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Google Cloud Spanner

Google Cloud Spanner is a fully managed, mission-critical relational database service that offers transactional consistency at global scale, automatic synchronous replication, and schemas with SQL support. It combines the benefits of relational database structure with non-relational horizontal scale, providing up to 99.999% availability.

Google Cloud Spanner is listed with 2 APIs on the APIs.io network: Cloud Spanner Projects API and Cloud Spanner Scans API. Tagged areas include Database, Distributed, Google Cloud, Relational, and SQL.

The Google Cloud Spanner catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context and 2 Spectral governance rulesets.

Google Cloud Spanner’s developer surface includes changelog, sandbox, authentication, developer portal, getting-started guide, documentation, pricing, and 44 more developer resources.

64.4/100 strong ▲ 9.6 Agent 37/100 agent ready saas Full breakdown ↓
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AccessFreemiumSelf serveFree trial⚡ Free to try
2 APIs 1 MCP Servers
DatabaseDistributedGoogle CloudRelationalSQL

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
DatabasesInstances

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MarketPositionDepthRegistered MCP serverDeclares compatibility
Databases (PostgreSQL wire) undeclared - - 1

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Standards implemented 3

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.

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APIs 2

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

Google Cloud Spanner Cloud Spanner Projects API

The Cloud Spanner Projects API from Google Cloud Spanner — 71 operation(s) for cloud spanner projects.

Google Cloud Spanner Cloud Spanner Scans API

The Cloud Spanner Scans API from Google Cloud Spanner — 1 operation(s) for cloud spanner scans.

Postman Collections 3

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

Open Collections 4

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

Google Cloud Spanner API

OPEN COLLECTION

MCP Servers 1

Model Context Protocol servers that expose these APIs to AI agents.

Spanner MCP Server

Remote MCP server at spanner.googleapis.com requiring OAuth; 10 tools listed.

MCP SERVER

Google Cloud Spanner API pricing

Prices published by Google Cloud Spanner, read 2026-10-28 from cloud.google.com/spanner/pricing.

PlanPrice
Standard (regional compute, per node) $0.90/ 1 hour
Enterprise (regional compute, per node) $1.23/ 1 hour
Enterprise Plus (regional compute, per node) $1.71/ 1 hour
Enterprise Plus dual-region compute $4.617/ 1 hour
Enterprise Plus multi-region compute $3.705/ 1 hour
Enterprise read-only replica compute $0.41/ 1 hour
Enterprise Plus read-only replica compute $0.57/ 1 hour
Regional SSD database storage $0.000410959/ 1 gibibyte hour

All 13 plans, limits and sources →

Rate limits

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

Billed by: gibibyte hour · FinOps profile →

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Terms of Service 1

What its API terms permit and prohibit, quoted from its own page.

Google Cloud Spanner

8 quoted statements, read from Google Cloud Spanner's own page on 2026-11-09.

TERMS

Eligibility 1

Who may sign up and where, quoted from its own terms.

Google Cloud Spanner

4 quoted statements, read from Google Cloud Spanner's own page on 2026-11-09.

ELIGIBILITY

AI Preferences 1

Its stance on AI training, inference and agents, quoted from its own pages.

Google Cloud Spanner

1 quoted statement, read from Google Cloud Spanner's own page on 2026-11-09.

AI PREFS

Data License 1

How its data and outputs may be reused, quoted from its own terms.

Google Cloud Spanner

1 quoted statement, read from Google Cloud Spanner's own page on 2026-11-09.

LICENSE

FinOps 1

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

Semantic Vocabularies 1

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

Google Cloud Spanner Context

16 classes · 0 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 2

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs. Counts are the severity each rule declares, not results of running them.

Google Cloud Spanner — jsonschema rules

5 rules · 3 warn-severity 2 info-severity

SPECTRAL

Google Cloud Spanner API Rules

65 rules · 55 error-severity 9 warn-severity 1 info-severity

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 8

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

Backup

20 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ExecuteSqlRequest

13 properties

JSON SCHEMA

InstanceConfig

14 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Instance

17 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ListScansResponse

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

PartialResultSet

7 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Policy

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Google Cloud Spanner Instance

10 properties

JSON SCHEMA

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Security Posture 3

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

Google Cloud Spanner Authentication

oauth2 · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Google Cloud Spanner Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Google Cloud Spanner Vulnerability Disclosure

security.txt · contact published

SECURITY

Scopes 1

OAuth scopes governing access to this provider's APIs.

