Google Cloud CDN

Google Cloud CDN (Content Delivery Network) uses Google's globally distributed edge points of presence to cache HTTP(S) load-balanced content close to users. It accelerates content delivery, reduces serving costs, and improves availability by leveraging Google's global network infrastructure for fast, reliable content distribution.

Google Cloud CDN publishes 3 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network: BackendServices API, Cache Invalidation API, and URL maps API. Tagged areas include Caching, CDN, Content Delivery, Google Cloud, and Networking.

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

Google Cloud CDN’s developer surface includes authentication, developer portal, getting-started guide, documentation, pricing, support, and 17 more developer resources.

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AccessPaidSelf serve

1 published contract

Caching CDN Content Delivery Google Cloud Networking

What this lets a business do 1

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

Information Technology Management

BC-600

BackendServicesCacheInvalidationUrlMaps

POST /projects/{project}/global/backendServices POST /projects/{project}/global/backendServices/{backendService}/invalidateCache GET /projects/{project}/global/urlMaps

Kin Score

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scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0

Composite quality — 56.3/100 · strong

Contract Quality 10.9 / 19

Developer Ergonomics 6.6 / 15

Access Clarity 10.7 / 15

Operational Transparency 5.9 / 10

Contract Governance 0.9 / 9

Discoverability 5.0 / 8

Regulatory Posture 6.0 / 15

Create-or-Update Ergonomics 0.0 / 10

Agent readiness — 29/100 · agent ready

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 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 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 6 / 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
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
Registration Without a Human +6 pts — a `registration_endpoint` in the served RFC 8414 / OIDC discovery document

8 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

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

Developer Ergonomics scores 44.0 — up to +11.2 composite points
Contract Governance scores 9.8 — up to +10.8 composite points
Contract Quality scores 58.1 — up to +10.5 composite points

Each check links to what satisfies it. Publish the artifact, or tell us where it already lives, and the score moves on the next scoring run.

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Google Cloud CDN is an area vendor: providers adopt it to run part of their developer surface. This is the Kin Score checks its features can move for a provider that adopts it, what each one really earns, and what it earns nothing for.

cdncapability map2 features checked 2026-09-25 · rubric v0.22.0

Google Cloud CDN moves no Kin Score check. It caches and accelerates content. Cloud Armor policies and reCAPTCHA bot management allow, deny, rate-limit or redirect automated clients, and Service Extensions run custom code in the request path. The fetched docs mention no AI-crawler consent signal, Web Bot Auth, agent monetization, security.txt or llms.txt, so a provider on it scores exactly what its own published artifacts earn.

Nothing the Kin Score reads. Google Cloud CDN's features serve the provider's operations, not the published surface the score measures.

Across 8977 providers that publish a contract, adopting Google Cloud CDN would move 0. Median lift: composite +0.0 (90th percentile +0.0), agent readiness +0.0 (+0.0). Conditional rows excluded.

What Google Cloud CDN ships that earns nothing (2)

Cloud Armor bot management — Filtering bots publishes no AIPREF/ContentSignal/WebBotAuth artifact for the provider.
Cloud CDN with Service Extensions — Caching and TLS change nothing any check reads.

A model, not a score. Adopting this vendor changes a provider's Kin Score only when the provider publishes the resulting artifacts on its own surface; nothing here writes a score, and no sponsorship or partnership can. The rating is not for sale → · Full vendor facets artifact

Markets this provider is in provisional

The Kin Score Market layer reads a provider inside its market: its position, and how deep its integrations go. Depth is only comparable within a position. Provisional and unweighted: not part of the Kin Score or agent readiness.

Market	Position	Depth	Registered MCP server	Declares compatibility
Network Edge (CDN, networking, peering, edge compute)	undeclared	-	-	-

Registered MCP server and declares compatibility are report only — not weighted. Undeclared means we found nothing we can read, so there is no number: we never infer integrations.

Standards implemented 2

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)

OAuth 2.0

measured — observed by APIs.io (declared)

APIs 3

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

Google Cloud CDN BackendServices API

Manage CDN-enabled backend services

Google Cloud CDN Cache Invalidation API

Invalidate cached content

Google Cloud CDN URL maps API

Manage URL maps for routing

Postman Collections 3

Ready-to-run Postman collections for exercising this provider's APIs.

