
  4. Specification coverage requires a url in apiTracker.specs or embedded apis[].specs. Other free-text links, specRepo and unresolved external API references are excluded. Files are not parsed or validated as OpenAPI.
  5. Missing fields remain unknown. URLs are not fetched for this analysis; syntax validation cannot establish correctness, liveness, API availability or security. Categories overlap and are not additive.

The download preserves each profile ID and the exact counted resource URLs. Source-export and correction-file hashes are included in the aggregate report. Catalog coverage percentages should not be quoted as API industry adoption rates.

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Cite this research

API Tracker by Apideck. “API statistics: documentation & SDK catalog coverage.” Analysis dated October 21, 2026. Cite the finding’s permanent link and retain its catalog-coverage qualification.

https://apitracker.io/api-statistics/2026-10-21

This edition is frozen. Monthly editorial review can publish a new dated edition after a complete export and evidence review. Changes in catalog coverage are not automatically growth in the API market.

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