Experian

Experian plc is a global information services company and one of the three major consumer credit bureaus, operating across credit risk, identity verification, fraud prevention, marketing data and data quality. Its public API surface spans two distinct platforms: the Experian Global Developer Portal (developer.experian.com), a region-partitioned OAuth2/OpenID Connect gateway fronting credit, business information, KYC/KYB and decisioning products across the US, UK, EMEA, Brazil, India, Singapore and Australia; and Experian Data Quality / Aperture (api.experianaperture.io), which publishes machine-readable OpenAPI 3.0.4 contracts for address, email and phone validation, demographic enrichment, identity append and bulk batch processing. A legacy SOAP contract (Experian QAS Pro OnDemand) remains published and callable alongside the REST surface.

Experian publishes 7 APIs on the APIs.io network, including Aperture Data Quality API, Address Validation API, Email Validation API, and 4 more. Tagged areas include Company, Credit Bureau, Credit Reporting, Identity Verification, and Fraud Prevention.

Experian’s developer surface includes authentication, documentation, API reference, getting-started guide, support, engineering blog, signup flow, and 31 more developer resources.

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53.5/100 developing Agent 39/100 agent ready Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-09-14 · rubric v0.22.0
9 APIs
CompanyCredit BureauCredit ReportingIdentity VerificationFraud PreventionData QualityAddress ValidationEmail ValidationPhone ValidationData EnrichmentFinancial-ServicesRisk Management

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scored 2026-09-14 · rubric v0.22.0
Composite quality — 53.5/100 · developing
Contract Quality 11.6 / 23
Developer Ergonomics 13.2 / 18
Access Clarity 7.6 / 18
Operational Transparency 9.2 / 12
Contract Governance 0.5 / 11
Discoverability 6.7 / 9
Create-or-Update Ergonomics 0.0 / 10
Agent readiness — 39/100 · agent ready
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10
Documented Reversibility 0 / 6
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 8 / 8
Request/Response Examples 7 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 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 6 / 6
Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5
Registration Without a Human 6 / 6
Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5
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APIs 9

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

Experian Aperture Data Quality API

The consolidated Experian Data Quality REST API — 41 operations across 34 paths covering address search/validate/format/layouts, email validation, phone validation, demographic ...

Experian Address Validation API

Real-time international address capture and validation — autocomplete, typedown, single-line, lookup and validate search types across 245+ countries, with custom layouts, prompt...

Experian Email Validation API

Real-time email address verification returning a confidence classification (verified, unknown, undeliverable, illegitimate) with optional metadata about the mailbox and domain.

Experian Phone Validation API

Real-time phone number validation and line-type identification across global numbering plans, returning formatted numbers, carrier and connectivity signals.

Experian Enrichment API

Appends demographic, geodemographic, location-insight and property attributes to a validated address or identity key, including Mosaic segmentation and Global Location Insight g...

Experian Identity Append API

Returns additional contact and identity attributes for a known individual or household, including reverse phone append lookups.

Experian Bulk Validation API

Asynchronous batch surface for address, email and phone validation — create a batch, start it, poll status and retrieve results, with up to 10,000 records per address batch.

Experian Address Validate (Pro OnDemand SOAP)

The legacy Experian QAS Pro OnDemand SOAP service, still published and documented by Experian Data Quality. Eleven RPCs (DoSearch, DoRefine, DoGetAddress, DoCanSearch, DoGetLayo...

Experian Global Developer Platform

The region-partitioned Experian API gateway behind developer.experian.com, fronting credit, business information, KYC/KYB, decisioning and verification products. Each region run...

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Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Experian Plans Pricing

0 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Experian Rate Limits

1 limits

RATE LIMITS

Security Posture 4

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

Experian Authentication

apiKey/http · 3 schemes

SECURITY

Experian Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Experian Vulnerability Disclosure

Hackerone

SECURITY

Experian Trust Center

ISO/IEC 27001

SECURITY

Scopes 1

OAuth scopes governing access to this provider's APIs.

Experian Scopes

OAuth 2.0 · no documented scopes

0 scopes

SCOPES

Resources

Get Started 4

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

DeveloperPortal
DeveloperPortal
 GettingStarted
GettingStarted
 SignUp
SignUp
 Sandbox
Sandbox

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation
Documentation
 APIReference
APIReference

Agent Surfaces 4

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

WellKnown
WellKnown
 LLMsTxt
LLMsTxt
 AgentSkill
AgentSkill
 X-MCPServerCandidate
X-MCPServerCandidate

Design & Contract 6

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Conformance
Conformance
 ErrorCatalog
ErrorCatalog
 Lifecycle
Lifecycle
 Conventions
Conventions
 Components
Components
 DataModel
DataModel

Build 3

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization
GitHubOrganization
 Packages
Packages
 SDKs
SDKs

