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Bird

Bird is a shared electric scooter and bike micromobility operator headquartered in Miami, Florida and operating as the global anchor brand of Third Lane Mobility, Inc. Founded in 2017 by Travis VanderZanden, Bird pioneered the dockless electric scooter category in Santa Monica, California and rapidly expanded to hundreds of cities across North America, Europe, and the Middle East. After overstating revenue, delisting from the NYSE in September 2023 (ticker BRDS), and filing Chapter 11 bankruptcy in December 2023, Bird emerged in April 2024 under the new private parent company Third Lane Mobility, Inc., which also owns the Spin brand acquired from TIER in September 2023. Bird operates the Bird Three e-scooter and a Bird Bikeshare service, plus the Bird Platform white-label program for independent fleet operators and a Cities partner program that ships "in-depth APIs" and operator dashboards to municipal partners. Bird publishes public General Bikeshare Feed Specification (GBFS) auto-discovery feeds at mds.bird.co for 88+ cities across 12 countries (AT, BE, CA, CH, DE, ES, FI, FR, IL, IT, PT, US), and operates a private city-data portal at city-data.bird.co for credentialed municipal API access. There is no public consumer / 3rd-party developer API or SDK — the consumer surface is the iOS and Android Bird apps, the Bird Three product site, and the Bikeshare site. The undocumented mobile backend at api.birdapp.com / api-auth.prod.birdapp.com is well-documented in the community WoBike project but is not officially sanctioned for third-party use.

agent aware

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 Bird the way a machine reads it — 38 machine-readable artifacts across 10 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 — Bird scores 48.0/100 (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 Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
Composite quality — 48.0/100 · developing
Contract Quality 16.7 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 3.0 / 20
Commercial Clarity 10.0 / 20
Operational Transparency 0.7 / 13
Governance 8.8 / 12
Discoverability 8.8 / 10
Agent readiness — 39/100 · agent aware
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 15 / 15
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 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 Bird

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Bird. 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 10

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.

Bird City Data Portal

Credentialed city / municipal data portal at https://city-data.bird.co providing partner cities with access to fleet, trip, and operational data feeds beyond the public GBFS sur...

Bird Platform (Fleet Operator)

Bird Platform is the white-label fleet operator program that lets independent local operators run a Bird-branded e-scooter service in their own market using Bird vehicles, the B...

Bird Mobile App Backend (Unofficial)

The undocumented mobile-app backend that powers the Bird iOS and Android consumer apps. Hosts include api.birdapp.com, api-auth.prod.birdapp.com, and api-bird.prod.birdapp.com. ...

Bird Discovery API

GBFS auto-discovery and version metadata

Bird Geofencing API

No-ride / no-parking polygon zones

Bird Pricing API

Rider-facing pricing plans

Bird Realtime API

Real-time feeds with 60-second TTL

Bird Stations API

Docking-station information (mostly empty for free-floating Bird markets)

Bird System API

System-level information and regions

Bird Vehicles API

Vehicle inventory and real-time availability

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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).

Bird GBFS Feed

OPEN COLLECTION

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.

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.

Bird Rides Rate Limits

0 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 15

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.

Bird Three — flagship dockless electric scooter with swappable batteries, GPS, anti-theft and government-technology features
Bird Bikeshare — electric-assist pedal bike service with 60 km nominal range
Public GBFS v2.3 auto-discovery feeds for 88 cities across 12 countries (AT BE CA CH DE ES FI FR IL IT PT US)
GBFS sub-feeds — system_information, vehicle_types, free_bike_status, station_information, station_status, geofencing_zones, system_pricing_plans, system_regions, gbfs_versions
60-second TTL on real-time GBFS data with both v1.1 and v2.3 advertised in MobilityData systems.csv
City data portal at city-data.bird.co for credentialed municipal access to operational and trip data
Bird Platform — white-label fleet operator program with hosted dashboard, historical analytics, geospatial tools, and GovTech compliance features
Bird Cities partner program with custom dashboards and "in-depth APIs" for municipal trend analysis
Bird Community Pricing — 50% discount for qualifying low-income riders
Community Mode for resident issue reporting (improperly parked vehicles, hazards)
SMS unlock and cash payment options for unbanked / no-smartphone riders
In-app no-ride and no-parking geofencing enforced via GBFS geofencing_zones feed
iOS and Android consumer apps with magic-link email authentication
200,000+ vehicle fleet under Third Lane Mobility (Bird + Spin)
350+ city footprint across North America, Europe, Middle East, and Asia

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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.

Bird Rides Context

20 classes · 8 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral 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.

Bird API Rules

5 rules · 4 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.

Bird Geofencing Zone

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Bird System Information

7 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Bird Vehicle

8 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Examples 2

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 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.

Bird Rides Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · 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.

Bird Rides Agentic Access

10 operations

10 operations · 0 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Every other property we hold for Bird — 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 2

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Operate 3

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Commercial 5

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

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