Badgr

Badgr is an open digital badging and micro-credentialing platform built on the Open Badges standard. Originally created by Concentric Sky, Badgr is now operated by Instructure as Canvas Credentials (and folded into Parchment Digital Badges). It lets organizations issue verifiable, portable achievement badges and learners collect them in a shareable Backpack. The platform is backed by the open-source badgr-server (github.com/concentricsky/badgr-server), which implements Open Badges 2.0/2.1 (Badge Connect). The documented REST API (base https://api.badgr.io/v2, with regional deployments in the EU, Canada, and Australia) uses OAuth2 bearer tokens and exposes Issuers, BadgeClasses, Assertions (awarded badges), the learner Backpack, Collections, and Users.

Badgr publishes 7 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network, including Assertions API, Authentication API, Backpack API, and 4 more. Tagged areas include Digital Badges, Open Badges, Micro-Credentials, Credentialing, and Verifiable Credentials.

The Badgr catalog on APIs.io includes 1 Spectral governance ruleset.

Badgr’s developer surface includes engineering blog, authentication, documentation, and 10 more developer resources.

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26.9/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 27/100 agent aware Heartbeat 0/100 dormant saas Full breakdown ↓
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1 published contract

Digital BadgesOpen BadgesMicro-CredentialsCredentialing Verifiable Credentials Education Open Source

What this lets a business do 1

Business capabilities this provider's published APIs can perform, derived from its own contracts. Browse all capabilities →

Student Enrolment & Records Management

BC-4720

AssertionsBadgeClasses

POST /v2/issuers/{entityId}/badgeclasses POST /v2/badgeclasses/{entityId}/assertions DELETE /v2/assertions/{entityId}

Kin Score

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scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0

Composite quality — 26.9/100 · thin

Contract Quality 8.4 / 19

Developer Ergonomics 3.6 / 15

Access Clarity 1.2 / 15

Operational Transparency 1.0 / 10

Contract Governance 1.2 / 9

Discoverability 5.0 / 8

Regulatory Posture 3.2 / 15

Create-or-Update Ergonomics 0.0 / 10

Agent readiness — 27/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 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 7 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 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 applies to this provider. This API accepts writes, so it carries 10 points of the composite. It is scored from the published contracts themselves: whether a caller can create-or-update in one call, whether the write accepts a key the caller already holds, and whether the response says which branch ran. Without that, every write needs a search-and-branch in front of it, and the first time that check is skipped a duplicate record is created. Scored against the observed mean rather than raw — a provider at the catalog average is unchanged by this facet, not penalised by it.

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Agent readiness — checks not met, largest first (exact, from this profile):

MCP Server +12 pts — deployment.mode + probe verdict on the mcp/ manifest, not the pointer; an unprobed slug falls back to authorship
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
Registration Without a Human +6 pts — a `registration_endpoint` in the served RFC 8414 / OIDC discovery document
Typed Event Surface +6 pts — AsyncAPI document, OR webhooks/callbacks objects in the as-published OpenAPI, OR common[].type includes Webhooks

7 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

Kin Score — facets with the most composite points still available (weight × headroom):

Access Clarity scores 7.9 — up to +18.4 composite points
Developer Ergonomics scores 23.8 — up to +15.2 composite points
Contract Quality scores 44.6 — up to +13.9 composite points

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Standards implemented 2

Standards this provider implements or carries. De facto ones are profiled and measured by the API Commons; formal ones come from the standards directory and are linked by the provider's own tags. The evidence column says how each claim was established — not that it was made.

OpenAPI

measured — observed by APIs.io (published)

OAuth 2.0

measured — observed by APIs.io (declared)

APIs 7

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

Badgr Assertions API

The Assertions API from Badgr — 6 operation(s) for assertions.

Badgr Authentication API

The Authentication API from Badgr — 5 operation(s) for authentication.

Badgr Backpack API

The Backpack API from Badgr — 5 operation(s) for backpack.

Badgr BadgeClasses API

The BadgeClasses API from Badgr — 4 operation(s) for badgeclasses.

Badgr Collections API

The Collections API from Badgr — 3 operation(s) for collections.

Badgr Issuers API

The Issuers API from Badgr — 3 operation(s) for issuers.

Badgr Users API

The Users API from Badgr — 3 operation(s) for users.

