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Strapi

Strapi is an open-source, headless CMS built with Node.js that gives developers full control over their content API. It provides a customizable admin panel for content management, automatically generates REST and GraphQL APIs for every content-type, and supports flexible database options including SQLite, PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MongoDB. Strapi v5 introduces a Document Service API with flattened response format, improved TypeScript support, and an enhanced content delivery API for building fast, decoupled frontends.

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 Strapi the way a machine reads it — 37 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 — Strapi scores 58.2/100 (developing), with a separate agent-readiness read of 54/100 (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 — 58.2/100 · developing
Contract Quality 18.7 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 4.3 / 20
Commercial Clarity 11.6 / 20
Operational Transparency 7.5 / 13
Governance 7.3 / 12
Discoverability 8.8 / 10
Agent readiness — 54/100 · 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 6 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

How we profile Strapi

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

Strapi Webhooks

Strapi includes a built-in webhook system that notifies external services whenever content entries or media assets are created, updated, deleted, published, or unpublished. Webh...

Strapi Admin Authentication API

Authentication endpoints for administrator accounts used to access the Strapi admin panel.

Strapi Admin Roles API

Endpoints for managing administrator roles (Super Admin, Editor, Author) and their associated permissions.

Strapi Admin Users API

Endpoints for managing administrator user accounts that have access to the Strapi admin panel.

Strapi API Tokens API

Endpoints for managing API tokens used to authenticate REST and GraphQL API requests.

Strapi Authentication API

Endpoints for user authentication including login, registration, and password management using JWT tokens.

Strapi Content Entries API

CRUD operations on content-type entries. Strapi auto-generates these endpoints for each content-type defined in the application.

Strapi Content Manager API

Endpoints for managing content entries through the admin panel Content Manager interface.

Strapi Content Types API

Endpoints for managing content-type definitions through the Content-Type Builder.

Strapi Permissions API

Endpoints for viewing and configuring permissions assigned to roles.

Strapi Roles API

Endpoints for managing user roles and their associated permissions.

Strapi Transfer Tokens API

Endpoints for managing transfer tokens used for data transfer operations between Strapi instances.

Strapi Upload API

File upload and media library management endpoints powered by the Upload plugin.

Strapi Users API

Endpoints for managing end-user accounts and profiles.

Strapi Webhooks API

Endpoints for managing webhook configurations from the admin panel.

Scroll within the panel for all 15 ·

Open Collections 3

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).

Strapi Admin Panel API

OPEN COLLECTION

Strapi REST 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.

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.

Strapi Plans Pricing

3 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.

Strapi Rate Limits

5 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.

Event Specifications 1

Not every API is request/response. AsyncAPI describes the event-driven and streaming side — the webhooks and channels — so the asynchronous half of the interface is documented the same way the synchronous half is.

AsyncAPI definitions for this provider's event-driven and streaming APIs.

Strapi Webhooks

Strapi includes a built-in webhook system that notifies external services whenever certain events occur in the CMS. Rather than polling the Strapi API for changes, you can confi...

ASYNCAPI

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.

Strapi Context

0 classes · 8 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 3

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.

Strapi API Rules

5 rules · 1 errors · 3 warnings

SPECTRAL

Strapi API Rules

6 rules · 4 warnings

SPECTRAL

Strapi API Rules

10 rules · 1 errors · 5 warnings

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 1

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.

Strapi Content Entry

7 properties

JSON SCHEMA

JSON Structure 1

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.

Strapi Content Entry Structure

0 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Examples 4

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.

Strapi Authentication

apiKey/http · 2 schemes

SECURITY

Strapi Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Strapi Trust Center

SOC 2, GDPR

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.

Strapi Agentic Access

58 operations · 34 acting · 4 human-in-the-loop

58 operations · 34 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Every other property we hold for Strapi — 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.

Agent Surfaces 2

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Design & Contract 1

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Access & Security 3

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Operate 4

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Commercial 1

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Company 3

The organization behind the API

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