Portainer
Portainer is an open source container management platform that simplifies deploying, managing, and monitoring Docker, Swarm, Podman, and Kubernetes environments through a unified web UI and REST API.
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 Portainer the way a machine reads it — 39 machine-readable artifacts across 32 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 — Portainer scores 38.2/100 (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 Portainer
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Portainer. 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 32
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.
Portainer auth API
Authenticate against Portainer HTTP API
Portainer backup API
Manage backups
Portainer custom_templates API
Manage Custom Templates
Portainer docker API
Manage Docker resources
Portainer edge API
Manage Edge related environment(endpoint) settings
Portainer edge_groups API
Manage Edge Groups
Portainer edge_jobs API
Manage Edge Jobs
Portainer edge_stacks API
Manage Edge Stacks
Portainer endpoint_groups API
Manage environment(endpoint) groups
Portainer endpoints API
Manage Docker environments(endpoints)
Portainer gitops API
Operate git repository
Portainer helm API
Manage Helm charts
Portainer intel API
Manage Intel AMT settings
Portainer kubernetes API
Manage Kubernetes cluster
Portainer ldap API
Manage LDAP settings
Portainer motd API
Fetch the message of the day
Portainer registries API
Manage Docker registries
Portainer resource_controls API
Manage access control on Docker resources
Portainer roles API
Manage roles
Portainer settings API
Manage Portainer settings
Portainer ssl API
Manage ssl settings
Portainer stacks API
Manage stacks
Portainer status API
Information about the Portainer instance
Portainer system API
Manage Portainer system
Portainer tags API
Manage tags
Portainer team_memberships API
Manage team memberships
Portainer teams API
Manage teams
Portainer templates API
Manage App Templates
Portainer upload API
Upload files
Portainer users API
Manage users
Portainer webhooks API
Manage webhooks
Portainer websocket API
Create exec sessions using websockets
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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).
PortainerCE API
OPEN COLLECTIONPricing 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.
Portainer 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.
Portainer 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 Portainer — 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 2
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Build 2
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
Access & Security 2
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Operate 2
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
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