Flywheel

Flywheel is a medical imaging data management and AI development platform for biomedical research, clinical trials, and medical device R&D. It securely ingests, organizes, de-identifies, processes, and analyzes imaging data (DICOM, NIfTI, and more) in a strict container hierarchy (Group, Project, Subject, Session, Acquisition, File, Analysis) and automates workflows with reusable plug-in applications called Gears. Developers integrate through a per-instance REST API documented with Swagger, an official Python SDK, a command line interface, and an open-source Developer Toolkit (fw-client, fw-file, fw-gear, fw-curation, fw-classification). Flywheel is HIPAA, SOC 2/SOC 3, GDPR, and 21 CFR Part 11 compliant. Surfaced as an 8vc portfolio company and enriched by the API Evangelist pipeline.

Flywheel publishes 1 API on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Medical Imaging, Healthcare, Data Management, and Machine-Learning.

Flywheel’s developer surface includes documentation, API reference, getting-started guide, authentication, CLI, changelog, support, and 18 more developer resources.

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37.7/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 3/100 human only Front door AI 5/6 prominent saas Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-09-19 · rubric v0.22.0

1 APIs

Company Medical Imaging Healthcare Data Management Machine-Learning Research DICOM Life Sciences

Kin Score

Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-09-19 · rubric v0.22.0

Composite quality — 37.7/100 · thin

Contract Quality 0.0 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 12.1 / 17

Access Clarity 6.3 / 17

Operational Transparency 2.9 / 11

Contract Governance 1.9 / 10

Discoverability 6.5 / 9

Regulatory Posture 5.6 / 15

Agent readiness — 3/100 · human only

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 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 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 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

Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

Regulatory Posture applies to this provider. Its tags matched the Health 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.

The six quality facets above are damped to 85 points between them, because the conditional facet above carries the other 15. That is why each facet's contribution is shown against a damped maximum: raising a quality facet moves the composite by 85% of its nominal weight, not 100%. The full arithmetic is at apis.io/rating/.

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APIs 1

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

Flywheel Core API

Full REST API for the Flywheel platform, covering the container hierarchy (groups, projects, subjects, sessions, acquisitions, files, analyses), gears and jobs, users and permis...

Security Posture 3

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

Flywheel Authentication

apiKey · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Flywheel Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC

SECURITY

Flywheel Trust Center

HIPAA, SOC 2, SOC 3, GDPR, 21 CFR Part 11, IRB

SECURITY

Resources

Get Started 2

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

DeveloperPortal

DeveloperPortal

GettingStarted

GettingStarted

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

APIReference

APIReference

Agent Surfaces 2

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

WellKnown

WellKnown

LLMsTxt

LLMsTxt

Design & Contract 4

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

DataModel

Conventions

Lifecycle

Conformance

Build 4

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Packages

Packages

SDKs

SDKs

CLI

CLI

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

Access & Security 4

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Authentication

Compliance

TrustCenter

DomainSecurity

Operate 3

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Deprecation

Deprecation

ChangeLog

ChangeLog

Support

Support

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

TermsOfService

TermsOfService

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Blog

Blog

Website

Website

Source (apis.yml)

aid: flywheel
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: false
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source:
  - authentication
  - security
  generated: '2026-09-03'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/flywheel.png
name: Flywheel
description: Flywheel is a medical imaging data management and AI development platform for biomedical research, clinical trials,
  and medical device R&D. It securely ingests, organizes, de-identifies, processes, and analyzes imaging data (DICOM, NIfTI,
  and more) in a strict container hierarchy (Group, Project, Subject, Session, Acquisition, File, Analysis) and automates
  workflows with reusable plug-in applications called Gears. Developers integrate through a per-instance REST API documented
  with Swagger, an official Python SDK, a command line interface, and an open-source Developer Toolkit (fw-client, fw-file,
  fw-gear, fw-curation, fw-classification). Flywheel is HIPAA, SOC 2/SOC 3, GDPR, and 21 CFR Part 11 compliant. Surfaced as
  an 8vc portfolio company and enriched by the API Evangelist pipeline.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/flywheel/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- 8vc
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-19'
tags:
- Company
- Medical Imaging
- Healthcare
- Data Management
- Machine-Learning
- Research
- DICOM
- Life Sciences
tags_raw:
- Company
- Medical Imaging
- Healthcare
- Data Management
- Machine Learning
- Research
- DICOM
- Life Sciences
apis:
- name: Flywheel Core API
  description: Full REST API for the Flywheel platform, covering the container hierarchy (groups, projects, subjects, sessions,
    acquisitions, files, analyses), gears and jobs, users and permissions, and search. Documented with Swagger and served
    per customer instance at <instance>/api (interactive docs at <instance>/api/docs). Consumed via the official Python SDK
    and CLI.
  humanURL: https://docs.flywheel.io/Developer_Guides/api_sdk/
  baseURL: https://api-docs.flywheel.io/latest/index.html
  x-baseurl-note: The live API base is per-instance (<instance>/api); the public reference is the generated SDK/API documentation
    host. No single public production base URL is published.
  tags:
  - Medical Imaging
  - REST
  properties:
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://api-docs.flywheel.io/latest/index.html
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.flywheel.io/Developer_Guides/
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://docs.flywheel.io/Developer_Guides/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://docs.flywheel.io/Developer_Guides/
- type: APIReference
  url: https://api-docs.flywheel.io/latest/index.html
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://api-docs.flywheel.io/latest/tags/16.19.2/python/getting_started_new.html
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/flywheel-authentication.yml
- type: Packages
  url: packages/flywheel-packages.yml
- type: SDKs
  url: packages/flywheel-packages.yml
- type: CLI
  url: cli/flywheel-cli.yml
- type: DataModel
  url: data-model/flywheel-data-model.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/flywheel-conventions.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/flywheel-lifecycle.yml
- type: Deprecation
  url: lifecycle/flywheel-lifecycle.yml
- type: ChangeLog
  url: changelog/flywheel-changelog.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/flywheel-conformance.yml
- type: Compliance
  url: https://flywheel.io/compliance/
- type: TrustCenter
  url: security/flywheel-trust-center.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/flywheel-domain-security.yml
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/flywheel-well-known.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/flywheel-llms.txt
- type: Support
  url: https://forum.flywheel.io
- type: Blog
  url: https://flywheel.io/insights/
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/flywheel-io
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://flywheel.io/privacy-policy/
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://flywheel.io/terms/
- type: Website
  url: https://flywheel.io
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: backfilled
  pass: local-v1
  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence

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