Depot

Depot is a fast container-image build and remote cache service. It runs Docker builds and GitHub Actions jobs on managed, single-tenant cloud compute with persistent BuildKit cache, and exposes Depot Cache as a remote cache backend for tools like Bazel, Go, Turborepo, Gradle, and sccache. Depot is programmable through a public API at api.depot.dev built on Connect (multiprotocol gRPC, gRPC-Web, and HTTP/JSON) for managing projects, tokens, and builds, plus the depot CLI.

Depot publishes 5 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network, including BuildKitService API, BuildService API, ProjectService API, and 2 more. Tagged areas include Container Builds, Docker, BuildKit, Remote Cache, and CI/CD.

The Depot catalog on APIs.io includes 1 Spectral governance ruleset.

Depot’s developer surface includes authentication, documentation, engineering blog, and 9 more developer resources.

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27.4/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 20/100 agent aware Front door AI 3/6 light Heartbeat 94/100 alive saas Full breakdown ↓
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1 published contract

Container BuildsDocker BuildKit Remote Cache CI/CD GitHub Actions Developer Tools

What this lets a business do 1

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

Software Release & Deployment Management

BC-4210

BuildKitServiceBuildService

POST /depot.buildkit.v1.BuildKitService/GetEndpoint

Kin Score

Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0

Composite quality — 27.4/100 · thin

Contract Quality 8.3 / 19

Developer Ergonomics 4.8 / 15

Access Clarity 1.2 / 15

Operational Transparency 1.0 / 10

Contract Governance 1.2 / 9

Discoverability 5.0 / 8

Regulatory Posture 1.8 / 15

Create-or-Update Ergonomics 0.0 / 10

Agent readiness — 20/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

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

Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

Pagination 5 / 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)
Stable Error Semantics +8 pts — OpenAPI $refs a shared error schema across 4xx/5xx responses (verified), else common[].type includes ErrorCatalog / ErrorCodes / DeclineCodes
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

9 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

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

Access Clarity scores 7.9 — up to +18.4 composite points
Contract Quality scores 44.1 — up to +14.0 composite points
Developer Ergonomics scores 32.1 — up to +13.6 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
Stripe App Marketplace and Partner Ecosystem (builders on Stripe)	standard	47.1	-	-
Buf Schema Registry (public Protocol Buffers modules, gRPC / ConnectRPC schema publishers)	standard	47.1	-	-

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 5

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

Depot GitHub Actions Runners

Managed, single-tenant GitHub Actions runners selected via runner labels (e.g. depot-ubuntu-24.04, depot-ubuntu-24.04-arm) across Intel, Arm/Graviton4, macOS, Windows, and GPU s...

Depot Cache

Depot Cache is a remote build cache backend that plugs into tools supporting remote caching (GitHub Actions, Bazel, Go, Turborepo, Gradle, Pants, sccache). It is consumed throug...

Depot BuildKitService API

Acquire a low-level BuildKit machine connection (depot.buildkit.v1.BuildKitService).

Depot BuildService API

Depot ProjectService API

Manage Depot projects and project tokens (depot.core.v1.ProjectService).

Open Collections 4

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

Depot BuildKitService API

OPEN COLLECTION

Depot BuildKitService BuildService API

OPEN COLLECTION

Depot BuildKitService ProjectService API

OPEN COLLECTION

Depot API

OPEN COLLECTION

Depot API pricing

Not yet checked against Depot's own pricing page. Compiled by API Evangelist on 2026-06-20 from depot.dev/pricing; confirm before you rely on a figure.

Plan	Price
Developer flat	—
Startup flat	—
Usage Overage usage	—
Business enterprise	—

Plan details, limits and sources →

Rate limits

Docker Build Minutes: plan allotment then per-minute overage minutes
GitHub Actions Minutes: plan allotment then per-minute overage minutes
Depot CI: plan allotment then per-second overage vcpu seconds

Compiled by API Evangelist, not yet checked against Depot's documentation. All 5 limits →

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Depot Dev Plans Pricing

4 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Depot Dev Rate Limits

5 limits

RATE LIMITS

Service Levels 1

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

Depot

SLA

FinOps 1

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

Depot Dev Finops

FINOPS

Spectral Rules 1

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

Depot API Rules

51 rules · 49 errors 1 warnings 1 info

SPECTRAL

Security Posture 2

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

Depot Dev Authentication

http · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Depot Dev Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · DMARC

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

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

Depot Dev Agentic Access

14 operations · 9 acting · 1 human-in-the-loop

14 operations · 9 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

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Authentication

Authentication

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 3

The organization behind the API

LinkedIn

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

CapabilityMap

CapabilityMap

Source (apis.yml)

