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Credly

Credly is a digital credential and open badge platform, owned by Pearson (acquired 2022), used by more than 2,000 organizations to issue, manage, and verify verifiable digital badges and certifications. The Credly Web Service API (base https://api.credly.com/v1, with a sandbox at https://sandbox-api.credly.com/v1) lets issuing organizations create and manage badge templates, issue and revoke badges to recipients, read organization and employee data, pull an events feed, and expose recipient credentials via Open Badges Infrastructure (OBI) endpoints. Authentication is HTTP Basic (the organization's authorization_token as the username with a blank password) or OAuth 2.0 client_credentials. Real-time notifications are delivered via outbound webhooks (HTTPS POST callbacks), not a WebSocket.

Credly publishes 5 APIs on the APIs.io network, including Badge Templates API, Events API, Issued Badges API, and 2 more. Tagged areas include Digital Credentials, Open Badges, Badging, Certifications, and Verifiable Credentials.

Credly’s developer surface includes authentication, documentation, and 8 more developer resources.

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36.1/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 31/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6
AccessPaidSelf serve
5 APIs
Digital CredentialsOpen BadgesBadgingCertificationsVerifiable CredentialsPearson

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scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6
Composite quality — 36.1/100 · thin
Contract Quality 14.9 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 3.9 / 20
Commercial Clarity 5.8 / 20
Operational Transparency 4.1 / 13
Governance 0.0 / 12
Discoverability 7.4 / 10
Agent readiness — 31/100 · agent aware
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10
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
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APIs 5

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

Credly Badge Templates API

Reusable credential designs badges are issued against.

Credly Events API

Organization event feed (mirrors webhook events).

Credly Issued Badges API

Badges issued to recipients from a badge template.

Credly OBI Recipients API

Open Badges Infrastructure endpoints for public verification.

Credly Organizations API

Organization details and employees directory.

Open Collections 1

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

Credly Web Service API

OPEN COLLECTION

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Credly Plans Pricing

2 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Credly Rate Limits

4 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

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

Credly Finops

FINOPS

Security Posture 2

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

Credly Authentication

http/oauth2 · 2 schemes

SECURITY

Credly Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Scopes 1

OAuth scopes governing access to this provider's APIs.

Credly Scopes

3 scopes · clientCredentials

3 scopes

SCOPES

Agentic Access 1

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

Credly Agentic Access

15 operations · 6 acting · 1 human-in-the-loop

15 operations · 6 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

Access & Security 3

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity
DomainSecurity
 Authentication
Authentication
 OAuthScopes
OAuthScopes

