Canva
Canva is the visual design platform used by hundreds of millions of people, and it exposes four distinct developer surfaces: the Connect APIs (a REST API for creating, autofilling, exporting, resizing, importing and commenting on designs from another application), the Apps SDK (React apps that run inside the Canva editor), the SCIM and Audit Logs APIs for enterprise identity and compliance, and the partner-gated Print API. Canva publishes its own OpenAPI description, a dated changelog, per-product llms.txt indexes, a hosted MCP server and a public set of Agent Skills.
Reference-quality API operations across every facet — a rich contract, published governance, transparent operations, and machine-readable commercial terms.
API Evangelist profiles Canva the way a machine reads it — 259 machine-readable artifacts across 1 API, 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 — Canva scores 67.1/100 (exemplar), with a separate agent-readiness read of 47/100 (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. Every facet and dimension name is a link: it opens that measurement's page on APIs.io, where the rating runs across the whole catalog — the exact checks that feed it, how every profiled provider distributes on it, and who is at the top of it.
Kin Score
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How we profile Canva
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Canva. 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 30
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.
Canva Apps SDK
Build apps that extend Canva's editor with custom functionality, content, and integrations.
Canva Print Partnerships API
Enables print service providers to integrate Canva design tools into their customer journey, allowing customers to create designs with Canva and print them from partner websites.
Canva Button API
Enables embedding Canva design capabilities directly into websites and applications through HTML and JavaScript APIs for creating and editing designs.
Canva Assets API
Upload and manage image and video assets
Canva Autofills API
Create designs from brand templates using autofill data
Canva Brand Templates API
List and retrieve brand templates and their datasets
Canva Comments API
Create and manage comments on designs
Canva Designs API
Create, retrieve, and list designs
Canva Exports API
Export designs to PDF, PNG, JPG, GIF, PPTX, and MP4
Canva Folders API
Retrieve folders and list folder contents
Canva Resizes API
Resize designs to different dimensions or preset types
Canva Users API
Retrieve information about the authenticated user
Canva Connect API
The umbrella Canva Connect REST API as Canva publishes it — 59 operations across designs, assets, folders, brand templates, autofills, exports, resizes, imports, merges, comment...
Canva SCIM API
SCIM 2.0 API for automating provisioning and deprovisioning of Canva user accounts and groups. Canva states it implements the SCIM v2 specification (RFC 7644). Available to Canv...
Canva Print API
Partner-gated REST API for print order fulfilment. Uniquely bidirectional — Canva acts as the API CLIENT when sending orders to a print partner, and as the API SERVER when the p...
Canva Analytics API
The analytics API from Canva — 5 operation(s) for analytics.
Canva App API
The app API from Canva — 1 operation(s) for app.
Canva Asset API
The asset API from Canva — 5 operation(s) for asset.
Canva Autofill API
The autofill API from Canva — 2 operation(s) for autofill.
Canva Brand Template API
The brand_template API from Canva — 3 operation(s) for brand_template.
Canva Comment API
The comment API from Canva — 5 operation(s) for comment.
Canva Design API
The design API from Canva — 7 operation(s) for design.
Canva Design Import API
The design_import API from Canva — 4 operation(s) for design_import.
Canva Export API
The export API from Canva — 3 operation(s) for export.
Canva Folder API
The folder API from Canva — 4 operation(s) for folder.
Canva Merge API
The merge API from Canva — 2 operation(s) for merge.
Canva OAUTH API
The oauth API from Canva — 3 operation(s) for oauth.
Canva Oidc API
The oidc API from Canva — 2 operation(s) for oidc.
Canva Resize API
The resize API from Canva — 2 operation(s) for resize.
Canva User API
The user API from Canva — 3 operation(s) for user.
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Postman Collections 9
A runnable collection turns the contract into something a developer can execute in seconds. We profile them because the fastest way to trust an API is to make a real call against it.
Ready-to-run Postman collections for exercising this provider's APIs.
Canva Connect Assets API
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Open Collections 11
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).
API Collection
OPEN COLLECTIONCanva Connect Assets API
OPEN COLLECTIONCanva Connect Assets Autofills API
OPEN COLLECTIONCanva Connect Assets Brand Templates API
OPEN COLLECTIONCanva Connect Assets Comments API
OPEN COLLECTIONCanva Connect API
OPEN COLLECTIONCanva Connect Assets Designs API
OPEN COLLECTIONCanva Connect Assets Exports API
OPEN COLLECTIONCanva Connect Assets Folders API
OPEN COLLECTIONCanva Connect Assets Resizes API
OPEN COLLECTIONCanva Connect Assets Users API
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MCP Servers 1
Model Context Protocol servers expose these APIs directly to AI agents. We profile them because agent-native access is the fastest-growing way this provider's capabilities actually get used.
Model Context Protocol servers that expose these APIs to AI agents.
Canva MCP Server
Canva ships TWO distinct MCP surfaces and they are not interchangeable. (1) A hosted, remote MCP server at https://mcp.canva.com/mcp — the "Canva AI Connector" — which an MCP cl...
