Lightbend

Lightbend, Inc. (dba Akka) is the company behind the Akka agentic systems platform. Founded as Typesafe by the creators of the Scala language and the Akka actor toolkit, the company built the JVM reactive stack — Akka actors, Akka Streams, Akka HTTP, Akka gRPC, Akka Cluster and Play Framework — before pivoting to a full-stack platform for production agentic AI and rebranding to Akka. The current product line covers the Akka SDK (agents, orchestration, memory, streaming, HTTP/gRPC/MCP endpoints), Akka Automated Operations for multi-region deployment and operations, an in-runtime governance and policy-enforcement engine aligned to the EU AI Act, and Akka Specify, a delivered spec-driven path onto the same platform. lightbend.com now redirects to akka.io; the JVM library API surface is catalogued separately in the api-evangelist akka repository.

Lightbend is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, AI Infrastructure, AI Agents, Actor Model, and Distributed Systems.

Lightbend’s developer surface includes documentation, API reference, getting-started guide, support, engineering blog, signup flow, changelog, and 27 more developer resources.

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43.3/100 developing ▬ flat Agent 6/100 agent aware saas Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0 · Show this score on your site →

0 APIs 1 MCP Servers

Company AI Infrastructure AI AgentsActor ModelDistributed Systems Reactive Java Scala Orchestration AI Governance

Kin Score

Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0

Composite quality — 43.3/100 · developing

Contract Quality 0.0 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 13.4 / 17

Access Clarity 8.5 / 17

Operational Transparency 5.8 / 11

Contract Governance 1.9 / 10

Discoverability 4.7 / 9

Regulatory Posture 5.3 / 15

Agent readiness — 6/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 12 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

Pagination 5 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

MCP Tool Quality 6 / 6

Regulatory Posture applies to this provider. Its tags matched the Horizontal (data, software, accessibility, platform) regime, so Regulatory Posture carries 15 points of the composite. If this regime is wrong for your business, say so on your provider repo — the applicability map is public and we will correct it.

Create-or-Update Ergonomics could not be measured. We hold no machine-readable contract for this provider to read, so there is nothing to measure a write surface against. Excluded rather than scored zero: never-measured and measured-empty are different facts. Publishing an OpenAPI is what makes this facet — and several others — scorable at all.

The six quality facets above are damped to 85 points between them, because the conditional facet above carries the other 15. That is why each facet's contribution is shown against a damped maximum: raising a quality facet moves the composite by 85% of its nominal weight, not 100%. The full arithmetic is at apis.io/rating/.

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Agent readiness — checks not met, largest first (exact, from this profile):

Machine-Readable Contract +18 pts — api_specs includes an OpenAPI document
Agentic Access Contract +10 pts — agentic_access artifact present (x-agentic-access), graded by author
Idempotency +9 pts — OpenAPI mutating operations declare an idempotency key — a header, a request-body property, or a named de-duplication token whose own description says so (verified); else common[].type matches /idempoten/i (documented)
Stable Error Semantics +8 pts — OpenAPI $refs a shared error schema across 4xx/5xx responses (verified), else common[].type includes ErrorCatalog / ErrorCodes / DeclineCodes
A2A Agent Card +8 pts — a2a/-a2a.yml manifest, graded on conformance.grade against A2A 1.0.0
Rate-Limit Signaling +7 pts — OpenAPI responses document X-RateLimit-* / RateLimit headers (verified), else a rate_limits artifact or RateLimits link (documented)

11 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

Kin Score — facets with the most composite points still available (weight × headroom):

Contract Quality scores 0.0 — up to +25.0 composite points
Access Clarity scores 50.0 — up to +10.0 composite points
Contract Governance scores 18.2 — up to +9.8 composite points

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Standards implemented 1

Standards this provider implements or carries. De facto ones are profiled and measured by the API Commons; formal ones come from the standards directory and are linked by the provider's own tags. The evidence column says how each claim was established — not that it was made.

Model Context Protocol (MCP)

measured — observed by APIs.io (documented)

MCP Servers 1

Model Context Protocol servers that expose these APIs to AI agents.

Lightbend MCP Server

Local (stdio) MCP server.

MCP SERVER

Security Posture 4

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Lightbend Authentication

interactive-login/token/jwt/mtls/acl · 0 schemes

SECURITY

Lightbend Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Lightbend Vulnerability Disclosure

Hackerone · security.txt · contact published

SECURITY

Lightbend Trust Center

SOC 2 Type II, SOC 3 (SOC 2 Type III), ISO/IEC 27001, ISO/IEC 27002, ISO/IEC 27018, ISO/IEC 22301, ISO/IEC 42001, ISO/IEC 42005, ISO/IEC 23894, ISO/IEC 24028, CSA STAR, PCI DSS,...

