Netcracker

Netcracker Technology is a Waltham, Massachusetts-based BSS/OSS and digital business software vendor and a wholly owned subsidiary of NEC Corporation. It sells cloud BSS, digital commerce and monetization, convergent charging, service and network orchestration, and API management and integration software to communications service providers worldwide — it is a supplier to carriers rather than a carrier itself, sitting one layer behind the operator in the telecom value chain and never touching a public developer directly. Netcracker is a long-standing TM Forum participant, claims the TM Forum Platinum Badge for Open API and "Ready for ODA" certification for its BSS/OSS portfolio, and contributed conformance toolkits to the TM Forum Open API program. Its API posture toward the outside world is honestly partner-gated: netcracker.com publishes no developer portal (developer., developers., docs., api. subdomains do not resolve; /developer, /developers and /api all return 404), no product OpenAPI is downloadable, and every commercial API — the TM Forum Open APIs its products implement — reaches integrators only through a customer or partner engagement. The one genuinely public, self-serve API surface Netcracker publishes is Qubership, its open-source cloud platform at github.com/Netcracker and netcracker.github.io, which ships real, downloadable OpenAPI contracts for its APIHUB API registry, integration, messaging and database services. On CAMARA, Netcracker names the standard in product marketing alongside TM Forum, MEF, ETSI, 3GPP and O-RAN and says CSPs can monetize "plug and play developer APIs, such as those from CAMARA" — but no CAMARA API is implemented, specified or callable anywhere in its public surface. That is a positioning statement, not an implementation.

Netcracker publishes 4 APIs on the APIs.io network, including Qubership APIHUB Registry API, Qubership APIHUB System Administrators API, Qubership MaaS (Messaging as a Service) API, and 1 more. Tagged areas include Telecommunications, United States, BSS, OSS, and Network Vendor.

Netcracker’s developer surface includes authentication, changelog, CLI, sandbox, documentation, getting-started guide, support, and 33 more developer resources.

49.6/100 developing ▬ flat Agent 78/100 agent native Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
4 APIs 1 MCP Servers
TelecommunicationsUnited StatesBSSOSSNetwork VendorAPI ManagementTM ForumOpen APICAMARAStandardsOrchestrationMonetizationOpen Source

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scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
Composite quality — 49.6/100 · developing
Contract Quality 14.2 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 15.2 / 20
Commercial Clarity 7.4 / 20
Operational Transparency 4.1 / 13
Governance 0.0 / 12
Discoverability 8.8 / 10
Agent readiness — 78/100 · agent native
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 15 / 15
MCP Server 12 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10
Idempotency 9 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 8 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 5 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 4 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3
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APIs 4

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

Qubership APIHUB Registry API

The external, public-facing API contract for APIHUB — Netcracker's open-source API registry and developer portal product. Covers package and catalog operations, publication work...

Qubership APIHUB System Administrators API

The external administration API contract for APIHUB, covering technical administration operations — package transitions, system operations, role management and administrator man...

Qubership MaaS (Messaging as a Service) API

The REST API for Qubership MaaS, Netcracker's open-source messaging-as-a-service component that provisions and manages Kafka topics and RabbitMQ virtual hosts for microservices ...

Qubership DBaaS Aggregator API

The REST API for Qubership DBaaS, Netcracker's open-source Database as a Service aggregator. It collects requests for managed databases and routes them to the appropriate databa...

MCP Servers 1

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

netcracker-mcp.yml

MCP SERVER

Security Posture 4

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

Netcracker Authentication

apiKey/http · 6 schemes

SECURITY

Netcracker Domain Security

TLSv1.2 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Netcracker Vulnerability Disclosure

Hackerone · security.txt · contact published

SECURITY

Netcracker Trust Center

PCI DSS, ISO 27001, ISO 27018, ISO 22301, SOC reporting

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

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

Netcracker Agentic Access

276 operations · 137 acting · 36 human-in-the-loop

276 operations · 137 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Get Started 2

