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ArcBest

ArcBest is a logistics company offering less-than-truckload (LTL) freight, truckload, moving, and supply chain management services. The ArcBest API platform provides integration capabilities for freight rating, booking, tracking, and supply chain visibility.

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 ArcBest the way a machine reads it — 64 machine-readable artifacts across 4 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 — ArcBest scores 53.0/100 (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 — 53.0/100 · developing
Contract Quality 17.9 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 3.9 / 20
Commercial Clarity 7.9 / 20
Operational Transparency 4.1 / 13
Governance 10.4 / 12
Discoverability 8.8 / 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 ArcBest

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for ArcBest. 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 4

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.

ArcBest Pickups API

Pickup scheduling and management

ArcBest Rates API

Freight rate quote services

ArcBest Shipments API

Shipment booking and management

ArcBest Tracking API

Shipment tracking and visibility

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.

Arcbest 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.

Arcbest 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 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.

LTL Rate Quotes

Real-time less-than-truckload freight rate quotes with transit time estimates.

Shipment Booking

API-based shipment booking and scheduling for LTL and truckload freight.

Shipment Tracking

Real-time tracking of freight shipments with status updates and delivery notifications.

BOL Generation

Electronic Bill of Lading generation and management through API integration.

Pickup Scheduling

Automated pickup scheduling and confirmation for outbound freight.

Supply Chain Visibility

End-to-end supply chain visibility across ArcBest freight and logistics services.

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.

Arcbest Api Context

12 classes · 41 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.

ArcBest API Rules

5 rules · 3 warnings

SPECTRAL

ArcBest API Rules

24 rules · 11 errors · 11 warnings

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 12

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.

Address

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ErrorResponse

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

FreightItem

7 properties

JSON SCHEMA

PickupConfirmation

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

PickupRequest

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

RateRequest

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

RateResponse

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ShipmentList

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ShipmentRequest

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Shipment

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

TrackingEvent

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

TrackingStatus

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

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JSON Structure 12

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.

Arcbest Api Address Structure

6 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Arcbest Api Error Response Structure

2 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Arcbest Api Freight Item Structure

7 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Arcbest Api Pickup Confirmation Structure

3 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Arcbest Api Pickup Request Structure

4 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Arcbest Api Rate Request Structure

4 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Arcbest Api Rate Response Structure

5 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Arcbest Api Shipment List Structure

2 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Arcbest Api Shipment Request Structure

5 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Arcbest Api Shipment Structure

4 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Arcbest Api Tracking Event Structure

3 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Arcbest Api Tracking Status Structure

5 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

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Examples 12

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.

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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.

Arcbest Authentication

http · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Arcbest Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · 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.

Arcbest Agentic Access

5 operations · 3 acting

5 operations · 3 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.

E-Commerce Shipping

Integrate ArcBest freight rates and booking into e-commerce platforms for automated shipping.

ERP Integration

Connect ArcBest freight services to ERP systems for automated freight procurement and accounting.

TMS Integration

Integrate with Transportation Management Systems for multi-carrier freight optimization.

Warehouse Management

Connect ArcBest pickup scheduling with warehouse management systems for outbound logistics automation.

Integrations 5

Pre-built integrations with other platforms tell you where this provider already fits in a stack.

Pre-built integrations with other platforms and tools.

SAP

Integration with SAP ERP for freight cost allocation and logistics management.

Oracle

Connect to Oracle ERP and WMS systems for automated freight operations.

Salesforce

Integrate shipment tracking and freight data with Salesforce CRM.

ShipStation

Multi-carrier shipping management platform integration.

Shopify

E-commerce platform integration for LTL freight rate display and booking.

Resources

Every other property we hold for ArcBest — 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 2

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Design & Contract 3

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Company 1

The organization behind the API

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