You're sketching a shortlist of APIs for a new dispatch product, and the quickest way in is a ranked industry page. So you open Mobility & Fleet on APIs.io. It lists 827 providers, and the page defines the category as ride-hailing, micromobility, fleet, EV charging and telematics. You scan for the name you expect at the top.
It isn't there. The top scorer is DoorDash, at 75.9. Uber, the company you'd naturally look for first, sits at 53.9, and Lyft is at 50.9. Both are in the developing band. You might assume the ride-hailing giants simply have weak APIs.
The post behind that page tells you to be careful before concluding that. Part of the result is real, and part of it is how the list is built. The list is tag-matched, so food and parcel companies come in. 146 scored providers carry the Delivery tag, and 106 of those carry no tag naming mobility, fleet, charging, telematics, vehicles or rides. Australia Post is fifth on that tag. The EV Charging tag pulls in the power sector: Enphase Energy is sixth, with UK Power Networks at 61.4 and EDF Energy at 57.6. S&P Global has the top Agent Readiness score, 60.0, and one of its tags is Mobility, because its description lists S&P Global Mobility as one of six businesses.
So you do what the post suggests and look at the functional bands instead. Fleet management has 249 providers with a median of 16.8, and worth reading there are HERE at 72.2, Onfleet at 68.0 and Switch Labs at 65.1. EV charging has 141 providers with a median of 18.4, led by ev.energy at 51.0 and Plugsurfing at 49.3. Telematics has 113 and a median of 18.4, with Amazon IoT FleetWise at 63.6 and Decisiv at 52.1. Food delivery and restaurant has 56, with DoorDash at 75.9 and Grubhub at 66.6. Micromobility has 45 and a median of 10.3, with Lyft at 50.9 and Dott at 37.2. Ride-hailing has 39 and the same 10.3 median, with Uber, Cabify at 51.5 and Lyft. Providers can carry several tags, so those rows overlap.
The post then points out three patterns. First, the category names are the weakest part of the category: ride-hailing and micromobility have the lowest medians in the table, even though they define the page. Samsara scores 34.2, Geotab 38.0, Motive 29.7 and ChargePoint 27.5. The post says these records show less first-party material for the rubric to read, and that does not establish that their APIs are poor. You note that distinction, because it changes how you'd read a low number.
Second, the strongest mobility contracts are about moving through places. HERE has 135 APIs and an agent score of 55.1. Entur, which its record calls a Norwegian state-owned technology company, has 199 APIs and scores 65.5. Maps, routing and journey planning are products sold through an API, and the scores show it.
Third, a lot of this market is gone. 30 scored providers carry a Defunct tag, and 33 score 0.0, including Zagster, Skip Scooters and Superpedestrian. Micromobility's low median is partly a record of companies that no longer operate.
Then comes the turn you appreciate most: the catalog files problems against itself. The post says the list-building choices are judgment calls that should be made on purpose, and that tightening the tag list is its own job to do. It also admits the page's cohort brief still describes 715 providers "of 774 in the catalog," which does not match the list of 827, and it says plainly that this one is theirs too.
The overall numbers keep your expectations honest. The median Kin Score is 12.9, the median agent score is 0.0, and 544 of 825 scored providers are human-only. The 180 providers with a published API count have a median of 42.5, while the 645 the catalog had to split have a median of 10.3.
You leave with a plan. For routing and location, you'll read HERE and Entur. For last-mile dispatch, Nash and Onfleet. For EV charging, ev.energy and Plugsurfing. You'll treat the ride-hailing records with care until there is more first-party material behind them, and you'll stop reading the headline rank as a verdict on Uber or Lyft. Mobility is a real industry with strong location and dispatch contracts, on a page that reads broader than its definition.
Read the original: https://apis.io/2026/11/03/our-mobility-industry-is-led-by-doordash-while-uber-and-lyft-score-in-the-fifties/