DirectAdmin

DirectAdmin provides a powerful web-based control panel for managing web hosting servers. It enables administrators to handle domains, email accounts, databases, and server resources through an intuitive graphical interface. The platform supports automation, reseller management, and integrates with popular web services, offering a comprehensive solution for hosting providers and system administrators seeking efficient server control.

DirectAdmin is listed with 2 APIs on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Hosting, ControlPanel, WebHosting, ServerManagement, and Automation.

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

DirectAdmin’s developer surface includes changelog, pricing, getting-started guide, documentation, and 15 more developer resources.

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28.5/100 thin Agent 18/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-10-31 · rubric v0.25.0 · Show this score on your site →
2 APIs
HostingControlPanelWebHostingServerManagementAutomation

Kin Score

Kin Score Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-10-31 · rubric v0.25.0
Composite quality — 28.5/100 · thin
Contract Quality 2.3 / 21
Developer Ergonomics 4.9 / 17
Access Clarity 7.2 / 17
Operational Transparency 2.9 / 11
Contract Governance 2.2 / 10
Discoverability 4.6 / 9
Regulatory Posture 2.5 / 15
Agent readiness — 18/100 · agent aware
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10
Documented Reversibility 0 / 6
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 4 / 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
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 could not be measured. We hold no machine-readable contract for this provider to read, so there is nothing to measure a write surface against. Excluded rather than scored zero: never-measured and measured-empty are different facts. Publishing an OpenAPI is what makes this facet — and several others — scorable at all.
The six quality facets above are damped to 85 points between them, because the conditional facet above carries the other 15. That is why each facet's contribution is shown against a damped maximum: raising a quality facet moves the composite by 85% 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
  • Agentic Access Contract +10 pts — agentic_access artifact present (x-agentic-access), graded by author
  • Machine-Readable Auth +10 pts — a served openid-configuration/oauth-authorization-server carrying `issuer` (served), else the securitySchemes class in the provider OpenAPIs — bound (mutualTLS, DPoP, Signature) > negotiable (oauth2 authorizationCode/clientCredentials, openIdConnect) > bearer (http bearer, apiKey)
  • 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
  • Stable Error Semantics +8 pts — OpenAPI $refs a shared error schema across 4xx/5xx responses (verified), else common[].type includes ErrorCatalog / ErrorCodes / DeclineCodes
11 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.
Kin Score — facets with the most composite points still available (weight × headroom):
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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APIs 2

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

DirectAdmin API

DirectAdmin offers a JSON‑based API and a legacy URL‑encoded API for managing hosting servers. Documentation is at the developer API page.

DirectAdmin API

DirectAdmin API as documented publicly: 6 operations. Contract generated from the documentation by API Evangelist (2026-10-27); not the provider's own document.

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Directadmin Plans Pricing

3 plans

PLANS

Spectral Rules 1

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

DirectAdmin API Rules

9 rules · 7 errors 1 warnings 1 info

SPECTRAL

Security Posture 2

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

Directadmin Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC

SECURITY

Directadmin Vulnerability Disclosure

security.txt · contact published

SECURITY

Resources

Get Started 1

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

GettingStarted
GettingStarted

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation
Documentation

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

WellKnown
WellKnown

Design & Contract 3

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Spectral
Spectral
 Vocabulary
Vocabulary
 Conformance
Conformance

Build 2

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

SDKs
SDKs
 Packages
Packages

Access & Security 4

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Security
Security
 SecurityTxt
SecurityTxt
 VulnerabilityDisclosure
VulnerabilityDisclosure
 DomainSecurity
DomainSecurity

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

ChangeLog
ChangeLog
 ChangeLog
ChangeLog

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Plans
Plans
 Pricing
Pricing

Company 1

The organization behind the API

Website
Website

Other 2

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Hosts
Hosts
 Vendors
Vendors

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: directadmin
name: DirectAdmin
description: DirectAdmin provides a powerful web-based control panel for managing web hosting servers. It enables administrators
  to handle domains, email accounts, databases, and server resources through an intuitive graphical interface. The platform
  supports automation, reseller management, and integrates with popular web services, offering a comprehensive solution for
  hosting providers and system administrators seeking efficient server control.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/directadmin/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: harvest:new-submission
x-tier: profiled
x-tier-reason: enrichment pass 2026-10-27 (modular-v1; was harvest)
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-10-27'
modified: '2026-10-27'
tags:
- Hosting
- ControlPanel
- WebHosting
- ServerManagement
- Automation
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: Plans
  url: plans/directadmin-plans-pricing.yml
- type: Spectral
  url: rules/directadmin-rules.yml
- type: Vocabulary
  url: vocabulary/directadmin-vocabulary.yml
- type: ChangeLog
  url: changelog/directadmin-changelog.yml
- type: Security
  url: security/directadmin-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/directadmin-conformance.yml
- type: SecurityTxt
  url: well-known/directadmin-security.txt
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/directadmin-well-known.yml
- type: Hosts
  url: hosts/directadmin-hosts.yml
- type: Vendors
  url: vendors/directadmin-vendors.yml
- type: SDKs
  url: packages/directadmin-packages.yml
- type: Packages
  url: packages/directadmin-packages.yml
- type: Pricing
  url: https://directadmin.com/pricing.php
- type: ChangeLog
  url: https://docs.directadmin.com/changelog/version-1.713.html
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://docs.directadmin.com/getting-started/installation/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://docs.directadmin.com/
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/directadmin-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/directadmin-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://directadmin.com/
apis:
- name: DirectAdmin API
  description: DirectAdmin offers a JSON‑based API and a legacy URL‑encoded API for managing hosting servers. Documentation
    is at the developer API page.
  humanURL: https://docs.directadmin.com/developer/api/
  aid: directadmin:directadmin-api-2
- aid: directadmin:directadmin-api
  name: DirectAdmin API
  description: 'DirectAdmin API as documented publicly: 6 operations. Contract generated from the documentation by API Evangelist
    (2026-10-27);

    not the provider''s own document.'
  humanURL: https://docs.directadmin.com/developer/api
  baseURL: https://download.directadmin.com
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/_ae-authored/directadmin-openapi-generated.yml
    x-provenance: generated
x-coverage:
  state: unreadable
  reason: no-machine-readable-spec
  detail: Documentation page lists a Swagger JSON at /static/swagger.json which returns 404, and no OpenAPI spec is publicly
    accessible.
  evidence:
  - url: https://directadmin.com/static/swagger.json
    status: 404
  checked: '2026-10-27'
x-submission-probe: 200, 2026-10-26
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-10-27'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 16
  pass: modular-v1
  engine: identity=local,contract=local,surfaces=local,docs=local,regulatory=local

DirectAdmin API — frequently asked questions

Does DirectAdmin have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 2 APIs from DirectAdmin, including DirectAdmin API and DirectAdmin API.

Is there an OpenAPI specification for the DirectAdmin API?

Yes. APIs.io indexes 2 OpenAPI specifications for DirectAdmin, each linked for download from this page.

How much does the DirectAdmin API cost?

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

Is the DirectAdmin API ready for AI agents?

DirectAdmin has a Kin Score of 28.5 out of 100 (thin) and an Agent Readiness score of 17.6 (agent-aware), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-10-31.

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