# Ginkgo Bioworks

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/ginkgo/  
**Website:** https://www.ginkgobioworks.com  
**APIs profiled:** 1

Ginkgo Bioworks is a synthetic biology company operating autonomous labs and a horizontal platform for engineering biology. Its public developer surface is the Ginkgo AI Model API (api.ginkgobioworks.ai), which runs inference on public and Ginkgo-proprietary biological foundation models — protein and DNA masked language models and embedding models such as ESM2 (650M/3B), ginkgo-aa0-650M, and ginkgo-maskedlm-3utr-v1. The API is an async, job-polling REST service: callers POST a transform request, receive a job result URL, and poll until the job completes. Authentication is via an x-api-key header, credits and keys are issued from the models portal, and an official Python client (ginkgo-ai-client) is published to PyPI. Ginkgo was surfaced as a Felicis portfolio company and enriched into the API Evangelist network.

## Kin Score — 19.2 / 100 (emerging)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 19.2).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 75.9 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 2.6 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 50.0 |
| Commercial Clarity | 6.6 |
| Access Clarity | 6.6 |

## Agent readiness — 12.0 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | documented |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | no |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

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

## APIs (1)

- **Ginkgo AI Model API** — Async, job-polling REST API for running inference on public and Ginkgo-proprietary biological foundation models — protein/DNA masked language modeling and mean-embedding generat...

## MCP servers (1)

- **Ginkgo Bioworks MCP Server**

## Security (2)

- **Ginkgo Authentication** — apiKey · 1 scheme
- **Ginkgo Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC

## Tags

Company, Synthetic Biology, Biotechnology, Artificial Intelligence, Machine-Learning, Protein Models, Bioinformatics, Inference API

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