# Kitex

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/kitex/  
**Website:** https://www.cloudwego.io/  
**APIs profiled:** 1

Kitex is a high-performance, extensible RPC framework for building microservices in Go, developed by ByteDance. It supports Thrift and Protocol Buffers serialization, provides built-in service governance features including service discovery, load balancing, circuit breaking, and retry policies, and is optimized for high throughput and low latency.

## Kin Score — 20.6 / 100 (emerging)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 20.6).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 59.3 |
| Contract Quality | 8.5 |
| Governance | 9.8 |
| Contract Governance | 9.8 |
| Operational Transparency | 26.3 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 23.8 |
| Commercial Clarity | 15.8 |
| Access Clarity | 15.8 |

## Agent readiness — 3.0 (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 |

## Access

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

## APIs (1)

- **Kitex** — Kitex is a high-performance, extensible RPC framework for building microservices in Go, developed by ByteDance. It supports Thrift and Protocol Buffers serialization, provides b...

## Security (1)

- **Kitex Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · DMARC

## Plans (1)

- **Kitex Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Frameworks, Go, High Performance, Microservices, Protocol Buffers, RPC, Thrift

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