# Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/hkust/  
**Website:** https://www.ust.hk/  
**APIs profiled:** 3

The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) is a public research university in Clear Water Bay, Hong Kong SAR, ranked #82 in the QS World University Rankings 2025. HKUST operates a real developer footprint: an Azure API Management developer portal and API Gateway run by its Information Technology Services Office (ITSO) for departments to publish and consume internal application APIs, an Open Data Platform built on the Elastic Stack for smart-campus data, and DataSpace@HKUST, a Dataverse 6.1 research data repository with a public Native API. Most API access is gated behind institutional affiliation, sign-up, and a data access request process rather than being open self-service.

## Kin Score — 22.1 / 100 (emerging)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 22.1).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 64.8 |
| Contract Quality | 11.3 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 47.4 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 9.5 |
| Commercial Clarity | 28.9 |
| Access Clarity | 28.9 |

Regulatory layer — **Education & Research**: 20.4 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 3.0 (human-only)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| 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

Free — onboarding: unknown, pricing: free, trial: no (confidence: medium).

## APIs (3)

- **HKUST API Portal & Gateway** — Centralized HKUST API platform run by the IT Services Office on Azure API Management. Departments publish application APIs to the portal, where users can discover APIs, read doc...
- **DataSpace@HKUST Research Data Repository API** — DataSpace@HKUST is the institutional research data repository for the HKUST research community, hosted on Dataverse (version 6.1, confirmed live). It exposes the standard Datave...
- **HKUST Open Data Platform** — Secure central data repository established by HKUST ITSO for collecting and sharing smart-campus data. Built on the Elastic Stack to ingest data from varied sources and formats ...

## Security (1)

- **Hkust Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

## Plans (1)

- **Hkust Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Education, Higher Education, University, Research, Open Data, Hong Kong, China

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