Anchore

Anchore is a container and software supply chain security company providing open source and enterprise tools for vulnerability scanning, SBOM generation, policy enforcement, and continuous compliance. Core open source products include Syft (SBOM generator for container images and filesystems), Grype (vulnerability scanner), and Grant (license scanner). The Anchore Enterprise platform adds policy engines, CI/CD integrations, registry connectors, Kubernetes admission control, and reporting. Anchore supports CycloneDX and SPDX SBOM formats and integrates with Docker, Kubernetes, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, and major cloud registries.

Anchore publishes 6 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network, including Images API, Policies API, Registries API, and 3 more. Tagged areas include Container Security, Containers, SBOM, Software Supply Chain, and Vulnerability Scanning.

The Anchore catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context and 2 Spectral governance rulesets.

Anchore’s developer surface includes authentication, developer portal, documentation, getting-started guide, engineering blog, support, pricing, and 28 more developer resources.

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37.3/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 22/100 agent aware Front door AI 1/6 silent Heartbeat 97/100 alive saas Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0 · Show this score on your site →

AccessFreemiumSelf serve

1 published contract 1 MCP Servers 10 Features 7 Use Cases

Container Security Containers SBOM Software Supply Chain Vulnerability Scanning

What this lets a business do 1

Business capabilities this provider's published APIs can perform, derived from its own contracts. Browse all capabilities →

Cybersecurity Management

BC-620

Vulnerabilities

GET /images/{imageDigest}/vuln/{vtype}

Kin Score

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

Composite quality — 37.3/100 · thin

Contract Quality 10.8 / 19

Developer Ergonomics 5.2 / 15

Access Clarity 2.8 / 15

Operational Transparency 1.8 / 10

Contract Governance 2.5 / 9

Discoverability 5.4 / 8

Regulatory Posture 2.5 / 15

Create-or-Update Ergonomics 0.0 / 10

Agent readiness — 22/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 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 7 / 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 0 / 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 applies to this provider. This API accepts writes, so it carries 10 points of the composite. It is scored from the published contracts themselves: whether a caller can create-or-update in one call, whether the write accepts a key the caller already holds, and whether the response says which branch ran. Without that, every write needs a search-and-branch in front of it, and the first time that check is skipped a duplicate record is created. Scored against the observed mean rather than raw — a provider at the catalog average is unchanged by this facet, not penalised by it.

The six quality facets above are damped to 75 points between them, because the conditional facet above carries the other 25. That is why each facet's contribution is shown against a damped maximum: raising a quality facet moves the composite by 75% 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):

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
Request/Response Examples +7 pts — share of operations carrying request/response examples; else an Examples / Code Samples link
Registration Without a Human +6 pts — a `registration_endpoint` in the served RFC 8414 / OIDC discovery document
Delegated User Identity +6 pts — a served discovery document listing authorization_code in grant_types_supported (served), else an oauth2 authorizationCode flow or openIdConnect declared in an OpenAPI (documented)

9 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

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

Access Clarity scores 18.4 — up to +16.3 composite points
Developer Ergonomics scores 34.5 — up to +13.1 composite points
Operational Transparency scores 18.4 — up to +10.6 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
Data Marketplaces (data providers on cloud data platforms)	standard	52.9	-	-
Jenkins Plugins + CD Foundation Landscape	standard	52.9	-	-
OpenSSF Best Practices Badge Holders	standard	52.9	-	-
Red Hat Certified Ecosystem (certified partner containers + certified OpenShift operators)	standard	52.9	-	-

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 2

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)

OpenAPI

measured — observed by APIs.io (published)

APIs 6

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

Anchore Images API

The Images API from Anchore — 2 operation(s) for images.

Anchore Policies API

The Policies API from Anchore — 2 operation(s) for policies.

Anchore Registries API

The Registries API from Anchore — 1 operation(s) for registries.

Anchore SBOM API

The SBOM API from Anchore — 1 operation(s) for sbom.