aid: depot-dev
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/depot-dev/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
name: Depot
kind: company
description: Depot is a fast container-image build and remote cache service. It runs Docker builds and GitHub Actions jobs
  on managed, single-tenant cloud compute with persistent BuildKit cache, and exposes Depot Cache as a remote cache backend
  for tools like Bazel, Go, Turborepo, Gradle, and sccache. Depot is programmable through a public API at api.depot.dev built
  on Connect (multiprotocol gRPC, gRPC-Web, and HTTP/JSON) for managing projects, tokens, and builds, plus the depot CLI.
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: freemium
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: true
  public: false
  gated: none
  gated_source:
  - onboarding
  label: Freemium · 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/depot-dev.png
tags:
- Container Builds
- Docker
- BuildKit
- Remote Cache
- CI/CD
- GitHub Actions
- Developer Tools
created: '2026-06-20'
modified: '2026-06-20'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- aid: depot-dev:depot-dev-github-actions-runners
  name: Depot GitHub Actions Runners
  tags:
  - GitHub Actions
  - Runners
  - CI/CD
  image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
  humanURL: https://depot.dev/docs/github-actions/overview
  baseURL: https://api.depot.dev
  properties:
  - url: https://depot.dev/docs/github-actions/overview
    type: Documentation
  - url: https://depot.dev/products/github-actions
    type: Documentation
  description: Managed, single-tenant GitHub Actions runners selected via runner labels (e.g. depot-ubuntu-24.04, depot-ubuntu-24.04-arm)
    across Intel, Arm/Graviton4, macOS, Windows, and GPU sizes. Runners are provisioned through a GitHub webhook integration
    rather than direct API calls; usage is billed per second at roughly half the cost of GitHub-hosted runners.
- aid: depot-dev:depot-dev-cache
  name: Depot Cache
  tags:
  - Remote Cache
  - Bazel
  - Turborepo
  - sccache
  image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
  humanURL: https://depot.dev/docs/cache/overview
  baseURL: https://api.depot.dev
  properties:
  - url: https://depot.dev/docs/cache/overview
    type: Documentation
  description: Depot Cache is a remote build cache backend that plugs into tools supporting remote caching (GitHub Actions,
    Bazel, Go, Turborepo, Gradle, Pants, sccache). It is consumed through each tool's native remote-cache protocol authenticated
    with a Depot token, not through a separate REST API.
- aid: depot-dev:depot-dev-buildkitservice-api
  name: Depot BuildKitService API
  description: Acquire a low-level BuildKit machine connection (depot.buildkit.v1.BuildKitService).
  humanURL: https://depot.dev/docs/api/overview
  baseURL: https://api.depot.dev
  tags:
  - BuildKitService
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/depot-dev-buildkitservice-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://depot.dev/docs/container-builds/reference/api-overview
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://buf.build/depot/api/docs/main:depot.core.v1
  - type: PostmanCollection
    url: collections/depot-dev.postman_collection.json
  - type: OpenCollection
    url: collections/depot-dev.opencollection.json
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://depot.dev/blog/docker-build-api
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://depot.dev/docs/api/api-container-builds-tutorial
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://depot.dev/blog/depot-api
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://depot.dev/docs/container-builds/reference/api-authentication
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://depot.dev/blog/project-tokens
- aid: depot-dev:depot-dev-buildservice-api
  name: Depot BuildService API
  description: Register, finish, get, and list builds (depot.build.v1.BuildService).
  humanURL: https://depot.dev/docs/api/overview
  baseURL: https://api.depot.dev
  tags:
  - BuildService
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/depot-dev-buildservice-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://depot.dev/docs/container-builds/reference/api-overview
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://buf.build/depot/api/docs/main:depot.core.v1
  - type: PostmanCollection
    url: collections/depot-dev.postman_collection.json
  - type: OpenCollection
    url: collections/depot-dev.opencollection.json
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://depot.dev/blog/docker-build-api
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://depot.dev/docs/api/api-container-builds-tutorial
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://depot.dev/blog/depot-api
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://depot.dev/docs/container-builds/reference/api-authentication
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://depot.dev/blog/project-tokens
- aid: depot-dev:depot-dev-projectservice-api
  name: Depot ProjectService API
  description: Manage Depot projects and project tokens (depot.core.v1.ProjectService).
  humanURL: https://depot.dev/docs/api/overview
  baseURL: https://api.depot.dev
  tags:
  - ProjectService
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/depot-dev-projectservice-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://depot.dev/docs/container-builds/reference/api-overview
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://buf.build/depot/api/docs/main:depot.core.v1
  - type: PostmanCollection
    url: collections/depot-dev.postman_collection.json
  - type: OpenCollection
    url: collections/depot-dev.opencollection.json
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://depot.dev/blog/docker-build-api
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://depot.dev/docs/api/api-container-builds-tutorial
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://depot.dev/blog/depot-api
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://depot.dev/docs/container-builds/reference/api-authentication
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://depot.dev/blog/project-tokens
common:
- type: CapabilityMap
  url: capabilities/depot-dev-capability-edges.yml
  name: Depot Business Capability Map
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/depot-dev-agentic-access.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/depot-dev-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/depot-dev-authentication.yml
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/depot
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/depot-dev
- type: Website
  url: https://depot.dev/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://depot.dev/docs
- type: Plans
  url: plans/depot-dev-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/depot-dev-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/depot-dev-finops.yml
- type: Blog
  url: https://depot.dev/rss.xml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com

Depot API — frequently asked questions

Does Depot have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 5 APIs from Depot, including Depot GitHub Actions Runners, Depot Cache and Depot BuildKitService API, and 2 more.

Is there an OpenAPI specification for the Depot API?

Yes. APIs.io indexes 3 OpenAPI specifications for Depot, each linked for download from this page.

How do I authenticate with the Depot API?

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

How much does the Depot API cost?

APIs.io lists 4 pricing plans for Depot, with each plan's price, limits and inclusions under Pricing on this page.

Is the Depot API ready for AI agents?

Depot has a Kin Score of 27.4 out of 100 (thin) and an Agent Readiness score of 19.6 (agent-aware), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.

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