Imply

Imply is the real-time analytics company founded by the original creators of Apache Druid. Its flagship product, Imply Polaris, is a fully managed database-as-a-service for building real-time analytics applications at scale, offering a REST API to manage tables, files, streaming and batch ingestion, SQL and native queries, dashboards, alerts, collections, and access control. Imply also provides Imply Enterprise and Hybrid for self-managed Apache Druid deployments, backed by SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, and HIPAA compliance.

Imply is listed with 1 API on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Analytics, Real-Time Analytics, Database, and Apache Druid.

Imply’s developer surface includes engineering blog, documentation, API reference, getting-started guide, support, pricing, signup flow, and 25 more developer resources.

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52.3/100 developing ▲ 7.9 Agent 3/100 human only Front door AI 3/6 light saas Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-10-31 · rubric v0.25.0 · Show this score on your site →

AccessSelf serve

1 API

Company Analytics Real-Time Analytics DatabaseApache DruidData Database-as-a-Service Streaming

Kin Score

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scored 2026-10-31 · rubric v0.25.0

Composite quality — 52.3/100 · developing

Contract Quality 0.0 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 12.1 / 17

Access Clarity 17.0 / 17

Operational Transparency 5.2 / 11

Contract Governance 1.9 / 10

Discoverability 5.6 / 9

Regulatory Posture 5.3 / 15

Agent readiness — 3/100 · human only

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 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

Pagination 5 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

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/.

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Agent readiness — checks not met, largest first (exact, from this profile):

Machine-Readable Contract +18 pts — api_specs includes an OpenAPI document
MCP Server +12 pts — deployment.mode + probe verdict on the mcp/ manifest, not the pointer; an unprobed slug falls back to authorship
Agentic Access Contract +10 pts — agentic_access artifact present (x-agentic-access), graded by author
Idempotency +9 pts — OpenAPI mutating operations declare an idempotency key — a header, a request-body property, or a named de-duplication token whose own description says so (verified); else common[].type matches /idempoten/i (documented)
A2A Agent Card +8 pts — a2a/-a2a.yml manifest, graded on conformance.grade against A2A 1.0.0
Stable Error Semantics +8 pts — OpenAPI $refs a shared error schema across 4xx/5xx responses (verified), else common[].type includes ErrorCatalog / ErrorCodes / DeclineCodes

12 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

Kin Score — facets with the most composite points still available (weight × headroom):

Contract Quality scores 0.0 — up to +25.0 composite points
Contract Governance scores 18.2 — up to +9.8 composite points
Operational Transparency scores 47.4 — up to +6.8 composite points

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APIs 1

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

Imply Polaris API

REST API for Imply Polaris, the managed Apache Druid DBaaS. Manage tables, files, streaming/batch ingestion jobs, SQL and native queries, dashboards, data cubes, alerts, collect...

Pricing Plans 2

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Imply Plans Pricing

10 plans

PLANS

Imply Price Estimates

0 plans

PLANS

FinOps 1

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

Imply Finops

FINOPS

Security Posture 4

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

Imply Authentication

apiKey/oauth2 · 2 schemes

SECURITY

Imply Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Imply Vulnerability Disclosure

Hackerone · security.txt · contact published

SECURITY

Imply Trust Center

SOC 2 Type II, SOC 3, ISO 27001:2022, HIPAA

SECURITY

Resources

Get Started 3

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

DeveloperPortal

DeveloperPortal

GettingStarted

GettingStarted

SignUp

SignUp

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

APIReference

APIReference

Agent Surfaces 2

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

LLMsTxt

LLMsTxt

WellKnown

WellKnown

Design & Contract 3

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Conventions

Conventions

Lifecycle

Lifecycle

Conformance

Conformance

Build 4

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization

Packages

SDKs

CLI

Access & Security 7

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Authentication

Authentication

SecurityTxt

SecurityTxt

VulnerabilityDisclosure

VulnerabilityDisclosure

Security

Security

TrustCenter

TrustCenter

Compliance

Compliance

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Operate 3

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support

Support

StatusPage

StatusPage

ChangeLog

ChangeLog

Commercial 4

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Plans

Pricing

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

Company 4

The organization behind the API

Blog

BlogRSS

Website

Blog

Source (apis.yml)

