# Kevel

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/kevel/  
**Website:** https://www.kevel.com  
**APIs profiled:** 14

Kevel is an API-first ad serving platform that lets brands and publishers build unified, fully customized ad systems supporting any ad format, any creative, and multiple demand sources. Kevel exposes a Decision API for ad requests, a Management API for campaign and creative operations, a Reporting API for performance analytics, and a UserDB API for first-party audience and user data.

## Kin Score — 38.1 / 100 (thin)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 38.1).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 72.2 |
| Contract Quality | 52.9 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 7.9 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 59.5 |
| Commercial Clarity | 23.7 |
| Access Clarity | 23.7 |

## Agent readiness — 29.1 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| 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 |

## Access

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

## APIs (14)

- **Kevel Decision API** — The Decision API enables ad requests without using ad code. By posting to a RESTful endpoint, Kevel's ad engine returns decision data and creative contents for serving ads in yo...
- **Kevel Management API** — The Management API provides programmatic access to manage advertisers, campaigns, flights, ads, creatives, channels, sites, zones, and other platform resources. It is the system...
- **Kevel Reporting API** — The Reporting API exposes ad serving performance data, allowing customers to pull impressions, clicks, conversions, revenue, and other metrics by advertiser, campaign, flight, a...
- **Kevel UserDB API** — The UserDB API provides first-party audience and user data management, enabling customers to read and write user keys, custom properties, interests, and audience segment members...
- **Kevel Ads API** — Manage ads.
- **Kevel Advertisers API** — Manage advertiser accounts.
- **Kevel Campaigns API** — Manage campaigns.
- **Kevel Channels API** — Manage channels.
- **Kevel Creatives API** — Manage creatives.
- **Kevel Decision API** — Request ad decisions and creatives.
- **Kevel Flights API** — Manage flights (line items).
- **Kevel Reporting API** — Queue and retrieve performance reports.
- **Kevel Sites API** — Manage sites.
- **Kevel Zones API** — Manage zones.

## Agentic access (1)

- **Kevel Agentic Access** — 33 operations · 17 acting

## Security (3)

- **Kevel Authentication** — apiKey · 1 scheme
- **Kevel Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC
- **Kevel Trust Center** — SOC 2, GDPR

## Plans (1)

- **Kevel Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Ad Serving, Advertising, API-First, Audience, Monetization, Reporting

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