AIS Trail

AIS Trail provides a unified API delivering historical and real-time Automatic Identification System (AIS) data for vessels worldwide. The service offers clean, standardized, and query‑ready ship movement information, supporting use cases such as live tracking, route analysis, and maritime analytics. Users can access vessel positions, historical routes, and source metadata through a consistent RESTful interface, enabling integration into logistics, compliance, and marine research applications.

AIS Trail is listed with 1 API on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Maritime, AIS, Data, and Real-Time.

AIS Trail’s developer surface includes authentication, documentation, API reference, getting-started guide, pricing, and 10 more developer resources.

🌐 Visit website 📡 Profile data on GitHub

25.6/100 emerging ▼ -8.0 Agent 3/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0 · Show this score on your site →

AccessFreemium

1 API

Company Maritime AIS Data Real-Time

Kin Score

Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0

Composite quality — 25.6/100 · emerging

Contract Quality 0.0 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 4.5 / 17

Access Clarity 9.2 / 17

Operational Transparency 0.0 / 11

Contract Governance 1.9 / 10

Discoverability 5.6 / 9

Regulatory Posture 3.1 / 15

Agent readiness — 3/100 · human only

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 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 0 / 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

Pagination 5 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

MCP Tool Quality 6 / 6

Regulatory Posture applies to this provider. Its tags matched the Horizontal (data, software, accessibility, platform) regime, so Regulatory Posture carries 15 points of the composite. If this regime is wrong for your business, say so on your provider repo — the applicability map is public and we will correct it.

Create-or-Update Ergonomics could not be measured. We hold no machine-readable contract for this provider to read, so there is nothing to measure a write surface against. Excluded rather than scored zero: never-measured and measured-empty are different facts. Publishing an OpenAPI is what makes this facet — and several others — scorable at all.

The six quality facets above are damped to 85 points between them, because the conditional facet above carries the other 15. That is why each facet's contribution is shown against a damped maximum: raising a quality facet moves the composite by 85% of its nominal weight, not 100%. The full arithmetic is at apis.io/rating/.

Show this score on your site.

It updates itself when the score changes. Paste this where you link to your API docs:

<a href="https://apis.io/providers/aistrail-com/"><img src="https://apis.io/badge/aistrail-com/card.svg" alt="AIS Trail on APIs.io — Kin Score by API Evangelist"></a>

Other styles, a README pill and a shields.io endpoint are on the badge page.

Raise your score.

Agent readiness — checks not met, largest first (exact, from this profile):

Machine-Readable Contract +18 pts — api_specs includes an OpenAPI document
MCP Server +12 pts — deployment.mode + probe verdict on the mcp/ manifest, not the pointer; an unprobed slug falls back to authorship
Agentic Access Contract +10 pts — agentic_access artifact present (x-agentic-access), graded by author
Idempotency +9 pts — OpenAPI mutating operations declare an idempotency key — a header, a request-body property, or a named de-duplication token whose own description says so (verified); else common[].type matches /idempoten/i (documented)
Stable Error Semantics +8 pts — OpenAPI $refs a shared error schema across 4xx/5xx responses (verified), else common[].type includes ErrorCatalog / ErrorCodes / DeclineCodes
A2A Agent Card +8 pts — a2a/-a2a.yml manifest, graded on conformance.grade against A2A 1.0.0

12 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

Kin Score — facets with the most composite points still available (weight × headroom):

Contract Quality scores 0.0 — up to +25.0 composite points
Developer Ergonomics scores 26.2 — up to +14.8 composite points
Operational Transparency scores 0.0 — up to +13.0 composite points

Each check links to what satisfies it. Publish the artifact, or tell us where it already lives, and the score moves on the next scoring run.

Improve this rating by publishing the missing artifacts — every area above can be raised, and the full rubric is at apis.io/rating/. Every facet and dimension name above is a link: it opens that measurement's own page — what it means, the exact checks that feed it, how the whole catalog distributes on it, and the providers at the top of it. This rating is computed from the provider profile at artifacts.apis.io/aistrail-com/apis.yml: open an issue on github.com/api-evangelist/aistrail-com to ask a question or point us at an artifact you publish. Submit an artifact on GitHub — free → Manage your own listing — the Influence plan, $499/mo →

Standards implemented 1

Standards this provider implements or carries. De facto ones are profiled and measured by the API Commons; formal ones come from the standards directory and are linked by the provider's own tags. The evidence column says how each claim was established — not that it was made.

AIS

tagged — the provider's own APIs.json carries the standard as a tag; implementation not verified

APIs 1

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

AIS Trail API

Normalized historical AIS vessel positions from public maritime authorities.

AIS Trail API pricing

Prices published by AIS Trail, read 2026-11-01 from aistrail.com/pricing.

