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commercetools

commercetools is the leading composable, headless, API-first Commerce platform powering large-scale B2C, B2B, and marketplace digital commerce for enterprise brands. The platform exposes a broad API surface organized into the HTTP API (core REST interface), GraphQL API (flexible query and mutation alternative), Import API (bulk data ingestion), Change History API (audit log), Checkout API (managed checkout configuration), and Merchant Center Customizations API (custom UI extensions). It is complemented by official SDKs (TypeScript, Java, PHP, .NET, Python) and AsyncAPI-based subscriptions for event-driven integrations.

agent ready

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 commercetools the way a machine reads it — 129 machine-readable artifacts across 19 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 — commercetools scores 59.5/100 (developing), with a separate agent-readiness read of 54/100 (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.

Kin Score Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
Composite quality — 59.5/100 · developing
Contract Quality 19.5 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 4.3 / 20
Commercial Clarity 11.6 / 20
Operational Transparency 6.8 / 13
Governance 7.3 / 12
Discoverability 10.0 / 10
Agent readiness — 54/100 · agent ready
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 15 / 15
MCP Server 0 / 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 6 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

How we profile commercetools

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for commercetools. 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 19

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.

Commercetools GraphQL API

The commercetools GraphQL API provides a flexible, network-efficient alternative to the HTTP API for querying and mutating Composable Commerce resources. It exposes a single end...

Commercetools TypeScript SDK

The commercetools TypeScript SDK is the official client library for interacting with the Composable Commerce HTTP API, Import API, and GraphQL API from JavaScript and TypeScript...

Commercetools Java SDK

The commercetools Java SDK is the official client library for accessing the Composable Commerce APIs from Java applications. It provides strongly typed request builders, automat...

Commercetools Checkout API

The commercetools Checkout API provides programmatic control over Checkout application configurations within Composable Commerce. The Checkout Applications API allows developers...

Commercetools Merchant Center Customizations API

The commercetools Merchant Center Customizations API provides the programmatic interface for building custom applications and UI extensions within the Merchant Center. It expose...

commercetools Carts API

Manage shopping carts with line items, discounts, shipping, and tax calculations.

commercetools Categories API

Organize products into hierarchical category structures.

commercetools ChangeHistory API

Query the audit log of resource changes across the project.

commercetools Customers API

Manage customer accounts, addresses, authentication, and group assignments.

commercetools ImportContainers API

Manage import containers that hold import requests before processing.

commercetools ImportOperations API

Monitor the status of individual import operations.

commercetools Inventory API

Manage inventory entries tracking stock levels per channel and SKU.

commercetools Orders API

Create and manage orders resulting from cart checkouts or quotes.

commercetools Payments API

Track payment transactions and PSP interactions associated with orders.

commercetools Products API

Manage product catalog entries including variants, images, prices, and attributes.

commercetools ProductVariants API

Import product variant resources into the project.

commercetools Project API

Read and configure project-level settings including currencies, languages, and messages.

commercetools StandalonePrices API

Import standalone price resources into the project.

commercetools Subscriptions API

The Subscriptions API from commercetools — 2 operation(s) for subscriptions.

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Open Collections 3

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).

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.

commercetools GraphQL API

The commercetools GraphQL API provides a flexible, network-efficient alternative to the HTTP API for querying and mutating Composable Commerce resources. It exposes a single end...

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.

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.

Commercetools 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 16

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.

Core Commerce Edition: Composable Commerce APIs (custom price)
Foundry Edition: includes Frontend + Checkout + Blueprints + Expert Services
Premium Edition: unlimited SKUs, B2B APIs, Audit Log Premium
Headless / API-first commerce
REST API at api.{region}.commercetools.com
GraphQL API at api.{region}.commercetools.com/{project}/graphql
REST API: 200 req/sec/project default
Search (Product Projection): 100 req/sec
Concurrent connections: 200/project
Cart, Order, Customer, Catalog, Discount, Inventory APIs
OAuth 2.0 with scoped tokens
Subscription messages for async event delivery
Webhooks via HTTP destinations
Multi-region: AWS US/EU/Australia, GCP US/EU/Australia
Custom Objects for extensibility
Composable Frontend (B2C2B Foundry)

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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.

commercetools Subscriptions Events

The commercetools Subscriptions system delivers real-time change notifications and domain messages to external message queue destinations when resources are created, updated, or...

ASYNCAPI

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.

Commercetools Context

0 classes · 13 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 3

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.

commercetools API Rules

10 rules · 1 errors · 8 warnings

SPECTRAL

commercetools API Rules

6 rules · 4 warnings

SPECTRAL

commercetools API Rules

9 rules · 4 errors · 4 warnings

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 77

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.

Address

12 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Attribute

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Cart

16 properties

JSON SCHEMA

CartDraft

10 properties

JSON SCHEMA

CartPagedQueryResponse

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

CartUpdate

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Category

13 properties

JSON SCHEMA

CategoryDraft

8 properties

JSON SCHEMA

CategoryImport

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

CategoryImportRequest

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

CategoryPagedQueryResponse

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

CategoryUpdate

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Change

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Customer

12 properties

JSON SCHEMA

CustomerDraft

8 properties

JSON SCHEMA

CustomerImport

7 properties

JSON SCHEMA

CustomerImportRequest

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

CustomerPagedQueryResponse

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

CustomerSignInResult

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

CustomerUpdate

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ErrorObject

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Image

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ImportContainer

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ImportContainerDraft

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ImportContainerPagedQueryResponse

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ImportOperation

9 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ImportOperationPagedQueryResponse

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ImportOperationStatus

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ImportResponse

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ImportSummary

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

InventoryEntry

9 properties

JSON SCHEMA

InventoryEntryDraft

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

InventoryImport

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

InventoryImportRequest

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

InventoryPagedQueryResponse

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

LineItem

9 properties

JSON SCHEMA

LocalizedString

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ModifiedBy

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Money

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

commercetools Order

36 properties

JSON SCHEMA

OrderFromCartDraft

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

OrderImport

8 properties

JSON SCHEMA

OrderImportRequest

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

OrderPagedQueryResponse

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

OrderUpdate

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Payment

11 properties

JSON SCHEMA

PaymentDraft

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

PaymentMethodInfo

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

PaymentPagedQueryResponse

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

PaymentStatus

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

PaymentUpdate

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Price

7 properties

JSON SCHEMA

PriceDraft

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

commercetools Product

11 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ProductCatalogData

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ProductData

8 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ProductDraft

10 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ProductImport

7 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ProductImportRequest

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ProductPagedQueryResponse

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ProductUpdate

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ProductVariant

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ProductVariantDraft

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ProductVariantImport

7 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ProductVariantImportRequest

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Project

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Record

10 properties

JSON SCHEMA

RecordPagedQueryResponse

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Reference

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

StandalonePriceImport

8 properties

JSON SCHEMA

StandalonePriceImportRequest

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

commercetools Subscription Message

11 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Subscription

10 properties

JSON SCHEMA

SubscriptionDraft

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

SubscriptionPagedQueryResponse

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

SubscriptionUpdate

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Transaction

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

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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.

Commercetools Structure

0 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

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.

Commercetools Authentication

http · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Commercetools Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Commercetools Trust Center

SOC 2, ISO 27001, PCI DSS, HIPAA, GDPR, CSA STAR

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.

Commercetools Agentic Access

54 operations · 31 acting

54 operations · 31 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Every other property we hold for commercetools — 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.

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Design & Contract 2

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Access & Security 3

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Commercial 1

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Company 3

The organization behind the API

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