Planet Labs
Planet Labs operates the world's largest commercial Earth observation constellation, imaging the entire landmass of the planet daily with its PlanetScope satellites and capturing high-resolution targeted imagery with SkySat and Pelican. The Planet Insights Platform is API-first: developers search the archive through the Data and Catalog APIs, order processed bundles through the Orders API, set up standing area-of-interest deliveries through the Subscriptions API, request tip-and-cue collections through the Tasking API, and consume mosaics through the Basemaps and Tiles APIs. Analytics, Processing, Statistical, and Batch APIs run server-side workflows over the catalog and over Planetary Variables. All APIs sit under api.planet.com, authenticate with an API key over HTTP Basic, and are wrapped by the official Planet Python SDK.
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 Planet Labs the way a machine reads it — 26 machine-readable artifacts across 18 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 — Planet Labs scores 38.9/100 (thin), 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
How this is scored →scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
How we profile Planet Labs
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Planet Labs. 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 18
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.
Planet Data API
Programmatic search over Planet's imagery catalog by AOI, time window, cloud cover, item type, and asset type. Returns item and asset metadata for downstream activation and down...
Planet Catalog API
STAC-based search and access layer over Planet imagery metadata, providing a standards-aligned interface to the archive.
Planet Orders API
Request preparation and delivery of imagery bundles with optional processing operations (clip, composite, harmonize, reproject, band math, file format), and deliver to cloud des...
Planet Subscriptions API
Standing subscriptions that deliver new imagery and analytic feeds to a cloud destination automatically as new acquisitions clear the AOI and cloud-cover filter.
Planet Basemaps API
Discover, view, and download Planet's PlanetScope monitoring and visual basemap mosaics covering the global landmass at regular cadence.
Planet Tasking API
Tasking interface for SkySat and Pelican constellations. Submit collection requests against a target geometry and time window and track capture and delivery status.
Planet Analytics API
Access to Planet Analytics Feeds, including building, road, ship, and change detection outputs derived from the imagery archive.
Planet Processing API
Run custom processing scripts on raw bands and derive indices (NDVI, EVI, etc.) over Planet imagery without downloading source data.
Planet Statistical API
Compute per-AOI statistics (mean, median, percentiles, histograms) over imagery and analytic layers without requiring full raster downloads.
Planet Tiles API
XYZ and WMTS tile services for visualizing PlanetScope and SkySat scenes and basemaps in web mapping clients.
Planet Features API
Save and manage Areas of Interest (features and feature collections) for reuse across Subscriptions, Orders, and Tasking.
Planet Python SDK
Official Python SDK (planet on PyPI) and CLI for working with all Planet APIs, including async clients for search, orders, subscriptions, and data activation.
Planet Labs Data - Item Types API
Item type and asset type metadata.
Planet Labs Data - Items API
Item and asset retrieval.
Planet Labs Data - Search API
Catalog search and saved searches.
Planet Labs Data - Stats API
Search-driven statistics.
Planet Labs Orders API
Bundle preparation and delivery jobs.
Planet Labs Subscriptions API
Standing area-of-interest delivery feeds.
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Open Collections 1
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).
Planet Insights Platform API
OPEN COLLECTIONGraphQL 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.
Planet Labs GraphQL API
Planet Labs provides daily earth observation imagery from its satellite constellation. The API covers scene discovery, basemap access, analytics feeds, subscription management, ...
GRAPHQLPricing 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.
Planet Labs 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.
Planet Labs Finops
FINOPSSecurity 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.
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.
Resources
Every other property we hold for Planet Labs — 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
Build 1
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
Access & Security 2
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Operate 1
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Commercial 1
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 3
The organization behind the API
Other 3
Properties that don't map to a standard resource type
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