SECURITY

Resources

Get Started 5

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

DeveloperPortal

DeveloperPortal

GettingStarted

GettingStarted

SignUp

SignUp

Login

Sandbox

Sandbox

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

APIReference

APIReference

Agent Surfaces 3

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

LLMsTxt

LLMsTxt

MCPServer

MCPServer

WellKnown

WellKnown

Design & Contract 3

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Conventions

Conventions

Conformance

Conformance

Lifecycle

Lifecycle

Build 4

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization

CLI

Packages

SDKs

Access & Security 6

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

TrustCenter

Compliance

Security

Authentication

DomainSecurity

VulnerabilityDisclosure

VulnerabilityDisclosure

Operate 6

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support

Community

StatusPage

ChangeLog

Deprecation

ChangeLog

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

TermsOfService

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

Company 3

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

BlogRSS

BlogRSS

Source (apis.yml)

aid: lightbend
name: Lightbend
type: Index
description: Lightbend, Inc. (dba Akka) is the company behind the Akka agentic systems platform. Founded as Typesafe by the
  creators of the Scala language and the Akka actor toolkit, the company built the JVM reactive stack — Akka actors, Akka
  Streams, Akka HTTP, Akka gRPC, Akka Cluster and Play Framework — before pivoting to a full-stack platform for production
  agentic AI and rebranding to Akka. The current product line covers the Akka SDK (agents, orchestration, memory, streaming,
  HTTP/gRPC/MCP endpoints), Akka Automated Operations for multi-region deployment and operations, an in-runtime governance
  and policy-enforcement engine aligned to the EU AI Act, and Akka Specify, a delivered spec-driven path onto the same platform.
  lightbend.com now redirects to akka.io; the JVM library API surface is catalogued separately in the api-evangelist akka
  repository.
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: false
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source:
  - authentication
  - security
  - sandbox
  generated: '2026-11-06'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/lightbend.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/lightbend/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-19'
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- bain-capital-ventures
x-legal-name: Lightbend, Inc. dba Akka
x-dba: Akka
x-rebranded-to: akka
x-see-also: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/akka/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
- Company
- AI Infrastructure
- AI Agents
- Actor Model
- Distributed Systems
- Reactive
- Java
- Scala
- Orchestration
- AI Governance
tags_raw:
- Company
- Ai Infrastructure
- Agentic Ai
- Actor Model
- Distributed Systems
- Reactive
- Java
- Scala
- Orchestration
- Ai Governance
- Agentic AI
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://akka.io/
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://doc.akka.io/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://doc.akka.io/
- type: APIReference
  url: https://doc.akka.io/reference/cli/akka-cli/index.html
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://doc.akka.io/getting-started/index.html
- type: Support
  url: https://support.akka.io/portal/en/home
- type: Community
  url: https://discuss.akka.io/
- type: Blog
  url: https://akka.io/blog
- type: BlogRSS
  url: https://akka.io/blog/rss.xml
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/akka
- type: SignUp
  url: https://console.akka.io/login
- type: Login
  url: https://console.akka.io/login
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://akka.io/legal/terms-of-use
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://akka.io/legal/privacy
- type: StatusPage
  url: https://status.akka.io/
- type: ChangeLog
  url: https://doc.akka.io/reference/release-notes.html
- type: TrustCenter
  url: https://trust.akka.io/
- type: Compliance
  url: https://trust.akka.io/
- type: Security
  url: https://doc.akka.io/reference/security-announcements/
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/lightbend-llms.txt
- type: MCPServer
  url: mcp/lightbend-mcp.yml
- type: CLI
  url: cli/lightbend-cli.yml
- type: Packages
  url: packages/lightbend-packages.yml
- type: SDKs
  url: packages/lightbend-packages.yml
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/lightbend-well-known.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/lightbend-authentication.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/lightbend-conventions.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/lightbend-conformance.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/lightbend-lifecycle.yml
- type: Deprecation
  url: lifecycle/lightbend-lifecycle.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/lightbend-domain-security.yml
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/lightbend-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: Sandbox
  url: sandbox/lightbend-sandbox.yml
- type: ChangeLog
  url: changelog/lightbend-changelog.yml
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: backfilled
  pass: local-v1
  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence

Lightbend API — frequently asked questions

How do I authenticate with the Lightbend API?

Lightbend uses bearer-token authentication (interactive-login/token/jwt/mtls/acl · 0 schemes). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Lightbend Authentication.

Does Lightbend have an MCP server?

Yes. APIs.io lists 1 MCP server for Lightbend: Local (stdio) MCP server.

Is the Lightbend API ready for AI agents?

Lightbend has a Kin Score of 43.3 out of 100 (developing) and an Agent Readiness score of 6.0 (agent-aware), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.

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