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ESRI ArcGIS

ESRI ArcGIS is the world's leading geospatial platform providing mapping, spatial analysis, and location intelligence APIs and SDKs. The developer platform includes REST APIs, multiple language SDKs, and cloud services for GIS professionals and developers building location-enabled applications.

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 ESRI ArcGIS the way a machine reads it — 47 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 — ESRI ArcGIS scores 65.8/100 (strong), with a separate agent-readiness read of 50/100 (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. 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
Composite quality — 65.8/100 · strong
Contract Quality 18.6 / 25
Access Clarity 11.1 / 20
Discoverability 7.6 / 10
ESRI ArcGIS Kin Score — API readiness rating by API Evangelist

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How we profile ESRI ArcGIS

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for ESRI ArcGIS. 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 11

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.

ArcGIS Maps SDK for JavaScript

The ArcGIS Maps SDK for JavaScript enables web developers to build compelling 2D and 3D mapping applications with interactive visualizations, spatial analysis tools, geocoding, ...

ArcGIS API for Python

The ArcGIS API for Python provides a Pythonic interface for GIS capabilities including data management, spatial analysis, geocoding, routing, and administration of ArcGIS Online...

ArcGIS Geocoding Service

The ArcGIS Geocoding Service provides address search, reverse geocoding, address suggestions, and batch geocoding capabilities using the World Geocoding Service.

ArcGIS Routing Service

The ArcGIS Routing Service provides route optimization, turn-by-turn directions, nearest facility finding, service area definition, and fleet management capabilities.

ArcGIS Places Service

The ArcGIS Places Service provides search and retrieval of global points of interest spanning over 1,000 feature categories for location-aware applications.

ESRI ArcGIS Geocoding API

Address search, reverse geocoding, and batch geocoding

ESRI ArcGIS Places API

Points of interest search and retrieval

ESRI ArcGIS Portal API

Portal items, users, groups, and organizational management

ArcGIS Urban API

A GraphQL API for ArcGIS Urban - urban models, plans, projects, branches, parcels, zones, spaces, building types, indicators, metrics, overlays, viewpoints and scenario analyses...

MCP for ArcGIS Location Services (beta)

Esri-hosted Model Context Protocol server exposing ArcGIS Location Services - geocoding, reverse geocoding, routing, elevation, static maps and GeoEnrichment - as seven MCP tool...

ArcGIS Server OGC Web Services

ArcGIS Server publishes any map or feature service through the OGC interfaces - WMS, WFS, WCS, WMTS and KML. The two capabilities documents registered here were fetched from Esr...

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Open Collections 5

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).

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 for ArcGIS Location Services (beta)

An Esri-hosted, remote Model Context Protocol server that exposes ArcGIS Location Services (geocoding, reverse geocoding, routing, elevation, static maps and GeoEnrichment) to M...

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 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.

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.

Esri Arcgis Rate Limits

10 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.

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.

Esri Arcgis Context

33 classes · 10 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.

ESRI ArcGIS API Rules

6 rules · 4 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.

Category

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Error

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ArcGIS Feature

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

GeocodeCandidate

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

GeocodeResponse

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

GroupRef

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Item

16 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ItemCollection

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Place

7 properties

JSON SCHEMA

PlacesResponse

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

PlaceSummary

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Point

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Portal

9 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ReverseGeocodeResponse

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

SearchResults

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

SpatialReference

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

User

11 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.

Esri Arcgis 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.

Esri Arcgis Authentication

apiKey/oauth2 · 2 schemes

SECURITY

Esri Arcgis Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC

SECURITY

Esri Arcgis Vulnerability Disclosure

disclosure policy published

SECURITY

Esri Arcgis Trust Center

FedRAMP Moderate, ISO/IEC 27001:2022, SOC 2

SECURITY

Scopes 1

OAuth scopes are the vocabulary of least-privilege access. Profiling them shows exactly what an integration — or an agent acting on a user's behalf — is allowed to do.

OAuth scopes governing access to this provider's APIs.

Esri Arcgis Scopes

2 scopes · authorizationCode

2 scopes

SCOPES

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.

Esri Arcgis Agentic Access

9 operations

9 operations · 0 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Every other property we hold for ESRI ArcGIS — 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.

Build 3

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Company 2

The organization behind the API

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Where this information came from

This is an independent, third-party profile of ESRI ArcGIS, 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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