# Kardinal

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/kardinal/  
**Website:** https://kardinal.ai/  
**APIs profiled:** 1

Kardinal is a Paris-based logistics optimization company whose Always-on Route Optimization (ARO) API solves vehicle routing problems for last-mile delivery, post and parcel, waste and bulk transport, fresh delivery, field services and retail operators. Integrators submit a plan — resources (vehicles), orders (stops) and constraints such as capacities, time windows, driver skills and breaks — with a single idempotent PUT, and the engine optimizes it continuously rather than in a nightly batch, so new orders, cancellations, traffic and field updates are absorbed into the running solution instead of forcing a rerun. The REST API is documented with a published OpenAPI 3.0.3 definition covering 40 operations across authentication, plans, resources, orders and solutions, and is reachable per customer environment at https://<env>.kardinal.ai/api/v2 using short-lived JWT bearer tokens.

## Kin Score — 47.4 / 100 (developing)

Scored 2026-09-08 under rubric 0.20.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 47.4).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 75.9 |
| Contract Quality | 50.4 |
| Governance | 4.5 |
| Contract Governance | 4.5 |
| Operational Transparency | 2.6 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 71.4 |
| Commercial Clarity | 52.6 |
| Access Clarity | 52.6 |

## Agent readiness — 35.5 (agent-ready)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | documented |
| Auth Clarity | bearer |
| Idempotency | documented |
| Error Semantics | documented |
| OpenAPI Examples | partial |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | yes |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |
| Delegated Identity | no |
| Protected Resource Metadata | no |
| Dynamic Client Registration | no |
| Agentic Commerce | no |

## Access

Free · Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: free, trial: no (confidence: high).

## APIs (8)

- **Kardinal Authenticate API** — How to authenticate, and manage the access and refresh tokens.
- **Kardinal Core API** — The Core API from Kardinal — 4 operation(s) for core.
- **Kardinal Management API** — The Management API from Kardinal — 5 operation(s) for management.
- **Kardinal Order API** — How to create, retrieve, update and delete orders in a plan.
- **Kardinal Plan API** — How to create, retrieve, update and delete plans.
- **Kardinal Resource API** — How to create, retrieve, update and delete resources in a plan.
- **Kardinal Simple Plan API** — How to create a plan through the use of a simple plan.
- **Kardinal Solution API** — The Solution API from Kardinal — 2 operation(s) for solution.

## MCP servers (1)

- **Kardinal MCP Server**

## Agentic access (1)

- **Kardinal Agentic Access** — 40 operations · 26 acting · 4 human-in-the-loop

## Security (2)

- **Kardinal Authentication** — http · 5 schemes
- **Kardinal Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

## Plans (1)

- **Kardinal Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Company, Software-as-a-Service, Route Optimization, Vehicle Routing, Last Mile Delivery, Logistics, Supply Chain, Transportation, Fleet Management, Optimization

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