Google Pub/Sub

Google Cloud Pub/Sub is a fully managed, real-time messaging service that allows you to send and receive messages between independent applications, providing reliable, many-to-many, asynchronous messaging for event ingestion, streaming analytics, and event-driven computing.

Google Pub/Sub publishes 6 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network, including Publish API, Schemas API, Snapshots API, and 3 more. Tagged areas include Cloud, Event-Driven, Google Cloud, Messaging, and Pub/Sub.

The Google Pub/Sub catalog on APIs.io includes 1 event-driven AsyncAPI specification and 2 Spectral governance rulesets.

Google Pub/Sub’s developer surface includes authentication, documentation, getting-started guide, pricing, GitHub presence, engineering blog, and 8 more developer resources.

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Cloud Event-Driven Google Cloud Messaging Pub/Sub Streaming

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Composite quality — 38.0/100 · thin

Contract Quality 11.7 / 19

Developer Ergonomics 5.4 / 15

Access Clarity 2.8 / 15

Operational Transparency 2.3 / 10

Contract Governance 1.2 / 9

Discoverability 4.3 / 8

Regulatory Posture 4.1 / 15

Create-or-Update Ergonomics 0.0 / 10

Agent readiness — 26/100 · 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 6 / 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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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

7 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 35.7 — up to +12.9 composite points
Contract Governance scores 13.6 — up to +10.4 composite points

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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.

Pub/Sub

tagged — the provider's own APIs.json carries the standard as a tag; implementation not verified

OpenAPI

measured — observed by APIs.io (published)

OAuth 2.0

measured — observed by APIs.io (declared)

APIs 6

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

Google Pub/Sub Publish API

Publish messages to topics

Google Pub/Sub Schemas API

Manage Pub/Sub schemas

Google Pub/Sub Snapshots API

Manage subscription snapshots

Google Pub/Sub Subscribe API

Pull and acknowledge messages

Google Pub/Sub Subscriptions API

Manage Pub/Sub subscriptions

Google Pub/Sub Topics API

Manage Pub/Sub topics

Open Collections 7

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

Google Pub/Sub Google Cloud Pub/Sub Publish API

OPEN COLLECTION

Google Pub/Sub Google Cloud Pub/Sub Publish Schemas API

OPEN COLLECTION

Google Pub/Sub Google Cloud Pub/Sub Publish Snapshots API

OPEN COLLECTION

Google Pub/Sub Google Cloud Pub/Sub Publish Subscribe API

OPEN COLLECTION

Google Pub/Sub Google Cloud Pub/Sub Publish Subscriptions API

OPEN COLLECTION

Google Pub/Sub Google Cloud Pub/Sub Publish Topics API

OPEN COLLECTION

Google Pub/Sub Google Cloud Pub/Sub API

OPEN COLLECTION

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Google Pub/Sub API pricing

Not yet checked against Google Pub/Sub's own pricing page. Compiled by API Evangelist on 2026-05-04; confirm before you rely on a figure. A free plan or tier is listed.

Plan	Price
Free freemium	Free
Professional paid	Free
Enterprise enterprise	—

Plan details, 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 Pub/Sub's documentation. All 5 limits →

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Google Pub Sub Plans Pricing

3 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Google Pub Sub Rate Limits

5 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 Pub/Sub

SLA

FinOps 1

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

Google Pub Sub Finops

FINOPS

Event Specifications 1

AsyncAPI definitions for this provider's event-driven and streaming APIs.

Google Cloud Pub/Sub

Google Cloud Pub/Sub is a fully managed real-time messaging service that allows you to send and receive messages between independent applications. This AsyncAPI spec describes t...

ASYNCAPI

Spectral Rules 2

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

Google Pub/Sub — asyncapi rules

7 rules · 1 errors 5 warnings 1 info

SPECTRAL

Google Pub/Sub — jsonschema rules

5 rules · 3 warnings 2 info

SPECTRAL

Security Posture 3

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

Google Pub Sub Authentication

http/oauth2 · 2 schemes

SECURITY

Google Pub Sub Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Google Pub Sub Vulnerability Disclosure

security.txt · contact published

SECURITY

Scopes 1

OAuth scopes governing access to this provider's APIs.

Google Pub Sub Scopes

2 scopes · authorizationCode

2 scopes

SCOPES

Agentic Access 1

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

Google Pub Sub Agentic Access

19 operations · 12 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Get Started 1

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

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

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHub

GitHub

Access & Security 4

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

VulnerabilityDisclosure

VulnerabilityDisclosure

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Authentication

Authentication

OAuthScopes

OAuthScopes

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

RateLimits

RateLimits

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

Blog

Blog

Source (apis.yml)

