IBM
A collection of IBM's public APIs and developer resources.
Reference-quality API operations across every facet — a rich contract, published governance, transparent operations, and machine-readable commercial terms.
API Evangelist profiles IBM the way a machine reads it — 99 machine-readable artifacts across 55 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 — IBM scores 72.7/100 (exemplar), with a separate agent-readiness read of 74/100 (agent native). 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
How this is scored →scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
How we profile IBM
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for IBM. 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 55
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.
IBM Cloud Object Storage
Store and access unstructured data with built-in high-speed file transfer.
IBM Cloud Databases for PostgreSQL
Managed PostgreSQL database service.
IBM Cloud Code Engine
Run containerized workloads without managing servers.
IBM watsonx.ai
Run text inference, prompt tuning, and more on large language models using the watsonx.ai API for generative AI applications.
IBM watsonx.governance
Monitor and manage AI models with an enterprise-grade environment that provides visibility into how AI is being built, used, and delivering business value.
IBM Watson Discovery
Add cognitive search and content analytics to applications to identify patterns, trends, and actionable insights from unstructured data.
IBM Cloud Virtual Private Cloud
Provision and manage isolated virtual network environments for compute, storage, and networking resources on IBM Cloud.
IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service
Create and manage Kubernetes cluster infrastructure to deploy and manage containerized applications on IBM Cloud.
IBM Key Protect
Provision and manage encrypted keys for data-at-rest protection across IBM Cloud services.
IBM Cloud Secrets Manager
Create, lease, and centrally manage secrets used in IBM Cloud services or custom-built applications.
IBM Cloud Event Notifications
Route event notifications from IBM Cloud services to communication channels such as email, SMS, webhooks, and push notifications.
IBM Cloud Container Registry
Store and distribute container images in a managed private registry for IBM Cloud Kubernetes and other container workloads.
IBM Cloud Schematics
Use Terraform and Ansible to automate the provisioning and configuration management of IBM Cloud resources with infrastructure as code.
IBM Cloud Internet Services
Provide DDoS protection, global load balancing, DNS management, WAF, and CDN capabilities for internet-facing applications, powered by Cloudflare.
IBM Cloudant
Fully managed distributed JSON document database built for the cloud with high availability, durability, and scalability.
IBM Event Streams
Fully managed Apache Kafka service for high-throughput event streaming, event ingestion, and event stream distribution between services.
IBM Cloud Security and Compliance Center
Assess, monitor, and remediate security and compliance posture for cloud resources using automated controls and policies.
IBM Cloud Functions
Run lightweight code that executes application logic in a scalable way using an event-driven serverless compute platform based on Apache OpenWhisk.
IBM Cloud DNS Services
Manage private DNS zones and resolution for IBM Cloud VPC networks.
IBM Cloud Monitoring
Gain operational visibility into the performance and health of applications, services, and platforms running on IBM Cloud.
IBM Cloud Logs
A scalable logging service for persisting, querying, tailing, and visualizing logs across IBM Cloud resources.
IBM Cloud Activity Tracker
Configure and manage auditing events to track how users and applications interact with IBM Cloud services and resources.
IBM Cloud App ID
Add authentication and authorization to web and mobile applications with identity management, social login, and multi-factor authentication.
IBM Cloud Transit Gateway
Interconnect IBM Cloud VPCs, classic infrastructure, and on-premises networks through a single gateway for simplified network management.
IBM Cloud Resource Controller
Manage the lifecycle of IBM Cloud resources in a customer account including provisioning, binding, and managing access to resource instances.
IBM Cloud Global Search
Search for cloud resources across the IBM Cloud platform using resource attributes and properties.
IBM Cloud Global Tagging
Create, delete, search, attach, or detach tags to organize and manage IBM Cloud resources.
IBM Cloud Power Virtual Server
Deploy and manage AIX, IBM i, and Linux workloads on IBM Power Systems virtual servers in the IBM Cloud.
IBM Cloud Enterprise Management
Create and manage enterprise accounts, account groups, and child accounts for centralized billing and usage tracking.
IBM Cloud Projects
Configure, deploy, and govern infrastructure as code resources at scale using projects for managed deployments.
IBM watsonx.data
Collect, store, query, and analyze structured and unstructured enterprise data with a unified data lakehouse platform optimized for price and performance.
IBM API Connect
Create, secure, manage, share, monetize, and analyze APIs across clouds with a comprehensive end-to-end API management solution.
IBM Cloud Direct Link
Establish private, high-speed connectivity between on-premises networks and IBM Cloud without traversing the public internet.
IBM Cloud Continuous Delivery Toolchain
Create and manage toolchains that integrate development, deployment, and operations tools for continuous delivery workflows.
IBM Cloud Tekton Pipeline
Create and manage Tekton-based continuous integration and continuous delivery pipelines within Kubernetes clusters.
IBM Cloud User Management
Manage users within an IBM Cloud account including inviting, retrieving, updating, or removing users and managing user profiles and settings.
IBM Cloud Usage Reports
Retrieve usage details and costs for IBM Cloud resources in an account reported by the month in which they were incurred.
IBM Cloud Global Catalog
Manage the system of record for IBM Cloud products across geographies including compute, storage, networking, and cloud-native services.
IBM Cloud Catalog Management
Define how users in an account interact with the IBM Cloud catalog and manage private catalogs for curated product offerings.
