# Nakama

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/nakama/  
**Website:** https://heroiclabs.com/  
**APIs profiled:** 11

Nakama by Heroic Labs is an open-source (Apache-2.0) game and app backend server providing user accounts and authentication, social features (friends, groups, chat), collaborative storage, realtime multiplayer and authoritative matches, matchmaking, leaderboards and tournaments, notifications, and a server runtime with custom RPCs in Go, TypeScript/JavaScript, and Lua. Nakama exposes a gRPC-gateway-generated REST API plus a realtime WebSocket socket API, and is available self-hosted or as the managed Heroic Cloud.

## Kin Score — 40.2 / 100 (developing)

Scored 2026-08-25 under rubric 0.14.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 40.2).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 74.1 |
| Contract Quality | 57.2 |
| Governance | 11.4 |
| Contract Governance | 11.4 |
| Operational Transparency | 34.2 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 23.8 |
| Commercial Clarity | 39.5 |
| Access Clarity | 39.5 |

## Agent readiness — 20.9 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | bearer |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | derived |
| 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

Freemium · Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: freemium, trial: no (confidence: high).

## APIs (11)

- **Nakama Realtime Socket API** — Persistent WebSocket connection carrying realtime features - status presence, realtime chat channels, relayed and authoritative multiplayer matches, matchmaking, parties, and re...
- **Nakama Console API** — Administrative API behind the Nakama Developer Console for managing users, storage, leaderboards, matches, runtime configuration, and server status. It is an internal operations...
- **Nakama Account API** — Read, update, and delete the current account and link identities.
- **Nakama Authentication API** — Authenticate users and issue or refresh session tokens.
- **Nakama Friends API** — Manage the friend graph.
- **Nakama Groups API** — Create and manage groups (clans) and their members.
- **Nakama Leaderboards API** — Write and list leaderboard records.
- **Nakama Notifications API** — List and delete in-app notifications.
- **Nakama RPC API** — Call custom runtime functions.
- **Nakama Storage API** — Read, write, list, and delete storage objects.
- **Nakama Tournaments API** — List, join, and submit to tournaments.

## Agentic access (1)

- **Nakama Agentic Access** — 27 operations · 19 acting

## Security (2)

- **Nakama Authentication** — http · 2 schemes
- **Nakama Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · DNSSEC · DMARC

## Plans (1)

- **Nakama Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Gaming, Game Backend, Backend, Real-Time, Multiplayer, Matchmaking, Leaderboards, Social, Open-Source

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