# Benchling **Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/benchling/ **Website:** https://www.benchling.com/developer-platform **APIs profiled:** 58 Benchling is a life sciences R&D cloud platform offering a comprehensive REST API for programmatically managing molecular biology entities, assay results and runs, electronic lab notebook entries, DNA/RNA/protein sequences, inventory, and experiment workflows. The API enables integrations with lab instruments, ERP systems, LIMS, and external databases, as well as bulk data ingest/export and event-driven automation via webhooks and AWS EventBridge. API access is available to Professional and Enterprise tenants and supports user API keys, OAuth 2.0 client credentials, and OIDC authentication. ## Kin Score — 68.2 / 100 (exemplar) Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (-1.9 from 70.1). | Facet | Score | |---|---| | Discoverability | 57.4 | | Contract Quality | 61.3 | | Governance | 40.2 | | Contract Governance | 40.2 | | Operational Transparency | 69.7 | | Developer Ergonomics | 49.4 | | Commercial Clarity | 86.8 | | Access Clarity | 86.8 | Regulatory layer — **Health**: 58.8 (matched via tags). ## Agent readiness — 49.2 (agent-ready) | Dimension | Value | |---|---| | Spec Presence | yes | | Agentic Access | derived | | Reversibility Documented | no | | MCP Server | documented | | Auth Clarity | yes | | Idempotency | no | | Error Semantics | verified | | OpenAPI Examples | partial | | Rate Limit Signal | documented | | Event Surface Described | yes | | Agent Skills | derived | | 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 (58) - **Benchling AA Sequences API** — AA Sequences are the working units of cells that make everything run (they help make structures, catalyze reactions and allow for signaling - a kind of internal cell communicati... - **Benchling Apps API** — Create and manage Benchling apps on your tenant - **Benchling Assay Results API** — Results represent the output of assays that have been performed. You can customize the schemas of results to fit your needs. Results can link to runs, entities, and other types.... - **Benchling Assay Runs API** — Runs capture the details / parameters of a run that was performed. Results are usually nested under a run. - **Benchling Audit API** — Export audit log data for Benchling objects. - **Benchling Authentication API** — Endpoints to help authenticate with the rest of the API resources. - **Benchling Blobs API** — Blobs are opaque files that can be linked to other items in Benchling, like assay runs or results. For example, you can upload a blob, then upload an assay result that links to ... - **Benchling Boxes API** — Boxes are a structured inventory type, consisting of a grid of positions that can each hold one container. Unlike locations, there are a maximum number of containers that a box ... - **Benchling Codon Usage Tables API** — Benchling curates codon usage data for a variety of organisms to support operations such as Codon Optimization and Back Translation. - **Benchling Connect API** — Connect endpoints support Benchling Connect actions, like instrument data conversion. - **Benchling Containers API** — Containers are the backbone of sample management in Benchling. They represent physical containers, such as tubes or wells, that hold quantities of biological samples (represente... - **Benchling Custom Entities API** — Benchling supports custom entities for biological entities that are neither DNA, RNA, nor AA sequences. Custom entities must have an entity schema set and can have both schema f... - **Benchling Custom Notations API** — Benchling allows users to configure their own fully-custom string representation formats for import/export of nucleotide sequences (including chemical modifications). - **Benchling Data Frames API** — Data frames in Benchling represent tabular data that is not schematized. They contain columns with defined types and rows of data. Data frames are primarily used within specific... - **Benchling Datasets API** — Similar to Data frames, datasets in Benchling represent tabular data that is not schematized. Datasets are saved to folders within Benchling with additional metadata, making the... - **Benchling DNA Alignments API** — A DNA alignment is a Benchling object representing an alignment of multiple DNA sequences. This endpoint is deprecated, please migrate to the existing [Nucleotide Alignments end... - **Benchling DNA Oligos API** — DNA Oligos are short linear DNA sequences that can be attached as primers to full DNA sequences. Just like other entities, they support schemas, tags, and