Datafold

Datafold is a data reliability platform providing a REST API for running data diffs, monitoring column-level lineage, validating data pipelines, and detecting data regressions before deployment. It supports CI/CD integration, automated anomaly detection, schema change alerts, and cross-database comparison across major cloud data warehouses.

Datafold publishes 13 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network, including Audit Logs API, Bi Added API, BI API, and 10 more. Tagged areas include Data Reliability, Data Diff, Data Quality, Column-Level Lineage, and Data Pipeline.

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

Datafold’s developer surface includes authentication, documentation, engineering blog, pricing, and 12 more developer resources.

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1 published contract

Data ReliabilityData DiffData QualityColumn-Level LineageData Pipeline CI/CD Integration Anomaly Detection Data ObservabilityData Migrations

What this lets a business do 2

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

Information & Data Management

BC-610

Data diffsMonitors

Software Release & Deployment Management

BC-4210

Kin Score

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scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0

Composite quality — 35.6/100 · thin

Contract Quality 11.9 / 19

Developer Ergonomics 3.6 / 15

Access Clarity 3.9 / 15

Operational Transparency 1.3 / 10

Contract Governance 0.9 / 9

Discoverability 5.0 / 8

Regulatory Posture 3.2 / 15

Create-or-Update Ergonomics 0.0 / 10

Agent readiness — 26/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

Documented Reversibility 6 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 8 / 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 0 / 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

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 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.

The six quality facets above are damped to 75 points between them, because the conditional facet above carries the other 25. That is why each facet's contribution is shown against a damped maximum: raising a quality facet moves the composite by 75% of its nominal weight, not 100%. The full arithmetic is at apis.io/rating/.

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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)
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
Delegated User Identity +6 pts — a served discovery document listing authorization_code in grant_types_supported (served), else an oauth2 authorizationCode flow or openIdConnect declared in an OpenAPI (documented)

8 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

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

Developer Ergonomics scores 23.8 — up to +15.2 composite points
Access Clarity scores 26.3 — up to +14.7 composite points
Operational Transparency scores 13.2 — up to +11.3 composite points

Each check links to what satisfies it. Publish the artifact, or tell us where it already lives, and the score moves on the next scoring run.

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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
Data Integration (ELT connectors and data governance)	distribution	9.6 (thin)	-	-

Registered MCP server and declares compatibility are report only — not weighted. Undeclared means we found nothing we can read, so there is no number: we never infer integrations.

Standards implemented 1

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.

OpenAPI

measured — observed by APIs.io (published)

APIs 13

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

Datafold Audit Logs API

The Audit Logs API from Datafold — 1 operation(s) for audit logs.

Datafold Bi Added API

The bi_added API from Datafold — 6 operation(s) for bi_added.

Datafold BI API

The BI API from Datafold — 15 operation(s) for bi.

Datafold Bi Deleted API

The bi_deleted API from Datafold — 1 operation(s) for bi_deleted.

Datafold Bi Modified API

The bi_modified API from Datafold — 6 operation(s) for bi_modified.

Datafold Bolt API

The bolt API from Datafold — 1 operation(s) for bolt.

Datafold CI API

The CI API from Datafold — 3 operation(s) for ci.

Datafold Data diffs API

The Data diffs API from Datafold — 5 operation(s) for data diffs.

Datafold Data Source Added API

The data_source_added API from Datafold — 1 operation(s) for data_source_added.

Datafold Data sources API

The Data sources API from Datafold — 7 operation(s) for data sources.

Datafold Diff Created API

The diff_created API from Datafold — 1 operation(s) for diff_created.

Datafold Explore API

The Explore API from Datafold — 4 operation(s) for explore.

Datafold Monitors API

The Monitors API from Datafold — 11 operation(s) for monitors.

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Open Collections 13

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

Datafold Audit Logs API

OPEN COLLECTION

Datafold Audit Logs bi_added API

OPEN COLLECTION

Datafold Audit Logs BI API

OPEN COLLECTION

Datafold Audit Logs bi_deleted API

OPEN COLLECTION

Datafold Audit Logs bi_modified API

OPEN COLLECTION

Datafold Audit Logs bolt API

OPEN COLLECTION

Datafold Audit Logs CI API

OPEN COLLECTION

Datafold Audit Logs Data diffs API

OPEN COLLECTION

Datafold Audit Logs data_source_added API

OPEN COLLECTION

Datafold Audit Logs Data sources API

OPEN COLLECTION

Datafold Audit Logs diff_created API

OPEN COLLECTION

Datafold Audit Logs Explore API

OPEN COLLECTION

Datafold Audit Logs Monitors API

OPEN COLLECTION

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Datafold API pricing

Not yet checked against Datafold's own pricing page. Compiled by API Evangelist; confirm before you rely on a figure.

