What this means for a reader who has to ship
Three questions, in order, and the provider sites answer them per product:
- Can the vendor mint a bounded credential for the product I am using? If yes, pattern 1 is available and the limit is your blast radius. If no, no amount of care in the page changes it.
- Does the vendor run a minter for that product? Some do, for some products, and it is easy to read a rule written for one product as a rule for the vendor. That mistake has already been made once in this family and corrected in public.↗
- Is there a host that can hold the key for you? If there is, nothing else on this page matters. If there is not, you are choosing between 1 and 2 and the answer is a risk decision, not a technical one.
PAGE /sites/ — The provider sites
title: The provider sites description: "One site per provider, each answering the same nine sections about a different API. What is live, what is planned, and what adding one actually takes." lead: "One site per provider, each answering the same questions about a different API. The point of a family rather than one big site is that the questions stay fixed while the answers vary — which is the only way the comparison means anything." order: 30 toc: true provenance: commit: 7d1916aca5f3 date: 8 September 2026
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