IBM API Connect
IBM API Connect is a comprehensive end-to-end API management solution that enables organizations to create, secure, manage, share, monetize, and analyze APIs across clouds. It provides an API gateway, developer portal, and lifecycle management capabilities.
IBM API Connect publishes 43 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network, including Platform - Cloud Management API, Analytics API, Consumer Analytics API, and 40 more. Tagged areas include API Gateway, API Management, Developer Portal, Developer Tools, and IBM.
The IBM API Connect catalog on APIs.io includes 1 Spectral governance ruleset.
IBM API Connect’s developer surface includes signup flow, documentation, getting-started guide, API reference, authentication, support, pricing, and 23 more developer resources.
Kin Score
What adopting IBM API Connect moves on the Kin Score 7
IBM API Connect is an area vendor: providers adopt it to run part of their developer surface. This is the Kin Score checks its features can move for a provider that adopts it, what each one really earns, and what it earns nothing for.
API Connect’s lift sits on the developer portal and on plans: the Drupal portal lets developers browse, explore, test and subscribe to Products, and Plans carry rate limits a provider can publish — so the portal set, and possibly plans and rate-limit documentation, land once the provider declares and publishes them. The gateway’s X-RateLimit-* headers match the rubric’s header pattern, but only count when declared in the provider’s OpenAPI. MCP tooling appears in IBM’s documentation index but no page we could fetch described it, so it is not mapped.
| Check | Earns | Through |
|---|---|---|
| Rate-Limit Signalingpartial Agent ReadinessThe header names match score.rb’s /\A(x-)?ratelimit/ pattern, but verified reads them from the provider’s OpenAPI responses, and nothing fetched shows API Connect writing them into the published spec. The vendor alone reaches the documented fallback thr… |
3.5 of 7 | X-RateLimit-* headers on plan rate limits |
| Developer portal Developer ErgonomicsDeclare the portal URL as a DeveloperPortal entry in apis.yml common[]. |
4.0 of 4 | Drupal-based Developer Portal |
| Console or sandbox Developer ErgonomicsDeclare the portal’s test/explore page as a Console entry in apis.yml common[]. |
3.0 of 3 | Drupal-based Developer Portal |
| API referencesaturated Developer Ergonomics94% of providers with a contract, docs and a reference already earn this; the vendor cannot move it for most of its buyers. |
3.0 of 3 | Drupal-based Developer Portal |
| Support channel Developer ErgonomicsEnable and staff the forums, and declare them as a Community entry in apis.yml common[]. |
2.0 of 2 | Portal blogs, forums and ratings |
| Plans publishedconditional Access ClarityOnly if the Plans are visible on public portal pages — we could not fetch a page showing whether anonymous visitors see Plans, and the plans artifact is harvested from public pages. |
8.0 of 8 | Products and Plans with rate limits |
| Rate limits documentedconditional Operational TransparencyOnly if the Plan rate limits are displayed publicly so the rate_limits artifact can be harvested. |
8.0 of 8 | Products and Plans with rate limits |
What IBM API Connect ships that earns nothing (1)
- Products and Plans with rate limits — Plans are access and rate tiers; nothing fetched shows a public pricing page generated from them.
A model, not a score. Adopting this vendor changes a provider's Kin Score only when the provider publishes the resulting artifacts on its own surface; nothing here writes a score, and no sponsorship or partnership can. The rating is not for sale → · Full vendor facets artifact
Markets this provider is in provisional
The Kin Score Market layer reads a provider inside its market: its position, and how deep its integrations go. Depth is only comparable within a position. Provisional and unweighted: not part of the Kin Score or agent readiness.
| Market | Position | Depth | Registered MCP server | Declares compatibility |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| API Management (gateways, portals, service mesh, proxies) | undeclared | - | - | - |
Registered MCP server and declares compatibility are report only — not weighted. Undeclared means we found nothing we can read, so there is no number: we never infer integrations.
APIs 43
Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.
IBM API Connect Platform - Cloud Management API
Cloud-scoped operations for managing the IBM API Connect cloud configuration: user registries, provider organizations, availability zones, registered clients and cloud settings....
IBM API Connect Analytics API
Retrieves API event data stored in API Connect Analytics, dashboard data, and the filter parameters supported at cloud, provider organization, catalog and space scope. OpenAPI 3...
IBM API Connect Consumer Analytics API
Returns consumer-organization and per-app analytics dashboard data for application developers. OpenAPI 3.0, version 2.0.0.
IBM API Connect Engagement API
Manages engagement configuration and rules evaluated against API Connect Analytics data for a provider organization. OpenAPI 3.0, version 2.0.0.
IBM API Connect Discovery API
Processes API call records collected from gateways and proxies to discover APIs that are not yet managed in API Connect. OpenAPI 3.0, version 2.0.0.
IBM API Connect AI Assets API
The AI Assets API from IBM API Connect — 8 operation(s) for ai assets.
IBM API Connect Application Strategy management API
The Application Strategy management API from IBM API Connect — 2 operation(s) for application strategy management.
