Australian Access Federation

The Australian Access Federation (AAF) is the national trust and identity capability for Australia’s research and higher education sector. It enables seamless, secure access to digital resources across institutions with a single identity, supports federated services like EduGAIN, ORCID, and Rapid IdP, and connects thousands of users and services both domestically and internationally. AAF drives collaboration, reduces costs, and fosters innovation across the research ecosystem.

Australian Access Federation is listed with 1 API on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Identity, Education, Research, and Federation.

Australian Access Federation’s developer surface includes support, signup flow, pricing, and 13 more developer resources.

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17.8/100 emerging ▼ -7.2 Agent 14/100 agent aware Heartbeat 88/100 alive Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0 · Show this score on your site →

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Company Identity Education Research Federation

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scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0

Composite quality — 17.8/100 · emerging

Contract Quality 0.0 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 0.4 / 17

Access Clarity 8.9 / 17

Operational Transparency 1.5 / 11

Contract Governance 0.0 / 10

Discoverability 4.6 / 9

Regulatory Posture 2.4 / 15

Agent readiness — 14/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 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 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 4 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

Delegated User Identity 6 / 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

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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.

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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
MCP Server +12 pts — deployment.mode + probe verdict on the mcp/ manifest, not the pointer; an unprobed slug falls back to authorship
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

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
Developer Ergonomics scores 2.4 — up to +19.5 composite points
Contract Governance scores 0.0 — up to +12.0 composite points

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APIs 1

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

Australian Access Federation API

Provides identity federation services for Australian research and education institutions.

Australian Access Federation API pricing

Prices published by Australian Access Federation, read 2026-10-13 from aaf.edu.au/start/pricing/.

Plan	Price
Service Provider One‑off Joining Fee	One‑off joining fee – from $4,400
Service Provider Annual Subscription	Annual Subscription fee – from $2,046 (per service) per year
Rapid IdP Starter	From $4,500 per year.
Rapid IdP Research	From $11,300 per year.
Rapid IdP Enterprise	From $30,000 per year.
Publisher Subscription Joining Fee	Joining Fee from $4,400 AUD per year.
Publisher Subscription Annual Fee	Annual Fee from $2,107 AUD per year.
Consortium Leader Fee	From $10,067 AUD per year.

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Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Australian Access Federation Plans Pricing

9 plans

PLANS

Security Posture 1

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

Australian Access Federation Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Resources

Get Started 1

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

SignUp

SignUp

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

WellKnown

WellKnown

Access & Security 4

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

TrustCenter

Security

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support

Support

StatusPage

StatusPage

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Plans

Plans

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

Pricing

Pricing

Company 3

The organization behind the API

Newsroom

Newsroom

Website

Website

Website

Website

Other 2

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Hosts

Hosts

Vendors

Vendors

Source (apis.yml)

aid: australian-access-federation
name: Australian Access Federation
description: The Australian Access Federation (AAF) is the national trust and identity capability for Australia’s research
  and higher education sector. It enables seamless, secure access to digital resources across institutions with a single identity,
  supports federated services like EduGAIN, ORCID, and Rapid IdP, and connects thousands of users and services both domestically
  and internationally. AAF drives collaboration, reduces costs, and fosters innovation across the research ecosystem.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/australian-access-federation/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: harvest:tag-qc
x-tier: profiled
x-tier-reason: enrichment pass 2026-10-13 (modular-v1; was harvest)
accessModel:
  pricing: paid
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Paid
  confidence: low
  probe_state: none
  source:
  - plans
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-06'
  method: derived
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-10-13'
modified: '2026-10-13'
tags:
- Company
- Identity
- Education
- Research
- Federation
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: Plans
  url: plans/australian-access-federation-plans-pricing.yml
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/australian-access-federation-well-known.yml
- type: Hosts
  url: hosts/australian-access-federation-hosts.yml
- type: Vendors
  url: vendors/australian-access-federation-vendors.yml
- type: TrustCenter
  url: https://trust.aaf.edu.au/
- type: Support
  url: https://aaf.edu.au/support/
- type: StatusPage
  url: https://status.aaf.edu.au/
- type: SignUp
  url: https://aaf.edu.au/project/register-now-for-the-aaf-focus-group/
- type: Security
  url: https://aaf.edu.au/support/security/
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://aaf.edu.au/wp-content/uploads/Privacy-Collection_v1.2_2025.pdf
- type: Pricing
  url: https://aaf.edu.au/start/pricing/
- type: Newsroom
  url: https://aaf.edu.au/about/news/
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/australian-access-federation-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://aaf.edu.au/
  x-coverage:
    state: none
    reason: no-developer-program
    detail: The Australian Access Federation provides identity services but does not expose a public developer program or
      API documentation.
    evidence:
    - url: https://aaf.edu.au/
      status: 200
    checked: '2026-10-13'
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/australian-access-federation-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://aaf.edu.au/
apis:
- name: Australian Access Federation API
  description: Provides identity federation services for Australian research and education institutions.
  humanURL: https://aaf.edu.au/
  aid: australian-access-federation:australian-access-federation-api
x-coverage:
  state: none
  reason: no-developer-program
  method: derived
  generated: '2026-10-13'
  generator: derive-coverage.py (pre-flight evidence)
  detail: the company publishes no developer documentation host and no machine-readable contract on its own domain
  evidence:
  - url: https://api.edu.au/mcp
    status: 403
  - url: https://support.aaf.edu.au/mcp
    status: 401
  - url: https://aaf.edu.au/
    status: 200
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-10-13'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 9
  pass: modular-v1
  engine: identity=local,contract=local,surfaces=local,docs=local,regulatory=local

Australian Access Federation API — frequently asked questions

Does Australian Access Federation have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 1 API from Australian Access Federation, including Australian Access Federation API.

How much does the Australian Access Federation API cost?

Australian Access Federation publishes its prices; its Service Provider One‑off Joining Fee plan is One‑off joining fee – from $4,400 as of 2026-10-13. APIs.io lists 9 pricing plans for Australian Access Federation, with each plan's price, limits and inclusions under Pricing on this page.

Is the Australian Access Federation API ready for AI agents?

Australian Access Federation has a Kin Score of 17.8 out of 100 (emerging) and an Agent Readiness score of 13.7 (agent-aware), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.

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