Cisco
Cisco provides a comprehensive suite of APIs across its networking, security, collaboration, and cloud infrastructure platforms. Through Cisco DevNet, developers can access REST APIs, SDKs, and developer tools for Meraki, Webex, Catalyst Center, ACI, ISE, Intersight, ThousandEyes, SD-WAN, and other Cisco products to automate network operations, build integrations, and extend platform capabilities.
Solid contracts, transparent operations, and an easy start — typically complete on four or five facets with one clear soft spot.
API Evangelist profiles Cisco the way a machine reads it — 54 machine-readable artifacts across 12 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 — Cisco scores 65.2/100 (strong), with a separate agent-readiness read of 66/100 (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
How this is scored →scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
How we profile Cisco
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Cisco. 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 12
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.
Cisco Meraki Dashboard API
RESTful API for managing Cisco Meraki cloud-managed networking devices including wireless access points, switches, security appliances, and cameras. Supports network configurati...
Cisco Webex API
REST API for Webex collaboration platform enabling messaging, meeting management, device control, and administration. Supports bots, integrations, and embedded apps for extendin...
Cisco Catalyst Center API
REST API for Cisco Catalyst Center (formerly DNA Center), providing intent-based networking capabilities including network design, provisioning, assurance, and policy management...
Cisco ACI API
REST API for Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) providing programmable access to data center network fabric configuration, policy management, and monitoring through ...
Cisco ISE API
REST API for Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE) enabling network access policy management, guest services, BYOD onboarding, and security group administration for zero-trust ne...
Cisco Intersight API
REST API for Cisco Intersight cloud operations platform providing infrastructure management, workload optimization, and lifecycle automation for Cisco UCS, HyperFlex, and third-...
Cisco SD-WAN API
REST API for Cisco SD-WAN (formerly Viptela) providing programmatic access to WAN edge device management, policy configuration, monitoring, and analytics through the vManage con...
Cisco ThousandEyes API
REST API for Cisco ThousandEyes digital experience monitoring platform, providing access to network, application, and internet visibility data for monitoring end-to-end digital ...
Cisco Clients API
View client information
Cisco Devices API
Manage network devices
Cisco Networks API
Manage networks within an organization
Cisco Organizations API
Manage Meraki organizations
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Arazzo Workflows 2
Real integrations are rarely a single call. Arazzo describes the multi-step sequences — auth, then create, then confirm — so both a human and an agent can follow the choreography, not just the endpoints.
Multi-step API workflows described with the Arazzo specification.
Cisco Meraki Network Inventory Snapshot
Drill from organization to network to devices to connected clients in a single audited pass.
ARAZZOCisco Meraki Provision an Organization Network
Verify organization access, guard against a duplicate network name, create the network, and read it back.
ARAZZOMCP 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.
cisco-mcp.yml
MCP SERVERGraphQL 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.
Cisco GraphQL Schema
This is a conceptual GraphQL schema for Cisco's APIs, unifying resources from Cisco Meraki, Webex, Catalyst Center (DNA Center), and NSO (Network Services Orchestrator). Cisco p...
GRAPHQLPricing 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.
Cisco 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.
Cisco 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.
Cisco Finops
FINOPSFeatures 12
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.
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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.
Cisco 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.
Cisco API Rules
SPECTRALCisco API Rules
SPECTRALJSON 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.
Examples 3
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 3
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 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.
Network Configuration Management
Automate network device configuration changes across thousands of devices using APIs and templates.
Security Policy Automation
Programmatically manage access control policies, security groups, and compliance enforcement.
Collaboration Integration
Build bots, integrations, and custom applications on the Webex platform for team collaboration.
Cloud Infrastructure Management
Manage hybrid cloud infrastructure with Intersight APIs for lifecycle management and workload optimization.
Network Monitoring and Analytics
Collect and analyze network telemetry data for performance monitoring and troubleshooting.
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.
Ansible
Network automation modules for Cisco platforms including IOS, NX-OS, ACI, and Meraki.
Terraform
Terraform providers for Cisco ACI, Intersight, Meraki, and other platforms for infrastructure as code.
ServiceNow
ITSM integration for automated incident management and change control with Cisco platforms.
Splunk
Security and network analytics integration for log aggregation and threat detection.
Python
Python SDKs and libraries for all major Cisco platforms including Meraki, Webex, and ACI.
Resources
Every other property we hold for Cisco — 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
Documentation 1
Reference material describing how the API behaves
Agent Surfaces 4
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Design & Contract 6
Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events
Build 2
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
Access & Security 4
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Learn 2
Tutorials, courses, talks, and written guidance
Operate 3
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Commercial 2
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 2
The organization behind the API
Other 1
Properties that don't map to a standard resource type
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