Maxar
Maxar (operating in 2026 as Vantor / Maxar Intelligence) is a high-resolution Earth observation and 3D geospatial provider operating the WorldView Legion, WorldView-3, WorldView-2, and GeoEye-1 constellations. The Maxar Geospatial Platform (MGP), branded as Vantor Hub, is API-first: developers authenticate through the Authentication / Token Service, search the 125+PB Vivid, archive, and change-monitoring catalog through the Discovery API (STAC / GeoJSON), place orders through the Ordering API, stream imagery and basemaps through OGC-compliant WFS / WMS / WMTS services, retrieve 3D surface models, register Areas of Interest with the Monitoring API, and task new collections through the Tasking API (Fastview / Flexview). Raster and Vector Analytics expose NDVI, NDWI, change-monitoring vectors, and custom analysis graphs. An official Python SDK (maxar-platform) wraps the full surface.
Limited machine-readable signal and partial portal coverage — documentation a human can read, but little a machine or agent can consume without scraping.
API Evangelist profiles Maxar the way a machine reads it — 22 machine-readable artifacts across 15 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 — Maxar scores 39.5/100 (thin), 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 Maxar
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Maxar. 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 15
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.
Maxar Authentication / Token Service
OAuth2-style token service that mints bearer access tokens (and 180-day default API keys) for use against all Vantor Hub / MGP APIs.
Maxar Discovery API
Unified catalog search across Archive Imagery, Vivid Basemaps, and Change Monitoring. Supports filtering and sorting and returns STAC and GeoJSON metadata representations of mat...
Maxar Ordering API
Order placement and management for archive and online imagery with multiple delivery options and processing pipelines. Supports tracking order status to completion and delivery.
Maxar Streaming Imagery API
OGC-compliant WFS / WMS / WMTS streaming services for delivering online imagery strips into web mapping clients and GIS workflows.
Maxar Streaming Basemap API
OGC service delivering Maxar Vivid basemap products and their metadata for cartographic and analytic use.
Maxar Streaming 3D API
Streams 3D surface models derived from Maxar's stereo and tri-stereo collections for visualization and 3D analysis.
Maxar Monitoring API
Register Areas of Interest and receive alerts when new imagery or analytic outputs match. Drives standing tip-and-cue workflows over the Maxar catalog.
Maxar Tasking API
Request new imagery collection from the WorldView Legion and legacy WorldView constellations within a target geometry and time window. Supports Fastview and Flexview tasking tiers.
Maxar Raster Analytics API
Server-side raster processing - band manipulation, classification, and index models (NDVI, NDWI, etc.) - composed as analysis graphs over the Maxar catalog.
Maxar Vector Analytics API
Vector deliveries of change monitoring outputs through OGC WMS / WMTS for downstream analytic and GIS consumption.
Maxar Geospatial Platform Python SDK
Official Python SDK (maxar-platform on PyPI) wrapping the MGP / Vantor Hub APIs for discovery, ordering, monitoring, streaming, and tasking workflows.
Maxar MGP Postman Collection
Public Postman workspace documenting the Maxar Geospatial Platform API surface for quick exploration and testing.
Maxar Authentication API
The Authentication API from Maxar — 2 operation(s) for authentication.
Maxar Discovery API
The Discovery API from Maxar — 5 operation(s) for discovery.
Maxar Ordering API
The Ordering API from Maxar — 6 operation(s) for ordering.
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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).
Maxar Geospatial Platform (Vantor Hub) 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.
Maxar 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.
Maxar 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.
Maxar Finops
FINOPSSecurity Posture 2
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 Maxar — 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
Documentation 3
Reference material describing how the API behaves
Agent Surfaces 1
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Build 2
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
Company 2
The organization behind the API
Other 2
Properties that don't map to a standard resource type
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