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Convex

Convex is a serverless backend platform that provides a real-time database, cloud functions, and infrastructure for building modern web and mobile applications. It offers a TypeScript-first developer experience with reactive queries, transactional mutations, and integrated file storage, all accessible through a suite of HTTP, management, and deployment APIs alongside JavaScript and server SDKs for full-stack application development. The platform is SOC 2 Type II, HIPAA, and GDPR compliant.

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 Convex the way a machine reads it — 51 machine-readable artifacts across 14 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 — Convex scores 66.8/100 (strong), with a separate agent-readiness read of 65/100 (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 — 66.8/100 · strong
Contract Quality 18.7 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 7.8 / 20
Commercial Clarity 16.3 / 20
Operational Transparency 4.8 / 13
Governance 10.4 / 12
Discoverability 8.8 / 10
Agent readiness — 65/100 · 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 6 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

How we profile Convex

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Convex. 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 14

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.

Convex Sync Protocol

The Convex Sync Protocol is the bidirectional WebSocket protocol spoken between Convex client SDKs and the sync worker of a Convex deployment. Clients open a single WebSocket co...

Convex JavaScript SDK

The Convex JavaScript SDK is a collection of TypeScript/JavaScript packages for building applications on the Convex backend platform. It includes convex/server for defining back...

Convex Server SDK

The Convex Server SDK (convex/server) is the TypeScript library for defining backend logic deployed on Convex. It provides primitives for writing query functions for read-only d...

Convex AccessTokens API

Create and manage Team Access Tokens used for authenticating Management API requests on behalf of a team.

Convex Actions API

Execute action functions for general-purpose server-side operations, including calling external services, performing non-transactional work, and orchestrating other functions.

Convex CustomDomains API

Configure custom domain names for Convex deployments. Supports both convexCloud (function API) and convexSite (HTTP actions) request destinations.

Convex DeployKeys API

Create and manage deploy keys for CLI operations and CI/CD pipelines. Deploy keys authenticate the Convex CLI when pushing function code to a deployment.

Convex Deployments API

Create, list, retrieve, update, and delete Convex cloud and local deployments. Deployments are the runtime environments where Convex backend functions execute.

Convex EnvironmentVariables API

Manage environment variables for a Convex deployment. Environment variables are key-value pairs accessible to backend functions at runtime via process.env. Changes to environmen...

Convex Functions API

Execute any deployed function by its identifier using the unified run endpoint, which accepts the function type implicitly based on the deployed function definition.

Convex Mutations API

Execute mutation functions that perform transactional writes to the Convex database. Mutations are strongly consistent and run with ACID guarantees.

Convex Projects API

Create, list, retrieve, and delete Convex projects within a team. Projects group deployments and serve as the top-level organizational unit for Convex applications.

Convex Queries API

Execute read-only query functions deployed on the Convex backend. Queries run in a transactional, reactive context and return data from the Convex database.

Convex Teams API

Manage Convex teams, team members, and team-level access tokens. Teams are the billing and administrative unit that owns projects.

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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).

Convex HTTP API

OPEN COLLECTION

Convex Management 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

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.

Convex 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.

Convex Rate Limits

28 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.

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.

Convex Sync Protocol

AsyncAPI description of the Convex WebSocket sync protocol used between Convex client SDKs (browser/Node/React/React Native) and a Convex deployment's sync worker. The client op...

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.

Convex Context

0 classes · 10 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 5

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.

Convex API Rules

4 rules · 3 warnings

SPECTRAL

Convex API Rules

5 rules · 3 errors · 2 warnings

SPECTRAL

Convex API Rules

7 rules · 4 errors · 3 warnings

SPECTRAL

Convex API Rules

6 rules · 4 warnings

SPECTRAL

Convex API Rules

7 rules · 4 errors · 3 warnings

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 17

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.

AccessToken

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

CreateAccessTokenRequest

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

CreateCloudDeploymentRequest

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

CreateCustomDomainRequest

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

CreateDeployKeyRequest

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

CreateProjectRequest

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

CustomDomain

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

DeployKey

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Convex Deployment

9 properties

JSON SCHEMA

EnvironmentVariable

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Convex Function

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

FunctionErrorResponse

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

FunctionRequest

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

FunctionSuccessResponse

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Project

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

RunFunctionRequest

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

TeamMember

3 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.

Convex Structure

0 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

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.

Convex Authentication

apiKey/http · 2 schemes

SECURITY

Convex Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Convex Vulnerability Disclosure

disclosure policy published

SECURITY

Convex Trust Center

SOC 2, HIPAA, FedRAMP, GDPR

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.

Convex Agentic Access

24 operations · 15 acting

24 operations · 15 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Every other property we hold for Convex — 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 3

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Agent Surfaces 3

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

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Company 3

The organization behind the API

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