Microsoft Azure Active Directory
Microsoft Azure Active Directory (Azure AD), now Microsoft Entra ID, is Microsoft's cloud-based identity and access management service, which helps employees sign in and access resources.
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 Microsoft Azure Active Directory the way a machine reads it — 175 machine-readable artifacts across 12 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 — Microsoft Azure Active Directory scores 59.8/100 (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 Microsoft Azure Active Directory
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Microsoft Azure Active Directory. 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 12
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.
Azure AD Graph API (Deprecated)
Legacy API for accessing Azure AD (deprecated in favor of Microsoft Graph).
Azure AD Authentication Library (ADAL)
Authentication library for Azure AD (being replaced by MSAL).
Microsoft Authentication Library (MSAL)
Modern authentication library for Microsoft identity platform.
Microsoft Identity Platform
The Microsoft identity platform provides authentication and authorization services using standards-compliant implementations of OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect, enabling developers...
Microsoft Entra Verified ID API
Microsoft Entra Verified ID is a managed verifiable credentials service that enables organizations to issue, manage, and verify decentralized identity credentials based on W3C s...
Microsoft Entra ID Governance API
Microsoft Entra ID Governance APIs in Microsoft Graph enable automated access reviews, entitlement management, lifecycle workflows, and privileged identity management for identi...
Microsoft Entra SCIM Provisioning API
Microsoft Entra ID supports SCIM 2.0 protocol for automatic user and group provisioning to cloud applications, enabling automated identity lifecycle management through standardi...
Microsoft Entra PowerShell
The Microsoft Entra PowerShell module provides cmdlets for managing Microsoft Entra resources programmatically, built on the Microsoft Graph PowerShell SDK.
Microsoft Azure Active Directory Applications API
Manage application registrations in Azure Active Directory. An application object is the global representation of an application across all tenants, defining the app identity, a...
Microsoft Azure Active Directory Groups API
Manage groups in Azure Active Directory. Groups can be security groups, Microsoft 365 groups, or mail-enabled security groups. They provide shared access to resources for a coll...
Microsoft Azure Active Directory Service Principals API
Manage service principals in Azure Active Directory. A service principal is the local representation of an application in a specific tenant. It defines what the application can ...
Microsoft Azure Active Directory Users API
Manage user accounts in Azure Active Directory. Users are the core identity objects representing people in an organization. Each user has a profile with attributes such as displ...
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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).
Microsoft Graph Identity API
OPEN COLLECTIONPricing Plans 2
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 2
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.
Azure Active Directory Rate Limits
RATE LIMITSMicrosoft Azure Active Directory Rate Limits
RATE LIMITSFinOps 2
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.
Features 7
The notable capabilities this provider advertises, captured as structured features so they can be searched and compared instead of read one landing page at a time.
Notable capabilities this provider offers.
Single Sign-On
Enable users to sign in once and access all connected applications without re-authenticating.
Conditional Access
Enforce granular access policies based on user, device, location, and risk signals for zero trust security.
Multi-Factor Authentication
Add a second layer of security with phone, app, or hardware token verification for identity protection.
SCIM User Provisioning
Automate user and group lifecycle management across cloud applications using SCIM 2.0 standard.
Verifiable Credentials
Issue and verify decentralized identity credentials based on W3C standards for privacy-preserving identity verification.
Identity Governance
Automate access reviews, entitlement management, and lifecycle workflows for identity governance at scale.
Application Proxy
Publish on-premises web applications externally with secure remote access without VPN infrastructure.
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Semantic Vocabularies 2
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.
Spectral Rules 3
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.
JSON Schema 55
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.
Azure Active Directory User
JSON SCHEMAApiApplication
JSON SCHEMAApplication
JSON SCHEMAApplicationCreate
JSON SCHEMAApplicationUpdate
JSON SCHEMAAppRole
JSON SCHEMAAppRoleAssignment
JSON SCHEMAAssignedLicense
JSON SCHEMAAssignedPlan
JSON SCHEMADirectoryObject
JSON SCHEMAGroup
JSON SCHEMAGroupCreate
JSON SCHEMAGroupUpdate
JSON SCHEMAKeyCredential
JSON SCHEMAODataError
JSON SCHEMAPasswordCredential
JSON SCHEMAPasswordProfile
JSON SCHEMAPermissionScope
JSON SCHEMAPublicClientApplication
JSON SCHEMARequiredResourceAccess
JSON SCHEMAServicePrincipal
JSON SCHEMAServicePrincipalCreate
JSON SCHEMAServicePrincipalUpdate
JSON SCHEMASpaApplication
JSON SCHEMAUser
JSON SCHEMAUserCreate
JSON SCHEMAUserUpdate
JSON SCHEMAWebApplication
JSON SCHEMAApiApplication
JSON SCHEMAAppRoleAssignment
JSON SCHEMAAppRole
JSON SCHEMAApplicationCreate
JSON SCHEMAApplication
JSON SCHEMAApplicationUpdate
JSON SCHEMAAssignedLicense
JSON SCHEMAAssignedPlan
JSON SCHEMADirectoryObject
JSON SCHEMAGroupCreate
JSON SCHEMAGroup
JSON SCHEMAGroupUpdate
JSON SCHEMAKeyCredential
JSON SCHEMAODataError
JSON SCHEMAPasswordCredential
JSON SCHEMAPasswordProfile
JSON SCHEMAPermissionScope
JSON SCHEMAPublicClientApplication
JSON SCHEMARequiredResourceAccess
JSON SCHEMAServicePrincipalCreate
JSON SCHEMAServicePrincipal
JSON SCHEMAServicePrincipalUpdate
JSON SCHEMASpaApplication
JSON SCHEMAUserCreate
JSON SCHEMAUser
JSON SCHEMAUserUpdate
JSON SCHEMAWebApplication
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JSON Structure 28
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.
