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UPS

UPS, or United Parcel Service, is a Fortune 500 global logistics company that specializes in package delivery and supply chain management services. UPS provides a comprehensive REST API platform with OAuth 2.0 authentication covering shipping, tracking, rating, address validation, pickup scheduling, paperless international documents, and time-in-transit estimation.

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 UPS the way a machine reads it — 49 machine-readable artifacts across 8 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 — UPS scores 49.0/100 (developing), with a separate agent-readiness read of 48/100 (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 — 49.0/100 · developing
Contract Quality 16.8 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 6.1 / 20
Commercial Clarity 5.8 / 20
Operational Transparency 2.7 / 13
Governance 8.8 / 12
Discoverability 8.8 / 10
Agent readiness — 48/100 · 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 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

How we profile UPS

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for UPS. 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 8

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.

UPS Address Validation API

Address validation and standardization

UPS OAuth API

OAuth 2.0 token management

UPS Paperless Documents API

International paperless document management

UPS Pickup API

Pickup scheduling and management

UPS Rating API

Shipping rates and service comparison

UPS Shipping API

Shipment creation and label generation

UPS Time In Transit API

Transit time and service schedules

UPS Tracking API

Package tracking and status

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Open Collections 1

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).

UPS Shipping 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.

UPS GraphQL Schema

This GraphQL schema represents the UPS Developer Kit REST API surface — covering shipping, tracking, rating, address validation, pickup scheduling, and related logistics operati...

GRAPHQL

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.

Ups Plans Pricing

1 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.

Ups Rate Limits

1 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.

Ups Finops

FINOPS

Features 3

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.

UPS: API access via partner / B2B contracts only
No public API pricing published — contact enterprise sales
UPS Developer Kit APIs (Shipping, Tracking, Rating, Address Validation) require account; shipping rates per package/zone.

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.

Ups Context

4 classes · 17 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 2

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.

UPS API Rules

5 rules · 3 warnings

SPECTRAL

UPS API Rules

6 rules · 3 warnings

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 22

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.

Address

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

AddressValidationRequest

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

AddressValidationResponse

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

CancelPickupResponse

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ErrorResponse

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

OAuthTokenResponse

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

PackageInfo

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

PaperlessDocumentRequest

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

PaperlessDocumentResponse

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

PickupRequest

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

PickupResponse

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

RateRequest

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

RateResponse

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ServiceCode

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

UPS Shipment

7 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ShipmentRequest

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ShipmentResponse

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ShipperInfo

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

TimeInTransitRequest

13 properties

JSON SCHEMA

TimeInTransitResponse

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

TrackResponse

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

VoidResponse

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

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JSON Structure 2

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.

Ups Shipment Structure

0 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Ups Structure

0 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Examples 2

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.

Ups Shop Rates Example

2 fields

EXAMPLE

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.

Ups Authentication

http/oauth2 · 2 schemes

SECURITY

Ups Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC

SECURITY

Scopes 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.

Ups Scopes

OAuth 2.0 · no documented scopes

0 scopes

SCOPES

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.

Ups Agentic Access

11 operations · 10 acting

11 operations · 10 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Every other property we hold for UPS — 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

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Access & Security 3

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

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