Instabase

Instabase is an agentic automation platform that transforms complex, document-heavy workflows using AI. Its AI Hub product uses large language models and packet-aware AI agents to extract, classify, validate, and reason over unstructured document packets (PDFs, images, spreadsheets, emails, scans, and more), turning them into structured, verifiable intelligence. AI Hub exposes a REST API and Python SDK for creating file batches, running automation apps and production deployments, reading and writing workspace files, and managing secrets, with industry solutions for financial services, insurance, healthcare, and the public sector. Instabase is venture-backed (a16z, Greylock, Index Ventures).

Instabase publishes 6 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network, including Audit API, Batches API, Files API, and 3 more. Tagged areas include Company, Intelligent Document Processing, Document AI, Artificial Intelligence, and Machine Learning.

The Instabase catalog on APIs.io includes 1 event-driven AsyncAPI specification.

Instabase’s developer surface includes documentation, API reference, getting-started guide, support, engineering blog, signup flow, changelog, and 24 more developer resources.

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51.9/100 developing ▬ flat Agent 31/100 agent ready Front door AI 5/6 prominent saas Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-10-31 · rubric v0.25.0 · Show this score on your site →

1 published contract 1 MCP Servers 3 Agent Skills

Company Intelligent Document Processing Document AI Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning Automation Data Extraction LLM Financial Services Insurance

Kin Score

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scored 2026-10-31 · rubric v0.25.0

Composite quality — 51.9/100 · developing

Contract Quality 12.1 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 11.4 / 17

Access Clarity 6.7 / 17

Operational Transparency 5.2 / 11

Contract Governance 1.9 / 10

Discoverability 5.5 / 9

Regulatory Posture 3.9 / 15

Agent readiness — 31/100 · agent ready

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 12 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 8 / 8

Request/Response Examples 7 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7

Typed Event Surface 6 / 6

Agent Skills 5 / 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 Insurance 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):

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
Rate-Limit Signaling +7 pts — OpenAPI responses document X-RateLimit-* / RateLimit headers (verified), else a rate_limits artifact or RateLimits link (documented)
Delegated User Identity +6 pts — a served discovery document listing authorization_code in grant_types_supported (served), else an oauth2 authorizationCode flow or openIdConnect declared in an OpenAPI (documented)
Registration Without a Human +6 pts — a `registration_endpoint` in the served RFC 8414 / OIDC discovery document
Documented Reversibility +6 pts — a reversal operation in the contract, graded up when a window is documented too

5 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

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

Access Clarity scores 39.5 — up to +12.1 composite points
Contract Quality scores 57.1 — up to +10.7 composite points
Contract Governance scores 18.2 — up to +9.8 composite points

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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
RPA and Document AI (RPA marketplaces, intelligent document processing)	standard	34.9	-	-
Hugging Face Hub Organisations	standard	34.9	-	-

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 6

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

Instabase Audit API

The Audit API from Instabase — 1 operation(s) for audit.

Instabase Batches API

The Batches API from Instabase — 8 operation(s) for batches.

Instabase Files API

The Files API from Instabase — 1 operation(s) for files.

Instabase Jobs API

The Jobs API from Instabase — 1 operation(s) for jobs.

Instabase Runs API

The Runs API from Instabase — 4 operation(s) for runs.

Instabase Secrets API

The Secrets API from Instabase — 1 operation(s) for secrets.

Open Collections 6

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

AI Hub Audit API

OPEN COLLECTION

AI Hub Audit Batches API

OPEN COLLECTION

AI Hub Audit Files API

OPEN COLLECTION

AI Hub Audit Jobs API

OPEN COLLECTION

AI Hub Audit Runs API

OPEN COLLECTION

AI Hub Audit Secrets API

OPEN COLLECTION

MCP Servers 1

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

Instabase MCP Server

Official Instabase AI Hub documentation MCP server. The AI Hub docs site advertises an MCP endpoint for AI client integration (Claude Code, Cursor, etc.) that exposes the docume...

MCP SERVER

Agent Skills 3

Packaged agent skills for driving this provider's APIs from an AI assistant.

