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OpenRouteService

OpenRouteService is a free, open-source geospatial API platform built on OpenStreetMap data, providing routing directions for multiple transport modes, isochrones for reachability analysis, time-distance matrices, geocoding, elevation data, points of interest, and vehicle route optimization for logistics and humanitarian use cases.

agent ready

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 OpenRouteService the way a machine reads it — 33 machine-readable artifacts across 16 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 — OpenRouteService scores 55.5/100 (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 Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
Composite quality — 55.5/100 · developing
Contract Quality 17.5 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 4.3 / 20
Commercial Clarity 10.0 / 20
Operational Transparency 4.8 / 13
Governance 8.8 / 12
Discoverability 10.0 / 10
Agent readiness — 48/100 · agent ready
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 15 / 15
MCP Server 0 / 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 OpenRouteService

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for OpenRouteService. 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 16

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.

OpenRouteService Isochrones API

Calculates areas of reachability from given locations within specified time or distance ranges, supporting up to 5 locations and 10 intervals, for travel modes including driving...

OpenRouteService Matrix API

Computes one-to-many, many-to-one, and many-to-many time and distance matrices for logistics optimization, supporting up to 3,500 locations per standard request for route planni...

OpenRouteService Geocoding API

Resolves addresses to geographic coordinates and vice versa using the Pelias geocoding engine, supporting forward geocoding, reverse geocoding, and autocomplete for address norm...

OpenRouteService Elevation API

Returns elevation data for point or line geometries using SRTM data, supporting up to 2,000 vertices for enriching routes and locations with altitude information.

OpenRouteService Optimization API

Solves vehicle routing problems using the VROOM engine, optimizing routes for fleets of up to 3 vehicles and 50 routes, supporting time windows, capacity constraints, and multi-...

OpenRouteService POI API

Returns points of interest in the area surrounding a given geometry, supporting search within a 2 km radius for areas up to 50 km2, filtered by category and keyword using OpenSt...

OpenRouteService Snapping API

Snaps arbitrary coordinates to the nearest road network nodes, supporting up to 5,000 locations per request, useful for map matching and correcting GPS coordinates to the road n...

OpenRouteService Directions API

Get routing directions for different modes of transport

OpenRouteService Elevation API

Return elevation data for point or line geometries

OpenRouteService Geocoding API

Resolve addresses to coordinates and vice versa using Pelias engine

OpenRouteService Health API

Service health and status endpoints

OpenRouteService Isochrones API

Obtain areas of reachability from given locations

OpenRouteService Matrix API

Obtain one-to-many, many-to-one and many-to-many matrices for time and distance

OpenRouteService Optimization API

Solve vehicle routing problems using the VROOM engine

OpenRouteService POI API

Return points of interest using OpenStreetMap data

OpenRouteService Snapping API

Snap coordinates to the nearest road network nodes

Scroll within the panel for all 16 ·

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.

Openrouteservice 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.

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.

Openrouteservice Context

13 classes · 73 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.

OpenRouteService API Rules

5 rules · 4 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.

OpenRouteService Directions Request

23 properties

JSON SCHEMA

OpenRouteService Isochrones Request

13 properties

JSON SCHEMA

OpenRouteService Matrix Request

7 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Examples 6

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.

Isochrones Request

6 fields

EXAMPLE

Matrix Request

4 fields

EXAMPLE

Optimization Request

3 fields

EXAMPLE

Pois Request

5 fields

EXAMPLE

Snapping Request

3 fields

EXAMPLE

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.

Openrouteservice Authentication

apiKey · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Openrouteservice Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS

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.

Openrouteservice Agentic Access

17 operations · 10 acting

17 operations · 10 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Every other property we hold for OpenRouteService — 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 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

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