# Google Colab

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/google-colab/  
**APIs profiled:** 4

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.

## Kin Score — 40.1 / 100 (developing)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 40.1).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 74.1 |
| Contract Quality | 68.5 |
| Governance | 9.8 |
| Contract Governance | 9.8 |
| Operational Transparency | 26.3 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 28.6 |
| Commercial Clarity | 26.3 |
| Access Clarity | 26.3 |

## Agent readiness — 29.1 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Freemium · Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: freemium, trial: no (confidence: high).

## APIs (4)

- **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

## Agentic access (1)

- **Google Colab Agentic Access** — 8 operations · 5 acting

## Security (3)

- **Google Colab Authentication** — oauth2 · 1 scheme
- **Google Colab Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC
- **Google Colab Vulnerability Disclosure** — security.txt · contact published

## Plans (1)

- **Google Colab Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Collaboration, Data Science, Google Cloud, Jupyter, Machine-Learning, Notebooks, Python

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/google-colab/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.