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Kevel

Kevel is an API-first ad serving platform that lets brands and publishers build unified, fully customized ad systems supporting any ad format, any creative, and multiple demand sources. Kevel exposes a Decision API for ad requests, a Management API for campaign and creative operations, a Reporting API for performance analytics, and a UserDB API for first-party audience and user data.

agent ready

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 Kevel the way a machine reads it — 22 machine-readable artifacts across 14 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 — Kevel scores 48.1/100 (developing), with a separate agent-readiness read of 48/100 (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 — 48.1/100 · developing
Contract Quality 12.8 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 10.9 / 20
Commercial Clarity 11.6 / 20
Operational Transparency 4.1 / 13
Governance 0.0 / 12
Discoverability 8.8 / 10
Agent readiness — 48/100 · 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 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

How we profile Kevel

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

Kevel Decision API

The Decision API enables ad requests without using ad code. By posting to a RESTful endpoint, Kevel's ad engine returns decision data and creative contents for serving ads in yo...

Kevel Management API

The Management API provides programmatic access to manage advertisers, campaigns, flights, ads, creatives, channels, sites, zones, and other platform resources. It is the system...

Kevel Reporting API

The Reporting API exposes ad serving performance data, allowing customers to pull impressions, clicks, conversions, revenue, and other metrics by advertiser, campaign, flight, a...

Kevel UserDB API

The UserDB API provides first-party audience and user data management, enabling customers to read and write user keys, custom properties, interests, and audience segment members...

Kevel Ads API

Manage ads.

Kevel Advertisers API

Manage advertiser accounts.

Kevel Campaigns API

Manage campaigns.

Kevel Channels API

Manage channels.

Kevel Creatives API

Manage creatives.

Kevel Decision API

Request ad decisions and creatives.

Kevel Flights API

Manage flights (line items).

Kevel Reporting API

Queue and retrieve performance reports.

Kevel Sites API

Manage sites.

Kevel Zones API

Manage zones.

Scroll within the panel for all 14 ·

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).

Kevel APIs

OPEN COLLECTION

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.

Kevel Plans Pricing

3 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.

Kevel Rate Limits

5 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.

Kevel Finops

FINOPS

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.

Kevel Authentication

apiKey · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Kevel Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Kevel Trust Center

SOC 2, GDPR

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.

Kevel Agentic Access

33 operations · 17 acting

33 operations · 17 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Every other property we hold for Kevel — 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 2

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

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Access & Security 3

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Commercial 1

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Company 3

The organization behind the API

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