Need help with your APIs? I offer API discovery, governance & evangelism services. Explore services →
API Evangelist API Evangelist
Discovery
Learnings
Guidance
Toolbox
Alignment
API Evangelist LLC
fauna website screenshot

fauna

Fauna is a distributed document-relational database delivered as a cloud API that combines the relational query power of SQL with the flexibility of documents and global serverless distribution.

agent ready

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 fauna the way a machine reads it — 44 machine-readable artifacts across 9 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 — fauna scores 45.6/100 (developing), with a separate agent-readiness read of 54/100 (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 — 45.6/100 · developing
Contract Quality 18.4 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 2.2 / 20
Commercial Clarity 7.9 / 20
Operational Transparency 4.1 / 13
Governance 6.3 / 12
Discoverability 6.8 / 10
Agent readiness — 54/100 · 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 6 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

How we profile fauna

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for fauna. 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 9

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.

Fauna Event Streaming API

The Fauna Event Streaming API enables real-time change data capture by maintaining an open connection to the Fauna database and pushing events to clients as they occur. Develope...

Fauna Event Feeds API

The Fauna Event Feeds API provides a polling-based approach to change data capture, complementing the real-time Event Streaming API. Event feeds allow developers to retrieve bat...

Fauna GraphQL API

The Fauna GraphQL API allows developers to interact with their Fauna databases using standard GraphQL queries and mutations. By uploading a GraphQL schema, Fauna automatically g...

Fauna JavaScript Driver

The Fauna JavaScript Driver is the official client SDK for interacting with Fauna from JavaScript and TypeScript applications. It provides template-based FQL query interpolation...

Fauna Python Driver

The Fauna Python Driver is the official client SDK for accessing Fauna from Python applications. It provides idiomatic Python interfaces for composing and executing FQL v10 quer...

Fauna .NET Driver

The Fauna .NET Driver is the official client SDK for interacting with Fauna from C# and .NET applications. It is designed for use with FQL v10 and provides strongly-typed query ...

fauna EventFeeds API

Poll-based change data capture using event feeds. Retrieve batches of change events at your own pace for scheduled synchronization and batch processing workflows.

fauna Query API

Execute Fauna Query Language (FQL) queries against a Fauna database.

fauna Schema API

Fetch, update, validate, and manage a database's schema as FSL files. Supports staged schema changes with status checking, committing, and abandoning.

Scroll within the panel for all 9 ·

Open Collections 2

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).

Fauna Core HTTP API

OPEN COLLECTION

Fauna 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.

fauna GraphQL API

The Fauna GraphQL API allows developers to interact with their Fauna databases using standard GraphQL queries and mutations. By uploading a GraphQL schema, Fauna automatically g...

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.

Fauna Plans Pricing

4 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.

Fauna Rate Limits

4 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.

Fauna Finops

FINOPS

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.

Fauna Event Streaming

The Fauna Event Streaming API enables real-time change data capture by maintaining an open connection to the Fauna database and pushing events to clients as they occur. Develope...

ASYNCAPI

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.

Fauna Context

0 classes · 9 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.

fauna API Rules

8 rules · 1 errors · 7 warnings

SPECTRAL

fauna API Rules

6 rules · 5 warnings

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 21

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.

Fauna Document

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ErrorResponse

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Fauna Event

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

EventFeedRequest

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

EventFeedResponse

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

EventStats

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

GraphQLError

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

GraphQLErrorResponse

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

GraphQLRequest

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

GraphQLResponse

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Fauna Query

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

QueryRequest

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

QueryResponse

7 properties

JSON SCHEMA

QueryStats

8 properties

JSON SCHEMA

SchemaAbandonResponse

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

SchemaCommitResponse

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

SchemaFile

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

SchemaFilesResponse

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

SchemaStatusResponse

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

SchemaUpdateResponse

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

SchemaValidationResponse

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Scroll within the panel for all 21 ·

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.

Fauna Structure

0 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

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.

Fauna Authentication

http · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Fauna Domain Security

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.

Fauna Agentic Access

10 operations · 8 acting

10 operations · 8 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Every other property we hold for fauna — 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 1

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Company 1

The organization behind the API

← All providers · Data indexed from github.com/api-evangelist/fauna · machine-readable index on apis.io