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 is listed with 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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52.2/100 developing ▬ flat Agent 45/100 agent ready Front door AI 6/6 dominant Heartbeat 95/100 alive Full breakdown ↓
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1 API 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 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0

Composite quality — 52.2/100 · developing

Contract Quality 8.3 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 7.3 / 17

Access Clarity 13.4 / 17

Operational Transparency 5.5 / 11

Contract Governance 1.9 / 10

Discoverability 6.4 / 9

Regulatory Posture 4.1 / 15

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

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 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):

Agentic Access Contract +10 pts — agentic_access artifact present (x-agentic-access), graded by author
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
Request/Response Examples +7 pts — share of operations carrying request/response examples; else an Examples / Code Samples link
Documented Reversibility +6 pts — a reversal operation in the contract, graded up when a window is documented too
Agent Skills +5 pts — skills artifact present, graded by who authored it

4 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

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

Contract Quality scores 39.0 — up to +15.3 composite points
Developer Ergonomics scores 42.9 — up to +11.4 composite points
Contract Governance scores 18.2 — up to +9.8 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.

Improve this rating by publishing the missing artifacts — every area above can be raised, and the full rubric is at apis.io/rating/. Every facet and dimension name above is a link: it opens that measurement's own page — what it means, the exact checks that feed it, how the whole catalog distributes on it, and the providers at the top of it. This rating is computed from the provider profile at artifacts.apis.io/elva/apis.yml: open an issue on github.com/api-evangelist/elva to ask a question or point us at an artifact you publish. Submit an artifact on GitHub — free → Manage your own listing — the Influence plan, $499/mo →

Standards implemented 4

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

tagged — the provider's own APIs.json carries the standard as a tag; implementation not verified

Model Context Protocol (MCP)

measured — observed by APIs.io (documented)

OAuth 2.0 Protected Resource Metadata

measured — observed by APIs.io (verified)

Dynamic Client Registration

measured — observed by APIs.io (published)

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

Remote MCP server at app.getelva.ai requiring OAuth.

MCP SERVER

Elva API pricing

Prices published by Elva, read 2026-10-28 from getelva.ai/pricing.

Plan	Price
Free	$0 Includes: 1 repo, unlimited endpoints, 1 hosted MCP server · 1,000 tool calls/mo, 10 AI fixes/mo
Startup	$100/mo flat Includes: 3 repos, 100 AI fixes/mo, 3 hosted MCP servers · 25,000 tool calls/mo
Business	$600/mo, billed annually Includes: 10 repos, 20 contracts, 20 hosted MCP servers · 250,000 tool calls/mo
Enterprise	Custom Includes: Unlimited contracts and servers, SSO/SAML, private cloud or on-prem, 99.9% SLA

Plan details, limits and sources →

Rate limits

: 1000 month
: 25000 month
: 250000 month

Rate-limit details →

Billed by: workspace · FinOps profile →

Pricing Plans 2

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Elva Plans Pricing

4 plans

PLANS

Elva Price Estimates

0 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Elva Rate Limits

3 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

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

Elva Finops

FINOPS

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
accessModel:
  pricing: freemium
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: true
  public: false
  gated: none
  gated_source:
  - onboarding
  label: Freemium · Self-serve signup
  confidence: high
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  - rate-limits
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-06'
  method: derived
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

Elva API — frequently asked questions

Does Elva have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 1 API from Elva, including Spec Scoring API.

How do I authenticate with the Elva API?

Elva documents its authentication (2 schemes). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Elva Authentication.

How much does the Elva API cost?

Elva publishes its prices; its Free plan is $0 as of 2026-10-28. APIs.io lists 4 pricing plans for Elva, with each plan's price, limits and inclusions under Pricing on this page.

Does Elva have an MCP server?

Yes. APIs.io lists 1 MCP server for Elva: Remote MCP server at app.getelva.ai requiring OAuth.

Is the Elva API ready for AI agents?

Elva has a Kin Score of 52.2 out of 100 (developing) and an Agent Readiness score of 44.8 (agent-ready), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.

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