Plan	Price
Datafold Cloud paid	—
Datafold Self-Hosted paid	—
Standalone Modules paid	—

Plan details, limits and sources →

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Datafold Plans Pricing

3 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Datafold Rate Limits

0 limits

RATE LIMITS

Service Levels 1

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

Datafold

SLA

FinOps 1

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

Datafold Finops

FINOPS

Semantic Vocabularies 1

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

Datafold Context

21 classes · 11 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 1

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

Datafold — jsonschema rules

5 rules · 4 warnings 1 info

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 1

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

Datafold API Schemas

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Examples 1

Example request and response payloads for these APIs.

Datafold Examples

5 fields

EXAMPLE

Security Posture 3

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

Datafold Authentication

apiKey · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Datafold Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Datafold Trust Center

SOC 2, HIPAA, GDPR

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

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

Datafold Agentic Access

52 operations · 29 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

TrustCenter

TrustCenter

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Authentication

Authentication

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)

aid: datafold
name: Datafold
description: Datafold is a data reliability platform providing a REST API for running data diffs, monitoring column-level
  lineage, validating data pipelines, and detecting data regressions before deployment. It supports CI/CD integration, automated
  anomaly detection, schema change alerts, and cross-database comparison across major cloud data warehouses.
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: paid
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: true
  try_now: true
  public: false
  gated: none
  gated_source:
  - onboarding
  label: Paid (free trial) · 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/datafold.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/datafold/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2026-06-13'
modified: '2026-06-13'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
x-docs-platform: mintlify
x-docs-platform-confidence: medium
x-docs-platform-checked: 2026-09-25
x-docs-hosting: vercel
tags:
- Data Reliability
- Data Diff
- Data Quality
- Column-Level Lineage
- Data Pipeline
- CI/CD Integration
- Anomaly Detection
- Data Observability
- Data Migrations
tags_raw:
- Data Reliability
- Data Diff
- Data Quality
- Column-Level Lineage
- Data Pipelines
- CI/CD Integration
- Anomaly Detection
- Data Observability
- Data Migrations
apis:
- aid: datafold:datafold-audit-logs-api
  name: Datafold Audit Logs API
  description: The Audit Logs API from Datafold — 1 operation(s) for audit logs.
  humanURL: https://docs.datafold.com/developer/datafold-api
  baseURL: https://app.datafold.com/api/v1/
  tags:
  - Audit Logs
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/datafold-audit-logs-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.datafold.com/developer/datafold-api
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://docs.datafold.com/api-reference/introduction
- aid: datafold:datafold-bi-added-api
  name: Datafold Bi Added API
  description: The bi_added API from Datafold — 6 operation(s) for bi_added.
  humanURL: https://docs.datafold.com/developer/datafold-api
  baseURL: https://app.datafold.com/api/v1/
  tags: []
  tags_raw:
  - bi_added
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/datafold-bi-added-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.datafold.com/developer/datafold-api
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://docs.datafold.com/api-reference/introduction
- aid: datafold:datafold-bi-api
  name: Datafold BI API
  description: The BI API from Datafold — 15 operation(s) for bi.
  humanURL: https://docs.datafold.com/developer/datafold-api
  baseURL: https://app.datafold.com/api/v1/
  tags:
  - Business Intelligence
  tags_raw:
  - BI
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/datafold-bi-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.datafold.com/developer/datafold-api
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://docs.datafold.com/api-reference/introduction
- aid: datafold:datafold-bi-deleted-api
  name: Datafold Bi Deleted API
  description: The bi_deleted API from Datafold — 1 operation(s) for bi_deleted.
  humanURL: https://docs.datafold.com/developer/datafold-api
  baseURL: https://app.datafold.com/api/v1/
  tags: []
  tags_raw:
  - bi_deleted
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/datafold-bi-deleted-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.datafold.com/developer/datafold-api
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://docs.datafold.com/api-reference/introduction
- aid: datafold:datafold-bi-modified-api
  name: Datafold Bi Modified API
  description: The bi_modified API from Datafold — 6 operation(s) for bi_modified.
  humanURL: https://docs.datafold.com/developer/datafold-api
  baseURL: https://app.datafold.com/api/v1/
  tags: []
  tags_raw:
  - bi_modified
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/datafold-bi-modified-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.datafold.com/developer/datafold-api
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://docs.datafold.com/api-reference/introduction
- aid: datafold:datafold-bolt-api
  name: Datafold Bolt API
  description: The bolt API from Datafold — 1 operation(s) for bolt.
  humanURL: https://docs.datafold.com/developer/datafold-api
  baseURL: https://app.datafold.com/api/v1/
  tags:
  - Bolt
  tags_raw:
  - bolt
