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Redis

Redis is an open source, in-memory data structure store used as a database, cache, message broker, and streaming engine. It supports strings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, streams, JSON, and more. Redis is used by millions of developers for caching, session management, leaderboards, pub/sub messaging, real-time analytics, and event streaming. The Redis project is governed by the Redis Community and maintained by Redis Inc.

human only

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 Redis the way a machine reads it — 36 machine-readable artifacts across 4 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 — Redis scores 49.5/100 (developing), with a separate agent-readiness read of 7/100 (human only). 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 — 49.5/100 · developing
Contract Quality 7.1 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 4.3 / 20
Commercial Clarity 13.7 / 20
Operational Transparency 6.8 / 13
Governance 8.8 / 12
Discoverability 8.8 / 10
Agent readiness — 7/100 · human only
Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 0 / 15
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 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 Redis

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Redis. 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 4

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.

Redis Core

Core Redis commands and data structure operations. Redis supports strings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, streams, and more. The primary interface is the Redis Serialization ...

Redis Cloud API

The Redis Cloud REST API for managing subscriptions, databases, cloud accounts, access control, and logs on the Redis Cloud platform. Available at api.redislabs.com/v1 with API ...

Redis Enterprise API

REST API for managing Redis Enterprise Software clusters. Provides endpoints for cluster configuration, database creation and management, user access control, and monitoring. Av...

Redis Insight

Redis Insight is a free GUI management tool for Redis. Provides database browsing, query execution, memory analysis, slow log inspection, and Redis Streams visualization. Availa...

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.

Redis Plans Pricing

4 plans

PLANS

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.

Redis Rate Limits

4 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.

Redis Finops

FINOPS

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.

Free: 30 MB shared cloud DB
Essentials from $0.007/hr ($5/mo min): 250 MB-100 GB DB, SSO/RBAC
Pro from $0.014/hr ($200/mo min): dedicated, multi-region active-active
Enterprise: self-managed Redis Enterprise Software, hybrid, on-prem
Multi-cloud: AWS, GCP, Azure
Cloud API for cluster management at 60 req/min
Redis Stack modules: RediSearch, RedisJSON, RedisGraph, RedisTimeSeries, RedisBloom
Vector similarity search (RediSearch)
Redis Flex (RAM:Flash ratio for cost reduction)
Auto-tiering for hot/cold data
Active-active geo-distribution (Pro)
Up to 99.999% uptime (Pro)
Encryption in transit and at rest (Essentials+)
Private connectivity (Pro)
OAuth + API keys
Open-source self-managed Redis OSS alternative

Scroll within the panel for all 16 ·

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.

Redis Context

0 classes · 3 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 1

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.

Redis API Rules

5 rules · 4 warnings

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 3

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.

Redis Command

8 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Redis Key-Value Entry

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Redis Server Info

19 properties

JSON SCHEMA

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.

Redis Key Value Structure

0 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Redis Server Info 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.

Redis Hash Example

2 fields

EXAMPLE

Redis Set Get Example

2 fields

EXAMPLE

Redis Sorted Set Example

2 fields

EXAMPLE

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.

Redis Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Redis Vulnerability Disclosure

Hackerone · security.txt · contact published

SECURITY

Redis Trust Center

SOC 2, ISO 27001, ISO 27017, ISO 27018, PCI DSS, HIPAA, GDPR, CSA STAR

SECURITY

Resources

Every other property we hold for Redis — 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 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Build 3

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Access & Security 3

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Learn 1

Tutorials, courses, talks, and written guidance

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

Other 2

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

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