# Impala

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/impala/  
**APIs profiled:** 3

Impala built a single, standardized REST API for the hotel industry — one integration to search availability, read rate plans, and create, amend, and cancel bookings across many property management systems (PMS), so any app could sell hotel rooms and earn commission per booking. Founded in London in 2016 and backed by Speedinvest, Lakestar, and Kima Ventures, Impala shipped a sandbox (with a demo hotel, "The Charleston"), a Postman collection, and PHP/JavaScript wrappers. The company is now defunct: getimpala.com / impala.travel and the API and docs hosts no longer resolve, and the primary domain is held by an unrelated party. This profile preserves the historical OpenAPI (apis.guru impala.travel:hotels 1.003) and pipeline-derived artifacts for the record.

## Kin Score — 30.0 / 100 (thin)

Scored 2026-08-21 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 30.0).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 81.5 |
| Contract Quality | 64.8 |
| Governance | 16.7 |
| Contract Governance | 16.7 |
| Operational Transparency | 2.6 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 28.0 |
| Commercial Clarity | 0.0 |
| Access Clarity | 0.0 |

Regulatory layer — **Payments**: 17.2 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 37.8 (agent-ready)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | verified |
| OpenAPI Examples | verified |
| Rate Limit Signal | no |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | derived |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: medium).

## APIs (3)

- **Impala Bookings API** — Making and managing bookings.
- **Impala Hotels API** — Accessing hotel content, available rooms and rates.
- **Impala Rate Calendar API** — Getting rates for future dates.

## MCP servers (1)

- **Impala MCP Server**

## Security (1)

- **Impala Authentication** — apiKey/http · 2 schemes

## Tags

Company, Hotels, Travel, Booking, Hospitality, Payments, Defunct

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