Manage AI Hub secrets

AGENT SKILL

Process documents with an AI Hub app

AGENT SKILL

Run a production app deployment

AGENT SKILL

Event Specifications 1

AsyncAPI definitions for this provider's event-driven and streaming APIs.

Instabase Webhooks

ASYNCAPI

OpenAPI Overlays 1

Overlays applied on top of this provider's contracts. Each card says who wrote it: a document the provider publishes, or one API Evangelist derived or generated.

Instabase Aihub Overlay

3 actions · documentation · instabase-aihub-openapi.yaml

DERIVED

Security Posture 4

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

Instabase Authentication

http · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Instabase Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Instabase Vulnerability Disclosure

contact published

SECURITY

Instabase Trust Center

SOC 2, HIPAA, GDPR

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Instabase Agentic Access

27 operations · 15 acting

AGENTIC

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 5

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

MCPServer

LLMsTxt

AgentSkill

WellKnown

AgenticAccess

Design & Contract 4

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Conventions

Lifecycle

Conformance

Webhooks

Build 4

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

PostmanWorkspace

PostmanWorkspace

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

SDKs

SDKs

Packages

Packages

Access & Security 6

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

TrustCenter

Compliance

Authentication

DomainSecurity

VulnerabilityDisclosure

VulnerabilityDisclosure

Security

Security

Operate 3

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support

Support

ChangeLog

ChangeLog

Deprecation

Deprecation

Commercial 1

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Overlay

Overlay

Source (apis.yml)

