Lyft
Lyft is a transportation network company operating ride-hailing, bikeshare, scooter-share and related mobility services across the United States and Canada. Its API surface has two halves that behave very differently. The ride-hailing developer program — the Rides and Concierge APIs on api.lyft.com, used for patient transport, employee transit and customer-service ride booking — is gated: www.lyft.com/developers redirects to a sign-in, access is granted through a Lyft Business relationship, and the old documentation host developer.lyft.com no longer resolves. The micromobility side is wide open: Lyft serves live GBFS feeds for eight bikeshare and scooter systems (Citi Bike, Divvy, Bay Wheels, Bluebikes, Capital Bikeshare, Biketown, and its own DC and Denver fleets) anonymously from gbfs.lyft.com, alongside a public RFC 8414 OAuth metadata document that publishes the platform's full 47-scope vocabulary.
Lyft publishes 8 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network, including Concierge Rides API, Cost Estimates API, Drivers API, and 5 more. Tagged areas include Transportation, Mobility, Ride Hailing, Micromobility, and Bike Share.
The Lyft catalog on APIs.io includes 1 event-driven AsyncAPI specification, 1 JSON-LD context, and 1 Spectral governance ruleset.
Lyft’s developer surface includes authentication, engineering blog, documentation, getting-started guide, support, signup flow, and 32 more developer resources.
What this lets a business do 1
Business capabilities this provider's published APIs can perform, derived from its own contracts. Browse all capabilities →
Kin Score
Markets this provider is in provisional
The Kin Score Market layer reads a provider inside its market: its position, and how deep its integrations go. Depth is only comparable within a position. Provisional and unweighted: not part of the Kin Score or agent readiness.
| Market | Position | Depth | Registered MCP server | Declares compatibility |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Transit and Mobility (public transit, rail, micromobility) | standard | 17.2 (thin) | - | 1 |
Registered MCP server and declares compatibility are report only — not weighted. Undeclared means we found nothing we can read, so there is no number: we never infer integrations.
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.
APIs 8
Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.
lyft Concierge Rides API
Endpoints for creating, scheduling, tracking, and managing rides on behalf of passengers who may not have a Lyft account.
lyft Cost Estimates API
Endpoints for estimating ride costs for concierge bookings.
lyft Drivers API
Endpoints for checking the availability and proximity of nearby Lyft drivers.
lyft ETA API
Endpoints for estimating the time for the nearest driver to reach a specified pickup location.
lyft Profile API
Endpoints for retrieving profile information for the authenticated Lyft user.
lyft Ride Types API
Endpoints for retrieving available ride types for concierge bookings.
lyft Rides API
Endpoints for requesting, tracking, canceling, and managing Lyft rides on behalf of an authenticated user.
Lyft Micromobility GBFS Feeds
Live General Bikeshare Feed Specification (GBFS) feeds for the eight bikeshare and scooter systems Lyft operates — Citi Bike, Divvy, Bay Wheels, Bluebikes, Capital Bikeshare, Bi...
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Open Collections 10
Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).
API Collection
OPEN COLLECTIONLyft Concierge Concierge Rides API
OPEN COLLECTIONLyft Concierge API
OPEN COLLECTIONLyft Concierge Concierge Rides Cost Estimates API
OPEN COLLECTIONLyft Concierge Concierge Rides Drivers API
OPEN COLLECTIONLyft Concierge Concierge Rides ETA API
OPEN COLLECTIONLyft Concierge Concierge Rides Profile API
OPEN COLLECTIONLyft Ride-Sharing API
OPEN COLLECTIONLyft Concierge Concierge Rides Ride Types API
OPEN COLLECTIONLyft Concierge Concierge Rides API
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Pricing Plans 1
Published pricing tiers and plan structures.
Lyft Plans Pricing
PLANSRate Limits 1
Documented rate limits and quota policies.
Lyft Rate Limits
RATE LIMITSFinOps 1
Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.
Lyft Finops
FINOPSEvent Specifications 1
AsyncAPI definitions for this provider's event-driven and streaming APIs.
Lyft Webhooks
ASYNCAPISemantic Vocabularies 1
JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.
Lyft Context
JSON-LDSpectral Rules 1
Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.
Lyft — jsonschema rules
SPECTRALOpenAPI Overlays 7
Overlays applied on top of this provider's contracts. Each card says who wrote it: a document the provider publishes, or one API Evangelist derived or generated.
Lyft Concierge Rides Api Overlay
GENERATEDLyft Cost Estimates Api Overlay
GENERATEDLyft Drivers Api Overlay
GENERATEDLyft Eta Api Overlay
GENERATEDLyft Profile Api Overlay
GENERATEDLyft Ride Types Api Overlay
GENERATEDLyft Rides Api Overlay
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JSON Schema 3
Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.
Security Posture 3
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.
Scopes 1
OAuth scopes governing access to this provider's APIs.
Agentic Access 1
Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.
Resources
Get Started 3
Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call
Documentation 4
Reference material describing how the API behaves
Agent Surfaces 5
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Design & Contract 7
Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events
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Build 3
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
Access & Security 5
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Operate 2
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Commercial 4
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 3
The organization behind the API
Other 2
Properties that don't map to a standard resource type
Source (apis.yml)
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