Pearson
Pearson plc is the world's largest learning company, operating courseware and assessment platforms (MyLab, Mastering, Revel, Pearson+, Learning Catalytics), UK and international qualifications (Edexcel, BTEC), clinical and school assessment businesses, Pearson Virtual Schools, English language learning, and Pearson VUE, the computer-based certification and licensure testing network. Pearson once ran a substantial public API program — the Pearson Developers Network, with RESTful LearningStudio Course APIs, SOAP SIS APIs, an eventing surface and first-party client libraries in five languages. That program is retired and closed: LearningStudio ended in 2018, eCollege shut down in 2023, api.pearson.com answers "service that has been moved", and developer.pearson.com returns 401 behind a Salesforce community. What remains public is an OIDC discovery document, a live status page, a security disclosure policy, LTI 1.3 guidance, and three retired SIS WSDLs.
Limited machine-readable signal and partial portal coverage — documentation a human can read, but little a machine or agent can consume without scraping.
API Evangelist profiles Pearson the way a machine reads it — 8 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 — Pearson scores 32.3/100 (thin), with a separate agent-readiness read of 31/100 (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.
Why this profile is thin
Every path on developer.pearson.com — the Pearson Developers Network, including the LearningStudio API reference, the available-APIs index and the authentication guide — answers HTTP 401 and SAML-redirects into Pearson's corporate Entra ID tenant and a Salesforce Experience Cloud community, while the program's gateway api.pearson.com returns 403 "We apologize, you have reached a service that has been moved."
An API exists — we simply could not reach the contract without credentials or a sales conversation. This one is Pearson's to change: publishing the reference and a machine-readable spec at a public URL, while keeping key issuance behind whatever gate they like, would let an integrator evaluate the API before committing to a call.
What we probed
https://developer.pearson.com/learningstudio/available-apis→ HTTP 401https://developer.pearson.com/openapi.json→ HTTP 401https://api.pearson.com/openapi.json→ HTTP 403https://ws.pearsonvue.com/→ HTTP 500https://developer.pearson.com/.well-known/openid-configuration→ HTTP 200
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 2026-09-14 · rubric v0.22.0
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How we profile Pearson
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Pearson. 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 2
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.
Pearson Developers Network
Pearson's named API program. Historically served the LearningStudio RESTful Course APIs, the SOAP SIS APIs, an eventing surface and a Financial Times Education API via api.pears...
Pearson VUE Web Services
The integration surface Pearson VUE offers test owners for candidate registration, scheduling and results delivery. ws.pearsonvue.com resolves and is a live Azure API Management...
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.
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.
Pearson Rate Limits
RATE LIMITSSecurity Posture 3
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.
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.
Resources
Every other property we hold for Pearson — 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 2
Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call
Documentation 1
Reference material describing how the API behaves
Agent Surfaces 2
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Design & Contract 2
Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events
Build 2
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
Access & Security 5
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Operate 3
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Commercial 3
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 2
The organization behind the API
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