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Zitadel

Zitadel is an open source identity infrastructure platform providing secure authentication and user management with built-in support for OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, SAML 2.0, SCIM, FIDO2, and passkeys. It offers multi-tenancy, fine-grained authorization, and a comprehensive management API for building and operating identity-first applications. Available as cloud-hosted and self-hosted deployments.

agent ready

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 Zitadel the way a machine reads it — 86 machine-readable artifacts across 11 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 — Zitadel scores 61.4/100 (strong), 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 — 61.4/100 · strong
Contract Quality 18.9 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 5.7 / 20
Commercial Clarity 14.2 / 20
Operational Transparency 3.4 / 13
Governance 10.4 / 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 Zitadel

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

Zitadel Auth API

The Zitadel Auth API provides endpoints for authenticated users to perform operations on their own accounts, including profile management, session handling, MFA setup, and perso...

Zitadel Admin API

The Zitadel Admin API provides instance-level configuration for Zitadel administrators. Used to configure instance-wide settings, default policies, SMTP, SMS providers, and mana...

Zitadel OIDC / OAuth 2.0

Zitadel implements the OpenID Connect and OAuth 2.0 standards for authentication and authorization flows. Provides authorization code flow, client credentials, device code, toke...

Zitadel SAML API

Zitadel provides SAML 2.0 single sign-on support, enabling enterprises to integrate with Zitadel using SAML identity federation. Accessible at /saml/v2/.

Zitadel Applications API

Manage OIDC, SAML, and API applications

Zitadel Identity Providers API

Manage external identity provider configurations

Zitadel Organizations API

Manage organizations and organizational domains

Zitadel Policies API

Manage login, password, and notification policies

Zitadel Projects API

Manage projects and project grants

Zitadel Roles API

Manage project roles and role grants

Zitadel Users API

Manage human and machine users

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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).

Zitadel Management API

OPEN COLLECTION

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.

Zitadel Plans Pricing

3 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.

Zitadel Rate Limits

2 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 7

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.

Multi-Tenancy

Native multi-tenant architecture with organizations and projects.

OAuth 2.0 / OIDC

Standards-compliant OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect support.

SAML 2.0

Enterprise SAML 2.0 single sign-on for identity federation.

SCIM

SCIM-based user provisioning from upstream identity providers.

FIDO2 / Passkeys

Passwordless authentication with FIDO2 and passkeys.

MFA

Multi-factor authentication including TOTP, U2F, and FIDO2.

Self-Hosted or Cloud

Deploy as a managed cloud service or self-hosted on Kubernetes.

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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.

Zitadel Context

6 classes · 15 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.

Zitadel API Rules

5 rules · 3 warnings

SPECTRAL

Zitadel API Rules

7 rules · 3 errors · 4 warnings

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 37

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.

Application

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

AppResponse

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

CreateApiAppRequest

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

CreateHumanUserRequest

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

CreateMachineUserRequest

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

CreateOidcAppRequest

11 properties

JSON SCHEMA

CreateProjectRequest

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

CreateUserResponse

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Error

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

HumanEmail

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

HumanPhone

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

HumanProfile

7 properties

JSON SCHEMA

HumanUser

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ListDetails

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ListOrgsRequest

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ListOrgsResponse

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ListProjectsResponse

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ListQuery

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ListUsersRequest

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ListUsersResponse

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

LoginPolicy

13 properties

JSON SCHEMA

MachineUser

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Application

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

HumanUser

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

MachineUser

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ObjectDetails

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Organization

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Project

7 properties

JSON SCHEMA

User

8 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Membership

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ObjectDetails

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Organization

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

OrgResponse

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Project

8 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ProjectResponse

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

User

7 properties

JSON SCHEMA

UserResponse

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

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JSON Structure 7

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.

Zitadel Management Application Structure

4 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Zitadel Management Human User Structure

3 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Zitadel Management Machine User Structure

3 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Zitadel Management Organization Structure

4 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Zitadel Management Project Structure

6 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Zitadel Management User Structure

7 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Zitadel Structure

0 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

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Examples 4

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.

Zitadel Authentication

http · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Zitadel Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC

SECURITY

Zitadel 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.

Zitadel Agentic Access

32 operations · 26 acting

32 operations · 26 acting

AGENTIC

Use Cases 4

What developers actually build with this provider — captured so the catalogue answers 'what is this for', not just 'what does this expose'.

What developers build with this provider.

Customer Identity

B2C identity for customer-facing applications and portals.

Workforce Identity

B2B/B2E identity for employees, contractors, and partners.

Machine Identity

Service account identity and OAuth client credentials flow.

SaaS Multi-Tenancy

Tenant-isolated identity for multi-tenant SaaS applications.

Integrations 5

Pre-built integrations with other platforms tell you where this provider already fits in a stack.

Pre-built integrations with other platforms and tools.

Terraform

Terraform provider for declarative Zitadel resource management.

Kubernetes

Helm charts for Zitadel deployment on Kubernetes.

Google Login

External identity provider integration with Google.

GitHub Login

External identity provider integration with GitHub.

SAML IdPs

Federation with SAML identity providers.

Resources

Every other property we hold for Zitadel — 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 1

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

Design & Contract 3

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Build 5

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Company 3

The organization behind the API

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