# Andel

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/andel/  
**Website:** https://www.andel.org  
**APIs profiled:** 2

Andel is a cooperative marketplace for drug affordability that unlocks direct manufacturer pricing on high-spend specialty medications, connecting health plans, PBMs, and members without rebates, spreads, or intermediaries across neurology, immunology, dermatology, oncology, fertility, cardiometabolic, and rare/orphan therapeutic areas. Its Data Exchange API provides real-time, RFC 9457-compliant interchange of member purchase events between Andel and counterparty plans or PBMs, with OAuth 2.0 machine-to-machine authentication via Descope, per-plan authorization, cursor pagination, purchase.created webhooks, and Express Scripts (ESI) CDH accumulator-format compatibility.

## Kin Score — 50.8 / 100 (developing)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 50.8).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 75.9 |
| Contract Quality | 60.1 |
| Governance | 16.7 |
| Contract Governance | 16.7 |
| Operational Transparency | 7.9 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 66.1 |
| Commercial Clarity | 34.2 |
| Access Clarity | 34.2 |

Regulatory layer — **Health**: 52.5 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 49.4 (agent-ready)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | verified |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | verified |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | no |
| Event Surface Described | yes |
| Agent Skills | derived |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: medium).

## APIs (2)

- **Andel purchases API** — The purchases API from Andel — 2 operation(s) for purchases.
- **Andel webhooks API** — The webhooks API from Andel — 2 operation(s) for webhooks.

## MCP servers (1)

- **Andel MCP Server** — Andel publishes a hosted, remote MCP server for its developer documentation (Fern docs MCP). AI clients (Claude Code, Cursor, etc.) connect to it to search and retrieve Andel Da...

## Agentic access (1)

- **Andel Agentic Access** — 5 operations · 2 acting

## Security (2)

- **Andel Authentication** — http/oauth2 · 2 schemes
- **Andel Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

## Tags

Company, Healthcare, Pharmacy, Pharmacy Benefits, Drug Pricing, Specialty Medications, Data Exchange, Webhook

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