MinIO

Q: Does MinIO have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 2 APIs from MinIO, including MinIO S3-Compatible API and MinIO Admin API.

Q: How do I authenticate with the MinIO API?

MinIO uses bearer-token authentication (signature-v4/sts/ldap/oidc · 4 schemes). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Minio Authentication.

Q: How much does the MinIO API cost?

MinIO publishes its prices; its Free plan is Free of charge as of 2026-10-28. APIs.io lists 4 pricing plans for MinIO, with each plan's price, limits and inclusions under Pricing on this page.

Q: Does MinIO have an MCP server?

Yes. APIs.io lists 1 MCP server for MinIO: Official Model Context Protocol server for interacting with MinIO / AIStor object stores. Ships as a container image; runs read-only by default and gates write, delete, and admin operations behind exp

Q: Is the MinIO API ready for AI agents?

MinIO has a Kin Score of 57.3 out of 100 (strong) and an Agent Readiness score of 26.1 (agent-aware), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.

MinIO is a high-performance, S3-compatible object storage system built for large-scale AI, analytics, and cloud-native data infrastructure. Its API is a drop-in implementation of the Amazon S3 REST API (bucket and object operations, multipart uploads, versioning, object locking / WORM retention, lifecycle policies, replication, and encryption), authenticated with AWS Signature Version 4 using access-key/secret-key pairs. Alongside the S3 data API, MinIO ships an Admin API (madmin) for cluster, user, policy, and service management. It is distributed as open-source software and as the commercial AIStor product, deployed on Kubernetes via an operator and Helm charts, and driven through first-party SDKs for Go, Python, Java, JavaScript, .NET, C++, and Rust plus the `mc` command-line client.

MinIO is listed with 2 APIs on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Object Storage, Storage, S3 Compatible, Cloud-Native, and Kubernetes.

The MinIO catalog on APIs.io includes 1 event-driven AsyncAPI specification.

MinIO’s developer surface includes engineering blog, documentation, API reference, getting-started guide, pricing, support, signup flow, and 27 more developer resources.

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57.3/100 strong ▬ flat Agent 26/100 agent aware Front door AI 6/6 dominant Heartbeat 100/100 alive saas Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0 · Show this score on your site →

AccessFreemiumSelf serve⚡ Free to try

2 APIs 1 MCP Servers

Object Storage Storage S3 Compatible Cloud-Native Kubernetes Data InfrastructureAI StorageCompany

Kin Score

Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0

Composite quality — 57.3/100 · strong

Contract Quality 8.3 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 12.1 / 17

Access Clarity 13.4 / 17

Operational Transparency 4.1 / 11

Contract Governance 1.9 / 10

Discoverability 6.4 / 9

Regulatory Posture 5.3 / 15

Agent readiness — 26/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 12 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 8 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7

Typed Event Surface 6 / 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 Horizontal (data, software, accessibility, platform) 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):

Agentic Access Contract +10 pts — agentic_access artifact present (x-agentic-access), graded by author
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)
A2A Agent Card +8 pts — a2a/-a2a.yml manifest, graded on conformance.grade against A2A 1.0.0
Rate-Limit Signaling +7 pts — OpenAPI responses document X-RateLimit-* / RateLimit headers (verified), else a rate_limits artifact or RateLimits link (documented)
Request/Response Examples +7 pts — share of operations carrying request/response examples; else an Examples / Code Samples link
Registration Without a Human +6 pts — a `registration_endpoint` in the served RFC 8414 / OIDC discovery document

8 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

Kin Score — facets with the most composite points still available (weight × headroom):

Contract Quality scores 39.0 — up to +15.3 composite points
Contract Governance scores 18.2 — up to +9.8 composite points
Operational Transparency scores 36.8 — up to +8.2 composite points

Each check links to what satisfies it. Publish the artifact, or tell us where it already lives, and the score moves on the next scoring run.