Google Cloud CDN BackendServices API

POSTMAN

Google Cloud CDN BackendServices CacheInvalidation API

POSTMAN

Google Cloud CDN BackendServices UrlMaps API

POSTMAN

Open Collections 4

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

Google Cloud CDN API

OPEN COLLECTION

Google Cloud CDN BackendServices API

OPEN COLLECTION

Google Cloud CDN BackendServices CacheInvalidation API

OPEN COLLECTION

Google Cloud CDN BackendServices UrlMaps API

OPEN COLLECTION

Google Cloud CDN API pricing

Prices published by Google Cloud CDN, read 2026-09-20 from cloud.google.com/cdn/pricing.

Plan	Price
Cache data transfer out	$0.02-$0.20 per GiB
Cache fill	$0.01-$0.04 per GiB
HTTP/HTTPS cache lookup requests	$0.0075/ 10,000 count
Cache data transfer out — North America 0-10 TiB	$0.08/ 1 gibibyte, per 1 month/ account
Cache data transfer out — China 0-10 TiB	$0.20/ 1 gibibyte, per 1 month/ account
Cache fill within North America or Europe	$0.01/ 1 gibibyte
Cache fill within Asia Pacific/South America/Middle East/Africa/Oceania	$0.02/ 1 gibibyte
Inter-region cache fill	$0.04/ 1 gibibyte

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Rate limits

Default rate limiting security policy threshold: the default threshold is 500 requests during each one-minute interval
Throttle rate_limit_threshold_count maximum: The minimum value is 1 and the maximum value is 1,000,000.
Rate-based ban rate_limit_threshold_count maximum: The minimum value is 1 request and the maximum value is 10,000 requests.

Rate-limit details →

Billed by: gib · FinOps profile →

Pricing Plans 2

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Google Cloud Cdn Plans Pricing

9 plans

PLANS

Google Cloud Cdn Price Estimates

0 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Google Cloud Cdn Rate Limits

3 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 Cloud CDN

SLA

FinOps 1

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

Google Cloud Cdn Finops

FINOPS

Semantic Vocabularies 1

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

Cdn Context

10 classes · 3 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 1

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

Google Cloud CDN — jsonschema rules

5 rules · 3 warnings 2 info

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 1

Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.

Google Cloud CDN Backend Service

10 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Security Posture 3

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

Google Cloud Cdn Authentication

oauth2 · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Google Cloud Cdn Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Google Cloud Cdn Vulnerability Disclosure

security.txt · contact published

SECURITY

Scopes 1

OAuth scopes governing access to this provider's APIs.

Google Cloud Cdn Scopes

2 scopes · authorizationCode

2 scopes

SCOPES

Agentic Access 1

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

Google Cloud Cdn Agentic Access

7 operations · 4 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Get Started 2

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Portal

Portal

GettingStarted

GettingStarted

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

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 2

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

PostmanWorkspace

PostmanWorkspace

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

Access & Security 5

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

VulnerabilityDisclosure

VulnerabilityDisclosure

DomainSecurity

Authentication

OAuthScopes

Authentication

Operate 3

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

RateLimits

RateLimits

StatusPage

StatusPage

Support

Support

Commercial 5

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

FinOps

Plans

Pricing

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

Company 1

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Other 2

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

VendorFacets

VendorFacets

CapabilityMap

CapabilityMap

Source (apis.yml)

