# Herald

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/herald/  
**Website:** https://www.heraldapi.com  
**APIs profiled:** 10

Herald builds digital infrastructure for commercial insurance, providing a single unified REST API that lets software platforms quote and bind across many carriers and lines of business. Developers create applications, submit them to carriers, and receive normalized quotes, products, classifications, and files through one integration secured with OAuth2 client-credentials bearer tokens.

## Kin Score — 34.2 / 100 (thin)

Scored 2026-08-21 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 34.2).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 74.1 |
| Contract Quality | 56.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 31.6 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 21.4 |
| Commercial Clarity | 28.9 |
| Access Clarity | 28.9 |

Regulatory layer — **Insurance**: 18.2 (matched via tags).

## 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

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

## APIs (10)

- **Herald Applications API** — The Applications API from Herald — 2 operation(s) for applications.
- **Herald Authentication API** — The Authentication API from Herald — 1 operation(s) for authentication.
- **Herald Classifications API** — The Classifications API from Herald — 1 operation(s) for classifications.
- **Herald Distributors API** — The Distributors API from Herald — 1 operation(s) for distributors.
- **Herald Files API** — The Files API from Herald — 1 operation(s) for files.
- **Herald Producers API** — The Producers API from Herald — 1 operation(s) for producers.
- **Herald Products API** — The Products API from Herald — 2 operation(s) for products.
- **Herald Quotes API** — The Quotes API from Herald — 1 operation(s) for quotes.
- **Herald Submissions API** — The Submissions API from Herald — 2 operation(s) for submissions.
- **Herald Webhooks API** — The Webhooks API from Herald — 2 operation(s) for webhooks.

## Agentic access (1)

- **Herald Agentic Access** — 18 operations · 8 acting

## Security (2)

- **Herald Authentication** — http · 1 scheme
- **Herald Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

## Plans (1)

- **Herald Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Insurance, Insurtech, Commercial Insurance, Quoting, Carriers

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