Caddy

Caddy is a modern, extensible, open-source web server and reverse proxy written in Go that provides automatic HTTPS via Let's Encrypt, a dynamic JSON-based admin API, a human-friendly Caddyfile configuration format, and a modular architecture with a rich ecosystem of plugins for authentication, observability, and custom behavior.

Caddy publishes 5 APIs on the APIs.io network, including Adapt API, Configuration API, Lifecycle API, and 2 more. Tagged areas include Automatic HTTPS, Go, Load Balancer, Reverse Proxy, and TLS.

Caddy’s developer surface includes documentation and 12 more developer resources.

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29.7/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 19/100 agent aware self hosted · Apache-2.0 Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0

AccessFreemium

6 APIs

Automatic HTTPSGo Load Balancer Reverse Proxy TLS Web Server

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scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0

Composite quality — 29.7/100 · thin

Contract Quality 7.6 / 20

Developer Ergonomics 3.4 / 16

Access Clarity 2.5 / 16

Operational Transparency 3.8 / 10

Contract Governance 0.0 / 10

Discoverability 5.2 / 8

Open Source Surface 5.0 / 10

Create-or-Update Ergonomics 0.0 / 10

Agent readiness — 19/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

Documented Reversibility 6 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 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 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

Open Source Surface applies to this provider. This product is open source and we read its repository directly, so Open Source Surface carries 10 points of the composite. It is scored from what the repository actually publishes — a security policy, a contribution guide, a release history, a code of conduct — read live from the provider rather than inferred from our own catalog pointers. This facet adds; nothing was taken away to make room for it. An open-source project is not excused from the commercial facets, because exemption would strip it of the points it does earn. If we have the wrong repository, or this product is not open source, say so on your provider repo and we will drop the facet rather than have you publish against it.

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.

The six quality facets above are damped to 80 points between them, because the conditional facet above carries the other 20. That is why each facet's contribution is shown against a damped maximum: raising a quality facet moves the composite by 80% of its nominal weight, not 100%. The full arithmetic is at apis.io/rating/.

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APIs 6

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

Caddy Admin API

Caddy exposes a RESTful administration API on localhost:2019 by default for dynamically loading and modifying server configuration at runtime without restarts. Endpoints support...

Caddy Adapt API

The Adapt API from Caddy — 1 operation(s) for adapt.

Caddy Configuration API

The Configuration API from Caddy — 1 operation(s) for configuration.

Caddy Lifecycle API

The Lifecycle API from Caddy — 2 operation(s) for lifecycle.

Caddy PKI API

The PKI API from Caddy — 2 operation(s) for pki.

Caddy Reverse Proxy API

The Reverse Proxy API from Caddy — 1 operation(s) for reverse proxy.

Open Collections 7

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

API Collection

OPEN COLLECTION

Caddy Admin Adapt API

OPEN COLLECTION

Caddy Admin Adapt Configuration API

OPEN COLLECTION

Caddy Admin Adapt Lifecycle API

OPEN COLLECTION

Caddy Admin Adapt PKI API

OPEN COLLECTION

Caddy Admin Adapt Reverse Proxy API

OPEN COLLECTION

Caddy Admin API

OPEN COLLECTION

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Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Caddy Plans Pricing

3 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Caddy Rate Limits

5 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

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

Caddy Finops

FINOPS

Security Posture 1

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

Caddy Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · DMARC

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

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

Caddy Agentic Access

11 operations · 7 acting · 1 human-in-the-loop

11 operations · 7 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

ContributionGuide

ContributionGuide

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 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

SecurityPolicy

SecurityPolicy

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 3

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

IssueTracker

IssueTracker

Releases

Releases

Community Forum

Community Forum

Commercial 1

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

License

License

Company 1

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Other 2

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Download

Download

Sponsors

Source (apis.yml)

