DVC

DVC (Data Version Control) is an Apache 2.0 open-source CLI and Python library for versioning datasets, models, pipelines, and ML experiments on top of Git. It is not a network service — there is no DVC REST API.

DVC is listed with 1 API on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Machine Learning, MLOps, Versioning, CLI, and Open Source.

DVC’s developer surface includes developer portal, engineering blog, and 12 more developer resources.

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20.2/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 1/100 human only Front door AI 5/6 prominent Heartbeat 98/100 alive open core · Apache-2.0 Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0 · Show this score on your site →

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1 API

Machine Learning MLOps Versioning CLI Open Source

Kin Score

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

Composite quality — 20.2/100 · emerging

Contract Quality 0.0 / 19

Developer Ergonomics 4.3 / 15

Access Clarity 0.8 / 15

Operational Transparency 2.6 / 10

Contract Governance 0.0 / 9

Discoverability 5.0 / 8

Regulatory Posture 0.8 / 15

Open Source Surface 6.5 / 10

Agent readiness — 1/100 · human only

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 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 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.

Open Source Surface applies to this provider. This product is open source and we read its repository directly, so Open Source Surface carries 10 points of the composite. It is scored from what the repository actually publishes — a security policy, a contribution guide, a release history, a code of conduct — read live from the provider rather than inferred from our own catalog pointers. This facet adds; nothing was taken away to make room for it. An open-source project is not excused from the commercial facets, because exemption would strip it of the points it does earn. If we have the wrong repository, or this product is not open source, say so on your provider repo and we will drop the facet rather than have you publish against 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 75 points between them, because both conditional facets apply and carry 25 points together. 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):

Machine-Readable Contract +18 pts — api_specs includes an OpenAPI document
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)
Stable Error Semantics +8 pts — OpenAPI $refs a shared error schema across 4xx/5xx responses (verified), else common[].type includes ErrorCatalog / ErrorCodes / DeclineCodes

12 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

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

Contract Quality scores 0.0 — up to +25.0 composite points
Access Clarity scores 5.3 — up to +18.9 composite points
Developer Ergonomics scores 28.6 — up to +14.3 composite points

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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
MLOps and AI/ML Infrastructure (LF AI & Data, MLPerf, Kubeflow)	standard	17.2 (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.

APIs 1

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

DVC CLI and Python API

DVC ships as a CLI plus a Python API (`dvc.api`). It tracks data and model files via pointers stored in Git and pushes payloads to remote storage backends (S3, Azure, GCS, SSH, ...

DVC API pricing

Not yet checked against DVC's own pricing page. Compiled by API Evangelist on 2026-05-08 from dvc.org/; confirm before you rely on a figure.

Plan	Price
To Be Reconciled enterprise	—

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Rate limits

Default: see provider documentation varies

Compiled by API Evangelist, not yet checked against DVC's documentation. Rate-limit details →

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Dvc Plans Pricing

1 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Dvc Rate Limits

1 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

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

Dvc Finops

FINOPS

Security Posture 1

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

Dvc Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Resources

Get Started 1

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Portal

Portal

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

ContributionGuide

ContributionGuide

Build 3

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

CodeOfConduct

CodeOfConduct

SourceCode

SourceCode

VSCodeExtension

VSCodeExtension

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 3

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

IssueTracker

IssueTracker

Releases

Releases

RateLimits

RateLimits

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Plans

Plans

FinOps

FinOps

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Iterative.ai

ParentOrg

Source (apis.yml)

aid: dvc
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/dvc/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
name: DVC
kind: opensource
description: DVC (Data Version Control) is an Apache 2.0 open-source CLI and Python library for versioning datasets, models,
  pipelines, and ML experiments on top of Git. It is not a network service — there is no DVC REST API.
deliveryModel:
  model: open-core
  license: Apache-2.0
  license_evidence:
    repo: iterative/dvc
    spdx: Apache-2.0
    stars: 15885
  open_source: true
  commercial: true
  callable_host: false
  label: Open core · an OSS project plus a commercial hosted product
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - pricing
  - repository-license
  generated: '2026-09-25'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: enterprise
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Enterprise
  confidence: low
  source:
  - plans
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-06'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/dvc.png
tags:
- Machine Learning
- MLOps
- Versioning
- CLI
- Open Source
tags_raw:
- ML
- MLOps
- Versioning
- CLI
- Open Source
- Machine-Learning
- Open-Source
created: '2026-05-08'
modified: '2026-05-08'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- aid: dvc:dvc-cli
  name: DVC CLI and Python API
  humanURL: https://doc.dvc.org/
  baseURL: local CLI / Python library (no network endpoint)
  tags:
  - CLI
  - Python
  - Library
  description: DVC ships as a CLI plus a Python API (`dvc.api`). It tracks data and model files via pointers stored in Git
    and pushes payloads to remote storage backends (S3, Azure, GCS, SSH, HDFS, HTTP, etc.). There is no DVC server / REST
    API; data is stored on user-owned remotes.
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://doc.dvc.org/
  - type: SourceCode
    url: https://github.com/iterative/dvc
  - type: License
    url: https://github.com/iterative/dvc/blob/main/LICENSE
  - type: SDKs
    title: Python (dvc.api)
    url: https://doc.dvc.org/api-reference
common:
- type: IssueTracker
  url: https://github.com/iterative/dvc/issues
- type: Releases
  url: https://github.com/iterative/dvc/releases
- type: CodeOfConduct
  url: https://github.com/treeverse/dvc/blob/main/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md
- type: ContributionGuide
  url: https://github.com/treeverse/dvc/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/dvc-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://dvc.org/
- type: Portal
  url: https://doc.dvc.org/
- type: SourceCode
  url: https://github.com/iterative/dvc
- type: ParentOrg
  title: Iterative.ai
  url: https://iterative.ai/
- type: VSCodeExtension
  url: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=Iterative.dvc
- type: Plans
  url: plans/dvc-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/dvc-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/dvc-finops.yml
- url: https://dvc.org/feed/
  type: Blog
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com

DVC API — frequently asked questions

Does DVC have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 1 API from DVC, including DVC CLI and Python API.

How much does the DVC API cost?

APIs.io lists 1 pricing plan for DVC, with each plan's price, limits and inclusions under Pricing on this page.

Is the DVC API ready for AI agents?

DVC has a Kin Score of 20.2 out of 100 (emerging) and an Agent Readiness score of 0.6 (human-only), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.

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