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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
Object Storage	mixed	38.0	-	1
Obsidian Community Plugins (third-party APIs the Obsidian plugin ecosystem integrates)	mixed	38.0	-	1
Jenkins Plugins + CD Foundation Landscape	mixed	38.0	-	1
Red Hat Certified Ecosystem (certified partner containers + certified OpenShift operators)	mixed	38.0	-	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 2

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.

The S3 Interface

vendor matrix — publishes a compatibility table

8 core of 116 operations graded · api-commons/storage

Model Context Protocol (MCP)

measured — observed by APIs.io (documented)

APIs 2

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

MinIO S3-Compatible API

S3-compatible object storage REST API implementing Amazon S3 bucket and object operations (put/get/list/delete objects, multipart uploads, versioning, object locking, lifecycle,...

MinIO Admin API

Administrative API (madmin) for managing MinIO/AIStor clusters: users, groups, canned and IAM policies, service accounts, healing, cluster info, configuration, and service restart.

MCP Servers 1

Model Context Protocol servers that expose these APIs to AI agents.

MinIO MCP Server

Official Model Context Protocol server for interacting with MinIO / AIStor object stores. Ships as a container image; runs read-only by default and gates write, delete, and admi...

MCP SERVER

MinIO API pricing

Prices published by MinIO, read 2026-10-28 from www.min.io/pricing. A free plan or tier is listed.

Plan	Price
Free	Free of charge Includes: Single-node deployment architecture; self-service community Slack and documentation support
Enterprise Lite	Request enterprise Lite Pricing Includes: Full-featured multi-node architecture, Lite SUBNET subscription, capacity below 400 TiB; 60-day free
Enterprise	Request enterprise Pricing Includes: Full-featured multi-node, Enterprise SUBNET, 24/7/365 support with <4 hour SLA; 60-day free trial
MinIO MemKV	Request MemKV Pricing Includes: Separate subscription priced based on inference infrastructure

Plan details, limits and sources →

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Minio Plans Pricing

4 plans

PLANS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Minio Finops

FINOPS

Event Specifications 1

AsyncAPI definitions for this provider's event-driven and streaming APIs.

Minio Bucket Notifications Webhooks

ASYNCAPI

Security Posture 4

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

Minio Authentication

signature-v4/sts/ldap/oidc · 4 schemes

SECURITY

Minio Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · DNSSEC · DMARC

SECURITY

Minio Vulnerability Disclosure

contact published

SECURITY

Minio Trust Center

ISO 27001

SECURITY

Resources

Get Started 4

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

DeveloperPortal

GettingStarted

SignUp

Sandbox

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

APIReference

APIReference

Agent Surfaces 3

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

MCPServer

MCPServer

LLMsTxt

LLMsTxt

WellKnown

WellKnown

Design & Contract 5

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Conventions

Conformance

ErrorCatalog

Lifecycle

Webhooks

Build 4

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization

Packages

SDKs

CLI

Access & Security 7

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

TrustCenter

TrustCenter

Authentication

Authentication

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

VulnerabilityDisclosure

VulnerabilityDisclosure

Security

Security

TrustCenter

TrustCenter

Compliance

Compliance

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Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support

Support

ChangeLog

ChangeLog

Commercial 4

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Plans

Pricing

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

Company 3

The organization behind the API

Blog

Blog

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

Source (apis.yml)

