# Dex

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/dex/  
**Website:** https://dexidp.io/  
**APIs profiled:** 1

A federated OpenID Connect provider that connects to other identity providers through connectors, enabling authentication for applications without handling passwords directly. Dex acts as a portal to other identity providers through connectors, making it easy to implement SSO across multiple providers. Dex is a single Go binary with pluggable storage and ships with a gRPC management API (api/v2/api.proto) for managing OAuth2 clients, passwords, connectors, and refresh tokens, alongside the standard set of OIDC endpoints.

## Kin Score — 17.4 / 100 (emerging)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 17.4).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 75.9 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 36.8 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 9.5 |
| Commercial Clarity | 15.8 |
| Access Clarity | 15.8 |

## Agent readiness — 3.0 (human-only)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| 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

Freemium — onboarding: unknown, pricing: freemium, trial: no (confidence: medium).

## APIs (1)

- **Dex gRPC API** — gRPC management API for Dex covering OAuth2 client lifecycle (Create, Get, Update, Delete, List), password management (Create, Update, Delete, List, Verify), identity provider c...

## Security (1)

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

## Plans (1)

- **Dex Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Authentication, Connectors, Federation, gRPC, Identity Provider, LDAP, OIDC, OpenID Connect, SAML, Single Sign-On, SSO

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