# KrakenD

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/krakend/  
**Website:** https://www.krakend.io/  
**APIs profiled:** 5

KrakenD is a stateless, distributed, high-performance open-source API gateway written in Go, focused on API aggregation, transformation, and security with a declarative configuration approach.

## Kin Score — 32.5 / 100 (thin)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 32.5).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 53.7 |
| Contract Quality | 53.1 |
| Governance | 9.8 |
| Contract Governance | 9.8 |
| Operational Transparency | 36.8 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 26.2 |
| Commercial Clarity | 13.2 |
| Access Clarity | 13.2 |

## Agent readiness — 24.6 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | documented |
| 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 (5)

- **KrakenD** — KrakenD Community Edition is an ultra-high performance API gateway that aggregates multiple service calls into a single endpoint, transforming and filtering responses with a dec...
- **KrakenD Async Agent** — The KrakenD Async Agent enables event-driven API consumption by connecting KrakenD to message brokers and event queues such as AMQP, Kafka, and NATS. It allows KrakenD to consum...
- **KrakenD Debug API** — The Debug API from KrakenD — 2 operation(s) for debug.
- **KrakenD Health API** — The Health API from KrakenD — 1 operation(s) for health.
- **KrakenD Metrics API** — The Metrics API from KrakenD — 1 operation(s) for metrics.

## MCP servers (1)

- **MCP Server**

## Agentic access (1)

- **Krakend Agentic Access** — 5 operations · 1 acting

## Security (1)

- **Krakend Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

## Plans (1)

- **Krakend Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Aggregation, API Gateway, Go, Open-Source

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