# APIClarity

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/apiclarity/  
**Website:** https://openclarity.io  
**APIs profiled:** 4

APIClarity is an open source API security and observability tool that analyzes API traffic to reconstruct OpenAPI specifications, detect shadow and zombie APIs, identify API differences and changes, and provide API security alerts. It is part of the OpenClarity project and works with Kubernetes service meshes and API gateways for cloud-native API traffic observability.

## Kin Score — 29.0 / 100 (thin)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 29.0).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 64.8 |
| Contract Quality | 42.8 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 26.3 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 26.2 |
| Commercial Clarity | 15.8 |
| Access Clarity | 15.8 |

## Agent readiness — 35.9 (agent-ready)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | verified |
| 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 · Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: freemium, trial: no (confidence: high).

## APIs (4)

- **APIClarity API Events API** — Captured API traffic events.
- **APIClarity API Inventory API** — Discovered APIs and their reconstructed specifications.
- **APIClarity Control API** — Control-plane endpoints for trace sources and discovered APIs.
- **APIClarity Features API** — Enabled features in the deployment.

## Agentic access (1)

- **Apiclarity Agentic Access** — 27 operations · 8 acting · 3 human-in-the-loop

## Security (2)

- **Apiclarity Authentication** — http · 1 scheme
- **Apiclarity Domain Security** — no transport/DNS hardening detected

## Plans (1)

- **Apiclarity Plans Pricing**

## Use cases (5)

- **API Discovery** — Discover all APIs running in a Kubernetes environment including undocumented and shadow APIs.
- **API Security Posture Assessment** — Assess API security by detecting shadow APIs, spec violations, and suspicious traffic patterns.
- **API Specification Generation** — Generate OpenAPI specifications from live traffic for APIs that lack formal documentation.
- **API Governance** — Enforce API consistency by detecting deviations between actual API behavior and official specifications.
- **Incident Response** — Investigate API security incidents using traffic analysis, API inventory, and spec diff data.

## Tags

API Observability, API Security, API Traffic Analysis, Cisco, Kubernetes, Open-Source, OpenAPI Reconstruction, OpenClarity, Service Mesh, Shadow APIs

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