Access & Security 6

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity
DomainSecurity
 Authentication
Authentication
 Security
Security
 Compliance
Compliance
 OAuthScopes
OAuthScopes
 VulnerabilityDisclosure
VulnerabilityDisclosure

Operate 7

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support
Support
 HelpCenter
HelpCenter
 Roadmap
Roadmap
 StatusPage
StatusPage
 Deprecation
Deprecation
 ChangeLog
ChangeLog
 RateLimits
RateLimits

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Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

TermsOfService
TermsOfService
 PrivacyPolicy
PrivacyPolicy
 Plans
Plans

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Blog
Blog
 Website
Website

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Overlay
Overlay

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: experian
name: Experian
description: 'Experian plc is a global information services company and one of the three major consumer credit bureaus, operating
  across credit risk, identity verification, fraud prevention, marketing data and data quality. Its public API surface spans
  two distinct platforms: the Experian Global Developer Portal (developer.experian.com), a region-partitioned OAuth2/OpenID
  Connect gateway fronting credit, business information, KYC/KYB and decisioning products across the US, UK, EMEA, Brazil,
  India, Singapore and Australia; and Experian Data Quality / Aperture (api.experianaperture.io), which publishes machine-readable
  OpenAPI 3.0.4 contracts for address, email and phone validation, demographic enrichment, identity append and bulk batch
  processing. A legacy SOAP contract (Experian QAS Pro OnDemand) remains published and callable alongside the REST surface.'
image: https://developer.experian.com/themes/custom/experian_devportal/logo.svg
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/experian/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: harvest:absent-parent
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-09-13'
modified: '2026-09-13'
tags:
- Company
- Credit Bureau
- Credit Reporting
- Identity Verification
- Fraud Prevention
- Data Quality
- Address Validation
- Email Validation
- Phone Validation
- Data Enrichment
- Financial-Services
- Risk Management
tags_raw:
- Company
- Credit Bureau
- Credit Reporting
- Identity Verification
- Fraud Prevention
- Data Quality
- Address Validation
- Email Validation
- Phone Validation
- Data Enrichment
- Financial Services
- Risk Management
apis:
- aid: experian:aperture
  name: Experian Aperture Data Quality API
  description: The consolidated Experian Data Quality REST API — 41 operations across 34 paths covering address search/validate/format/layouts,
    email validation, phone validation, demographic enrichment, identity append, reverse phone append and the bulk batch surface
    for address, email and phone. Published as OpenAPI 3.0.4 at api.experianaperture.io/docs/openapi.json.
  humanURL: https://docs.experianaperture.io/
  baseURL: https://api.experianaperture.io
  tags:
  - Data Quality
  - Address Validation
  - Email Validation
  - Phone Validation
  - Data Enrichment
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/experian-aperture-openapi.json
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.experianaperture.io/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.experianaperture.io/address-validation/experian-address-validation/realtime-api-reference/api-specification/
  - type: Console
    url: https://api.experianaperture.io/docs
- aid: experian:address-validation
  name: Experian Address Validation API
  description: Real-time international address capture and validation — autocomplete, typedown, single-line, lookup and validate
    search types across 245+ countries, with custom layouts, prompt sets, dataset discovery and what3words reverse geocoding.
  humanURL: https://docs.experianaperture.io/address-validation/experian-address-validation/
  baseURL: https://api.experianaperture.io
  tags:
  - Address Validation
  - Geocoding
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/experian-addressvalidation-openapi.json
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.experianaperture.io/address-validation/experian-address-validation/
- aid: experian:email-validation
  name: Experian Email Validation API
  description: Real-time email address verification returning a confidence classification (verified, unknown, undeliverable,
    illegitimate) with optional metadata about the mailbox and domain.
  humanURL: https://docs.experianaperture.io/email-validation/experian-email-validation-v2
  baseURL: https://api.experianaperture.io
  tags:
  - Email Validation
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/experian-emailvalidationv2-openapi.json
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.experianaperture.io/email-validation/experian-email-validation-v2
- aid: experian:phone-validation
  name: Experian Phone Validation API
  description: Real-time phone number validation and line-type identification across global numbering plans, returning formatted
    numbers, carrier and connectivity signals.
  humanURL: https://docs.experianaperture.io/phone-validation/experian-phone-validation
  baseURL: https://api.experianaperture.io
  tags:
  - Phone Validation
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/experian-phonevalidation-openapi.json
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.experianaperture.io/phone-validation/experian-phone-validation
- aid: experian:enrichment
  name: Experian Enrichment API
  description: Appends demographic, geodemographic, location-insight and property attributes to a validated address or identity
    key, including Mosaic segmentation and Global Location Insight geocoding.
  humanURL: https://docs.experianaperture.io/data-resources/global-datasets/
  baseURL: https://api.experianaperture.io
  tags:
  - Data Enrichment
  - Demographics
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/experian-enrichment-openapi.json
