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.
What this lets a business do 1
Business capabilities this provider's published APIs can perform, derived from its own contracts. Browse all capabilities →
Kin Score
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Databases (PostgreSQL wire) | undeclared | - | - | 1 |
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 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.
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 COLLECTIONGoogle Cloud Spanner Databases API
OPEN COLLECTIONGoogle Cloud Spanner Databases Instances API
OPEN COLLECTIONGoogle Cloud Spanner Databases Sessions API
OPEN COLLECTIONMCP 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 SERVERGoogle Cloud Spanner API pricing
Prices published by Google Cloud Spanner, read 2026-10-28 from cloud.google.com/spanner/pricing.
| Plan | Price |
|---|---|
| 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
- 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 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.
Google Cloud Spanner Rate Limits
RATE LIMITSTerms 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.
TERMSEligibility 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.
ELIGIBILITYAI 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 PREFSData 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.
LICENSEFinOps 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
JSON-LDSpectral 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 API Rules
SPECTRALJSON Schema 8
Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.
Backup
JSON SCHEMAExecuteSqlRequest
JSON SCHEMAInstanceConfig
JSON SCHEMAInstance
JSON SCHEMAListScansResponse
JSON SCHEMAPartialResultSet
JSON SCHEMAPolicy
JSON SCHEMAGoogle Cloud Spanner Instance
JSON SCHEMAScroll for all 8
Security Posture 3
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.
Scopes 1
OAuth scopes governing access to this provider's APIs.
Agentic Access (API Evangelist recommendations) 1
Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.
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)
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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