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Ory

Ory is an open source identity infrastructure platform providing OAuth2 and OpenID Connect (Hydra), identity and user management (Kratos), permissions and authorization (Keto), and a reverse proxy with policy enforcement (Oathkeeper).

agent ready

Limited machine-readable signal and partial portal coverage — documentation a human can read, but little a machine or agent can consume without scraping.

Kin Score

API Evangelist profiles Ory the way a machine reads it — 25 machine-readable artifacts across 11 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 — Ory scores 41.6/100 (thin), 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 — 41.6/100 · thin
Contract Quality 12.5 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 6.1 / 20
Commercial Clarity 9.5 / 20
Operational Transparency 4.8 / 13
Governance 0.0 / 12
Discoverability 8.8 / 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 Ory

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

Ory api API

The api API from Ory — 4 operation(s) for api.

Ory courier API

APIs for managing email and SMS message delivery.

Ory frontend API

Endpoints used by frontend applications (e.g. Single-Page-App, Native Apps, Server Apps, ...) to manage a user's own profile.

Ory identity API

APIs for managing identities.

Ory jwk API

JSON Web Keys

Ory metadata API

Service Metadata

Ory oAuth2 API

OAuth 2.0

Ory oidc API

OpenID Connect

Ory permission API

The permission API from Ory — 4 operation(s) for permission.

Ory relationship API

The relationship API from Ory — 4 operation(s) for relationship.

Ory wellknown API

Well-Known Endpoints

Scroll within the panel for all 11 ·

Open Collections 4

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).

Ory Hydra API

OPEN COLLECTION

Ory Keto API

OPEN COLLECTION

Ory Identities API

OPEN COLLECTION

Ory Oathkeeper API

OPEN COLLECTION

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

MCP SERVER

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.

Ory 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.

Ory Rate Limits

8 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.

Ory Finops

FINOPS

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.

Ory Authentication

apiKey/http/oauth2 · 4 schemes

SECURITY

Ory Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Ory Vulnerability Disclosure

Hackerone · security.txt · contact published

SECURITY

Ory Trust Center

SOC 2, ISO 27001, PCI DSS, GDPR

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.

Ory Scopes

3 scopes · authorizationCode

3 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.

Ory Agentic Access

128 operations · 57 acting · 6 human-in-the-loop

128 operations · 57 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Every other property we hold for Ory — 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 2

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Company 3

The organization behind the API

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