Accredible

Accredible is a digital credentialing platform for issuing, managing, and verifying digital certificates and Open Badges. The REST API lets issuers create and update credentials (certificates and badges) for recipients, organize them into Groups (courses/achievements), apply reusable visual Designs, attach Evidence Items and References, generate PDFs and blockchain-verifiable records, pull engagement analytics, manage Departments and Team Members, and generate recipient SSO links. Credentials are issued against a Group and rendered with a Design; the platform hosts a public verification page and share links for each credential.

Accredible publishes 10 APIs on the APIs.io network, including Analytics API, Credentials API, Departments API, and 7 more. Tagged areas include Digital Credentials, Certificates, Badges, Open Badges, and Credentialing.

Accredible’s developer surface includes authentication, documentation, and 9 more developer resources.

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37.3/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 20/100 agent aware saas Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-09-14 · rubric v0.22.0

AccessPaid

1 APIs

Digital Credentials Certificates Badges Open Badges Credentialing VerificationDigital Badges

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scored 2026-09-14 · rubric v0.22.0

Composite quality — 37.3/100 · thin

Contract Quality 13.2 / 23

Developer Ergonomics 2.4 / 18

Access Clarity 8.5 / 18

Operational Transparency 4.0 / 12

Contract Governance 0.0 / 11

Discoverability 6.2 / 9

Create-or-Update Ergonomics 0.0 / 10

Agent readiness — 20/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

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

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

Create-or-Update Ergonomics applies to this provider. This API accepts writes, so it carries 10 points of the composite. It is scored from the published contracts themselves: whether a caller can create-or-update in one call, whether the write accepts a key the caller already holds, and whether the response says which branch ran. Without that, every write needs a search-and-branch in front of it, and the first time that check is skipped a duplicate record is created. Scored against the observed mean rather than raw — a provider at the catalog average is unchanged by this facet, not penalised by it.

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APIs 10

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Accredible Analytics API

Issuer-level and per-credential engagement analytics.

Accredible Credentials API

Issue, retrieve, update, delete, search, and verify digital credentials.

Accredible Departments API

Independent sub-organizations within an issuer account.

Accredible Designs API

Reusable visual specifications for rendering badges and certificates.

Accredible Evidence Items API

Supplemental work samples attached to a credential.

Accredible Groups API

Course or achievement containers that credentials are issued against.

Accredible Issuer API

Issuer account details and API token management.

Accredible References API

Peer, teacher, or manager endorsements attached to a credential.

Accredible SSO API

Recipient single sign-on link generation.

Accredible Team Members API

Administrators and roles within the issuer account.

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Open Collections 12

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

API Collection

OPEN COLLECTION

Accredible Analytics API

OPEN COLLECTION

Accredible Analytics Credentials API

OPEN COLLECTION

Accredible Analytics Departments API

OPEN COLLECTION

Accredible Analytics Designs API

OPEN COLLECTION

Accredible Analytics Evidence Items API

OPEN COLLECTION

Accredible Analytics Groups API

OPEN COLLECTION

Accredible Analytics Issuer API

OPEN COLLECTION

Accredible Analytics References API

OPEN COLLECTION

Accredible Analytics SSO API

OPEN COLLECTION

Accredible Analytics Team Members API

OPEN COLLECTION

Accredible API

OPEN COLLECTION

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Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Accredible Plans Pricing

4 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Accredible Rate Limits

3 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Accredible Finops

FINOPS

Security Posture 3

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Accredible Authentication

apiKey · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Accredible Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Accredible Trust Center

SOC 2, GDPR

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Accredible Agentic Access

45 operations · 32 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

AgenticAccess

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

Access & Security 3

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

TrustCenter

TrustCenter

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Authentication

Authentication

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

RateLimits

RateLimits

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Plans

Plans

FinOps

FinOps

Company 2

The organization behind the API

LinkedIn

Website

Website

Source (apis.yml)