MCP SERVERAgent Skills 7
An agent skill packages the how-to for driving these APIs from an assistant — the prompts, the sequence, the guardrails — so the knowledge to use the API travels with it.
Packaged agent skills for driving this provider's APIs from an AI assistant.
canva-branded-presentation
AGENT SKILLcanva-bulk-create
AGENT SKILLcanva-classroom-helper
AGENT SKILLcanva-implement-feedback
AGENT SKILLcanva-presentation-time-fitting
AGENT SKILLcanva-resize-for-social-media
AGENT SKILLcanva-translate-design
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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 things the Kin Score reads for access clarity — renamed from commercial clarity in rubric 0.12, because a free statutory interface has access terms and no commercial ones.
Published pricing tiers and plan structures.
Canva 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.
Canva 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.
Canva Finops
FINOPSFeatures 10
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.
Design Creation
Create and manage Canva designs programmatically from external applications.
Asset Management
Upload, retrieve, and manage image and video assets within Canva.
Brand Templates
Access and list brand templates with dataset definitions for consistent brand content.
Design Autofill
Automatically populate brand templates with dynamic data for bulk content creation.
Design Export
Export designs to PDF, PNG, JPG, GIF, PPTX, and MP4 formats.
Design Resize
Resize designs to different dimensions or preset types for multi-channel publishing.
Folder Organization
Organize designs into folders with move, list, and retrieval capabilities.
Comments and Collaboration
Create and manage comments on designs for team review and feedback workflows.
Webhooks
Receive real-time notifications for design events via webhook subscriptions.
Apps SDK
Build custom apps that extend the Canva editor with new functionality and content.
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Event Specifications 1
Not every API is request/response. AsyncAPI describes the event-driven and streaming side — the webhooks and channels — so the asynchronous half of the interface is documented the same way the synchronous half is.
AsyncAPI definitions for this provider's event-driven and streaming APIs.
Canva Webhooks
ASYNCAPISemantic Vocabularies 2
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.
Canva Connect Context
JSON-LDCanva 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.
Canva API Rules
SPECTRALCanva API Rules
SPECTRALJSON Schema 56
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.
AssetResponse
JSON SCHEMAAsset
JSON SCHEMAAssetUploadJobResponse
JSON SCHEMAAutofillChartValue
JSON SCHEMAAutofillDataValue
JSON SCHEMAAutofillImageValue
JSON SCHEMAAutofillJobResponse
JSON SCHEMAAutofillJob
JSON SCHEMAAutofillTextValue
JSON SCHEMABrandTemplateDatasetResponse
JSON SCHEMABrandTemplateResponse
JSON SCHEMABrandTemplate
JSON SCHEMACommentAttachment
JSON SCHEMACommentResponse
JSON SCHEMAComment
JSON SCHEMACommentUser
JSON SCHEMACreateAutofillJobRequest
JSON SCHEMACreateCommentRequest
JSON SCHEMACreateDesignRequest
JSON SCHEMACreateExportJobRequest
JSON SCHEMACreateReplyRequest
JSON SCHEMACreateResizeJobRequest
JSON SCHEMACustomDesignType
JSON SCHEMADatasetField
JSON SCHEMADesignResponse
JSON SCHEMADesign
JSON SCHEMADesignType
JSON SCHEMADesignUrls
JSON SCHEMAError
JSON SCHEMAExportError
JSON SCHEMAExportFormat
JSON SCHEMAExportJobResponse
JSON SCHEMAExportJob
JSON SCHEMAFolderItem
JSON SCHEMAFolderResponse
JSON SCHEMAFolder
JSON SCHEMAGifExportFormat
JSON SCHEMAImportStatus
JSON SCHEMAJpgExportFormat
JSON SCHEMAListBrandTemplatesResponse
JSON SCHEMAListDesignsResponse
JSON SCHEMAListFolderItemsResponse
JSON SCHEMAMentionedUser
JSON SCHEMAMoveFolderItemRequest
JSON SCHEMAMp4ExportFormat
JSON SCHEMAOwner
JSON SCHEMAPdfExportFormat
JSON SCHEMAPngExportFormat
JSON SCHEMAPptxExportFormat
JSON SCHEMAPresetDesignType
JSON SCHEMAResizeJobResponse
JSON SCHEMAResizeJob
JSON SCHEMATeamUser
JSON SCHEMAThumbnail
JSON SCHEMAUsersMeResponse
JSON SCHEMACanva Connect API Core Models
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JSON Structure 55
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.
