Google Admin SDK

The Google Admin SDK provides a collection of RESTful APIs for managing Google Workspace organizations at scale. It includes the Directory API for managing users, groups, devices, and organizational units; the Reports API for auditing activity and usage; and the Data Transfer API for migrating data between users. These APIs enable programmatic integration with enterprise IT infrastructure.

Google Admin SDK publishes 1 API contract indexed on the APIs.io network: Admin API. Tagged areas include Administration, Devices, Directory, Enterprise, and Google.

The Google Admin SDK catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context and 1 Spectral governance ruleset.

Google Admin SDK’s developer surface includes getting-started guide, pricing, and 10 more developer resources.

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30.4/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 17/100 agent aware saas Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0 · Show this score on your site →

AccessFreemium

1 published contract

Administration Devices Directory Enterprise Google Google Workspace Group User

What this lets a business do 1

Business capabilities this provider's published APIs can perform, derived from its own contracts. Browse all capabilities →

Cybersecurity Management

BC-620

Admin

POST /admin/directory/v1/users POST /admin/directory/v1/users/{userKey}/makeAdmin POST /admin/directory/v1/groups DELETE /admin/directory/v1/groups/{groupKey}

Kin Score

Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0

Composite quality — 30.4/100 · thin

Contract Quality 10.7 / 19

Developer Ergonomics 1.8 / 15

Access Clarity 2.8 / 15

Operational Transparency 2.1 / 10

Contract Governance 0.9 / 9

Discoverability 5.0 / 8

Regulatory Posture 2.5 / 15

Create-or-Update Ergonomics 0.0 / 10

Agent readiness — 17/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 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

Pagination 5 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

MCP Tool Quality 6 / 6

Regulatory Posture applies to this provider. Its tags matched the Horizontal (data, software, accessibility, platform) 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 applies to this provider. This API accepts writes, so it carries 10 points of the composite. It is scored from the published contracts themselves: whether a caller can create-or-update in one call, whether the write accepts a key the caller already holds, and whether the response says which branch ran. Without that, every write needs a search-and-branch in front of it, and the first time that check is skipped a duplicate record is created. Scored against the observed mean rather than raw — a provider at the catalog average is unchanged by this facet, not penalised by it.

The six quality facets above are damped to 75 points between them, because the conditional facet above carries the other 25. That is why each facet's contribution is shown against a damped maximum: raising a quality facet moves the composite by 75% of its nominal weight, not 100%. The full arithmetic is at apis.io/rating/.

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Agent readiness — checks not met, largest first (exact, from this profile):

MCP Server +12 pts — deployment.mode + probe verdict on the mcp/ manifest, not the pointer; an unprobed slug falls back to authorship
Machine-Readable Auth +10 pts — a served openid-configuration/oauth-authorization-server carrying `issuer` (served), else the securitySchemes class in the provider OpenAPIs — bound (mutualTLS, DPoP, Signature) > negotiable (oauth2 authorizationCode/clientCredentials, openIdConnect) > bearer (http bearer, apiKey)
Idempotency +9 pts — OpenAPI mutating operations declare an idempotency key — a header, a request-body property, or a named de-duplication token whose own description says so (verified); else common[].type matches /idempoten/i (documented)
Stable Error Semantics +8 pts — OpenAPI $refs a shared error schema across 4xx/5xx responses (verified), else common[].type includes ErrorCatalog / ErrorCodes / DeclineCodes
A2A Agent Card +8 pts — a2a/-a2a.yml manifest, graded on conformance.grade against A2A 1.0.0
Request/Response Examples +7 pts — share of operations carrying request/response examples; else an Examples / Code Samples link

10 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

Kin Score — facets with the most composite points still available (weight × headroom):

Developer Ergonomics scores 11.9 — up to +17.6 composite points
Access Clarity scores 18.4 — up to +16.3 composite points
Contract Quality scores 57.0 — up to +10.8 composite points

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Standards implemented 1

Standards this provider implements or carries. De facto ones are profiled and measured by the API Commons; formal ones come from the standards directory and are linked by the provider's own tags. The evidence column says how each claim was established — not that it was made.

OpenAPI

measured — observed by APIs.io (published)

APIs 1

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

Google Admin SDK Admin API

The Admin API from Google Admin SDK — 11 operation(s) for admin.

