Alkira

Alkira delivers Network Infrastructure as a Service (NaaS) through its Cloud Services Exchange, letting enterprises build, deploy, and manage a global multi-cloud network from a unified portal without provisioning physical hardware. The platform connects clouds, sites, remote users, and SaaS through Cloud Exchange Points (CXPs) with built-in segmentation, routing, integrated firewall/security services (Palo Alto, Fortinet, Check Point, Cisco, Zscaler, Infoblox, F5), and full-stack visibility. Everything provisioned in the portal is driven by the Alkira Portal REST API and exposed as infrastructure-as-code via an official Terraform provider, a Go client library, and a published Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for AI agents.

Alkira is listed with 1 API on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Enterprise, Networking, Cloud, and Multi-Cloud.

Alkira’s developer surface includes engineering blog, authentication, changelog, and 14 more developer resources.

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18.1/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 7/100 agent aware Heartbeat 64/100 alive library Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-11-02 · rubric v0.26.0 · Show this score on your site →

1 API 1 MCP Servers 3 Agent Skills

Company Enterprise Networking Cloud Multi-Cloud Infrastructure Network as a Service SD-WAN Security Automation

Kin Score

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scored 2026-11-02 · rubric v0.26.0

Composite quality — 18.1/100 · emerging

Contract Quality 0.0 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 3.9 / 17

Access Clarity 0.0 / 17

Operational Transparency 4.7 / 11

Contract Governance 0.5 / 10

Discoverability 6.1 / 9

Regulatory Posture 2.5 / 15

Agent readiness — 7/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 12 / 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 5 / 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/.

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

Machine-Readable Contract +18 pts — api_specs includes an OpenAPI document
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
Rate-Limit Signaling +7 pts — OpenAPI responses document X-RateLimit-* / RateLimit headers (verified), else a rate_limits artifact or RateLimits link (documented)

10 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
Access Clarity scores 0.0 — up to +20.0 composite points
Developer Ergonomics scores 23.2 — up to +15.4 composite points

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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
Network Edge (CDN, networking, peering, edge compute)	builds-on	42.5	-	-
Infrastructure-as-Code Provider Registries (Terraform, OpenTofu, Pulumi)	builds-on	42.5	-	-

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.

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.

Model Context Protocol (MCP)

measured — observed by APIs.io (documented)

APIs 1

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

Alkira Portal API

REST API behind the Alkira Portal (Cloud Services Exchange). Manages tenant networks, segments, cloud and site connectors (AWS, Azure, GCP, OCI, and SD-WAN vendors), integrated ...

MCP Servers 1

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

Alkira MCP Server

Local (stdio) MCP server; 193 tools listed.

MCP SERVER

Agent Skills 3

Packaged agent skills for driving this provider's APIs from an AI assistant.

Inventory multi-cloud connectors

AGENT SKILL

Check tenant network health

AGENT SKILL

Audit segmentation and traffic policy

AGENT SKILL

Security Posture 2

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

Alkira Authentication

apiKey · 2 schemes

SECURITY

Alkira Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Resources

Agent Surfaces 3

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

MCPServer

MCPServer

LLMsTxt

LLMsTxt

AgentSkill

AgentSkill

Design & Contract 4

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Conventions

DataModel

Lifecycle

Conformance

Build 3

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

Packages

Packages

SDKs

SDKs

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Authentication

Authentication

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 3

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

StatusPage

StatusPage

Deprecation

Deprecation

ChangeLog

ChangeLog

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Blog

Blog

Website

Website

Source (apis.yml)

aid: alkira
deliveryModel:
  model: library
  open_source: false
  commercial: false
  callable_host: false
  label: Library · distributed through package registries, no callable service
  confidence: low
  source:
  - none
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source:
  - authentication
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-02'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/alkira.png
name: Alkira
description: Alkira delivers Network Infrastructure as a Service (NaaS) through its Cloud Services Exchange, letting enterprises
  build, deploy, and manage a global multi-cloud network from a unified portal without provisioning physical hardware. The
  platform connects clouds, sites, remote users, and SaaS through Cloud Exchange Points (CXPs) with built-in segmentation,
  routing, integrated firewall/security services (Palo Alto, Fortinet, Check Point, Cisco, Zscaler, Infoblox, F5), and full-stack
  visibility. Everything provisioned in the portal is driven by the Alkira Portal REST API and exposed as infrastructure-as-code
  via an official Terraform provider, a Go client library, and a published Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for AI agents.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/alkira/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- gv
- kleiner-perkins
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-10-06'
tags:
- Company
- Enterprise
- Networking
- Cloud
- Multi-Cloud
- Infrastructure
- Network as a Service
- SD-WAN
- Security
- Automation
apis:
- name: Alkira Portal API
  description: REST API behind the Alkira Portal (Cloud Services Exchange). Manages tenant networks, segments, cloud and site
    connectors (AWS, Azure, GCP, OCI, and SD-WAN vendors), integrated network services, routing/traffic/NAT policies, BGP
    lists, groups, and health/monitoring. Authenticated with a per-user API key; most resources hang off a tenant network
    id resolved at session start.
  humanURL: https://registry.terraform.io/providers/alkiranet/alkira/latest/docs
  baseURL: https://your_tenant_name.portal.alkira.com/api
  properties:
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/alkira-authentication.yml
  - type: Conventions
    url: conventions/alkira-conventions.yml
  - type: DataModel
    url: data-model/alkira-data-model.yml
  - type: Conformance
    url: conformance/alkira-conformance.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- url: https://www.alkira.com/news/
  type: Blog
- type: Website
  url: https://www.alkira.com
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/alkiranet
- type: StatusPage
  url: https://status.alkira.com
- type: MCPServer
  url: mcp/alkira-mcp.yml
- type: Packages
  url: packages/alkira-packages.yml
- type: SDKs
  url: packages/alkira-packages.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/alkira-authentication.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/alkira-conventions.yml
- type: DataModel
  url: data-model/alkira-data-model.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/alkira-lifecycle.yml
- type: Deprecation
  url: lifecycle/alkira-lifecycle.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/alkira-conformance.yml
- type: ChangeLog
  url: changelog/alkira-changelog.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/alkira-domain-security.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/alkira-llms.txt
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/_index.yml
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: backfilled
  pass: local-v1
  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence

Alkira API — frequently asked questions

Does Alkira have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 1 API from Alkira, including Alkira Portal API.

How do I authenticate with the Alkira API?

Alkira uses bearer-token authentication (apiKey · 2 schemes). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Alkira Authentication.

Does Alkira have an MCP server?

Yes. APIs.io lists 1 MCP server for Alkira: Local (stdio) MCP server; 193 tools listed.

Is the Alkira API ready for AI agents?

Alkira has a Kin Score of 18.1 out of 100 (emerging) and an Agent Readiness score of 6.9 (agent-aware), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-02.

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