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Agent Surfaces 5

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Design & Contract 7

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Scroll for all 7

Build 6

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Access & Security 6

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Operate 5

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Company 3

The organization behind the API

Other 3

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑
aid: netcracker
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/netcracker/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
name: Netcracker
kind: company
description: 'Netcracker Technology is a Waltham, Massachusetts-based BSS/OSS and digital business software vendor and a wholly
  owned subsidiary of NEC Corporation. It sells cloud BSS, digital commerce and monetization, convergent charging, service
  and network orchestration, and API management and integration software to communications service providers worldwide — it
  is a supplier to carriers rather than a carrier itself, sitting one layer behind the operator in the telecom value chain
  and never touching a public developer directly. Netcracker is a long-standing TM Forum participant, claims the TM Forum
  Platinum Badge for Open API and "Ready for ODA" certification for its BSS/OSS portfolio, and contributed conformance toolkits
  to the TM Forum Open API program. Its API posture toward the outside world is honestly partner-gated: netcracker.com publishes
  no developer portal (developer., developers., docs., api. subdomains do not resolve; /developer, /developers and /api all
  return 404), no product OpenAPI is downloadable, and every commercial API — the TM Forum Open APIs its products implement
  — reaches integrators only through a customer or partner engagement. The one genuinely public, self-serve API surface Netcracker
  publishes is Qubership, its open-source cloud platform at github.com/Netcracker and netcracker.github.io, which ships real,
  downloadable OpenAPI contracts for its APIHUB API registry, integration, messaging and database services. On CAMARA, Netcracker
  names the standard in product marketing alongside TM Forum, MEF, ETSI, 3GPP and O-RAN and says CSPs can monetize "plug and
  play developer APIs, such as those from CAMARA" — but no CAMARA API is implemented, specified or callable anywhere in its
  public surface. That is a positioning statement, not an implementation.'
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
tags:
- Telecommunications
- United States
- BSS
- OSS
- Network Vendor
- API Management
- TM Forum
- Open API
- CAMARA
- Standards
- Orchestration
- Monetization
- Open Source
created: '2026-07-25'
modified: '2026-07-25'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
- aid: netcracker:qubership-apihub-registry-api
  name: Qubership APIHUB Registry API
  description: The external, public-facing API contract for APIHUB — Netcracker's open-source API registry and developer portal
    product. Covers package and catalog operations, publication workflows, versions, export, search, operations and contracts,
    documents, change comparison, operation groups, integrations, roles and user profile actions. OpenAPI 3.0.3, version 2026.1,
    111 documented paths. Server URL is a self-hosted template (https://{apihub}.qubership.org) — qubership.org does not resolve
    publicly, so this is a spec for a platform you deploy yourself, not a hosted SaaS.
  humanURL: https://netcracker.github.io/apihub/
  baseURL: https://{apihub}.qubership.org
  tags:
  - API Management
  - API Registry
  - Developer Portal
  - Open Source
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/netcracker-qubership-apihub-registry-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://netcracker.github.io/apihub/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://github.com/Netcracker/qubership-apihub-backend/blob/develop/docs/api/APIHUB_API.yaml
  - type: SourceCode
    url: https://github.com/Netcracker/qubership-apihub-backend
  - type: Overlay
    url: overlays/netcracker-qubership-apihub-registry-overlay.yaml
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://netcracker.github.io/apihub/deploy/
  - type: Postman
    url: https://github.com/Netcracker/qubership-apihub-postman-collections
- aid: netcracker:qubership-apihub-admin-api
  name: Qubership APIHUB System Administrators API
  description: The external administration API contract for APIHUB, covering technical administration operations — package
    transitions, system operations, role management and administrator management. OpenAPI 3.0.3, version 2026.1, 18 documented
    paths. All endpoints require authenticated access and are intended for trusted administrative users of a self-hosted APIHUB
    install.
  humanURL: https://netcracker.github.io/apihub/
  baseURL: https://{apihub}.qubership.org
  tags:
  - API Management
  - Administration
  - Open Source
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/netcracker-qubership-apihub-admin-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://netcracker.github.io/apihub/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://github.com/Netcracker/qubership-apihub-backend/blob/develop/docs/api/Admin%20API.yaml
  - type: SourceCode