aid: instabase
name: Instabase
description: Instabase is an agentic automation platform that transforms complex, document-heavy workflows using AI. Its AI
  Hub product uses large language models and packet-aware AI agents to extract, classify, validate, and reason over unstructured
  document packets (PDFs, images, spreadsheets, emails, scans, and more), turning them into structured, verifiable intelligence.
  AI Hub exposes a REST API and Python SDK for creating file batches, running automation apps and production deployments,
  reading and writing workspace files, and managing secrets, with industry solutions for financial services, insurance, healthcare,
  and the public sector. Instabase is venture-backed (a16z, Greylock, Index Ventures).
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/instabase/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- a16z
- greylock
- index-ventures
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: true
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: high
  source:
  - openapi
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source:
  - authentication
  - security
  generated: '2026-09-03'
  method: derived
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-19'
image: https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/6883b569dca0edf626a1fce5/68cdbf2b866f068b4585e5ea_Open%20graph.png
x-docs-platform: fern
x-docs-platform-confidence: medium
x-docs-platform-checked: 2026-10-03
x-docs-hosting: vercel
tags:
- Company
- Intelligent Document Processing
- Document AI
- Artificial Intelligence
- Machine Learning
- Automation
- Data Extraction
- LLM
- Financial Services
- Insurance
tags_raw:
- Company
- Intelligent Document Processing
- Document AI
- Artificial Intelligence
- Machine Learning
- Automation
- Data Extraction
- LLM
- Financial Services
- Insurance
- Machine-Learning
- Financial-Services
apis:
- aid: instabase:instabase-audit-api
  name: Instabase Audit API
  description: The Audit API from Instabase — 1 operation(s) for audit.
  humanURL: https://docs.instabase.com/api-sdk/
  baseURL: https://aihub.instabase.com/api
  tags:
  - Audit
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/instabase-audit-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/instabase-authentication.yml
  - type: ErrorCatalog
    url: errors/instabase-problem-types.yml
  - type: DataModel
    url: data-model/instabase-data-model.yml
- aid: instabase:instabase-batches-api
  name: Instabase Batches API
  description: The Batches API from Instabase — 8 operation(s) for batches.
  humanURL: https://docs.instabase.com/api-sdk/
  baseURL: https://aihub.instabase.com/api
  tags:
  - Batches
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/instabase-batches-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/instabase-authentication.yml
  - type: ErrorCatalog
    url: errors/instabase-problem-types.yml
  - type: DataModel
    url: data-model/instabase-data-model.yml
- aid: instabase:instabase-files-api
  name: Instabase Files API
  description: The Files API from Instabase — 1 operation(s) for files.
  humanURL: https://docs.instabase.com/api-sdk/
  baseURL: https://aihub.instabase.com/api
  tags:
  - File
  tags_raw:
  - Files
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/instabase-files-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/instabase-authentication.yml
  - type: ErrorCatalog
    url: errors/instabase-problem-types.yml
  - type: DataModel
    url: data-model/instabase-data-model.yml
- aid: instabase:instabase-jobs-api
  name: Instabase Jobs API
  description: The Jobs API from Instabase — 1 operation(s) for jobs.
  humanURL: https://docs.instabase.com/api-sdk/
  baseURL: https://aihub.instabase.com/api
  tags:
  - Job
  tags_raw:
  - Jobs
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/instabase-jobs-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/instabase-authentication.yml
  - type: ErrorCatalog
    url: errors/instabase-problem-types.yml
  - type: DataModel
    url: data-model/instabase-data-model.yml
- aid: instabase:instabase-runs-api
  name: Instabase Runs API
  description: The Runs API from Instabase — 4 operation(s) for runs.
  humanURL: https://docs.instabase.com/api-sdk/
  baseURL: https://aihub.instabase.com/api
  tags:
  - Runs
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/instabase-runs-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/instabase-authentication.yml
  - type: ErrorCatalog
    url: errors/instabase-problem-types.yml
  - type: DataModel
    url: data-model/instabase-data-model.yml
- aid: instabase:instabase-secrets-api
  name: Instabase Secrets API
  description: The Secrets API from Instabase — 1 operation(s) for secrets.
  humanURL: https://docs.instabase.com/api-sdk/
  baseURL: https://aihub.instabase.com/api
  tags:
  - Secrets
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/instabase-secrets-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/instabase-authentication.yml
  - type: ErrorCatalog
    url: errors/instabase-problem-types.yml
  - type: DataModel
    url: data-model/instabase-data-model.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: PostmanWorkspace
  url: https://www.postman.com/kinlaneapi/instabase/overview
- type: Overlay
  url: overlays/instabase-aihub-overlay.yaml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.instabase.com/
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://docs.instabase.com/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://docs.instabase.com/
- type: APIReference
  url: https://docs.instabase.com/api-sdk/api-reference/
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://docs.instabase.com/overview/getting-started
- type: Support
  url: https://support.instabase.com/hc/en-us
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.instabase.com/blog
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/instabase
- type: SignUp
  url: https://aihub.instabase.com/
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.instabase.com/privacy-policy
- type: TrustCenter
  url: https://trust.instabase.com/
- type: SDKs
  url: packages/instabase-packages.yml
- type: Packages
  url: packages/instabase-packages.yml
- type: MCPServer
  url: mcp/instabase-mcp.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/instabase-llms.txt
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/_index.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/instabase-conventions.yml
- type: ChangeLog
  url: changelog/instabase-changelog.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/instabase-lifecycle.yml
- type: Deprecation
  url: https://docs.instabase.com/policies/upgrades.md
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/instabase-conformance.yml
- type: Compliance
  url: https://trust.instabase.com/
- type: Webhooks
  url: asyncapi/instabase-webhooks.yml
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/instabase-well-known.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/instabase-authentication.yml
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/instabase-agentic-access.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/instabase-domain-security.yml
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/instabase-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: Security
  url: https://trust.instabase.com/
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: backfilled
  pass: local-v1
  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence

Instabase API — frequently asked questions

Does Instabase have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 6 APIs from Instabase, including Instabase Audit API, Instabase Batches API and Instabase Files API, and 3 more.

Is there an OpenAPI specification for the Instabase API?

Yes. APIs.io indexes 6 OpenAPI specifications for Instabase, each linked for download from this page.

How do I authenticate with the Instabase API?

Instabase uses bearer-token authentication (http · 1 scheme). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Instabase Authentication.

Does Instabase have an MCP server?

Yes. APIs.io lists 1 MCP server for Instabase: Official Instabase AI Hub documentation MCP server. The AI Hub docs site advertises an MCP endpoint for AI client integration (Claude Code, Cursor, etc.) that exposes the documentation corpus. Probed

Is the Instabase API ready for AI agents?

Instabase has a Kin Score of 51.9 out of 100 (developing) and an Agent Readiness score of 30.7 (agent-ready), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-10-31.

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