Basis

Basis is an advertising automation platform providing REST APIs for programmatic DSP campaign management, audience targeting, publisher management, reporting, and omnichannel media buying automation across display, video, audio, native, connected TV, and site-direct channels.

Basis publishes 1 API contract indexed on the APIs.io network: Analytics API. Tagged areas include Programmatic Advertising, DSP, Media Buying, Campaign Management, and Audience Targeting.

The Basis catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context and 1 Spectral governance ruleset.

Basis’ developer surface includes authentication, documentation, engineering blog, pricing, sandbox, signup flow, support, and 22 more developer resources.

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54.1/100 developing ▬ flat Agent 42/100 agent ready Front door AI 3/6 light Heartbeat 100/100 alive saas Full breakdown ↓
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AccessEnterprise

1 published contract 3 Agent Skills

Programmatic Advertising DSP Media Buying Campaign Management Audience Targeting AdTech

Kin Score

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scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0

Composite quality — 54.1/100 · developing

Contract Quality 13.9 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 7.6 / 17

Access Clarity 8.5 / 17

Operational Transparency 3.5 / 11

Contract Governance 4.3 / 10

Discoverability 5.6 / 9

Regulatory Posture 5.3 / 15

Agent readiness — 42/100 · agent ready

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

Documented Reversibility 6 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 9 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 8 / 8

Request/Response Examples 7 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 5 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 4 / 4

Delegated User Identity 6 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 6 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

Pagination 5 / 5

Distinct Operations 0 / 3

MCP Tool Quality 6 / 6

Regulatory Posture applies to this provider. Its tags matched the Horizontal (data, software, accessibility, platform) regime, so Regulatory Posture carries 15 points of the composite. If this regime is wrong for your business, say so on your provider repo — the applicability map is public and we will correct it.

Create-or-Update Ergonomics does not apply to this provider. The published contracts declare no write operations, and a read-only API cannot create-or-update. The facet is excluded from this provider's denominator entirely — not scored zero. A reference or data API is not deficient for being unable to upsert.

The six quality facets above are damped to 85 points between them, because the conditional facet above carries the other 15. That is why each facet's contribution is shown against a damped maximum: raising a quality facet moves the composite by 85% of its nominal weight, not 100%. The full arithmetic is at apis.io/rating/.

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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
A2A Agent Card +8 pts — a2a/-a2a.yml manifest, graded on conformance.grade against A2A 1.0.0
Typed Event Surface +6 pts — AsyncAPI document, OR webhooks/callbacks objects in the as-published OpenAPI, OR common[].type includes Webhooks
Protected Resource Metadata +5 pts — a served /.well-known/oauth-protected-resource carrying `resource` (documented), and naming its authorization_servers (verified)
Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document +5 pts — a parsing /.well-known/ucp.json or acp.json declaring a version and at least one service, OR (0.27) a live x402 payment challenge from _data/x402-adoption.json — `self` when its endpoints are on the provider's own domain, `platform` when they are on a vendor's
Well-Known Catalog +4 pts — common[].type includes WellKnown, APICatalog, or api-catalog

2 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

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

Developer Ergonomics scores 44.6 — up to +11.1 composite points
Access Clarity scores 50.0 — up to +10.0 composite points
Operational Transparency scores 31.6 — up to +8.9 composite points

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Markets this provider is in provisional

The Kin Score Market layer reads a provider inside its market: its position, and how deep its integrations go. Depth is only comparable within a position. Provisional and unweighted: not part of the Kin Score or agent readiness.

Market	Position	Depth	Registered MCP server	Declares compatibility
Amazon Seller Ecosystem (Selling Partner Appstore, Amazon Ads partners)	standard	36.4 (thin)	-	-

Registered MCP server and declares compatibility are report only — not weighted. Undeclared means we found nothing we can read, so there is no number: we never infer integrations.

Standards implemented 4

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.

Dataspace Protocol

tagged — the provider's own APIs.json carries the standard as a tag; implementation not verified

Dynamic Client Registration

measured — observed by APIs.io (published)

OpenAPI

measured — observed by APIs.io (published)

OAuth 2.0

1 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Basis Rate Limits

3 limits

RATE LIMITS

Service Levels 1

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

Basis

SLA

FinOps 1

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

Basis Finops

FINOPS

Semantic Vocabularies 1

JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.

Basis Context

18 classes · 9 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 1

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

Basis — jsonschema rules

5 rules · 4 warnings 1 info

SPECTRAL

OpenAPI Overlays 1

Overlays applied on top of this provider's contracts. Each card says who wrote it: a document the provider publishes, or one API Evangelist derived or generated.

Basis Analytics Api Overlay

3 actions · update · basis-analytics-api-openapi.yml

DERIVED

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Verticals Get

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

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Examples 1

Example request and response payloads for these APIs.

Basis Api Examples

1 fields

EXAMPLE

Security Posture 2

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

Basis Authentication

oauth2/http · 2 schemes

SECURITY

Basis Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Scopes 1

OAuth scopes governing access to this provider's APIs.

