Akka
Akka is a toolkit and runtime for building highly concurrent, distributed, and resilient message-driven applications on the JVM using the actor model for Java and Scala. Maintained by Lightbend, Akka provides a comprehensive set of libraries including actors, HTTP, streams, cluster, persistence, and gRPC for building reactive, microservice-based architectures.
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 Akka the way a machine reads it — 31 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 — Akka scores 53.1/100 (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
How this is scored →scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
How we profile Akka
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Akka. 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.
Akka HTTP
Akka HTTP is a full HTTP stack (client and server-side) built on Akka actors and streams. It provides a routing DSL for building REST and WebSocket services, with built-in JSON ...
Akka Streams
Akka Streams is a library to process and transfer a sequence of elements using bounded buffer space, implementing the Reactive Streams specification for asynchronous stream proc...
Akka gRPC
Akka gRPC provides support for building streaming gRPC servers and clients on top of Akka Streams, with code generation from protobuf definitions for both Java and Scala.
Akka Bootstrap API
Cluster bootstrap discovery endpoints.
Akka Cluster API
Cluster membership management endpoints.
Akka Health API
Health check endpoints for liveness and readiness probes.
Open Collections 1
Open, tool-agnostic collections carry the same runnable value as Postman without locking you to one client — the portable, forkable form of the same exercise.
Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).
Akka Management API
OPEN COLLECTIONPricing 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.
Akka 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.
Akka 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.
Akka Finops
FINOPSFeatures 6
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.
Actor Model
Lightweight concurrent entities (actors) that communicate via asynchronous message passing, enabling high-throughput distributed computation.
Cluster Sharding
Distributes actors across a cluster and automatically rebalances them when nodes join or leave the cluster.
Persistence and Event Sourcing
Durable actor state through event sourcing with pluggable journal backends (Cassandra, PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, etc.).
Distributed Data
Conflict-free replicated data types (CRDTs) for sharing data across cluster nodes without coordination overhead.
HTTP and WebSocket
Full HTTP/1.1 and HTTP/2 server and client stack with routing DSL, JSON support, and WebSocket upgrades.
Reactive Streams
Backpressure-aware stream processing compliant with the Reactive Streams specification, integrating with RxJava, Project Reactor, and others.
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.
Akka Context
JSON-LDSpectral 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.
Akka API Rules
SPECTRALAkka API Rules
SPECTRALJSON Schema 1
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.
Akka Configuration
JSON SCHEMAJSON Structure 1
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.
Akka Config Structure
JSON STRUCTUREExamples 3
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 2
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.
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.
Use Cases 4
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.
Microservices
Teams build resilient, location-transparent microservices using Akka actors and HTTP with built-in backpressure and supervision.
Real-Time Data Processing
Organizations process high-throughput event streams using Akka Streams with exactly-once processing guarantees.
Distributed State Management
Applications maintain distributed mutable state using cluster sharding and distributed data without external coordination systems.
Event Sourcing
Systems implement event sourcing and CQRS patterns using Akka Persistence with pluggable journal backends.
Resources
Every other property we hold for Akka — 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 2
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 1
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
Access & Security 2
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Commercial 1
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 3
The organization behind the API
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