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Microsoft

Collection of Microsoft's primary APIs and developer resources.

agent ready

Solid contracts, transparent operations, and an easy start — typically complete on four or five facets with one clear soft spot.

Kin Score

API Evangelist profiles Microsoft the way a machine reads it — 130 machine-readable artifacts across 55 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 scores 61.2/100 (strong), with a separate agent-readiness read of 60/100 (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 — 61.2/100 · strong
Contract Quality 19.0 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 7.0 / 20
Commercial Clarity 14.2 / 20
Operational Transparency 5.5 / 13
Governance 8.8 / 12
Discoverability 6.8 / 10
Agent readiness — 60/100 · agent ready
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 15 / 15
MCP Server 12 / 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 Microsoft

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Microsoft. 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 55

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.

Microsoft Accounts API

Manage business accounts

Microsoft Applications API

Manage application registrations

Microsoft Audio API

Transcribe and translate audio

Microsoft Calendar API

Access and manage Outlook calendar events

Microsoft Channels API

Manage channels within teams

Microsoft Chat API

Manage chat threads and messages

Microsoft Chat Completions API

Create chat completions using conversational models

Microsoft Completions API

Create text completions

Microsoft Computer Vision API

Analyze images and extract visual features

Microsoft Contacts API

Manage contacts

Microsoft Dashboards API

Manage Power BI dashboards

Microsoft Datasets API

Manage Power BI datasets

Microsoft Deployments API

Manage ARM template deployments

Microsoft Device Compliance API

Manage compliance policies

Microsoft Device Configuration API

Manage device configuration profiles

Microsoft Drive API

Access OneDrive files and folders

Microsoft Drives API

Access drives (OneDrive or document libraries)

Microsoft Email API

Send email messages

Microsoft Embeddings API

Create vector embeddings from text

Microsoft Entities API

CRUD operations on Dataverse entities

Microsoft Git API

Manage Git repositories

Microsoft Groups API

Manage Microsoft Entra groups including Microsoft 365 groups and security groups

Microsoft Identity API

Create and manage communication identities

Microsoft Image Search API

Search for images

Microsoft Images API

Generate images from text descriptions

Microsoft Imports API

Import content into Power BI

Microsoft Items API

Manage files and folders

Microsoft Leads API

Manage leads

Microsoft Lists API

Manage SharePoint lists

Microsoft Mail API

Access and manage Outlook mail messages and folders

Microsoft Managed Devices API

Manage enrolled devices

Microsoft Members API

Manage team membership

Microsoft Messages API

Send and manage channel messages

Microsoft Metadata API

Entity and attribute metadata

Microsoft Mobile Apps API

Manage mobile applications

Microsoft News Search API

Search for news articles

Microsoft OAuth2 Permissions API

Manage OAuth2 permission grants

Microsoft Opportunities API

Manage sales opportunities

Microsoft Pipelines API

Manage build and release pipelines

Microsoft Projects API

Manage team projects

Microsoft Reports API

Manage Power BI reports

Microsoft Resource Groups API

Manage Azure resource groups

Microsoft Resources API

Manage Azure resources

Microsoft Service Principals API

Manage service principals

Microsoft Sharing API

Share files and folders

Microsoft Sites API

Access SharePoint sites via Microsoft Graph

Microsoft SMS API

Send SMS messages

Microsoft Subscriptions API

Manage Azure subscriptions

Microsoft Teams API

Manage Microsoft Teams resources

Microsoft Text Analytics API

Extract insights from text including sentiment and entities

Microsoft Translator API

Translate text between languages

Microsoft Users API

Manage Microsoft Entra user accounts and profiles

Microsoft Video Search API

Search for videos

Microsoft Web Search API

Search the web for relevant results

Microsoft Work Items API

Manage work items and queries

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Open Collections 16

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).

Scroll within the panel for all 16 ·

MCP Servers 1

Model Context Protocol servers expose these APIs directly to AI agents. We profile them because agent-native access is the fastest-growing way this provider's capabilities actually get used.

Model Context Protocol servers that expose these APIs to AI agents.

MCP Server for Enterprise

Microsoft's remote MCP Server for Enterprise turns natural language into read-only Microsoft Graph queries over an Entra tenant, using delegated Entra permissions.

MCP SERVER

GraphQL 1

Where a provider ships GraphQL, the schema is the contract. We profile it alongside the REST surface so the whole interface is legible in one place.

GraphQL schemas published by this provider.

Microsoft Graph — Conceptual GraphQL Schema

Microsoft Graph is the unified REST/OData gateway to Microsoft 365, Azure Active Directory, Intune, and related services. While Microsoft does not publish an official GraphQL en...

GRAPHQL

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.

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.

Microsoft Rate Limits

2 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.

Features 40

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.

Microsoft (Azure + 365 + Foundry + Graph): hundreds of services across Cloud + Productivity + AI
Detailed pricing: see https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/business/compare-all-plans
Service: Virtual Machines
Service: Blob Storage
Service: SQL Database
Service: Cosmos DB
Service: Functions
Service: API Management
Service: Front Door (CDN)
Service: DNS
Service: Virtual Network
Service: Entra ID (formerly AD)
Service: Key Vault
Service: Monitor
Service: Log Analytics
Service: AKS (Kubernetes)
Service: Container Apps
Service: Container Registry
Service: Service Bus
Service: Event Grid
Service: Event Hubs
Service: Microsoft Foundry / OpenAI Service
Service: Cognitive Services (Speech, Vision, Language, Translator)
Service: Synapse Analytics
Service: Data Factory
Service: Stream Analytics
Service: Databricks (Azure)
Service: Power BI
Service: Bot Service
Service: Communication Services
Service: Microsoft 365 (Business / Enterprise)
Service: Microsoft Graph API
Service: Bing Search API
Service: Microsoft Foundry (OpenAI + Mistral + others)
Service: Power Platform APIs
Service: Dynamics 365 APIs
Service: Microsoft Defender APIs
Service: Intune
Service: Teams
Service: GitHub (separate billing)

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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.

Microsoft Context

0 classes · 15 properties

JSON-LD

Microsoft Graph Context

0 classes · 8 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral 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.

Microsoft API Rules

6 rules · 4 warnings

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 6

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 Resource Group

7 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Microsoft OneDrive DriveItem

19 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Microsoft Graph Group

43 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Microsoft Graph User

52 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Microsoft Intune Managed Device

28 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Microsoft Teams Team

16 properties

JSON SCHEMA

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.

Microsoft Authentication

apiKey/http/oauth2 · 7 schemes

SECURITY

Microsoft Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Microsoft Vulnerability Disclosure

security.txt · contact published

SECURITY

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.

Microsoft Scopes

42 scopes · authorizationCode/clientCredentials

42 scopes

SCOPES

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.

Microsoft Agentic Access

178 operations · 88 acting

178 operations · 88 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Every other property we hold for Microsoft — 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

Agent Surfaces 2

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Design & Contract 2

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Operate 3

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Company 1

The organization behind the API

← All providers · Data indexed from github.com/api-evangelist/microsoft · machine-readable index on apis.io