Canva Connect Asset Response Structure
JSON STRUCTURECanva Connect Asset Structure
JSON STRUCTURECanva Connect Asset Upload Job Response Structure
JSON STRUCTURECanva Connect Autofill Chart Value Structure
JSON STRUCTURECanva Connect Autofill Data Value Structure
JSON STRUCTURECanva Connect Autofill Image Value Structure
JSON STRUCTURECanva Connect Autofill Job Response Structure
JSON STRUCTURECanva Connect Autofill Job Structure
JSON STRUCTURECanva Connect Autofill Text Value Structure
JSON STRUCTURECanva Connect Brand Template Dataset Response Structure
JSON STRUCTURECanva Connect Brand Template Response Structure
JSON STRUCTURECanva Connect Brand Template Structure
JSON STRUCTURECanva Connect Comment Attachment Structure
JSON STRUCTURECanva Connect Comment Response Structure
JSON STRUCTURECanva Connect Comment Structure
JSON STRUCTURECanva Connect Comment User Structure
JSON STRUCTURECanva Connect Create Autofill Job Request Structure
JSON STRUCTURECanva Connect Create Comment Request Structure
JSON STRUCTURECanva Connect Create Design Request Structure
JSON STRUCTURECanva Connect Create Export Job Request Structure
JSON STRUCTURECanva Connect Create Reply Request Structure
JSON STRUCTURECanva Connect Create Resize Job Request Structure
JSON STRUCTURECanva Connect Custom Design Type Structure
JSON STRUCTURECanva Connect Dataset Field Structure
JSON STRUCTURECanva Connect Design Response Structure
JSON STRUCTURECanva Connect Design Structure
JSON STRUCTURECanva Connect Design Type Structure
JSON STRUCTURECanva Connect Design Urls Structure
JSON STRUCTURECanva Connect Error Structure
JSON STRUCTURECanva Connect Export Error Structure
JSON STRUCTURECanva Connect Export Format Structure
JSON STRUCTURECanva Connect Export Job Response Structure
JSON STRUCTURECanva Connect Export Job Structure
JSON STRUCTURECanva Connect Folder Item Structure
JSON STRUCTURECanva Connect Folder Response Structure
JSON STRUCTURECanva Connect Folder Structure
JSON STRUCTURECanva Connect Gif Export Format Structure
JSON STRUCTURECanva Connect Import Status Structure
JSON STRUCTURECanva Connect Jpg Export Format Structure
JSON STRUCTURECanva Connect List Brand Templates Response Structure
JSON STRUCTURECanva Connect List Designs Response Structure
JSON STRUCTURECanva Connect List Folder Items Response Structure
JSON STRUCTURECanva Connect Mentioned User Structure
JSON STRUCTURECanva Connect Move Folder Item Request Structure
JSON STRUCTURECanva Connect Mp4 Export Format Structure
JSON STRUCTURECanva Connect Owner Structure
JSON STRUCTURECanva Connect Pdf Export Format Structure
JSON STRUCTURECanva Connect Png Export Format Structure
JSON STRUCTURECanva Connect Pptx Export Format Structure
JSON STRUCTURECanva Connect Preset Design Type Structure
JSON STRUCTURECanva Connect Resize Job Response Structure
JSON STRUCTURECanva Connect Resize Job Structure
JSON STRUCTURECanva Connect Team User Structure
JSON STRUCTURECanva Connect Thumbnail Structure
JSON STRUCTURECanva Connect Users Me Response Structure
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Examples 55
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.
Canva Connect Asset Example
EXAMPLECanva Connect Design Example
EXAMPLECanva Connect Error Example
EXAMPLECanva Connect Folder Example
EXAMPLECanva Connect Owner Example
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Security Posture 4
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.
Scopes 1
OAuth scopes are the vocabulary of least-privilege access. Profiling them shows exactly what an integration — or an agent acting on a user's behalf — is allowed to do.
OAuth scopes governing access to this provider's APIs.
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 5
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.
Marketing Automation
Generate branded marketing materials at scale by autofilling templates with campaign-specific data.
Print-on-Demand
Integrate Canva design tools into e-commerce platforms for custom product design and print ordering.
Content Management
Build content pipelines that create, export, and distribute visual content across multiple channels.
Brand Consistency
Ensure brand compliance by using locked brand templates with controlled editable elements.
Social Media Publishing
Create and export social media graphics in multiple formats and sizes for cross-platform publishing.
Integrations 6
Pre-built integrations with other platforms tell you where this provider already fits in a stack.
Pre-built integrations with other platforms and tools.
Slack
Share Canva designs directly to Slack channels for team review and approval.
Google Drive
Save and sync Canva designs with Google Drive for file management.
Dropbox
Connect Canva with Dropbox for cloud storage and asset management.
HubSpot
Create marketing visuals within HubSpot using Canva design capabilities.
Shopify
Design product images and marketing materials for Shopify stores.
WordPress
Create and embed Canva designs directly into WordPress posts and pages.
Resources
Every other property we hold for Canva — 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
Documentation 11
Reference material describing how the API behaves
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Agent Surfaces 6
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Design & Contract 8
Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events
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Build 7
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
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Access & Security 10
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
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Operate 9
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
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Commercial 8
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
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Company 4
The organization behind the API
Other 2
Properties that don't map to a standard resource type
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