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Filebase

Filebase is an S3-compatible object storage and IPFS pinning platform that combines familiar cloud storage APIs with decentralized, blockchain-backed infrastructure. Developers can store, manage, and pin files to IPFS using standard S3 tooling, a dedicated IPFS Pinning Service API, and an IPFS RPC API — all without changing existing workflows. Filebase delivers geo-redundant 3x replication, free egress for object storage, a global CDN, and predictable pricing, making it straightforward to build Web3 applications on top of decentralized networks through a Web2-style developer experience.

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 Filebase the way a machine reads it — 30 machine-readable artifacts across 15 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 — Filebase scores 53.0/100 (developing), 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 — 53.0/100 · developing
Contract Quality 17.0 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 4.3 / 20
Commercial Clarity 10.0 / 20
Operational Transparency 2.7 / 13
Governance 8.8 / 12
Discoverability 10.0 / 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 Filebase

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Filebase. 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 15

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.

Filebase S3-Compatible API

The Filebase S3-Compatible API provides standard AWS S3 protocol support for bucket and object management. Developers can use any existing S3 SDK, CLI tool, or framework with en...

Filebase Platform API

The Filebase Platform API provides account-level operations that complement the S3 API. Using HTTP Basic authentication with base64-encoded access key and secret key pairs as a ...

Filebase IPFS Pinning Service API

The Filebase IPFS Pinning Service API implements the vendor-neutral IPFS Pinning Service specification. Per-bucket Bearer tokens authenticate requests to list, add, retrieve, re...

Filebase IPFS RPC API

The Filebase IPFS RPC API exposes core IPFS daemon functionality through an HTTP interface. Bucket-specific Bearer tokens authenticate all POST requests to the rpc.filebase.io e...

Filebase Buckets API

Per-bucket storage consumption

Filebase Data Management API

Add, retrieve, and import IPFS data

Filebase IPNS API

IPNS name publishing and resolution

Filebase Keypairs API

IPNS keypair management

Filebase MFS API

Mutable File System operations

Filebase Multipart Upload API

Large file multipart upload operations

Filebase Node API

IPFS node information

Filebase Objects API

Object upload, download, copy, delete, and metadata

Filebase Pinning API

Pin and unpin IPFS objects

Filebase Pins API

IPFS pin management operations

Filebase Usage API

Account-level usage and bandwidth metrics

Scroll within the panel for all 15 ·

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.

Filebase Rate Limits

0 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.

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.

Filebase Context

15 classes · 32 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.

Filebase API Rules

5 rules · 4 warnings

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 3

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.

Filebase Pin

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Filebase Pin Status

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Filebase Usage Metrics

2 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.

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.

Filebase Authentication

apiKey/http · 2 schemes

SECURITY

Filebase Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · 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.

Filebase Agentic Access

34 operations · 23 acting

34 operations · 23 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Every other property we hold for Filebase — 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 1

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

Operate 2

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

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