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Redocly

Redocly is a company that specializes in API documentation and governance tooling. Their platform helps organizations create, manage, and publish API documentation through Realm (the integrated lifecycle platform that unifies Redoc, Revel, and Reef), Reunite (Git-connected collaboration and deployment for docs/APIs), Revel (developer portal), Reef (internal API catalog and scorecard), and Redoc (open-source OpenAPI renderer). The Redocly CLI provides linting, bundling, splitting, decoration, and documentation generation for OpenAPI, AsyncAPI, and Arazzo specifications. Respect Monitoring adds continuous, Arazzo-powered API monitoring, and the Enterprise tier exposes MCP Servers and AI search for Realm portals — positioning Redocly's catalog as an AI substrate for agentic software.

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 Redocly the way a machine reads it — 21 machine-readable artifacts across 8 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 — Redocly scores 57.4/100 (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 — 57.4/100 · developing
Contract Quality 7.1 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 5.7 / 20
Commercial Clarity 16.8 / 20
Operational Transparency 10.3 / 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 Redocly

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Redocly. 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 8

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.

Redocly Realm

Redocly Realm is the comprehensive API lifecycle management platform that unifies Redoc, Revel, and Reef into a single integrated product. Realm includes API documentation, mock...

Redocly Reunite

Redocly Reunite is the Git-connected collaboration and deployment surface for Realm. It prepares, deploys, and hosts documentation projects and mock servers and ships a content ...

Redocly Revel

Redocly Revel is the external developer hub product. It renders Markdown, Markdoc, and React pages with multi-product and localization capabilities, enabling organizations to cr...

Redocly Reef

Redocly Reef is the internal API platform — a service catalog and governance product that organizes, aids discovery, and monitors APIs throughout their lifecycle. Reef includes ...

Redocly Redoc

Redoc is the open-source engine that renders API reference documentation from OpenAPI definitions with a three-panel layout known for clarity and usability. Supports OpenAPI 3.2...

Redocly CLI

Redocly CLI is an open-source command-line tool for working with OpenAPI descriptions, developer portals, and other API lifecycle operations. Supports linting, validation, bundl...

Redocly Respect Monitoring

Respect Monitoring is Redocly's continuous, API-aware monitoring product powered by OpenAPI Arazzo workflows. Rather than uptime checking, it validates that API responses confor...

Arazzo Specification (Redocly Tooling)

Arazzo is the OpenAPI Initiative's specification for describing multi-step API workflows; Redocly is a primary tooling vendor with first-class Arazzo support across Redocly CLI ...

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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.

Redocly Plans Pricing

13 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.

Redocly Rate Limits

7 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.

Redocly Context

0 classes · 4 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.

Redocly API Rules

5 rules · 4 warnings

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 2

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.

Redocly Configuration

7 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Redocly Lint Result

3 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.

Redocly Config Structure

0 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Redocly Lint Result 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 1

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.

Redocly Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC

SECURITY

Resources

Every other property we hold for Redocly — 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 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Build 2

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

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