# instacart

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/instacart/  
**APIs profiled:** 10

Use the public Instacart APIs to add Instacart shopping capabilities to your applications, such as product shopping lists and recipe ingredients.

## Kin Score — 31.2 / 100 (thin)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 31.2).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 50.0 |
| Contract Quality | 75.1 |
| Governance | 11.4 |
| Contract Governance | 11.4 |
| Operational Transparency | 7.9 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 11.9 |
| Commercial Clarity | 13.2 |
| Access Clarity | 13.2 |

## Agent readiness — 39.2 (agent-ready)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | documented |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | verified |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | derived |
| Agent Skills | no |
| 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: high).

## APIs (10)

- **Instacart Shopping Widgets** — Instacart Shopping Widgets are front-end web components that retailers can embed into their websites to add e-commerce functionalities powered by Instacart without interacting w...
- **instacart Authentication API** — Endpoints for obtaining and managing OAuth 2.0 access tokens used to authenticate API requests.
- **instacart Chat API** — Endpoints for shopper-customer communication including sending and retrieving chat messages.
- **instacart Delivery API** — Endpoints for finding delivery stores, previewing time slots, reserving time slots, and creating delivery orders.
- **instacart Items API** — Endpoints for updating item-level attributes such as pricing and availability at specific store locations. Items contain information that can vary from one store to another.
- **instacart Last Mile Delivery API** — Endpoints for last mile delivery where items are pre-packed and only require delivery from the store to the customer.
- **instacart Orders API** — Endpoints for retrieving order status, handling details, and item information after checkout.
- **instacart Pickup API** — Endpoints for finding pickup stores, previewing time slots, reserving time slots, and creating pickup orders.
- **instacart Products API** — Endpoints for creating and updating products in the retailer's catalog on Instacart. Products are the same across all of a retailer's stores.
- **instacart Replacements API** — Endpoints for managing item replacements suggested by shoppers during order fulfillment.

## Agentic access (1)

- **Instacart Agentic Access** — 23 operations · 19 acting

## Security (3)

- **Instacart Authentication** — apiKey/http · 2 schemes
- **Instacart Domain Security** — TLSv1.2 · DMARC
- **Instacart Vulnerability Disclosure** — Hackerone · security.txt · contact published

## Plans (1)

- **Instacart Plans Pricing**

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