EVE Online

aid: eve-online
name: EVE Online
description: >-
  EVE Online is a massively multiplayer online (MMO) space game published by CCP Games. The EVE Online third-party
  developer ecosystem is built around the EVE Swagger Interface (ESI), a RESTful HTTP API hosted at esi.evetech.net that
  exposes the game state for capsuleers to read and write programmatically, the EVE Single Sign-On (SSO) OAuth 2.0
  service hosted at login.eveonline.com for delegated authorization with per-scope consent, the Image Server hosted at
  images.evetech.net for character portraits, corporation logos and item renders, and the Static Data Export (SDE) for
  the bulk universe, type, and dogma data that does not change between server downtimes.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/eve-online/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
type: Index
position: Consumer
access: 3rd-Party
image: https://web.ccpgamescdn.com/eveonlineassets/developers/eve-sso-login-black-large.png
tags:
  - Authentication
  - Authorization
  - Gaming
  - Images
  - MMO
  - OAuth2
  - REST
  - SSO
  - Static Data
created: '2026-05-28'
modified: '2026-05-30'
specificationVersion: '0.20'
x-type: company
x-tier: 1
x-tier-reason: official-developer-program-public-openapi
x-source: public-apis/public-apis
x-category: Games & Comics
apis:
  - aid: eve-online:eve-swagger-interface
    name: EVE Swagger Interface (ESI)
    description: >-
      The EVE Swagger Interface (ESI) is the official RESTful HTTP API for EVE Online third-party development. It covers
      roughly 180 endpoints across 30 resource families including Universe, Corporation, Character, Fleets, Market,
      Industry, Contracts, Mail, Assets, Wallet, Killmails, Sovereignty, Wars, Planetary Interaction, Faction Warfare,
      Dogma, and User Interface. Every request can carry an X-Compatibility-Date header (ISO YYYY-MM-DD) so that clients
      pin themselves to a known API behavior. Authentication is delegated to EVE SSO using fine-grained OAuth 2.0 scopes
      (one scope per route family, e.g. esi-wallet.read_character_wallet.v1). Public routes are anonymous; authenticated
      routes require a JWT access token whose scopes must cover the route. The API enforces a sliding-window per-bucket
      rate limit and an error rate limit, surfaces caching via Expires/Last-Modified/ETag, and pages large collections
      with X-Pages headers.
    humanURL: https://developers.eveonline.com/docs/services/esi/
    baseURL: https://esi.evetech.net/latest
    version: '1.36'
    tags:
      - Alliance
      - Assets
      - Calendar
      - Character
      - Clones
      - Contacts
      - Contracts
      - Corporation
      - Dogma
      - Faction Warfare
      - Fittings
      - Fleets
      - Incursions
      - Industry
      - Insurance
      - Killmails
      - Location
      - Loyalty
      - Mail
      - Market
      - Planetary Interaction
      - REST
      - Routes
      - Search
      - Skills
      - Sovereignty
      - Status
      - Universe
      - User Interface
      - Wallet
      - Wars
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://developers.eveonline.com/docs/services/esi/
      - type: APIExplorer
        url: https://developers.eveonline.com/api-explorer
      - type: OpenAPI
        url: https://esi.evetech.net/latest/swagger.json
      - type: OpenAPI
        url: openapi/eve-online-openapi.yml
      - type: Swagger
        url: https://esi.evetech.net/ui
      - type: BestPractices
        url: https://developers.eveonline.com/docs/services/esi/best-practices/
      - type: RateLimits
        url: https://developers.eveonline.com/docs/services/esi/rate-limiting/
      - type: GitHubRepo
        url: https://github.com/esi/esi-docs
      - type: GitHubRepo
        url: https://github.com/esi/esi-issues
      - type: GitHubRepo
        url: https://github.com/esi/esi-routes
      - type: GitHubRepo
        url: https://github.com/esi/eve-glue
      - type: SupportIssues
        url: https://github.com/esi/esi-issues
    contact:
      - FN: ESI Developers
        url: https://developers.eveonline.com/
  - aid: eve-online:eve-sso
    name: EVE Single Sign-On (SSO)
    description: >-
      EVE Single Sign-On (SSO) is the OAuth 2.0 authorization service for EVE Online third-party applications, hosted at
      login.eveonline.com. It supports the Authorization Code flow for confidential (server-side) applications and
      Authorization Code with PKCE for native and single-page apps that cannot keep a client secret. Access tokens are
      issued as RS256-signed JWTs whose sub claim is CHARACTER:EVE:<character-id>, whose aud must contain both the
      application client_id and the literal "EVE Online", and whose scp claim lists the granted ESI scopes. The service
      publishes RFC 8414 metadata at /.well-known/oauth-authorization-server, including authorization, token,
      revocation, and JWKS endpoints.
