Heroic Labs

Heroic Labs is the company behind Nakama, a leading open-source game backend server providing a comprehensive REST, WebSocket, and gRPC API for building scalable multiplayer and social games. The platform delivers essential backend services including real-time matchmaking, leaderboards, tournaments, chat, friend systems, and presence tracking. Nakama exposes its functionality via RESTful HTTP endpoints, real-time WebSocket connections, and gRPC, with server runtime support for custom logic in Go, TypeScript, and Lua. Heroic Labs also offers Heroic Cloud as a fully managed deployment platform and Satori as a LiveOps product for feature flags, A/B experiments, and live events.

Heroic Labs publishes 3 APIs on the APIs.io network: Nakama API, Console API, and Rpc API. Tagged areas include Game Backend, Multiplayer, Real-Time, WebSocket, and Matchmaking.

The Heroic Labs catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context and 1 Spectral governance ruleset.

Heroic Labs’ developer surface includes authentication, documentation, engineering blog, pricing, and 13 more developer resources.

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50.3/100 developing ▬ flat Agent 31/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6

AccessPaidSelf serve

4 APIs

Game BackendMultiplayerReal-TimeWebSocketMatchmakingLeaderboardsSocial GamingOpen SourceLiveOpsgRPC

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scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6

Composite quality — 50.3/100 · developing

Contract Quality 13.5 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 4.3 / 20

Commercial Clarity 10.0 / 20

Operational Transparency 6.8 / 13

Governance 8.3 / 12

Discoverability 7.4 / 10

Agent readiness — 31/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

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 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 4

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

GraphQL 1

GraphQL schemas published by this provider.

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Heroiclabs Rate Limits

6 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

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

JSON Schema 10

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

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Examples 5

Example request and response payloads for these APIs.

AGENTIC

Resources

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

AgenticAccess

Design & Contract 2

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Vocabulary

Vocabulary

JSONLDContext

JSONLDContext

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrg

GitHubOrg

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Authentication

Authentication

Operate 3

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

StatusPage

StatusPage

Forums

Forums

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

Blog

Blog

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Source (apis.yml)

aid: heroiclabs
name: Heroic Labs
description: 'Heroic Labs is the company behind Nakama, a leading open-source game backend server providing a comprehensive
  REST, WebSocket, and gRPC API for building scalable multiplayer and social games. The platform delivers essential backend
  services including real-time matchmaking, leaderboards, tournaments, chat, friend systems, and presence tracking. Nakama
  exposes its functionality via RESTful HTTP endpoints, real-time WebSocket connections, and gRPC, with server runtime support
  for custom logic in Go, TypeScript, and Lua. Heroic Labs also offers Heroic Cloud as a fully managed deployment platform
  and Satori as a LiveOps product for feature flags, A/B experiments, and live events.

  '
type: Index
accessModel:
  pricing: paid
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Paid · Self-serve signup
  confidence: high
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/heroiclabs.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/heroiclabs/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2026-06-12'
modified: '2026-06-12'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
tags:
- Game Backend
- Multiplayer
- Real-Time
- WebSocket
- Matchmaking
- Leaderboards
- Social Gaming
- Open Source
- LiveOps
- gRPC
apis:
- aid: heroiclabs:nakama-api
  name: Nakama API
  description: 'The Nakama API is the core REST and WebSocket API for Heroic Labs'' open-source game backend server. It provides
    endpoints for user authentication (social, device, email, and custom), account management, multiplayer matchmaking, real-time
    gameplay via WebSocket, leaderboards, tournaments, group and friend management, in-app notifications, storage, and remote
    procedure calls (RPC). The gRPC interface mirrors the HTTP API and is suited for server-to-server integrations. Client
    SDKs are available for Unity, Unreal Engine, Godot, JavaScript, Dart, Java, Swift, C++, and Defold.

    '
  image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
  humanURL: https://heroiclabs.com/nakama/
  baseURL: https://127.0.0.1:7350
  tags:
  - Game Backend
  - Multiplayer
  - Matchmaking
  - Leaderboards
  - WebSocket
  - gRPC
  - REST
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://heroiclabs.com/docs/nakama/
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: https://heroiclabs.github.io/nakama-docs/
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/heroiclabs-nakama-api-openapi.yml
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/heroiclabs-nakama-console-api-openapi.yml
  - type: GitHubRepository
    url: https://github.com/heroiclabs/nakama
  - url: graphql/heroiclabs-graphql.md
    type: GraphQL
- aid: heroiclabs:satori-api
  name: Satori API
  description: 'The Satori API is Heroic Labs'' LiveOps platform API enabling game developers to manage live operations including
    feature flags, A/B experiments, audiences, and scheduled events without redeploying game code. It integrates tightly with
    Nakama and exposes REST endpoints for event ingestion, experiment assignment, audience segmentation, and flag evaluation.
    Satori is available as a fully managed service on Heroic Cloud starting at $600 per month.

    '
  image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
  humanURL: https://heroiclabs.com/docs/satori/
  baseURL: https://api.heroiclabs.com
  tags:
  - LiveOps
  - Feature Flags
  - A/B Testing
  - Experiments
  - Game Analytics
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://heroiclabs.com/docs/satori/
- aid: heroiclabs:heroiclabs-console-api
  name: Heroic Labs Console API
  description: The Console API from Heroic Labs — 73 operation(s) for console.
  humanURL: https://heroiclabs.com/nakama/
  baseURL: https://127.0.0.1:7350
  tags:
  - Console
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/heroiclabs-console-api-openapi.yml
  - type: GitHubRepository
    url: https://github.com/heroiclabs/hiro
- aid: heroiclabs:heroiclabs-rpc-api
  name: Heroic Labs Rpc API
  description: The Rpc API from Heroic Labs — 131 operation(s) for rpc.
  humanURL: https://heroiclabs.com/nakama/
  baseURL: https://127.0.0.1:7350
  tags:
  - Rpc
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/heroiclabs-rpc-api-openapi.yml
  - type: GitHubRepository
    url: https://github.com/heroiclabs/hiro
common:
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/heroiclabs-agentic-access.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/heroiclabs-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/heroiclabs-authentication.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://heroiclabs.com/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://heroiclabs.com/docs/nakama/
- type: GitHubOrg
  url: https://github.com/heroiclabs
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/heroic-labs
- type: Blog
  url: https://heroiclabs.com/blog/
- type: Pricing
  url: https://heroiclabs.com/pricing/
- type: StatusPage
  url: https://heroiclabs.com/docs/nakama/getting-started/console/status/
- type: X
  url: https://twitter.com/heroicdev
- type: Forums
  url: https://forum.heroiclabs.com/
- type: Plans
  url: plans/heroiclabs-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/heroiclabs-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/heroiclabs-finops.yml
- type: Vocabulary
  url: vocabulary/heroiclabs-vocabulary.yml
- type: JSONLDContext
  url: json-ld/heroiclabs-context.jsonld
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com