# Looker

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/looker/  
**Website:** https://developers.looker.com/  
**APIs profiled:** 10

Looker is a business intelligence and data analytics platform that enables organizations to explore, analyze, and share real-time business analytics.

## Kin Score — 41.3 / 100 (developing)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 41.3).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 64.8 |
| Contract Quality | 67.0 |
| Governance | 9.8 |
| Contract Governance | 9.8 |
| Operational Transparency | 34.2 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 35.7 |
| Commercial Clarity | 26.3 |
| Access Clarity | 26.3 |

## Agent readiness — 35.9 (agent-ready)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | verified |
| 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 (10)

- **LookML API** — API for programmatically managing LookML projects, models, and views.
- **Looker Action API** — The Looker Action API enables developers to define custom actions, or destinations, to which Looker can send query results, dashboard results, or user interactions via a webhook...
- **Looker Embed SDK** — The Looker Embed SDK is a JavaScript library for embedding Looker content such as dashboards, Looks, Explores, reports, and extensions into web applications, with support for si...
- **Looker Extension Framework API** — The Looker Extension Framework provides APIs and SDKs for building custom extensions that run inside the Looker UI, with access to the Looker API, Looker components library, and...
- **Looker (Google Cloud core) API** — The Looker (Google Cloud core) REST API provides management capabilities for Looker instances running on Google Cloud, including instance lifecycle management, backups, and oper...
- **Looker Auth API** — Authentication endpoints for obtaining and managing API access tokens using client credentials.
- **Looker Dashboard API** — Manage dashboards, which are collections of tiles displaying visualizations from queries. Dashboards support filters, layouts, and can be shared across the organization.
- **Looker Look API** — Manage Looks, which are saved queries with visualizations. A Look contains a query definition and visualization configuration that can be shared, scheduled, and embedded.
- **Looker Query API** — Create and run queries against your Looker models. Queries define the fields, filters, sorts, and limits used to retrieve data from the underlying database through LookML models.
- **Looker User API** — Manage Looker users including creating, updating, and retrieving user accounts, credentials, roles, and sessions.

## Agentic access (1)

- **Looker Agentic Access** — 29 operations · 13 acting

## Security (2)

- **Looker Authentication** — http · 1 scheme
- **Looker Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

## Plans (1)

- **Looker Plans Pricing**

## Use cases (5)

- **Executive Dashboards** — Build real-time executive dashboards aggregating KPIs from multiple data sources for leadership visibility.
- **Customer-Facing Analytics** — Embed analytics into SaaS products to provide customers with self-service reporting and data exploration.
- **Data Governance Reporting** — Monitor data quality, usage patterns, and access controls across the organization through audit reports.
- **Marketing Performance Analytics** — Analyze campaign performance, attribution, and ROI across marketing channels with unified data models.
- **Operational Monitoring** — Track operational metrics and KPIs in real time with automated alerting and scheduled report delivery.

## Tags

Analytics, BI Platform, Business Intelligence, Data Analytics, Data Visualization

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