Kion
Kion is a cloud operations platform that provides automated governance and FinOps capabilities across AWS, Azure, GCP, and OCI through a self-hosted deployment model. The platform consolidates multiple point solutions into a comprehensive system that helps organizations allocate and track cloud spending, identify savings opportunities, enforce budgets, and access real-time and forecasted financial data.
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 Kion the way a machine reads it — 51 machine-readable artifacts across 25 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 — Kion scores 57.4/100 (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
How this is scored →scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
How we profile Kion
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Kion. 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 25
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.
Kion Accounts API
Manage cloud accounts across AWS, Azure, GCP, and OCI
Kion App Configuration API
Manage Kion application configuration settings
Kion Azure ARM Templates API
Manage Azure ARM templates
Kion Azure Policies API
Manage Azure policies
Kion Azure Roles API
Manage Azure roles
Kion Cloud Access Roles API
Manage cloud access roles for OU and project level access
Kion Cloud Rules API
Manage cloud rules that enforce policies on cloud accounts
Kion CloudFormation Templates API
Manage AWS CloudFormation templates
Kion Compliance Checks API
Manage compliance checks for auditing cloud resources
Kion Compliance Standards API
Manage compliance standards grouping multiple compliance checks
Kion Custom Variables API
Manage custom variables and overrides
Kion Enforcements API
Manage project enforcements
Kion Funding Sources API
Manage funding sources for tracking and allocating cloud spend
Kion GCP IAM Roles API
Manage GCP IAM roles
Kion IAM Policies API
Manage AWS IAM policies
Kion Identity Management API
Manage identity management systems (IDMS)
Kion Labels API
Manage labels for organizing and categorizing resources
Kion Organizational Units API
Manage organizational units (OUs) for hierarchical organization
Kion Permission Mappings API
Manage permission mappings at global, OU, project, and funding source levels
Kion Projects API
Manage projects which are the organizational unit for attaching cloud accounts
Kion SAML Group Associations API
Manage SAML group associations for SSO integration
Kion Service Control Policies API
Manage AWS service control policies
Kion User Groups API
Manage user groups for role-based access control
Kion Users API
Manage users within the Kion platform
Kion Webhooks API
Manage webhooks for event notifications
Scroll within the panel for all 25 ·
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).
Kion Cloud Operations API
OPEN COLLECTIONPricing 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.
Kion 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.
Kion 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.
Kion Finops
FINOPSSemantic 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.
Kion 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.
Kion API Rules
SPECTRALJSON Schema 16
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.
Kion Account
JSON SCHEMAKion AWS IAM Policy
JSON SCHEMAKion Cloud Access Role
JSON SCHEMAKion Cloud Rule
JSON SCHEMAKion CloudFormation Template
JSON SCHEMAKion Compliance Check
JSON SCHEMAKion Compliance Standard
JSON SCHEMAKion Custom Variable
JSON SCHEMAKion Funding Source
JSON SCHEMAKion Label
JSON SCHEMAKion Organizational Unit
JSON SCHEMAKion Project
JSON SCHEMAKion Service Control Policy
JSON SCHEMAKion User Group
JSON SCHEMAKion User
JSON SCHEMAKion Webhook
JSON SCHEMAScroll within the panel for all 16 ·
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.
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 Kion — 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 1
Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call
Agent Surfaces 1
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
Operate 1
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Commercial 1
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 4
The organization behind the API
Other 2
Properties that don't map to a standard resource type
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