FlixBus

FlixBus is the long-distance coach brand of Flix SE (formerly FlixMobility), a Munich-headquartered mobility provider that also operates FlixTrain in Europe and Greyhound in North America. Flix runs an asset-light model: it owns the brand, network planning, pricing, distribution and technology while regional bus partners operate the vehicles. Its technology surface is split in two. A partner-facing Flix API is published through the Flix Developer Portal at developer.api.flixbus.com — a Redocly-based catalogue of API references, getting-started guides, changelogs and downloadable Postman collections — but the portal is gated behind Microsoft Entra ID (Azure AD) sign-in and the underlying gateway at global.api.flixbus.com rejects anonymous requests, so no machine-readable OpenAPI is reachable without a distribution-partner agreement (requested via online-distribution@flixbus.com). Publicly and anonymously, Flix does publish schedule data as first-party GTFS Schedule feeds for Europe, the United States and Great Britain from gtfs.gis.flix.tech, refreshed regularly and licensed ODbL-1.0 through national open-data portals.

FlixBus publishes 2 APIs on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Transportation, Travel, Mobility, and Bus.

FlixBus’ developer surface includes authentication, documentation, signup flow, support, engineering blog, and 14 more developer resources.

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30.8/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 15/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-08-17 · rubric v0.11.0

2 APIs

CompanyTransportationTravelMobilityBusRailTicketingGTFSOpen DataDistribution

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scored 2026-08-17 · rubric v0.11.0

Composite quality — 30.8/100 · thin

Contract Quality 0.0 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 5.9 / 17

Commercial Clarity 5.8 / 17

Operational Transparency 1.7 / 11

Governance 1.3 / 10

Discoverability 7.4 / 9

Regulatory Posture 8.6 / 15

Agent readiness — 15/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 4 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 3 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

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APIs 2

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

Get Started 2

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

DeveloperPortal

DeveloperPortal

SignUp

SignUp

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

Agent Surfaces 2

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

WellKnown

WellKnown

LLMsTxt

LLMsTxt

Design & Contract 2

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Conformance

Conformance

Lifecycle

Lifecycle

Build 2

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Packages

Packages

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

Access & Security 5

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

VulnerabilityDisclosure

VulnerabilityDisclosure

SecurityTxt

SecurityTxt

Authentication

Authentication

Security

Security

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support

Support

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

TermsOfService

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

Source (apis.yml)

aid: flixbus
name: FlixBus
description: 'FlixBus is the long-distance coach brand of Flix SE (formerly FlixMobility), a Munich-headquartered mobility
  provider that also operates FlixTrain in Europe and Greyhound in North America. Flix runs an asset-light model: it owns
  the brand, network planning, pricing, distribution and technology while regional bus partners operate the vehicles. Its
  technology surface is split in two. A partner-facing Flix API is published through the Flix Developer Portal at developer.api.flixbus.com
  — a Redocly-based catalogue of API references, getting-started guides, changelogs and downloadable Postman collections —
  but the portal is gated behind Microsoft Entra ID (Azure AD) sign-in and the underlying gateway at global.api.flixbus.com
  rejects anonymous requests, so no machine-readable OpenAPI is reachable without a distribution-partner agreement (requested
  via online-distribution@flixbus.com). Publicly and anonymously, Flix does publish schedule data as first-party GTFS Schedule
  feeds for Europe, the United States and Great Britain from gtfs.gis.flix.tech, refreshed regularly and licensed ODbL-1.0
  through national open-data portals.'
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/flixbus/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
image: https://cdn-cf.cms.flixbus.com/drupal-assets/ogimage/flixbus.png
x-type: company
x-source: harvest:secondary-market
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-08-04'
modified: '2026-08-04'
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-08-04'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 10
  pass: local-v1
tags:
- Company
- Transportation
- Travel
- Mobility
- Bus
- Rail
- Ticketing
- GTFS
- Open Data
- Distribution
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
apis:
- name: Flix API
  description: 'The partner-facing Flix API, published through the Flix Developer Portal. Documentation covers API references,
    getting-started guides, changelogs and example Postman collections for Flix distribution and affiliate partners (search,
    availability, booking and ticketing over JSON/REST). Access is gated: the developer portal requires a Microsoft Entra
    ID sign-in and the API gateway at global.api.flixbus.com returns 403/401 to anonymous callers, so credentials are issued
    only under a distribution-partner agreement.'
  humanURL: https://developer.api.flixbus.com/
  baseURL: https://global.api.flixbus.com
  tags:
  - Booking
  - Ticketing
  - Travel
  - Distribution
  properties:
  - type: DeveloperPortal
    url: https://developer.api.flixbus.com/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.api.flixbus.com/
  - type: SignUp
    url: https://global.flixbus.com/company/partners/affiliate-partners
- name: Flix GTFS Schedule Feeds
  description: First-party GTFS Schedule feeds published by FlixMobility Tech GmbH covering the FlixBus and FlixTrain networks.
    Three anonymous, unauthenticated regional archives are served from gtfs.gis.flix.tech — Europe (gtfs_generic_eu.zip),
    the United States (gtfs_generic_us.zip) and Great Britain (gtfs_generic_gb.zip) — each a standard GTFS bundle with agency,
    routes, trips, stops, stop_times, calendar, transfers and shapes. The feeds are aggregated by Transitland, the Mobility
    Database and transport.data.gouv.fr under an ODbL-1.0 license.
  humanURL: https://www.transit.land/feeds/f-u-flixbus
  baseURL: https://gtfs.gis.flix.tech
  tags:
  - GTFS
  - Open Data
  - Schedules
  - Transit
  properties:
  - type: GTFS
    name: GTFS Schedule — Europe
    url: https://gtfs.gis.flix.tech/gtfs_generic_eu.zip
  - type: GTFS
    name: GTFS Schedule — United States
    url: https://gtfs.gis.flix.tech/gtfs_generic_us.zip
  - type: GTFS
    name: GTFS Schedule — Great Britain
    url: https://gtfs.gis.flix.tech/gtfs_generic_gb.zip
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/flixbus-domain-security.yml
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/flixbus-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: SecurityTxt
  url: well-known/flixbus-security.txt
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/flixbus-well-known.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/flixbus-authentication.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/flixbus-conformance.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/flixbus-lifecycle.yml
- type: Packages
  url: packages/flixbus-packages.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/flixbus-llms.txt
- type: Website
  url: https://global.flixbus.com/
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://developer.api.flixbus.com/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://developer.api.flixbus.com/
- type: SignUp
  url: https://global.flixbus.com/company/partners/affiliate-partners
- type: Support
  url: https://help.flixbus.com/
- type: Blog
  url: https://corporate.flix.com/newsroom/
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/flix-tech
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://global.flixbus.com/terms-and-conditions
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://global.flixbus.com/privacy-policy
- type: Security
  url: https://global.flixbus.com/responsible-disclosure

FlixBus

Kin Score

APIs 2

Flix API

Flix GTFS Schedule Feeds

Security Posture 3

Flixbus Authentication

Flixbus Domain Security

Flixbus Vulnerability Disclosure

Resources