aid: imply
name: Imply
description: Imply is the real-time analytics company founded by the original creators of Apache Druid. Its flagship product,
  Imply Polaris, is a fully managed database-as-a-service for building real-time analytics applications at scale, offering
  a REST API to manage tables, files, streaming and batch ingestion, SQL and native queries, dashboards, alerts, collections,
  and access control. Imply also provides Imply Enterprise and Hybrid for self-managed Apache Druid deployments, backed by
  SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, and HIPAA compliance.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/imply/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- a16z
- bessemer-venture-partners
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
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: unknown
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Self-serve signup
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - authentication
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-10-06'
image: https://imply.io/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/favicon-96x96-imply-data.png
x-docs-platform: docusaurus
x-docs-platform-confidence: medium
x-docs-platform-checked: 2026-10-03
tags:
- Company
- Analytics
- Real-Time Analytics
- Database
- Apache Druid
- Data
- Database-as-a-Service
- Streaming
tags_raw:
- Company
- Analytics
- Real-Time Analytics
- Database
- Apache Druid
- Data
- DBaaS
- Streaming
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
apis:
- name: Imply Polaris API
  description: REST API for Imply Polaris, the managed Apache Druid DBaaS. Manage tables, files, streaming/batch ingestion
    jobs, SQL and native queries, dashboards, data cubes, alerts, collections, API keys, network policies, identity, and audit
    logs. Global resources are org-scoped; regional resources are project-scoped under /v1/projects/PROJECT_ID.
  humanURL: https://docs.imply.io/api/polaris/api-reference
  baseURL: https://api.imply.io
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.imply.io/polaris/
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://docs.imply.io/polaris/api-overview/
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/imply-authentication.yml
common:
- type: Plans
  url: plans/imply-plans-pricing.yml
- url: https://imply.io/resources/blog/
  type: Blog
- url: https://imply.io/feed/
  type: BlogRSS
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/imply-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://imply.io
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://imply.io/developer/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://docs.imply.io/
- type: APIReference
  url: https://docs.imply.io/api/polaris/api-reference
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://docs.imply.io/polaris/quickstart/
- type: Support
  url: https://polaris-support.imply.io/hc/en-us
- type: Blog
  url: https://imply.io/blog/
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/implydata
- type: Pricing
  url: https://imply.io/pricing/
- type: SignUp
  url: https://signup.imply.io
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://imply.io/imply-software-license-terms
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://imply.io/privacy/
- type: StatusPage
  url: https://status.imply.io
- type: ChangeLog
  url: changelog/imply-changelog.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/imply-authentication.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/imply-conventions.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/imply-lifecycle.yml
- type: Packages
  url: packages/imply-packages.yml
- type: SDKs
  url: packages/imply-packages.yml
- type: CLI
  url: cli/imply-cli.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/imply-llms.txt
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/imply-well-known.yml
- type: SecurityTxt
  url: well-known/imply-security.txt
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/imply-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: Security
  url: https://imply.io/trust-center
- type: TrustCenter
  url: security/imply-trust-center.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/imply-conformance.yml
- type: Compliance
  url: https://imply.io/trust-center
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: backfilled
  pass: local-v1
  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence

Imply API — frequently asked questions

Does Imply have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 1 API from Imply, including Imply Polaris API.

How do I authenticate with the Imply API?

Imply uses bearer-token authentication (apiKey/oauth2 · 2 schemes). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Imply Authentication.

How much does the Imply API cost?

APIs.io lists 10 pricing plans for Imply, with each plan's price, limits and inclusions under Pricing Plans on this page.

Is the Imply API ready for AI agents?

Imply has a Kin Score of 52.3 out of 100 (developing) and an Agent Readiness score of 2.5 (human-only), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-10-31.

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