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Columbia Sportswear

Columbia Sportswear is a global designer, marketer, and distributor of outdoor, active, and everyday lifestyle apparel, footwear, accessories, and equipment under the Columbia, Mountain Hardwear, SOREL, and prAna brands. Columbia Sportswear Digital runs a partner-facing API estate on Microsoft Azure API Management: a developer portal at columbia.developer.azure-api.net and a production gateway on Columbia's own domain at api.columbia.com. Exactly one API product is documented anonymously - ContentHub External, a read-only product-imagery service with a published OpenAPI 3.0.1 contract - and every other product on the portal requires sign-in. Access is a partner arrangement rather than a developer program: subscriptions require Columbia's approval, portal terms restrict use to Columbia employees and to vendors serving Columbia under agreement, and no price, rate limit, SLA or status page is published. The company also exchanges traditional EDI documents (POs, ASNs, invoices) with retail trading partners through providers like TrueCommerce and eZCom.

Columbia Sportswear publishes 2 APIs on the APIs.io network, including External Image API, and 1 more. Tagged areas include Apparel, B2B, Consumer Management, Content Management, and Digital Asset Management.

The Columbia Sportswear catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context.

Columbia Sportswear’s developer surface includes API reference, signup flow, support, authentication, and 22 more developer resources.

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45.5/100 developing ▬ flat Agent 29/100 agent aware Front door AI 1/6 silent saas Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-09-25 · rubric v0.23.0
2 APIs
ApparelB2BConsumer ManagementContent ManagementDigital Asset ManagementFootwearFortune 1000OutdoorPartner APIProduct ImageryRetailFashion

Kin Score

Kin Score Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-09-25 · rubric v0.23.0
Composite quality — 45.5/100 · developing
Contract Quality 11.4 / 21
Developer Ergonomics 7.6 / 17
Access Clarity 10.7 / 17
Operational Transparency 0.3 / 11
Contract Governance 1.9 / 10
Discoverability 5.6 / 9
Regulatory Posture 3.7 / 15
Agent readiness — 29/100 · agent aware
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10
Documented Reversibility 6 / 6
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10
Idempotency 9 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 8 / 8
Request/Response Examples 7 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 5 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3
A2A Agent Card 0 / 8
Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 4 / 4
Delegated User Identity 0 / 6
Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5
Registration Without a Human 0 / 6
Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5
Regulatory Posture applies to this provider. Its tags matched the Horizontal (data, software, accessibility, platform) regime, so Regulatory Posture carries 15 points of the composite. If this regime is wrong for your business, say so on your provider repo — the applicability map is public and we will correct it.
Create-or-Update Ergonomics does not apply to this provider. The published contracts declare no write operations, and a read-only API cannot create-or-update. The facet is excluded from this provider's denominator entirely — not scored zero. A reference or data API is not deficient for being unable to upsert.
The six quality facets above are damped to 85 points between them, because the conditional facet above carries the other 15. That is why each facet's contribution is shown against a damped maximum: raising a quality facet moves the composite by 85% of its nominal weight, not 100%. The full arithmetic is at apis.io/rating/.
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APIs 2

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

Columbia Sportswear Digital Developer Portal

Columbia Sportswear's partner-facing API platform, hosted on Microsoft Azure API Management. The portal at columbia.developer.azure-api.net lists API products, offers a try-it c...

Columbia Sportswear External Image API

The ExternalImage API from Columbia Sportswear — 2 operation(s) for externalimage.

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Columbia Sportswear Plans Pricing

1 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Columbia Sportswear Rate Limits

0 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

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

Columbia Sportswear Finops

FINOPS

Semantic Vocabularies 1

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

Columbia Sportswear Context

50 classes · 9 properties

JSON-LD

Security Posture 2

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

Columbia Sportswear Authentication

apiKey · 2 schemes

SECURITY

Columbia Sportswear Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Press 5

Recent news and press coverage referencing this provider.

The risk and benefit of brands using AI is closer than you ...

As AI increases at Columbia Sportswear, so does the threat ...

Customer Story: Columbia

Columbia Sportswear's brand anthem inspires AI ...

Columbia Sportswear Company Advances Its Succession ...

Resources

Get Started 2

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

DeveloperPortal
DeveloperPortal
 SignUp
SignUp

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

APIReference
APIReference

Agent Surfaces 3

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgentSkill
AgentSkill
 LLMsTxt
LLMsTxt
 X-MCPServerCandidate
X-MCPServerCandidate

Design & Contract 3

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Conventions
Conventions
 Lifecycle
Lifecycle
 Vocabulary
Vocabulary

Build 2

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization
GitHubOrganization
 Packages
Packages

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Authentication
Authentication
 DomainSecurity
DomainSecurity

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support
Support
 RateLimits
RateLimits

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

PrivacyPolicy
PrivacyPolicy
 TermsOfService
TermsOfService
 Plans
Plans

Company 3

The organization behind the API

Website
Website
 LinkedIn
LinkedIn
 Investor Relations
Investor Relations

Other 5

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Corporate
Corporate
 Mountain Hardwear
Mountain Hardwear
 SOREL
SOREL
 prAna
prAna
 Overlay
Overlay

