Index Exchange

Index Exchange is a global programmatic advertising exchange that connects publishers and advertisers through a transparent, efficient, and data‑driven platform. It offers a suite of products including addressable advertising, real‑time bidding, analytics, and streaming‑TV solutions, enabling media owners to maximize revenue while providing buyers with high‑quality inventory and robust reporting.

Index Exchange is listed with 1 API on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Advertising, Programmatic, Supply Side Platform, Real-Time Bidding, and Media Technology.

Index Exchange’s developer surface includes engineering blog and 11 more developer resources.

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9.2/100 minimal ▬ flat Agent 4/100 human only Heartbeat 100/100 alive Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0 · Show this score on your site →

1 API

Advertising Programmatic Supply Side Platform Real-Time BiddingMedia TechnologyCompany

Kin Score

Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0

Composite quality — 9.2/100 · minimal

Contract Quality 0.0 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 1.4 / 17

Access Clarity 1.8 / 17

Operational Transparency 0.3 / 11

Contract Governance 0.0 / 10

Discoverability 5.0 / 9

Regulatory Posture 1.5 / 15

Agent readiness — 4/100 · human only

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 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 5 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

Pagination 5 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

MCP Tool Quality 6 / 6

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.

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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
Machine-Readable Auth +10 pts — a served openid-configuration/oauth-authorization-server carrying `issuer` (served), else the securitySchemes class in the provider OpenAPIs — bound (mutualTLS, DPoP, Signature) > negotiable (oauth2 authorizationCode/clientCredentials, openIdConnect) > bearer (http bearer, apiKey)
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)
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
Developer Ergonomics scores 8.3 — up to +18.3 composite points
Access Clarity scores 10.5 — up to +17.9 composite points

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Standards implemented 1

Standards this provider implements or carries. De facto ones are profiled and measured by the API Commons; formal ones come from the standards directory and are linked by the provider's own tags. The evidence column says how each claim was established — not that it was made.

OAuth 2.0 Protected Resource Metadata

measured — observed by APIs.io (verified)

APIs 1

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

Index Exchange API

Programmatic advertising exchange API (no public machine-readable spec discovered)

Security Posture 1

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

Index Exchange Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · DMARC

SECURITY

Resources

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

WellKnown

WellKnown

Build 3

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

SDKs

SDKs

Packages

Packages

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

TermsOfService

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

Company 3

The organization behind the API

Newsroom

Newsroom

Blog

Blog

Website

Website

Other 2

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Hosts

Hosts

Leadership

Leadership

Source (apis.yml)

aid: index-exchange
name: Index Exchange
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  probe_state: unreadable
  source:
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-06'
  method: derived
image: https://s46182.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Index-Exchange-Stacked-Logo-Homepage.png
description: Index Exchange is a global programmatic advertising exchange that connects publishers and advertisers through
  a transparent, efficient, and data‑driven platform. It offers a suite of products including addressable advertising, real‑time
  bidding, analytics, and streaming‑TV solutions, enabling media owners to maximize revenue while providing buyers with high‑quality
  inventory and robust reporting.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/index-exchange/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: harvest:tag-qc
x-tier: profiled
x-tier-reason: enrichment pass 2026-10-14 (modular-v1; was harvest)
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-10-14'
modified: '2026-10-14'
tags:
- Advertising
- Programmatic
- Supply Side Platform
- Real-Time Bidding
- Media Technology
- Company
tags_raw:
- Advertising
- Programmatic
- SSP
- Real-time Bidding
- Media Technology
- Company
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/index-exchange-well-known.yml
- type: Hosts
  url: hosts/index-exchange-hosts.yml
- type: SDKs
  url: packages/index-exchange-packages.yml
- type: Packages
  url: packages/index-exchange-packages.yml
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.indexexchange.com/terms-of-use/
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.indexexchange.com/privacy/
- type: Newsroom
  url: https://www.indexexchange.com/press/
- type: Leadership
  url: https://www.indexexchange.com/about/team/
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.indexexchange.com/blog/
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/indexexchange
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/index-exchange-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.indexexchange.com
apis:
- name: Index Exchange API
  description: Programmatic advertising exchange API (no public machine-readable spec discovered)
  humanURL: https://www.indexexchange.com
  aid: index-exchange:index-exchange-api
x-coverage:
  state: unreadable
  reason: js-rendered-docs
  detail: The API OpenAPI spec endpoint returns a login HTML page requiring authentication.
  evidence:
  - url: https://api.indexexchange.com/openapi.json
    status: 200
  checked: '2026-10-14'
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-10-14'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 7
  pass: modular-v1
  engine: identity=local,contract=local,surfaces=local,docs=local,regulatory=local

Index Exchange API — frequently asked questions

Does Index Exchange have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 1 API from Index Exchange, including Index Exchange API.

Is the Index Exchange API ready for AI agents?

Index Exchange has a Kin Score of 9.2 out of 100 (minimal) and an Agent Readiness score of 3.6 (human-only), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.

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