aid: accredible
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/accredible/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
name: Accredible
kind: company
description: Accredible is a digital credentialing platform for issuing, managing, and verifying digital certificates and
  Open Badges. The REST API lets issuers create and update credentials (certificates and badges) for recipients, organize
  them into Groups (courses/achievements), apply reusable visual Designs, attach Evidence Items and References, generate PDFs
  and blockchain-verifiable records, pull engagement analytics, manage Departments and Team Members, and generate recipient
  SSO links. Credentials are issued against a Group and rendered with a Design; the platform hosts a public verification page
  and share links for each credential.
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: true
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: high
  source:
  - openapi
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: paid
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Paid
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  - security
  generated: '2026-09-03'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/accredible.png
tags:
- Digital Credentials
- Certificates
- Badges
- Open Badges
- Credentialing
- Verification
- Digital Badges
created: '2026-07-05'
modified: '2026-07-05'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- aid: accredible:accredible-analytics-api
  name: Accredible Analytics API
  description: Issuer-level and per-credential engagement analytics.
  humanURL: https://docs.api.accredible.com/
  baseURL: https://api.accredible.com/v1
  tags:
  - Analytics
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/accredible-analytics-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.api.accredible.com/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.api.accredible.com/
  - type: PostmanCollection
    url: collections/accredible.postman_collection.json
  - type: OpenCollection
    url: collections/accredible.opencollection.json
- aid: accredible:accredible-credentials-api
  name: Accredible Credentials API
  description: Issue, retrieve, update, delete, search, and verify digital credentials.
  humanURL: https://docs.api.accredible.com/
  baseURL: https://api.accredible.com/v1
  tags:
  - Credentials
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/accredible-credentials-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.api.accredible.com/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.api.accredible.com/
  - type: PostmanCollection
    url: collections/accredible.postman_collection.json
  - type: OpenCollection
    url: collections/accredible.opencollection.json
- aid: accredible:accredible-departments-api
  name: Accredible Departments API
  description: Independent sub-organizations within an issuer account.
  humanURL: https://docs.api.accredible.com/
  baseURL: https://api.accredible.com/v1
  tags:
  - Departments
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/accredible-departments-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.api.accredible.com/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.api.accredible.com/
  - type: PostmanCollection
    url: collections/accredible.postman_collection.json
  - type: OpenCollection
    url: collections/accredible.opencollection.json
- aid: accredible:accredible-designs-api
  name: Accredible Designs API
  description: Reusable visual specifications for rendering badges and certificates.
  humanURL: https://docs.api.accredible.com/
  baseURL: https://api.accredible.com/v1
  tags:
  - Designs
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/accredible-designs-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.api.accredible.com/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.api.accredible.com/
  - type: PostmanCollection
    url: collections/accredible.postman_collection.json
  - type: OpenCollection
    url: collections/accredible.opencollection.json
- aid: accredible:accredible-evidence-items-api
  name: Accredible Evidence Items API
  description: Supplemental work samples attached to a credential.
  humanURL: https://docs.api.accredible.com/
  baseURL: https://api.accredible.com/v1
  tags:
  - Evidence Items
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/accredible-evidence-items-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.api.accredible.com/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.api.accredible.com/
  - type: PostmanCollection
    url: collections/accredible.postman_collection.json
  - type: OpenCollection
    url: collections/accredible.opencollection.json
- aid: accredible:accredible-groups-api
  name: Accredible Groups API
  description: Course or achievement containers that credentials are issued against.
  humanURL: https://docs.api.accredible.com/
  baseURL: https://api.accredible.com/v1
  tags:
  - Group
  tags_raw:
  - Groups
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/accredible-groups-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.api.accredible.com/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.api.accredible.com/
  - type: PostmanCollection
    url: collections/accredible.postman_collection.json
  - type: OpenCollection
    url: collections/accredible.opencollection.json
- aid: accredible:accredible-issuer-api
  name: Accredible Issuer API
  description: Issuer account details and API token management.
  humanURL: https://docs.api.accredible.com/
  baseURL: https://api.accredible.com/v1
  tags:
  - Issuer
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/accredible-issuer-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.api.accredible.com/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.api.accredible.com/
  - type: PostmanCollection
    url: collections/accredible.postman_collection.json
  - type: OpenCollection
    url: collections/accredible.opencollection.json
- aid: accredible:accredible-references-api
  name: Accredible References API
  description: Peer, teacher, or manager endorsements attached to a credential.
  humanURL: https://docs.api.accredible.com/
  baseURL: https://api.accredible.com/v1
  tags:
  - References
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/accredible-references-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.api.accredible.com/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.api.accredible.com/
  - type: PostmanCollection
    url: collections/accredible.postman_collection.json
  - type: OpenCollection
    url: collections/accredible.opencollection.json
- aid: accredible:accredible-sso-api
  name: Accredible SSO API
  description: Recipient single sign-on link generation.
  humanURL: https://docs.api.accredible.com/
  baseURL: https://api.accredible.com/v1
  tags:
  - SSO
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/accredible-sso-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.api.accredible.com/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.api.accredible.com/
  - type: PostmanCollection
    url: collections/accredible.postman_collection.json
  - type: OpenCollection
    url: collections/accredible.opencollection.json
- aid: accredible:accredible-team-members-api
  name: Accredible Team Members API
  description: Administrators and roles within the issuer account.
  humanURL: https://docs.api.accredible.com/
  baseURL: https://api.accredible.com/v1
  tags:
  - Team Members
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/accredible-team-members-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.api.accredible.com/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.api.accredible.com/
  - type: PostmanCollection
    url: collections/accredible.postman_collection.json
  - type: OpenCollection
    url: collections/accredible.opencollection.json
common:
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/accredible-agentic-access.yml
- type: TrustCenter
  url: security/accredible-trust-center.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/accredible-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/accredible-authentication.yml
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/accredible
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/accredible
- type: Website
  url: https://www.accredible.com
- type: Documentation
  url: https://docs.api.accredible.com/
- type: Plans
  url: plans/accredible-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/accredible-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/accredible-finops.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com

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