# Dapr

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/dapr/  
**Website:** https://dapr.io/  
**APIs profiled:** 13

Dapr (Distributed Application Runtime) is a portable, event-driven runtime that makes it easy for developers to build resilient, stateless, and stateful applications that run on the cloud and edge. It provides building block APIs for state management, pub/sub messaging, service invocation, bindings, actors, workflows, secrets, configuration, distributed locks, cryptography, jobs scheduling, health checks, and metadata.

## Kin Score — 41.3 / 100 (developing)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 41.3).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 66.7 |
| Contract Quality | 66.5 |
| Governance | 28.8 |
| Contract Governance | 28.8 |
| Operational Transparency | 36.8 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 35.7 |
| Commercial Clarity | 13.2 |
| Access Clarity | 13.2 |

## Agent readiness — 21.8 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| 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 — onboarding: unknown, pricing: free, trial: no (confidence: medium).

## APIs (13)

- **Dapr Actors API** — Virtual actor operations including state, timers, and reminders.
- **Dapr Bindings API** — Input and output binding operations.
- **Dapr Configuration API** — Configuration management operations.
- **Dapr Cryptography API** — Cryptographic operations.
- **Dapr DistributedLock API** — Distributed locking operations.
- **Dapr Health API** — Health check operations.
- **Dapr Jobs API** — Job scheduling operations.
- **Dapr Metadata API** — Sidecar metadata operations.
- **Dapr PubSub API** — Publish and subscribe messaging operations.
- **Dapr Secrets API** — Secret management operations.
- **Dapr ServiceInvocation API** — Service-to-service invocation operations.
- **Dapr State API** — State management operations.
- **Dapr Workflow API** — Workflow orchestration operations.

## Agentic access (1)

- **Dapr Agentic Access** — 49 operations · 33 acting · 1 human-in-the-loop

## Security (1)

- **Dapr Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS

## Plans (1)

- **Dapr Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Distributed Systems, Microservices, Platform, Pub-Sub, State Management, Workflows

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