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

RateLimits
RateLimits

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Plans
Plans
 FinOps
FinOps

Company 2

The organization behind the API

LinkedIn
LinkedIn
 Website
Website

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: credly
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/credly/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
name: Credly
kind: company
description: Credly is a digital credential and open badge platform, owned by Pearson (acquired 2022), used by more than 2,000
  organizations to issue, manage, and verify verifiable digital badges and certifications. The Credly Web Service API (base
  https://api.credly.com/v1, with a sandbox at https://sandbox-api.credly.com/v1) lets issuing organizations create and manage
  badge templates, issue and revoke badges to recipients, read organization and employee data, pull an events feed, and expose
  recipient credentials via Open Badges Infrastructure (OBI) endpoints. Authentication is HTTP Basic (the organization's authorization_token
  as the username with a blank password) or OAuth 2.0 client_credentials. Real-time notifications are delivered via outbound
  webhooks (HTTPS POST callbacks), not a WebSocket.
accessModel:
  pricing: paid
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Paid · Self-serve signup
  confidence: high
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/credly.png
tags:
- Digital Credentials
- Open Badges
- Badging
- Certifications
- Verifiable Credentials
- Pearson
created: '2026-07-05'
modified: '2026-07-05'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
- aid: credly:credly-badge-templates-api
  name: Credly Badge Templates API
  description: Reusable credential designs badges are issued against.
  humanURL: https://www.credly.com/docs/badge_templates
  baseURL: https://api.credly.com/v1
  tags:
  - Badge Templates
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/credly-badge-templates-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.credly.com/browse/docs/getting-started
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://www.credly.com/docs/badge_templates
  - type: PostmanCollection
    url: collections/credly.postman_collection.json
  - type: OpenCollection
    url: collections/credly.opencollection.json
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://www.credly.com/docs/issued_badges
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.credly.com/docs/webhooks
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.credly.com/browse/reference/get_v1-organizations-organization-id-events
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.credly.com/docs/obi_specified_endpoints
- aid: credly:credly-events-api
  name: Credly Events API
  description: Organization event feed (mirrors webhook events).
  humanURL: https://www.credly.com/docs/badge_templates
  baseURL: https://api.credly.com/v1
  tags:
  - Events
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/credly-events-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.credly.com/browse/docs/getting-started
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://www.credly.com/docs/badge_templates
  - type: PostmanCollection
    url: collections/credly.postman_collection.json
  - type: OpenCollection
    url: collections/credly.opencollection.json
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://www.credly.com/docs/issued_badges
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.credly.com/docs/webhooks
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.credly.com/browse/reference/get_v1-organizations-organization-id-events
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.credly.com/docs/obi_specified_endpoints
- aid: credly:credly-issued-badges-api
  name: Credly Issued Badges API
  description: Badges issued to recipients from a badge template.
  humanURL: https://www.credly.com/docs/badge_templates
  baseURL: https://api.credly.com/v1
  tags:
  - Issued Badges
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/credly-issued-badges-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.credly.com/browse/docs/getting-started
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://www.credly.com/docs/badge_templates
  - type: PostmanCollection
    url: collections/credly.postman_collection.json
  - type: OpenCollection
    url: collections/credly.opencollection.json
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://www.credly.com/docs/issued_badges
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.credly.com/docs/webhooks
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.credly.com/browse/reference/get_v1-organizations-organization-id-events
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.credly.com/docs/obi_specified_endpoints
- aid: credly:credly-obi-recipients-api
  name: Credly OBI Recipients API
  description: Open Badges Infrastructure endpoints for public verification.
  humanURL: https://www.credly.com/docs/badge_templates
  baseURL: https://api.credly.com/v1
  tags:
  - OBI Recipients
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/credly-obi-recipients-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.credly.com/browse/docs/getting-started
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://www.credly.com/docs/badge_templates
  - type: PostmanCollection
    url: collections/credly.postman_collection.json
  - type: OpenCollection
    url: collections/credly.opencollection.json
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://www.credly.com/docs/issued_badges
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.credly.com/docs/webhooks
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.credly.com/browse/reference/get_v1-organizations-organization-id-events
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.credly.com/docs/obi_specified_endpoints
- aid: credly:credly-organizations-api
  name: Credly Organizations API
  description: Organization details and employees directory.
  humanURL: https://www.credly.com/docs/badge_templates
  baseURL: https://api.credly.com/v1
  tags:
  - Organizations
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/credly-organizations-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.credly.com/browse/docs/getting-started
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://www.credly.com/docs/badge_templates
  - type: PostmanCollection
    url: collections/credly.postman_collection.json
  - type: OpenCollection
    url: collections/credly.opencollection.json
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://www.credly.com/docs/issued_badges
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.credly.com/docs/webhooks
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.credly.com/browse/reference/get_v1-organizations-organization-id-events
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.credly.com/docs/obi_specified_endpoints
common:
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/credly-agentic-access.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/credly-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/credly-authentication.yml
- type: OAuthScopes
  url: scopes/credly-scopes.yml
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/credly
- type: Website
  url: https://credly.com
- type: Documentation
  url: https://docs.credly.com/browse/docs/getting-started
- type: Plans
  url: plans/credly-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/credly-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/credly-finops.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com