Google Vault

Google Vault is the information-governance, legal-hold and eDiscovery service for Google Workspace. Its REST API (vault.googleapis.com v1) lets an administrator open matters, place and lift legal holds across Gmail, Drive, Groups, Chat, Voice, Calendar and Gemini, save and count search queries, and export matching data to Google Cloud Storage. Access is OAuth 2.0 only, gated on Workspace Vault privileges, and the contract is published as a Google Discovery document rather than an OpenAPI.

Google Vault publishes 6 APIs on the APIs.io network, including Exports API, HeldAccounts API, Holds API, and 3 more. Tagged areas include eDiscovery, Legal Hold, Information Governance, Compliance, and Archiving.

Google Vault’s developer surface includes authentication, getting-started guide, developer console, changelog, engineering blog, documentation, API reference, and 40 more developer resources.

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62.6/100 strong ▬ flat Agent 34/100 agent ready saas Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-09-25 · rubric v0.23.0

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eDiscovery Legal Hold Information Governance Compliance Archiving Retention Google Workspace Audit

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scored 2026-09-25 · rubric v0.23.0

Composite quality — 62.6/100 · strong

Contract Quality 8.7 / 19

Developer Ergonomics 9.9 / 15

Access Clarity 10.3 / 15

Operational Transparency 8.2 / 10

Contract Governance 1.6 / 9

Discoverability 5.5 / 8

Regulatory Posture 6.8 / 15

Create-or-Update Ergonomics 0.0 / 10

Agent readiness — 34/100 · agent ready

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

Documented Reversibility 6 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 8 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 5 / 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

Regulatory Posture applies to this provider. Its tags matched the Horizontal (data, software, accessibility, platform) regime, so Regulatory Posture carries 15 points of the composite. If this regime is wrong for your business, say so on your provider repo — the applicability map is public and we will correct it.

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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APIs 6

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

Google Vault Exports API

The Exports API from Google Vault — 2 operation(s) for exports.

Google Vault HeldAccounts API

The HeldAccounts API from Google Vault — 2 operation(s) for heldaccounts.

Google Vault Holds API

The Holds API from Google Vault — 4 operation(s) for holds.

Google Vault Matters API

The Matters API from Google Vault — 8 operation(s) for matters.

Google Vault Operations API

The Operations API from Google Vault — 3 operation(s) for operations.

Google Vault Saved Queries API

The Saved Queries API from Google Vault — 2 operation(s) for saved queries.

Open Collections 8

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

API Collection

OPEN COLLECTION

Google Vault Exports API

OPEN COLLECTION

Google Vault Exports HeldAccounts API

OPEN COLLECTION

Google Vault Exports Holds API

OPEN COLLECTION

Google Vault Exports Matters API

OPEN COLLECTION

Google Vault Exports Operations API

OPEN COLLECTION

Google Vault Exports SavedQueries API

OPEN COLLECTION

Google Vault API

OPEN COLLECTION

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Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Google Vault Plans Pricing

0 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Google Vault Rate Limits

10 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

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

Google Vault Finops

FINOPS

Security Posture 4

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

Google Vault Authentication

oauth2 · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Google Vault Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Google Vault Vulnerability Disclosure

security.txt · contact published

SECURITY

Google Vault Trust Center

FedRAMP, CJIS, HIPAA, US Department of Defense requirements, ISO/IEC 27001, ISO/IEC 27017, ISO/IEC 27018, SOC 2

SECURITY

Scopes 1

OAuth scopes governing access to this provider's APIs.

Google Vault Scopes

2 scopes · authorizationCode

2 scopes

SCOPES

Agentic Access 1

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

Google Vault Agentic Access

33 operations · 21 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Get Started 5

