Google Colab

Google Colab (Colaboratory) is a hosted Jupyter notebook environment that provides free access to computing resources including GPUs and TPUs, with APIs for managing notebooks, runtimes, and integration with Google Drive for collaborative data science and machine learning workflows.

Google Colab publishes 4 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network, including Files API, Permissions API, and 2 more. Tagged areas include Collaboration, Data Science, Google Cloud, Jupyter, and Machine Learning.

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

Google Colab’s developer surface includes authentication, getting-started guide, pricing, support, and 14 more developer resources.

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40.8/100 developing ▬ flat Agent 25/100 agent aware Heartbeat 100/100 alive saas Full breakdown ↓
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Collaboration Data Science Google Cloud Jupyter Machine Learning Notebooks Python

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Composite quality — 40.8/100 · developing

Contract Quality 11.4 / 19

Developer Ergonomics 5.9 / 15

Access Clarity 2.8 / 15

Operational Transparency 3.6 / 10

Contract Governance 0.9 / 9

Discoverability 5.0 / 8

Regulatory Posture 4.5 / 15

Create-or-Update Ergonomics 0.0 / 10

Agent readiness — 25/100 · agent aware

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

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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):

Access Clarity scores 18.4 — up to +16.3 composite points
Developer Ergonomics scores 39.3 — up to +12.1 composite points
Contract Governance scores 9.8 — up to +10.8 composite points

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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 4

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

Colab Runtime and Kernel Management

Google Colab provides internal APIs for managing notebook runtimes and kernels, including connecting to hosted runtimes, local runtimes, and custom GCE VM backends. The runtime ...

Colab Enterprise API

The Colab Enterprise API on Google Cloud provides managed notebook runtimes integrated with Vertex AI. It enables creating and managing notebook execution schedules, runtime tem...

Google Colab Files API

Notebook file operations

Google Colab Permissions API

Sharing and access control

Open Collections 3

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

Google Colab Notebooks via Drive API

OPEN COLLECTION

Google Colab Notebooks via Drive Files API

OPEN COLLECTION

Google Colab Notebooks via Drive Files Permissions API

OPEN COLLECTION

Google Colab API pricing

Not yet checked against Google Colab's own pricing page. Compiled by API Evangelist on 2026-05-05 from colab.research.google.com/signup; confirm before you rely on a figure. A free plan or tier is listed.

Plan	Price
Free freemium	Free
Colab Pay-As-You-Go pay-as-you-go	—
Colab Pro subscription	—
Colab Pro+ subscription	—
Colab Enterprise enterprise	—

Plan details, limits and sources →

Rate limits

Maximum runtime duration (Free): 12 hours
Idle timeout (Free): 90 minutes
Maximum runtime duration (Pro): 24 hours

Compiled by API Evangelist, not yet checked against Google Colab's documentation. All 7 limits →

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Google Colab Plans Pricing

5 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Google Colab Rate Limits

7 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 Colab

SLA

FinOps 1

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

Google Colab Finops

FINOPS

Semantic Vocabularies 1

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

Google Colab Context

0 classes · 4 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 1

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

Google Colab — jsonschema rules

5 rules · 4 warnings 1 info

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 1

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

Google Colab Notebook

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Security Posture 3

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

Google Colab Authentication

oauth2 · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Google Colab Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Google Colab Vulnerability Disclosure

security.txt · contact published

SECURITY

Scopes 1

OAuth scopes governing access to this provider's APIs.

Google Colab Scopes

2 scopes · authorizationCode

2 scopes

SCOPES

Agentic Access 1

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

Google Colab Agentic Access

8 operations · 5 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 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

