Cosmos
Cosmos is an interoperable blockchain ecosystem providing a modular framework (Cosmos SDK) for building sovereign, high-performance application-specific blockchains. The Cosmos SDK exposes LCD (Light Client Daemon) REST APIs on port 1317, generated automatically via gRPC-gateway from Protobuf definitions. These endpoints cover accounts, balances, transactions, governance proposals, staking delegations, IBC transfers, minting, distribution, and ABCI app data. The Cosmos Hub (cosmoshub-4) is the flagship chain; the same API surface is shared by 150+ chains in the ecosystem.
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.
API Evangelist profiles Cosmos the way a machine reads it — 85 machine-readable artifacts across 2 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 — Cosmos scores 45.6/100 (developing), with a separate agent-readiness read of 39/100 (agent aware). 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.
How we profile Cosmos
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Cosmos. 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 2
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.
Cosmos Query API
The Query API from Cosmos — 89 operation(s) for query.
Cosmos Service API
The Service API from Cosmos — 19 operation(s) for service.
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.
Plans
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.
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.
Finops
FINOPSSemantic Vocabularies 2
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.
Api Context
JSON-LDcontext Context
JSON-LDSpectral Rules 1
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.
Cosmos API Rules
SPECTRALJSON Schema 58
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.
Cosmos SDK cosmos.auth.v1beta1 Schemas
JSON SCHEMACosmos SDK cosmos.authz.v1beta1 Schemas
JSON SCHEMACosmos SDK cosmos.bank.v1beta1 Schemas
JSON SCHEMACosmos SDK cosmos.base.abci Schemas
JSON SCHEMACosmos SDK cosmos.base.node Schemas
JSON SCHEMACosmos SDK cosmos.base.query Schemas
JSON SCHEMACosmos SDK cosmos.base.tendermint Schemas
JSON SCHEMACosmos SDK cosmos.base.v1beta1 Schemas
JSON SCHEMACosmos SDK cosmos.consensus.v1 Schemas
JSON SCHEMACosmos SDK cosmos.crypto.multisig Schemas
JSON SCHEMACosmos SDK cosmos.epochs.v1beta1 Schemas
JSON SCHEMACosmos SDK cosmos.evidence.v1beta1 Schemas
JSON SCHEMACosmos SDK cosmos.feegrant.v1beta1 Schemas
JSON SCHEMACosmos SDK cosmos.gov.v1 Schemas
JSON SCHEMACosmos SDK cosmos.gov.v1beta1 Schemas
JSON SCHEMACosmos SDK cosmos.mint.v1beta1 Schemas
JSON SCHEMACosmos SDK cosmos.slashing.v1beta1 Schemas
JSON SCHEMACosmos SDK cosmos.staking.v1beta1 Schemas
JSON SCHEMACosmos SDK cosmos.tx.signing Schemas
JSON SCHEMACosmos SDK cosmos.tx.v1beta1 Schemas
JSON SCHEMACosmos SDK cosmos.upgrade.v1beta1 Schemas
JSON SCHEMACosmos SDK google.protobuf.Any Schemas
JSON SCHEMACosmos SDK google.rpc.Status Schemas
JSON SCHEMACosmos SDK tendermint.abci.Event Schemas
JSON SCHEMACosmos SDK tendermint.types.Block Schemas
JSON SCHEMACosmos SDK tendermint.types.BlockID Schemas
JSON SCHEMACosmos SDK tendermint.types.Commit Schemas
JSON SCHEMACosmos SDK tendermint.types.Data Schemas
JSON SCHEMACosmos SDK tendermint.types.Evidence Schemas
JSON SCHEMACosmos SDK tendermint.types.Header Schemas
JSON SCHEMACosmos SDK tendermint.types.Vote Schemas
JSON SCHEMAScroll within the panel for all 58 ·
Examples 17
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.
Cosmos Auth V1Beta1
EXAMPLECosmos Authz V1Beta1
EXAMPLECosmos Bank V1Beta1
EXAMPLECosmos Base Node
EXAMPLECosmos Base Tendermint
EXAMPLECosmos Consensus V1
EXAMPLECosmos Distribution V1Beta1
EXAMPLECosmos Epochs V1Beta1
EXAMPLECosmos Evidence V1Beta1
EXAMPLECosmos Feegrant V1Beta1
EXAMPLECosmos Gov V1
EXAMPLECosmos Gov V1Beta1
EXAMPLECosmos Mint V1Beta1
EXAMPLECosmos Slashing V1Beta1
EXAMPLECosmos Staking V1Beta1
EXAMPLECosmos Tx V1Beta1
EXAMPLECosmos Upgrade V1Beta1
EXAMPLEScroll within the panel for all 17 ·
Security Posture 1
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.
Resources
Every other property we hold for Cosmos — 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.
Documentation 3
Reference material describing how the API behaves
Agent Surfaces 1
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Build 2
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
Access & Security 1
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Operate 3
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Commercial 3
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 1
The organization behind the API
Other 1
Properties that don't map to a standard resource type
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