Elva

API management platform for the agentic era: reads repos to build an API catalog, enforces per-audience contracts, generates tests, and turns APIs into governed, hosted MCP servers for AI agents. Built by Theneo. Exposes a public no-auth OpenAPI scoring REST API and an llms.txt.

Elva publishes 1 API on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include API Management, MCP Server, MCP Logs, MCP Insights, and API Client.

The Elva catalog on APIs.io includes 1 event-driven AsyncAPI specification.

Elva’s developer surface includes authentication, pricing, engineering blog, getting-started guide, signup flow, and 15 more developer resources.

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49.5/100 developing Agent 45/100 agent ready Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-09-07 · rubric v0.20.0

1 APIs 1 MCP Servers

API Management MCP ServerMCP LogsMCP InsightsAPI Client API Contract API Governance API Discovery OpenAPI API Testing Developer ToolsAI Agent Infrastructure

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scored 2026-09-07 · rubric v0.20.0

Composite quality — 49.5/100 · developing

Contract Quality 10.4 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 8.6 / 20

Access Clarity 14.2 / 20

Operational Transparency 6.5 / 13

Contract Governance 2.2 / 12

Discoverability 7.6 / 10

Agent readiness — 45/100 · agent ready

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 12 / 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 6 / 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 6 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 5 / 5

Registration Without a Human 6 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

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.

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APIs 1

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

Spec Scoring API

Public, no-auth REST API for scoring OpenAPI documents. GET /api/review/checks returns the full set of checks; POST /api/review scores a submitted OpenAPI document with category...

MCP Servers 1

Model Context Protocol servers that expose these APIs to AI agents.

Elva MCP

MCP SERVER

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Elva Plans Pricing

4 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Elva Rate Limits

3 limits

RATE LIMITS

Event Specifications 1

AsyncAPI definitions for this provider's event-driven and streaming APIs.

Elva Webhooks

ASYNCAPI

Security Posture 4

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

Elva Authentication

2 schemes

SECURITY

Elva Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · DMARC

SECURITY

Elva Vulnerability Disclosure

Hackerone · contact published

SECURITY

Elva Trust Center

SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, ISO 27701

SECURITY

Resources

Get Started 3

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

GettingStarted

GettingStarted

SignUp

SignUp

Login

Agent Surfaces 3

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

WellKnown

WellKnown

MCPServer

MCPServer

LLMsTxt

LLMsTxt

Design & Contract 3

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Conformance

Conformance

Conventions

Conventions

Webhooks

Webhooks

Access & Security 6

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

VulnerabilityDisclosure

VulnerabilityDisclosure

Security

DomainSecurity

TrustCenter

Compliance

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

Pricing

Pricing

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

Source (apis.yml)

name: Elva
description: 'API management platform for the agentic era: reads repos to build an API catalog, enforces per-audience contracts,
  generates tests, and turns APIs into governed, hosted MCP servers for AI agents. Built by Theneo. Exposes a public no-auth
  OpenAPI scoring REST API and an llms.txt.'
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/elva/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2026-09-06'
modified: '2026-09-07'
image: https://getelva.ai/opengraph-image
specificationVersion: '0.21'
tags:
- API Management
- MCP Server
- MCP Logs
- MCP Insights
- API Client
- API Contract
- API Governance
- API Discovery
- OpenAPI
- API Testing
- Developer Tools
- AI Agent Infrastructure
apis:
- name: Spec Scoring API
  description: Public, no-auth REST API for scoring OpenAPI documents. GET /api/review/checks returns the full set of checks;
    POST /api/review scores a submitted OpenAPI document with category scores, per-check breakdown, and an overall grade.
  humanURL: https://docs.getelva.ai/quality-and-scoring/score-a-spec-via-api
  baseURL: https://api.getelva.ai
  image: https://getelva.ai/opengraph-image
  tags:
  - API Management
  - MCP Server
  - MCP Logs
  - MCP Insights
  - API Client
  - API Contract
  - API Governance
  - API Discovery
  - OpenAPI
  - API Testing
  - Developer Tools
  - AI Agent Infrastructure
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.getelva.ai/quality-and-scoring/score-a-spec-via-api
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.getelva.ai/quality-and-scoring/score-a-spec-via-api
  - type: LLMsTxt
    url: https://getelva.ai/llms.txt
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.getelva.ai/
  - type: ErrorCatalog
    url: errors/elva-problem-types.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Elva
  url: https://getelva.ai
  email: hello@getelva.ai
x-generated:
  by: apis.io/add
  model: claude-opus-4-8
  confidence: 90
  at: '2026-09-06T16:56:23.444Z'
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://getelva.ai
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/elva-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: Security
  url: security/elva-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/elva-domain-security.yml
- type: TrustCenter
  url: security/elva-trust-center.yml
- type: Compliance
  url: security/elva-trust-center.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/elva-conformance.yml
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/elva-well-known.yml
- type: MCPServer
  url: mcp/elva-mcp.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/elva-llms.txt
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/elva-authentication.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/elva-conventions.yml
- type: Plans
  url: plans/elva-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/elva-rate-limits.yml
- type: Webhooks
  url: asyncapi/elva-webhooks.yml
- type: Pricing
  url: https://getelva.ai/pricing
- type: Blog
  url: https://getelva.ai/blog
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://docs.getelva.ai/get-started/quickstart-repo-to-mcp
- type: SignUp
  url: https://getelva.ai/waitlist
- type: Login
  url: https://app.getelva.ai
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-09-07'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 15
  pass: local-v3

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