Anchore Subscriptions API

The Subscriptions API from Anchore — 1 operation(s) for subscriptions.

Anchore Vulnerabilities API

The Vulnerabilities API from Anchore — 1 operation(s) for vulnerabilities.

Postman Collections 1

Ready-to-run Postman collections for exercising this provider's APIs.

Anchore Enterprise API

POSTMAN

Open Collections 6

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

Anchore Enterprise Images API

OPEN COLLECTION

Anchore Enterprise Images Policies API

OPEN COLLECTION

Anchore Enterprise Images Registries API

OPEN COLLECTION

Anchore Enterprise Images SBOM API

OPEN COLLECTION

Anchore Enterprise Images Subscriptions API

OPEN COLLECTION

Anchore Enterprise Images Vulnerabilities API

OPEN COLLECTION

Arazzo Workflows 6

Multi-step API workflows described with the Arazzo specification.

Anchore Analyze Image End to End

Submit a container image for analysis, poll until analyzed, then pull its vulnerabilities and policy evaluation.

ARAZZO

Anchore Create Policy and Evaluate Image

Create a new security policy, then immediately evaluate an analyzed image against it to observe the gate result.

ARAZZO

Anchore Image SBOM and Vulnerability Pull

Confirm an image is analyzed, then export its CycloneDX SBOM and its vulnerability report for downstream compliance use.

ARAZZO

Anchore Registry Image Onboarding

Confirm a registry is configured, then submit an image from it for analysis and confirm the queue.

ARAZZO

Anchore Rescan Active Image and Gate

Find an active analyzed image by tag, force a fresh vulnerability scan, and gate it against policy.

ARAZZO

Anchore Subscribe on Policy Failure

Evaluate an analyzed image against policy and, when it fails the gate, subscribe to ongoing policy-evaluation notifications for its tag.

ARAZZO

MCP Servers 1

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

MCP Server

MCP SERVER

Anchore API pricing

Not yet checked against Anchore's own pricing page. Compiled by API Evangelist on 2026-05-04; confirm before you rely on a figure. A free plan or tier is listed.

Plan	Price
Free freemium	Free
Professional paid	Free
Enterprise enterprise	—

Plan details, limits and sources →

Rate limits

Free Tier Default: 10 requests per minute
Free Tier Monthly Quota: 1000 requests per month
Professional Tier Default: 100 requests per minute

Compiled by API Evangelist, not yet checked against Anchore's documentation. All 5 limits →

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Anchore Plans Pricing

3 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Anchore Rate Limits

5 limits

RATE LIMITS

Service Levels 1

Uptime the provider promises or reports, as SLA4OAI. Read from its own pages; APIs.io runs no monitors.

Anchore

SLA

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Anchore Finops

FINOPS

Features 10

Notable capabilities this provider offers.

Container image vulnerability scanning (OS and language packages)

SBOM generation in CycloneDX and SPDX formats (Syft)

Policy-based compliance enforcement

Kubernetes admission controller integration

CI/CD pipeline integration (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab)

Registry connectors (Docker Hub, ECR, GCR, ACR, Harbor)

License scanning and compliance (Grant)

Grype vulnerability database with NVD, GitHub Advisory, and custom feeds

Anchore Enterprise reporting and audit logging

REST API for image analysis, subscriptions, and notifications

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Semantic Vocabularies 1

JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.

Anchore Enterprise Api Context

0 classes · 14 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 2

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

Anchore — jsonschema rules

5 rules · 3 warnings 2 info

SPECTRAL

Anchore API Rules

19 rules · 5 errors 12 warnings 1 info

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 3

Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.

Anchore Image

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Anchore SBOM

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Anchore Vulnerability

9 properties

JSON SCHEMA

JSON Structure 1

JSON Structure definitions describing this provider's data shapes.

Anchore Image Structure

0 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Security Posture 2

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

Anchore Authentication

http · 2 schemes

SECURITY

Anchore Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Anchore Agentic Access

11 operations · 3 acting

AGENTIC

Use Cases 7

What developers build with this provider.

