# Kata Containers

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/kata-containers/  
**Website:** https://katacontainers.io/  
**APIs profiled:** 1

Kata Containers is an open source project that builds lightweight virtual machines that seamlessly plug into the container ecosystem. It combines the speed of containers with the security isolation of virtual machines, providing a hardware-level isolation boundary for each container or pod.

## Kin Score — 15.3 / 100 (emerging)

Scored 2026-08-25 under rubric 0.14.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 15.3).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 59.3 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 36.8 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 7.1 |
| Commercial Clarity | 15.8 |
| Access Clarity | 15.8 |

## Agent readiness — 2.5 (human-only)

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

Freemium — onboarding: unknown, pricing: freemium, trial: no (confidence: medium).

## APIs (1)

- **Kata Containers** — Kata Containers is an open source container runtime that uses lightweight virtual machines to provide the speed of containers with the security of traditional VMs. It is compati...

## Security (1)

- **Kata Containers Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS

## Plans (1)

- **Kata Containers Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Containers, Isolation, Kubernetes, Open-Source, Security, Virtual Machines

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