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Civitai

Civitai is the largest open community for Stable Diffusion, SDXL, Flux, and video AI models — hosting over a million model checkpoints, LoRAs, embeddings, and VAEs uploaded and rated by creators. Beyond hosting, Civitai operates a hosted AI image, video, audio, and language generation service through its Orchestration API, which races workflows across providers (Flux 1/2, SDXL, SD1, Z-Image, Qwen, Seedream, Grok, WAN 2.1-2.7, Kling, LTX2, Vidu, Veo 3, HunyuanVideo) and supports LoRA training jobs. The Site API exposes the public catalog plus user vault, permissions, and AIR identifier resolution. OAuth 2.0 with PKCE and per-app Buzz spend caps lets third parties build delegated experiences without owning a user's full credit balance. Generation is metered in Buzz, a virtual credit topped up via memberships or one-off packs.

agent native

Solid contracts, transparent operations, and an easy start — typically complete on four or five facets with one clear soft spot.

Kin Score

API Evangelist profiles Civitai the way a machine reads it — 64 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 — Civitai scores 65.4/100 (strong), with a separate agent-readiness read of 73/100 (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 — 65.4/100 · strong
Contract Quality 17.7 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 13.0 / 20
Commercial Clarity 12.1 / 20
Operational Transparency 5.8 / 13
Governance 8.8 / 12
Discoverability 8.0 / 10
Agent readiness — 73/100 · 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 8 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7
Typed Event Surface 6 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

How we profile Civitai

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

Civitai OAuth API

OAuth 2.0 authorization-code with PKCE for third-party apps that act on behalf of a Civitai user. Supports scoped tokens, refresh flow, and per-app Buzz spend caps so a delegate...

Civitai Blobs API

Upload and reference blobs for inputs and outputs.

Civitai Creators API

Users who publish models.

Civitai Enums API

Enumerations used throughout the API.

Civitai Images API

Community-shared generation outputs.

Civitai Models API

Catalog of model checkpoints, LoRAs, embeddings, and VAEs.

Civitai ModelVersions API

Specific versions of a model with files, hashes, and AIR identifiers.

Civitai Permissions API

Permission checks for the current bearer.

Civitai Tags API

Catalog tag taxonomy.

Civitai Users API

User accounts.

Civitai Vault API

A user's saved-model vault (membership tiers).

Civitai Workflows API

Submit and manage generation workflows.

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Postman Collections 2

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.

Open Collections 2

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).

Civitai Orchestration API

OPEN COLLECTION

Civitai Site API

OPEN COLLECTION

Arazzo Workflows 13

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.

Civitai Batch Hash Reconciliation

Resolve many file hashes to version ids in bulk, then enrich the first match with model detail.

ARAZZO

Civitai Blob Upload and Image-to-Image Generation

Upload a source image blob, run an img2img workflow against it, poll, and read the result.

ARAZZO

Civitai Creator Models and Image Gallery

Find a creator, list the models they publish, and pull a gallery of images for one model.

ARAZZO

Civitai Image Generation Submit and Poll

Submit an image generation workflow, poll until it finishes, and collect the output blobs.

ARAZZO

Civitai Model Images Explorer

Open a model, browse its community images, and resolve the version behind the top image.

ARAZZO

Civitai Identify a Model From a File Hash

Resolve a local model file's hash to its model version, then load the parent model.

ARAZZO

Civitai Generate From a Catalog Model Version

Resolve a catalog model version's AIR, generate an image with it, poll, and read the result.

ARAZZO

Civitai Permission-Gated Version Download

Resolve a model version, check the bearer's permissions, and branch on download rights.

ARAZZO

Civitai Presigned Blob Upload Then Generate

Request a presigned blob upload URL, reference the blob in a workflow with webhook callbacks, and poll.

ARAZZO

Civitai Search Models and Drill Into a Version

Search the model catalog, open the top matching model, and resolve one of its versions.

ARAZZO

Civitai Tag-Driven Model Discovery

Pick a tag from the taxonomy, list models carrying that tag, and open the top model.

ARAZZO

Civitai Vault Add and Verify

Confirm the user, check vault capacity, add a model version to the vault, and verify storage.

ARAZZO

Civitai Query and Cancel a Running Workflow

List active workflows, inspect the first one, cancel it, and confirm the canceled state.

ARAZZO

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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.

Civitai MCP Server

MCP SERVER

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.

Civitai Plans Pricing

7 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.

Civitai Rate Limits

4 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 18

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.

Largest community catalog of Stable Diffusion, SDXL, and Flux checkpoints, LoRAs, embeddings, and VAEs
Image, video, audio, and language generation through a single Orchestration API
Multi-provider workflow racing across Flux 1/2, SDXL, SD1, Z-Image, Qwen, Seedream, Grok, WAN, Kling, LTX2, Vidu, Veo 3, HunyuanVideo
LoRA training jobs for SDXL, Flux, WAN, and LTX2 ecosystems
AI Resource Identifier (AIR) URN scheme for unambiguously referencing models, versions, and weights
Bearer-token authentication via per-user API keys, plus OAuth 2.0 + PKCE for third-party apps
In-order, serialized webhooks for workflow, step, and job lifecycle events
HTTPS-only webhook endpoints with retry on non-2xx; idempotency keyed on `(workflowId, status, timestamp)`
Blob upload API with built-in NSFW moderation and presigned upload URLs
Buzz credit system for metering generation, with per-app spend caps on delegated OAuth tokens
Civitai Vault for membership-tier model storage and retrieval via API
Hash-based model-version lookup for client tools (ComfyUI, A1111, Civitai Link)
Public MCP server exposing Civitai as tools for Claude, Cursor, and other MCP-aware agents
Open-source Civitai platform repo (TypeScript) on GitHub
Official JavaScript SDK (`civitai-client-javascript`) and OAuth SDK (`civitai-app-starters`)
Civitai Link Desktop for syncing models into local Stable Diffusion installs
AI Toolkit for diffusion model finetuning; Model Scanner for safety/security checks
Education portal and community articles, posts, comics, challenges, and bounties

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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.

Civitai Context

53 classes · 20 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral 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.

Civitai API Rules

5 rules · 3 warnings

SPECTRAL

Civitai API Rules

10 rules · 3 errors · 7 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.

Civitai Image

12 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Civitai Model

14 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Civitai Orchestration Workflow

10 properties

JSON SCHEMA

JSON Structure 1

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.

Civitai Model Structure

0 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

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 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.

Civitai Authentication

http · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Civitai Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · DMARC

SECURITY

Civitai Vulnerability Disclosure

security.txt · contact published

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.

Civitai Agentic Access

29 operations · 9 acting

29 operations · 9 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Every other property we hold for Civitai — 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 2

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Operate 3

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Company 3

The organization behind the API

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

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