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 is listed with 1 API on the APIs.io network. 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 16 more developer resources.
Kin Score
Markets this provider is in provisional
The Kin Score Market layer reads a provider inside its market: its position, and how deep its integrations go. Depth is only comparable within a position. Provisional and unweighted: not part of the Kin Score or agent readiness.
| Market | Position | Depth | Registered MCP server | Declares compatibility |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Retrieval, Vector and RAG | undeclared | - | - | - |
| MACH & Headless Commerce | undeclared | - | - | - |
| GitHub Marketplace (GitHub-native publisher layer) | undeclared | - | - | - |
| Wix App Market (third-party apps for Wix sites) | undeclared | - | - | - |
| Vulnerability Disclosure (CVE Numbering Authorities, FIRST member teams; CISA KEV exposure) | undeclared | - | - | - |
Registered MCP server and declares compatibility are report only — not weighted. Undeclared means we found nothing we can read, so there is no number: we never infer integrations.
APIs 1
Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.
Alibaba Cloud API
Alibaba Cloud provides a comprehensive API ecosystem covering all major cloud services including Elastic Compute Service (ECS), Object Storage Service (OSS), Container Service f...
Open Collections 1
Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).
API Collection
OPEN COLLECTIONMCP Servers 1
Model Context Protocol servers that expose these APIs to AI agents.
Alibaba Cloud OpenAPI MCP Server
Official Alibaba Cloud MCP server (aliyun GitHub org) that fronts tens of thousands of Alibaba Cloud OpenAPIs through a small set of core tools plus a catalog of system MCP serv...
MCP SERVEROpenAPI Overlays 1
Overlays applied on top of this provider's contracts. Each card says who wrote it: a document the provider publishes, or one API Evangelist derived or generated.
Alibaba Openapi Overlay
DERIVEDSecurity Posture 1
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.
Resources
Get Started 3
Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call
Documentation 1
Reference material describing how the API behaves
Agent Surfaces 2
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Design & Contract 2
Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events
Build 6
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
Access & Security 1
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Operate 1
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Commercial 1
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 3
The organization behind the API
Other 3
Properties that don't map to a standard resource type
Source (apis.yml)
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