    url: https://github.com/Netcracker/qubership-apihub-backend
  - type: Overlay
    url: overlays/netcracker-qubership-apihub-admin-overlay.yaml
- aid: netcracker:qubership-maas-api
  name: Qubership MaaS (Messaging as a Service) API
  description: The REST API for Qubership MaaS, Netcracker's open-source messaging-as-a-service component that provisions
    and manages Kafka topics and RabbitMQ virtual hosts for microservices running on the Qubership cloud platform. Swagger
    2.0 definition with 35 documented paths, secured with HTTP Basic authentication.
  humanURL: https://github.com/Netcracker/qubership-maas
  tags:
  - Messaging
  - Kafka
  - RabbitMQ
  - Open Source
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/netcracker-qubership-maas-swagger.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://github.com/Netcracker/qubership-maas
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://github.com/Netcracker/qubership-maas/blob/main/maas/maas-service/docs/swagger.yaml
  - type: SourceCode
    url: https://github.com/Netcracker/qubership-maas
  - type: Overlay
    url: overlays/netcracker-qubership-maas-overlay.yaml
  - type: SDKs
    url: packages/netcracker-packages.yml
- aid: netcracker:qubership-dbaas-aggregator-api
  name: Qubership DBaaS Aggregator API
  description: The REST API for Qubership DBaaS, Netcracker's open-source Database as a Service aggregator. It collects requests
    for managed databases and routes them to the appropriate database adapter, tracking every database used in a cloud project.
    OpenAPI 3.1.0, version 6.13.2, 73 documented paths covering database operations, users, backup and restore, balancing
    rules, physical database registration and migration. Bearer JWT authentication.
  humanURL: https://github.com/Netcracker/qubership-dbaas
  tags:
  - DBaaS
  - Database
  - Cloud Platform
  - Open Source
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/netcracker-qubership-dbaas-openapi.json
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://github.com/Netcracker/qubership-dbaas
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://github.com/Netcracker/qubership-dbaas/blob/main/docs/OpenAPI.json
  - type: SourceCode
    url: https://github.com/Netcracker/qubership-dbaas
  - type: Overlay
    url: overlays/netcracker-qubership-dbaas-overlay.yaml
  - type: SDKs
    url: packages/netcracker-packages.yml
common:
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/netcracker-agentic-access.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/netcracker-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/netcracker-authentication.yml
- type: Packages
  url: packages/netcracker-packages.yml
- type: SDKs
  url: packages/netcracker-packages.yml
- type: MCPServer
  url: mcp/netcracker-mcp.yml
- type: ToolCrosswalk
  url: mcp/netcracker-tool-crosswalk.yml
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/_index.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/netcracker-llms.txt
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/netcracker-well-known.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/netcracker-conventions.yml
- type: Idempotency
  url: conventions/netcracker-conventions.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/netcracker-problem-types.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/netcracker-lifecycle.yml
- type: ChangeLog
  url: changelog/netcracker-changelog.yml
- type: ChangeLog
  url: https://netcracker.github.io/apihub/releases/
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/netcracker-conformance.yml
- type: Compliance
  url: https://www.netcracker.com/portfolio/services/netcracker-cybersecurity
- type: TrustCenter
  url: security/netcracker-trust-center.yml
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/netcracker-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: Security
  url: https://github.com/Netcracker/qubership-apihub/blob/main/SECURITY.md
- type: CLI
  url: cli/netcracker-cli.yml
- type: Components
  url: components/netcracker-components.yml
- type: DataModel
  url: data-model/netcracker-data-model.yml
- type: Sandbox
  url: sandbox/netcracker-sandbox.yml
- type: Protobuf
  url: grpc/netcracker-qubership-control-plane-bus.proto
- type: Website
  url: https://www.netcracker.com/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://netcracker.github.io/
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://netcracker.github.io/apihub/deploy/
- type: Support
  url: https://github.com/Netcracker/qubership-apihub/issues
- type: Postman
  url: https://github.com/Netcracker/qubership-apihub-postman-collections
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.netcracker.com/terms-of-use
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.netcracker.com/privacy-notice
- type: ContactUs
  url: https://www.netcracker.com/contact-us
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/Netcracker
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/netcracker-technology
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.netcracker.com/blog
- type: PressReleases
  url: https://www.netcracker.com/news/press-releases
- type: ProductPage
  url: https://www.netcracker.com/portfolio/products/netcracker-api-management-integration
- type: Portfolio
  url: https://www.netcracker.com/portfolio
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com