# CDK Global

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/cdk-global/  
**Website:** https://www.cdkglobal.com  
**APIs profiled:** 13

CDK Global is the dominant U.S. dealer management system (DMS) provider, serving roughly 15,000 automotive dealerships with software covering sales, F&I, fixed operations, parts, CRM, and digital retail. CDK was spun out of ADP in 2014 and acquired by Brookfield Business Partners in July 2022 for $8.3B (taken private). The company operates the Fortellis platform — a developer marketplace and integration hub with 135+ published APIs, 425+ marketplace apps, 82,000+ dealer integrations, and 6.7B+ API transactions per year — exposing CDK DMS data to ISVs, OEMs, and third-party automotive systems. CDK suffered a major BlackSuit ransomware attack on June 19, 2024, paying ~$25M in bitcoin to restore service over roughly two weeks; the outage caused an estimated $605M in dealer losses and triggered numerous lawsuits.

## Kin Score — 50.6 / 100 (developing)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 50.6).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 64.8 |
| Contract Quality | 69.5 |
| Governance | 26.5 |
| Contract Governance | 26.5 |
| Operational Transparency | 34.2 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 42.9 |
| Commercial Clarity | 52.6 |
| Access Clarity | 52.6 |

## Agent readiness — 30.3 (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 | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | derived |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Free · Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: free, trial: no (confidence: high).

## APIs (13)

- **Fortellis Platform** — Fortellis is CDK Global's open automotive commerce platform — an API gateway, app marketplace, and developer community that brokers data flow between dealerships, ISVs, OEMs, he...
- **Fortellis Event Relay Data Plane Proxy (AsyncAPI)** — AsyncAPI specification for the Fortellis Event Relay data-plane proxy used by event sources to publish events into Fortellis for fan-out to subscribers.
- **Fortellis AsyncAPI Hello World Reference** — Hello World AsyncAPI reference distributed by Fortellis to teach the asynchronous API pattern, channel topology, and message envelope conventions used across Fortellis event APIs.
- **CDK Global adopt API** — The adopt API from CDK Global — 2 operation(s) for adopt.
- **CDK Global adopt delete API** — The adopt delete API from CDK Global — 1 operation(s) for adopt delete.
- **CDK Global adopt update API** — The adopt update API from CDK Global — 1 operation(s) for adopt update.
- **CDK Global cancel API** — The cancel API from CDK Global — 1 operation(s) for cancel.
- **CDK Global create API** — The create API from CDK Global — 1 operation(s) for create.
- **CDK Global events API** — The events API from CDK Global — 1 operation(s) for events.
- **CDK Global manage API** — The manage API from CDK Global — 1 operation(s) for manage.
- **CDK Global query API** — The query API from CDK Global — 6 operation(s) for query.
- **CDK Global Service Booking API** — The Service Booking API from CDK Global — 6 operation(s) for service booking.
- **CDK Global update API** — The update API from CDK Global — 1 operation(s) for update.

## Agentic access (1)

- **Cdk Global Agentic Access** — 25 operations · 12 acting

## Security (2)

- **Cdk Global Authentication** — oauth2 · 1 scheme
- **Cdk Global Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

## Plans (1)

- **Cdk Global Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Automotive, Dealer Management, DMS, Auto Retail, F&I, Fixed Operations, Parts, CRM, Digital Retail, Marketplace, Developer Platform, Event, Webhook, AsyncAPI

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