Planet
Planet Labs PBC operates the largest constellation of Earth-imaging satellites, capturing a daily scan of the planet's landmass and delivering that imagery, along with derived Planetary Variables and analytics, through a suite of public developer APIs. The Planet Platform exposes a Data API for searching the imagery catalog, an Orders API for requesting and delivering scenes, a Subscriptions API for continuous cloud delivery, a Basemaps API for mosaics, a Tasking API for commanding high-resolution SkySat and Pelican captures, and a Features API for managing areas of interest. All APIs are served from api.planet.com and secured with API keys (HTTP Basic) or OAuth2/OIDC through login.planet.com. Planet ships an official Python SDK and CLI, an experimental Model Context Protocol server, QGIS and ArcGIS plugins, and a large open-source notebook collection. Planet is a portfolio company of DCVC.
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 the way a machine reads it — 12 machine-readable artifacts across 6 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 scores 40.4/100 (thin), with a separate agent-readiness read of 25/100 (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.
Kin Score
How this is scored →scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
How we profile Planet
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Planet. 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 6
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
Programmatically search Planet's imagery catalog by geometry, date range, cloud cover and other filters, then discover the items and downloadable assets that match. Supports ite...
Planet Orders API
Request downloads and cloud delivery of Planet imagery, apply raster and band tools (clipping, harmonization, composites), and deliver results to cloud storage destinations.
Planet Subscriptions API
Set up continuous, hands-off cloud delivery of new imagery and Planetary Variables for an area of interest as it becomes available.
Planet Basemaps API
Access and download Planet's global and regional basemap mosaics, list series and quads, and retrieve mosaic metadata.
Planet Tasking API
Command high-resolution SkySat and Pelican satellites to capture new imagery of a target, manage tasking orders, and track capture status.
Planet Features API
Save and manage reusable areas of interest (feature collections) that can be referenced across the Data, Orders, Subscriptions and Tasking APIs.
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.
planet-mcp.yml
MCP SERVERSecurity 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.
Planet Trust Center
ISO/IEC 27001:2022, ISO/IEC 42001:2023, ISO 9001:2015, UK Cyber Essentials, CMMC Level 2
SECURITYScopes 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 Planet — 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 2
Reference material describing how the API behaves
Agent Surfaces 3
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Design & Contract 3
Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events
Build 5
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
Access & Security 8
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
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Operate 5
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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