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Carto

CARTO is a cloud-native location intelligence platform that lets developers and analysts build spatial applications directly on top of modern data warehouses (BigQuery, Snowflake, Redshift, Databricks). It exposes a Maps API for vector and tileset map data, an SQL API for spatial analytics, a Workflows API for executing no-code spatial pipelines, an Import API for data ingestion, and the Data Observatory for curated third-party spatial datasets — all backed by OAuth access tokens and API access tokens.

agent native

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 Carto the way a machine reads it — 43 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 — Carto scores 55.5/100 (developing), with a separate agent-readiness read of 64/100 (agent native). 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 — 55.5/100 · developing
Contract Quality 14.0 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 9.1 / 20
Commercial Clarity 16.8 / 20
Operational Transparency 6.8 / 13
Governance 0.0 / 12
Discoverability 8.8 / 10
Agent readiness — 64/100 · agent native
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 15 / 15
MCP Server 12 / 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 5 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

How we profile Carto

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

CARTO Maps API

Serves vector tables, SQL-query-backed tilesets, tileset sources, and raster/H3/quadbin tilesets for visualization in deck.gl, MapLibre, Google Maps, Amazon Location, or Mapbox ...

CARTO SQL API

Executes SQL (including CARTO's spatial functions and analytics extensions) against a connected data warehouse from applications, returning GeoJSON / JSON results for spatial an...

CARTO Workflows API

Executes visually-designed CARTO Workflows (spatial data pipelines) programmatically, enabling scheduled, CI-driven, or application- triggered spatial analytics runs.

CARTO Import API

Ingests files and URLs (CSV, GeoJSON, Shapefile, etc.) into a user's connected CARTO data warehouse for downstream spatial analysis and mapping.

CARTO Data Observatory

Curated catalog of third-party spatial datasets (demographics, POIs, mobility, financial, environmental) accessible via subscription and queryable directly from the customer's c...

CARTO Accounts API

Manages CARTO user accounts, organizations, and API access tokens, including OAuth clients used for secure programmatic access.

CARTO for deck.gl

Client library providing deck.gl layers for CARTO vector, H3, quadbin, raster, and query sources, simplifying application-layer integration with the Maps API.

CARTO for React

React library of components and hooks for building CARTO-powered location intelligence applications with widgets, filters, and deck.gl map integration.

Carto Jobs API

The Jobs API from Carto — 2 operation(s) for jobs.

Carto SQL API

The SQL API from Carto — 1 operation(s) for sql.

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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).

CARTO Platform API

OPEN COLLECTION

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.

MCP Server

MCP SERVER

Agent Skills 23

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.

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GraphQL 1

Where a provider ships GraphQL, the schema is the contract. We profile it alongside the REST surface so the whole interface is legible in one place.

GraphQL schemas published by this provider.

CARTO GraphQL Schema

This conceptual GraphQL schema models the CARTO location intelligence and spatial analytics platform. CARTO exposes REST APIs for Maps, SQL analytics, Workflows, Data Import, Da...

GRAPHQL

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.

Carto 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.

Carto 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.

Carto Finops

FINOPS

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.

Carto Context

0 classes · 9 properties

JSON-LD

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.

Carto Authentication

http · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Carto 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.

Carto Agentic Access

4 operations · 2 acting

4 operations · 2 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Every other property we hold for Carto — 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 4

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Agent Surfaces 4

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Access & Security 3

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Learn 1

Tutorials, courses, talks, and written guidance

Operate 3

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Other 3

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

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