IBM Cloud Context-based Restrictions
Create and manage network zones and context-based restriction rules to control access to IBM Cloud resources based on network context.
IBM Cloud Databases for Redis
Fully managed Redis in-memory data store for caching, session management, and high-speed data access on IBM Cloud.
IBM Cloud Databases for MongoDB
Fully managed MongoDB document database service with built-in high availability, automated backups, and scaling on IBM Cloud.
IBM Cloud Databases for Elasticsearch
Fully managed Elasticsearch service for full-text search, log analytics, and application monitoring on IBM Cloud.
IBM Cloud Enterprise Billing Units
Manage billing units, billing options, and credit pools for IBM Cloud enterprise accounts.
IBM Cloud Enterprise Usage Reports
Access usage reports for entities managed by an IBM Cloud enterprise including enterprises, account groups, and accounts.
IBM Cloud VMware Solutions
Deploy and manage VMware workloads on IBM Cloud infrastructure with automated provisioning and lifecycle management.
IBM watsonx.ai Runtime
Build, train, and deploy machine learning models with a full range of tools and services for data science and AI lifecycle management.
IBM Knowledge Catalog
Discover, catalog, categorize, and govern data assets and AI models with an intelligent data catalog for enterprise data governance.
IBM API Keys API
Create and manage API keys for users and service IDs
IBM Claim Rules API
Manage claim rules for trusted profiles
IBM Policies API
Create and manage IAM access policies
IBM Roles API
List and manage IAM roles
IBM Service IDs API
Create and manage service IDs for applications and services
IBM Tokens API
Create and manage IAM access tokens
IBM Trusted Profiles API
Create and manage trusted profiles for federated identities
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Open Collections 1
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).
IBM Cloud IAM API
OPEN COLLECTIONArazzo Workflows 13
Real integrations are rarely a single call. Arazzo describes the multi-step sequences — auth, then create, then confirm — so both a human and an agent can follow the choreography, not just the endpoints.
Multi-step API workflows described with the Arazzo specification.
IBM Cloud IAM Audit API Key Activity and History
Authenticate, inventory an account's API keys, and pull the full history and activity for one.
ARAZZOIBM Cloud IAM Re-enable and Re-scope a Disabled API Key
Confirm a key is disabled, re-enable it, then update its expiry and metadata under If-Match.
ARAZZOIBM Cloud IAM Rotate an API Key
Issue a replacement API key, verify it, then unlock, disable, and delete the old key.
ARAZZOIBM Cloud IAM Authenticate and Inspect the Calling API Key
Exchange an API key for an IAM access token, inspect that key, and refresh the token.
ARAZZOIBM Cloud IAM Update a Trusted Profile Claim Rule
Locate a claim rule on a profile, read its entity tag, and update its conditions under If-Match.
ARAZZOIBM Cloud IAM Create and Evolve a Custom Role
Create a custom role, read it back, replace its action set under If-Match, and confirm it lists.
ARAZZOIBM Cloud IAM Grant an Identity Access with a Policy
Discover the roles a service exposes, grant an identity a role on it, and read the policy back.
ARAZZOIBM Cloud IAM Review and Deactivate an Access Policy
Find the policies granting an identity access, inspect one, and deactivate it.
ARAZZOIBM Cloud IAM Change the Roles on an Existing Policy
Read a policy, resolve the target role CRN from the service, and replace the policy's roles.
ARAZZOIBM Cloud IAM Deprovision a Service ID
Resolve a service ID by name, prove it is dormant, unlock it, and delete it with its keys.
ARAZZOIBM Cloud IAM Provision a Service ID with a Working API Key
Create a service ID, issue it an API key, prove the key authenticates, and lock the identity.
ARAZZOIBM Cloud IAM Decommission a Trusted Profile
Find a profile by name, revoke its claim rule first, then delete the profile.
ARAZZOIBM Cloud IAM Set Up a Trusted Profile for Federated Access
Create a trusted profile, attach a SAML claim rule, and verify the trust took effect.
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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.
ibm-mcp.yml
MCP SERVERGraphQL 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.
IBM GraphQL Schema
This directory contains a conceptual GraphQL schema for IBM Cloud and Watson AI services. The schema models the key entities, relationships, and operations exposed across IBM's ...
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 six things the Kin Score reads for commercial clarity.
Published pricing tiers and plan structures.
Ibm 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.
Ibm 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.
Ibm 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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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.
Ibm Context
JSON-LDSpectral 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.
IBM API Rules
SPECTRALJSON Schema 1
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.
IBM Cloud Resource Schema
JSON SCHEMASecurity 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.
Ibm Trust Center
SOC 1, SOC 2, SOC 3, ISO 27001, ISO 27017, ISO 27018, ISO 27701, ISO 9001, ISO 22301, FedRAMP, HIPAA, PCI DSS, GDPR
SECURITYScopes 1
OAuth scopes are the vocabulary of least-privilege access. Profiling them shows exactly what an integration — or an agent acting on a user's behalf — is allowed to do.
OAuth scopes governing access to this provider's APIs.
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 IBM — 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 4
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Design & Contract 18
Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events
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Build 7
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
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Access & Security 8
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
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Learn 1
Tutorials, courses, talks, and written guidance
Operate 5
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
Other 3
Properties that don't map to a standard resource type
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