Tekion
Tekion is a cloud-native, AI-native automotive retail platform whose flagship Automotive Retail Cloud (ARC) is a modern dealer management system (DMS) spanning sales, service, parts, inventory, F&I, accounting, and CRM for franchise dealerships and OEMs. Tekion exposes its data and workflows to technology partners through the Automotive Partner Cloud (APC) - an open, OpenAPI-standard partner API program with REST APIs and webhooks that give approved partners near real-time access to a dealership's sales, service, inventory, and parts data. APC is partner-gated: developers register at the APC portal, submit a use case, and are reviewed (typically within ~48 hours) before the API documentation dashboard, credentials, and endpoints are unlocked. Access is tiered (Standard, Enterprise/Elevated, Premium/Strategic) with different API scopes, rate limits, and read/write capabilities. Because the technical reference is behind partner authentication, the APIs below are honestly modeled by data domain rather than transcribed from a public spec.
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 Tekion the way a machine reads it — 11 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 — Tekion scores 29.7/100 (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 Tekion
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Tekion. 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.
Tekion Sales and Deals API
Near real-time access to a dealership's sales and deal data - deal jackets, desking, F&I products, and sold-vehicle records - through the Automotive Partner Cloud. Concrete path...
Tekion Inventory API
Access to new and used vehicle inventory - stock, VIN-level detail, pricing, and availability - exposed to approved partners via APC standard open APIs and webhooks. Exact endpo...
Tekion Service API
Fixed-operations and service data - repair orders, service appointments, labor operations, and status updates - available to approved partners through APC APIs and webhooks for ...
Tekion Parts API
Parts inventory, catalog lookup, pricing, and ordering data (including electronic parts catalog / EPC integration) exposed to approved partners via APC. Concrete endpoints are p...
Tekion Customers API
Customer and CRM records - contact, ownership, and relationship data tied to sales and service activity - made available to approved partners through APC, subject to the dealer'...
Tekion Webhooks
Server-to-endpoint webhooks that keep partner systems in sync as dealership data changes across sales, service, inventory, and parts. Webhooks POST event payloads to a partner-r...
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.
Tekion Plans Pricing
PLANSRate 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.
Tekion Rate Limits
RATE LIMITSFinOps 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.
Tekion Finops
FINOPSSecurity 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 Tekion — 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 1
Reference material describing how the API behaves
Access & Security 2
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Operate 1
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Commercial 2
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 2
The organization behind the API
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