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National Institute of Standards and Technology

NIST promotes U.S. innovation and industrial competitiveness by advancing measurement science, standards, and technology in ways that enhance economic security and improve our quality of life. NIST operates the National Vulnerability Database (NVD), which provides public APIs for CVE, CVE change history, and CPE records.

National Institute of Standards and Technology publishes 3 APIs on the APIs.io network: CPE API, CVE API, and CVE History API. Tagged areas include Cybersecurity, Federal Government, Standards, Technology, and Vulnerabilities.

National Institute of Standards and Technology’s developer surface includes developer portal, documentation, engineering blog, and 6 more developer resources.

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36.7/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 22/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6
AccessFreemium
3 APIs
CybersecurityFederal GovernmentStandardsTechnologyVulnerabilities

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Composite quality — 36.7/100 · thin
Contract Quality 12.7 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 3.9 / 20
Commercial Clarity 7.9 / 20
Operational Transparency 4.8 / 13
Governance 0.0 / 12
Discoverability 7.4 / 10
Agent readiness — 22/100 · agent aware
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10
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 7 / 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
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APIs 3

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

National Institute of Standards and Technology CPE API

Common Platform Enumeration

National Institute of Standards and Technology CVE API

Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures

National Institute of Standards and Technology CVE History API

CVE change history events

Open Collections 1

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

NIST National Vulnerability Database (NVD) API

OPEN COLLECTION

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

National Institute Of Standards And Technology Plans Pricing

3 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

National Institute Of Standards And Technology Rate Limits

5 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

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

National Institute Of Standards And Technology Finops

FINOPS

Security Posture 2

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

National Institute Of Standards And Technology Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC

SECURITY

National Institute Of Standards And Technology Vulnerability Disclosure

disclosure policy published

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

National Institute Of Standards And Technology Agentic Access

3 operations

3 operations · 0 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Get Started 1

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Portal
Portal

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation
Documentation

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess
AgenticAccess

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization
GitHubOrganization

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

VulnerabilityDisclosure
VulnerabilityDisclosure
 DomainSecurity
DomainSecurity

Company 3

The organization behind the API

LinkedIn
LinkedIn
 Website
Website
 Blog
Blog

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: national-institute-of-standards-and-technology
name: National Institute of Standards and Technology
description: NIST promotes U.S. innovation and industrial competitiveness by advancing measurement science, standards, and
  technology in ways that enhance economic security and improve our quality of life. NIST operates the National Vulnerability
  Database (NVD), which provides public APIs for CVE, CVE change history, and CPE records.
type: Index
accessModel:
  pricing: freemium
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Freemium
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/national-institute-of-standards-and-technology.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/national-institute-of-standards-and-technology/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2024-12-03'
modified: '2026-05-19'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
tags:
- Cybersecurity
- Federal Government
- Standards
- Technology
- Vulnerabilities
apis:
- aid: national-institute-of-standards-and-technology:national-institute-of-standards-and-technology-cpe-api
  name: National Institute of Standards and Technology CPE API
  description: Common Platform Enumeration
  humanURL: https://nvd.nist.gov/developers
  baseURL: https://services.nvd.nist.gov
  tags:
  - CPE
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/national-institute-of-standards-and-technology-cpe-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://nvd.nist.gov/developers
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://nvd.nist.gov/developers/vulnerabilities
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://nvd.nist.gov/developers/products
- aid: national-institute-of-standards-and-technology:national-institute-of-standards-and-technology-cve-api
  name: National Institute of Standards and Technology CVE API
  description: Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures
  humanURL: https://nvd.nist.gov/developers
  baseURL: https://services.nvd.nist.gov
  tags:
  - CVE
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/national-institute-of-standards-and-technology-cve-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://nvd.nist.gov/developers
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://nvd.nist.gov/developers/vulnerabilities
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://nvd.nist.gov/developers/products
- aid: national-institute-of-standards-and-technology:national-institute-of-standards-and-technology-cve-history-api
  name: National Institute of Standards and Technology CVE History API
  description: CVE change history events
  humanURL: https://nvd.nist.gov/developers
  baseURL: https://services.nvd.nist.gov
  tags:
  - CVE History
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/national-institute-of-standards-and-technology-cve-history-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://nvd.nist.gov/developers
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://nvd.nist.gov/developers/vulnerabilities
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://nvd.nist.gov/developers/products
common:
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/national-institute-of-standards-and-technology-agentic-access.yml
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/national-institute-of-standards-and-technology-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/national-institute-of-standards-and-technology-domain-security.yml
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/usnistgov
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/nist
- type: Website
  url: https://www.nist.gov/
- type: Portal
  url: https://nvd.nist.gov/developers
- type: Documentation
  url: https://nvd.nist.gov/developers/vulnerabilities
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/rss.xml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com