# Carbone

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/carbone/  
**Website:** https://carbone.io/  
**APIs profiled:** 6

Carbone is a document generation engine that uses Word, Excel, PowerPoint and ODF templates with JSON data to produce PDFs or office documents. The Carbone HTTP API offers a template-then-render workflow with both cloud (api.carbone.io) and on-prem deployments. The Carbone JS rendering engine is open-source and embeddable.

## Kin Score — 33.5 / 100 (thin)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 33.5).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 74.1 |
| Contract Quality | 52.1 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 23.7 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 23.8 |
| Commercial Clarity | 26.3 |
| Access Clarity | 26.3 |

## Agent readiness — 32.1 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | partial |
| 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 |

## Access

Freemium (free trial) · Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: freemium, trial: yes (confidence: high).

## APIs (6)

- **Carbone Cloud HTTP API** — Cloud-hosted Carbone API. Two flows — upload-once via POST /template then render with a template ID; or single-request inline-base64 render. Bearer-token auth (Authorization hea...
- **Carbone On-Premises** — Self-hosted Carbone deployment exposing the same HTTP API. Auth disabled by default; enable via configuration. 30-day free trial of paid features.
- **Carbone Render Engine (Open Source)** — Open-source Node.js library that powers the rendering engine. Embed directly in your application; render templates with JSON data without hitting the cloud API.
- **Carbone Render API** — The Render API from Carbone — 3 operation(s) for render.
- **Carbone Status API** — The Status API from Carbone — 1 operation(s) for status.
- **Carbone Template API** — The Template API from Carbone — 2 operation(s) for template.

## Agentic access (1)

- **Carbone Agentic Access** — 7 operations · 4 acting

## Security (2)

- **Carbone Authentication** — http · 1 scheme
- **Carbone Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

## Plans (1)

- **Carbone Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Document Generation, PDF, Templates, Open-Source, Office, DOCX, XLSX

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