    humanURL: https://developers.eveonline.com/docs/services/sso/
    baseURL: https://login.eveonline.com
    tags:
      - Authentication
      - Authorization
      - JWT
      - OAuth2
      - OpenID
      - PKCE
      - SSO
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://developers.eveonline.com/docs/services/sso/
      - type: OAuth2Metadata
        url: https://login.eveonline.com/.well-known/oauth-authorization-server
        title: OAuth 2.0 Authorization Server Metadata
      - type: AuthorizationEndpoint
        url: https://login.eveonline.com/v2/oauth/authorize
      - type: TokenEndpoint
        url: https://login.eveonline.com/v2/oauth/token
      - type: JWKS
        url: https://login.eveonline.com/oauth/jwks
      - type: Branding
        url: https://web.ccpgamescdn.com/eveonlineassets/developers/eve-sso-login-black-large.png
    contact:
      - FN: ESI Developers
        url: https://developers.eveonline.com/
  - aid: eve-online:image-server
    name: EVE Image Server (IEC)
    description: >-
      The EVE Image Server (also referred to as IEC, the Image Export Collection) is a public, anonymous HTTP service
      hosted at images.evetech.net that returns portraits and renders for in-game entities. Supported resources include
      character portraits, corporation and alliance logos, type icons and renders, and faction logos. Image size
      variants are requested via the size query parameter (32, 64, 128, 256, 512, 1024) and the service is backed by a
      CDN with strong cache headers.
    humanURL: https://developers.eveonline.com/docs/services/image-server/
    baseURL: https://images.evetech.net
    tags:
      - CDN
      - Images
      - Portraits
      - Renders
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://developers.eveonline.com/docs/services/image-server/
    contact:
      - FN: ESI Developers
        url: https://developers.eveonline.com/
  - aid: eve-online:static-data-export
    name: EVE Static Data Export (SDE)
    description: >-
      The EVE Static Data Export (SDE) is the bulk download of all the static reference data behind the EVE universe —
      types, groups, categories, market groups, dogma attributes, blueprints, regions, constellations, solar systems,
      stations, certificates, and translations. It is the dataset most third-party developers cache locally rather than
      calling ESI for every universe lookup. CCP publishes the SDE as YAML, with community projects converting it to
      SQLite, MySQL, PostgreSQL, MS SQL, JSON, and Parquet for different workloads.
    humanURL: https://developers.eveonline.com/docs/services/sde/
    baseURL: https://developers.eveonline.com/static-data
    tags:
      - Bulk Data
      - Reference Data
      - SDE
      - Static Data
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://developers.eveonline.com/docs/services/sde/
      - type: Download
        url: https://developers.eveonline.com/static-data
      - type: CommunityConversions
        url: https://developers.eveonline.com/docs/community/sde-conversion/
    contact:
      - FN: ESI Developers
        url: https://developers.eveonline.com/
  - aid: eve-online:eve-online-game
    name: EVE Online Game Client
    description: >-
      EVE Online is the underlying massively multiplayer online (MMO) space game from CCP Games. The game client is the
      consumer of the third-party developer ecosystem — it is where capsuleers actually fly ships, run corporations, and
      trade on the market that ESI surfaces. The official launcher, client downloads, account management, and game patch
      notes live on eveonline.com.
    humanURL: https://www.eveonline.com
    tags:
      - Game
      - MMO
      - Space
    properties:
      - type: Website
        url: https://www.eveonline.com
      - type: Download
        url: https://www.eveonline.com/download
      - type: AccountManagement
        url: https://secure.eveonline.com/account
    contact:
      - FN: CCP Games
        url: https://www.ccpgames.com/
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    url: http://apievangelist.com
    email: kin@apievangelist.com
  - FN: CCP Games
    url: https://www.ccpgames.com/
common:
  - type: Website
    url: https://www.eveonline.com
  - type: DeveloperPortal
    url: https://developers.eveonline.com/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developers.eveonline.com/docs/
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://developers.eveonline.com/docs/services/esi/overview/
  - type: APIExplorer
    url: https://developers.eveonline.com/api-explorer
  - type: Swagger
    url: https://esi.evetech.net/ui
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: https://esi.evetech.net/latest/swagger.json
  - type: Blog
    url: https://developers.eveonline.com/blog
  - type: ChangeLog
    url: https://developers.eveonline.com/blog
  - type: Support
