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Supabase

Supabase is an open-source Firebase alternative that provides a suite of backend services built on top of PostgreSQL. It offers a managed PostgreSQL database with auto-generated REST and GraphQL APIs via PostgREST, real-time data subscriptions via WebSockets, user authentication with JWT (GoTrue), file storage with S3-compatible object storage, edge compute via globally distributed TypeScript functions on the Deno runtime, and a management API for programmatic control of projects and organizations. Supabase is available as a fully managed cloud service (app.supabase.com) and as a self-hosted open-source deployment.

agent native

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 Supabase the way a machine reads it — 64 machine-readable artifacts across 21 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 — Supabase scores 59.0/100 (developing), with a separate agent-readiness read of 70/100 (agent native). 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 — 59.0/100 · developing
Contract Quality 18.6 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 7.0 / 20
Commercial Clarity 11.6 / 20
Operational Transparency 6.8 / 13
Governance 6.3 / 12
Discoverability 8.8 / 10
Agent readiness — 70/100 · agent native
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 15 / 15
MCP Server 12 / 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 5 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

How we profile Supabase

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Supabase. 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 21

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.

Supabase Realtime API

The Supabase Realtime API provides WebSocket-based subscriptions for real-time data changes from PostgreSQL databases. It supports three channel types: database change events (I...

Supabase Admin API

Administrative endpoints for managing users. Requires service_role key.

Supabase Authentication API

User signup, signin, and token management endpoints.

Supabase Buckets API

Manage storage buckets that organize files and folders. Buckets can be public or private and have configurable file size limits and allowed MIME types.

Supabase Configuration API

Server configuration and settings endpoints.

Supabase Database API

Manage database configurations, migrations, and extensions.

Supabase Domains API

Configure custom domains and vanity subdomains for projects.

Supabase Functions API

Deploy and manage Edge Functions for serverless compute at the edge.

Supabase Invocation API

Invoke deployed Edge Functions via HTTP requests. Each function is accessible at its own URL path based on its slug.

Supabase MFA API

Multi-factor authentication enrollment and verification endpoints.

Supabase Network API

Manage network restrictions, bans, and SSL enforcement.

Supabase OAuth API

OAuth social login provider endpoints.

Supabase Objects API

Upload, download, move, copy, and delete files within storage buckets.

Supabase Organizations API

Manage organizations including membership, billing, and settings.

Supabase Projects API

Manage Supabase projects including creation, configuration, pausing, restoring, and deletion.

Supabase Rendering API

Serve and transform stored files including image resizing and format conversion.

Supabase RPC API

Invoke PostgreSQL functions via remote procedure calls.

Supabase Secrets API

Manage project secrets used by Edge Functions and other services.

Supabase SSO API

SAML-based single sign-on endpoints.

Supabase Tables API

CRUD operations on database tables. Paths are auto-generated based on your database schema.

Supabase User Management API

Endpoints for managing the currently authenticated user profile.

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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).

Supabase Auth API

OPEN COLLECTION

Supabase Management API

OPEN COLLECTION

Supabase Storage API

OPEN COLLECTION

MCP Servers 1

Model Context Protocol servers expose these APIs directly to AI agents. We profile them because agent-native access is the fastest-growing way this provider's capabilities actually get used.

Model Context Protocol servers that expose these APIs to AI agents.

MCP Server

MCP SERVER

Agent Skills 2

An agent skill packages the how-to for driving these APIs from an assistant — the prompts, the sequence, the guardrails — so the knowledge to use the API travels with it.

Packaged agent skills for driving this provider's APIs from an AI assistant.

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.

Supabase Rate Limits

8 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.

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.

Hosted Postgres (1 GB Free, 8 GB Pro included)
PostgREST auto-generated REST API over your schema
Realtime API for Postgres replication and presence
Auth (email/password, OAuth, magic links, SAML SSO)
Storage (S3-compatible object store with policies)
Edge Functions (Deno-based, 500k free invocations)
Vector embeddings via pgvector
Free tier: 2 projects, auto-pause after 7 days
Pro at $25/mo + usage (8GB DB, 100GB storage, 100k MAU)
Team at $599/mo with SOC 2, SSO, 14-day backups
Enterprise with HIPAA, BAA, dedicated infra
Storage overage $0.021/GB; egress $0.09/GB; MAU $0.00325 each
Extra micro compute add-on at $10/month
Auth signup rate limits: 30/hr Free, 150/hr Pro
Realtime: 200 concurrent (Free), 500 (Pro)
Read replicas, branching, and Vault add-ons

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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.

Supabase Realtime API

The Supabase Realtime API enables real-time communication over WebSocket connections using the Phoenix Channel protocol (v2). It supports three main features: Postgres Changes f...

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.

Supabase Context

0 classes · 9 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.

Supabase API Rules

7 rules · 1 errors · 6 warnings

SPECTRAL

Supabase API Rules

6 rules · 5 warnings

SPECTRAL

Supabase API Rules

11 rules · 1 errors · 8 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.

Supabase Project

12 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.

Supabase Project 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 4

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.

Supabase Authentication

apiKey/http · 2 schemes

SECURITY

Supabase Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Supabase Vulnerability Disclosure

Hackerone · security.txt · contact published

SECURITY

Supabase Trust Center

SOC 2, ISO 27001, PCI DSS, HIPAA, 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.

Supabase Agentic Access

78 operations · 49 acting

78 operations · 49 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Every other property we hold for Supabase — 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 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Agent Surfaces 3

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Operate 2

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

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

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