Expanso

Expanso is the company behind Bacalhau, an open-source distributed compute orchestration framework that brings compute to the data by running jobs close to where data is generated across edge, on-premise, and cloud environments. Expanso Cloud is the managed platform for deploying intelligent data pipelines at the edge - filtering, transforming, and governing data (PII/GDPR compliance, lineage) before it reaches downstream platforms like Snowflake and Databricks. The Bacalhau Orchestrator API exposes job submission, execution history, results, log streaming, and node/agent management over a versioned REST interface. Expanso is backed by General Catalyst and was named Edge AI Startup of the Year 2026.

Expanso publishes 2 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network: Ops API and Orchestrator API. Tagged areas include Company, Distributed Computing, Edge Computing, Compute Orchestration, and Data Pipeline.

Expanso’s developer surface includes documentation, API reference, getting-started guide, engineering blog, support, pricing, signup flow, and 20 more developer resources.

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49.9/100 developing ▬ flat Agent 27/100 agent aware Front door AI 3/6 light saas Full breakdown ↓
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1 published contract 2 Agent Skills

Company Distributed Computing Edge ComputingCompute OrchestrationData Pipeline Data Governance Open Source Artificial Intelligence Job Orchestration

Kin Score

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scored 2026-10-31 · rubric v0.25.0

Composite quality — 49.9/100 · developing

Contract Quality 7.2 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 10.4 / 17

Access Clarity 14.3 / 17

Operational Transparency 4.1 / 11

Contract Governance 0.5 / 10

Discoverability 5.6 / 9

Regulatory Posture 2.6 / 15

Agent readiness — 27/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10

Idempotency 9 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 8 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 5 / 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 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

Pagination 5 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

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.

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Agent readiness — checks not met, largest first (exact, from this profile):

MCP Server +12 pts — deployment.mode + probe verdict on the mcp/ manifest, not the pointer; an unprobed slug falls back to authorship
Machine-Readable Auth +10 pts — a served openid-configuration/oauth-authorization-server carrying `issuer` (served), else the securitySchemes class in the provider OpenAPIs — bound (mutualTLS, DPoP, Signature) > negotiable (oauth2 authorizationCode/clientCredentials, openIdConnect) > bearer (http bearer, apiKey)
A2A Agent Card +8 pts — a2a/-a2a.yml manifest, graded on conformance.grade against A2A 1.0.0
Rate-Limit Signaling +7 pts — OpenAPI responses document X-RateLimit-* / RateLimit headers (verified), else a rate_limits artifact or RateLimits link (documented)
Request/Response Examples +7 pts — share of operations carrying request/response examples; else an Examples / Code Samples link
Delegated User Identity +6 pts — a served discovery document listing authorization_code in grant_types_supported (served), else an oauth2 authorizationCode flow or openIdConnect declared in an OpenAPI (documented)

8 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

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

Contract Quality scores 34.0 — up to +16.5 composite points
Contract Governance scores 4.5 — up to +11.5 composite points
Operational Transparency scores 36.8 — up to +8.2 composite points

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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
Red Hat Certified Ecosystem (certified partner containers + certified OpenShift operators)	standard	39.6	-	-

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.

APIs 2

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

Expanso Ops API

The Ops API from Expanso — 6 operation(s) for ops.

Expanso Orchestrator API

The Orchestrator API from Expanso — 11 operation(s) for orchestrator.

Open Collections 2

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

Bacalhau Ops API

OPEN COLLECTION

Bacalhau Ops Orchestrator API

OPEN COLLECTION

Agent Skills 2

Packaged agent skills for driving this provider's APIs from an AI assistant.

Inspect and manage orchestrator nodes

AGENT SKILL

Submit and monitor a distributed compute job

AGENT SKILL

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Expanso Plans Pricing

6 plans

PLANS

FinOps 1

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

Expanso Finops

FINOPS

OpenAPI Overlays 1

Overlays applied on top of this provider's contracts. Each card says who wrote it: a document the provider publishes, or one API Evangelist derived or generated.

Bacalhau Overlay

3 actions · documentation · bacalhau-openapi-original.json

DERIVED

Security Posture 1

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

Expanso Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Expanso Agentic Access

20 operations · 5 acting · 1 human-in-the-loop

20 operations · 5 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Get Started 3

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

DeveloperPortal

DeveloperPortal

GettingStarted

GettingStarted

SignUp

SignUp

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

APIReference

APIReference

Agent Surfaces 3

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

LLMsTxt

LLMsTxt

X-MCPServerCandidate

X-MCPServerCandidate

AgentSkill

AgentSkill

Design & Contract 2

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Lifecycle

Lifecycle

Conformance

Conformance

Build 4

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization

Packages

SDKs

CLI

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 4

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support

HelpCenter

StatusPage

ChangeLog

Commercial 4

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Plans

Pricing

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

Company 3

The organization behind the API

BlogRSS

BlogRSS

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Overlay

Overlay

Source (apis.yml)

