Hedera

Hedera is an enterprise-grade public distributed ledger platform built for the digital economy and governed by a council of leading global institutions. The Hedera Mirror Node REST API provides read-only access to historical network data including transactions, accounts, tokens, NFTs, smart contracts, consensus topics, blocks, schedules, and network-level information. The public API requires no authentication and supports mainnet, testnet, and previewnet environments.

Hedera publishes 10 APIs on the APIs.io network, including accounts API, airdrops API, balances API, and 7 more. Tagged areas include Distributed Ledger, Blockchain, DLT, Hashgraph, and Transactions.

The Hedera catalog on APIs.io includes 1 Spectral governance ruleset.

Hedera’s developer surface includes developer portal, documentation, GitHub presence, engineering blog, status page, YouTube channel, and 14 more developer resources.

🌐 Visit website 📡 Source on GitHub

45.8/100 developing ▼ -5.9 Agent 43/100 agent ready Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6

AccessFreemiumOpen⚡ Free to try

10 APIs 1 MCP Servers

Distributed LedgerBlockchainDLTHashgraphTransactionsTokensNFTsSmart ContractsEnterprise

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Composite quality — 45.8/100 · developing

Contract Quality 13.0 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 5.7 / 20

Commercial Clarity 12.1 / 20

Operational Transparency 0.7 / 13

Governance 7.0 / 12

Discoverability 7.4 / 10

Agent readiness — 43/100 · agent ready

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

MCP Server 12 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 8 / 8

Request/Response Examples 7 / 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 10

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

MCP Servers 1

Model Context Protocol servers that expose these APIs to AI agents.

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Rate Limits

0 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

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

JSON Schema 144

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

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Examples 48

Example request and response payloads for these APIs.

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Get Started 1

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Portal

Portal

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

MCPDocumentation

MCPDocumentation

Agent Surfaces 3

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

AgenticAccess

MCPServer

MCPServer

AgentSkills

AgentSkills

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHub

GitHub

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Learn 1

Tutorials, courses, talks, and written guidance

YouTube

YouTube

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Status

Status

Discord

Discord

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

TermsOfService

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

Company 3

The organization behind the API

Blog

Blog

Twitter

Twitter

LinkedIn

Other 4

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

MirrorNodeSource

Fees

Foundation

Governance

Source (apis.yml)

