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DroneDeploy

DroneDeploy is the unified reality-capture platform for construction, agriculture, mining, energy, oil & gas, and inspection workflows. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in San Francisco, DroneDeploy combines aerial drone mapping, ground 360 capture, robotics (DJI Dock, Boston Dynamics Spot), and vision-language AI (Progress AI, Safety AI, Earthworks AI) into a single platform that operates across 3M+ sites in 180 countries and has processed 2.8B+ images. Developers integrate via a GraphQL API at https://www.dronedeploy.com/graphql, an Apps Platform with OAuth2 templates that embed third-party apps into the DroneDeploy web application, and a 40+ partner App Market spanning construction (Procore, Autodesk Construction Cloud, PlanGrid), GIS (ArcGIS, Mapbox), cloud storage (S3, Google Drive, OneDrive, Box, Azure), and agriculture (Climate FieldView).

agent ready

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 DroneDeploy the way a machine reads it — 30 machine-readable artifacts across 3 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 — DroneDeploy scores 65.3/100 (strong), with a separate agent-readiness read of 48/100 (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 — 65.3/100 · strong
Contract Quality 19.3 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 8.3 / 20
Commercial Clarity 14.7 / 20
Operational Transparency 5.5 / 13
Governance 8.8 / 12
Discoverability 8.8 / 10
Agent readiness — 48/100 · 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 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

How we profile DroneDeploy

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for DroneDeploy. 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 3

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.

DroneDeploy GraphQL API

DroneDeploy's GraphQL API is the primary programmatic interface for the DroneDeploy reality-capture platform. A single POST endpoint at https://www.dronedeploy.com/graphql expos...

DroneDeploy Apps Platform

The DroneDeploy Apps Platform lets third parties build embedded apps and serverless "functions" that run inside the DroneDeploy web application and the DroneDeploy App Market. A...

DroneDeploy Flight Log Parser

Open-source JavaScript/TypeScript library for parsing DroneDeploy flight log files (the .csv/.json telemetry files emitted by the DroneDeploy Flight App). MIT-licensed, maintain...

Open Collections 1

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).

DroneDeploy GraphQL API

OPEN COLLECTION

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.

DroneDeploy GraphQL API

DroneDeploy's GraphQL API is the primary programmatic interface for the DroneDeploy reality-capture platform. A single POST endpoint at https://www.dronedeploy.com/graphql expos...

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.

Drone Deploy Rate Limits

1 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 12

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.

DroneDeploy Aerial — automated drone flight, photogrammetry, orthomosaic, 3D models, design overlays
DroneDeploy Ground — 360 walks, mobile 3D scanning, LiDAR, 8K imagery, BIM overlays
DroneDeploy Robotics — dock automation and industrial inspection with Boston Dynamics and DJI Dock
Progress AI — automated schedule and progress tracking from reality capture
Safety AI — visual hazard detection ranked by severity
Earthworks AI — cut/fill volumetrics and earthworks progress
GraphQL API at https://www.dronedeploy.com/graphql with strongly-typed schema and Relay-style cursor pagination
GraphiQL interactive explorer at https://www.dronedeploy.com/graphiql/
Apps Platform with OAuth2 templates and serverless function model
DroneDeploy App Market with 40+ integration partners (Procore, Autodesk Construction Cloud, ArcGIS, S3, Google Drive, OneDrive, Box, Azure, Climate FieldView)
14-day free trial, no credit card required
Operates across 3M+ sites in 180 countries; 2.8B+ images processed

Scroll within the panel for all 12 ·

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.

Drone Deploy Context

0 classes · 7 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.

DroneDeploy API Rules

5 rules · 3 warnings

SPECTRAL

DroneDeploy API Rules

5 rules · 3 errors · 2 warnings

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 2

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.

DroneDeploy Export

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

DroneDeploy Plan

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

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 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.

Drone Deploy Authentication

http · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Drone Deploy Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · 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.

Drone Deploy Agentic Access

1 operation · 1 acting

1 operations · 1 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Every other property we hold for DroneDeploy — 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 5

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Documentation 3

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Learn 1

Tutorials, courses, talks, and written guidance

Operate 3

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Other 2

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

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