aid: google-pub-sub
x-parent: google-cloud-platform
name: Google Pub/Sub
description: Google Cloud Pub/Sub is a fully managed, real-time messaging service that allows you to send and receive messages
  between independent applications, providing reliable, many-to-many, asynchronous messaging for event ingestion, streaming
  analytics, and event-driven computing.
type: Index
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  license_evidence:
    not_product:
    - googleapis/google-cloud-go
  open_source: unknown
  commercial: true
  callable_host: true
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: low
  source:
  - openapi
  - pricing
  - repository-not-product
  generated: '2026-09-25'
  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-pub-sub.png
tags:
- Cloud
- Event-Driven
- Google Cloud
- Messaging
- Pub/Sub
- Streaming
tags_raw:
- Cloud
- Event-Driven
- Google Cloud
- Messaging
- Pub/Sub
- Streaming
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/google-pub-sub/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2026-03-26'
modified: '2026-05-19'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- aid: google-pub-sub:google-pub-sub-publish-api
  name: Google Pub/Sub Publish API
  description: Publish messages to topics
  humanURL: https://cloud.google.com/pubsub
  tags:
  - Publish
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/google-pub-sub-publish-api-openapi.yml
  - type: AsyncAPI
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/google-pub-sub/refs/heads/main/asyncapi/google-pub-sub-asyncapi.yml
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/google-pub-sub/refs/heads/main/json-schema/google-pub-sub-topic.yml
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/google-pub-sub/refs/heads/main/json-schema/google-pub-sub-message.yml
- aid: google-pub-sub:google-pub-sub-schemas-api
  name: Google Pub/Sub Schemas API
  description: Manage Pub/Sub schemas
  humanURL: https://cloud.google.com/pubsub
  tags:
  - Schema
  tags_raw:
  - Schemas
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/google-pub-sub-schemas-api-openapi.yml
  - type: AsyncAPI
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/google-pub-sub/refs/heads/main/asyncapi/google-pub-sub-asyncapi.yml
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/google-pub-sub/refs/heads/main/json-schema/google-pub-sub-topic.yml
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/google-pub-sub/refs/heads/main/json-schema/google-pub-sub-message.yml
- aid: google-pub-sub:google-pub-sub-snapshots-api
  name: Google Pub/Sub Snapshots API
  description: Manage subscription snapshots
  humanURL: https://cloud.google.com/pubsub
  tags:
  - Snapshots
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/google-pub-sub-snapshots-api-openapi.yml
  - type: AsyncAPI
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/google-pub-sub/refs/heads/main/asyncapi/google-pub-sub-asyncapi.yml
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/google-pub-sub/refs/heads/main/json-schema/google-pub-sub-topic.yml
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/google-pub-sub/refs/heads/main/json-schema/google-pub-sub-message.yml
- aid: google-pub-sub:google-pub-sub-subscribe-api
  name: Google Pub/Sub Subscribe API
  description: Pull and acknowledge messages
  humanURL: https://cloud.google.com/pubsub
  tags:
  - Subscribe
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/google-pub-sub-subscribe-api-openapi.yml
  - type: AsyncAPI
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/google-pub-sub/refs/heads/main/asyncapi/google-pub-sub-asyncapi.yml
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/google-pub-sub/refs/heads/main/json-schema/google-pub-sub-topic.yml
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/google-pub-sub/refs/heads/main/json-schema/google-pub-sub-message.yml
- aid: google-pub-sub:google-pub-sub-subscriptions-api
  name: Google Pub/Sub Subscriptions API
  description: Manage Pub/Sub subscriptions
  humanURL: https://cloud.google.com/pubsub
  tags:
  - Subscription
  tags_raw:
  - Subscriptions
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/google-pub-sub-subscriptions-api-openapi.yml
  - type: AsyncAPI
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/google-pub-sub/refs/heads/main/asyncapi/google-pub-sub-asyncapi.yml
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/google-pub-sub/refs/heads/main/json-schema/google-pub-sub-topic.yml
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/google-pub-sub/refs/heads/main/json-schema/google-pub-sub-message.yml
- aid: google-pub-sub:google-pub-sub-topics-api
  name: Google Pub/Sub Topics API
  description: Manage Pub/Sub topics
  humanURL: https://cloud.google.com/pubsub
  tags:
  - Topic
  tags_raw:
  - Topics
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/google-pub-sub-topics-api-openapi.yml
  - type: AsyncAPI
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/google-pub-sub/refs/heads/main/asyncapi/google-pub-sub-asyncapi.yml
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/google-pub-sub/refs/heads/main/json-schema/google-pub-sub-topic.yml
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/google-pub-sub/refs/heads/main/json-schema/google-pub-sub-message.yml
common:
- type: Plans
  url: plans/google-pub-sub-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/google-pub-sub-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/google-pub-sub-finops.yml
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/google-pub-sub-agentic-access.yml
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/google-pub-sub-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/google-pub-sub-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/google-pub-sub-authentication.yml
- type: OAuthScopes
  url: scopes/google-pub-sub-scopes.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://cloud.google.com/pubsub
- type: Documentation
  url: https://cloud.google.com/pubsub/docs
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://cloud.google.com/pubsub/docs/quickstarts
- type: Pricing
  url: https://cloud.google.com/pubsub/pricing
- type: GitHub
  url: https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-go
- type: Blog
  url: https://cloud.google.com/blog
- type: Integrations
  url: https://cloud.google.com/marketplace
integrations:
- name: Become a Partner
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com

Google Pub/Sub API — frequently asked questions

Does Google Pub/Sub have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 6 APIs from Google Pub/Sub, including Google Pub/Sub Publish API, Google Pub/Sub Schemas API and Google Pub/Sub Snapshots API, and 3 more.

Is there an OpenAPI specification for the Google Pub/Sub API?

Yes. APIs.io indexes 6 OpenAPI specifications for Google Pub/Sub, each linked for download from this page.

How do I authenticate with the Google Pub/Sub API?

Google Pub/Sub documents its authentication (http/oauth2 · 2 schemes). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Google Pub Sub Authentication.

How much does the Google Pub/Sub API cost?

APIs.io lists 3 pricing plans for Google Pub/Sub, with each plan's price, limits and inclusions under Pricing on this page.

Is the Google Pub/Sub API ready for AI agents?

Google Pub/Sub has a Kin Score of 38.0 out of 100 (thin) and an Agent Readiness score of 25.6 (agent-aware), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.

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