# Credly

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/credly/  
**Website:** https://credly.com  
**APIs profiled:** 5

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.

## Kin Score — 36.1 / 100 (thin)

Scored 2026-08-21 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 36.1).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 74.1 |
| Contract Quality | 58.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 31.6 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 21.4 |
| Commercial Clarity | 28.9 |
| Access Clarity | 28.9 |

## Agent readiness — 29.1 (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 | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

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

## APIs (5)

- **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.

## Agentic access (1)

- **Credly Agentic Access** — 15 operations · 6 acting · 1 human-in-the-loop

## Security (2)

- **Credly Authentication** — http/oauth2 · 2 schemes
- **Credly Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

## Plans (1)

- **Credly Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Digital Credentials, Open Badges, Badging, Certifications, Verifiable Credentials, Pearson

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