Heroku
Heroku is a cloud platform as a service (PaaS) that enables developers to build, run, and operate applications entirely in the cloud. The Heroku Platform API enables programmatic access to Heroku's features for app deployment, scaling, and management.
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.
API Evangelist profiles Heroku the way a machine reads it — 81 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 — Heroku scores 45.6/100 (developing), with a separate agent-readiness read of 22/100 (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. 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.
Kin Score
How this is scored →scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0
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How we profile Heroku
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Heroku. 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 14
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.
Heroku Account API
Account management
Heroku Add-ons API
Add-on service management
Heroku Apps API
Application management
Heroku Builds API
Build management
Heroku Collaborators API
App collaborator management
Heroku Config Vars API
Environment configuration variables
Heroku Domains API
Custom domain management
Heroku Dynos API
Process (dyno) management
Heroku Formation API
Process type scaling
Heroku Log Sessions API
Application logging
Heroku Pipelines API
Deployment pipeline management
Heroku Regions API
Available regions
Heroku Releases API
Release management
Heroku Stacks API
Available stacks
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Postman Collections 14
A runnable collection turns the contract into something a developer can execute in seconds. We profile them because the fastest way to trust an API is to make a real call against it.
Ready-to-run Postman collections for exercising this provider's APIs.
Heroku Platform Account API
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Open Collections 17
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).
API Collection
OPEN COLLECTIONHeroku Platform Account API
OPEN COLLECTIONHeroku Platform Account Add-ons API
OPEN COLLECTIONHeroku App Webhooks
OPEN COLLECTIONHeroku Platform Account Apps API
OPEN COLLECTIONHeroku Platform Account Builds API
OPEN COLLECTIONHeroku Platform Account Collaborators API
OPEN COLLECTIONHeroku Platform Account Config Vars API
OPEN COLLECTIONHeroku Platform Account Domains API
OPEN COLLECTIONHeroku Platform Account Dynos API
OPEN COLLECTIONHeroku Platform Account Formation API
OPEN COLLECTIONHeroku Platform Account Log Sessions API
OPEN COLLECTIONHeroku Platform Account Pipelines API
OPEN COLLECTIONHeroku Platform API
OPEN COLLECTIONHeroku Platform Account Regions API
OPEN COLLECTIONHeroku Platform Account Releases API
OPEN COLLECTIONHeroku Platform Account Stacks API
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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.
Heroku GraphQL Schema
This document describes a conceptual GraphQL schema for the Heroku Platform API. Heroku exposes its platform capabilities through a REST API at `https://api.heroku.com`, documen...
GRAPHQLPricing 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.
Heroku Plans Pricing
PLANSRate 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.
Heroku Rate Limits
RATE LIMITSFinOps 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.
Heroku Finops
FINOPSFeatures 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.
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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.
Heroku API Rules
SPECTRALJSON Schema 11
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.
Account
JSON SCHEMAAddon
JSON SCHEMAApp
JSON SCHEMABuild
JSON SCHEMACollaborator
JSON SCHEMADomain
JSON SCHEMADyno
JSON SCHEMAFormation
JSON SCHEMAPipeline
JSON SCHEMAPipelineCoupling
JSON SCHEMARelease
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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.
Heroku Structure
JSON STRUCTURESecurity 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.
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.
Resources
Every other property we hold for Heroku — 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 4
Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call
Documentation 1
Reference material describing how the API behaves
Agent Surfaces 2
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Build 2
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
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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.
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