# Freight Waves

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/freight-waves/  
**Website:** https://freightwaves.com  
**APIs profiled:** 3

FreightWaves is a supply-chain, logistics, and transportation news and market- intelligence company based in Chattanooga, TN, and backed by 8vc. Its SONAR platform delivers freight-market data — rate indexes, tender volumes and rejection indexes, capacity and pricing signals — by market, lane, and national geography over a REST API at api.freightwaves.com. Access uses a bearer token obtained from the Credential authenticate endpoint (valid one year); data calls are billable while lookup calls (indexes, qualifiers, levels, lanes, zip3, latest) are free, and a global 100 requests/minute rate limit applies. FreightWaves also operates a hosted, OAuth-protected MCP server (api.freightwaves.com/mcp, scope mcp:read) exposing SONAR data to agents.

## Kin Score — 50.5 / 100 (developing)

Scored 2026-08-30 under rubric 0.17.2. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 50.5).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 81.5 |
| Contract Quality | 58.0 |
| Governance | 4.5 |
| Contract Governance | 4.5 |
| Operational Transparency | 23.7 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 58.9 |
| Commercial Clarity | 44.7 |
| Access Clarity | 44.7 |

Regulatory layer — **Securities & Market Data**: 58.3 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 50.9 (agent-ready)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | verified |
| Auth Clarity | served |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | documented |
| OpenAPI Examples | partial |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | derived |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |
| Delegated Identity | served |
| Protected Resource Metadata | verified |
| Dynamic Client Registration | yes |
| Agentic Commerce | no |

## Access

Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: medium).

## APIs (3)

- **Freight Waves Authentication API** — Obtain and refresh API bearer tokens.
- **Freight Waves Data API** — Billable index data queries by item, level, and lane.
- **Freight Waves Lookup API** — Free reference lookups for valid indexes, qualifiers, levels, lanes, and zip3.

## MCP servers (1)

- **Freight Waves MCP Server** — FreightWaves hosts a remote MCP server exposing SONAR freight-market intelligence to agents. The endpoint is protected by OAuth 2.1 (bearer) with the mcp:read scope; unauthentic...

## Agentic access (1)

- **Freight Waves Agentic Access** — 9 operations · 1 acting

## Security (2)

- **Freight Waves Authentication** — http/oauth2 · 2 schemes
- **Freight Waves Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · DMARC

## Tags

Company, Freight, Logistics, Supply Chain, Transportation, Trucking, Market Data, Analytics, Freight Rates, SONAR

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/freight-waves/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.