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Excalidraw

Excalidraw is an MIT-licensed virtual whiteboard with a hand-drawn aesthetic. Primary surfaces are the hosted web app at excalidraw.com and the @excalidraw/excalidraw npm package for embedding the canvas in other apps. There is no public REST API. Excalidraw+ is the commercial managed offering.

Excalidraw publishes 1 API on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Collaboration, Whiteboard, Diagramming, Open Source, and Drawing.

Excalidraw’s developer surface includes documentation, engineering blog, and 9 more developer resources.

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17.6/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 3/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6
1 APIs
CollaborationWhiteboardDiagrammingOpen SourceDrawing

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scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6
Composite quality — 17.6/100 · emerging
Contract Quality 0.0 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 2.2 / 20
Commercial Clarity 5.8 / 20
Operational Transparency 2.7 / 13
Governance 0.0 / 12
Discoverability 6.9 / 10
Agent readiness — 3/100 · human only
Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10
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
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APIs 1

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

@excalidraw/excalidraw npm Package

The official React component package for embedding the Excalidraw canvas. Provides programmatic control over scene state, libraries, and serialized JSON. There is no Excalidraw ...

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Excalidraw Plans Pricing

1 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Excalidraw Rate Limits

1 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

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

Excalidraw Finops

FINOPS

Security Posture 1

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

Excalidraw Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Resources

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation
Documentation

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

SourceCode
SourceCode

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity
DomainSecurity

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

RateLimits
RateLimits

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

License
License
 Plans
Plans
 FinOps
FinOps

Company 3

The organization behind the API

LinkedIn
LinkedIn
 Website
Website
 Blog
Blog

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Excalidraw+
CommercialOffering

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: excalidraw
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/excalidraw/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
name: Excalidraw
kind: opensource
description: Excalidraw is an MIT-licensed virtual whiteboard with a hand-drawn aesthetic. Primary surfaces are the hosted
  web app at excalidraw.com and the @excalidraw/excalidraw npm package for embedding the canvas in other apps. There is no
  public REST API. Excalidraw+ is the commercial managed offering.
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source:
  - plans
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/excalidraw.png
tags:
- Collaboration
- Whiteboard
- Diagramming
- Open Source
- Drawing
created: '2026-05-08'
modified: '2026-05-08'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
- aid: excalidraw:excalidraw-npm-package
  name: '@excalidraw/excalidraw npm Package'
  humanURL: https://docs.excalidraw.com/
  baseURL: npm package (no network endpoint)
  tags:
  - SDK
  - React
  - Library
  description: The official React component package for embedding the Excalidraw canvas. Provides programmatic control over
    scene state, libraries, and serialized JSON. There is no Excalidraw REST API; integrations are component-level.
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.excalidraw.com/
  - type: SourceCode
    url: https://github.com/excalidraw/excalidraw
  - type: NPM
    url: https://www.npmjs.com/package/@excalidraw/excalidraw
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/excalidraw-domain-security.yml
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/excalidraw
- type: Website
  url: https://excalidraw.com/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://docs.excalidraw.com/
- type: SourceCode
  url: https://github.com/excalidraw/excalidraw
- type: License
  url: https://github.com/excalidraw/excalidraw/blob/master/LICENSE
- type: CommercialOffering
  title: Excalidraw+
  url: https://plus.excalidraw.com/
- type: Plans
  url: plans/excalidraw-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/excalidraw-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/excalidraw-finops.yml
- type: Blog
  url: https://plus.excalidraw.com/feed.xml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com