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 3 APIs on the APIs.io network. 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, support, pricing, engineering blog, changelog, and 14 more developer resources.

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34.6/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 8/100 agent aware saas Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-09-25 · rubric v0.23.0

AccessFreemium

3 APIs 1 MCP Servers

API Gateway API Management Developer Portal Developer Tools IBM

Kin Score

Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-09-25 · rubric v0.23.0

Composite quality — 34.6/100 · thin

Contract Quality 0.0 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 8.1 / 17

Access Clarity 10.3 / 17

Operational Transparency 3.8 / 11

Contract Governance 0.0 / 10

Discoverability 6.0 / 9

Regulatory Posture 3.8 / 15

Agent readiness — 8/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 12 / 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

Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

Regulatory Posture applies to this provider. Its tags matched the Horizontal (data, software, accessibility, platform) regime, so Regulatory Posture carries 15 points of the composite. If this regime is wrong for your business, say so on your provider repo — the applicability map is public and we will correct it.

Create-or-Update Ergonomics could not be measured. We hold no machine-readable contract for this provider to read, so there is nothing to measure a write surface against. Excluded rather than scored zero: never-measured and measured-empty are different facts. Publishing an OpenAPI is what makes this facet — and several others — scorable at all.

The six quality facets above are damped to 85 points between them, because the conditional facet above carries the other 15. That is why each facet's contribution is shown against a damped maximum: raising a quality facet moves the composite by 85% of its nominal weight, not 100%. The full arithmetic is at apis.io/rating/.

Improve this rating by publishing the missing artifacts — every area above can be raised, and the full rubric is at apis.io/rating/. Every facet and dimension name above is a link: it opens that measurement's own page — what it means, the exact checks that feed it, how the whole catalog distributes on it, and the providers at the top of it. This rating is computed from github.com/api-evangelist/ibm-api-connect: open an issue to ask a question, or submit a pull request to add artifacts. Submit an artifact on GitHub — free → Manage your own listing — the Influence plan, $499/mo →

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 gatewaycapability map4 features checked 2026-09-25 · rubric v0.22.0

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.

Access Clarity8.0 of 38 pts

Agent Readiness3.5 of 139 pts

Developer Ergonomics12.0 of 42 pts

Operational Transparency8.0 of 38 pts

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

Across 8977 providers that publish a contract, adopting IBM API Connect would move 8221. Median lift: composite +3.1 (90th percentile +5.7), agent readiness +0.0 (+2.5). Conditional rows excluded.

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

APIs 3

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

IBM API Connect Management API

The IBM API Connect Management API provides programmatic access to manage APIs, products, catalogs, organizations, and other platform resources in the API Connect platform. It i...

IBM API Connect Consumer API

The IBM API Connect Consumer API provides programmatic access to the developer portal capabilities, allowing consumer organizations and applications to discover APIs, manage sub...

IBM API Connect V1 API

The IBM API Connect V1 API is the earlier generation management REST API for the API Connect platform, providing access to organizations, catalogs, APIs, and products. It is ret...

MCP Servers 1

Model Context Protocol servers that expose these APIs to AI agents.

MCP Server

MCP SERVER

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Ibm Api Connect Plans Pricing

3 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Ibm Api Connect Rate Limits

5 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

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

Ibm Api Connect Finops

FINOPS

Spectral Rules 1

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

IBM API Connect API Rules

0 rules ·

SPECTRAL

Security Posture 2

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Ibm Api Connect Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Ibm Api Connect Vulnerability Disclosure

Hackerone · security.txt · contact published

SECURITY

Resources

Get Started 2

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Signup

Signup

GettingStarted

GettingStarted

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

MCPServer

MCPServer

Design & Contract 1

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Rules

Rules

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

VulnerabilityDisclosure

VulnerabilityDisclosure

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Learn 1

Tutorials, courses, talks, and written guidance

YouTube

YouTube

Operate 5

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support

ChangeLog

Community

StackOverflow

StatusPage

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Pricing

Pricing

TermsOfService

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

Other 2

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

VendorFacets

VendorFacets

ParentCompany

ParentCompany

Source (apis.yml)

