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Dub

Dub is an open-source link attribution platform for creating short links, QR codes, and managing affiliate programs. It provides a REST API that allows developers to programmatically create and manage links, track conversion events (clicks, leads, and sales), retrieve analytics, and manage workspaces and custom domains. Dub powers over 100 million clicks and 2 million links monthly for marketing teams at companies like Vercel, Perplexity, Twilio, and Framer. The platform offers native SDKs in TypeScript, Python, Go, Ruby, and PHP, along with mobile SDKs for iOS and React Native.

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 Dub the way a machine reads it — 68 machine-readable artifacts across 1 API, 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 — Dub scores 60.9/100 (strong), with a separate agent-readiness read of 29/100 (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. Every facet and dimension name is a link: it opens that measurement's page on APIs.io, where the rating runs across the whole catalog — the exact checks that feed it, how every profiled provider distributes on it, and who is at the top of it.

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scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0
Dub Kin Score — API readiness rating by API Evangelist

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How we profile Dub

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Dub. 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 18

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.

Dub Analytics API

Retrieve analytics and event data for links and workspaces including click counts, conversion events (leads and sales), geographic breakdowns, device information, and referrer t...

Dub Partners API

Create and manage affiliate partners, partner groups, and partner tags. Supports payout management and advanced reward structures including geo-specific, product-specific, and p...

Dub Domains API

List and manage custom domains associated with a Dub workspace, including SSL certificate provisioning and free .link domain support.

Dub Analytics API

The Analytics API from Dub — 1 operation(s) for analytics.

Dub Bounties API

The Bounties API from Dub — 3 operation(s) for bounties.

Dub Commissions API

The Commissions API from Dub — 3 operation(s) for commissions.

Dub Customers API

The Customers API from Dub — 2 operation(s) for customers.

Dub Domains API

The Domains API from Dub — 4 operation(s) for domains.

Dub Embed Tokens API

The Embed Tokens API from Dub — 1 operation(s) for embed tokens.

Dub Events API

The Events API from Dub — 1 operation(s) for events.

Dub Folders API

The Folders API from Dub — 2 operation(s) for folders.

Dub Links API

The Links API from Dub — 6 operation(s) for links.

Dub Partner Applications API

The Partner Applications API from Dub — 3 operation(s) for partner applications.

Dub Partners API

The Partners API from Dub — 6 operation(s) for partners.

Dub Payouts API

The Payouts API from Dub — 1 operation(s) for payouts.

Dub QR Codes API

The QR Codes API from Dub — 1 operation(s) for qr codes.

Dub Tags API

The Tags API from Dub — 2 operation(s) for tags.

Dub Track API

The Track API from Dub — 3 operation(s) for track.

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Postman Collections 15

A runnable collection turns the contract into something a developer can execute in seconds. We profile them because the fastest way to trust an API is to make a real call against it.

Ready-to-run Postman collections for exercising this provider's APIs.

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Open Collections 16

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).

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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 things the Kin Score reads for access clarity — renamed from commercial clarity in rubric 0.12, because a free statutory interface has access terms and no commercial ones.

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Dub Plans Pricing

5 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.

Dub Rate Limits

8 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.

Dub Finops

FINOPS

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.

Dub Context

45 classes · 23 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral 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.

Dub API Rules

5 rules · 3 warnings

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 5

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.

AnalyticsCount

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

AnalyticsTimeseries

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

DomainSchema

14 properties

JSON SCHEMA

FolderSchema

7 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Link

51 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Examples 4

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.

Dub Create Link Example

16 fields

EXAMPLE

Dub Link Response Example

41 fields

EXAMPLE

Dub Track Sale Example

7 fields

EXAMPLE

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.

Dub Authentication

http · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Dub Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Dub Vulnerability Disclosure

security.txt · contact published

SECURITY

Dub Trust Center

SOC 2, ISO 27001, PCI DSS, HIPAA, 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.

Dub Agentic Access

54 operations · 35 acting

54 operations · 35 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Every other property we hold for Dub — 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

Design & Contract 2

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Operate 3

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Company 3

The organization behind the API

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

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Where this information came from

This is an independent, third-party profile of Dub, published by API Evangelist. We do not operate, host, resell, or support these APIs, and we are not affiliated with or endorsed by the company unless stated above. Everything here is built from publicly available information — the company's own site, developer portal, documentation, public repositories, and the specifications it publishes for public use. Nothing is obtained by breaching a system, defeating an access control, or using credentials.

The Kin Score and Agent Readiness rating are independently calculated assessments of a company's public API artifacts, scored against a published rubric. They are not certifications, endorsements, security assessments, or audits.

Corrections, re-scores, and removal are free — no partnership or purchase required, and you do not need to justify the request. A removed company is recorded as unrated, never scored zero for having asked. Acknowledgement within one business day; removal within two.

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