- aid: experian:identity-append
  name: Experian Identity Append API
  description: Returns additional contact and identity attributes for a known individual or household, including reverse phone
    append lookups.
  humanURL: https://docs.experianaperture.io/identity-append/experian-identity-append/
  baseURL: https://api.experianaperture.io
  tags:
  - Identity Verification
  - Data Enrichment
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/experian-identityappend-openapi.json
- aid: experian:bulk-validation
  name: Experian Bulk Validation API
  description: Asynchronous batch surface for address, email and phone validation — create a batch, start it, poll status
    and retrieve results, with up to 10,000 records per address batch.
  humanURL: https://docs.experianaperture.io/address-validation/experian-address-validation/bulk-api-reference/api-specification/
  baseURL: https://api.experianaperture.io
  tags:
  - Batch Processing
  - Data Quality
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/experian-bulkaddress-openapi.json
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.experianaperture.io/address-validation/experian-address-validation/bulk-api-reference/api-specification/
- aid: experian:address-validate-soap
  name: Experian Address Validate (Pro OnDemand SOAP)
  description: The legacy Experian QAS Pro OnDemand SOAP service, still published and documented by Experian Data Quality.
    Eleven RPCs (DoSearch, DoRefine, DoGetAddress, DoCanSearch, DoGetLayouts, DoGetPromptSet, DoGetData, DoGetDataMapDetail,
    DoGetExampleAddresses, DoGetLicenseInfo, DoGetSystemInfo) over SOAP 1.1/1.2.
  humanURL: https://docs.experianaperture.io/address-validation/address-validate-soap/
  baseURL: https://ws.ondemand.qas.com/ProOnDemand/V3/ProOnDemandService.asmx
  tags:
  - Address Validation
  - SOAP
  properties:
  - type: WSDL
    url: wsdl/experian-proondemand-v3.wsdl
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.experianaperture.io/address-validation/address-validate-soap/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.experianaperture.io/address-validation/address-validate-soap/api-reference/api-specification/
- aid: experian:global-developer-platform
  name: Experian Global Developer Platform
  description: 'The region-partitioned Experian API gateway behind developer.experian.com, fronting credit, business information,
    KYC/KYB, decisioning and verification products. Each region runs its own OAuth2/OIDC issuer and production/sandbox host
    pair: us-api, uk-api, eu-api, in-api, api.experian.com.au and api.experian.com.sg. Product API reference is gated behind
    a Developer Portal account; no public OpenAPI is published.'
  humanURL: https://developer.experian.com/products
  baseURL: https://us-api.experian.com
  tags:
  - Credit Reporting
  - Identity Verification
  - Decisioning
  properties:
  - type: DeveloperPortal
    url: https://developer.experian.com/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.experian.com/products
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://developer.experian.com/tutorials/quick-start-guide
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-09-13'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 49
  pass: local-v3
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/experian-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/experian-authentication.yml
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://developer.experian.com/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://docs.experianaperture.io/
- type: APIReference
  url: https://docs.experianaperture.io/address-validation/experian-address-validation/realtime-api-reference/api-specification/
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://developer.experian.com/get-started
- type: Support
  url: https://community.experianaperture.io/
- type: HelpCenter
  url: https://docs.experianaperture.io/global-support-policy/
- type: Blog
  url: https://developer.experian.com/blogs
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/experianplc
- type: Roadmap
  url: https://docs.experianaperture.io/more/product-roadmap/
- type: SignUp
  url: https://developer.experian.com/sso/register
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://developer.experian.com/terms-and-conditions
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://developer.experian.com/privacy-policy
- type: Website
  url: https://www.experianplc.com/
- type: StatusPage
  url: https://status.edq.com/
- type: Deprecation
  url: https://docs.experianaperture.io/end-of-service-life-status
- type: Security
  url: https://hackerone.com/experian
- type: Packages
  url: packages/experian-packages.yml
- type: SDKs
  url: packages/experian-packages.yml
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/experian-well-known.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/experian-llms.txt
- type: Overlay
  url: overlays/experian-aperture-overlay.yaml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/experian-conformance.yml
- type: Compliance
  url: security/experian-trust-center.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/experian-problem-types.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/experian-lifecycle.yml
- type: OAuthScopes
  url: scopes/experian-scopes.yml
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/experian-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: Sandbox
  url: sandbox/experian-sandbox.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/experian-conventions.yml
- type: ChangeLog
  url: changelog/experian-changelog.yml
- type: Components
  url: components/experian-components.yml
- type: DataModel
  url: data-model/experian-data-model.yml
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/_index.yml
- type: Plans
  url: plans/experian-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/experian-rate-limits.yml
- type: X-MCPServerCandidate
  url: mcp/experian-mcp.yml

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