The Trade Desk
The Trade Desk is an independent, omnichannel demand-side platform (DSP) for programmatic advertising, headquartered in Ventura, California. Its cloud-based platform — Kokai (the current flagship, succeeding Solimar) — lets agencies, brands, and trading desks buy and optimize digital ad inventory across connected TV (CTV), audio, mobile, video, native, display, and digital out-of-home. The Trade Desk positions itself as the buy-side counterweight to the walled gardens by championing the open internet through OpenPath (direct publisher integrations that bypass SSPs) and Unified ID 2.0 (UID2), an open-source, deterministic identity framework governed by the IAB Tech Lab. The company also stewards EUID (UID2's European equivalent), the Galileo first-party data activation framework, and Koa — its in-platform AI used for forecasting, bidding optimization, and audience modeling. Programmatic developers integrate via the TTD Workflows API (REST + GraphQL for campaign, ad group, and creative management), the Data API (advertiser/third-party data ingestion, offline conversions, deletion/opt-out), the Real-Time Conversion Events API (RTCE), and the OpenSincera data-quality APIs (acquired May 2024). Official SDKs are published in Python, Go, and Java and are Speakeasy-generated from OpenAPI specs. Most documentation lives behind the Partner Portal (partner.thetradedesk.com) but a public docs surface is exposed at open.thetradedesk.com. The Trade Desk is publicly traded (NASDAQ: TTD).
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.
API Evangelist profiles The Trade Desk the way a machine reads it — 28 machine-readable artifacts across 2 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 — The Trade Desk scores 53.0/100 (developing), with a separate agent-readiness read of 43/100 (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
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Kin Score
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How we profile The Trade Desk
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for The Trade Desk. 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 11
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.
The Trade Desk Platform API
The original REST Platform API covering advertisers, campaigns, ad groups, creatives, targeting data, reporting, and audience operations. Documentation is gated behind the TTD P...
The Trade Desk Real-Time Conversion Events API
Server-side and client-side conversion event ingestion (Apache 2.0 Google Tag Manager templates) for capturing high-fidelity attribution signals in a cookie-deprecated environme...
Unified ID 2.0 (UID2)
Unified ID 2.0 is an open-source, deterministic identity framework seeded by The Trade Desk and now governed by the IAB Tech Lab. UID2 resolves hashed email addresses and phone ...
OpenSincera API
OpenSincera (from the May 2024 Sincera acquisition) provides programmatic supply-side transparency data — ad slot quality, page attributes, viewability metadata, supply-path met...
The Trade Desk Advertiser API
The Advertiser API from The Trade Desk — 1 operation(s) for advertiser.
The Trade Desk DeletionOptOut API
The DeletionOptOut API from The Trade Desk — 3 operation(s) for deletionoptout.
The Trade Desk OfflineConversion API
The OfflineConversion API from The Trade Desk — 1 operation(s) for offlineconversion.
The Trade Desk ThirdParty API
The ThirdParty API from The Trade Desk — 1 operation(s) for thirdparty.
The Trade Desk IPAddress Data API
IP-address ingestion endpoints of the TTD Data API — upload first-party or third-party IP-address-based targeting data for use in audience targeting. Discovered 2026-08-13 in th...
The Trade Desk Real-Time Conversions API
The Trade Desk Real-Time Conversions API (formerly the Real-Time Conversion Events API) allows advertisers to send conversion events server-side in real time, enabling more accu...
The Trade Desk Reporting API
The Trade Desk Reporting API provides programmatic access to campaign performance data including impressions, clicks, conversions, spend, win rates, viewability, effective CPM, ...
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Open Collections 7
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).
API Collection
OPEN COLLECTIONTTD Data Advertiser API
OPEN COLLECTIONTTD Data API
OPEN COLLECTIONTTD Data Advertiser DeletionOptOut API
OPEN COLLECTIONTTD Data IPAddress API
OPEN COLLECTIONTTD Data Advertiser OfflineConversion API
OPEN COLLECTIONTTD Data Advertiser ThirdParty API
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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.
Open Agentic Kit (OAK)
The Trade Desk's MCP-based access to Koa Agents, announced in the Platform API release notes on 2026-08-10 and available to select partners in private beta. Rather than exposing...
MCP SERVERGraphQL 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 things the Kin Score reads for access clarity — renamed from commercial clarity in rubric 0.12, because a free statutory interface has access terms and no commercial ones.
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.
Trade Desk Rate Limits
RATE LIMITSSecurity 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.
Trade Desk Trust Center
SSAE18 SOC 2 Type 2, SSAE18 SOC 1, Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) Section 404, PCI DSS SAQ A (self-attestation)
SECURITYScopes 1
OAuth scopes are the vocabulary of least-privilege access. Profiling them shows exactly what an integration — or an agent acting on a user's behalf — is allowed to do.
OAuth scopes governing access to this provider's APIs.
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.
Resources
Every other property we hold for The Trade Desk — 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 5
Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call
Documentation 5
Reference material describing how the API behaves
Agent Surfaces 5
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Design & Contract 7
Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events
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Build 11
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
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Access & Security 7
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
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Learn 1
Tutorials, courses, talks, and written guidance
Operate 6
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Commercial 3
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 9
The organization behind the API
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Other 7
Properties that don't map to a standard resource type
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