Nitric
Nitric is an open-source cloud framework and infrastructure-from-code SDK plus CLI for building cloud applications in TypeScript, Python, Go, or Dart. You declare resources - APIs, schedules, queues, topics, buckets, key-value stores, secrets, and websockets - directly in your application code, and Nitric provisions them across AWS, Google Cloud, or Azure via pluggable Pulumi or Terraform providers. Nitric is a framework / IaC tool, not a hosted REST API - the APIs you build are deployed to your own cloud.
More than an index entry, but the surface is still mostly links rather than artifacts — the cohort most likely to move a full band from modest, well-targeted work.
API Evangelist profiles Nitric the way a machine reads it — 17 machine-readable artifacts across 1 API, 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 — Nitric scores 26.0/100 (emerging), with a separate agent-readiness read of 16/100 (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.
Kin Score
How this is scored →scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0
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How we profile Nitric
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Nitric. 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 11
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.
Nitric API Resource
SDK resource for declaring HTTP APIs and routes in code. Nitric provisions the API gateway (e.g. AWS API Gateway, GCP API Gateway, Azure API Management) and wires routes to your...
Nitric Schedule Resource
SDK resource for declaring time-based and cron schedules in code. Nitric provisions the underlying scheduler in your target cloud and triggers your handler on the defined cadenc...
Nitric Queue Resource
SDK resource for declaring durable message queues for batch and deferred processing. Nitric maps it to a cloud queue service (e.g. AWS SQS) with enqueue and dequeue semantics. F...
Nitric Topic Resource
SDK resource for declaring publish/subscribe topics for event-driven architectures. Nitric provisions the cloud pub/sub service (e.g. AWS SNS, GCP Pub/Sub) and wires subscribers...
Nitric Bucket Resource
SDK resource for declaring object/file storage buckets with read, write, delete, signed URLs, and bucket-event triggers. Nitric maps it to cloud storage (e.g. AWS S3, GCS, Azure...
Nitric Key-Value Resource
SDK resource for declaring key-value stores with get, set, delete, and query operations. Nitric maps it to a cloud key-value service (e.g. AWS DynamoDB). Framework primitive, no...
Nitric Secret Resource
SDK resource for declaring and accessing secrets with versioning. Nitric maps it to a cloud secrets manager (e.g. AWS Secrets Manager). Framework primitive, not a hosted API.
Nitric Websocket Resource
SDK resource for declaring realtime bidirectional websocket endpoints with connect, disconnect, and message handlers. Nitric provisions the cloud websocket service. Framework pr...
Nitric SQL Database Resource
SDK resource for declaring managed relational (Postgres) databases with migrations. Nitric provisions the cloud database (e.g. AWS RDS, GCP Cloud SQL). Framework primitive, not ...
Nitric CLI
The Nitric command-line tool (nitric new, nitric start, nitric stack new, nitric up, nitric down) that scaffolds projects, runs local emulation with a dashboard, and deploys or ...
Nitric Provider Plugins
Pluggable provider implementations that translate declared Nitric resources into cloud infrastructure on AWS, Google Cloud, or Azure using Pulumi (direct deploy) or Terraform (g...
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Open Collections 2
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).
API Collection
OPEN COLLECTIONNitric Framework
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 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.
Nitric 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.
Nitric 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.
Nitric Finops
FINOPSSecurity Posture 1
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.
Resources
Every other property we hold for Nitric — 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
Build 1
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
Access & Security 1
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Operate 1
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Commercial 2
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 2
The organization behind the API
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