aid: caddy
name: Caddy
description: Caddy is a modern, extensible, open-source web server and reverse proxy written in Go that provides automatic
  HTTPS via Let's Encrypt, a dynamic JSON-based admin API, a human-friendly Caddyfile configuration format, and a modular
  architecture with a rich ecosystem of plugins for authentication, observability, and custom behavior.
type: Index
kind: opensource
deliveryModel:
  model: self-hosted
  license: Apache-2.0
  open_source: true
  commercial: false
  callable_host: false
  label: Self-hosted open source · you run it yourself
  confidence: high
  source:
  - license
  - openapi
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: freemium
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Freemium
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
position: Consuming
access: Open Source
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/caddy.png
tags:
- Automatic HTTPS
- Go
- Load Balancer
- Reverse Proxy
- TLS
- Web Server
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/caddy/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2026-03-27'
modified: '2026-05-19'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- aid: caddy:caddy-admin-api
  name: Caddy Admin API
  description: Caddy exposes a RESTful administration API on localhost:2019 by default for dynamically loading and modifying
    server configuration at runtime without restarts. Endpoints support loading full JSON configs, traversing and mutating
    specific config paths, adapting Caddyfile to JSON, and querying PKI and reverse proxy state.
  humanURL: https://caddyserver.com/docs/api
  baseURL: http://localhost:2019
  tags:
  - Admin API
  - Configuration
  - REST
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://caddyserver.com/docs/api
  - type: JSON Config Structure
    url: https://caddyserver.com/docs/json/
  - type: Modules Reference
    url: https://caddyserver.com/docs/modules/
  - type: API Tutorial
    url: https://caddyserver.com/docs/api-tutorial
  x-features:
  - POST /load for full config replacement
  - GET/POST/PUT/PATCH/DELETE /config/[path] for granular updates
  - POST /adapt to convert Caddyfile to JSON without loading
  - POST /stop for graceful shutdown
  - GET /pki/ca/{id} for internal CA inspection
  - GET /reverse_proxy/upstreams for upstream status
  - ETag and If-Match concurrency control
  x-use-cases:
  - Dynamic configuration in orchestrated environments
  - Multi-tenant SaaS with per-tenant routes
  - Zero-downtime config changes
  - Integration with service discovery
  - Observability of upstream health
- aid: caddy:caddy-adapt-api
  name: Caddy Adapt API
  description: The Adapt API from Caddy — 1 operation(s) for adapt.
  humanURL: https://caddyserver.com/
  baseURL: http://localhost:2019
  tags:
  - Adapt
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/caddy-adapt-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://caddyserver.com/docs/
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://caddyserver.com/docs/getting-started
  - type: GitHubRepository
    url: https://github.com/caddyserver/caddy
  - type: Download
    url: https://caddyserver.com/download
- aid: caddy:caddy-configuration-api
  name: Caddy Configuration API
  description: The Configuration API from Caddy — 1 operation(s) for configuration.
  humanURL: https://caddyserver.com/
  baseURL: http://localhost:2019
  tags:
  - Configuration
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/caddy-configuration-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://caddyserver.com/docs/
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://caddyserver.com/docs/getting-started
  - type: GitHubRepository
    url: https://github.com/caddyserver/caddy
  - type: Download
    url: https://caddyserver.com/download
- aid: caddy:caddy-lifecycle-api
  name: Caddy Lifecycle API
  description: The Lifecycle API from Caddy — 2 operation(s) for lifecycle.
  humanURL: https://caddyserver.com/
  baseURL: http://localhost:2019
  tags:
  - Lifecycle
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/caddy-lifecycle-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://caddyserver.com/docs/
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://caddyserver.com/docs/getting-started
  - type: GitHubRepository
    url: https://github.com/caddyserver/caddy
  - type: Download
    url: https://caddyserver.com/download
- aid: caddy:caddy-pki-api
  name: Caddy PKI API
  description: The PKI API from Caddy — 2 operation(s) for pki.
  humanURL: https://caddyserver.com/
  baseURL: http://localhost:2019
  tags:
  - PKI
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/caddy-pki-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://caddyserver.com/docs/
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://caddyserver.com/docs/getting-started
  - type: GitHubRepository
    url: https://github.com/caddyserver/caddy
  - type: Download
    url: https://caddyserver.com/download
- aid: caddy:caddy-reverse-proxy-api
  name: Caddy Reverse Proxy API
  description: The Reverse Proxy API from Caddy — 1 operation(s) for reverse proxy.
  humanURL: https://caddyserver.com/
  baseURL: http://localhost:2019
  tags:
  - Reverse Proxy
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/caddy-reverse-proxy-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://caddyserver.com/docs/
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://caddyserver.com/docs/getting-started
  - type: GitHubRepository
    url: https://github.com/caddyserver/caddy
  - type: Download
    url: https://caddyserver.com/download
common:
- type: IssueTracker
  url: https://github.com/caddyserver/caddy/issues
- type: Releases
  url: https://github.com/caddyserver/caddy/releases
- type: SecurityPolicy
  url: https://github.com/caddyserver/caddy/blob/master/.github/SECURITY.md
- type: ContributionGuide
  url: https://github.com/caddyserver/caddy/blob/master/.github/CONTRIBUTING.md
- type: License
  name: Apache-2.0
  url: https://github.com/caddyserver/caddy/blob/master/LICENSE
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/caddy-agentic-access.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/caddy-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://caddyserver.com/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://caddyserver.com/docs/
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/caddyserver
- type: Community Forum
  url: https://caddy.community/
- type: Download
  url: https://caddyserver.com/download
- type: Sponsors
  url: https://github.com/sponsors/mholt
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com

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