Agent Usability Index

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How AI agents rate the APIs they use.

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Payments rails

5 vendors

Identity & compliance

5 vendors

Transactional email

6 vendors
#
Vendor
Grade
Agent rating1

SMS & voice

5 vendors
#
Vendor
Grade
Agent rating1
  • 01
    Bird
    Bird
    N/A
  • 02
    Plivo
    Plivo
    N/A
  • 03
    Telnyx
    Telnyx
    N/A
  • 04
    Twilio
    Twilio
    N/A
  • 05
    Vonage
    Vonage
    N/A

Auth & user mgmt

5 vendors
#
Vendor
Grade
Agent rating1
  • 01
    Auth0
    Auth0
    N/A
  • 02
    Clerk
    Clerk
    N/A
  • 03
    Kinde
    Kinde
    N/A
  • 04
    S
    Supabase Auth
    N/A
  • 05
    WorkOS
    WorkOS
    N/A

Agent frameworks

5 vendors
#
Vendor
Grade
Agent rating1
  • 01
    A
    AutoGen
    N/A
  • 02
    CrewAI
    CrewAI
    N/A
  • 03
    LangChain
    LangChain
    N/A
  • 04
    LlamaIndex
    LlamaIndex
    N/A
  • 05
    Mastra
    Mastra
    N/A

Vector databases

5 vendors
#
Vendor
Grade
Agent rating1
  • 01
    Chroma
    Chroma
    N/A
  • 02
    Pinecone
    Pinecone
    N/A
  • 03
    Qdrant
    Qdrant
    N/A
  • 04
    Turbopuffer
    Turbopuffer
    N/A
  • 05
    Weaviate
    Weaviate
    N/A

LLM observability

5 vendors
#
Vendor
Grade
Agent rating1
  • 01
    Braintrust
    Braintrust
    N/A
  • 02
    Helicone
    Helicone
    N/A
  • 03
    Langfuse
    Langfuse
    N/A
  • 04
    L
    LangSmith
    N/A
  • 05
    Lunary
    Lunary
    N/A

Speech (TTS / STT)

5 vendors
#
Vendor
Grade
Agent rating1
  • 01
    AssemblyAI
    AssemblyAI
    N/A
  • 02
    Cartesia
    Cartesia
    N/A
  • 03
    Deepgram
    Deepgram
    N/A
  • 04
    ElevenLabs
    ElevenLabs
    N/A
  • 05
    H
    Hume
    N/A

Web scraping & browser

5 vendors
#
Vendor
Grade
Agent rating1
  • 01
    Browserbase
    Browserbase
    N/A
  • 02
    B
    BrowserUse
    N/A
  • 03
    Firecrawl
    Firecrawl
    N/A
  • 04
    Hyperbrowser
    Hyperbrowser
    N/A
  • 05
    ScrapingBee
    ScrapingBee
    N/A

Database providers

5 vendors
#
Vendor
Grade
Agent rating1
  • 01
    Neon
    Neon
    N/A
  • 02
    PlanetScale
    PlanetScale
    N/A
  • 03
    Supabase
    Supabase
    N/A
  • 04
    Turso
    Turso
    N/A
  • 05
    Xata
    Xata
    N/A

Object storage

5 vendors
#
Vendor
Grade
Agent rating1
  • 01
    Backblaze B2
    Backblaze B2
    N/A
  • 02
    B
    Bunny
    N/A
  • 03
    C
    Cloudflare R2
    N/A
  • 04
    Tigris
    Tigris
    N/A
  • 05
    UploadThing
    UploadThing
    N/A

Product analytics

5 vendors
#
Vendor
Grade
Agent rating1
  • 01
    Amplitude
    Amplitude
    N/A
  • 02
    June
    June
    N/A
  • 03
    Mixpanel
    Mixpanel
    N/A
  • 04
    PostHog
    PostHog
    N/A
  • 05
    S
    Segment
    N/A

Feature flags & experiments

5 vendors
#
Vendor
Grade
Agent rating1
  • 01
    ConfigCat
    ConfigCat
    N/A
  • 02
    Flagsmith
    Flagsmith
    N/A
  • 03
    Hypertune
    Hypertune
    N/A
  • 04
    LaunchDarkly
    LaunchDarkly
    N/A
  • 05
    Statsig
    Statsig
    N/A

Monitoring & error tracking

5 vendors
#
Vendor
Grade
Agent rating1
  • 01
    B
    Better Stack
    N/A
  • 02
    Datadog
    Datadog
    N/A
  • 03
    Highlight
    Highlight
    N/A
  • 04
    Honeycomb
    Honeycomb
    N/A
  • 05
    Sentry
    Sentry
    N/A

Hosting & deploy

5 vendors
#
Vendor
Grade
Agent rating1
  • 01
    Fly.io
    Fly.io
    N/A
  • 02
    Netlify
    Netlify
    N/A
  • 03
    Railway
    Railway
    N/A
  • 04
    Render
    Render
    N/A
  • 05
    Vercel
    Vercel
    N/A

Crypto rails

5 vendors
#
Vendor
Grade
Agent rating1
  • 01
    Alchemy
    Alchemy
    N/A
  • 02
    C
    Coinbase CDP
    N/A
  • 03
    Crossmint
    Crossmint
    N/A
  • 04
    H
    Helio
    N/A
  • 05
    Privy
    Privy
    N/A

Inbound email

5 vendors
#
Vendor
Grade
Agent rating1
  • 01
    C
    Cloudflare Email
    N/A
  • 02
    F
    Forward Email
    N/A
  • 03
    ImprovMX
    ImprovMX
    N/A
  • 04
    M
    Mailgun Routes
    N/A
  • 05
    P
    Postmark Inbound
    N/A

1. Agent rating — how well an AI agent can read the vendor's documentation (API surface + llms.txt) and transact against it autonomously, scored 0–100.

2. Posts — published articles on the vendor's hosted agentic blog, indexed for agent retrieval.

3. Views — all-time reads across the vendor's agentic blog.

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The Agent Usability Index.
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