# Apache Thrift

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/apache-thrift/  
**Website:** https://thrift.apache.org/  
**APIs profiled:** 2

Apache Thrift is a software framework for scalable cross-language services development. It provides an interface definition language (IDL) and code generation engine for building RPC services that work efficiently across C++, Java, Python, PHP, Ruby, Erlang, Go, JavaScript, Node.js, Haskell, C#, Cocoa, Delphi, and many more languages. Originally developed at Facebook, Thrift is now an Apache Software Foundation top-level project used for high-performance internal microservices and APIs.

## Kin Score — 26.6 / 100 (thin)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 26.6).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 59.3 |
| Contract Quality | 8.5 |
| Governance | 9.8 |
| Contract Governance | 9.8 |
| Operational Transparency | 34.2 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 38.1 |
| Commercial Clarity | 26.3 |
| Access Clarity | 26.3 |

## Agent readiness — 3.0 (human-only)

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

## Access

Freemium — onboarding: unknown, pricing: freemium, trial: no (confidence: medium).

## APIs (2)

- **Apache Thrift IDL** — The Thrift Interface Definition Language (IDL) is used to define data types and service interfaces in a language-neutral format. A .thrift file defines structs, enums, exception...
- **Apache Thrift Server API** — The Thrift Server API provides server implementations for hosting Thrift services including TSimpleServer (single-threaded), TThreadedServer, TThreadPoolServer, and TNonblocking...

## Security (2)

- **Apache Thrift Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC
- **Apache Thrift Vulnerability Disclosure** — security.txt · contact published

## Plans (1)

- **Apache Thrift Plans Pricing**

## Use cases (3)

- **Internal Microservices** — High-performance binary RPC between internal microservices in polyglot environments.
- **Cross-Language APIs** — Type-safe APIs that work identically across Java, Python, C++, and other languages.
- **Distributed Systems** — Service mesh and distributed system communication with efficient binary serialization.

## Tags

Code Generation, Cross-Language, IDL, RPC, Serialization, Open-Source

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