Estuary
Estuary builds Estuary Flow, a real-time data movement platform for streaming ETL and change data capture (CDC). Flow captures data from databases, warehouses, and SaaS systems into durable collections and materializes those collections back out to destinations. The Flow control plane exposes a Supabase/PostgREST-based REST API (Bearer refresh/access tokens) covering captures, materializations, collections, catalog drafts and publications, connectors, and tenants/billing, while the data plane is driven declaratively via the flowctl CLI and a Gitops model.
Estuary publishes 8 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network, including Auth API, Captures API, Collections API, and 5 more. Tagged areas include Data Integration, Streaming ETL, Change Data Capture, Real-Time Data, and Data Pipeline.
The Estuary catalog on APIs.io includes 1 Spectral governance ruleset.
Estuary’s developer surface includes authentication, documentation, engineering blog, and 9 more developer resources.
What this lets a business do 1
Business capabilities this provider's published APIs can perform, derived from its own contracts. Browse all capabilities →
Kin Score
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Data Integration (ELT connectors and data governance) | builds-on | 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.
Standards implemented 1
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.
APIs 8
Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.
Estuary Auth API
The Auth API from Estuary — 5 operation(s) for auth.
Estuary Captures API
The Captures API from Estuary — 2 operation(s) for captures.
Estuary Collections API
The Collections API from Estuary — 3 operation(s) for collections.
Estuary Connectors API
The Connectors API from Estuary — 3 operation(s) for connectors.
Estuary Drafts API
The Drafts API from Estuary — 3 operation(s) for drafts.
Estuary Materializations API
The Materializations API from Estuary — 2 operation(s) for materializations.
Estuary Publications API
The Publications API from Estuary — 1 operation(s) for publications.
Estuary Tenants API
The Tenants API from Estuary — 3 operation(s) for tenants.
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Open Collections 9
Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).
Estuary Flow Control Plane Auth API
OPEN COLLECTIONEstuary Flow Control Plane Auth Captures API
OPEN COLLECTIONEstuary Flow Control Plane Auth Collections API
OPEN COLLECTIONEstuary Flow Control Plane Auth Connectors API
OPEN COLLECTIONEstuary Flow Control Plane Auth Drafts API
OPEN COLLECTIONEstuary Flow Control Plane Auth Materializations API
OPEN COLLECTIONEstuary Flow Control Plane Auth Publications API
OPEN COLLECTIONEstuary Flow Control Plane Auth Tenants API
OPEN COLLECTIONEstuary Flow Control Plane API
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Estuary API pricing
Not yet checked against Estuary's own pricing page. Compiled by API Evangelist on 2026-07-01 from estuary.dev/pricing/; confirm before you rely on a figure. A free plan or tier is listed.
| Plan | Price |
|---|---|
| Free free | — |
| Cloud usage | — |
| Enterprise enterprise | — |
Plan details, limits and sources →
Rate limits
- Control-Plane API Requests: see provider documentation requests
- Access Token Lifetime: short-lived (expires; re-issue via generate_access_token) seconds
- Tenant Tasks Quota: per-tenant quota (tasks_quota) tasks
Compiled by API Evangelist, not yet checked against Estuary's documentation. All 5 limits →
Pricing Plans 1
Published pricing tiers and plan structures.
Rate Limits 1
Documented rate limits and quota policies.
Estuary Rate Limits
RATE LIMITSFinOps 1
Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.
Estuary Finops
FINOPSSpectral Rules 1
Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs. Counts are the severity each rule declares, not results of running them.
Estuary API Rules
SPECTRALSecurity Posture 2
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.
Agentic Access (API Evangelist recommendations) 1
Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.
Resources
Documentation 1
Reference material describing how the API behaves
Agent Surfaces 1
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Build 1
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
Access & Security 2
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Operate 1
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Commercial 2
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 3
The organization behind the API
Other 1
Properties that don't map to a standard resource type
Source (apis.yml)
Estuary API — frequently asked questions
Does Estuary have an API?
Yes. APIs.io lists 8 APIs from Estuary, including Estuary Auth API, Estuary Captures API and Estuary Collections API, and 5 more.
Is there an OpenAPI specification for the Estuary API?
Yes. APIs.io indexes 8 OpenAPI specifications for Estuary, each linked for download from this page.
How do I authenticate with the Estuary API?
Estuary uses bearer-token authentication (http · 1 scheme). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Estuary Authentication.
How much does the Estuary API cost?
APIs.io lists 3 pricing plans for Estuary, with each plan's price, limits and inclusions under Pricing on this page.
Is the Estuary API ready for AI agents?
Estuary has a Kin Score of 27.6 out of 100 (thin) and an Agent Readiness score of 21.7 (agent-aware), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-13.
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