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MasterControl

MasterControl is a Salt Lake City based software company that builds cloud quality management (QMS) and manufacturing execution (MES) software for regulated industries, primarily life sciences — pharmaceutical, biotechnology, medical device, CRO/CDMO, and food and beverage manufacturers. Its platform spans document control, training, CAPA, change control, audit, supplier quality, electronic batch records, and production records, and is built to support FDA 21 CFR Part 11, EU MDR, GDPR and HIPAA obligations. MasterControl exposes RESTful APIs for its Qx (Quality Excellence) and Mx (Manufacturing Excellence) products through a separately licensed API Toolkit, used to integrate the quality system with ERP, CRM, MES, PDM and document repositories; the API reference is published as a Swagger UI inside each customer tenant rather than on a public developer portal.

MasterControl is listed with 1 API on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Quality Management, Manufacturing, Life Sciences, and Compliance.

MasterControl’s developer surface includes documentation, support, engineering blog, pricing, and 16 more developer resources.

27.5/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 5/100 agent aware Front door AI 3/6 light saas Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0 · Show this score on your site →
AccessEnterprise
1 API
CompanyQuality ManagementManufacturingLife SciencesComplianceDocument ManagementRegulatoryEnterprise Software

Kin Score

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scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0
Regulatory Posture applies to this provider. Its tags matched the Health 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
  • MCP Server +12 pts — deployment.mode + probe verdict on the mcp/ manifest, not the pointer; an unprobed slug falls back to authorship
  • Agentic Access Contract +10 pts — agentic_access artifact present (x-agentic-access), graded by author
  • Machine-Readable Auth +10 pts — a served openid-configuration/oauth-authorization-server carrying `issuer` (served), else the securitySchemes class in the provider OpenAPIs — bound (mutualTLS, DPoP, Signature) > negotiable (oauth2 authorizationCode/clientCredentials, openIdConnect) > bearer (http bearer, apiKey)
  • 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
11 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.
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APIs 1

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

MasterControl Mx RESTful API

The MasterControl Manufacturing Excellence (Mx) RESTful API creates, modifies, retrieves and deletes manufacturing and production-record data in Mx. It is delivered through the ...

MasterControl API pricing

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Mastercontrol Rate Limits

0 limits

RATE LIMITS

Security Posture 2

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

Mastercontrol Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC

SECURITY

Mastercontrol Trust Center

ISO 9001, ISO 27001, ISO 27017, ISO 27701, ISO 42001

SECURITY

Resources

Get Started 1

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Design & Contract 2

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Access & Security 4

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Operate 3

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Company 3

The organization behind the API

Other 3

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑
aid: mastercontrol
name: MasterControl
description: MasterControl is a Salt Lake City based software company that builds cloud quality management (QMS) and manufacturing
  execution (MES) software for regulated industries, primarily life sciences — pharmaceutical, biotechnology, medical device,
  CRO/CDMO, and food and beverage manufacturers. Its platform spans document control, training, CAPA, change control, audit,
  supplier quality, electronic batch records, and production records, and is built to support FDA 21 CFR Part 11, EU MDR,
  GDPR and HIPAA obligations. MasterControl exposes RESTful APIs for its Qx (Quality Excellence) and Mx (Manufacturing Excellence)
  products through a separately licensed API Toolkit, used to integrate the quality system with ERP, CRM, MES, PDM and document
  repositories; the API reference is published as a Swagger UI inside each customer tenant rather than on a public developer
  portal.
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: enterprise
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Enterprise
  confidence: low
  probe_state: gated
  source:
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-06'
  method: derived
image: https://static.mastercontrol.com/assets/persist/images/home/MasterControl_Thumbnail.jpg
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/mastercontrol/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: harvest:secondary-market
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-08-04'
modified: '2026-08-04'
tags:
- Company
- Quality Management
- Manufacturing
- Life Sciences
- Compliance
- Document Management
- Regulatory
- Enterprise Software
tags_raw:
- Company
- Quality Management
- Manufacturing
- Life Sciences
- Compliance
- Document Management
- Regulatory
- Enterprise Software
- Document-Management
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: StatusPage
  url: https://status.mastercontrol.com/support
- type: TrustCenter
  url: security/mastercontrol-trust-center.yml
- type: Deprecation
  url: lifecycle/mastercontrol-lifecycle.yml
- type: Hosts
  url: hosts/mastercontrol-hosts.yml
- type: Vendors
  url: vendors/mastercontrol-vendors.yml
- type: Newsroom
  url: https://www.mastercontrol.com/news/
- type: Leadership
  url: https://www.mastercontrol.com/company/team/
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/mastercontrol-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.mastercontrol.com/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://www.mastercontrol.com/solutions/toolkit/
- type: Support
  url: https://support.mastercontrol.com/support?id=customer_login
- type: Login
  url: https://support.mastercontrol.com/support?id=customer_login
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.mastercontrol.com/insights/
- type: Pricing
  url: https://www.mastercontrol.com/pricing/
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.mastercontrol.com/privacy/
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.mastercontrol.com/legal/terms/
- type: TrustCenter
  url: https://www.mastercontrol.com/ai-trust-center/
- type: Compliance
  url: https://www.mastercontrol.com/ai-trust-center/
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/mastercontrol-conformance.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/mastercontrol-lifecycle.yml
apis:
- aid: mastercontrol:mx-restful-api
  name: MasterControl Mx RESTful API
  description: The MasterControl Manufacturing Excellence (Mx) RESTful API creates, modifies, retrieves and deletes manufacturing
    and production-record data in Mx. It is delivered through the separately licensed MasterControl API Toolkit, and its reference
    is served as a Swagger UI from the customer's own tenant path on the regional Mx service host rather than from a public
    developer portal.
  humanURL: https://www.mastercontrol.com/solutions/toolkit/
  baseURL: https://mx.us-west-2.svc.mastercontrol.com
  tags:
  - Manufacturing
  - Quality Management
  - Life Sciences
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.mastercontrol.com/solutions/toolkit/
  x-access: tenant-scoped; requires an active MasterControl tenant plus a separately purchased API license. Swagger UI is
    published per tenant at https://mx.<region>.svc.mastercontrol.com/<company>/swagger-ui/index.html
  x-evidence:
    fetched: '2026-08-04'
    host_probe: https://mx.us-west-2.svc.mastercontrol.com/
    http_status: 404
    note: host resolves and answers, but no anonymous spec or swagger-ui exists at the host root
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-10-20'
  status: minimal
  artifacts_added: 3
  pass: local-v5
x-coverage:
  state: gated
  reason: customer-only-docs
  detail: MasterControl's Qx/Mx REST reference is a Swagger UI served per customer tenant on mx.<region>.svc.mastercontrol.com
    behind a separately licensed API Toolkit, and the public toolkit page carries no contract, pricing or limits.
  evidence:
  - url: https://mx.us-west-2.svc.mastercontrol.com/
    status: 404
  - url: https://www.mastercontrol.com/solutions/toolkit/
    status: 200
  - url: https://support.mastercontrol.com/api/mcp
    status: 401
  checked: '2026-10-20'

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Does MasterControl have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 1 API from MasterControl, including MasterControl Mx RESTful API.

Is the MasterControl API ready for AI agents?

MasterControl has a Kin Score of 27.5 out of 100 (thin) and an Agent Readiness score of 5.4 (agent-aware), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.

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