# Carto

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/carto/  
**Website:** https://carto.com  
**APIs profiled:** 10

CARTO is a cloud-native location intelligence platform that lets developers and analysts build spatial applications directly on top of modern data warehouses (BigQuery, Snowflake, Redshift, Databricks). It exposes a Maps API for vector and tileset map data, an SQL API for spatial analytics, a Workflows API for executing no-code spatial pipelines, an Import API for data ingestion, and the Data Observatory for curated third-party spatial datasets — all backed by OAuth access tokens and API access tokens.

## Kin Score — 44.0 / 100 (developing)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 44.0).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 72.2 |
| Contract Quality | 60.5 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 28.9 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 35.7 |
| Commercial Clarity | 53.9 |
| Access Clarity | 53.9 |

## Agent readiness — 37.4 (agent-ready)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | documented |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | yes |
| 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 (10)

- **CARTO Maps API** — Serves vector tables, SQL-query-backed tilesets, tileset sources, and raster/H3/quadbin tilesets for visualization in deck.gl, MapLibre, Google Maps, Amazon Location, or Mapbox ...
- **CARTO SQL API** — Executes SQL (including CARTO's spatial functions and analytics extensions) against a connected data warehouse from applications, returning GeoJSON / JSON results for spatial an...
- **CARTO Workflows API** — Executes visually-designed CARTO Workflows (spatial data pipelines) programmatically, enabling scheduled, CI-driven, or application- triggered spatial analytics runs.
- **CARTO Import API** — Ingests files and URLs (CSV, GeoJSON, Shapefile, etc.) into a user's connected CARTO data warehouse for downstream spatial analysis and mapping.
- **CARTO Data Observatory** — Curated catalog of third-party spatial datasets (demographics, POIs, mobility, financial, environmental) accessible via subscription and queryable directly from the customer's c...
- **CARTO Accounts API** — Manages CARTO user accounts, organizations, and API access tokens, including OAuth clients used for secure programmatic access.
- **CARTO for deck.gl** — Client library providing deck.gl layers for CARTO vector, H3, quadbin, raster, and query sources, simplifying application-layer integration with the Maps API.
- **CARTO for React** — React library of components and hooks for building CARTO-powered location intelligence applications with widgets, filters, and deck.gl map integration.
- **Carto Jobs API** — The Jobs API from Carto — 2 operation(s) for jobs.
- **Carto SQL API** — The SQL API from Carto — 1 operation(s) for sql.

## MCP servers (1)

- **MCP Server**

## Agentic access (1)

- **Carto Agentic Access** — 4 operations · 2 acting

## Security (2)

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

## Plans (1)

- **Carto Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Location Intelligence, Geospatial, Mapping, GIS, SQL, BigQuery, Snowflake, Data Warehouse

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