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Red Hat 3scale

Red Hat 3scale API Management is an enterprise-grade API management platform that enables organizations to share, secure, distribute, control, and monetize APIs across internal and external teams. It provides a developer portal, analytics, access control, policy enforcement, and billing for REST, SOAP, GraphQL, and other API types. 3scale runs on-premises via OpenShift or as a hosted managed service, and is fully Kubernetes-native.

agent ready

Solid contracts, transparent operations, and an easy start — typically complete on four or five facets with one clear soft spot.

Kin Score

API Evangelist profiles Red Hat 3scale the way a machine reads it — 67 machine-readable artifacts across 15 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 — Red Hat 3scale scores 62.3/100 (strong), 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 — 62.3/100 · strong
Contract Quality 16.5 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 9.1 / 20
Commercial Clarity 10.0 / 20
Operational Transparency 7.5 / 13
Governance 10.4 / 12
Discoverability 8.8 / 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 Red Hat 3scale

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Red Hat 3scale. 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 15

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.

Red Hat 3scale Webhooks

3scale Webhooks allow API providers to receive real-time HTTP callbacks about account, application, user, and plan events within the 3scale platform. Webhooks can be configured ...

Red Hat 3scale Toolbox CLI

The 3scale Toolbox is a command-line interface for automating 3scale configuration tasks. It wraps the 3scale Admin REST API to support copying APIs between tenants, promoting c...

Red Hat 3scale Accounts API

Manage developer accounts in the 3scale developer portal

Red Hat 3scale Applications API

Manage applications and their API keys and credentials

Red Hat 3scale Authorization API

Authorize API calls and check access permissions

Red Hat 3scale Configuration API

Retrieve and update APIcast gateway configuration

Red Hat 3scale DNS API

Inspect and manage DNS cache state

Red Hat 3scale Health API

Health check and liveness/readiness probes

Red Hat 3scale Initialization API

Bootstrap and initialization endpoints

Red Hat 3scale Invoices API

Manage billing invoices for developer accounts

Red Hat 3scale OAuth API

OAuth 2.0 token authorization endpoints

Red Hat 3scale Payment Transactions API

View payment transactions associated with invoices

Red Hat 3scale Plans API

Manage application plans and their features and limits

Red Hat 3scale Reporting API

Report API usage back to 3scale for analytics and rate limiting

Red Hat 3scale Services API

Manage API services and their settings

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Open Collections 5

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).

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.

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.

Red Hat 3Scale 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.

Red Hat 3Scale Context

3 classes · 20 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.

Red Hat 3scale API Rules

5 rules · 4 warnings

SPECTRAL

Red Hat 3scale API Rules

12 rules · 3 errors · 7 warnings

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 31

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.

Red Hat 3scale Account

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

AccountList

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Red Hat 3scale Application

9 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ApplicationList

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ApplicationPlan

7 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ApplicationPlanList

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

AuthorizeErrorResponse

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

AuthorizeResponse

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

BootResponse

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

CreateAccountRequest

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

CreateApplicationRequest

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

DnsCacheResponse

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

GatewayConfig

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Invoice

11 properties

JSON SCHEMA

InvoiceLineItem

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

InvoiceList

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

LivenessStatus

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

OAuthAuthorizeResponse

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

PaymentTransaction

8 properties

JSON SCHEMA

PaymentTransactionList

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ReadinessStatus

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ReportRequest

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Service

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ServiceList

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

StatusInfo

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

TopApplication

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

TopApplicationsList

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

UpdateAccountRequest

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

UpdateApplicationRequest

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

UsageReport

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

UsageStats

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

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JSON Structure 2

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.

Red Hat 3Scale Account Structure

0 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Red Hat 3Scale 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 3

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.

Red Hat 3Scale Authentication

apiKey · 2 schemes

SECURITY

Red Hat 3Scale Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Red Hat 3Scale Vulnerability Disclosure

security.txt · contact published

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.

Red Hat 3Scale Agentic Access

32 operations · 10 acting

32 operations · 10 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Every other property we hold for Red Hat 3scale — 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

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Operate 3

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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