Kestra

Kestra is a declarative workflow orchestration platform where pipelines are defined in YAML, combining visual and code-first approaches.

Kestra publishes 7 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network, including Executions API, Files API, Flows API, and 4 more. Tagged areas include Automation, Data Pipeline, Event-Driven, Orchestration, and Workflows.

The Kestra catalog on APIs.io includes 1 Spectral governance ruleset.

Kestra’s developer surface includes authentication, developer portal, documentation, getting-started guide, API reference, engineering blog, changelog, and 33 more developer resources.

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54.8/100 strong ▬ flat Agent 32/100 agent ready Front door AI 6/6 dominant Heartbeat 100/100 alive open core · Apache-2.0 Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-11-13 · rubric v0.28.0 · Show this score on your site →

AccessFreemiumSelf serve⚡ Free to try

1 published contract 1 MCP Servers

Automation Data Pipeline Event-Driven Orchestration Workflows

Kin Score

Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-11-13 · rubric v0.28.0

Composite quality — 54.8/100 · strong

Contract Quality 7.1 / 16

Developer Ergonomics 7.7 / 13

Access Clarity 9.1 / 13

Operational Transparency 3.0 / 8

Contract Governance 1.1 / 8

Discoverability 3.8 / 7

Regulatory Posture 3.7 / 15

Open Source Surface 10.0 / 10

Create-or-Update Ergonomics 0.0 / 10

Agent readiness — 32/100 · 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 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 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 0 / 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.

Open Source Surface applies to this provider. This product is open source and we read its repository directly, so Open Source Surface carries 10 points of the composite. It is scored from what the repository actually publishes — a security policy, a contribution guide, a release history, a code of conduct — read live from the provider rather than inferred from our own catalog pointers. This facet adds; nothing was taken away to make room for it. An open-source project is not excused from the commercial facets, because exemption would strip it of the points it does earn. If we have the wrong repository, or this product is not open source, say so on your provider repo and we will drop the facet rather than have you publish against it.

Create-or-Update Ergonomics applies to this provider. This API accepts writes, so it carries 10 points of the composite. It is scored from the published contracts themselves: whether a caller can create-or-update in one call, whether the write accepts a key the caller already holds, and whether the response says which branch ran. Without that, every write needs a search-and-branch in front of it, and the first time that check is skipped a duplicate record is created. Scored against the observed mean rather than raw — a provider at the catalog average is unchanged by this facet, not penalised by it.

The six quality facets above are damped to 65 points between them, because both conditional facets apply and carry 35 points together. That is why each facet's contribution is shown against a damped maximum: raising a quality facet moves the composite by 65% of its nominal weight, not 100%. The full arithmetic is at apis.io/rating/.

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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) Ask about this →
Stable Error Semantics +8 pts — OpenAPI $refs a shared error schema across 4xx/5xx responses (verified), else common[].type includes ErrorCatalog / ErrorCodes / DeclineCodes Ask about this →
A2A Agent Card +8 pts — a2a/-a2a.yml manifest, graded on conformance.grade against A2A 1.0.0 Ask about this →
Request/Response Examples +7 pts — share of operations carrying request/response examples; else an Examples / Code Samples link Ask about this →
Registration Without a Human +6 pts — a `registration_endpoint` in the served RFC 8414 / OIDC discovery document Ask about this →
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) Ask about this →

8 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

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

Contract Quality scores 43.8 — up to +14.1 composite points Ask about this →
Contract Governance scores 13.6 — up to +10.4 composite points Ask about this →
Operational Transparency scores 35.7 — up to +8.4 composite points Ask about this →

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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
Cloud Native (Kubernetes, CNCF, FinOps)	builds-on	48.9	-	-
IDE Extension Marketplaces (JetBrains, VS Code, Open VSX, Docker Verified Publishers, PyPI orgs)	builds-on	48.9	-	-
Infrastructure-as-Code Provider Registries (Terraform, OpenTofu, Pulumi)	builds-on	48.9	-	-
Artifact Hub Cloud-Native Packages	builds-on	48.9	-	-

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.

Standards implemented 2

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.

