# Lens

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/lens/  
**Website:** https://www.lens.org/  
**APIs profiled:** 2

Lens is an open knowledge platform from Cambia that aggregates global scholarly works and patent records and exposes them through a REST API. The versioned API supports rich Elasticsearch-style queries, cursor pagination, and field projection across the full Lens scholarly and patent corpora, enabling research, science policy, technology landscape, and patent intelligence applications.

## Kin Score — 35.4 / 100 (thin)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 35.4).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 68.5 |
| Contract Quality | 56.6 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 10.5 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 21.4 |
| Commercial Clarity | 36.8 |
| Access Clarity | 36.8 |

Regulatory layer — **Education & Research**: 37.0 (matched via tags).

## 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 (2)

- **Lens Patents API** — Search and retrieve global patent records.
- **Lens Scholarly API** — Search and retrieve scholarly works.

## Agentic access (1)

- **Lens Agentic Access** — 6 operations · 2 acting

## Security (2)

- **Lens Authentication** — http · 1 scheme
- **Lens Domain Security** — TLSv1.2 · HSTS · DMARC

## Plans (1)

- **Lens Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Scholarly, Patents, Research, Science, Open Data

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