# Bonsai

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/bonsai-io/  
**Website:** https://bonsai.io  
**APIs profiled:** 4

Bonsai, made by One More Cloud, is a fully managed hosted Elasticsearch and OpenSearch search service (managed or bring-your-own-cloud on AWS and Google Cloud), with vector search, a Heroku add-on and a Terraform provider. Its Bonsai Cloud REST API at https://api.bonsai.io (alpha) manages clusters and lists plans, releases (search engine versions) and spaces (regions), authenticated with Basic or Bearer API tokens.

## Kin Score — 42.3 / 100 (developing)

Scored 2026-11-06 under rubric 0.27.0. Trend: falling (-11.9 from 54.2).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 71.4 |
| Contract Quality | 30.3 |
| Contract Governance | 22.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 36.8 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 31.0 |
| Access Clarity | 61.8 |

Regulatory layer — **Horizontal (data, software, accessibility, platform)**: 30.4 (matched via fallback).

## Agent readiness — 22.5 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | bearer |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | documented |
| 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 |
| Delegated Identity | no |
| Protected Resource Metadata | no |
| Dynamic Client Registration | no |
| Agentic Commerce | no |
| Pagination Ratio | na |
| Operation Distinctiveness | distinct |
| MCP Tool Quality | na |

## Access

Paid — onboarding: unknown, pricing: paid, trial: no (confidence: high).

## APIs (4)

- **Bonsai Clusters API** — The Clusters API from Bonsai — 2 operation(s) for clusters.
- **Bonsai Plans API** — The Plans API from Bonsai — 2 operation(s) for plans.
- **Bonsai Releases API** — The Releases API from Bonsai — 2 operation(s) for releases.
- **Bonsai Spaces API** — The Spaces API from Bonsai — 2 operation(s) for spaces.

## Security (2)

- **Bonsai Io Authentication** — 2 schemes
- **Bonsai Io Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

## Plans (2)

- **Bonsai Io Plans Pricing**
- **Bonsai Io Price Estimates**

## Tags

Company, Search, Elasticsearch, OpenSearch, Managed Service, Vector Search, Cloud Infrastructure

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