Model Context Protocol (MCP)

measured — observed by APIs.io (verified)

OpenAPI

measured — observed by APIs.io (published)

APIs 7

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

Kestra Enterprise API

The Kestra Enterprise API extends the open-source API with additional endpoints for enterprise features including authentication, RBAC, audit logging, multi-tenancy, SSO, and ad...

Kestra Executions API

Trigger and inspect workflow executions.

Kestra Files API

Manage namespace files.

Kestra Flows API

Manage flow definitions.

Kestra Namespaces API

Manage namespaces.

Kestra Triggers API

Manage and test triggers.

Kestra KV Store API

Manage namespace-scoped key-value pairs.

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Open Collections 7

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

Kestra Open Source REST Executions API

OPEN COLLECTION

Kestra Open Source REST Executions Files API

OPEN COLLECTION

Kestra Open Source REST Executions Flows API

OPEN COLLECTION

Kestra Open Source REST Executions KVStore API

OPEN COLLECTION

Kestra Open Source REST Executions Namespaces API

OPEN COLLECTION

Kestra Open Source REST Executions Triggers API

OPEN COLLECTION

Kestra Open Source REST API

OPEN COLLECTION

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MCP Servers 1

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

Kestra MCP Server

Remote MCP server at api.kestra.io over HTTP; 12 tools listed.

MCP SERVER

Kestra API pricing

Prices published by Kestra, read 2026-10-28 from kestra.io/pricing.

Plan	Price
Open Source	Open Source Includes: 2,400+ Plugins, Unlimited Flows & Executions, PostgreSQL or MySQL Queue, Code & No-Code Editors, AI
Enterprise Edition	Contact Sales Includes: Annual Subscription, Per instance model, unlimited flows/tasks/executions; SSO, LDAP & SCIM, RBAC, A
Kestra Cloud	Request Access Includes: Everything in Open Source, fully managed platform, automatic scaling, enterprise plugins, SOC2 compl

Plan details, limits and sources →

Rate limits

Free Tier Default: 10 requests per minute
Free Tier Monthly Quota: 1000 requests per month
Professional Tier Default: 100 requests per minute

Compiled by API Evangelist, not yet checked against Kestra's documentation. All 5 limits →

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Kestra Plans Pricing

3 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Kestra Rate Limits

5 limits

RATE LIMITS

Terms of Service 1

What its API terms permit and prohibit, quoted from its own page.

Kestra

11 quoted statements, read from Kestra's own page on 2026-11-09.

TERMS

Privacy & Data 1

Its role, the data it processes, retention and transfers, quoted from its own privacy page.

Kestra

26 quoted statements, read from Kestra's own page on 2026-11-09.

PRIVACY

Eligibility 1

Who may sign up and where, quoted from its own terms.

Kestra

2 quoted statements, read from Kestra's own page on 2026-11-09.

ELIGIBILITY

Data License 1

How its data and outputs may be reused, quoted from its own terms.

Kestra

1 quoted statement, read from Kestra's own page on 2026-11-09.

LICENSE

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Kestra Finops

FINOPS

Spectral Rules 1

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs. Counts are the severity each rule declares, not results of running them.

Kestra API Rules

58 rules · 56 error-severity 1 warn-severity 1 info-severity

SPECTRAL

Security Posture 3

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

Kestra Authentication

http · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Kestra Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC

SECURITY

Kestra Trust Center

SOC 2, ISO 27001

SECURITY

Agentic Access (API Evangelist recommendations) 1

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

Kestra Agentic Access

19 operations · 7 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Get Started 2