Open Collections 2

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

Google SDK Directory Admin API

OPEN COLLECTION

Google Admin SDK Directory API

OPEN COLLECTION

Google Admin SDK API pricing

Not yet checked against Google Admin SDK's own pricing page. Compiled by API Evangelist on 2026-05-04; confirm before you rely on a figure. A free plan or tier is listed.

Plan	Price
Free freemium	Free
Professional paid	Free
Enterprise enterprise	—

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Rate limits

Free Tier Default: 10 requests per minute
Free Tier Monthly Quota: 1000 requests per month
Professional Tier Default: 100 requests per minute

Compiled by API Evangelist, not yet checked against Google Admin SDK's documentation. All 5 limits →

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Google Admin Sdk Plans Pricing

3 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Google Admin Sdk Rate Limits

5 limits

RATE LIMITS

Service Levels 1

Uptime the provider promises or reports, as SLA4OAI. Read from its own pages; APIs.io runs no monitors.

Google Admin SDK

SLA

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Google Admin Sdk Finops

FINOPS

Semantic Vocabularies 1

JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.

Json Ld Context

4 classes · 5 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 1

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

Google Admin SDK — jsonschema rules

6 rules · 4 warnings 2 info

SPECTRAL

Security Posture 2

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

Google Admin Sdk Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Google Admin Sdk Vulnerability Disclosure

security.txt · contact published

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Google Admin Sdk Agentic Access

20 operations · 10 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Get Started 1

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

GettingStarted

GettingStarted

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

AgenticAccess

Design & Contract 1

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

JSONLD

JSONLD

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

VulnerabilityDisclosure

VulnerabilityDisclosure

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

RateLimits

RateLimits

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Plans

Plans

FinOps

FinOps

Pricing

Pricing

Company 1

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

CapabilityMap

CapabilityMap

Source (apis.yml)

aid: google-admin-sdk
name: Google Admin SDK
description: The Google Admin SDK provides a collection of RESTful APIs for managing Google Workspace organizations at scale.
  It includes the Directory API for managing users, groups, devices, and organizational units; the Reports API for auditing
  activity and usage; and the Data Transfer API for migrating data between users. These APIs enable programmatic integration
  with enterprise IT infrastructure.
type: Index
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: true
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: high
  source:
  - openapi
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: freemium
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Freemium
  confidence: low
  source:
  - plans
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-06'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/google-admin-sdk.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/google-admin-sdk/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2026-03-13'
modified: '2026-05-19'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
tags:
- Administration
- Devices
- Directory
- Enterprise
- Google
- Google Workspace
- Group
- User
tags_raw:
- Administration
- Devices
- Directory
- Enterprise
- Google
- Google Workspace
- Groups
- Users
apis:
- aid: google-admin-sdk:google-admin-sdk-admin-api
  name: Google Admin SDK Admin API
  description: The Admin API from Google Admin SDK — 11 operation(s) for admin.
  humanURL: https://developers.google.com/workspace/admin/directory/reference/rest
  baseURL: https://admin.googleapis.com
  tags:
  - Admin
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/google-admin-sdk-admin-api-openapi.yml
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/json-schema.yml
  - type: JSONLD
    url: json-ld/json-ld.jsonld
common:
- type: Plans
  url: plans/google-admin-sdk-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/google-admin-sdk-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/google-admin-sdk-finops.yml
- type: CapabilityMap
  url: capabilities/google-admin-sdk-capability-edges.yml
  name: Google Admin SDK Business Capability Map
- type: Website
  url: https://www.google.com/
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/google-admin-sdk-agentic-access.yml
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/google-admin-sdk-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/google-admin-sdk-domain-security.yml
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/googleapis
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://developers.google.com/workspace/admin/overview
- type: Pricing
  url: https://workspace.google.com/pricing
- type: JSONLD
  url: json-ld/json-ld.jsonld
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
x-parent: google
x-relationship: product

Google Admin SDK API — frequently asked questions

Does Google Admin SDK have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 1 API from Google Admin SDK, including Google Admin SDK Admin API.

Is there an OpenAPI specification for the Google Admin SDK API?

Yes. APIs.io indexes 1 OpenAPI specification for Google Admin SDK, each linked for download from this page.

How much does the Google Admin SDK API cost?

APIs.io lists 3 pricing plans for Google Admin SDK, with each plan's price, limits and inclusions under Pricing on this page.

Is the Google Admin SDK API ready for AI agents?

Google Admin SDK has a Kin Score of 30.4 out of 100 (thin) and an Agent Readiness score of 17.2 (agent-aware), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.

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