Google Cloud Spanner Scopes

3 scopes · authorizationCode

3 scopes

SCOPES

Agentic Access (API Evangelist recommendations) 1

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

Google Cloud Spanner Agentic Access

10 operations · 6 acting

10 operations · 6 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Get Started 5

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Agent Surfaces 4

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Design & Contract 9

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

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Build 6

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Access & Security 6

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Operate 4

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Commercial 7

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

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Company 2

The organization behind the API

Other 6

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑
aid: google-cloud-spanner
name: Google Cloud Spanner
description: Google Cloud Spanner is a fully managed, mission-critical relational database service that offers transactional
  consistency at global scale, automatic synchronous replication, and schemas with SQL support. It combines the benefits of
  relational database structure with non-relational horizontal scale, providing up to 99.999% availability.
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: self-serve
  trial: true
  try_now: true
  public: false
  gated: none
  gated_source:
  - onboarding
  label: Freemium (free trial) · Self-serve signup
  confidence: high
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  - security
  - sandbox
  generated: '2026-11-13'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/google-cloud-spanner.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/google-cloud-spanner/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2026-03-13'
modified: '2026-05-19'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
type: Index
tags:
- Database
- Distributed
- Google Cloud
- Relational
- SQL
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
common:
- type: Spectral
  url: rules/google-cloud-spanner-rules.yml
- type: Spectral
  url: rules/google-cloud-spanner-jsonschema-spectral-rules.yml
- type: Vocabulary
  url: vocabulary/google-cloud-spanner-vocabulary.yml
- type: DataModel
  url: data-model/google-cloud-spanner-data-model.yml
- type: ChangeLog
  url: changelog/google-cloud-spanner-changelog.yml
- type: Sandbox
  url: sandbox/google-cloud-spanner-sandbox.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/google-cloud-spanner-lifecycle.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/google-cloud-spanner-error-codes.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/google-cloud-spanner-problem-types.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/google-cloud-spanner-conformance.yml
- type: Protobuf
  url: grpc/google-cloud-spanner-spanner.proto
- type: Protobuf
  url: grpc/google-cloud-spanner-instance-admin.proto
- type: Protobuf
  url: grpc/google-cloud-spanner-database-admin.proto
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/google-cloud-spanner-llms.txt
- type: ToolCrosswalk
  url: mcp/google-cloud-spanner-tool-crosswalk.yml
- type: MCPServer
  url: mcp/google-cloud-spanner-mcp.yml
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/google-cloud-spanner-well-known.yml
- type: Hosts
  url: hosts/google-cloud-spanner-hosts.yml
- type: IntegrationEdges
  url: integrations/google-cloud-spanner-integration-edges.yml
- type: SDKs
  url: packages/google-cloud-spanner-packages.yml
- type: Packages
  url: packages/google-cloud-spanner-packages.yml
- type: Security
  url: https://accounts.google.com/ServiceLogin?hl=en-US&continue=https://myaccount.google.com/intro/security
- type: Sandbox
  url: https://play.google.com/console/about/
- type: Login
  url: https://accounts.google.com/v3/signin/identifier?continue=https://docs.google.com/&emr=1&followup=https://docs.google.com/&osid=1&passive=1209600&flowName=GlifWebSignIn&flowEntry=ServiceLogin&dsh=S639346758:1794451869124516
- type: Plans
  url: plans/google-cloud-spanner-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/google-cloud-spanner-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/google-cloud-spanner-finops.yml
- type: CapabilityMap
  url: capabilities/google-cloud-spanner-capability-edges.yml
  name: Google Cloud Spanner Business Capability Map
- type: Website
  url: https://cloud.google.com/spanner
- type: PostmanWorkspace
  url: https://www.postman.com/kinlaneapi/google-cloud-spanner/overview
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/google-cloud-spanner-agentic-access.yml
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/google-cloud-spanner-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/google-cloud-spanner-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/google-cloud-spanner-authentication.yml
