Cognito Forms

Cognito Forms is an online form builder with a REST API for managing forms, retrieving entries, updating submissions, and integrating form data into business applications. The API uses API key bearer token authentication and supports operations for forms, entries, and documents, with OData support for analytics tool integration.

Cognito Forms publishes 5 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network, including Entries API, Files API, and 3 more. Tagged areas include Forms, Form Builder, Form Entries, Workflow Automation, and Data Collection.

The Cognito Forms catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context and 1 Spectral governance ruleset.

Cognito Forms’ developer surface includes authentication, documentation, engineering blog, pricing, and 12 more developer resources.

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36.9/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 24/100 agent aware Front door AI 3/6 light Heartbeat 46/100 alive saas Full breakdown ↓
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AccessFreemiumSelf serve⚡ Free to try

1 published contract

Forms Form BuilderForm EntriesWorkflow Automation Data Collection OData

What this lets a business do 1

Business capabilities this provider's published APIs can perform, derived from its own contracts. Browse all capabilities →

Developer Platform & API Ecosystem Management

BC-4270

Webhooks

Kin Score

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scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0

Composite quality — 36.9/100 · thin

Contract Quality 10.8 / 19

Developer Ergonomics 4.7 / 15

Access Clarity 2.8 / 15

Operational Transparency 2.8 / 10

Contract Governance 0.9 / 9

Discoverability 5.0 / 8

Regulatory Posture 4.0 / 15

Create-or-Update Ergonomics 0.0 / 10

Agent readiness — 24/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 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 6 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

Pagination 0 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

MCP Tool Quality 6 / 6

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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.

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Agent readiness — checks not met, largest first (exact, from this profile):

MCP Server +12 pts — deployment.mode + probe verdict on the mcp/ manifest, not the pointer; an unprobed slug falls back to authorship
Idempotency +9 pts — OpenAPI mutating operations declare an idempotency key — a header, a request-body property, or a named de-duplication token whose own description says so (verified); else common[].type matches /idempoten/i (documented)
Stable Error Semantics +8 pts — OpenAPI $refs a shared error schema across 4xx/5xx responses (verified), else common[].type includes ErrorCatalog / ErrorCodes / DeclineCodes
A2A Agent Card +8 pts — a2a/-a2a.yml manifest, graded on conformance.grade against A2A 1.0.0
Request/Response Examples +7 pts — share of operations carrying request/response examples; else an Examples / Code Samples link
Registration Without a Human +6 pts — a `registration_endpoint` in the served RFC 8414 / OIDC discovery document

9 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

Kin Score — facets with the most composite points still available (weight × headroom):

Access Clarity scores 18.4 — up to +16.3 composite points
Developer Ergonomics scores 31.0 — up to +13.8 composite points
Contract Governance scores 9.8 — up to +10.8 composite points

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Markets this provider is in provisional

The Kin Score Market layer reads a provider inside its market: its position, and how deep its integrations go. Depth is only comparable within a position. Provisional and unweighted: not part of the Kin Score or agent readiness.

Market	Position	Depth	Registered MCP server	Declares compatibility
Surveys, Market Research and Experience Management	long-tail	2.5 (thin)	-	-

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Standards implemented 3

Standards this provider implements or carries. De facto ones are profiled and measured by the API Commons; formal ones come from the standards directory and are linked by the provider's own tags. The evidence column says how each claim was established — not that it was made.

OData

tagged — the provider's own APIs.json carries the standard as a tag; implementation not verified

OpenAPI

measured — observed by APIs.io (published)

OAuth 2.0

measured — observed by APIs.io (declared)

APIs 5

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

Cognito Forms Entries API

The Entries API from Cognito Forms — 5 operation(s) for entries.

Cognito Forms Files API

The Files API from Cognito Forms — 2 operation(s) for files.

Cognito Forms API

The Forms API from Cognito Forms — 3 operation(s) for forms.