Shift-left container security scanning in CI/CD pipelines

Generate SBOMs for software supply chain transparency

Enforce image policies at Kubernetes admission control

Track vulnerabilities across container registries and deployed images

License compliance scanning for open source components

Continuous compliance monitoring for regulated industries

Developer self-service security scanning via CLI tools

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Resources

Get Started 2

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Portal

Portal

GettingStarted

GettingStarted

Documentation 4

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

JSONSchema

JSONSchema

JSONSchema

Agent Surfaces 3

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

AgenticAccess

MCPServer

MCPServer

LlmsText

LlmsText

Design & Contract 9

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Arazzo

Arazzo

Arazzo

Arazzo

Arazzo

Arazzo

SpectralRules

Vocabulary

JSONLD

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Build 2

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

PostmanWorkspace

PostmanWorkspace

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

Access & Security 3

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Authentication

Authentication

Authentication

Authentication

Operate 3

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

RateLimits

RateLimits

Support

Support

StatusPage

StatusPage

Commercial 5

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Plans

FinOps

Pricing

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

Company 3

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

LinkedIn

Blog

Blog

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

CapabilityMap

CapabilityMap

Source (apis.yml)

aid: anchore
name: Anchore
description: Anchore is a container and software supply chain security company providing open source and enterprise tools
  for vulnerability scanning, SBOM generation, policy enforcement, and continuous compliance. Core open source products include
  Syft (SBOM generator for container images and filesystems), Grype (vulnerability scanner), and Grant (license scanner).
  The Anchore Enterprise platform adds policy engines, CI/CD integrations, registry connectors, Kubernetes admission control,
  and reporting. Anchore supports CycloneDX and SPDX SBOM formats and integrates with Docker, Kubernetes, GitHub Actions,
  Jenkins, and major cloud registries.
type: Index
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: false
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - openapi
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: freemium
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  gated: none
  gated_source:
  - onboarding
  label: Freemium · Self-serve signup
  confidence: medium
  try_now_blocked_by: example-domain
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-06'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/anchore.png
tags:
- Container Security
- Containers
- SBOM
- Software Supply Chain
- Vulnerability Scanning
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/anchore/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2026-03-26'
modified: '2026-05-19'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- aid: anchore:anchore-images-api
  name: Anchore Images API
  description: The Images API from Anchore — 2 operation(s) for images.
  humanURL: https://docs.anchore.com/current/docs/using/api_usage/
  baseURL: https://anchore.example.com/v2
  tags:
  - Image
  tags_raw:
  - Images
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/anchore-images-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.anchore.com/current/docs/using/api_usage/
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/anchore-image-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/anchore-vulnerability-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/anchore-sbom-schema.json
  - type: SpectralRules
    url: rules/anchore-spectral-rules.yml
  - type: JSONStructure
    url: json-structure/anchore-image-structure.json
  - type: JSONLD
    url: json-ld/anchore-enterprise-api-context.jsonld
  - type: Vocabulary
    url: vocabulary/anchore-vocabulary.yaml
- aid: anchore:anchore-policies-api
  name: Anchore Policies API
  description: The Policies API from Anchore — 2 operation(s) for policies.
  humanURL: https://docs.anchore.com/current/docs/using/api_usage/
  baseURL: https://anchore.example.com/v2
  tags:
  - Policies
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/anchore-policies-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.anchore.com/current/docs/using/api_usage/
