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Documentation and guides from the team at Fly.io.

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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 fly-io the way a machine reads it — 66 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 — fly-io scores 49.7/100 (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 — 49.7/100 · developing
Contract Quality 19.8 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 2.6 / 20
Commercial Clarity 9.5 / 20
Operational Transparency 4.8 / 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 fly-io

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for fly-io. 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.

Fly.io Machines API

The Fly.io Machines API is a low-level REST interface for provisioning and managing Fly Machines, which are fast-booting virtual machines that run on Fly.io's global edge infras...

Fly.io GraphQL API

The Fly.io GraphQL API provides a programmatic interface for managing Fly.io platform resources including applications, IP address allocations, organizations, and networking con...

Fly.io Extensions API

The Fly.io Extensions API is a provider-facing HTTP interface that enables third-party services to integrate with the Fly.io platform as extension providers. When a Fly.io user ...

fly-io Apps API

Operations for creating, listing, and deleting Fly Apps. Every Fly Machine belongs to a Fly App, which groups related Machines together.

fly-io OAuth API

Fly.io platform OAuth endpoints used during the single sign-on flow to authorize users and exchange tokens.

fly-io SSO API

Single sign-on operations allowing Fly.io users to access provider dashboards using their Fly.io credentials via OAuth.

fly-io Tokens API

Operations for requesting OpenID Connect (OIDC) tokens from third-party services, enabling Fly Machines to authenticate to external systems using workload identity.

fly-io Volumes API

Operations for managing persistent storage volumes that can be attached to Fly Machines. Volumes provide durable block storage that persists across Machine restarts.

fly-io Webhooks API

Webhook endpoints for bidirectional event delivery between Fly.io and extension providers. Both sides sign their webhook payloads using HMAC-SHA256 for verification.

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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).

Fly.io Extensions API

OPEN COLLECTION

Fly.io Machines 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.

fly-io GraphQL API

The Fly.io GraphQL API provides a programmatic interface for managing Fly.io platform resources including applications, IP address allocations, organizations, and networking con...

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.

Fly Io Plans Pricing

8 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.

Fly Io Rate Limits

3 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 16

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.

Shared CPU machines: shared-cpu-1x to 8x with 256MB-16GB RAM
Performance CPU machines: performance-1x to 16x with 2GB-128GB RAM
Per-second billing while machines run
Stopped machines: $0.15/GB rootfs per 30 days
Volumes: $0.15/GB/month persistent storage
Snapshots: $0.08/GB/month (10 GB free)
Egress: $0.02-$0.12/GB (region-grouped)
Dedicated IPv4: $2/month; unlimited Anycast IPv6 free
Managed SSL: $0.10/single, $1/wildcard
Machine Reservation Blocks: 40% compute discount with annual commit
Fly Kubernetes (FKS): $75/cluster/month + underlying resources
Static Egress IPs: $0.005/hour (~$3.60/mo)
Machines API for programmatic instance management
Anycast routing for global load balancing
Postgres, Redis, Upstash add-on services
WireGuard mesh for private networking

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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.

Fly.io Extensions Webhook Events

The Fly.io Extensions webhook system delivers real-time event notifications in both directions between Fly.io and extension providers. Fly.io sends CloudEvents-format payloads t...

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.

Fly Io Context

0 classes · 11 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.

fly-io API Rules

7 rules · 1 errors · 6 warnings

SPECTRAL

fly-io API Rules

6 rules · 5 warnings

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 25

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.

App

7 properties

JSON SCHEMA

CloudEventPayload

7 properties

JSON SCHEMA

CreateAppRequest

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

CreateMachineRequest

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

CreateVolumeRequest

7 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ErrorResponse

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ExtensionResource

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ExtensionWebhookPayload

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Fly.io Machine

9 properties

JSON SCHEMA

MachineCheck

7 properties

JSON SCHEMA

MachineConfig

11 properties

JSON SCHEMA

MachineGuest

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

MachineInit

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

MachineMount

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

MachinePort

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

MachineRestart

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

MachineService

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

MachineServiceConcurrency

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

OAuthTokenResponse

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Organization

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ProvisionRequest

10 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ProvisionResponse

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

TokenInfo

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Fly.io Volume

16 properties

JSON SCHEMA

VolumeSnapshot

5 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.

Fly Io 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.

Fly Io Authentication

apiKey/http · 2 schemes

SECURITY

Fly Io Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · DMARC

SECURITY

Fly Io Vulnerability Disclosure

disclosure policy published

SECURITY

Fly Io Trust Center

SOC 2, ISO 27001

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.

Fly Io Agentic Access

37 operations · 24 acting · 1 human-in-the-loop

37 operations · 24 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Every other property we hold for fly-io — 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 2

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

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Company 2

The organization behind the API

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