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: columbia-sportswear
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/columbia-sportswear/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
name: Columbia Sportswear
tags:
- Apparel
- B2B
- Consumer Management
- Content Management
- Digital Asset Management
- Footwear
- Fortune 1000
- Outdoor
- Partner API
- Product Imagery
- Retail
- Fashion
tags_raw:
- Apparel
- B2B
- Consumer Management
- Content Management
- Digital Asset Management
- Footwear
- Fortune 1000
- Outdoor
- Partner APIs
- Product Imagery
- Retail
- Fashion
type: Index
kind: company
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: false
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source:
  - plans
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/columbia-sportswear.png
access: 3rd-Party
created: '2025-03-23'
modified: '2026-09-05'
position: Consuming
description: 'Columbia Sportswear is a global designer, marketer, and distributor of outdoor, active, and everyday lifestyle
  apparel, footwear, accessories, and equipment under the Columbia, Mountain Hardwear, SOREL, and prAna brands. Columbia Sportswear
  Digital runs a partner-facing API estate on Microsoft Azure API Management: a developer portal at columbia.developer.azure-api.net
  and a production gateway on Columbia''s own domain at api.columbia.com. Exactly one API product is documented anonymously
  - ContentHub External, a read-only product-imagery service with a published OpenAPI 3.0.1 contract - and every other product
  on the portal requires sign-in. Access is a partner arrangement rather than a developer program: subscriptions require Columbia''s
  approval, portal terms restrict use to Columbia employees and to vendors serving Columbia under agreement, and no price,
  rate limit, SLA or status page is published. The company also exchanges traditional EDI documents (POs, ASNs, invoices)
  with retail trading partners through providers like TrueCommerce and eZCom.'
apis:
- aid: columbia-sportswear:digital-developer-portal
  name: Columbia Sportswear Digital Developer Portal
  tags:
  - Azure API Management
  - Developer Portal
  - Partner API
  - Retail
  tags_raw:
  - Azure API Management
  - Developer Portal
  - Partner APIs
  - Retail
  image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
  humanURL: https://columbia.developer.azure-api.net/
  properties:
  - url: https://columbia.developer.azure-api.net/
    type: DeveloperPortal
  - url: https://columbia.developer.azure-api.net/apis
    type: APIReference
  - url: https://columbia.developer.azure-api.net/products
    type: Documentation
  - url: https://columbia.developer.azure-api.net/signup
    type: SignUp
  description: Columbia Sportswear's partner-facing API platform, hosted on Microsoft Azure API Management. The portal at
    columbia.developer.azure-api.net lists API products, offers a try-it console, and takes subscription requests; the production
    gateway answers on Columbia's own domain at api.columbia.com. Anonymously, the portal publishes one product - ContentHub
    External - and everything else requires sign-in. Every subscription requires Columbia's approval before a key is issued.
    The legacy portal endpoint at columbia.portal.azure-api.net has been retired and now returns HTTP 503; this record was
    repointed at the live portal on 2026-09-05.
  x-features:
  - Hosted on Microsoft Azure API Management
  - Subscription-key authentication (Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Key header or subscription-key query parameter)
  - Approval-gated subscriptions - no self-service key issuance
  - Try-it console and machine-readable OpenAPI export per API product
  - Production gateway on a first-party custom domain (api.columbia.com)
  x-use-cases:
  - Request partner access to a Columbia API product
  - Browse the published API catalog and export its OpenAPI definition
  - Manage subscription keys for an approved partner integration
  baseURL: https://api.columbia.com/
- aid: columbia-sportswear:columbia-sportswear-externalimage-api
  name: Columbia Sportswear External Image API
  description: The ExternalImage API from Columbia Sportswear — 2 operation(s) for externalimage.
  humanURL: https://columbia.developer.azure-api.net/
  baseURL: https://api.columbia.com/
  tags:
  - ExternalImage
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/columbia-sportswear-externalimage-api-openapi.yml
  - type: ErrorCatalog
    url: errors/columbia-sportswear-problem-types.yml
  - type: Conformance
    url: conformance/columbia-sportswear-conformance.yml
  - type: DataModel
    url: data-model/columbia-sportswear-data-model.yml
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://www.columbia.com/
- type: Corporate
  url: https://www.columbiasportswear.com/
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://columbia.developer.azure-api.net/
- type: APIReference
  url: https://columbia.developer.azure-api.net/apis
- type: SignUp
  url: https://columbia.developer.azure-api.net/signup
- type: Support
  url: https://help.columbia.com/s/
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/columbiasportswear
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/columbia-sportswear
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.columbia.com/t/legal/privacy-policy/
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.columbia.com/t/legal/terms-of-use/
- type: Investor Relations
  url: https://investor.columbia.com/
- type: Mountain Hardwear
  url: https://www.mountainhardwear.com/
- type: SOREL
  url: https://www.sorel.com/
- type: prAna
  url: https://www.prana.com/
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/columbia-sportswear-authentication.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/columbia-sportswear-domain-security.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/columbia-sportswear-conventions.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/columbia-sportswear-lifecycle.yml
- type: Packages
  url: packages/columbia-sportswear-packages.yml
- type: Overlay
  url: overlays/columbia-sportswear-content-hub-external-overlay.yaml
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/_index.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/columbia-sportswear-llms.txt
- type: X-MCPServerCandidate
  url: mcp/columbia-sportswear-mcp.yml
- type: Vocabulary
  url: vocabulary/columbia-sportswear-vocabulary.yml
- type: Plans
  url: plans/columbia-sportswear-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/columbia-sportswear-rate-limits.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
specificationVersion: '0.23'
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-09-05'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 15
  pass: local-v3

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