name: Hedera
description: Hedera is an enterprise-grade public distributed ledger platform built for the digital economy and governed by
  a council of leading global institutions. The Hedera Mirror Node REST API provides read-only access to historical network
  data including transactions, accounts, tokens, NFTs, smart contracts, consensus topics, blocks, schedules, and network-level
  information. The public API requires no authentication and supports mainnet, testnet, and previewnet environments.
accessModel:
  pricing: freemium
  onboarding: open
  trial: false
  try_now: true
  public: true
  label: Freemium · Open access
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/hedera.png
tags:
- Distributed Ledger
- Blockchain
- DLT
- Hashgraph
- Transactions
- Tokens
- NFTs
- Smart Contracts
- Enterprise
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/hedera/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2026-06-13'
modified: '2026-07-12'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
- aid: hedera:hedera-accounts-api
  name: Hedera accounts API
  description: The accounts object represents the information associated with an account entity and returns a list of account
    information.The accounts list endpoint is cached and not updated as frequently as the account lookup by a specific ID
    endpoint.
  humanURL: https://docs.hedera.com/hedera/sdks-and-apis/rest-api
  baseURL: https://mainnet.mirrornode.hedera.com
  tags:
  - accounts
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  - type: Swagger
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- aid: hedera:hedera-airdrops-api
  name: Hedera airdrops API
  description: The airdrops API from Hedera — 2 operation(s) for airdrops.
  humanURL: https://docs.hedera.com/hedera/sdks-and-apis/rest-api
  baseURL: https://mainnet.mirrornode.hedera.com
  tags:
  - airdrops
  properties:
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- aid: hedera:hedera-balances-api
  name: Hedera balances API
  description: The balance object represents the balance of accounts on the Hedera network.
  humanURL: https://docs.hedera.com/hedera/sdks-and-apis/rest-api
  baseURL: https://mainnet.mirrornode.hedera.com
  tags:
  - balances
  properties:
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- aid: hedera:hedera-blocks-api
  name: Hedera blocks API
  description: The blocks API from Hedera — 2 operation(s) for blocks.
  humanURL: https://docs.hedera.com/hedera/sdks-and-apis/rest-api
  baseURL: https://mainnet.mirrornode.hedera.com
  tags:
  - blocks
  properties:
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    url: openapi/hedera-blocks-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
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    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/hedera/refs/heads/main/finops/finops.yml
- aid: hedera:hedera-contracts-api
  name: Hedera contracts API
  description: The contracts objects represents the information associated with contract entities.The contracts list endpoint
    is cached and not updated as frequently as the contract lookup by a specific ID endpoint.
  humanURL: https://docs.hedera.com/hedera/sdks-and-apis/rest-api
  baseURL: https://mainnet.mirrornode.hedera.com
  tags:
  - contracts
  properties:
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    url: openapi/hedera-contracts-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.hedera.com/hedera/sdks-and-apis/rest-api
  - type: Swagger
    url: https://mainnet.mirrornode.hedera.com/api/v1/docs/
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    url: https://testnet.mirrornode.hedera.com/api/v1/docs/
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    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/hedera/refs/heads/main/finops/finops.yml
- aid: hedera:hedera-network-api
  name: Hedera network API
  description: The network API from Hedera — 6 operation(s) for network.
  humanURL: https://docs.hedera.com/hedera/sdks-and-apis/rest-api
  baseURL: https://mainnet.mirrornode.hedera.com
  tags:
  - network
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/hedera-network-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.hedera.com/hedera/sdks-and-apis/rest-api
  - type: Swagger
    url: https://mainnet.mirrornode.hedera.com/api/v1/docs/
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    url: https://testnet.mirrornode.hedera.com/api/v1/docs/
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  - type: FinOps
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/hedera/refs/heads/main/finops/finops.yml
- aid: hedera:hedera-schedules-api
  name: Hedera schedules API
  description: The schedules object represents the information associated with a schedule entity.The schedules list endpoints
    is cached and not updated as frequently as the schedule lookup by a specific ID endpoint.
  humanURL: https://docs.hedera.com/hedera/sdks-and-apis/rest-api
  baseURL: https://mainnet.mirrornode.hedera.com
  tags:
  - schedules
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/hedera-schedules-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.hedera.com/hedera/sdks-and-apis/rest-api
  - type: Swagger
    url: https://mainnet.mirrornode.hedera.com/api/v1/docs/
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    url: https://testnet.mirrornode.hedera.com/api/v1/docs/
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  - type: FinOps
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/hedera/refs/heads/main/finops/finops.yml
- aid: hedera:hedera-tokens-api
  name: Hedera tokens API
  description: The tokens object represents the information associated with a token entity and returns a list of token information.The
    tokens list endpoint is cached and not updated as frequently as the token lookup by a specific ID.
  humanURL: https://docs.hedera.com/hedera/sdks-and-apis/rest-api
  baseURL: https://mainnet.mirrornode.hedera.com
  tags:
  - tokens
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/hedera-tokens-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.hedera.com/hedera/sdks-and-apis/rest-api
  - type: Swagger
    url: https://mainnet.mirrornode.hedera.com/api/v1/docs/
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    url: https://testnet.mirrornode.hedera.com/api/v1/docs/
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    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/hedera/refs/heads/main/finops/finops.yml
- aid: hedera:hedera-topics-api
  name: Hedera topics API
  description: The topics object represents the information associated with a topic entity and returns topic messages information.
  humanURL: https://docs.hedera.com/hedera/sdks-and-apis/rest-api
  baseURL: https://mainnet.mirrornode.hedera.com
  tags:
  - topics
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/hedera-topics-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.hedera.com/hedera/sdks-and-apis/rest-api
  - type: Swagger
    url: https://mainnet.mirrornode.hedera.com/api/v1/docs/
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    url: https://testnet.mirrornode.hedera.com/api/v1/docs/
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    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/hedera/refs/heads/main/finops/finops.yml
- aid: hedera:hedera-transactions-api
  name: Hedera transactions API
  description: The transaction object represents the transactions processed on the Hedera network.
  humanURL: https://docs.hedera.com/hedera/sdks-and-apis/rest-api
  baseURL: https://mainnet.mirrornode.hedera.com
  tags:
  - transactions
  properties:
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    url: openapi/hedera-transactions-api-openapi.yml
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    url: https://docs.hedera.com/hedera/sdks-and-apis/rest-api
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    url: https://mainnet.mirrornode.hedera.com/api/v1/docs/
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common:
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/hedera-agentic-access.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/hedera-domain-security.yml
- type: Portal
  url: https://portal.hedera.com
- type: Documentation
  url: https://docs.hedera.com/hedera
- type: GitHub
  url: https://github.com/hashgraph
- type: MirrorNodeSource
  url: https://github.com/hiero-ledger/hiero-mirror-node
- type: Blog
  url: https://hedera.com/blog
- type: Fees
  url: https://hedera.com/fees
- type: Status
  url: https://status.hedera.com
- type: Discord
  url: https://hedera.com/discord
- type: Twitter
  url: https://twitter.com/hedera
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://linkedin.com/company/hashgraph
- type: YouTube
  url: https://youtube.com/hederahashgraph
- type: Foundation
  url: https://hedera.foundation
- type: Governance
  url: https://hederacouncil.org
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://hedera.com/terms
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://hedera.com/privacy
- name: MCP Server
  url: https://agentic-testnet-mcp.hedera.com/mcp
  type: MCPServer
- name: MCP Documentation
  url: https://docs.hedera.com/hedera/open-source-solutions/ai-studio-on-hedera/hosted-mcp-server
  type: MCPDocumentation
- name: Agent Skills
  url: https://github.com/hedera-dev/hedera-skills
  type: AgentSkills
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com