- type: OAuthScopes
  url: scopes/google-cloud-spanner-scopes.yml
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform
- type: Portal
  url: https://cloud.google.com/spanner
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://cloud.google.com/spanner/docs/getting-started/rest
- type: Documentation
  url: https://cloud.google.com/spanner/docs
- type: Authentication
  url: https://cloud.google.com/spanner/docs/authentication
- type: Pricing
  url: https://cloud.google.com/spanner/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/spanner/docs/support
- type: JSONLD
  url: json-ld/google-cloud-spanner-context.jsonld
- type: Integrations
  url: https://cloud.google.com/marketplace
- url: https://cloud.google.com/feeds/spanner-release-notes.xml
  type: Blog
- type: UsageTerms
  url: terms/google-cloud-spanner-terms-of-service.yml
- type: Eligibility
  url: eligibility/google-cloud-spanner-eligibility.yml
- type: AIPreferences
  url: ai-preferences/google-cloud-spanner-ai-preferences.yml
- type: DataLicense
  url: data-license/google-cloud-spanner-data-license.yml
apis:
- aid: google-cloud-spanner:google-cloud-spanner-projects-api
  name: Google Cloud Spanner Cloud Spanner Projects API
  description: The Cloud Spanner Projects API from Google Cloud Spanner — 71 operation(s) for cloud spanner projects.
  humanURL: https://cloud.google.com/spanner/docs
  baseURL: https://spanner.googleapis.com
  tags:
  - Cloud Spanner Projects
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/google-cloud-spanner-projects-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://cloud.google.com/spanner/docs/reference/rest
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://cloud.google.com/spanner/docs/authentication
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://cloud.google.com/spanner/docs/getting-started/rest
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/google-cloud-spanner-backup-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/google-cloud-spanner-instance-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/google-cloud-spanner-instance-config-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/google-cloud-spanner-policy-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/google-cloud-spanner-execute-sql-request-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/google-cloud-spanner-partial-result-set-schema.json
- aid: google-cloud-spanner:google-cloud-spanner-scans-api
  name: Google Cloud Spanner Cloud Spanner Scans API
  description: The Cloud Spanner Scans API from Google Cloud Spanner — 1 operation(s) for cloud spanner scans.
  humanURL: https://cloud.google.com/spanner/docs
  baseURL: https://spanner.googleapis.com
  tags:
  - Cloud Spanner Scans
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/google-cloud-spanner-scans-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://cloud.google.com/spanner/docs/reference/rest
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://cloud.google.com/spanner/docs/authentication
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://cloud.google.com/spanner/docs/getting-started/rest
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/google-cloud-spanner-list-scans-response-schema.json
integrations:
- name: Become a Partner
x-parent: google-cloud-platform
x-relationship: product
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-11-11'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 12
  pass: local-v6

Google Cloud Spanner API — frequently asked questions

Does Google Cloud Spanner have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 2 APIs from Google Cloud Spanner, including Google Cloud Spanner Cloud Spanner Projects API and Google Cloud Spanner Cloud Spanner Scans API.

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

Yes. APIs.io indexes 2 OpenAPI specifications for Google Cloud Spanner, each linked for download from this page.

How do I authenticate with the Google Cloud Spanner API?

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

How much does the Google Cloud Spanner API cost?

Google Cloud Spanner publishes its prices; its Standard (regional compute, per node) plan is $0.90/ 1 hour as of 2026-10-28. APIs.io lists 13 pricing plans for Google Cloud Spanner, with each plan's price, limits and inclusions under Pricing on this page.

Does Google Cloud Spanner have an MCP server?

Yes. APIs.io lists 1 MCP server for Google Cloud Spanner: Remote MCP server at spanner.googleapis.com requiring OAuth; 10 tools listed.

Is the Google Cloud Spanner API ready for AI agents?

Google Cloud Spanner has a Kin Score of 64.4 out of 100 (strong) and an Agent Readiness score of 37.4 (agent-ready), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-13.

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