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APIIDA

APIIDA provides market-leading solutions for multi-vendor, cross-platform federated API management. The APIIDA API Control Plane enables enterprises to discover, govern, and provision APIs from a central location, while the API Gateway Manager automates API operations for Broadcom Layer7 environments with comprehensive deployment, migration, monitoring, and alarming capabilities.

agent ready

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 APIIDA the way a machine reads it — 38 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 — APIIDA scores 55.3/100 (developing), with a separate agent-readiness read of 48/100 (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 Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
Composite quality — 55.3/100 · developing
Contract Quality 19.0 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 4.8 / 20
Commercial Clarity 7.9 / 20
Operational Transparency 4.8 / 13
Governance 8.8 / 12
Discoverability 10.0 / 10
Agent readiness — 48/100 · agent ready
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 15 / 15
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 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 APIIDA

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for APIIDA. 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.

APIIDA Alarms API

Alarm configuration and management

APIIDA Apis API

The Apis API from APIIDA — 1 operation(s) for apis.

APIIDA Deployments API

Gateway deployment operations

APIIDA Gateways API

Gateway registration and management operations

APIIDA Monitoring API

Metrics and monitoring operations

APIIDA Versions API

API version management

Open Collections 2

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).

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.

Apiida Plans Pricing

3 plans

PLANS

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.

Apiida Rate Limits

5 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 5

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.

Federated API Control Plane

Centrally discover, govern, and provision APIs across multiple API gateway vendors from a single control plane.

Multi-Gateway Support

Manage APIs across heterogeneous gateway environments including Broadcom Layer7, AWS API Gateway, Azure APIM, and others.

API Deployment Automation

Automate API deployments and migrations across gateway instances with version management and rollback.

Monitoring and Alarming

Collect gateway metrics and configure alarms for proactive API operations management.

Proxy Specification Validation

Validate API proxy specifications before deployment to ensure compatibility and standards compliance.

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.

Apiida Context

25 classes · 5 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.

APIIDA API Rules

5 rules · 3 warnings

SPECTRAL

APIIDA API Rules

16 rules · 4 errors · 11 warnings

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 3

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.

APIIDA API

8 properties

JSON SCHEMA

APIIDA Deployment

7 properties

JSON SCHEMA

APIIDA Gateway

10 properties

JSON SCHEMA

JSON Structure 3

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.

Apiida Api Structure

8 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Apiida Deployment Structure

7 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Apiida Gateway Structure

10 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Examples 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.

Apiida Api Example

5 fields

EXAMPLE

Apiida Deployment Example

5 fields

EXAMPLE

Apiida Gateway Example

5 fields

EXAMPLE

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.

Apiida Authentication

http · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Apiida Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · 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.

Apiida Agentic Access

16 operations · 9 acting

16 operations · 9 acting

AGENTIC

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.

Enterprise API Governance

Govern APIs across multiple teams and gateway technologies from a centralized control plane.

Gateway Migration

Migrate APIs between gateway vendors with automated tooling and compatibility validation.

Layer7 Operations Automation

Automate routine Broadcom Layer7 gateway operations including deployments, monitoring, and alarming.

Multi-Vendor API Management

Unify API management operations across heterogeneous gateway infrastructure.

Solutions 3

Packaged solutions the provider offers on top of the raw API surface.

Packaged solutions this provider offers.

API Control Plane

Central API management and governance for multi-vendor API gateway environments.

API Gateway Manager

Automated operations management for Broadcom Layer7 API gateway environments.

Enterprise

Custom licensing with dedicated support for large-scale federated API management deployments.

Resources

Every other property we hold for APIIDA — 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 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Company 2

The organization behind the API

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