Cognito Forms Webhooks API

The Webhooks API from Cognito Forms — 4 operation(s) for webhooks.

Cognito Forms O Data API

The OData API from Cognito Forms — 1 operation(s) for odata.

Open Collections 5

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

Cognito Forms Entries API

OPEN COLLECTION

Cognito Forms Entries Files API

OPEN COLLECTION

Cognito Entries Forms API

OPEN COLLECTION

Cognito Forms Entries OData API

OPEN COLLECTION

Cognito Forms Entries Webhooks API

OPEN COLLECTION

Cognito Forms API pricing

Not yet checked against Cognito Forms's own pricing page. Compiled by API Evangelist; confirm before you rely on a figure. A free plan or tier is listed.

Plan	Price
Individual	Free
Pro	$19.0
Team	$39.0
Enterprise	$129.0

Plan details, limits and sources →

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Cognito Forms Plans Pricing

4 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Cognito Forms Rate Limits

3 limits

RATE LIMITS

Service Levels 1

Uptime the provider promises or reports, as SLA4OAI. Read from its own pages; APIs.io runs no monitors.

Cognito Forms

SLA

FinOps 1

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

Cognito Forms Finops

FINOPS

Semantic Vocabularies 1

JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.

Cognito Forms Context

11 classes · 23 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 1

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

Cognito Forms — jsonschema rules

5 rules · 3 warnings 2 info

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 5

Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.

Error

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

FileDataRef

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

FormAvailability

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

FormReference

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ImportStatus

7 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Examples 3

Example request and response payloads for these APIs.

Create Entry Example

3 fields

EXAMPLE

Get Forms Example

3 fields

EXAMPLE

Import Entries Example

3 fields

EXAMPLE

Security Posture 2

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

Cognito Forms Authentication

oauth2 · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Cognito Forms Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · DMARC

SECURITY

Scopes 1

OAuth scopes governing access to this provider's APIs.

Cognito Forms Scopes

1 scope · authorizationCode

1 scopes

SCOPES

Agentic Access 1

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

Cognito Forms Agentic Access

17 operations · 10 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

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

GitHubOrg

GitHubOrg

Access & Security 3

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Authentication

Authentication

OAuthScopes

OAuthScopes

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

StatusPage

StatusPage

RateLimits

RateLimits

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Pricing

Pricing

Plans

Plans

FinOps

FinOps

Company 3

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

LinkedIn

Blog

Blog

Other 2

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

CapabilityMap

CapabilityMap

Source (apis.yml)