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Portal

Portal

GettingStarted

GettingStarted

Documentation 4

Reference material describing how the API behaves

ContributionGuide

Documentation

APIReference

APIReference

Agent Surfaces 2

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

AgenticAccess

LlmsText

LlmsText

Build 4

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

CodeOfConduct

CodeOfConduct

SDKs

SDKs

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

GitHubRepository

GitHubRepository

Access & Security 5

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

SecurityPolicy

TrustCenter

DomainSecurity

Authentication

Authentication

Learn 1

Tutorials, courses, talks, and written guidance

Tutorials

Tutorials

Operate 8

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

RateLimits

IssueTracker

Releases

ChangeLog

Support

Community

FAQ

Contact

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Commercial 8

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Plans

FinOps

License

Pricing

PrivacyPolicy

TermsOfService

UsageTerms

DataLicense

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Company 3

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

LinkedIn

Blog

Blog

Other 3

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Terraform

Terraform

DataProcessing

DataProcessing

Eligibility

Eligibility

Source (apis.yml)

aid: kestra
name: Kestra
segments:
- Workflows
description: Kestra is a declarative workflow orchestration platform where pipelines are defined in YAML, combining visual
  and code-first approaches.
type: Index
deliveryModel:
  model: open-core
  license: Apache-2.0
  open_source: true
  commercial: true
  callable_host: false
  label: Open core · an OSS project plus a commercial hosted product
  confidence: high
  source:
  - license
  - openapi
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: freemium
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: true
  public: false
  gated: none
  gated_source:
  - onboarding
  label: Freemium · Self-serve signup
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-13'
  method: derived
position: Consuming
access: 3rd-Party
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/kestra.png
tags:
- Automation
- Data Pipeline
- Event-Driven
- Orchestration
- Workflows
tags_raw:
- Automation
- Data Pipelines
- Event-Driven
- Orchestration
- Workflows
created: '2026-03-03'
modified: '2026-04-28'
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/kestra/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- aid: kestra:enterprise-api
  name: Kestra Enterprise API
  description: The Kestra Enterprise API extends the open-source API with additional endpoints for enterprise features including
    authentication, RBAC, audit logging, multi-tenancy, SSO, and advanced governance capabilities for production deployments.
  humanURL: https://kestra.io/docs/api-reference/enterprise
  tags:
  - Authentication
  - Enterprise
  - Governance
  - RBAC
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://kestra.io/docs/api-reference/enterprise
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://kestra.io/docs/enterprise/auth/api
- aid: kestra:kestra-executions-api
  name: Kestra Executions API
  description: Trigger and inspect workflow executions.
  humanURL: https://kestra.io/docs/api-reference
  tags:
  - Execution
  tags_raw:
  - Executions
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/kestra-executions-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://kestra.io/docs/api-reference
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://kestra.io/docs/how-to-guides/api
- aid: kestra:kestra-files-api
  name: Kestra Files API
  description: Manage namespace files.
  humanURL: https://kestra.io/docs/api-reference
  tags:
  - File
  tags_raw:
  - Files
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/kestra-files-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://kestra.io/docs/api-reference
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://kestra.io/docs/how-to-guides/api
- aid: kestra:kestra-flows-api
  name: Kestra Flows API
  description: Manage flow definitions.
  humanURL: https://kestra.io/docs/api-reference
  tags:
  - Flow
  tags_raw:
  - Flows
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/kestra-flows-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://kestra.io/docs/api-reference
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://kestra.io/docs/how-to-guides/api
- aid: kestra:kestra-namespaces-api
  name: Kestra Namespaces API
  description: Manage namespaces.
  humanURL: https://kestra.io/docs/api-reference
  tags:
  - Namespaces
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/kestra-namespaces-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://kestra.io/docs/api-reference
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://kestra.io/docs/how-to-guides/api
- aid: kestra:kestra-triggers-api
  name: Kestra Triggers API
  description: Manage and test triggers.
  humanURL: https://kestra.io/docs/api-reference
  tags:
  - Triggers
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/kestra-triggers-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://kestra.io/docs/api-reference
