# Keygen

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/keygen/  
**Website:** https://keygen.sh/  
**APIs profiled:** 12

Keygen is a software licensing, entitlements, and distribution API for desktop, on-prem, IoT, and other installed applications. It issues license keys, activates and tracks machines, enforces policy-based entitlements, and distributes releases and artifacts for auto-updates. Keygen ships as the source-available, self-hostable Keygen CE / EE and as the managed Keygen Cloud, exposing a JSON:API interface under api.keygen.sh.

## Kin Score — 39.6 / 100 (developing)

Scored 2026-08-25 under rubric 0.14.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 39.6).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 74.1 |
| Contract Quality | 53.9 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 34.2 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 23.8 |
| Commercial Clarity | 47.4 |
| Access Clarity | 47.4 |

## Agent readiness — 19.8 (agent-aware)

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

Paid (free trial) · Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: paid, trial: yes (confidence: high).

## APIs (12)

- **Keygen Artifacts API** — Binary artifacts attached to releases.
- **Keygen Components API** — Hardware components of a machine fingerprint.
- **Keygen Entitlements API** — Named feature flags attached to policies and licenses.
- **Keygen Licenses API** — Issue, validate, and manage license keys.
- **Keygen Machines API** — Activate and manage node-locked machines.
- **Keygen Policies API** — Licensing rules that govern licenses.
- **Keygen Processes API** — Concurrent processes running on a machine.
- **Keygen Products API** — Applications being licensed and distributed.
- **Keygen Releases API** — Distributable, semver-tagged releases.
- **Keygen Tokens API** — Authenticate and manage bearer tokens.
- **Keygen Users API** — End users and license owners.
- **Keygen Webhooks API** — Webhook endpoints and events.

## Agentic access (1)

- **Keygen Agentic Access** — 63 operations · 38 acting · 1 human-in-the-loop

## Security (4)

- **Keygen Authentication** — http · 2 schemes
- **Keygen Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC
- **Keygen Vulnerability Disclosure** — security.txt · contact published
- **Keygen Trust Center** — SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA

## Plans (1)

- **Keygen Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Software Licensing, Entitlements, License Keys, Machine Activation, Distribution, Auto-Update

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