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/datafold-bolt-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.datafold.com/developer/datafold-api
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://docs.datafold.com/api-reference/introduction
- aid: datafold:datafold-ci-api
  name: Datafold CI API
  description: The CI API from Datafold — 3 operation(s) for ci.
  humanURL: https://docs.datafold.com/developer/datafold-api
  baseURL: https://app.datafold.com/api/v1/
  tags:
  - CI
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/datafold-ci-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.datafold.com/developer/datafold-api
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://docs.datafold.com/api-reference/introduction
- aid: datafold:datafold-data-diffs-api
  name: Datafold Data diffs API
  description: The Data diffs API from Datafold — 5 operation(s) for data diffs.
  humanURL: https://docs.datafold.com/developer/datafold-api
  baseURL: https://app.datafold.com/api/v1/
  tags:
  - Data diffs
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/datafold-data-diffs-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.datafold.com/developer/datafold-api
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://docs.datafold.com/api-reference/introduction
- aid: datafold:datafold-data-source-added-api
  name: Datafold Data Source Added API
  description: The data_source_added API from Datafold — 1 operation(s) for data_source_added.
  humanURL: https://docs.datafold.com/developer/datafold-api
  baseURL: https://app.datafold.com/api/v1/
  tags: []
  tags_raw:
  - data_source_added
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/datafold-data-source-added-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.datafold.com/developer/datafold-api
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://docs.datafold.com/api-reference/introduction
- aid: datafold:datafold-data-sources-api
  name: Datafold Data sources API
  description: The Data sources API from Datafold — 7 operation(s) for data sources.
  humanURL: https://docs.datafold.com/developer/datafold-api
  baseURL: https://app.datafold.com/api/v1/
  tags:
  - Data Sources
  tags_raw:
  - Data sources
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/datafold-data-sources-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.datafold.com/developer/datafold-api
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://docs.datafold.com/api-reference/introduction
- aid: datafold:datafold-diff-created-api
  name: Datafold Diff Created API
  description: The diff_created API from Datafold — 1 operation(s) for diff_created.
  humanURL: https://docs.datafold.com/developer/datafold-api
  baseURL: https://app.datafold.com/api/v1/
  tags: []
  tags_raw:
  - diff_created
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/datafold-diff-created-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.datafold.com/developer/datafold-api
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://docs.datafold.com/api-reference/introduction
- aid: datafold:datafold-explore-api
  name: Datafold Explore API
  description: The Explore API from Datafold — 4 operation(s) for explore.
  humanURL: https://docs.datafold.com/developer/datafold-api
  baseURL: https://app.datafold.com/api/v1/
  tags:
  - Explore
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/datafold-explore-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.datafold.com/developer/datafold-api
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://docs.datafold.com/api-reference/introduction
- aid: datafold:datafold-monitors-api
  name: Datafold Monitors API
  description: The Monitors API from Datafold — 11 operation(s) for monitors.
  humanURL: https://docs.datafold.com/developer/datafold-api
  baseURL: https://app.datafold.com/api/v1/
  tags:
  - Monitors
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/datafold-monitors-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.datafold.com/developer/datafold-api
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://docs.datafold.com/api-reference/introduction
common:
- type: CapabilityMap
  url: capabilities/datafold-capability-edges.yml
  name: Datafold Business Capability Map
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/datafold-agentic-access.yml
- type: TrustCenter
  url: security/datafold-trust-center.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/datafold-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/datafold-authentication.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.datafold.com
- type: Documentation
  url: https://docs.datafold.com
- type: GitHubOrg
  url: https://github.com/datafold
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/datafold/
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.datafold.com/blog
- type: Pricing
  url: https://www.datafold.com/contact-us
- type: StatusPage
  url: https://status.datafold.com
- type: X
  url: https://x.com/datafoldcom
- type: Plans
  url: plans/datafold-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/datafold-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/datafold-finops.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com

Datafold API — frequently asked questions

Does Datafold have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 13 APIs from Datafold, including Datafold Audit Logs API, Datafold Bi Added API and Datafold BI API, and 10 more.

Is there an OpenAPI specification for the Datafold API?

Yes. APIs.io indexes 13 OpenAPI specifications for Datafold, each linked for download from this page.

How do I authenticate with the Datafold API?

Datafold uses bearer-token authentication (apiKey · 1 scheme). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Datafold Authentication.

How much does the Datafold API cost?

APIs.io lists 3 pricing plans for Datafold, with each plan's price, limits and inclusions under Pricing on this page.

Is the Datafold API ready for AI agents?

Datafold has a Kin Score of 35.6 out of 100 (thin) and an Agent Readiness score of 26.0 (agent-aware), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.

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