aid: google-cloud-cdn
name: Google Cloud CDN
description: Google Cloud CDN (Content Delivery Network) uses Google's globally distributed edge points of presence to cache
  HTTP(S) load-balanced content close to users. It accelerates content delivery, reduces serving costs, and improves availability
  by leveraging Google's global network infrastructure for fast, reliable content distribution.
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: paid
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  gated: none
  gated_source:
  - onboarding
  label: Paid · Self-serve signup
  confidence: high
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  - rate-limits
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-06'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/google-cloud-cdn.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-search/google-cloud-cdn/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2026-03-13'
modified: '2026-05-19'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
type: Index
tags:
- Caching
- CDN
- Content Delivery
- Google Cloud
- Networking
apis:
- aid: google-cloud-cdn:google-cloud-cdn-backendservices-api
  name: Google Cloud CDN BackendServices API
  description: Manage CDN-enabled backend services
  humanURL: https://cloud.google.com/cdn/docs
  baseURL: https://compute.googleapis.com
  tags:
  - BackendServices
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/google-cloud-cdn-backendservices-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://cloud.google.com/cdn/docs/reference/rest
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://cloud.google.com/docs/authentication
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://cloud.google.com/cdn/docs/quickstart
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/cdn-backendservice.json
- aid: google-cloud-cdn:google-cloud-cdn-cache-invalidation-api
  name: Google Cloud CDN Cache Invalidation API
  description: Invalidate cached content
  humanURL: https://cloud.google.com/cdn/docs
  baseURL: https://compute.googleapis.com
  tags:
  - Cache Invalidation
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/google-cloud-cdn-cache-invalidation-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://cloud.google.com/cdn/docs/reference/rest
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://cloud.google.com/docs/authentication
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://cloud.google.com/cdn/docs/quickstart
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/cdn-backendservice.json
- aid: google-cloud-cdn:google-cloud-cdn-url-maps-api
  name: Google Cloud CDN URL maps API
  description: Manage URL maps for routing
  humanURL: https://cloud.google.com/cdn/docs
  baseURL: https://compute.googleapis.com
  tags:
  - URL maps
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/google-cloud-cdn-url-maps-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://cloud.google.com/cdn/docs/reference/rest
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://cloud.google.com/docs/authentication
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://cloud.google.com/cdn/docs/quickstart
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/cdn-backendservice.json
common:
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/google-cloud-cdn-finops.yml
- type: VendorFacets
  url: vendor-facets/google-cloud-cdn-vendor-facets.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/google-cloud-cdn-rate-limits.yml
- type: Plans
  url: plans/google-cloud-cdn-plans-pricing.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.google.com/
- type: CapabilityMap
  url: capabilities/google-cloud-cdn-capability-edges.yml
  name: Google Cloud CDN Business Capability Map
- type: PostmanWorkspace
  url: https://www.postman.com/kinlaneapi/google-cloud-cdn/overview
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/google-cloud-cdn-agentic-access.yml
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/google-cloud-cdn-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/google-cloud-cdn-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/google-cloud-cdn-authentication.yml
- type: OAuthScopes
  url: scopes/google-cloud-cdn-scopes.yml
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform
- type: Portal
  url: https://cloud.google.com/cdn
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://cloud.google.com/cdn/docs/quickstart
- type: Documentation
  url: https://cloud.google.com/cdn/docs
- type: Authentication
  url: https://cloud.google.com/docs/authentication
- type: Pricing
  url: https://cloud.google.com/cdn/pricing
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://cloud.google.com/terms
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://policies.google.com/privacy
- type: StatusPage
  url: https://status.cloud.google.com/
- type: Support
  url: https://cloud.google.com/cdn/docs/support
- type: JSONLD
  url: json-ld/cdn-context.jsonld
- type: Integrations
  url: https://cloud.google.com/marketplace
integrations:
- name: Become a Partner
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
x-parent: google-cloud-platform
x-relationship: product

Google Cloud CDN API — frequently asked questions

Does Google Cloud CDN have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 3 APIs from Google Cloud CDN, including Google Cloud CDN BackendServices API, Google Cloud CDN Cache Invalidation API and Google Cloud CDN URL maps API.

Is there an OpenAPI specification for the Google Cloud CDN API?

Yes. APIs.io indexes 3 OpenAPI specifications for Google Cloud CDN, each linked for download from this page.

How do I authenticate with the Google Cloud CDN API?

Google Cloud CDN documents its authentication (oauth2 · 1 scheme). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Google Cloud Cdn Authentication.

How much does the Google Cloud CDN API cost?

Google Cloud CDN publishes its prices; its Cache data transfer out plan is $0.02-$0.20 per GiB as of 2026-09-20. APIs.io lists 9 pricing plans for Google Cloud CDN, with each plan's price, limits and inclusions under Pricing on this page.

Is the Google Cloud CDN API ready for AI agents?

Google Cloud CDN has a Kin Score of 56.3 out of 100 (strong) and an Agent Readiness score of 28.9 (agent-ready), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.

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What this lets a business do 1

What adopting Google Cloud CDN moves on the Kin Score 0

Markets this provider is in provisional

Standards implemented 2

APIs 3

Postman Collections 3

Open Collections 4

Google Cloud CDN API pricing

Rate limits

Pricing Plans 2

Rate Limits 1

Service Levels 1

FinOps 1

Semantic Vocabularies 1

Spectral Rules 1

JSON Schema 1

Security Posture 3

Scopes 1

Agentic Access 1

Get Started 2

Documentation 1

Agent Surfaces 1

Design & Contract 1

Build 2

Access & Security 5

Operate 3

Commercial 5

Company 1

Other 2

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