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instacart

Use the public Instacart APIs to add Instacart shopping capabilities to your applications, such as product shopping lists and recipe ingredients.

agent ready

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 instacart the way a machine reads it — 62 machine-readable artifacts across 10 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 — instacart scores 43.2/100 (thin), 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 — 43.2/100 · thin
Contract Quality 18.8 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 2.2 / 20
Commercial Clarity 5.8 / 20
Operational Transparency 3.4 / 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 instacart

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for instacart. 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 10

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.

Instacart Shopping Widgets

Instacart Shopping Widgets are front-end web components that retailers can embed into their websites to add e-commerce functionalities powered by Instacart without interacting w...

instacart Authentication API

Endpoints for obtaining and managing OAuth 2.0 access tokens used to authenticate API requests.

instacart Chat API

Endpoints for shopper-customer communication including sending and retrieving chat messages.

instacart Delivery API

Endpoints for finding delivery stores, previewing time slots, reserving time slots, and creating delivery orders.

instacart Items API

Endpoints for updating item-level attributes such as pricing and availability at specific store locations. Items contain information that can vary from one store to another.

instacart Last Mile Delivery API

Endpoints for last mile delivery where items are pre-packed and only require delivery from the store to the customer.

instacart Orders API

Endpoints for retrieving order status, handling details, and item information after checkout.

instacart Pickup API

Endpoints for finding pickup stores, previewing time slots, reserving time slots, and creating pickup orders.

instacart Products API

Endpoints for creating and updating products in the retailer's catalog on Instacart. Products are the same across all of a retailer's stores.

instacart Replacements API

Endpoints for managing item replacements suggested by shoppers during order fulfillment.

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Open Collections 4

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).

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.

Instacart GraphQL Schema

This conceptual GraphQL schema models the Instacart grocery delivery and retail platform. Instacart provides APIs for retailers, brands, and developers to integrate grocery shop...

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.

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.

Instacart Rate Limits

1 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.

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.

Instacart Connect Event Callbacks

Instacart Connect notifies retailers of order status changes and fulfillment events through webhook callbacks. Retailers configure callback endpoints to receive real-time notifi...

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.

Instacart Context

0 classes · 8 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.

instacart API Rules

8 rules · 1 errors · 7 warnings

SPECTRAL

instacart API Rules

6 rules · 5 warnings

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 35

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.

CartItem

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ChatMessage

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ChatMessagesResponse

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

CreateOrderRequest

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Error

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

FindStoresRequest

7 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Ingredient

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Item

10 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ItemSubmissionRequest

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

LineItem

8 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Instacart Order

12 properties

JSON SCHEMA

OrderHandlingResponse

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

OrderItem

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

OrderItemsResponse

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

OrderResponse

7 properties

JSON SCHEMA

PostCheckoutOrderItem

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

PreviewServiceOptionsRequest

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Instacart Product

12 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ProductsLinkResponse

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ProductSubmissionRequest

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

RecipeRequest

10 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Replacement

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ReplacementDecisionRequest

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ReplacementResponse

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ReserveTimeSlotRequest

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

SendMessageRequest

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ServiceOption

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ServiceOptionHoldResponse

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ServiceOptionsResponse

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ShoppingListRequest

7 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Store

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

StoresResponse

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

SubmissionResponse

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

TokenRequest

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

TokenResponse

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.

Instacart Structure

0 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Security Posture 3

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.

Instacart Authentication

apiKey/http · 2 schemes

SECURITY

Instacart Domain Security

TLSv1.2 · DMARC

SECURITY

Instacart Vulnerability Disclosure

Hackerone · security.txt · contact published

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.

Instacart Agentic Access

23 operations · 19 acting

23 operations · 19 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Every other property we hold for instacart — 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 1

The organization behind the API

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