Aiven
Aiven is a managed open-source data infrastructure platform that enables developers and organizations to provision, operate, and scale open-source data services across all major cloud providers. The platform offers fully managed Apache Kafka, PostgreSQL, OpenSearch, Redis, MySQL, ClickHouse, and other data technologies through a unified REST API and console. Aiven handles infrastructure provisioning, backups, upgrades, monitoring, and security so teams can focus on building applications rather than managing infrastructure. Pricing is all-inclusive and hourly-billed, covering VMs, networking, backups, and maintenance with no hidden fees across Free, Developer, Startup, Business, and Premium tiers.
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.
API Evangelist profiles Aiven the way a machine reads it — 57 machine-readable artifacts across 34 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 — Aiven scores 55.6/100 (developing), with a separate agent-readiness read of 60/100 (agent ready). 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
How this is scored →scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
How we profile Aiven
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Aiven. 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 34
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.
Aiven Account API
The Account API from Aiven — 23 operation(s) for account.
Aiven Application_Users API
The Application_Users API from Aiven — 4 operation(s) for application_users.
Aiven Authentication_Methods API
The Authentication_Methods API from Aiven — 2 operation(s) for authentication_methods.
Aiven Billing API
The Billing API from Aiven — 4 operation(s) for billing.
Aiven BillingGroup API
The BillingGroup API from Aiven — 12 operation(s) for billinggroup.
Aiven Cloud_platforms API
The Cloud_platforms API from Aiven — 4 operation(s) for cloud_platforms.
Aiven Custom_Cloud API
The Custom_Cloud API from Aiven — 4 operation(s) for custom_cloud.
Aiven Domains API
The Domains API from Aiven — 3 operation(s) for domains.
Aiven Groups API
The Groups API from Aiven — 3 operation(s) for groups.
Aiven Organization_Vpc API
The Organization_Vpc API from Aiven — 9 operation(s) for organization_vpc.
Aiven OrganizationBillingGroup API
The OrganizationBillingGroup API from Aiven — 10 operation(s) for organizationbillinggroup.
Aiven OrganizationEmissions API
The OrganizationEmissions API from Aiven — 1 operation(s) for organizationemissions.
Aiven OrganizationPaymentMethod API
The OrganizationPaymentMethod API from Aiven — 7 operation(s) for organizationpaymentmethod.
Aiven Organizations API
The Organizations API from Aiven — 12 operation(s) for organizations.
Aiven Payment API
The Payment API from Aiven — 2 operation(s) for payment.
Aiven Permissions API
The Permissions API from Aiven — 1 operation(s) for permissions.
Aiven Project API
The Project API from Aiven — 27 operation(s) for project.
Aiven Project_Billing API
The Project_Billing API from Aiven — 3 operation(s) for project_billing.
Aiven Project_Key_Management API
The Project_Key_Management API from Aiven — 1 operation(s) for project_key_management.
Aiven Secrets API
The Secrets API from Aiven — 5 operation(s) for secrets.
Aiven Service API
The Service API from Aiven — 34 operation(s) for service.
Aiven Service:_ClickHouse API
The Service:_ClickHouse API from Aiven — 8 operation(s) for service:_clickhouse.
Aiven Service:_Flink API
The Service:_Flink API from Aiven — 20 operation(s) for service:_flink.
Aiven Service_Integrations API
The Service_Integrations API from Aiven — 7 operation(s) for service_integrations.
Aiven Service:_Kafka API
The Service:_Kafka API from Aiven — 34 operation(s) for service:_kafka.
Aiven Service:_Kafka_MirrorMaker API
The Service:_Kafka_MirrorMaker API from Aiven — 2 operation(s) for service:_kafka_mirrormaker.
Aiven Service:_MySQL API
The Service:_MySQL API from Aiven — 5 operation(s) for service:_mysql.
Aiven Service:_OpenSearch API
The Service:_OpenSearch API from Aiven — 19 operation(s) for service:_opensearch.
Aiven Service:_PostgreSQL API
The Service:_PostgreSQL API from Aiven — 9 operation(s) for service:_postgresql.
Aiven Service:_Thanos API
The Service:_Thanos API from Aiven — 1 operation(s) for service:_thanos.
Aiven StaticIP API
The StaticIP API from Aiven — 4 operation(s) for staticip.
Aiven Ticket_[deprecated] API
The Ticket_[deprecated] API from Aiven — 3 operation(s) for ticket_[deprecated].
Aiven Upgrade_pipeline API
The Upgrade_pipeline API from Aiven — 3 operation(s) for upgrade_pipeline.
Aiven Users API
The Users API from Aiven — 31 operation(s) for users.
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MCP Servers 1
Model Context Protocol servers expose these APIs directly to AI agents. We profile them because agent-native access is the fastest-growing way this provider's capabilities actually get used.
Model Context Protocol servers that expose these APIs to AI agents.
MCP Server
MCP SERVERPricing 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.
Aiven Plans Pricing
PLANSRate 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.
Aiven Rate Limits
RATE LIMITSFinOps 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.
Aiven Finops
FINOPSSemantic 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.
Aiven Context
JSON-LDSpectral Rules 1
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.
Aiven API Rules
SPECTRALJSON Schema 8
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.
AccountAuthenticationMethodCreateRequestBody
JSON SCHEMABillingGroupCreateRequestBody
JSON SCHEMAOrganizationAddressCreateRequestBody
JSON SCHEMAProjectCreateRequestBody
JSON SCHEMAServiceCreateRequestBody
JSON SCHEMAServiceListResponse
JSON SCHEMAUserInfoResponse
JSON SCHEMAOrganizationVpcCreateRequestBody
JSON SCHEMAScroll within the panel for all 8 ·
Examples 4
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 3
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.
Scopes 1
OAuth scopes are the vocabulary of least-privilege access. Profiling them shows exactly what an integration — or an agent acting on a user's behalf — is allowed to do.
OAuth scopes governing access to this provider's APIs.
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.
Resources
Every other property we hold for Aiven — 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.
Documentation 1
Reference material describing how the API behaves
Agent Surfaces 2
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Design & Contract 2
Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events
Build 2
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
Access & Security 4
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Operate 2
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Commercial 3
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 3
The organization behind the API
Other 1
Properties that don't map to a standard resource type
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