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Gel Data

Gel Data (formerly EdgeDB Inc.) builds Gel, an open-source graph-relational database that supercharges PostgreSQL with a modern object-oriented data model, the EdgeQL query language (with full SQL and GraphQL support), a built-in migration and branching system, integrated authentication (OAuth, email/password, magic links, passkeys/WebAuthn), and GenAI features (automatic embeddings, RAG, and vector search). It ships official client libraries for TypeScript/JavaScript, Python, Go, Rust, .NET, Dart, and Elixir, a first-party CLI, a built-in admin UI, an EdgeQL-over-HTTP and GraphQL endpoint, an Auth HTTP API with webhooks, and an official MCP server for AI coding agents. In late 2025 the company was acquired by Vercel and the managed Gel Cloud is being wound down, but the database remains fully open source under the geldata GitHub organization.

agent aware

Limited machine-readable signal and partial portal coverage — documentation a human can read, but little a machine or agent can consume without scraping.

Kin Score

API Evangelist profiles Gel Data the way a machine reads it — 3 machine-readable artifacts, 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 — Gel Data scores 34.2/100 (thin), with a separate agent-readiness read of 27/100 (agent aware). 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 — 34.2/100 · thin
Contract Quality 0.0 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 14.8 / 20
Commercial Clarity 8.9 / 20
Operational Transparency 3.8 / 13
Governance 0.0 / 12
Discoverability 6.8 / 10
Agent readiness — 27/100 · agent aware
Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 0 / 15
MCP Server 12 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7
Typed Event Surface 6 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

How we profile Gel Data

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Gel Data. 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.

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.

gel-data-mcp.yml

MCP SERVER

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.

Gel Data Authentication

http/oauth2/webauthn/magic-link/apiKey · 7 schemes

SECURITY

Gel Data Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Resources

Every other property we hold for Gel Data — 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.

Get Started 3

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Agent Surfaces 2

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Design & Contract 3

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Build 4

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Operate 3

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Company 2

The organization behind the API

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