# Merlin Labs

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/merlin-labs/  
**Website:** https://merlinlabs.com/  
**APIs profiled:** 0

Merlin (Merlin Labs, Inc., NASDAQ: MRLN) is a Boston-headquartered aerospace and defense company founded in 2018 that builds takeoff-to-touchdown flight autonomy for legacy and next-generation aircraft. Its product is the Merlin Pilot, an aircraft-agnostic, AI-powered autonomy stack that pairs machine-learning mission planning with deterministic, hardcoded fallback flight systems, and that has flown hundreds of autonomous flights from test facilities in Kerikeri (New Zealand), Quonset Point (Rhode Island) and Bedford/Hanscom (Massachusetts). Merlin is a prime contractor to USSOCOM for C-130J autonomy, works with the U.S. Air Force on KC-135 tanker autonomy, and collaborates with Northrop Grumman, Honeywell, GE Aerospace and Israel Aerospace Industries. The company holds a New Zealand Part 146 aircraft design organization designation and reached Stage of Involvement 3 (SOI 3) with the Civil Aviation Authority of New Zealand in August 2026. Merlin became publicly traded in March 2026 through a business combination with Inflection Point Acquisition Corp IV. Merlin sells embedded flight-autonomy software to aircraft OEMs, primes and government programs; it publishes no public developer program, API, SDK or machine-readable contract.

## Kin Score — 11.7 / 100 (emerging)

Scored 2026-09-02 under rubric 0.18.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 11.7).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 57.4 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 2.6 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 7.1 |
| Commercial Clarity | 21.1 |
| Access Clarity | 21.1 |

## Agent readiness — 0.0 (human-only)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | no |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |
| Delegated Identity | no |
| Protected Resource Metadata | no |
| Dynamic Client Registration | no |
| Agentic Commerce | no |

## Access

Unknown — onboarding: unknown, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: low).

## Security (1)

- **Merlin Labs Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

## Plans (1)

- **Merlin Labs Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Company, Aerospace, Aviation, Defense, Autonomy, Artificial Intelligence, Flight Software, Robotics, Public Company

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