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/anchore-image-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/anchore-vulnerability-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/anchore-sbom-schema.json
  - type: SpectralRules
    url: rules/anchore-spectral-rules.yml
  - type: JSONStructure
    url: json-structure/anchore-image-structure.json
  - type: JSONLD
    url: json-ld/anchore-enterprise-api-context.jsonld
  - type: Vocabulary
    url: vocabulary/anchore-vocabulary.yaml
- aid: anchore:anchore-registries-api
  name: Anchore Registries API
  description: The Registries API from Anchore — 1 operation(s) for registries.
  humanURL: https://docs.anchore.com/current/docs/using/api_usage/
  baseURL: https://anchore.example.com/v2
  tags:
  - Registries
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/anchore-registries-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.anchore.com/current/docs/using/api_usage/
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/anchore-image-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/anchore-vulnerability-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/anchore-sbom-schema.json
  - type: SpectralRules
    url: rules/anchore-spectral-rules.yml
  - type: JSONStructure
    url: json-structure/anchore-image-structure.json
  - type: JSONLD
    url: json-ld/anchore-enterprise-api-context.jsonld
  - type: Vocabulary
    url: vocabulary/anchore-vocabulary.yaml
- aid: anchore:anchore-sbom-api
  name: Anchore SBOM API
  description: The SBOM API from Anchore — 1 operation(s) for sbom.
  humanURL: https://docs.anchore.com/current/docs/using/api_usage/
  baseURL: https://anchore.example.com/v2
  tags:
  - SBOM
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/anchore-sbom-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.anchore.com/current/docs/using/api_usage/
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/anchore-image-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/anchore-vulnerability-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/anchore-sbom-schema.json
  - type: SpectralRules
    url: rules/anchore-spectral-rules.yml
  - type: JSONStructure
    url: json-structure/anchore-image-structure.json
  - type: JSONLD
    url: json-ld/anchore-enterprise-api-context.jsonld
  - type: Vocabulary
    url: vocabulary/anchore-vocabulary.yaml
- aid: anchore:anchore-subscriptions-api
  name: Anchore Subscriptions API
  description: The Subscriptions API from Anchore — 1 operation(s) for subscriptions.
  humanURL: https://docs.anchore.com/current/docs/using/api_usage/
  baseURL: https://anchore.example.com/v2
  tags:
  - Subscription
  tags_raw:
  - Subscriptions
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/anchore-subscriptions-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.anchore.com/current/docs/using/api_usage/
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/anchore-image-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/anchore-vulnerability-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/anchore-sbom-schema.json
  - type: SpectralRules
    url: rules/anchore-spectral-rules.yml
  - type: JSONStructure
    url: json-structure/anchore-image-structure.json
  - type: JSONLD
    url: json-ld/anchore-enterprise-api-context.jsonld
  - type: Vocabulary
    url: vocabulary/anchore-vocabulary.yaml
- aid: anchore:anchore-vulnerabilities-api
  name: Anchore Vulnerabilities API
  description: The Vulnerabilities API from Anchore — 1 operation(s) for vulnerabilities.
  humanURL: https://docs.anchore.com/current/docs/using/api_usage/
  baseURL: https://anchore.example.com/v2
  tags:
  - Vulnerabilities
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/anchore-vulnerabilities-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.anchore.com/current/docs/using/api_usage/
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/anchore-image-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/anchore-vulnerability-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/anchore-sbom-schema.json
  - type: SpectralRules
    url: rules/anchore-spectral-rules.yml
  - type: JSONStructure
    url: json-structure/anchore-image-structure.json
  - type: JSONLD
    url: json-ld/anchore-enterprise-api-context.jsonld
  - type: Vocabulary
    url: vocabulary/anchore-vocabulary.yaml
common:
- type: Plans
  url: plans/anchore-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/anchore-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/anchore-finops.yml
- type: CapabilityMap
  url: capabilities/anchore-capability-edges.yml
  name: Anchore Business Capability Map
- type: Website
  url: https://www.anchore.com/
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/anchore-agentic-access.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/anchore-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/anchore-authentication.yml
