Renovate
Renovate is an open source automated dependency update bot maintained by Mend. It scans repositories for references to dependencies across 100+ package managers — npm, pip, poetry, Maven, Gradle, NuGet, Go modules, Cargo, Bundler, Docker, Helm, Kubernetes, Terraform, GitHub Actions and many more — and opens pull/merge requests that update versions, lockfiles, and digests. Renovate runs as a CLI, Docker container, GitHub App, GitLab Runner, Bitbucket Cloud app, or Azure DevOps integration, supports GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, Azure DevOps, Gitea, Forgejo, AWS CodeCommit, and Gerrit, and is configured via a renovate.json file with shareable presets, packageRules, automerge, grouping, scheduling, and a Dependency Dashboard. Mend provides a free Community Cloud hosted tier for unlimited public and private repositories and a paid Enterprise Cloud tier with higher concurrency, Merge Confidence Workflows, and support.
More than an index entry, but the surface is still mostly links rather than artifacts — the cohort most likely to move a full band from modest, well-targeted work.
API Evangelist profiles Renovate the way a machine reads it — 32 machine-readable artifacts across 6 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 — Renovate scores 28.4/100 (emerging), 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
How this is scored →scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
How we profile Renovate
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Renovate. 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 6
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.
Renovate CLI
The open source Renovate CLI is a Node.js application distributed via npm and as Docker images on Docker Hub and GitHub Container Registry. It can be run locally, in CI, or as a...
Renovate Configuration
Renovate's behavior is driven by repository-level configuration files (`renovate.json`, `renovate.json5`, `.github/renovate.json`, `.gitlab/renovate.json`, `.renovaterc`, or a d...
Renovate Package Managers
Renovate ships 100+ package manager modules covering JavaScript (npm, bun, deno, nvm, nodenv), Python (poetry, pipenv, pip-compile, pep621, pyenv), Java/JVM (maven, gradle, sbt,...
Renovate Git Platforms
Renovate has pluggable platform adapters for GitHub (cloud and Enterprise Server), GitLab (SaaS and CE/EE), Bitbucket Cloud, Bitbucket Data Center / Server, Azure DevOps, Gitea,...
Mend Hosted Renovate
Mend operates a hosted Renovate service that runs Renovate as a GitHub App, Bitbucket Cloud app, and Azure DevOps integration on Mend infrastructure. A generous Community Cloud ...
Renovate Merge Confidence
Merge Confidence is a Mend-operated data service that classifies each candidate update (Low / Neutral / High / Very High) using package age, adoption, test pass rates, and known...
Features 24
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.
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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.
Resources
Every other property we hold for Renovate — 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 3
Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call
Documentation 19
Reference material describing how the API behaves
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Build 9
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
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Access & Security 3
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Operate 5
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Commercial 4
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 3
The organization behind the API
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