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planetscale

PlanetScale is a serverless MySQL database platform powered by Vitess, providing horizontal scaling, branching workflows, non-blocking schema changes, and other developer-friendly database features.

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 planetscale the way a machine reads it — 71 machine-readable artifacts across 20 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 — planetscale scores 47.9/100 (developing), with a separate agent-readiness read of 54/100 (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 — 47.9/100 · developing
Contract Quality 19.5 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 2.6 / 20
Commercial Clarity 7.9 / 20
Operational Transparency 4.8 / 13
Governance 6.3 / 12
Discoverability 6.8 / 10
Agent readiness — 54/100 · 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 6 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

How we profile planetscale

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for planetscale. 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 20

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.

PlanetScale OAuth

PlanetScale OAuth allows developers to create OAuth applications that can access users' PlanetScale accounts on their behalf. The implementation supports the Authorization Code ...

PlanetScale Serverless Driver for JavaScript

The PlanetScale Serverless Driver for JavaScript is a Fetch API-compatible database driver designed for serverless and edge compute platforms such as Cloudflare Workers, Vercel ...

PlanetScale CLI

The PlanetScale CLI (pscale) is a command-line tool that brings PlanetScale database management to the terminal. It allows developers to create, delete, and list databases and b...

planetscale Backups API

Manage database branch backups, including listing, creating, and retrieving backup details.

planetscale Billing API

Access organization billing data and invoices programmatically.

planetscale Bouncers API

Manage PgBouncer connection pooling instances for database branches, including creating, listing, resizing, and deleting bouncers.

planetscale Branches API

Manage database branches for schema development and safe migrations, including creating, listing, updating, and deleting branches.

planetscale Cluster Sizes API

Retrieve available cluster size SKUs for Vitess and Postgres database branches.

planetscale Databases API

Manage PlanetScale databases, including creating, listing, updating settings, and deleting databases.

planetscale Deploy Requests API

Manage deploy requests for applying schema changes from development branches to production, including creating, reviewing, queueing, and completing deployments.

planetscale IP Restrictions API

Manage IP restriction entries for controlling database access by IP address.

planetscale Organization Members API

Manage members within an organization, including listing, retrieving, updating roles, and removing members.

planetscale Organizations API

Manage PlanetScale organizations, including listing organizations and retrieving organization details.

planetscale Passwords API

Manage branch passwords and connection credentials for connecting applications to database branches.

planetscale Query Patterns API

Analyze and report on query patterns for database branches.

planetscale Roles API

Manage role-based credentials for database access.

planetscale Schema Recommendations API

View and manage schema recommendations for optimizing database performance and structure.

planetscale Service Tokens API

Manage service tokens for API authentication, including creating, listing, and deleting tokens and their access grants.

planetscale Teams API

Manage teams within an organization, including creating teams, adding members, and controlling database access.

planetscale Webhooks API

Manage webhook configurations for database event notifications.

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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).

PlanetScale Platform API

OPEN COLLECTION

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.

Planetscale Rate Limits

3 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.

Features 16

The notable capabilities this provider advertises, captured as structured features so they can be searched and compared instead of read one landing page at a time.

Notable capabilities this provider offers.

Postgres EBS single-node from $5/mo
Postgres EBS HA 3-node from $15/mo
Postgres Metal 3-node from $50/mo
Vitess Non-Metal 3-node from $39/mo
Vitess Metal 3-node from $609/mo
Cluster sizes from 1/16 vCPU to 96 vCPU
arm64 and x86-64 architectures
Multi-region deployment options
Optional PgBouncer for Postgres
Optional read replicas
Branching for safe schema changes
Deploy requests for review-and-merge schema flow
Connection pooling built in
Insights for query performance
Boost for query result caching
Management API at 240 req/min/org

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Event Specifications 1

Not every API is request/response. AsyncAPI describes the event-driven and streaming side — the webhooks and channels — so the asynchronous half of the interface is documented the same way the synchronous half is.

AsyncAPI definitions for this provider's event-driven and streaming APIs.

PlanetScale Webhook Events

PlanetScale webhooks deliver HTTP POST callbacks to a configured URL when specific events occur within a PlanetScale organization. Webhooks enable real-time notifications for da...

ASYNCAPI

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.

Planetscale Context

0 classes · 10 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 2

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.

planetscale API Rules

8 rules · 1 errors · 7 warnings

SPECTRAL

planetscale API Rules

6 rules · 5 warnings

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 23

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.

Backup

8 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Bouncer

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Branch

13 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ClusterSize

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

PlanetScale Database

16 properties

JSON SCHEMA

DeployRequest

12 properties

JSON SCHEMA

DeployRequestReview

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Error

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Invoice

7 properties

JSON SCHEMA

IpRestriction

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Organization

7 properties

JSON SCHEMA

OrganizationMember

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Password

10 properties

JSON SCHEMA

PasswordWithPlaintext

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

QueryPatternsReport

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

RoleCredentials

7 properties

JSON SCHEMA

SchemaLintError

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

SchemaRecommendation

7 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ServiceToken

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ServiceTokenAccess

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ServiceTokenWithPlaintext

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Team

7 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Webhook

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

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JSON Structure 1

JSON Structure captures the data shapes in a form built for tooling — a complement to JSON Schema that keeps the model machine-legible.

JSON Structure definitions describing this provider's data shapes.

Planetscale Structure

0 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

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.

Planetscale Authentication

apiKey/http · 2 schemes

SECURITY

Planetscale Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

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.

Planetscale Agentic Access

60 operations · 30 acting

60 operations · 30 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Every other property we hold for planetscale — 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 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Design & Contract 1

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Company 2

The organization behind the API

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