- type: PostmanWorkspace
  url: https://www.postman.com/kinlaneapi/anchore/overview
- type: Arazzo
  url: arazzo/anchore-analyze-image-workflow.yml
  name: Anchore Analyze Image End to End
- type: Arazzo
  url: arazzo/anchore-create-policy-and-evaluate-workflow.yml
  name: Anchore Create Policy and Evaluate Image
- type: Arazzo
  url: arazzo/anchore-image-sbom-and-vulns-workflow.yml
  name: Anchore Image SBOM and Vulnerability Pull
- type: Arazzo
  url: arazzo/anchore-registry-scan-workflow.yml
  name: Anchore Registry Image Onboarding
- type: Arazzo
  url: arazzo/anchore-rescan-active-images-workflow.yml
  name: Anchore Rescan Active Image and Gate
- type: Arazzo
  url: arazzo/anchore-subscribe-on-policy-fail-workflow.yml
  name: Anchore Subscribe on Policy Failure
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/anchore
- type: Portal
  url: https://anchore.com/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://docs.anchore.com/
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://docs.anchore.com/current/docs/quickstart/
- type: Authentication
  url: https://docs.anchore.com/current/docs/using/api_usage/
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/anchore
- type: Blog
  url: https://anchore.com/blog/
- type: Support
  url: https://anchore.com/support/
- type: Pricing
  url: https://anchore.com/pricing/
- type: StatusPage
  url: https://status.anchore.com/
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://anchore.com/terms-of-service/
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://anchore.com/privacy-policy/
- type: JSONSchema
  url: json-schema/anchore-image-schema.json
- type: JSONSchema
  url: json-schema/anchore-vulnerability-schema.json
- type: JSONSchema
  url: json-schema/anchore-sbom-schema.json
- type: SpectralRules
  url: rules/anchore-spectral-rules.yml
- type: Vocabulary
  url: vocabulary/anchore-vocabulary.yaml
- type: JSONLD
  url: json-ld/anchore-enterprise-api-context.jsonld
- type: Features
  data:
  - Container image vulnerability scanning (OS and language packages)
  - SBOM generation in CycloneDX and SPDX formats (Syft)
  - Policy-based compliance enforcement
  - Kubernetes admission controller integration
  - CI/CD pipeline integration (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab)
  - Registry connectors (Docker Hub, ECR, GCR, ACR, Harbor)
  - License scanning and compliance (Grant)
  - Grype vulnerability database with NVD, GitHub Advisory, and custom feeds
  - Anchore Enterprise reporting and audit logging
  - REST API for image analysis, subscriptions, and notifications
- type: UseCases
  data:
  - Shift-left container security scanning in CI/CD pipelines
  - Generate SBOMs for software supply chain transparency
  - Enforce image policies at Kubernetes admission control
  - Track vulnerabilities across container registries and deployed images
  - License compliance scanning for open source components
  - Continuous compliance monitoring for regulated industries
  - Developer self-service security scanning via CLI tools
- type: Integrations
  data:
  - GitHub Actions (syft-action, scan-action)
  - Kubernetes (anchore-charts, admission controller)
  - Docker and OCI registries
  - Jenkins pipeline integration
  - Harbor registry integration
  - Amazon ECR, Google GCR, Azure ACR
  - Grype vulnerability database
  - CycloneDX and SPDX SBOM standards
- type: Integrations
  url: https://anchore.com/integrations/
- name: MCP Server
  url: https://github.com/anchore/grype-mcp
  type: MCPServer
- type: LlmsText
  url: https://docs.anchore.com/llms.txt
integrations:
- name: Anchore
- name: Icon
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com

Anchore API — frequently asked questions

Does Anchore have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 6 APIs from Anchore, including Anchore Images API, Anchore Policies API and Anchore Registries API, and 3 more.

Is there an OpenAPI specification for the Anchore API?

Yes. APIs.io indexes 6 OpenAPI specifications for Anchore, each linked for download from this page.

How do I authenticate with the Anchore API?

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

How much does the Anchore API cost?

APIs.io lists 3 pricing plans for Anchore, with each plan's price, limits and inclusions under Pricing on this page.

Does Anchore have an MCP server?

Yes. APIs.io lists 1 MCP server for Anchore.

Is the Anchore API ready for AI agents?

Anchore has a Kin Score of 37.3 out of 100 (thin) and an Agent Readiness score of 21.9 (agent-aware), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.

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