IBM API Connect Billing Management API
The Billing Management API from IBM API Connect — 2 operation(s) for billing management.
IBM API Connect Catalog Management API
The Catalog Management API from IBM API Connect — 35 operation(s) for catalog management.
IBM API Connect Catalog Resource API
The Catalog Resource API from IBM API Connect — 16 operation(s) for catalog resource.
IBM API Connect Catalog Resources API
The Catalog Resources API from IBM API Connect — 40 operation(s) for catalog resources.
IBM API Connect Catalog Settings API
The Catalog Settings API from IBM API Connect — 45 operation(s) for catalog settings.
IBM API Connect Cloud Settings API
The Cloud Settings API from IBM API Connect — 47 operation(s) for cloud settings.
IBM API Connect Compliance API
The Compliance API from IBM API Connect — 18 operation(s) for compliance.
IBM API Connect Consumer Management API
The Consumer Management API from IBM API Connect — 65 operation(s) for consumer management.
IBM API Connect Data Sources and Collectors API
The Data Sources and Collectors API from IBM API Connect — 3 operation(s) for data sources and collectors.
IBM API Connect DataPower Nano Gateway API Porting Advisor API
The DataPower Nano Gateway API Porting Advisor API from IBM API Connect — 8 operation(s) for datapower nano gateway api porting advisor.
IBM API Connect Drafts API
The Drafts API from IBM API Connect — 30 operation(s) for drafts.
IBM API Connect Logging Specification API
The Logging Specification API from IBM API Connect — 1 operation(s) for logging specification.
IBM API Connect My Resources API
The My Resources API from IBM API Connect — 12 operation(s) for my resources.
IBM API Connect Oauth2 Action API
The Oauth2 Action API from IBM API Connect — 1 operation(s) for oauth2 action.
IBM API Connect Org Settings API
The Org Settings API from IBM API Connect — 1 operation(s) for org settings.
IBM API Connect Organization Application API
The Organization Application API from IBM API Connect — 9 operation(s) for organization application.
IBM API Connect Organization Management API
The Organization Management API from IBM API Connect — 40 operation(s) for organization management.
IBM API Connect Organization Resources API
The Organization Resources API from IBM API Connect — 85 operation(s) for organization resources.
IBM API Connect Organization Settings API
The Organization Settings API from IBM API Connect — 22 operation(s) for organization settings.
IBM API Connect Plans and Quotas API
The Plans and Quotas API from IBM API Connect — 16 operation(s) for plans and quotas.
IBM API Connect Portal API
The Portal API from IBM API Connect — 128 operation(s) for portal.
IBM API Connect Products and APIs API
The Products and APIs API from IBM API Connect — 81 operation(s) for products and apis.
IBM API Connect Project API
The Project API from IBM API Connect — 9 operation(s) for project.
IBM API Connect Provider Management API
The Provider Management API from IBM API Connect — 9 operation(s) for provider management.
IBM API Connect Reconstructed APIs API
The Reconstructed APIs API from IBM API Connect — 14 operation(s) for reconstructed apis.
IBM API Connect Resource Service Status API
The Resource Service Status API from IBM API Connect — 1 operation(s) for resource service status.
IBM API Connect Rulesets and Rules API
The Rulesets and Rules API from IBM API Connect — 9 operation(s) for rulesets and rules.
IBM API Connect Settings API
The Settings API from IBM API Connect — 2 operation(s) for settings.
IBM API Connect Space Management API
The Space Management API from IBM API Connect — 33 operation(s) for space management.
IBM API Connect Space Resource API
The Space Resource API from IBM API Connect — 6 operation(s) for space resource.
IBM API Connect Space Resources API
The Space Resources API from IBM API Connect — 44 operation(s) for space resources.
IBM API Connect Space Settings API
The Space Settings API from IBM API Connect — 30 operation(s) for space settings.
IBM API Connect User API
The User API from IBM API Connect — 1 operation(s) for user.
IBM API Connect User Management API
The User Management API from IBM API Connect — 27 operation(s) for user management.
IBM API Connect Validation API
The Validation API from IBM API Connect — 6 operation(s) for validation.
IBM API Connect Webhooks API
The Webhooks API from IBM API Connect — 22 operation(s) for webhooks.
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MCP Servers 1
Model Context Protocol servers that expose these APIs to AI agents.
MCP Server
MCP SERVERPricing Plans 1
Published pricing tiers and plan structures.
Rate Limits 1
Documented rate limits and quota policies.
Ibm Api Connect Rate Limits
RATE LIMITSFinOps 1
Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.
Ibm Api Connect Finops
FINOPSSpectral Rules 1
Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.
IBM API Connect API Rules
SPECTRALSecurity Posture 2
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.
Resources
Get Started 2
Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call
Documentation 4
Reference material describing how the API behaves
Agent Surfaces 3
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Design & Contract 1
Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events
Build 1
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
Access & Security 3
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Learn 1
Tutorials, courses, talks, and written guidance
Operate 6
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Commercial 5
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 2
The organization behind the API
Other 2
Properties that don't map to a standard resource type
Source (apis.yml)
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