Microsoft Azure Active Directory Structure
JSON STRUCTUREMicrosoft Graph Identity Api Application Structure
JSON STRUCTUREMicrosoft Graph Identity App Role Assignment Structure
JSON STRUCTUREMicrosoft Graph Identity App Role Structure
JSON STRUCTUREMicrosoft Graph Identity Application Create Structure
JSON STRUCTUREMicrosoft Graph Identity Application Structure
JSON STRUCTUREMicrosoft Graph Identity Application Update Structure
JSON STRUCTUREMicrosoft Graph Identity Assigned License Structure
JSON STRUCTUREMicrosoft Graph Identity Assigned Plan Structure
JSON STRUCTUREMicrosoft Graph Identity Directory Object Structure
JSON STRUCTUREMicrosoft Graph Identity Group Create Structure
JSON STRUCTUREMicrosoft Graph Identity Group Structure
JSON STRUCTUREMicrosoft Graph Identity Group Update Structure
JSON STRUCTUREMicrosoft Graph Identity Key Credential Structure
JSON STRUCTUREMicrosoft Graph Identity O Data Error Structure
JSON STRUCTUREMicrosoft Graph Identity Password Credential Structure
JSON STRUCTUREMicrosoft Graph Identity Password Profile Structure
JSON STRUCTUREMicrosoft Graph Identity Permission Scope Structure
JSON STRUCTUREMicrosoft Graph Identity Service Principal Structure
JSON STRUCTUREMicrosoft Graph Identity Spa Application Structure
JSON STRUCTUREMicrosoft Graph Identity User Create Structure
JSON STRUCTUREMicrosoft Graph Identity User Structure
JSON STRUCTUREMicrosoft Graph Identity User Update Structure
JSON STRUCTUREMicrosoft Graph Identity Web Application Structure
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Examples 47
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.
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Security 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.
Scopes 1
OAuth scopes are the vocabulary of least-privilege access. Profiling them shows exactly what an integration — or an agent acting on a user's behalf — is allowed to do.
OAuth scopes governing access to this provider's APIs.
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.
Use Cases 5
What developers actually build with this provider — captured so the catalogue answers 'what is this for', not just 'what does this expose'.
What developers build with this provider.
Enterprise SSO
Implement single sign-on across SaaS and on-premises applications for seamless employee access management.
B2B Collaboration
Enable secure collaboration with external partners and guests using Azure AD B2B identity federation.
Customer Identity
Build customer-facing applications with self-service sign-up, social identity providers, and branded login experiences.
Zero Trust Security
Implement zero trust architecture with conditional access policies, continuous access evaluation, and risk-based authentication.
Automated User Provisioning
Automate user account creation, updates, and deprovisioning across connected SaaS applications using SCIM.
Integrations 5
Pre-built integrations with other platforms tell you where this provider already fits in a stack.
Pre-built integrations with other platforms and tools.
Microsoft 365
Native identity provider for all Microsoft 365 applications including Teams, Outlook, SharePoint, and OneDrive.
Salesforce
Single sign-on and automated user provisioning for Salesforce CRM using SAML and SCIM protocols.
ServiceNow
Federated authentication and automated user lifecycle management for ServiceNow ITSM platform.
AWS
Cross-cloud identity federation enabling Azure AD users to access AWS resources with single sign-on.
Workday
HR-driven identity provisioning with automated user creation and attribute synchronization from Workday.
Resources
Every other property we hold for Microsoft Azure Active Directory — 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 4
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
Design & Contract 1
Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events
Build 1
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
Access & Security 3
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Learn 1
Tutorials, courses, talks, and written guidance
Operate 3
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Commercial 3
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 3
The organization behind the API
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