aliases. - **Benchling DNA Sequences API** — DNA sequences are the bread and butter of the Benchling Molecular Biology suite. On Benchling, these are comprised of a string of nucleotides and collections of other attributes... - **Benchling Dropdowns API** — Dropdowns are registry-wide enums. Use dropdowns to standardize on spelling and naming conventions, especially for important metadata like resistance markers. - **Benchling Entities API** — Entities include DNA and AA sequences, oligos, molecules, custom entities, and other biological objects in Benchling. Entities support schemas, tags, and aliases, and can be reg... - **Benchling Entries API** — Entries are rich text documents that allow you to capture all of your experimental data in one place. - **Benchling Enzymes API** — Restriction enzymes are curated by Benchling for operations such as Digests and Codon Optimization. - **Benchling Events API** — The Events system allows external services to subscribe to events that are triggered in Benchling (e.g. plasmid registration, request submission, etc). - **Benchling Exports API** — Export a Notebook Entry or a Legacy Workflow Stage Entry. - **Benchling Feature Libraries API** — Feature Libraries are collections of shared canonical patterns that can be used to generate annotations on matching regions of DNA Sequences or AA Sequences. - **Benchling Files API** — Files are Benchling objects that represent files and their metadata. Compared to Blobs, which are used by most Benchling products for attachments, Files are primarily used in th... - **Benchling Folders API** — Folders are nested within projects to provide additional organization. - **Benchling Instrument Queries API** — Instrument Queries are used to query the instrument service. - **Benchling Inventory API** — Manage inventory wide objects. - **Benchling Lab Automation API** — Lab Automation endpoints support integration with lab instruments, and liquid handlers to create samples or results, and capture transfers between containers at scale. - **Benchling Label Templates API** — List label templates. - **Benchling Legacy Requests API** — Legacy Requests allow scientists and teams to collaborate around experimental assays and workflows. - **Benchling Legacy Workflows API** — Legacy Workflows allow orchestrating complex experiments. - **Benchling Legacy Workflows (deprecated) API** — Please use endpoints for Legacy Workflows. These deprecated endpoints will be removed once users are migrated onto Legacy Workflows endpoints. - **Benchling Locations API** — Manage locations objects. Like all inventory, every Location has a barcode that is unique across the registry. - **Benchling Mixtures API** — Mixtures are solutions comprised of multiple ingredients where the exact quantities of each ingredient are important to track. Each ingredient is uniquely identified by its comp... - **Benchling Molecules API** — Molecules are groups of atoms held together by bonds, representing entities smaller than DNA Sequences and AA Sequences. Just like other entities, they support schemas, tags, an... - **Benchling Monomers API** — Monomers are chemical building blocks with specified structures used to compose modified nucleotides. Note that monomer write endpoints require tenant admin permissions. - **Benchling Nucleotide Alignments API** — A Nucleotide Alignment is a Benchling object representing an alignment of multiple DNA and/or RNA sequences. - **Benchling Oligos API** — Oligos are short linear DNA sequences that can be attached as primers to full DNA sequences. Just like other entities, they support schemas, tags, and aliases. Please migrate to... - …and 18 more, listed in full on the page. ## MCP servers (1) - **Benchling MCP Server** — Benchling operates an official, first-party REMOTE MCP server. It is wildcard-tenanted: every Benchling tenant gets its own host under *.mcp.benchling.com, and an MCP client POS... ## Agentic access (1) - **Benchling Agentic Access** — 402 operations · 234 acting ## Security (3) - **Benchling Authentication** — http/oauth2 · 2 schemes - **Benchling Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC - **Benchling Trust Center** — SOC 2 Type 2, ISO/IEC 27001:2022, ISO/IEC 27017:2015, ISO/IEC 27018:2025 ## Plans (1) - **Benchling Plans Pricing** ## Tags Life Sciences, Biotech, R&D, Molecular Biology, Laboratory Information Management, Electronic Lab Notebook, Assay Management, Inventory Management, Sequence Management, Experiment Workflows, REST, Webhook --- Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/benchling/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.