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Walmart

Walmart is a multinational retail corporation that operates a chain of hypermarkets, discount department stores, and grocery stores. The company is known for offering a wide range of products at competitive prices, attracting customers from all walks of life. Walmart also provides various convenience services, such as pharmacy, optical, and financial services, making it a one-stop shop for many consumers. The Walmart Marketplace APIs enable third-party sellers to list and sell products, manage orders, inventory, pricing, fulfillment, and reporting on Walmart.com.

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Solid contracts, transparent operations, and an easy start — typically complete on four or five facets with one clear soft spot.

Kin Score

API Evangelist profiles Walmart the way a machine reads it — 77 machine-readable artifacts across 27 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 — Walmart scores 60.8/100 (strong), with a separate agent-readiness read of 41/100 (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. Every facet and dimension name is a link: it opens that measurement's page on APIs.io, where the rating runs across the whole catalog — the exact checks that feed it, how every profiled provider distributes on it, and who is at the top of it.

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scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0
Composite quality — 60.8/100 · strong
Contract Quality 17.9 / 25
Access Clarity 14.7 / 20
Discoverability 7.4 / 10
Walmart Kin Score — API readiness rating by API Evangelist

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How we profile Walmart

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Walmart. 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 25

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.

Walmart Assortment Recommendations API

The Assortment Recommendations API from Walmart — 3 operation(s) for assortment recommendations.

Walmart Authorization API

The Authorization API from Walmart — 2 operation(s) for authorization.

Walmart DSV Cost API

The DSV Cost API from Walmart — 1 operation(s) for dsv cost.

Walmart DSV Orders API

The DSV Orders API from Walmart — 6 operation(s) for dsv orders.

Walmart Feeds API

The Feeds API from Walmart — 3 operation(s) for feeds.

Walmart Fulfillment API

The Fulfillment API from Walmart — 21 operation(s) for fulfillment.

Walmart Insight API

The Insight API from Walmart — 7 operation(s) for insight.

Walmart Inventory API

The Inventory API from Walmart — 6 operation(s) for inventory.

Walmart Items API

The Items API from Walmart — 13 operation(s) for items.

Walmart Lag Time API

The Lag Time API from Walmart — 2 operation(s) for lag time.

Walmart Listing Quality API

The Listing Quality API from Walmart — 3 operation(s) for listing quality.

Walmart Notifications API

The Notifications API from Walmart — 4 operation(s) for notifications.

Walmart On-Request Report API

The On-Request Report API from Walmart — 3 operation(s) for on-request report.

Walmart On Request Reports API

The On Request Reports API from Walmart — 3 operation(s) for on request reports.

Walmart Orders API

The Orders API from Walmart — 7 operation(s) for orders.

Walmart Pre-Generated Reports API

The Pre-Generated Reports API from Walmart — 1 operation(s) for pre-generated reports.

Walmart Prices API

The Prices API from Walmart — 8 operation(s) for prices.

Walmart Promotions API

The Promotions API from Walmart — 3 operation(s) for promotions.

Walmart Reports API

The Reports API from Walmart — 7 operation(s) for reports.

Walmart Returns/Refunds API

The Returns/Refunds API from Walmart — 3 operation(s) for returns/refunds.

Walmart Reviews API

The Reviews API from Walmart — 3 operation(s) for reviews.

Walmart Rules API

The Rules API from Walmart — 14 operation(s) for rules.

Walmart Settings API

The Settings API from Walmart — 11 operation(s) for settings.

Walmart Ship with Walmart API

The Ship with Walmart API from Walmart — 7 operation(s) for ship with walmart.

Walmart Utilities API

The Utilities API from Walmart — 4 operation(s) for utilities.

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Open Collections 25

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 COLLECTION

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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.

Walmart Developer Portal MCP Server

Walmart runs a first-party remote MCP server on its developer portal at https://developer.walmart.com/mcp. It answers JSON-RPC over HTTP and is guarded by OAuth 2.1 (authorizati...

MCP SERVER

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.

Walmart GraphQL Schema

This conceptual GraphQL schema represents the Walmart Marketplace API surface, covering the full lifecycle of retail commerce operations available through the [Walmart Developer...

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 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.

Walmart Plans Pricing

2 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.

Walmart Rate Limits

202 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 8

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.

Remote MCP server live at https://developer.walmart.com/mcp (OAuth 2.1 + PKCE, scopes openapi_read/offline_access)
202 per-operation rate limits published, token-bucket, allotted per seller; headers x-current-token-count + X-Next-Replenishment-Time
Formal four-state API deprecation guide (Active/Legacy/Deprecated/Sunset) with published sunset dates
Dated changelog, 51 entries, roughly weekly, written at operation and property granularity
No idempotency mechanism anywhere in the surface — writes are not replay-safe
No maintained first-party SDK; both walmartlabs repos are archived (2019, 2020). Walmart directs developers to OpenAPI Generator
GS1 GTIN-14 is a first-class item identifier declared in the contract, with a GTIN Exemption API for products without one
No API metering: access follows an approved seller account; referral fees 6-15% by category, no setup or monthly fee

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Event Specifications 2

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.

Walmart Marketplace Notifications (Webhooks)

AsyncAPI 2.6 description of the Walmart Marketplace Notifications surface — also known as Walmart's seller webhooks / push notifications. Walmart POSTs a JSON payload describing...

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.

Walmart Context

6 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.

Walmart API Rules

5 rules · 3 warnings

SPECTRAL

Walmart API Rules

10 rules · 4 errors · 6 warnings

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 2

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.

Walmart Marketplace Inventory

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Walmart Marketplace Order

6 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.

Walmart Order 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.

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.

Walmart Authentication

oauth2/http · 2 schemes

SECURITY

Walmart Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Walmart Vulnerability Disclosure

Hackerone · contact published

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.

Walmart Agentic Access

171 operations · 82 acting · 2 human-in-the-loop

171 operations · 82 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Every other property we hold for Walmart — 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 4

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Company 3

The organization behind the API

Other 4

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

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Where this information came from

This is an independent, third-party profile of Walmart, published by API Evangelist. We do not operate, host, resell, or support these APIs, and we are not affiliated with or endorsed by the company unless stated above. Everything here is built from publicly available information — the company's own site, developer portal, documentation, public repositories, and the specifications it publishes for public use. Nothing is obtained by breaching a system, defeating an access control, or using credentials.

The Kin Score and Agent Readiness rating are independently calculated assessments of a company's public API artifacts, scored against a published rubric. They are not certifications, endorsements, security assessments, or audits.

Corrections, re-scores, and removal are free — no partnership or purchase required, and you do not need to justify the request. A removed company is recorded as unrated, never scored zero for having asked. Acknowledgement within one business day; removal within two.

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