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Open Collections 8

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

Badgr Assertions API

OPEN COLLECTION

Badgr Assertions Authentication API

OPEN COLLECTION

Badgr Assertions Backpack API

OPEN COLLECTION

Badgr Assertions BadgeClasses API

OPEN COLLECTION

Badgr Assertions Collections API

OPEN COLLECTION

Badgr Assertions Issuers API

OPEN COLLECTION

Badgr Assertions Users API

OPEN COLLECTION

Badgr API

OPEN COLLECTION

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Badgr API pricing

Not yet checked against Badgr's own pricing page. Compiled by API Evangelist on 2026-07-05 from badgr.com; confirm before you rely on a figure. A free plan or tier is listed.

Plan	Price
Open Source (Self-Hosted) free	—
Badgr Free / Canvas Badges Basic (legacy) free	—
Badgr Pro / Canvas Credentials (paid) paid	—
Enterprise / Institutional enterprise	—

Plan details, limits and sources →

Rate limits

v2 API Requests: not published requests
Self-Hosted Throughput: infrastructure-bound requests
Access Token Lifetime: token expiry (commonly ~86400s) seconds

Compiled by API Evangelist, not yet checked against Badgr's documentation. All 4 limits →

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Badgr Plans Pricing

4 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Badgr Rate Limits

4 limits

RATE LIMITS

Service Levels 1

Uptime the provider promises or reports, as SLA4OAI. Read from its own pages; APIs.io runs no monitors.

Badgr

SLA

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Badgr Finops

FINOPS

Spectral Rules 1

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

Badgr API Rules

58 rules · 55 errors 2 warnings 1 info

SPECTRAL

Security Posture 2

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

Badgr Authentication

oauth2 · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Badgr Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Scopes 1

OAuth scopes governing access to this provider's APIs.

Badgr Scopes

3 scopes · password/authorizationCode

3 scopes

SCOPES

Agentic Access 1

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Badgr Agentic Access

48 operations · 26 acting · 3 human-in-the-loop

48 operations · 26 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

AgenticAccess

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

Access & Security 3

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Authentication

Authentication

OAuthScopes

OAuthScopes

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

RateLimits

RateLimits

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Plans

Plans

FinOps

FinOps

Company 3

The organization behind the API

Blog

Blog

LinkedIn

Website

Website

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

CapabilityMap

CapabilityMap

Source (apis.yml)

