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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.

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 Walmart the way a machine reads it — 44 machine-readable artifacts across 25 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 52.4/100 (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 — 52.4/100 · developing
Contract Quality 14.3 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 7.8 / 20
Commercial Clarity 7.9 / 20
Operational Transparency 5.5 / 13
Governance 8.8 / 12
Discoverability 8.0 / 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 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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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 six things the Kin Score reads for commercial clarity.

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Walmart 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.

Walmart 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.

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.

Walmart: API access via partner / B2B contracts only
No public API pricing published — contact enterprise sales
Walmart Marketplace APIs require Marketplace seller approval; commission rates 6-15% by category.

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

http · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Walmart Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Walmart Vulnerability Disclosure

security.txt · 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.

Get Started 2

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Operate 3

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Commercial 1

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Company 1

The organization behind the API

Other 2

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

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