Basis Scopes

OAuth 2.0 · no documented scopes

0 scopes

SCOPES

Agentic Access 1

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

Basis Agentic Access

31 operations

31 operations · 0 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Get Started 2

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Sandbox

Sandbox

SignUp

SignUp

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

Agent Surfaces 5

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

AgenticAccess

WellKnown

WellKnown

X-MCPServerCandidate

X-MCPServerCandidate

LLMsTxt

LLMsTxt

AgentSkill

AgentSkill

Design & Contract 6

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Conventions

ErrorCatalog

Lifecycle

Conformance

DataModel

Vocabulary

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Packages

Packages

Access & Security 4

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

Authentication

OAuthScopes

Compliance

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

RateLimits

RateLimits

Support

Support

Commercial 4

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Pricing

Plans

FinOps

PrivacyPolicy

Company 3

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

LinkedIn

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Source (apis.yml)

aid: basis
name: Basis
description: Basis is an advertising automation platform providing REST APIs for programmatic DSP campaign management, audience
  targeting, publisher management, reporting, and omnichannel media buying automation across display, video, audio, native,
  connected TV, and site-direct channels.
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: enterprise
  onboarding: contact-sales
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Enterprise · Contact sales for credentials
  confidence: high
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  - https://api.basis.net/swagger.json
  generated: '2026-08-13'
  method: searched
  note: Corrected from onboarding "self-serve" on 2026-08-13. Basis's own API documentation states the opposite — "The Basis
    API is available to Centro customers and integration partners, and all organizations must acquire valid credentials prior
    to using the web services. Contact your Centro representative to obtain valid credentials." Redirect-URI registration
    and owner/agency-ID assignment are also handled by a Basis representative. https://platform.basis.net/auth/login is a
    sign-in for existing customers, not a developer sign-up.
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/basis.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/basis/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2026-06-13'
modified: '2026-08-13'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-08-13'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 18
  pass: local-v1
x-coverage:
  state: covered
tags:
- Programmatic Advertising
- DSP
- Media Buying
- Campaign Management
- Audience Targeting
- AdTech
apis:
- aid: basis:basis-analytics-api
  name: Basis Analytics API
  description: The Analytics API from Basis — 31 operation(s) for analytics.
  humanURL: https://basis.com/technology/enterprise-api
  baseURL: https://api.basis.net
  tags:
  - Analytics
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/basis-analytics-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://basis.com/technology/enterprise-api
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://api.basis.net/swagger.json
    name: Basis Platform API specification (OpenAPI 3.0.0, served by Basis)
  - type: Overlay
    url: overlays/basis-analytics-api-overlay.yaml
  - type: Examples
    url: examples/basis-api-examples.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/
  - type: Rules
    url: rules/basis-jsonschema-spectral-rules.yml
  - type: JSONLD
    url: json-ld/basis-context.jsonld
common:
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/basis-agentic-access.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/basis-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/basis-authentication.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://basis.com/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://basis.com/technology/enterprise-api
- type: Blog
  url: https://basis.com/blog
- type: Pricing
  url: https://basis.com/technology/enterprise-api
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/basis-technologies
- type: X
  url: https://twitter.com/basisglobaltech
- type: Plans
  url: plans/basis-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/basis-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/basis-finops.yml
- type: OAuthScopes
  url: scopes/basis-scopes.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/basis-conventions.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/basis-problem-types.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/basis-lifecycle.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/basis-conformance.yml
- type: Compliance
  url: conformance/basis-conformance.yml
  name: EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework, IAB member, DAA AdChoices participant
- type: DataModel
  url: data-model/basis-data-model.yml
- type: Sandbox
  url: sandbox/basis-sandbox.yml
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/basis-well-known.yml
  name: OIDC discovery + RFC 8414 metadata served at auth.basis.net
- type: X-MCPServerCandidate
  url: mcp/basis-mcp.yml
  note: 'Renamed from MCPServer 2026-09-03 (roadmap#247): the manifest self-describes as status: candidate — a tool list derived
    from the published API contracts, not an existing server. The scorer already read the manifest and reported mcp_server
    correctly; the MCPServer type was crediting the artifact-type surfaces with a server that does not exist.'
  name: Candidate tool surface derived from the Basis OpenAPI — Basis operates no MCP server
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/basis-llms.txt
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/_index.yml
- type: Packages
  url: packages/basis-packages.yml
  name: No first-party SDK published in any registry
- type: Vocabulary
  url: vocabulary/basis-vocabulary.json
- type: SignUp
  url: https://platform.basis.net/auth/login
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://privacy.basis.com/
- type: Support
  url: https://basis.com/connect
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com

Basis API — frequently asked questions

Does Basis have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 1 API from Basis, including Basis Analytics API.

Is there an OpenAPI specification for the Basis API?

Yes. APIs.io indexes 1 OpenAPI specification for Basis, each linked for download from this page.

How do I authenticate with the Basis API?

Basis documents its authentication (oauth2/http · 2 schemes). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Basis Authentication.

How much does the Basis API cost?

APIs.io lists 1 pricing plan for Basis, with each plan's price, limits and inclusions under Pricing on this page.

Is the Basis API ready for AI agents?

Basis has a Kin Score of 54.1 out of 100 (developing) and an Agent Readiness score of 42.2 (agent-ready), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.

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