# Accela

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/accela/  
**Website:** https://www.accela.com/  
**APIs profiled:** 15

Accela is a San Ramon, California govtech company whose cloud Civic Platform runs permitting, planning, licensing, code enforcement, inspections, asset management and citizen service requests for state and local government agencies worldwide. Its public developer surface is the Accela Construct API (V4) — a 417-operation REST API served from apis.accela.com and documented as fifteen Swagger 2.0 documents on the Accela Developer Portal, covering records, inspections, contacts and professionals, addresses/parcels/owners, assets and assessments, documents, payments and shopping carts, reports, search, citizens, CivicID and platform settings. Access is OAuth 2.0 against auth.accela.com with agency- and environment-scoped tokens, and every request is bound to a specific government tenant through the x-accela-agency and x-accela-environment headers.

## Kin Score — 58.1 / 100 (strong)

Scored 2026-09-06 under rubric 0.19.0.

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 81.5 |
| Contract Quality | 48.9 |
| Governance | 18.2 |
| Contract Governance | 18.2 |
| Operational Transparency | 18.4 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 73.2 |
| Commercial Clarity | 42.1 |
| Access Clarity | 42.1 |

Regulatory layer — **Government & Public Sector**: 88.9 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 34.6 (agent-ready)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | documented |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | served |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | documented |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | derived |
| Well Known Catalog | yes |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |
| Delegated Identity | no |
| Protected Resource Metadata | no |
| Dynamic Client Registration | yes |
| Agentic Commerce | no |

## APIs (3)

- **Accela Construct API (V4)** — The public REST API to the Accela Civic Platform. 417 operations across fifteen published Swagger 2.0 documents cover transactional records, inspections and checklists, contacts...
- **Accela Authentication API (OAuth 2.0)** — The Construct authorization server. Three operations — POST /oauth2/authorize (authorization code), POST /oauth2/token (authorization code, implicit and password-credential gran...
- **CivicData Open Data API (CKAN) — END OF LIFE** — CivicData.com is Accela's free open-data platform for government agencies, described on its own site as "a free open data platform built by Accela" and "Built on open source usi...

## Security (2)

- **Accela Authentication** — 3 schemes
- **Accela Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC

## Plans (1)

- **Accela Plans Pricing**

## Tags

GovTech, Government, Permitting, Licensing, Code Enforcement, Inspections, Asset Management, Citizen Engagement, Land Management, Civic Platform, Public Sector, SaaS

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/accela/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.