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

GettingStarted

Console

DeveloperPortal

SignUp

X-SandboxAbsent

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

APIReference

APIReference

Agent Surfaces 5

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

WellKnown

LLMsTxt

AgentSkill

X-MCPServerCandidate

X-MCPServerCandidate

Design & Contract 5

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Conformance

Conventions

ErrorCatalog

Lifecycle

DataModel

Build 3

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

Packages

Packages

SDKs

SDKs

Access & Security 11

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

VulnerabilityDisclosure

VulnerabilityDisclosure

DomainSecurity

Authentication

OAuthScopes

Authentication

SecurityTxt

Security

TrustCenter

Compliance

Authentication

OAuthScopes

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Operate 7

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

StatusPage

ChangeLog

Support

HelpCenter

Deprecation

ChangeLog

RateLimits

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Commercial 5

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Pricing

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

Plans

FinOps

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

Other 2

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Overlay

Overlay

Discovery

Discovery

Source (apis.yml)

aid: google-vault
name: Google Vault
description: Google Vault is the information-governance, legal-hold and eDiscovery service for Google Workspace. Its REST
  API (vault.googleapis.com v1) lets an administrator open matters, place and lift legal holds across Gmail, Drive, Groups,
  Chat, Voice, Calendar and Gemini, save and count search queries, and export matching data to Google Cloud Storage. Access
  is OAuth 2.0 only, gated on Workspace Vault privileges, and the contract is published as a Google Discovery document rather
  than an OpenAPI.
tags:
- eDiscovery
- Legal Hold
- Information Governance
- Compliance
- Archiving
- Retention
- Google Workspace
- Audit
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
  label: Freemium · Self-serve signup
  confidence: high
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://www.google.com/images/branding/googlelogo/2x/googlelogo_color_272x92dp.png
url: https://developers.google.com/vault
created: '2025-01-01'
modified: '2026-09-12'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
type: Index
apis:
- aid: google-vault:google-vault-exports-api
  name: Google Vault Exports API
  description: The Exports API from Google Vault — 2 operation(s) for exports.
  humanURL: https://developers.google.com/workspace/vault
  baseURL: https://vault.googleapis.com
  tags:
  - Export
  tags_raw:
  - Exports
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/google-vault-exports-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Overlay
    url: overlays/google-vault-exports-api-overlay.yaml
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://developers.google.com/workspace/vault/reference/rest
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developers.google.com/workspace/vault/reference/rest
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://developers.google.com/workspace/vault/auth
  - type: Pricing
    url: https://workspace.google.com/pricing.html
  - type: TermsOfService
    url: https://developers.google.com/terms
- aid: google-vault:google-vault-heldaccounts-api
  name: Google Vault HeldAccounts API
  description: The HeldAccounts API from Google Vault — 2 operation(s) for heldaccounts.
  humanURL: https://developers.google.com/workspace/vault
  baseURL: https://vault.googleapis.com
  tags:
  - HeldAccounts
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/google-vault-heldaccounts-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Overlay
    url: overlays/google-vault-heldaccounts-api-overlay.yaml
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://developers.google.com/workspace/vault/reference/rest
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developers.google.com/workspace/vault/reference/rest
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://developers.google.com/workspace/vault/auth
  - type: Pricing
    url: https://workspace.google.com/pricing.html
  - type: TermsOfService
    url: https://developers.google.com/terms
- aid: google-vault:google-vault-holds-api
  name: Google Vault Holds API
  description: The Holds API from Google Vault — 4 operation(s) for holds.
  humanURL: https://developers.google.com/workspace/vault
  baseURL: https://vault.googleapis.com
  tags:
  - Holds
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/google-vault-holds-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Overlay
    url: overlays/google-vault-holds-api-overlay.yaml
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://developers.google.com/workspace/vault/reference/rest
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developers.google.com/workspace/vault/reference/rest
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://developers.google.com/workspace/vault/auth
  - type: Pricing
    url: https://workspace.google.com/pricing.html
  - type: TermsOfService
    url: https://developers.google.com/terms
- aid: google-vault:google-vault-matters-api
  name: Google Vault Matters API
  description: The Matters API from Google Vault — 8 operation(s) for matters.
  humanURL: https://developers.google.com/workspace/vault
  baseURL: https://vault.googleapis.com
  tags:
  - Matter
  tags_raw:
  - Matters
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/google-vault-matters-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Overlay
    url: overlays/google-vault-matters-api-overlay.yaml
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://developers.google.com/workspace/vault/reference/rest
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developers.google.com/workspace/vault/reference/rest
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://developers.google.com/workspace/vault/auth
  - type: Pricing
    url: https://workspace.google.com/pricing.html