    url: https://developers.eveonline.com/support/
  - type: SupportIssues
    url: https://github.com/esi/esi-issues
  - type: GitHubOrg
    url: https://github.com/esi
  - type: GitHubRepo
    url: https://github.com/esi/esi-docs
  - type: GitHubRepo
    url: https://github.com/esi/esi-issues
  - type: GitHubRepo
    url: https://github.com/esi/esi-routes
  - type: GitHubRepo
    url: https://github.com/esi/eve-glue
  - type: GitHubRepo
    url: https://github.com/esi/esi-swagger-ui
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://developers.eveonline.com/docs/services/sso/
  - type: OAuth2
    url: https://login.eveonline.com/.well-known/oauth-authorization-server
  - type: RateLimits
    url: https://developers.eveonline.com/docs/services/esi/rate-limiting/
  - type: BestPractices
    url: https://developers.eveonline.com/docs/services/esi/best-practices/
  - type: Pagination
    url: https://developers.eveonline.com/docs/services/esi/pagination/
  - type: TermsOfService
    url: https://community.eveonline.com/support/policies/terms-of-service-en/
  - type: PrivacyPolicy
    url: https://www.eveonline.com/privacy-policy
  - type: License
    url: https://developers.eveonline.com/license-agreement
    title: EVE Online Developer License Agreement
  - type: Community
    url: https://developers.eveonline.com/docs/community/
  - type: Discord
    url: https://www.eveonline.com/discord
  - type: Forum
    url: https://forums.eveonline.com/
  - type: SDK
    url: https://gitlab.com/allianceauth/django-esi
    title: Django-ESI (Python)
  - type: SDK
    url: https://www.npmjs.com/package/@lgriffin/esi.ts
    title: ESI.ts (TypeScript)
  - type: SDK
    url: https://github.com/antihax/goesi
    title: goesi (Go)
  - type: SDK
    url: https://github.com/eseunghwan/eveonline-php
    title: eveonline-php (PHP)
  - type: SDK
    url: https://github.com/ueberauth/ueberauth_eve_online
    title: Ueberauth EVE Online (Elixir)
  - type: Tools
    url: https://github.com/tweetfleet/neucore
    title: Neucore - alliance core services
  - type: Tools
    url: https://github.com/eveseat/seat
    title: SeAT - Services, Engagement and Tracking
  - type: Tools
    url: https://gitlab.com/allianceauth/allianceauth
    title: Alliance Auth
  - type: Tools
    url: https://github.com/wandererltd/community-edition
    title: Wanderer - wormhole mapping
  - type: Tools
    url: https://github.com/kongyo2/eve-online-mcp
    title: EVE Online Market MCP Server (community)
  - type: Tools
    url: https://github.com/Berman510/EOE_MCP
    title: EOE MCP - EVE Online ESI MCP (community)
  - type: Tools
    url: https://github.com/pfh59/eve-mcp-server
    title: EVE MCP Server (community, C#)
  - type: CommunityResources
    url: https://developers.eveonline.com/docs/community/
  - type: StatusPage
    url: https://www.eveonline.com/news/announcements
  - type: Branding
    url: https://web.ccpgamescdn.com/eveonlineassets/developers/eve-sso-login-black-large.png
  - type: PublicAPIsListing
    url: https://github.com/public-apis/public-apis
  - type: Features
    data:
      - >-
        EVE Online is free-to-play under the Alpha account model with paid Omega subscriptions starting at roughly
        $19.99/month for full ship and skill access
      - The ESI third-party API is completely free to use; CCP does not charge for API calls
      - >-
        ESI rate limit (sliding window, per route + per applicationID:characterID bucket): around 100 requests/second
        sustained for most public routes, with route-specific token budgets advertised in X-Ratelimit-Limit headers
      - 'Token cost per response: 2xx = 2 tokens, 3xx = 1 token, 4xx = 5 tokens, 5xx = 0 tokens'
      - >-
        Error rate limit on legacy routes: 100 non-2xx/3xx responses per minute, after which 420 is returned across all
        ESI routes
      - >-
        Roughly 180 ESI endpoints across 30 resource tags (Universe, Corporation, Character, Fleets, Market, Industry,
        Contracts, Mail, Assets, Wallet, Killmails, Sovereignty, Wars, and more)
      - OAuth 2.0 (Authorization Code + PKCE) via EVE SSO with around 60 fine-grained scopes
      - JWT (RS256) access tokens validated against the SSO JWKS, with sub = CHARACTER:EVE:<id>
      - X-Compatibility-Date header for pinning API behavior to a known date
      - ETag, Last-Modified, Expires, and X-Pages caching/pagination headers on every cached route
      - Anonymous Image Server (images.evetech.net) for portraits, corp/alliance logos and item renders
      - Static Data Export (SDE) for bulk universe/type/dogma data, refreshed roughly twice a year
    sources:
      - https://developers.eveonline.com/docs/services/esi/rate-limiting/
      - https://developers.eveonline.com/docs/services/esi/best-practices/
      - https://developers.eveonline.com/docs/services/esi/overview/
      - https://www.eveonline.com/recruit/free
    updated: '2026-05-30'