Metropolis Technologies

Metropolis Technologies is an AI-powered recognition platform that uses computer vision to make real-world physical spaces responsive, best known as the largest U.S. parking operator with checkout-free parking across 4,200+ North American locations. Founded in 2017, the company powers what it calls the "Recognition Economy" — vehicles are recognized on entry and exit so members pay automatically without tickets, gates, or lines. Metropolis scaled through the acquisitions of Premier Parking (2022) and SP Plus Corporation (2024), raised $1.6 billion in financing in 2025, and was named a TIME100 Most Influential Company of 2026. It is backed by Dragoneer. No public developer API, OpenAPI specification, or SDK surface has been identified; this profile captures the company's public identity and security/compliance posture.

Metropolis Technologies is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision, Parking, and Payments.

Metropolis Technologies’ developer surface includes pricing, support, engineering blog, and 8 more developer resources.

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20.4/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only Front door AI 3/6 light Heartbeat 43/100 going silent saas Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0 · Show this score on your site →

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Company Artificial Intelligence Computer Vision Parking Payments Mobility Recognition

Kin Score

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scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0

Composite quality — 20.4/100 · emerging

Contract Quality 0.0 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 1.2 / 17

Access Clarity 12.5 / 17

Operational Transparency 0.0 / 11

Contract Governance 0.0 / 10

Discoverability 4.1 / 9

Regulatory Posture 2.4 / 15

Agent readiness — 0/100 · human only

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 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 Payments 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.

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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

13 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
Developer Ergonomics scores 7.1 — up to +18.6 composite points
Operational Transparency scores 0.0 — up to +13.0 composite points

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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
ONVIF Video Analytics (video surveillance, edge cameras, computer vision)	undeclared	-	-	-

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.

Metropolis Technologies API pricing

Prices published by Metropolis Technologies, read 2026-10-07 from www.metropolis.io/pricing.

Plan	Price
Scan	Starting at $0 space/month Includes: Ideal for surface lots; No equipment required; Pay via QR code; Financial reporting; Orion computer
Vision	Starting at $15 space/month Includes: Best for garages; Drive-in, drive-out; Seamless payment; Analytics portal; Orion computer vision; Ga
Vision+	Custom Pricing Includes: Custom solutions; Nested zones; Orion computer vision; Custom analytics; Gate access control; Door a
The M1 Program	By invite only Includes: Everything in the Vision+ plan, plus multi-building management, customized dashboards, priority oper

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Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Metropolis Technologies Plans Pricing

4 plans

PLANS

Security Posture 2

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

Metropolis Technologies Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Metropolis Technologies Trust Center

SOC 2, PCI DSS

SECURITY

Resources

Access & Security 3

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

TrustCenter

TrustCenter

Compliance

Compliance

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support

Support

Commercial 4

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Pricing

Plans

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

Company 3

The organization behind the API

BlogRSS

BlogRSS

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

Source (apis.yml)

aid: metropolis-technologies
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: freemium
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Freemium
  confidence: low
  source:
  - plans
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-06'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/metropolis-technologies.png
name: Metropolis Technologies
description: Metropolis Technologies is an AI-powered recognition platform that uses computer vision to make real-world physical
  spaces responsive, best known as the largest U.S. parking operator with checkout-free parking across 4,200+ North American
  locations. Founded in 2017, the company powers what it calls the "Recognition Economy" — vehicles are recognized on entry
  and exit so members pay automatically without tickets, gates, or lines. Metropolis scaled through the acquisitions of Premier
  Parking (2022) and SP Plus Corporation (2024), raised $1.6 billion in financing in 2025, and was named a TIME100 Most Influential
  Company of 2026. It is backed by Dragoneer. No public developer API, OpenAPI specification, or SDK surface has been identified;
  this profile captures the company's public identity and security/compliance posture.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/metropolis-technologies/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- dragoneer
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-10-06'
tags:
- Company
- Artificial Intelligence
- Computer Vision
- Parking
- Payments
- Mobility
- Recognition
tags_raw:
- Company
- Artificial Intelligence
- Computer Vision
- Parking
- Payments
- Mobility
- Recognition
- Computer-Vision
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: Pricing
  url: https://www.metropolis.io/pricing
- type: Plans
  url: plans/metropolis-technologies-plans-pricing.yml
- url: https://www.metropolis.io/blog?format=rss
  type: BlogRSS
- type: Website
  url: https://www.metropolis.io
- type: Support
  url: https://www.metropolis.io/help
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.metropolis.io/blog
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.metropolis.io/terms
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.metropolis.io/privacy
- type: TrustCenter
  url: security/metropolis-technologies-trust-center.yml
- type: Compliance
  url: https://trust.metropolis.io/
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/metropolis-technologies-domain-security.yml
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-20'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 2
  pass: local-v1

Metropolis Technologies API — frequently asked questions

How much does the Metropolis Technologies API cost?

Metropolis Technologies publishes its prices; its Scan plan is Starting at $0 space/month as of 2026-10-07. APIs.io lists 4 pricing plans for Metropolis Technologies, with each plan's price, limits and inclusions under Pricing on this page.

Is the Metropolis Technologies API ready for AI agents?

Metropolis Technologies has a Kin Score of 20.4 out of 100 (emerging) and an Agent Readiness score of 0.0 (human-only), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.

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