# Alibaba

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/alibaba/  
**Website:** https://www.alibaba.com  
**APIs profiled:** 1

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).

## Kin Score — 24.9 / 100 (emerging)

Scored 2026-08-25 under rubric 0.14.0. Trend: flat (-0.8 from 25.7).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 68.5 |
| Contract Quality | 26.7 |
| Governance | 18.2 |
| Contract Governance | 18.2 |
| Operational Transparency | 5.3 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 19.0 |
| Commercial Clarity | 23.7 |
| Access Clarity | 23.7 |

## Agent readiness — 16.4 (agent-aware)

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

## Access

Unknown — onboarding: unknown, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: low).

## APIs (1)

- **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...

## MCP servers (1)

- **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...

## Security (1)

- **Alibaba Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

## Tags

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

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