Plan	Price
Free	$0/mo
Starter	$29/mo
Pro	$129/mo
Business	$249/mo

Plan details, limits and sources →

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Aistrail Com Plans Pricing

4 plans

PLANS

Security Posture 2

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

Aistrail Com Authentication

1 scheme

SECURITY

Aistrail Com Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Resources

Get Started 2

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Login

GettingStarted

GettingStarted

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

APIReference

APIReference

Design & Contract 2

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Conventions

Conventions

Conformance

Conformance

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Authentication

Authentication

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Commercial 4

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Plans

Pricing

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

Company 1

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Other 2

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Hosts

Hosts

Vendors

Vendors

Source (apis.yml)

aid: aistrail-com
name: AIS Trail
accessModel:
  pricing: freemium
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Freemium
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-06'
  method: derived
image: https://aistrail.com/assets/img/og-aistrail.png
description: AIS Trail provides a unified API delivering historical and real-time Automatic Identification System (AIS) data
  for vessels worldwide. The service offers clean, standardized, and query‑ready ship movement information, supporting use
  cases such as live tracking, route analysis, and maritime analytics. Users can access vessel positions, historical routes,
  and source metadata through a consistent RESTful interface, enabling integration into logistics, compliance, and marine
  research applications.
url: https://artifacts.apis.io/aistrail-com/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: harvest:mcp-registry
x-tier: profiled
x-tier-reason: enrichment pass 2026-11-01 (modular-v1; was harvest)
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-11-01'
modified: '2026-11-01'
tags:
- Company
- Maritime
- AIS
- Data
- Real-Time
tags_raw:
- Company
- Maritime
- AIS
- Data
- API
- Real-time
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: Plans
  url: plans/aistrail-com-plans-pricing.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/aistrail-com-conventions.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/aistrail-com-authentication.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/aistrail-com-conformance.yml
- type: Hosts
  url: hosts/aistrail-com-hosts.yml
- type: Vendors
  url: vendors/aistrail-com-vendors.yml
- type: Login
  url: https://app.aistrail.com/login
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/aistrail-com-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://aistrail.com/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://aistrail.com/docs/
- type: APIReference
  url: https://api.aistrail.com/
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://aistrail.com/docs/quickstart/
- type: Pricing
  url: https://aistrail.com/pricing
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://aistrail.com/legal/terms/
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://aistrail.com/legal/privacy/
apis:
- name: AIS Trail API
  description: Normalized historical AIS vessel positions from public maritime authorities.
  humanURL: https://aistrail.com/docs/
  baseURL: https://api.aistrail.com/v1
  aid: aistrail-com:ais-trail-api
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-11-01'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 13
  pass: modular-v1
  engine: identity=local,contract=local,surfaces=local,docs=local,regulatory=local

AIS Trail API — frequently asked questions

Does AIS Trail have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 1 API from AIS Trail, including AIS Trail API.

How do I authenticate with the AIS Trail API?

AIS Trail uses bearer-token authentication (1 scheme). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Aistrail Com Authentication.

How much does the AIS Trail API cost?

AIS Trail publishes its prices; its Free plan is $0/mo as of 2026-11-01. APIs.io lists 4 pricing plans for AIS Trail, with each plan's price, limits and inclusions under Pricing on this page.

Is the AIS Trail API ready for AI agents?

AIS Trail has a Kin Score of 25.6 out of 100 (emerging) and an Agent Readiness score of 2.5 (human-only), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.

Work with this as data

Every provider here is available over the APIs.io API and to AI agents over MCP.

MCP server

One button, every client — Claude, Cursor, VS Code and the rest.

https://apis.io/mcp

Tools for providers

9 MCP tools reach this

find_providersBrowse and filter every provider in the catalog.
get_provider_artifactsEvery artifact this provider publishes, grouped by type.
get_provider_operationsEvery operation across all of their OpenAPIs — one call instead of parsing every spec.
get_provider_toolsEvery MCP tool they ship, with the operation each wraps.
get_provider_evidenceHow each part of their score was established. Free — the basis for a claim should not sit behind it.
get_provider_ratingPRO — composite, band, trend and facet scores.
apis_io_searchSTART HERE — APIs, providers and tags for one query, each with its total.
resolveTurn a domain, URL or GitHub org into the provider it belongs to.
find_cohortsEvery scored population of providers in the catalog.

All 92 tools →

Call it yourself

curl for this page

This provider

curl "https://apis.io/api/v1/providers/aistrail-com"

All providers

curl "https://apis.io/api/v1/providers?limit=25"

Every operation they expose

curl "https://apis.io/api/v1/providers/aistrail-com/operations?limit=25"

How their score was established

curl "https://apis.io/api/v1/providers/aistrail-com/evidence"

Calls without X-API-Key need no key. Calls with it need a paid plan — get a key.

Get an API key

Free tier, no form to fill in. Signing in shares your email address with us — we store it to create your key and to recognise you if you sign in with another provider. See our Privacy Policy and Terms.

GitHub Google LinkedIn

A second provider on the same verified email joins the account you already have.