Alibaba

Alibaba is a multinational technology conglomerate founded in 1999 by Jack Ma, focused on e-commerce, retail, internet, and technology. The company operates major online marketplaces including Taobao, Tmall, and AliExpress, connecting millions of sellers with consumers globally. Alibaba Cloud (Aliyun), founded in 2009, is a global leader in cloud computing and artificial intelligence, serving enterprises, developers, and government organizations in more than 200 countries. Alibaba Cloud provides cloud computing, storage, networking, big data, AI/ML, security, and developer services through a comprehensive API ecosystem. The OpenAPI Explorer provides a web interface for discovering, testing, and generating SDK code for hundreds of Alibaba Cloud service APIs. The company also operates Alipay (digital payments), DingTalk (enterprise collaboration), and 1688 (B2B wholesale).

Alibaba publishes 1 API on the APIs.io network: Cloud API. Tagged areas include Cloud, Cloud Computing, E-Commerce, Commerce, and Artificial Intelligence.

Alibaba’s developer surface includes documentation, developer portal, GitHub presence, SDKs, signup flow, pricing, engineering blog, and 11 more developer resources.

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24.9/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 16/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-08-25 · rubric v0.14.0

1 APIs 1 MCP Servers

Cloud Cloud Computing E-Commerce Commerce Artificial Intelligence Machine-Learning Big Data Storage Networking Serverless Developer Tools

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scored 2026-08-25 · rubric v0.14.0

Composite quality — 24.9/100 · emerging

Contract Quality 6.7 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 3.8 / 20

Access Clarity 4.7 / 20

Operational Transparency 0.7 / 13

Contract Governance 2.2 / 12

Discoverability 6.9 / 10

Agent readiness — 16/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 12 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 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 Surface 0 / 5

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APIs 1

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

MCP Servers 1

Model Context Protocol servers that expose these APIs to AI agents.

Get Started 3

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Portal

Portal

Login

SignUp

SignUp

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

Agent Surfaces 3

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

WellKnown

WellKnown

MCPServer

MCPServer

LLMsTxt

LLMsTxt

Design & Contract 2

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Conformance

Conformance

Lifecycle

Lifecycle

Build 4

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHub

GitHub

SDK

Packages

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Commercial 1

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Pricing

Pricing

Company 3

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

Source (apis.yml)

aid: alibaba
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source: []
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/alibaba.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/alibaba/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
modified: '2026-06-20'
name: Alibaba
description: Alibaba is a multinational technology conglomerate founded in 1999 by Jack Ma, focused on e-commerce, retail,
  internet, and technology. The company operates major online marketplaces including Taobao, Tmall, and AliExpress, connecting
  millions of sellers with consumers globally. Alibaba Cloud (Aliyun), founded in 2009, is a global leader in cloud computing
  and artificial intelligence, serving enterprises, developers, and government organizations in more than 200 countries. Alibaba
  Cloud provides cloud computing, storage, networking, big data, AI/ML, security, and developer services through a comprehensive
  API ecosystem. The OpenAPI Explorer provides a web interface for discovering, testing, and generating SDK code for hundreds
  of Alibaba Cloud service APIs. The company also operates Alipay (digital payments), DingTalk (enterprise collaboration),
  and 1688 (B2B wholesale).
apis:
- aid: alibaba:alibaba-cloud-api
  name: Alibaba Cloud API
  description: Alibaba Cloud provides a comprehensive API ecosystem covering all major cloud services including Elastic Compute
    Service (ECS), Object Storage Service (OSS), Container Service for Kubernetes (ACK), Relational Database Service (RDS),
    MaxCompute (big data), Function Compute (serverless), API Gateway, Content Delivery Network (CDN), and hundreds of additional
    services. The OpenAPI Explorer provides a web interface and WebCLI for calling APIs and automatically generating SDK code
    in Java, Python, Node.js, PHP, Go, and other languages.
  humanURL: https://api.alibabacloud.com/
  baseURL: https://ecs.aliyuncs.com
  tags:
  - Cloud
  - Cloud Computing
  - Storage
  - Networking
  - Artificial Intelligence
  - Machine-Learning
  - Big Data
  - Serverless
  tags_raw:
  - Cloud
  - Cloud Computing
  - Storage
  - Networking
  - AI
  - Machine Learning
  - Big Data
  - Serverless
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://api.alibabacloud.com/
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/alibaba-openapi.yml
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/alibaba-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.alibaba.com
- type: Website
  url: https://www.alibabacloud.com
- type: Documentation
  url: https://api.alibabacloud.com/
- type: Portal
  url: https://www.alibabacloud.com/en/product/openapiexplorer
- type: GitHub
  url: https://github.com/aliyun
- type: GitHub
  url: https://github.com/alibabacloud-go
- type: SDK
  url: https://www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/sdk/product-overview/alibaba-cloud-sdk
- type: Login
  url: https://account.alibabacloud.com/login/login.htm
- type: SignUp
  url: https://account.alibabacloud.com/register/intl_register.htm
- type: Pricing
  url: https://www.alibabacloud.com/pricing
- url: https://www.alizila.com/feed/
  type: Blog
- type: Packages
  url: packages/alibaba-packages.yml
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/alibaba-well-known.yml
- type: MCPServer
  url: mcp/alibaba-mcp.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/alibaba-llms.txt
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/alibaba-conformance.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/alibaba-lifecycle.yml
tags:
- Cloud
- Cloud Computing
- E-Commerce
- Commerce
- Artificial Intelligence
- Machine-Learning
- Big Data
- Storage
- Networking
- Serverless
- Developer Tools
tags_raw:
- Cloud
- Cloud Computing
- E-Commerce
- Commerce
- AI
- Machine Learning
- Big Data
- Storage
- Networking
- Serverless
- Developer Tools
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
specificationVersion: '0.23'

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