aid: minio
name: MinIO
description: MinIO is a high-performance, S3-compatible object storage system built for large-scale AI, analytics, and cloud-native
  data infrastructure. Its API is a drop-in implementation of the Amazon S3 REST API (bucket and object operations, multipart
  uploads, versioning, object locking / WORM retention, lifecycle policies, replication, and encryption), authenticated with
  AWS Signature Version 4 using access-key/secret-key pairs. Alongside the S3 data API, MinIO ships an Admin API (madmin)
  for cluster, user, policy, and service management. It is distributed as open-source software and as the commercial AIStor
  product, deployed on Kubernetes via an operator and Helm charts, and driven through first-party SDKs for Go, Python, Java,
  JavaScript, .NET, C++, and Rust plus the `mc` command-line client.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/minio/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
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: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: true
  public: false
  gated: none
  gated_source:
  - onboarding
  label: Freemium · Self-serve signup
  confidence: high
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  - security
  - sandbox
  generated: '2026-11-06'
  method: derived
image: https://github.com/minio.png
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
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- general-catalyst
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x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-10-06'
tags:
- Object Storage
- Storage
- S3 Compatible
- Cloud-Native
- Kubernetes
- Data Infrastructure
- AI Storage
- Company
tags_raw:
- Object Storage
- Storage
- S3 Compatible
- Cloud Native
- Kubernetes
- Data Infrastructure
- AI Storage
- Company
apis:
- name: MinIO S3-Compatible API
  description: S3-compatible object storage REST API implementing Amazon S3 bucket and object operations (put/get/list/delete
    objects, multipart uploads, versioning, object locking, lifecycle, replication), authenticated with AWS Signature Version
    4.
  humanURL: https://min.io/product/s3-compatibility
  baseURL: https://play.min.io
  tags:
  - Object Storage
  - S3 Compatible
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://min.io/docs
- name: MinIO Admin API
  description: 'Administrative API (madmin) for managing MinIO/AIStor clusters: users, groups, canned and IAM policies, service
    accounts, healing, cluster info, configuration, and service restart.'
  humanURL: https://github.com/minio/madmin-go
  baseURL: https://play.min.io
  tags:
  - Administration
  - Object Storage
common:
- type: Plans
  url: plans/minio-plans-pricing.yml
- url: https://www.min.io/blog
  type: Blog
- type: Website
  url: https://www.min.io/
- type: TrustCenter
  url: security/minio-trust-center.yml
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://min.io/docs
- type: Documentation
  url: https://min.io/docs
- type: APIReference
  url: https://min.io/product/s3-compatibility
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://min.io/docs/minio/linux/index.html
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/minio
- type: Blog
  url: https://blog.min.io
- type: Pricing
  url: https://min.io/pricing
- type: Support
  url: https://subnet.min.io
- type: SignUp
  url: https://subnet.min.io/login
- type: Packages
  url: packages/minio-packages.yml
- type: SDKs
  url: packages/minio-packages.yml
- type: CLI
  url: cli/minio-cli.yml
- type: MCPServer
  url: mcp/minio-mcp.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/minio-llms.txt
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/minio-well-known.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/minio-authentication.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/minio-conventions.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/minio-conformance.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/minio-error-codes.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/minio-lifecycle.yml
- type: ChangeLog
  url: changelog/minio-changelog.yml
- type: Sandbox
  url: sandbox/minio-sandbox.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/minio-domain-security.yml
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/minio-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: Security
  url: security/minio-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: TrustCenter
  url: security/minio-trust-center.yml
- type: Compliance
  url: https://trust.min.io/
- type: Webhooks
  url: asyncapi/minio-bucket-notifications-webhooks.yml
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.min.io/legal/aistor-free-agreement
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.min.io/legal/privacy-policy
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-20'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 15
  pass: local-v1

MinIO API — frequently asked questions

Does MinIO have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 2 APIs from MinIO, including MinIO S3-Compatible API and MinIO Admin API.

How do I authenticate with the MinIO API?

MinIO uses bearer-token authentication (signature-v4/sts/ldap/oidc · 4 schemes). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Minio Authentication.

How much does the MinIO API cost?

MinIO publishes its prices; its Free plan is Free of charge as of 2026-10-28. APIs.io lists 4 pricing plans for MinIO, with each plan's price, limits and inclusions under Pricing on this page.

Does MinIO have an MCP server?

Yes. APIs.io lists 1 MCP server for MinIO: Official Model Context Protocol server for interacting with MinIO / AIStor object stores. Ships as a container image; runs read-only by default and gates write, delete, and admin operations behind exp

Is the MinIO API ready for AI agents?

MinIO has a Kin Score of 57.3 out of 100 (strong) and an Agent Readiness score of 26.1 (agent-aware), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.

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