aid: badgr
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/badgr/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
name: Badgr
kind: company
description: Badgr is an open digital badging and micro-credentialing platform built on the Open Badges standard. Originally
  created by Concentric Sky, Badgr is now operated by Instructure as Canvas Credentials (and folded into Parchment Digital
  Badges). It lets organizations issue verifiable, portable achievement badges and learners collect them in a shareable Backpack.
  The platform is backed by the open-source badgr-server (github.com/concentricsky/badgr-server), which implements Open Badges
  2.0/2.1 (Badge Connect). The documented REST API (base https://api.badgr.io/v2, with regional deployments in the EU, Canada,
  and Australia) uses OAuth2 bearer tokens and exposes Issuers, BadgeClasses, Assertions (awarded badges), the learner Backpack,
  Collections, and Users.
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: true
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: high
  source:
  - openapi
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: freemium
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: true
  public: false
  gated: none
  gated_source:
  - onboarding
  label: Freemium · Self-serve signup
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-06'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/badgr.png
x-docs-platform: swagger-ui
x-docs-platform-confidence: medium
x-docs-platform-checked: 2026-09-20
tags:
- Digital Badges
- Open Badges
- Micro-Credentials
- Credentialing
- Verifiable Credentials
- Education
- Open Source
tags_raw:
- Digital Badges
- Open Badges
- Micro-Credentials
- Credentialing
- Verifiable Credentials
- Education
- Open Source
- Open-Source
created: '2026-07-05'
modified: '2026-10-06'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- aid: badgr:badgr-assertions-api
  name: Badgr Assertions API
  description: The Assertions API from Badgr — 6 operation(s) for assertions.
  humanURL: https://api.badgr.io/docs/v2/
  baseURL: https://api.badgr.io/v2
  tags:
  - Assertions
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/badgr-assertions-api-openapi.yml
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://api.badgr.io/docs/v2/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Canvas-Badges/Canvas-Badges-App-Developers-API-Guide-Quickstart/ta-p/528729
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://concentricsky.github.io/badge-connect-guide/
- aid: badgr:badgr-authentication-api
  name: Badgr Authentication API
  description: The Authentication API from Badgr — 5 operation(s) for authentication.
  humanURL: https://api.badgr.io/docs/v2/
  baseURL: https://api.badgr.io/v2
  tags:
  - Authentication
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/badgr-authentication-api-openapi.yml
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://api.badgr.io/docs/v2/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Canvas-Badges/Canvas-Badges-App-Developers-API-Guide-Quickstart/ta-p/528729
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://concentricsky.github.io/badge-connect-guide/
- aid: badgr:badgr-backpack-api
  name: Badgr Backpack API
  description: The Backpack API from Badgr — 5 operation(s) for backpack.
  humanURL: https://api.badgr.io/docs/v2/
  baseURL: https://api.badgr.io/v2
  tags:
  - Backpack
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/badgr-backpack-api-openapi.yml
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://api.badgr.io/docs/v2/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Canvas-Badges/Canvas-Badges-App-Developers-API-Guide-Quickstart/ta-p/528729
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://concentricsky.github.io/badge-connect-guide/
- aid: badgr:badgr-badgeclasses-api
  name: Badgr BadgeClasses API
  description: The BadgeClasses API from Badgr — 4 operation(s) for badgeclasses.
  humanURL: https://api.badgr.io/docs/v2/
  baseURL: https://api.badgr.io/v2
  tags:
  - BadgeClasses
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/badgr-badgeclasses-api-openapi.yml
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://api.badgr.io/docs/v2/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Canvas-Badges/Canvas-Badges-App-Developers-API-Guide-Quickstart/ta-p/528729
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://concentricsky.github.io/badge-connect-guide/
- aid: badgr:badgr-collections-api
  name: Badgr Collections API
  description: The Collections API from Badgr — 3 operation(s) for collections.
  humanURL: https://api.badgr.io/docs/v2/
  baseURL: https://api.badgr.io/v2
  tags:
  - Collection
  tags_raw:
  - Collections
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/badgr-collections-api-openapi.yml
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://api.badgr.io/docs/v2/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Canvas-Badges/Canvas-Badges-App-Developers-API-Guide-Quickstart/ta-p/528729
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://concentricsky.github.io/badge-connect-guide/
- aid: badgr:badgr-issuers-api
  name: Badgr Issuers API
  description: The Issuers API from Badgr — 3 operation(s) for issuers.
  humanURL: https://api.badgr.io/docs/v2/
  baseURL: https://api.badgr.io/v2
  tags:
  - Issuers
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/badgr-issuers-api-openapi.yml
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://api.badgr.io/docs/v2/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Canvas-Badges/Canvas-Badges-App-Developers-API-Guide-Quickstart/ta-p/528729
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://concentricsky.github.io/badge-connect-guide/
- aid: badgr:badgr-users-api
  name: Badgr Users API
  description: The Users API from Badgr — 3 operation(s) for users.
  humanURL: https://api.badgr.io/docs/v2/
  baseURL: https://api.badgr.io/v2
  tags:
  - User
  tags_raw:
  - Users
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/badgr-users-api-openapi.yml
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://api.badgr.io/docs/v2/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Canvas-Badges/Canvas-Badges-App-Developers-API-Guide-Quickstart/ta-p/528729
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://concentricsky.github.io/badge-connect-guide/
common:
- url: https://badgr.com/blog/
  type: Blog
- type: CapabilityMap
  url: capabilities/badgr-capability-edges.yml
  name: Badgr Business Capability Map
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/badgr-agentic-access.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/badgr-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/badgr-authentication.yml
- type: OAuthScopes
  url: scopes/badgr-scopes.yml
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/concentricsky
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/instructure
- type: Website
  url: https://badgr.com
- type: Documentation
  url: https://api.badgr.io/docs/v2/
- type: Plans
  url: plans/badgr-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/badgr-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/badgr-finops.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com

Badgr API — frequently asked questions

Does Badgr have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 7 APIs from Badgr, including Badgr Assertions API, Badgr Authentication API and Badgr Backpack API, and 4 more.

Is there an OpenAPI specification for the Badgr API?

Yes. APIs.io indexes 7 OpenAPI specifications for Badgr, each linked for download from this page.

How do I authenticate with the Badgr API?

Badgr documents its authentication (oauth2 · 1 scheme). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Badgr Authentication.

How much does the Badgr API cost?

APIs.io lists 4 pricing plans for Badgr, with each plan's price, limits and inclusions under Pricing on this page.

Is the Badgr API ready for AI agents?

Badgr has a Kin Score of 26.9 out of 100 (thin) and an Agent Readiness score of 27.0 (agent-aware), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.

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