# Azure Active Directory

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/azure-ad/  
**Website:** https://portal.azure.com  
**APIs profiled:** 6

Microsoft's cloud-based identity and access management service that helps employees sign in and access resources. Azure AD provides OAuth, OpenID Connect, SAML, and other identity protocols for securing applications and managing user identities.

## Kin Score — 43.1 / 100 (developing)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 43.1).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 74.1 |
| Contract Quality | 55.2 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 26.3 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 45.2 |
| Commercial Clarity | 47.4 |
| Access Clarity | 47.4 |

## Agent readiness — 29.1 (agent-aware)

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

## APIs (6)

- **Azure AD B2C API** — Business-to-consumer identity management solution.
- **Azure Active Directory Applications API** — Application registrations in Entra ID
- **Azure Active Directory Directory API** — Directory roles and objects
- **Azure Active Directory Groups API** — Microsoft 365 and security groups
- **Azure Active Directory Me API** — Operations on the signed-in user
- **Azure Active Directory Users API** — User accounts in the directory

## Agentic access (1)

- **Azure Ad Agentic Access** — 14 operations · 4 acting

## Security (2)

- **Azure Ad Authentication** — oauth2 · 1 scheme
- **Azure Ad Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

## Plans (1)

- **Azure Ad Plans Pricing**

## Use cases (5)

- **Enterprise SSO** — Provide single sign-on for employees across thousands of SaaS applications.
- **Zero Trust Security** — Implement zero trust architecture with identity as the control plane.
- **Consumer Identity** — Build customer-facing login with Azure AD B2C supporting social identities.
- **API Security** — Secure APIs with OAuth 2.0 tokens issued by Azure AD.
- **Hybrid Identity** — Extend on-premises Active Directory to the cloud with Azure AD Connect.

## Tags

Authentication, Authorization, Identity, OpenID Connect, Single Sign-On

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