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Nhost

Nhost is an open-source Firebase alternative that provides a fully managed backend platform built on PostgreSQL, GraphQL, and modern open-source tools. Developers get instant REST and GraphQL APIs auto-generated from their database schema, along with authentication supporting email/password, OAuth, magic links, WebAuthn, and one-time passwords. The platform includes S3- compatible file storage with CDN delivery and image transformation, serverless functions deployable as HTTP endpoints, and real-time GraphQL subscriptions. Nhost also offers a local development CLI, GitHub-based automated deployments, an AI toolkit with auto-embeddings and assistants, and managed container services—enabling teams to launch production-ready backends without infrastructure management.

agent aware

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.

Kin Score

API Evangelist profiles Nhost the way a machine reads it — 43 machine-readable artifacts across 2 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 — Nhost scores 42.3/100 (developing), with a separate agent-readiness read of 22/100 (agent aware). 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. Every facet and dimension name is a link: it opens that measurement's page on APIs.io, where the rating runs across the whole catalog — the exact checks that feed it, how every profiled provider distributes on it, and who is at the top of it.

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scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0
Nhost Kin Score — API readiness rating by API Evangelist

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How we profile Nhost

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Nhost. 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 14

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.

Nhost GraphQL API

Instant, real-time GraphQL API auto-generated from PostgreSQL database schemas via Hasura. Supports queries, mutations, and live subscriptions with row- and column-level role-ba...

Nhost Serverless Functions API

Deploy JavaScript and TypeScript serverless functions as HTTP API endpoints for webhooks, event triggers, and custom backend logic. Each file in the functions directory becomes ...

Nhost AI API

AI toolkit providing GraphQL-based assistant management, auto-embeddings, session handling, and file stores. Enables developers to turn any Nhost project into an agentic service...

Nhost authentication API

User authentication operations including sign-in, sign-up, and various authentication methods (email/password, passwordless, OAuth, WebAuthn, MFA)

Nhost documentation API

API documentation

Nhost excludeme API

These operations are not intended to be used directly by clients and should be excluded from client SDKs

Nhost files API

File management operations

Nhost operations API

Administrative operations

Nhost security API

Security-related operations including Personal Access Tokens, WebAuthn management, account elevation, and account linking

Nhost session API

Session management operations including token refresh, verification, and sign-out

Nhost storage API

Storage operations and presigned URLs

Nhost system API

System operations including health checks, service version, and public key endpoints

Nhost user API

User profile and account management operations including email/password changes, MFA configuration, and profile updates

Nhost verification API

Email and ticket verification operations for confirming user actions

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Open Collections 12

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 12 ·

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.

Nhost GraphQL API

Nhost provides an instant, auto-generated GraphQL API powered by Hasura GraphQL Engine running on top of PostgreSQL. Every Nhost project receives a dedicated GraphQL endpoint at...

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 things the Kin Score reads for access clarity — renamed from commercial clarity in rubric 0.12, because a free statutory interface has access terms and no commercial ones.

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Nhost Plans Pricing

4 plans

PLANS

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.

Nhost Rate Limits

0 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.

Nhost Finops

FINOPS

Semantic 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.

Nhost Context

14 classes · 4 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.

Nhost API Rules

5 rules · 3 warnings

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 3

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.

ErrorResponse

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

FileMetadata

10 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Session

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Examples 3

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.

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.

Nhost Authentication

apiKey/http · 2 schemes

SECURITY

Nhost Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Nhost Vulnerability Disclosure

disclosure policy published

SECURITY

Nhost Trust Center

SOC 2, HIPAA

SECURITY

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.

Nhost Agentic Access

54 operations · 39 acting · 1 human-in-the-loop

54 operations · 39 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Every other property we hold for Nhost — 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.

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Agent Surfaces 1

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 2

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

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

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Where this information came from

This is an independent, third-party profile of Nhost, published by API Evangelist. We do not operate, host, resell, or support these APIs, and we are not affiliated with or endorsed by the company unless stated above. Everything here is built from publicly available information — the company's own site, developer portal, documentation, public repositories, and the specifications it publishes for public use. Nothing is obtained by breaching a system, defeating an access control, or using credentials.

The Kin Score and Agent Readiness rating are independently calculated assessments of a company's public API artifacts, scored against a published rubric. They are not certifications, endorsements, security assessments, or audits.

Corrections, re-scores, and removal are free — no partnership or purchase required, and you do not need to justify the request. A removed company is recorded as unrated, never scored zero for having asked. Acknowledgement within one business day; removal within two.

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