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42Crunch

42Crunch is a leading API security company that specializes in protecting and securing APIs. They provide innovative solutions that help organizations safeguard their sensitive data and critical assets from potential cyber threats. With their comprehensive API security platform, 42Crunch offers a range of services such as API scanning, traffic monitoring, and runtime protection to ensure that APIs are secure and compliant with industry standards. Their platform covers the full API security lifecycle from design and audit through dynamic testing and runtime firewall protection.

agent aware

Real signal across most facets with visible, nameable gaps — the contract exists but is thin, or the portal is good while governance and commercial terms are absent.

Kin Score

API Evangelist profiles 42Crunch the way a machine reads it — 45 machine-readable artifacts across 6 APIs, pulled from the provider's own public surface and indexed so a developer, an analyst, or an AI agent can evaluate it against every other provider on the network.

Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — 42Crunch scores 56.9/100 (developing), with a separate agent-readiness read of 39/100 (agent aware). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.

Kin Score

This is the API Evangelist rating — a single, repeatable read computed from the artifacts on this page. Green fill is points earned; the red track is points possible, so every bar shows earned-versus-possible at a glance.

Kin Score Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
Composite quality — 56.9/100 · developing
Contract Quality 17.3 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 3.0 / 20
Commercial Clarity 12.6 / 20
Operational Transparency 4.8 / 13
Governance 10.4 / 12
Discoverability 8.8 / 10
Agent readiness — 39/100 · agent aware
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 15 / 15
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

How we profile 42Crunch

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for 42Crunch. For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.

APIs 6

Each API is captured as its own OpenAPI definition — every operation, parameter, and response. This is the single most useful machine-readable description of what an API does, and it's what lets us score, lint, mock, and generate against it without asking the provider for anything.

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

42Crunch API Security Audit

The 42Crunch API Security Audit performs automated static analysis of API definitions (OpenAPI 2, 3.0, 3.1 and GraphQL), running over 200 checks across format validation, data d...

42Crunch API Scan

42Crunch API Scan performs dynamic API security testing (DAST) that evaluates runtime API behavior against its OpenAPI specification. It tests how well an API adheres to its con...

42Crunch API Protection

42Crunch API Protection deploys an API-native micro firewall (API Firewall) that provides runtime defense against API attacks. The firewall is tailor-made for each API based on ...

42Crunch Health API

Service health check

42Crunch Jobs API

Manage API conformance scan jobs on Kubernetes

42Crunch Logs API

Access job execution logs

GraphQL 1

Where a provider ships GraphQL, the schema is the contract. We profile it alongside the REST surface so the whole interface is legible in one place.

GraphQL schemas published by this provider.

Pricing Plans 1

Pricing is part of the interface. Machine-readable plans tell you what a tier costs and includes before you commit — one of the six things the Kin Score reads for commercial clarity.

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Rate Limits 1

Rate limits are the difference between a demo that works and a production integration that doesn't fall over. Publishing them is an operational-transparency signal — and a hard requirement for any agent that plans its own throughput.

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

42Crunch Rate Limits

3 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals let a buyer model the financial operations of an API before it's live. We profile them for the same reason we profile pricing: the money is part of the contract.

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Features 8

The notable capabilities this provider advertises, captured as structured features so they can be searched and compared instead of read one landing page at a time.

Notable capabilities this provider offers.

API Security Audit

Automated static analysis of OpenAPI and GraphQL definitions running over 200 security checks, scoring APIs 0-100 for vulnerability and compliance issues.

API Scan (DAST)

Dynamic API Security Testing that evaluates runtime API behavior against its OpenAPI contract, identifying vulnerabilities that appear only at runtime.

API Firewall

API-native micro firewall that enforces OpenAPI contract compliance at runtime, blocking malformed requests, unauthorized access, and API attacks.

API Discovery

Identifies and catalogs APIs across environments to provide full visibility into the API attack surface.

CI/CD Integration

GitHub Actions and other CI/CD pipeline integrations for automated security scanning in deployment workflows.

IDE Integration

Plugins for VS Code and IntelliJ/JetBrains IDEs that provide real-time OpenAPI editing, validation, and security feedback during API design.

OpenAPI Contract Security

Enforces security best practices in OpenAPI specifications covering authentication, data validation, input/output schemas, and transport security.

Kubernetes Support

Scand Manager provides a Kubernetes wrapper for running 42Crunch API Scan in containerized environments.

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Semantic Vocabularies 1

JSON-LD contexts give the data shared meaning across APIs. We profile them because semantics are what let a machine reconcile 'customer' here with 'customer' somewhere else.

JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.

42Crunch Scand Manager Context

5 classes · 8 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 2

Governance rulesets we run against this provider's specs — the automated checks behind parts of the score. Profiling them makes the quality bar explicit and re-runnable, not a matter of opinion.

42Crunch API Rules

5 rules · 3 warnings

SPECTRAL

42Crunch API Rules

47 rules · 12 errors · 24 warnings

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 5

Standalone JSON Schema definitions describe the data models behind the API. We profile them so the shapes are validatable on their own — useful long after a single request is forgotten.

Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.

Error

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

JobName

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

JobSpec

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

JobStatus

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Jobs

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

JSON Structure 5

JSON Structure captures the data shapes in a form built for tooling — a complement to JSON Schema that keeps the model machine-legible.

JSON Structure definitions describing this provider's data shapes.

Scand Manager Error Structure

1 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Scand Manager Job Name Structure

0 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Scand Manager Job Spec Structure

6 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Scand Manager Job Status Structure

2 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Scand Manager Jobs Structure

1 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Examples 5

Real request and response payloads are what turn a spec from abstract into obvious — and they're one of the twelve things an agent needs to call an API correctly on the first try.

Example request and response payloads for these APIs.

Security Posture 1

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

42Crunch Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

An x-agentic-access contract marks which operations are safe for an agent to run on its own and which need a human in the loop. It is the difference between an API an agent can use and one it can use safely.

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

42Crunch Agentic Access

6 operations · 2 acting

6 operations · 2 acting

AGENTIC

Use Cases 7

What developers actually build with this provider — captured so the catalogue answers 'what is this for', not just 'what does this expose'.

What developers build with this provider.

API Security Testing in CI/CD

Embed automated API security scanning into CI/CD pipelines via GitHub Actions to catch vulnerabilities before they reach production.

OpenAPI Specification Review

Audit OpenAPI definitions for security flaws, missing authentication, weak data validation, and schema gaps before API deployment.

Runtime API Protection

Deploy the API Firewall in front of production APIs to enforce contract compliance and block attacks in real time.

DevSecOps API Governance

Provide development, security, and operations teams with shared visibility into API security posture throughout the API lifecycle.

OWASP API Top 10 Compliance

Systematically identify and remediate OWASP API Security Top 10 vulnerabilities in API definitions and runtime behavior.

API Security for Financial Services

Address regulatory and compliance requirements for API security in banking, financial services, and insurance sectors.

Healthcare API Security

Secure healthcare APIs handling sensitive patient data against unauthorized access and data exposure vulnerabilities.

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Resources

Every other property we hold for 42Crunch — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.

Get Started 1

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Design & Contract 3

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Learn 2

Tutorials, courses, talks, and written guidance

Operate 3

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Commercial 1

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

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