ngrok
ngrok is a unified application delivery network for developers, providing secure tunnels, ingress-as-a-service, API gateway, and AI gateway capabilities. It enables developers to expose local services on the public internet, manage edge ingress, and route traffic to AI providers without redeploying applications. ngrok provides a unique URL for each tunnel, traffic policy controls, and a comprehensive REST API for programmatic management of all resources.
Solid contracts, transparent operations, and an easy start — typically complete on four or five facets with one clear soft spot.
API Evangelist profiles ngrok the way a machine reads it — 48 machine-readable artifacts across 24 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 — ngrok scores 68.5/100 (strong), with a separate agent-readiness read of 53/100 (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.
How we profile ngrok
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for ngrok. 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 24
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.
ngrok Abuse Reports API
Abuse Reports allow you to submit reports of abusive endpoints.
ngrok Agent Ingresses API
Agent Ingresses are the addresses ngrok agents connect to.
ngrok API Keys API
API Keys are used to authenticate to the ngrok API.
ngrok Backends API
Backends define how traffic is handled, including tunnel group, weighted, failover, HTTP response, and static address backends.
ngrok Certificate Authorities API
Certificate Authorities are x509 certificates used for mutual TLS authentication.
ngrok Credentials API
Tunnel Credentials are authtokens used to start ngrok tunnels.
ngrok Edges HTTPS API
HTTPS Edges define HTTPS endpoints with routes and modules.
ngrok Edges TCP API
TCP Edges define TCP endpoints for non-HTTP protocols.
ngrok Edges TLS API
TLS Edges define TLS endpoints with TLS termination and mutual TLS.
ngrok Endpoints API
Endpoints represent the public URLs of active tunnels and edges.
ngrok Event Destinations API
Event Destinations define where event data is sent.
ngrok Event Subscriptions API
Event Subscriptions define which events trigger notifications.
ngrok IP Policies API
IP Policies contain rules to allow or deny traffic from IP ranges.
ngrok IP Policy Rules API
IP Policy Rules are CIDR-based allow/deny rules within an IP Policy.
ngrok IP Restrictions API
IP Restrictions apply IP Policies to specific ngrok resources.
ngrok Reserved Addresses API
Reserved Addresses are static TCP addresses for TCP tunnels.
ngrok Reserved Domains API
Reserved Domains are custom hostnames for HTTP/HTTPS/TLS tunnels.
ngrok SSH Certificate Authorities API
SSH Certificate Authorities manage keys for signing SSH certificates.
ngrok SSH Credentials API
SSH Credentials are public keys for authenticating SSH tunnel sessions.
ngrok SSH Host Certificates API
SSH Host Certificates authenticate ngrok tunnel servers to clients.
ngrok SSH User Certificates API
SSH User Certificates authenticate users to ngrok SSH tunnel servers.
ngrok TLS Certificates API
TLS Certificates are x509 certificate/key pairs used to terminate TLS traffic.
ngrok Tunnel Sessions API
Tunnel Sessions represent running ngrok agent connections.
ngrok Tunnels API
Tunnels represent individual tunnels within a tunnel session.
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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).
Ngrok API
OPEN COLLECTIONAgent Skills 1
An agent skill packages the how-to for driving these APIs from an assistant — the prompts, the sequence, the guardrails — so the knowledge to use the API travels with it.
Packaged agent skills for driving this provider's APIs from an AI assistant.
expose-localhost
AGENT SKILLPricing 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.
Ngrok 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.
Ngrok 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.
Ngrok 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.
Ngrok 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.
ngrok API Rules
SPECTRALJSON Schema 12
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.
ngrok API Key
JSON SCHEMAngrok Endpoint
JSON SCHEMAngrok Event Subscription
JSON SCHEMAngrok HTTPS Edge
JSON SCHEMAngrok IP Policy
JSON SCHEMAngrok Reserved Address
JSON SCHEMAngrok Reserved Domain
JSON SCHEMAngrok TCP Edge
JSON SCHEMAngrok TLS Certificate
JSON SCHEMAngrok TLS Edge
JSON SCHEMAngrok Tunnel Session
JSON SCHEMAngrok Tunnel
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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.
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 ngrok — 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 2
Reference material describing how the API behaves
Agent Surfaces 3
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Build 5
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
Access & Security 4
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Operate 3
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Commercial 1
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 3
The organization behind the API
Other 3
Properties that don't map to a standard resource type
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