Support

Support

StatusPage

StatusPage

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Plans

Plans

FinOps

FinOps

Pricing

Pricing

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

LinkedIn

Source (apis.yml)

aid: google-colab
name: Google Colab
description: Google Colab (Colaboratory) is a hosted Jupyter notebook environment that provides free access to computing resources
  including GPUs and TPUs, with APIs for managing notebooks, runtimes, and integration with Google Drive for collaborative
  data science and machine learning workflows.
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: false
  try_now: true
  public: false
  gated: none
  gated_source:
  - onboarding
  label: Freemium · Self-serve signup
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-06'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/google-colab.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/google-colab/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2026-03-13'
modified: '2026-05-19'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
type: Index
tags:
- Collaboration
- Data Science
- Google Cloud
- Jupyter
- Machine Learning
- Notebooks
- Python
tags_raw:
- Collaboration
- Data Science
- Google Cloud
- Jupyter
- Machine Learning
- Notebooks
- Python
- Machine-Learning
apis:
- name: Colab Runtime and Kernel Management
  description: Google Colab provides internal APIs for managing notebook runtimes and kernels, including connecting to hosted
    runtimes, local runtimes, and custom GCE VM backends. The runtime API handles kernel lifecycle (connect, interrupt, restart),
    resource allocation (GPU/TPU), and execution of notebook cells. These capabilities are exposed through the Colab UI and
    the colab Python package.
  image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
  humanURL: https://research.google.com/colaboratory/faq.html
  baseURL: https://colab.research.google.com
  tags:
  - GPU
  - Kernel
  - Runtime
  - TPU
  tags_raw:
  - GPU
  - Kernels
  - Runtime
  - TPU
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://research.google.com/colaboratory/faq.html
- name: Colab Enterprise API
  description: The Colab Enterprise API on Google Cloud provides managed notebook runtimes integrated with Vertex AI. It enables
    creating and managing notebook execution schedules, runtime templates, and managed runtimes within Google Cloud projects.
    The API supports enterprise governance features including VPC Service Controls, customer-managed encryption keys, and
    IAM-based access control.
  image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
  humanURL: https://cloud.google.com/colab/docs
  baseURL: https://notebooks.googleapis.com
  tags:
  - Enterprise
  - Managed Notebooks
  - Vertex AI
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://cloud.google.com/colab/docs/reference/rest
- aid: google-colab:google-colab-files-api
  name: Google Colab Files API
  description: Notebook file operations
  humanURL: https://developers.google.com/drive/api/guides/about-sdk
  baseURL: https://www.googleapis.com/drive/v3
  tags:
  - File
  tags_raw:
  - Files
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/google-colab-files-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developers.google.com/drive/api/reference/rest/v3
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/google-colab-notebook-schema.json
- aid: google-colab:google-colab-permissions-api
  name: Google Colab Permissions API
  description: Sharing and access control
  humanURL: https://developers.google.com/drive/api/guides/about-sdk
  baseURL: https://www.googleapis.com/drive/v3
  tags:
  - Permissions
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/google-colab-permissions-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developers.google.com/drive/api/reference/rest/v3
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/google-colab-notebook-schema.json
common:
- type: PostmanWorkspace
  url: https://www.postman.com/kinlaneapi/google-colab/overview
- type: Plans
  url: plans/google-colab-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/google-colab-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/google-colab-finops.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.google.com/
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/google-colab-agentic-access.yml
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/google-colab-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/google-colab-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/google-colab-authentication.yml
- type: OAuthScopes
  url: scopes/google-colab-scopes.yml
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/googlecolab
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/google-colab
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://colab.research.google.com/notebooks/welcome.ipynb
- type: Pricing
  url: https://colab.research.google.com/signup
- type: Authentication
  url: https://developers.google.com/drive/api/guides/about-auth
- type: Support
  url: https://research.google.com/colaboratory/faq.html
- type: StatusPage
  url: https://status.cloud.google.com
- type: JSONLD
  url: json-ld/google-colab-context.jsonld
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
x-parent: google
x-relationship: product

Google Colab API — frequently asked questions

Does Google Colab have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 4 APIs from Google Colab, including Colab Runtime and Kernel Management, Colab Enterprise API and Google Colab Files API, and 1 more.

Is there an OpenAPI specification for the Google Colab API?

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

How do I authenticate with the Google Colab API?

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

How much does the Google Colab API cost?

APIs.io lists 5 pricing plans for Google Colab, with each plan's price, limits and inclusions under Pricing on this page.

Is the Google Colab API ready for AI agents?

Google Colab has a Kin Score of 40.8 out of 100 (developing) and an Agent Readiness score of 24.6 (agent-aware), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.

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