aid: ibm-api-connect
name: IBM API Connect
description: 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.
type: Index
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: false
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: freemium
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Freemium
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/ibm-api-connect.png
tags:
- API Gateway
- API Management
- Developer Portal
- Developer Tools
- IBM
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/ibm-api-connect/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2026-03-16'
modified: '2026-08-21'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- aid: ibm-api-connect:ibm-api-connect-management-api
  name: IBM API Connect Management API
  description: The IBM API Connect Management API provides programmatic access to manage APIs, products, catalogs, organizations,
    and other platform resources in the API Connect platform. It is used to automate API lifecycle management tasks including
    publishing, versioning, and subscription management.
  humanURL: https://cloud.ibm.com/apidocs/apiconnect/apic-management-api
  baseURL: https://api.us-south.apiconnect.cloud.ibm.com
  tags:
  - Administration
  - API Management
  - Lifecycle
  - REST API
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://cloud.ibm.com/apidocs/apiconnect/apic-management-api
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/apiconnect?topic=apiconnect-getting-started
  - type: Reference
    url: https://cloud.ibm.com/apidocs/apiconnect/apic-management-api
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/apiconnect?topic=apiconnect-getting-started#getting-started-prereqs
- aid: ibm-api-connect:ibm-api-connect-consumer-api
  name: IBM API Connect Consumer API
  description: The IBM API Connect Consumer API provides programmatic access to the developer portal capabilities, allowing
    consumer organizations and applications to discover APIs, manage subscriptions, and retrieve credentials. It is used by
    application developers who consume APIs published through the API Connect platform.
  humanURL: https://cloud.ibm.com/apidocs/apiconnect/apic-consumer-api
  baseURL: https://api.us-south.apiconnect.cloud.ibm.com
  tags:
  - Consumer
  - Developer Portal
  - REST API
  - Subscription
  tags_raw:
  - Consumer
  - Developer Portal
  - REST API
  - Subscriptions
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://cloud.ibm.com/apidocs/apiconnect/apic-consumer-api
  - type: Reference
    url: https://cloud.ibm.com/apidocs/apiconnect/apic-consumer-api
- aid: ibm-api-connect:ibm-api-connect-v1-api
  name: IBM API Connect V1 API
  description: The IBM API Connect V1 API is the earlier generation management REST API for the API Connect platform, providing
    access to organizations, catalogs, APIs, and products. It is retained for backward compatibility with integrations built
    against the v1 interface.
  humanURL: https://cloud.ibm.com/apidocs/apiconnect/apiconnect-v1
  baseURL: https://api.us-south.apiconnect.cloud.ibm.com
  tags:
  - API Management
  - Legacy
  - REST API
  - v1
  tags_raw:
  - API Management
  - Legacy
  - REST API
  - V1
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://cloud.ibm.com/apidocs/apiconnect/apiconnect-v1
  - type: Reference
    url: https://cloud.ibm.com/apidocs/apiconnect/apiconnect-v1
common:
- type: VendorFacets
  url: vendor-facets/ibm-api-connect-vendor-facets.yml
- type: ParentCompany
  url: https://apis.io/providers/ibm/
  name: Ibm
  x-relationship: product
  x-generated-by: ibm-family:2026-08-21
- type: Signup
  url: https://www.ibm.com/account/reg/signup?formid=urx-53961
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/ibm-api-connect-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/ibm-api-connect-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.ibm.com/products/api-connect
- type: Documentation
  url: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/api-connect/
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/apiconnect?topic=apiconnect-getting-started
- type: Support
  url: https://www.ibm.com/mysupport
- type: Pricing
  url: https://www.ibm.com/products/api-connect/pricing
- type: Blog
  url: https://developer.ibm.com/blogs/
- type: ChangeLog
  url: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/api-connect/saas?topic=overview-whats-new
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/ibm-apiconnect
- type: Community
  url: https://community.ibm.com/community/user/integration/communities/community-home?CommunityKey=2106cca0-a9f9-45c6-9b28-01a28f39ce47
- type: StackOverflow
  url: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/ibm-api-connect
- type: YouTube
  url: https://www.youtube.com/@IBMTechnology
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.ibm.com/support/customer/csol/terms/
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.ibm.com/privacy
- type: StatusPage
  url: https://cloud.ibm.com/status
- type: Rules
  url: rules/ibm-api-connect-rules.yml
- name: MCP Server
  url: https://github.com/ibm-apiconnect/apic-mcp-server
  type: MCPServer
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
x-parent: ibm
x-relationship: product

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