National Institutes of Health

The National Institutes of Health (NIH), a part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, is the nation's medical research agency making important discoveries that improve health and save lives. NIH operates the RePORTER API for exposing data about NIH-funded research projects and the publications associated with them.

National Institutes of Health publishes 2 APIs on the APIs.io network: Projects API and Publications API. Tagged areas include Federal-Government, Health, Research, Funding, and Publications.

National Institutes of Health’s developer surface includes developer portal and 5 more developer resources.

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24.0/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 21/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-08-20 · rubric v0.12.0

AccessFreemium

2 APIs

Federal-GovernmentHealthResearchFundingPublications

Kin Score

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scored 2026-08-20 · rubric v0.12.0

Composite quality — 24.0/100 · emerging

Contract Quality 10.6 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 1.6 / 17

Access Clarity 2.7 / 17

Operational Transparency 1.2 / 11

Contract Governance 0.0 / 10

Discoverability 5.8 / 9

Regulatory Posture 1.1 / 15

Agent readiness — 21/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 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 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 2

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

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

National Institutes Of Health Rate Limits

5 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

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

Get Started 1

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Portal

Portal

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 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Company 2

The organization behind the API

LinkedIn

Website

Website

Source (apis.yml)

aid: national-institutes-of-health
name: National Institutes of Health
description: The National Institutes of Health (NIH), a part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, is the nation's
  medical research agency making important discoveries that improve health and save lives. NIH operates the RePORTER API for
  exposing data about NIH-funded research projects and the publications associated with them.
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-institutes-of-health.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/national-institutes-of-health/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2024-12-03'
modified: '2026-05-19'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
tags:
- Federal-Government
- Health
- Research
- Funding
- Publications
tags_raw:
- Federal Government
- Health
- Research
- Funding
- Publications
apis:
- aid: national-institutes-of-health:national-institutes-of-health-projects-api
  name: National Institutes of Health Projects API
  description: The Projects API from National Institutes of Health — 1 operation(s) for projects.
  humanURL: https://api.reporter.nih.gov
  baseURL: https://api.reporter.nih.gov
  tags:
  - Project
  tags_raw:
  - Projects
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/national-institutes-of-health-projects-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://api.reporter.nih.gov
  - type: Portal
    url: https://reporter.nih.gov/
- aid: national-institutes-of-health:national-institutes-of-health-publications-api
  name: National Institutes of Health Publications API
  description: The Publications API from National Institutes of Health — 1 operation(s) for publications.
  humanURL: https://api.reporter.nih.gov
  baseURL: https://api.reporter.nih.gov
  tags:
  - Publications
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/national-institutes-of-health-publications-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://api.reporter.nih.gov
  - type: Portal
    url: https://reporter.nih.gov/
common:
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/national-institutes-of-health-agentic-access.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/national-institutes-of-health-domain-security.yml
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/NIHGOV
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/national-institutes-of-health
- type: Website
  url: https://www.nih.gov/
- type: Portal
  url: https://api.reporter.nih.gov/
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com

National Institutes of Health

Kin Score

APIs 2

National Institutes of Health Projects API

National Institutes of Health Publications API

Open Collections 4

API Collection

NIH RePORTER Projects API

NIH RePORTER Projects Publications API

NIH RePORTER API

Pricing Plans 1

National Institutes Of Health Plans Pricing

Rate Limits 1

National Institutes Of Health Rate Limits

FinOps 1

National Institutes Of Health Finops

Security Posture 1

National Institutes Of Health Domain Security

Agentic Access 1

National Institutes Of Health Agentic Access

Resources