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Grafbase

Grafbase is an enterprise GraphQL federation platform for building and deploying federated GraphQL APIs. It provides a high-performance Rust-powered gateway, schema registry, CLI, and a management API for programmatically controlling projects, schemas, branches, and deployed graph endpoints. The platform delivers enterprise-grade governance, observability, rate limiting, authentication, and AI agent integration via Model Context Protocol support.

Grafbase publishes 1 API on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include GraphQL, Federation, API Gateway, Schema Registry, and GraphQL Federation.

The Grafbase catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context.

Grafbase’s developer surface includes documentation, engineering blog, pricing, changelog, CLI, and 9 more developer resources.

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36.3/100 thin ▲ 7.1 Agent 19/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6
AccessFreemiumFree trial
1 APIs
GraphQLFederationAPI GatewaySchema RegistryGraphQL FederationAPI ManagementObservabilityEnterprise API

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scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6
Composite quality — 36.3/100 · thin
Contract Quality 13.3 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 3.5 / 20
Commercial Clarity 10.0 / 20
Operational Transparency 2.7 / 13
Governance 0.0 / 12
Discoverability 6.9 / 10
Agent readiness — 19/100 · agent aware
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 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
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APIs 1

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

Grafbase Management API

GraphQL-based management API that powers the Grafbase Dashboard and enables programmatic control of organizations, projects, schemas, branches, and deployed graph endpoints. Acc...

GraphQL 1

GraphQL schemas published by this provider.

Grafbase GraphQL API

Grafbase provides a GraphQL-based Management API that powers the Grafbase Dashboard and enables programmatic control of all platform resources. The API exposes queries and mutat...

GRAPHQL

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Grafbase Plans Pricing

3 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Grafbase Rate Limits

0 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

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

Grafbase Finops

FINOPS

Semantic Vocabularies 1

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

Grafbase Context

35 classes · 9 properties

JSON-LD

Security Posture 2

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

Grafbase Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS

SECURITY

Grafbase Vulnerability Disclosure

disclosure policy published

SECURITY

Resources

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation
Documentation

Build 2

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrg
GitHubOrg
 CLI
CLI

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

VulnerabilityDisclosure
VulnerabilityDisclosure
 DomainSecurity
DomainSecurity

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

ChangeLog
ChangeLog
 RateLimits
RateLimits

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Pricing
Pricing
 Plans
Plans
 FinOps
FinOps

Company 3

The organization behind the API

Website
Website
 LinkedIn
LinkedIn
 Blog
Blog

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

X
X

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: grafbase
name: Grafbase
description: Grafbase is an enterprise GraphQL federation platform for building and deploying federated GraphQL APIs. It provides
  a high-performance Rust-powered gateway, schema registry, CLI, and a management API for programmatically controlling projects,
  schemas, branches, and deployed graph endpoints. The platform delivers enterprise-grade governance, observability, rate
  limiting, authentication, and AI agent integration via Model Context Protocol support.
type: Index
accessModel:
  pricing: freemium
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: true
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Freemium (free trial)
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/grafbase.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/grafbase/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2026-06-13'
modified: '2026-06-13'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
tags:
- GraphQL
- Federation
- API Gateway
- Schema Registry
- GraphQL Federation
- API Management
- Observability
- Enterprise API
apis:
- aid: grafbase:grafbase-management-api
  name: Grafbase Management API
  description: GraphQL-based management API that powers the Grafbase Dashboard and enables programmatic control of organizations,
    projects, schemas, branches, and deployed graph endpoints. Accessible at api.grafbase.com/graphql with Bearer token authentication.
  humanURL: https://grafbase.com/docs/platform/api
  baseURL: https://api.grafbase.com/graphql
  tags:
  - GraphQL
  - Management
  - Projects
  - Schemas
  - Federation
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://grafbase.com/docs/platform/api
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://grafbase.com/docs/gateway/security/authentication
  - url: graphql/grafbase-graphql.md
    type: GraphQL
  contact:
  - FN: Grafbase Support
    url: https://grafbase.com/contact
common:
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/grafbase-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/grafbase-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://grafbase.com
- type: Documentation
  url: https://grafbase.com/docs
- type: GitHubOrg
  url: https://github.com/grafbase
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/grafbase
- type: Blog
  url: https://grafbase.com/blog
- type: Pricing
  url: https://grafbase.com/pricing
- type: ChangeLog
  url: https://grafbase.com/changelog
- type: CLI
  url: https://grafbase.com/cli
- type: X
  url: https://x.com/grafbase
- type: Plans
  url: plans/grafbase-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/grafbase-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/grafbase-finops.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com