Arrow Electronics
Arrow Electronics is a global provider of products, services, and solutions to industrial and commercial users of electronic components and enterprise computing solutions. With over 2,200 suppliers and more than 200,000 customers worldwide, Arrow serves as a vital link in the technology supply chain, enabling the design, manufacture, and operation of electronic components. Arrow provides REST APIs for pricing and availability lookups, order placement, and supply chain automation, enabling distributors, OEMs, and procurement teams to integrate electronic component sourcing directly into their systems.
Limited machine-readable signal and partial portal coverage — documentation a human can read, but little a machine or agent can consume without scraping.
API Evangelist profiles Arrow Electronics the way a machine reads it — 19 machine-readable artifacts across 2 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 — Arrow Electronics scores 35.7/100 (thin), 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 Arrow Electronics
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Arrow Electronics. 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 2
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.
Arrow Electronics Order API
The Arrow Electronics Order API enables automated order placement for electronic components at Arrow.com and Verical.com, and allows programmatic retrieval of order status infor...
Arrow Electronics En API
The En API from Arrow Electronics — 4 operation(s) for en.
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).
Arrow Electronics ItemService 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.
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.
Arrow Electronics 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.
Arrow Electronics Finops
FINOPSFeatures 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.
Global Inventory Search
Search across up to 8 global inventory pools simultaneously including Arrow NAC, Verical, European, Asian, and specialty component inventories.
Real-Time Pricing
Retrieve current pricing data for electronic components including quantity breaks, lead times, and packaging options.
Automated Order Placement
Place orders programmatically for components at Arrow.com and Verical.com without manual web interaction, enabling supply chain automation.
Order Status Tracking
Retrieve status information for existing orders to track fulfillment and shipping progress programmatically.
Multi-Format Support
APIs return data in JSON (default) and XML formats, with JSONP support for browser-based integrations.
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.
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.
ERP Integration
Manufacturers and distributors integrate Arrow's Pricing and Availability API with their ERP systems (SAP, Oracle, etc.) to automate component sourcing and procurement workflows.
Bill of Materials Pricing
Design engineers use the API to retrieve bulk pricing for entire Bills of Materials during product cost estimation and component selection.
Automated Procurement
Procurement systems use the Order API to automatically replenish component inventory when stock reaches reorder thresholds.
Supply Chain Visibility
Operations teams use availability data across multiple inventory pools to manage component risk and identify alternative sourcing options.
Integrations 2
Pre-built integrations with other platforms tell you where this provider already fits in a stack.
Pre-built integrations with other platforms and tools.
Verical
Arrow's Verical marketplace for independent distribution is accessible via the same API infrastructure, extending component sourcing to the spot market.
Arrow Enterprise Computing Solutions
Integration with Arrow's enterprise computing division for server, storage, and cloud component procurement alongside electronic components.
Resources
Every other property we hold for Arrow Electronics — 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 3
Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call
Agent Surfaces 1
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Build 1
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
Access & Security 1
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Operate 1
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Commercial 1
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 1
The organization behind the API
Other 1
Properties that don't map to a standard resource type
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