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RapidAPI

RapidAPI operates the world's largest API marketplace, connecting developers to thousands of APIs through a single platform. Their developer platform provides tools for API discovery, testing, management, design, and gateway configuration, enabling both individual developers and enterprises to build, consume, and manage APIs at scale.

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 RapidAPI the way a machine reads it — 118 machine-readable artifacts across 29 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 — RapidAPI scores 57.8/100 (developing), 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 Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
Composite quality — 57.8/100 · developing
Contract Quality 19.0 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 7.0 / 20
Commercial Clarity 10.0 / 20
Operational Transparency 3.4 / 13
Governance 10.4 / 12
Discoverability 8.0 / 10
Agent readiness — 48/100 · 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 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

How we profile RapidAPI

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for RapidAPI. 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 29

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.

RapidAPI Alerts API

Endpoints for configuring alert notifications when tests fail, including integrations with PagerDuty, Slack, and Twilio.

RapidAPI Analytics API

Endpoints for retrieving gateway traffic analytics, including request counts, response times, error rates, and usage patterns.

RapidAPI Apis API

The Apis API from RapidAPI — 6 operation(s) for apis.

RapidAPI Applications API

Endpoints for creating, updating, and deleting applications and their associated authorizations within the Enterprise Hub.

RapidAPI Authentication API

Endpoints for configuring authentication schemes on gateways, including OAuth2, API key, header-based, and basic authentication.

RapidAPI Categories API

Endpoints for browsing API categories available on the marketplace, including Data, Sports, Finance, Travel, and Entertainment.

RapidAPI Collections API

Endpoints for browsing curated API collections organized around themes such as Top Meme APIs, Top Geocoding APIs, and other groupings.

RapidAPI Definitions API

Endpoints for importing, exporting, and managing API definitions such as OpenAPI specifications and Postman Collections.

RapidAPI Documentation API

Endpoints for generating and managing API documentation from project definitions and endpoint configurations.

RapidAPI Endpoints API

Endpoints for managing API endpoint configurations within a project, including creating, updating, and organizing endpoint groups.

RapidAPI Environments API

Endpoints for managing test environments with variable sets that can be used across tests for different deployment stages.

RapidAPI Executions API

Endpoints for viewing test execution results, including pass/fail statuses, response times, and detailed assertion outcomes.

RapidAPI Gateways API

Endpoints for managing gateway instances, including creating, configuring, and monitoring custom API gateways.

RapidAPI GraphQL API

The single GraphQL endpoint that accepts all queries and mutations for managing the Enterprise Hub, including APIs, collections, organizations, users, and hub configuration.

RapidAPI Locations API

Endpoints for listing available monitoring locations across global AWS regions where tests can be executed.

RapidAPI Organizations API

Endpoints for managing organizations within the Enterprise Hub, including listing, creating, and updating organization configurations.

RapidAPI Projects API

Endpoints for managing API projects within Studio, including creating, listing, updating, and deleting projects.

RapidAPI Rate Limiting API

Endpoints for configuring rate limiting policies to protect APIs from overuse, including request limits, quota management, and request size limits.

RapidAPI Requests API

Endpoints for managing saved API requests within a project, including importing from spec files and organizing into groups.

RapidAPI Routes API

Endpoints for configuring request routing rules that determine how incoming API requests are forwarded to backend services.

RapidAPI Schedules API

Endpoints for managing test schedules, including frequency, environment, and location settings for automated monitoring.

RapidAPI Search API

Endpoints for searching and discovering APIs by keyword, category, collection, or advanced filters across the RapidAPI marketplace.

RapidAPI Security API

Endpoints for configuring security policies such as IP allow and deny lists, CORS settings, and proxy secret validation.

RapidAPI Snippets API

Endpoints for generating code snippets for API calls in multiple programming languages and libraries.

RapidAPI Subscriptions API

Endpoints for managing API subscriptions, including subscribing to API plans, viewing active subscriptions, and usage analytics.

RapidAPI Tags API

The Tags API from RapidAPI — 2 operation(s) for tags.

RapidAPI Tests API

Endpoints for creating, reading, updating, deleting, and executing API tests, including functional and performance test flows.

RapidAPI Transactions API

Endpoints for viewing and managing API transaction records, including usage data and billing information.

RapidAPI Users API

Endpoints for managing users within the Enterprise Hub, including user roles, permissions, and account configurations.

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Open Collections 6

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).

RapidAPI Gateway API

OPEN COLLECTION

RapidAPI Hub API

OPEN COLLECTION

RapidAPI Studio API

OPEN COLLECTION

RapidAPI Testing API

OPEN COLLECTION

GraphQL 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.

RapidAPI GraphQL API

The RapidAPI GraphQL Platform API exposes the same queries and mutations that RapidAPI uses internally, providing enterprise users with a powerful interface for managing their A...

GRAPHQL

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.

Rapidapi Rate Limits

2 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.

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.

Rapidapi Context

0 classes · 11 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.

RapidAPI API Rules

6 rules · 4 warnings

SPECTRAL

RapidAPI API Rules

8 rules · 1 errors · 6 warnings

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 66

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.

Alert

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

AlertInput

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

RapidAPI API Listing

19 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Api

10 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ApiCreateInput

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ApiDetails

15 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ApiEndpoint

7 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ApiSummary

10 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ApiUpdateInput

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ApiVersion

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ApiVersionUpdateInput

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Application

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ApplicationInput

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Assertion

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

AssertionInput

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

AuthenticationConfig

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

AuthenticationConfigInput

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Category

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

CategoryInput

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

CodeSnippet

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Collection

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

CollectionInput

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Definition

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Endpoint

7 properties

JSON SCHEMA

EndpointInput

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

EndpointParameter

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Environment

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

EnvironmentInput

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Execution

7 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ExecutionDetail

9 properties

JSON SCHEMA

RapidAPI Gateway Configuration

13 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Gateway

9 properties

JSON SCHEMA

GatewayAnalytics

7 properties

JSON SCHEMA

GatewayInput

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

GraphQLError

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

GraphQLRequest

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

GraphQLResponse

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

HubCategory

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

HubCollection

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

HubSubscription

8 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Location

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Organization

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

OrganizationUpdateInput

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

PricingPlan

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Project

7 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ProjectInput

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

RateLimitConfig

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

RateLimitConfigInput

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Route

8 properties

JSON SCHEMA

RouteInput

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

SavedRequest

7 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Schedule

7 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ScheduleInput

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

SecurityConfig

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

SecurityConfigInput

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

StepResult

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Subscription

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Tag

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

TagInput

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

RapidAPI Test

12 properties

JSON SCHEMA

TestCreateInput

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

TestStep

7 properties

JSON SCHEMA

TestStepInput

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

TestUpdateInput

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Transaction

7 properties

JSON SCHEMA

User

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

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JSON Structure 4

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.

Rapidapi Api Listing Structure

0 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Rapidapi Structure

0 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Rapidapi Subscription Structure

0 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Rapidapi Test Structure

0 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Examples 3

Real request and response payloads are what turn a spec from abstract into obvious — and they're one of the twelve things an agent needs to call an API correctly on the first try.

Example request and response payloads for these APIs.

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.

Rapidapi Authentication

apiKey · 2 schemes

SECURITY

Rapidapi Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC

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.

Rapidapi Agentic Access

93 operations · 48 acting

93 operations · 48 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Every other property we hold for RapidAPI — 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 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 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Company 3

The organization behind the API

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