aid: expanso
name: Expanso
description: Expanso is the company behind Bacalhau, an open-source distributed compute orchestration framework that brings
  compute to the data by running jobs close to where data is generated across edge, on-premise, and cloud environments. Expanso
  Cloud is the managed platform for deploying intelligent data pipelines at the edge - filtering, transforming, and governing
  data (PII/GDPR compliance, lineage) before it reaches downstream platforms like Snowflake and Databricks. The Bacalhau Orchestrator
  API exposes job submission, execution history, results, log streaming, and node/agent management over a versioned REST interface.
  Expanso is backed by General Catalyst and was named Edge AI Startup of the Year 2026.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/expanso/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- general-catalyst
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: false
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - openapi
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source: []
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
specificationVersion: '0.23'
image: https://expanso.io/favicon.ico
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-10-06'
x-docs-platform: docusaurus
x-docs-platform-confidence: medium
x-docs-platform-checked: 2026-10-03
tags:
- Company
- Distributed Computing
- Edge Computing
- Compute Orchestration
- Data Pipeline
- Data Governance
- Open Source
- Artificial Intelligence
- Job Orchestration
tags_raw:
- Company
- Distributed Computing
- Edge Computing
- Compute Orchestration
- Data Pipelines
- Data Governance
- Open Source
- AI
- Job Orchestration
- Open-Source
apis:
- aid: expanso:expanso-ops-api
  name: Expanso Ops API
  description: The Ops API from Expanso — 6 operation(s) for ops.
  humanURL: https://bacalhau.org/docs/
  baseURL: https://cloud.expanso.io
  tags:
  - Ops
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/expanso-ops-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://bacalhau.org/docs/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://bacalhau.org/docs/cli-api/api/
  - type: ErrorCatalog
    url: errors/bacalhau-problem-types.yml
  - type: DataModel
    url: data-model/bacalhau-data-model.yml
  - type: Conventions
    url: conventions/bacalhau-conventions.yml
  - type: Idempotency
    url: conventions/bacalhau-conventions.yml
  - type: AgenticAccess
    url: agentic-access/expanso-agentic-access.yml
- aid: expanso:expanso-orchestrator-api
  name: Expanso Orchestrator API
  description: The Orchestrator API from Expanso — 11 operation(s) for orchestrator.
  humanURL: https://bacalhau.org/docs/
  baseURL: https://cloud.expanso.io
  tags:
  - Orchestrator
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/expanso-orchestrator-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://bacalhau.org/docs/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://bacalhau.org/docs/cli-api/api/
  - type: ErrorCatalog
    url: errors/bacalhau-problem-types.yml
  - type: DataModel
    url: data-model/bacalhau-data-model.yml
  - type: Conventions
    url: conventions/bacalhau-conventions.yml
  - type: Idempotency
    url: conventions/bacalhau-conventions.yml
  - type: AgenticAccess
    url: agentic-access/expanso-agentic-access.yml
common:
- type: Plans
  url: plans/expanso-plans-pricing.yml
- url: https://expanso.io/blog/rss.xml
  type: BlogRSS
- type: Website
  url: https://www.expanso.io/
- type: Overlay
  url: overlays/bacalhau-overlay.yaml
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://docs.expanso.io
- type: Documentation
  url: https://bacalhau.org/docs/
- type: APIReference
  url: https://bacalhau.org/docs/cli-api/api/
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://docs.expanso.io/getting-started/quickstart/
- type: Blog
  url: https://expanso.io/blog/
- type: Support
  url: https://expanso.io/help-center/
- type: HelpCenter
  url: https://expanso.io/help-center/
- type: Pricing
  url: https://expanso.io/pricing/
- type: SignUp
  url: https://cloud.expanso.io
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://expanso.io/terms/
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://expanso.io/privacy-policy/
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/bacalhau-project
- type: StatusPage
  url: https://status.expanso.io
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/expanso-llms.txt
- type: Packages
  url: packages/expanso-packages.yml
- type: SDKs
  url: packages/expanso-packages.yml
- type: CLI
  url: cli/expanso-cli.yml
- type: ChangeLog
  url: changelog/expanso-changelog.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/expanso-lifecycle.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/expanso-domain-security.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/expanso-conformance.yml
- type: X-MCPServerCandidate
  url: mcp/expanso-mcp.yml
  note: 'Renamed from MCPServer 2026-09-03 (roadmap#247): the manifest self-describes as status: candidate — a tool list derived
    from the published API contracts, not an existing server. The scorer already read the manifest and reported mcp_server
    correctly; the MCPServer type was crediting the artifact-type surfaces with a server that does not exist.'
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/_index.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: backfilled
  pass: local-v1
  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence

Expanso API — frequently asked questions

Does Expanso have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 2 APIs from Expanso, including Expanso Ops API and Expanso Orchestrator API.

Is there an OpenAPI specification for the Expanso API?

Yes. APIs.io indexes 2 OpenAPI specifications for Expanso, each linked for download from this page.

How much does the Expanso API cost?

APIs.io lists 6 pricing plans for Expanso, with each plan's price, limits and inclusions under Pricing Plans on this page.

Is the Expanso API ready for AI agents?

Expanso has a Kin Score of 49.9 out of 100 (developing) and an Agent Readiness score of 27.0 (agent-aware), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-10-31.

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