name: Cognito Forms
description: Cognito Forms is an online form builder with a REST API for managing forms, retrieving entries, updating submissions,
  and integrating form data into business applications. The API uses API key bearer token authentication and supports operations
  for forms, entries, and documents, with OData support for analytics tool integration.
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: true
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: high
  source:
  - openapi
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: freemium
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: true
  public: false
  gated: none
  gated_source:
  - onboarding
  label: Freemium · Self-serve signup
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-06'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/cognito-forms.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/cognito-forms/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2026-06-13'
modified: '2026-09-16'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
aid: cognito-forms
type: Index
tags:
- Forms
- Form Builder
- Form Entries
- Workflow Automation
- Data Collection
- OData
tags_raw:
- Forms
- Form Builder
- Form Entries
- Workflow Automation
- Data Collection
- OData
- Workflow-Automation
apis:
- aid: cognito-forms:cognito-forms-entries-api
  name: Cognito Forms Entries API
  description: The Entries API from Cognito Forms — 5 operation(s) for entries.
  humanURL: https://www.cognitoforms.com/support/475/data-integration/cognito-forms-api
  baseURL: https://www.cognitoforms.com/api
  tags:
  - Entries
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/cognito-forms-entries-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.cognitoforms.com/support/475/data-integration/cognito-forms-api
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://www.cognitoforms.com/support/476/data-integration/cognito-forms-api/rest-api-reference
- aid: cognito-forms:cognito-forms-files-api
  name: Cognito Forms Files API
  description: The Files API from Cognito Forms — 2 operation(s) for files.
  humanURL: https://www.cognitoforms.com/support/475/data-integration/cognito-forms-api
  baseURL: https://www.cognitoforms.com/api
  tags:
  - File
  tags_raw:
  - Files
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/cognito-forms-files-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.cognitoforms.com/support/475/data-integration/cognito-forms-api
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://www.cognitoforms.com/support/476/data-integration/cognito-forms-api/rest-api-reference
- aid: cognito-forms:cognito-forms-forms-api
  name: Cognito Forms API
  description: The Forms API from Cognito Forms — 3 operation(s) for forms.
  humanURL: https://www.cognitoforms.com/support/475/data-integration/cognito-forms-api
  baseURL: https://www.cognitoforms.com/api
  tags:
  - Forms
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/cognito-forms-forms-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.cognitoforms.com/support/475/data-integration/cognito-forms-api
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://www.cognitoforms.com/support/476/data-integration/cognito-forms-api/rest-api-reference
- aid: cognito-forms:cognito-forms-webhooks-api
  name: Cognito Forms Webhooks API
  description: The Webhooks API from Cognito Forms — 4 operation(s) for webhooks.
  humanURL: https://www.cognitoforms.com/support/475/data-integration/cognito-forms-api
  baseURL: https://www.cognitoforms.com/api
  tags:
  - Webhook
  tags_raw:
  - Webhooks
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/cognito-forms-webhooks-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.cognitoforms.com/support/475/data-integration/cognito-forms-api
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://www.cognitoforms.com/support/476/data-integration/cognito-forms-api/rest-api-reference
- aid: cognito-forms:cognito-forms-odata-api
  name: Cognito Forms O Data API
  description: The OData API from Cognito Forms — 1 operation(s) for odata.
  humanURL: https://www.cognitoforms.com/support/475/data-integration/cognito-forms-api
  baseURL: https://www.cognitoforms.com/api
  tags:
  - OData
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/cognito-forms-odata-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.cognitoforms.com/support/475/data-integration/cognito-forms-api
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://www.cognitoforms.com/support/476/data-integration/cognito-forms-api/rest-api-reference
common:
- type: CapabilityMap
  url: capabilities/cognito-forms-capability-edges.yml
  name: Cognito Forms Business Capability Map
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/cognito-forms-agentic-access.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/cognito-forms-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/cognito-forms-authentication.yml
- type: OAuthScopes
  url: scopes/cognito-forms-scopes.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.cognitoforms.com
- type: Documentation
  url: https://www.cognitoforms.com/support/475/data-integration/cognito-forms-api
- type: GitHubOrg
  url: https://github.com/cognitoforms
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/cognito-forms
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.cognitoforms.com/blog
- type: Pricing
  url: https://www.cognitoforms.com/pricing
- type: StatusPage
  url: https://x.com/CognitoStatus
- type: X
  url: https://twitter.com/cognitoforms
- type: Plans
  url: plans/cognito-forms-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/cognito-forms-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/cognito-forms-finops.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com

Cognito Forms API — frequently asked questions

Does Cognito Forms have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 5 APIs from Cognito Forms, including Cognito Forms Entries API, Cognito Forms Files API and Cognito Forms API, and 2 more.

Is there an OpenAPI specification for the Cognito Forms API?

Yes. APIs.io indexes 5 OpenAPI specifications for Cognito Forms, each linked for download from this page.

How do I authenticate with the Cognito Forms API?

Cognito Forms documents its authentication (oauth2 · 1 scheme). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Cognito Forms Authentication.

How much does the Cognito Forms API cost?

APIs.io lists 4 pricing plans for Cognito Forms, with each plan's price, limits and inclusions under Pricing on this page.

Is the Cognito Forms API ready for AI agents?

Cognito Forms has a Kin Score of 36.9 out of 100 (thin) and an Agent Readiness score of 23.7 (agent-aware), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.

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