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Kinde

Kinde is a developer-first authentication and customer identity platform that bundles authentication (passwords, passwordless, social, enterprise SSO), authorization (roles, permissions, scopes), B2B organizations, billing, and feature flags into a single integrated product. Founded in Australia, Kinde positions itself as "the fully integrated developer platform — secure and monetize your product from day one" and is used by over 70,000 developers. The platform exposes a Management API for tenant administration and an Account API for end-user self-service flows, both backed by published OpenAPI specs and a large open-source SDK ecosystem on GitHub (TypeScript, React, Next.js, Python, Go, Java, .NET, PHP, Ruby, Elixir, Flutter, iOS, Android, Expo, React Native, SvelteKit, Nuxt, Remix, TanStack Start) plus a Go-based CLI, a Terraform provider, and a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for AI agents.

agent ready

Reference-quality API operations across every facet — a rich contract, published governance, transparent operations, and machine-readable commercial terms.

Kin Score

API Evangelist profiles Kinde the way a machine reads it — 70 machine-readable artifacts across 31 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 — Kinde scores 75.1/100 (exemplar), 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 — 75.1/100 · exemplar
Contract Quality 18.6 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 12.2 / 20
Commercial Clarity 16.3 / 20
Operational Transparency 9.6 / 13
Governance 10.4 / 12
Discoverability 8.0 / 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 Kinde

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Kinde. 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 31

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.

Kinde MCP Server

The Kinde MCP (Model Context Protocol) server acts as a bridge between AI assistants and a Kinde account. It exposes a subset of the Kinde Management API as MCP tools (query org...

Kinde API Keys API

The API Keys API from Kinde — 3 operation(s) for api keys.

Kinde APIs API

The APIs API from Kinde — 6 operation(s) for apis.

Kinde Applications API

The Applications API from Kinde — 7 operation(s) for applications.

Kinde Billing Agreements API

The Billing Agreements API from Kinde — 1 operation(s) for billing agreements.

Kinde Billing API

The Billing API from Kinde — 2 operation(s) for billing.

Kinde Billing Entitlements API

The Billing Entitlements API from Kinde — 1 operation(s) for billing entitlements.

Kinde Billing Meter Usage API

The Billing Meter Usage API from Kinde — 1 operation(s) for billing meter usage.

Kinde Business API

The Business API from Kinde — 1 operation(s) for business.

Kinde Callbacks API

The Callbacks API from Kinde — 2 operation(s) for callbacks.

Kinde Connected Apps API

The Connected Apps API from Kinde — 3 operation(s) for connected apps.

Kinde Connections API

The Connections API from Kinde — 2 operation(s) for connections.

Kinde Directories API

The Directories API from Kinde — 2 operation(s) for directories.

Kinde Environment variables API

The Environment variables API from Kinde — 2 operation(s) for environment variables.

Kinde Environments API

The Environments API from Kinde — 5 operation(s) for environments.

Kinde Feature flags API

The Feature flags API from Kinde — 3 operation(s) for feature flags.

Kinde Identities API

The Identities API from Kinde — 1 operation(s) for identities.

Kinde Industries API

The Industries API from Kinde — 1 operation(s) for industries.

Kinde MFA API

The MFA API from Kinde — 1 operation(s) for mfa.

Kinde OAuth API

The OAuth API from Kinde — 3 operation(s) for oauth.

Kinde Organizations API

The Organizations API from Kinde — 25 operation(s) for organizations.

Kinde Permissions API

The Permissions API from Kinde — 3 operation(s) for permissions.

Kinde Properties API

The Properties API from Kinde — 3 operation(s) for properties.

Kinde Property Categories API

The Property Categories API from Kinde — 2 operation(s) for property categories.

Kinde Roles API

The Roles API from Kinde — 7 operation(s) for roles.

Kinde Search API

The Search API from Kinde — 1 operation(s) for search.

Kinde Self-serve portal API

The Self-serve portal API from Kinde — 1 operation(s) for self-serve portal.

Kinde Subscribers API

The Subscribers API from Kinde — 2 operation(s) for subscribers.

Kinde Timezones API

The Timezones API from Kinde — 1 operation(s) for timezones.

Kinde Users API

The Users API from Kinde — 11 operation(s) for users.

Kinde Webhooks API

The Webhooks API from Kinde — 4 operation(s) for webhooks.

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Postman Collections 2

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.

Open Collections 2

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).

Kinde Account API

OPEN COLLECTION

Kinde Management API

OPEN COLLECTION

Arazzo Workflows 9

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.

Kinde Assign Organization User Role

Find an existing user by email and grant them a role within an organization.

ARAZZO

Kinde Create Organization with Users

Stand up a new organization and seed it with existing users and roles.

ARAZZO

Kinde Create Role with Permission

Create a permission, create a role, and attach the permission to the role.

ARAZZO

Kinde End User Self-Serve Portal

Read the signed-in user's profile, roles, and entitlements, then mint a self-serve portal link.

ARAZZO

Kinde Invite User to Organization

Validate roles, create an organization invitation, and poll until it is sent.

ARAZZO

Kinde Migrate User with Password

Create a user with an email identity and import their existing hashed password.

ARAZZO

Kinde Provision User into Organization

Create a user, add them to an organization, and grant a role in one pass.

ARAZZO

Kinde Register Application with Connection

Create an application, set its callback URLs, create a social connection, and enable it.

ARAZZO

Kinde Roll Out Feature Flag to Organization

Create an org-overridable feature flag and set its value for one organization.

ARAZZO

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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.

Kinde Plans Pricing

5 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.

Kinde Rate Limits

4 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.

Kinde Finops

FINOPS

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.

Kinde Context

36 classes · 9 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.

Kinde API Rules

5 rules · 4 warnings

SPECTRAL

Kinde API Rules

12 rules · 2 errors · 8 warnings

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 7

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.

Application

10 properties

JSON SCHEMA

FeatureFlag

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Organization

11 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Permission

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Role

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

User

15 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Webhook

8 properties

JSON SCHEMA

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JSON Structure 2

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.

Kinde Organization Structure

0 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Kinde User Structure

0 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Examples 6

Real request and response payloads are what turn a spec from abstract into obvious — and they're one of the twelve things an agent needs to call an API correctly on the first try.

Example request and response payloads for these APIs.

Security 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.

Kinde Authentication

http · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Kinde Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC

SECURITY

Kinde Vulnerability Disclosure

security.txt · contact published

SECURITY

Kinde Trust Center

SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, 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.

Kinde Agentic Access

179 operations · 111 acting · 13 human-in-the-loop

179 operations · 111 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Every other property we hold for Kinde — 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 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Agent Surfaces 2

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Commercial 4

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Company 1

The organization behind the API

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