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DNSFilter

DNSFilter is an AI-powered DNS security and content-filtering platform that protects organizations from cyber threats and unwanted content at the DNS layer. Its machine-learning engine blocks malicious domains — phishing, malware, ransomware, and botnet command-and-control — often before they appear in third-party threat feeds, and enforces content policies across 40+ categories with application-level (AppAware) controls, roaming clients for off-network devices, and user-behavior analytics (CyberSight). DNSFilter serves SMBs, enterprises, MSPs, schools, healthcare, and government over a dual Anycast network with DNSSEC validation. The DNSFilter management REST API (api.dnsfilter.com) programmatically manages organizations, networks/sites, filtering policies, block pages, applications, categories, API keys, and traffic/threat reporting — authenticated with an API key in the Authorization header.

agent native

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 DNSFilter the way a machine reads it — 49 machine-readable artifacts across 45 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 — DNSFilter scores 47.9/100 (developing), 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 — 47.9/100 · developing
Contract Quality 14.3 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 11.3 / 20
Commercial Clarity 8.9 / 20
Operational Transparency 3.4 / 13
Governance 0.0 / 12
Discoverability 10.0 / 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 8 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 5 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

How we profile DNSFilter

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for DNSFilter. 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 45

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.

DNSFilter Agent Local User Bulk Deletes API

The Agent Local User Bulk Deletes API from DNSFilter — 3 operation(s) for agent local user bulk deletes.

DNSFilter Agent Local Users API

The Agent Local Users API from DNSFilter — 4 operation(s) for agent local users.

DNSFilter Agent Local Users CSV Export API

The Agent Local Users CSV Export API from DNSFilter — 2 operation(s) for agent local users csv export.

DNSFilter Api Keys API

The Api Keys API from DNSFilter — 3 operation(s) for api keys.

DNSFilter Application Categories API

The Application Categories API from DNSFilter — 2 operation(s) for application categories.

DNSFilter Applications API

Get information about available applications for the allow and block lists.

DNSFilter Billings API

The Billings API from DNSFilter — 2 operation(s) for billings.

DNSFilter Block Pages API

The Block Pages API from DNSFilter — 3 operation(s) for block pages.

DNSFilter Categories API

The Categories API from DNSFilter — 3 operation(s) for categories.

DNSFilter Collection Users API

The Collection Users API from DNSFilter — 2 operation(s) for collection users.

DNSFilter Cybersight CSV Exports API

The Cybersight CSV Exports API from DNSFilter — 2 operation(s) for cybersight csv exports.

DNSFilter Dictionary Lookups API

The Dictionary Lookups API from DNSFilter — 4 operation(s) for dictionary lookups.

DNSFilter Distributors API

The Distributors API from DNSFilter — 23 operation(s) for distributors.

DNSFilter Domain Notes API

The Domain Notes API from DNSFilter — 4 operation(s) for domain notes.

DNSFilter Domains API

The Domains API from DNSFilter — 3 operation(s) for domains.

DNSFilter Enterprise Connections API

The Enterprise Connections API from DNSFilter — 2 operation(s) for enterprise connections.

DNSFilter Invoices API

The Invoices API from DNSFilter — 3 operation(s) for invoices.

DNSFilter IP Addresses API

The IP Addresses API from DNSFilter — 5 operation(s) for ip addresses.

DNSFilter MAC Addresses API

The MAC Addresses API from DNSFilter — 3 operation(s) for mac addresses.

DNSFilter Metrics API

The Metrics API from DNSFilter — 2 operation(s) for metrics.

DNSFilter Network LAN IPs API

The Network LAN IPs API from DNSFilter — 2 operation(s) for network lan ips.

DNSFilter Network Subnets API

The Network Subnets API from DNSFilter — 3 operation(s) for network subnets.

DNSFilter Networks API

The Networks API from DNSFilter — 15 operation(s) for networks.

DNSFilter Networks CSV Exports API

The Networks CSV Exports API from DNSFilter — 2 operation(s) for networks csv exports.

DNSFilter Organization Users API

The Organization Users API from DNSFilter — 3 operation(s) for organization users.

DNSFilter Organizations API

The Organizations API from DNSFilter — 7 operation(s) for organizations.

DNSFilter Policies API

The Policies API from DNSFilter — 16 operation(s) for policies.

DNSFilter Policies Bulk Actions API

The Policies Bulk Actions API from DNSFilter — 4 operation(s) for policies bulk actions.

DNSFilter Policy IPs API

The Policy IPs API from DNSFilter — 2 operation(s) for policy ips.

DNSFilter PSA Integrations API

The PSA Integrations API from DNSFilter — 1 operation(s) for psa integrations.

DNSFilter Scheduled Policies API

The Scheduled Policies API from DNSFilter — 3 operation(s) for scheduled policies.

DNSFilter Scheduled Report Previews API

The Scheduled Report Previews API from DNSFilter — 2 operation(s) for scheduled report previews.

DNSFilter Scheduled Reports API

The Scheduled Reports API from DNSFilter — 2 operation(s) for scheduled reports.

DNSFilter Traffic Reports API

The Traffic Reports API from DNSFilter — 53 operation(s) for traffic reports.

DNSFilter Trials API

The Trials API from DNSFilter — 1 operation(s) for trials.

DNSFilter User Agent Bulk Deletes API

The User Agent Bulk Deletes API from DNSFilter — 3 operation(s) for user agent bulk deletes.

DNSFilter User Agent Bulk Updates API

The User Agent Bulk Updates API from DNSFilter — 4 operation(s) for user agent bulk updates.

DNSFilter User Agent Cleanups API

The User Agent Cleanups API from DNSFilter — 2 operation(s) for user agent cleanups.

DNSFilter User Agent CSV Exports API

The User Agent CSV Exports API from DNSFilter — 2 operation(s) for user agent csv exports.

DNSFilter User Agent Releases API

The User Agent Releases API from DNSFilter — 2 operation(s) for user agent releases.

DNSFilter User Agents API

The User Agents API from DNSFilter — 9 operation(s) for user agents.

DNSFilter User (Current) API

The User (Current) API from DNSFilter — 1 operation(s) for user (current).

DNSFilter User Organization UI Settings API

Manage UI settings for the current user related to Organizations

DNSFilter User UI Settings API

Manage UI settings for the current user.

DNSFilter Users API

The Users API from DNSFilter — 4 operation(s) for users.

Scroll within the panel for all 45 ·

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.

dnsfilter-mcp.yml

MCP SERVER

Security Posture 2

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.

Dnsfilter Authentication

apiKey · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Dnsfilter Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC

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.

Dnsfilter Agentic Access

280 operations · 111 acting · 4 human-in-the-loop

280 operations · 111 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Every other property we hold for DNSFilter — 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

Documentation 3

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Agent Surfaces 4

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Build 2

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Access & Security 2

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 2

The organization behind the API

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

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