# HTTPX

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/httpx/  
**Website:** https://www.python-httpx.org  
**APIs profiled:** 1

HTTPX is a fully featured HTTP client for Python 3 with sync and async APIs, HTTP/1.1 and HTTP/2 support. It is broadly compatible with the popular requests library while adding modern features such as strict timeouts, type annotations, direct WSGI and ASGI transport, SSL verification, cookie persistence, proxy support, and multipart uploads.

## Kin Score — 11.9 / 100 (emerging)

Scored 2026-08-19 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (-3.9 from 15.8).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 59.3 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 26.3 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 9.5 |
| Commercial Clarity | 15.8 |
| Access Clarity | 15.8 |

Regulatory layer — **Education & Research**: 11.1 (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

Freemium — onboarding: unknown, pricing: freemium, trial: no (confidence: medium).

## APIs (1)

- **HTTPX** — HTTPX is a fully featured HTTP client library for Python 3 with sync and async APIs, HTTP/1.1 and HTTP/2 support. It is consumed as a Python package rather than as a hosted API ...

## Security (1)

- **Httpx Domain Security** — TLSv1.3

## Plans (1)

- **Httpx Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Async, Clients, HTTP Client, Library, Python

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