# King's College London

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/kings-college-london/  
**Website:** https://www.kcl.ac.uk/  
**APIs profiled:** 6

King's College London is a UK public research university and Russell Group member, founded in 1829, ranked #40 in the QS World University Rankings. Re-profiled on 2026-08-19 under the API Evangelist university pipeline, which settles WHO OPERATES a surface before crediting it to the institution. The June 2026 profile credited King's with eleven API entries and ten OpenAPI contracts; every one of them was api.figshare.com/v2 — a single Figshare document that the same pass attributed to twenty-five different universities — split by tag into eleven apparent surfaces. Those contracts, and the collections and agentic-access artifacts derived from them, have been removed. What is left is what King's actually operates. The genuine find is the e-Research AI Hub at ai.create.kcl.ac.uk: King's own OpenAI-compatible LLM inference platform for researchers, live, bearer-authenticated, metered and billed, running on King's own infrastructure — a real institution-operated API, and a rare one in this cohort. Alongside it sit four tenancies that are real institutional facts but somebody else's engineering: the King's Research Portal OAI-PMH endpoint (Elsevier Pure), the research data repository (Figshare), LibrarySearch (Ex Libris Primo) and the UK federation identity provider (OpenAthens). King's holds its own DataCite membership and prefix, and is registered in the UK Access Management Federation and eduGAIN. It publishes no OpenAPI, no developer portal, no open data portal, no llms.txt and no security.txt.

## Kin Score — 35.6 / 100 (thin)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: falling (-6.3 from 41.9).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 64.8 |
| Contract Quality | 4.0 |
| Governance | 18.2 |
| Contract Governance | 18.2 |
| Operational Transparency | 26.3 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 38.1 |
| Commercial Clarity | 60.5 |
| Access Clarity | 60.5 |

Regulatory layer — **Education & Research**: 46.3 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 11.5 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| 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

Free tier for King's affiliates · metered beyond it · no public signup — onboarding: unknown, pricing: freemium, trial: yes (confidence: medium).

## APIs (6)

- **King's e-Research AI Hub API** — An OpenAI-compatible LLM inference API operated by King's e-Research for researchers, students and staff. Per King's documentation it serves chat completions against a curated s...
- **King's Research Portal (Pure) OAI-PMH** — The standards-based harvesting interface for the King's Research Portal, the front end of Pure — how King's research outputs reach OpenAIRE, CORE, BASE and the rest of the aggre...
- **King's College London Research Data Repository (Figshare tenancy)** — King's research data repository, operated for King's by Figshare. The data, the DOIs, the DataCite membership and the curation decisions are King's; the REST API, the OAI-PMH en...
- **King's UK Access Management Federation / eduGAIN Identity Provider** — King's federated identity, and the surface class this pipeline flags as most often missed. The entity is registered in the UK Access Management Federation (uk001282, registered ...
- **King's LibrarySearch (Ex Libris Primo)** — Library discovery for King's, on Ex Libris Primo. GET / returns 200 and redirects to /discovery/search?vid=44KCL_INST:44KCL_INST. Recorded as a tenancy because the catalog and t...
- **KEATS Virtual Learning Environment (Moodle) web services** — King's VLE exposes the standard Moodle machine interfaces on a King's hostname: /webservice/rest/server.php answers 200 with an XML `invalidtoken` fault, /lib/ajax/service.php a...

## Security (2)

- **Kings College London Authentication** — http/openIdConnect/saml/none · 5 schemes
- **Kings College London Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

## Plans (1)

- **Kings College London Plans Pricing**

## Tags

University, Higher Education, Education, Russell Group, United Kingdom, London, Research, Research Computing, Artificial Intelligence, Institutional Repository, Identity Federation, OAI-PMH, Library

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