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://kestra.io/docs/how-to-guides/api
- aid: kestra:kestra-kv-store-api
  name: Kestra KV Store API
  description: Manage namespace-scoped key-value pairs.
  humanURL: https://kestra.io/docs/api-reference/enterprise
  tags:
  - KV Store
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/kestra-kv-store-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://kestra.io/docs/api-reference
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://kestra.io/docs/how-to-guides/api
common:
- type: Plans
  url: plans/kestra-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/kestra-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/kestra-finops.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.kestra.io/
- type: IssueTracker
  url: https://github.com/kestra-io/kestra/issues
- type: Releases
  url: https://github.com/kestra-io/kestra/releases
- type: SecurityPolicy
  url: https://github.com/kestra-io/kestra/blob/develop/SECURITY.md
- type: CodeOfConduct
  url: https://github.com/kestra-io/kestra/blob/develop/.github/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md
- type: ContributionGuide
  url: https://github.com/kestra-io/kestra/blob/develop/.github/CONTRIBUTING.md
- type: License
  name: Apache-2.0
  url: https://github.com/kestra-io/kestra/blob/develop/LICENSE
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/kestra-agentic-access.yml
- type: TrustCenter
  url: security/kestra-trust-center.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/kestra-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/kestra-authentication.yml
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/kestra
- type: Portal
  url: https://kestra.io/
  name: Kestra Website
- type: Documentation
  url: https://kestra.io/docs
  name: Kestra Documentation
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://kestra.io/docs/quickstart
  name: Kestra Quickstart Guide
- type: Tutorials
  url: https://kestra.io/docs/tutorial
  name: Kestra Tutorial
- type: APIReference
  url: https://kestra.io/docs/api-reference
  name: Kestra API Reference
- type: APIReference
  url: https://kestra.io/docs/api-reference/open-source
  name: Kestra Open Source API Reference
- type: Authentication
  url: https://kestra.io/docs/enterprise/auth/api
  name: Kestra Enterprise API Authentication
- type: SDKs
  url: https://kestra.io/docs/api-reference/kestra-sdk
  name: Kestra SDKs
- type: Blog
  url: https://kestra.io/blogs
  name: Kestra Blog
- type: ChangeLog
  url: https://kestra.io/docs/changelog
  name: Kestra Changelog
- type: Pricing
  url: https://kestra.io/pricing
  name: Kestra Pricing
- type: Support
  url: https://support.kestra.io/hc/en-us
  name: Kestra Support
- type: Community
  url: https://kestra.io/community
  name: Kestra Community
- type: FAQ
  url: https://kestra.io/faq
  name: Kestra FAQ
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/kestra-io
  name: Kestra GitHub Organization
- type: GitHubRepository
  url: https://github.com/kestra-io/kestra
  name: Kestra GitHub Repository
- type: Integrations
  url: https://kestra.io/plugins/
  name: Kestra Plugins
- type: Terraform
  url: https://kestra.io/docs/terraform
  name: Kestra Terraform Provider
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://kestra.io/privacy-policy
  name: Kestra Privacy Policy
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://kestra.io/terms-and-services
  name: Kestra Terms of Service
- type: Contact
  url: https://kestra.io/contact-us
  name: Kestra Contact
- type: Features
  url: https://kestra.io/features/api-first
  name: Kestra API-First Architecture
- type: LlmsText
  url: https://kestra.io/llms.txt
- type: UsageTerms
  url: terms/kestra-terms-of-service.yml
- type: DataProcessing
  url: privacy/kestra-privacy-policy.yml
- type: Eligibility
  url: eligibility/kestra-eligibility.yml
- type: DataLicense
  url: data-license/kestra-data-license.yml
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- name: prometheus icon
- name: ldap icon
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com

Kestra API — frequently asked questions

Does Kestra have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 7 APIs from Kestra, including Kestra Enterprise API, Kestra Executions API and Kestra Files API, and 4 more.

Is there an OpenAPI specification for the Kestra API?

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

How do I authenticate with the Kestra API?

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

How much does the Kestra API cost?

Kestra publishes its prices; its Open Source plan is Open Source as of 2026-10-28. APIs.io lists 3 pricing plans for Kestra, with each plan's price, limits and inclusions under Pricing on this page.

Does Kestra have an MCP server?

Yes. APIs.io lists 1 MCP server for Kestra: Remote MCP server at api.kestra.io over HTTP; 12 tools listed.

Is the Kestra API ready for AI agents?

Kestra has a Kin Score of 54.8 out of 100 (strong) and an Agent Readiness score of 31.6 (agent-ready), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-13.

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