  - type: TermsOfService
    url: https://developers.google.com/terms
- aid: google-vault:google-vault-operations-api
  name: Google Vault Operations API
  description: The Operations API from Google Vault — 3 operation(s) for operations.
  humanURL: https://developers.google.com/workspace/vault
  baseURL: https://vault.googleapis.com
  tags: []
  tags_raw:
  - Operations
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/google-vault-operations-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Overlay
    url: overlays/google-vault-operations-api-overlay.yaml
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://developers.google.com/workspace/vault/reference/rest
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developers.google.com/workspace/vault/reference/rest
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://developers.google.com/workspace/vault/auth
  - type: Pricing
    url: https://workspace.google.com/pricing.html
  - type: TermsOfService
    url: https://developers.google.com/terms
- aid: google-vault:google-vault-saved-queries-api
  name: Google Vault Saved Queries API
  description: The Saved Queries API from Google Vault — 2 operation(s) for saved queries.
  humanURL: https://developers.google.com/workspace/vault
  baseURL: https://vault.googleapis.com
  tags:
  - Saved Queries
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/google-vault-saved-queries-api-openapi.yml
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://developers.google.com/workspace/vault/reference/rest
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developers.google.com/workspace/vault/reference/rest
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://developers.google.com/workspace/vault/auth
  - type: Pricing
    url: https://workspace.google.com/pricing.html
  - type: TermsOfService
    url: https://developers.google.com/terms
common:
- type: Overlay
  url: overlays/google-vault-savedqueries-api-overlay.yaml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.google.com/
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/google-vault-agentic-access.yml
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/google-vault-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/google-vault-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/google-vault-authentication.yml
- type: OAuthScopes
  url: scopes/google-vault-scopes.yml
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/googleworkspace
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://developers.google.com/workspace/vault/quickstart/python
- type: Authentication
  url: https://developers.google.com/identity/protocols/oauth2
- type: Console
  url: https://console.cloud.google.com/
- type: StatusPage
  url: https://www.google.com/appsstatus/dashboard/
- type: ChangeLog
  url: https://developers.google.com/workspace/vault/release-notes
- type: Blog
  url: https://workspace.google.com/blog/
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://developers.google.com/workspace/vault
- type: Documentation
  url: https://developers.google.com/workspace/vault/guides
- type: APIReference
  url: https://developers.google.com/workspace/vault/reference/rest
- type: Support
  url: https://developers.google.com/workspace/vault/support
- type: HelpCenter
  url: https://knowledge.workspace.google.com/vault
- type: SignUp
  url: https://workspace.google.com/business/signup/welcome
- type: Pricing
  url: https://workspace.google.com/pricing.html
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://developers.google.com/terms
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://policies.google.com/privacy
- type: Discovery
  url: discovery/google-vault-discovery-v1.json
- type: Packages
  url: packages/google-vault-packages.yml
- type: SDKs
  url: packages/google-vault-packages.yml
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/google-vault-well-known.yml
- type: SecurityTxt
  url: well-known/google-vault-security.txt
- type: Security
  url: security/google-vault-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: TrustCenter
  url: security/google-vault-trust-center.yml
- type: Compliance
  url: security/google-vault-trust-center.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/google-vault-conformance.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/google-vault-authentication.yml
- type: OAuthScopes
  url: scopes/google-vault-scopes.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/google-vault-conventions.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/google-vault-problem-types.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/google-vault-lifecycle.yml
- type: Deprecation
  url: lifecycle/google-vault-lifecycle.yml
- type: ChangeLog
  url: changelog/google-vault-changelog.yml
- type: DataModel
  url: data-model/google-vault-data-model.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/google-vault-rate-limits.yml
- type: Plans
  url: plans/google-vault-plans-pricing.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/google-vault-finops.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/google-vault-llms.txt
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/_index.yml
- type: X-MCPServerCandidate
  url: mcp/google-vault-mcp.yml
  note: Derived candidate tool list, not a server. Google publishes official remote MCP servers for eight Workspace products
    and Vault is not one of them; a tools/list probe against the host matching Google's own naming pattern returned 404 on
    2026-09-12 while the documented gmailmcp endpoint returned 200. No MCPServer pointer is emitted.
- type: X-SandboxAbsent
  url: sandbox/google-vault-sandbox.yml
  note: Records that Vault publishes no sandbox, no test mode and no dry-run flag. Deliberately not wired as Sandbox, which
    would assert a test surface the provider does not offer.
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
x-parent: google
x-relationship: product
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-09-12'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 26
  pass: local-v3

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