Nginx Proxy Manager

Nginx Proxy Manager is an open-source Docker-based web application that provides a simple, powerful interface for managing Nginx proxy hosts. It enables users to expose services securely with free SSL certificates from Let's Encrypt, supports custom Nginx configurations, and is designed with security in mind for home and small-business networks. The platform offers a user-friendly UI, Docker deployment, and community-driven development under the MIT license.

Nginx Proxy Manager publishes 11 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network, including Audit Log API, Logs API, Nginx API, and 8 more. Tagged areas include Company, OpenSource, Docker, Nginx, and Proxy.

The Nginx Proxy Manager catalog on APIs.io includes 1 Spectral governance ruleset.

Nginx Proxy Manager’s developer surface includes getting-started guide, documentation, and 12 more developer resources.

🌐 Visit website 📡 Profile data on GitHub

24.3/100 emerging Agent 21/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-10-31 · rubric v0.25.0 · Show this score on your site →

2 published contracts

CompanyOpenSourceDockerNginxProxy SSL

What this lets a business do 2

Business capabilities this provider's published APIs can perform, derived from its own contracts. Browse all capabilities →

Cybersecurity Management

BC-620

Users

POST /users PUT /users/{userID} POST /users/{userID}/2fa POST /users/{userID}/2fa/enable

Information Technology Management

BC-600

Nginx

GET /nginx/access-lists GET /nginx/certificates POST /nginx/certificates GET /nginx/certificates/dns-providers

Kin Score

Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-10-31 · rubric v0.25.0

Composite quality — 24.3/100 · emerging

Contract Quality 7.4 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 4.9 / 17

Access Clarity 0.0 / 17

Operational Transparency 0.6 / 11

Contract Governance 2.2 / 10

Discoverability 4.9 / 9

Regulatory Posture 3.1 / 15

Agent readiness — 21/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 12 / 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

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

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/.

Show this score on your site.

It updates itself when the score changes. Paste this where you link to your API docs:

<a href="https://apis.io/providers/nginx-proxy-manager/"><img src="https://apis.io/badge/nginx-proxy-manager/card.svg" alt="Nginx Proxy Manager on APIs.io — Kin Score by API Evangelist"></a>

Other styles, a README pill and a shields.io endpoint are on the badge page.

Raise your score.

Agent readiness — checks not met, largest first (exact, from this profile):

Machine-Readable Auth +10 pts — a served openid-configuration/oauth-authorization-server carrying `issuer` (served), else the securitySchemes class in the provider OpenAPIs — bound (mutualTLS, DPoP, Signature) > negotiable (oauth2 authorizationCode/clientCredentials, openIdConnect) > bearer (http bearer, apiKey)
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
Stable Error Semantics +8 pts — OpenAPI $refs a shared error schema across 4xx/5xx responses (verified), else common[].type includes ErrorCatalog / ErrorCodes / DeclineCodes
Request/Response Examples +7 pts — share of operations carrying request/response examples; else an Examples / Code Samples link
Delegated User Identity +6 pts — a served discovery document listing authorization_code in grant_types_supported (served), else an oauth2 authorizationCode flow or openIdConnect declared in an OpenAPI (documented)

9 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

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

Access Clarity scores 0.0 — up to +20.0 composite points
Contract Quality scores 34.9 — up to +16.3 composite points
Developer Ergonomics scores 28.6 — up to +14.3 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.

Improve this rating by publishing the missing artifacts — every area above can be raised, and the full rubric is at apis.io/rating/. Every facet and dimension name above is a link: it opens that measurement's own page — what it means, the exact checks that feed it, how the whole catalog distributes on it, and the providers at the top of it. This rating is computed from the provider profile at artifacts.apis.io/nginx-proxy-manager/apis.yml: open an issue on github.com/api-evangelist/nginx-proxy-manager to ask a question or point us at an artifact you publish. Submit an artifact on GitHub — free → Manage your own listing — the Influence plan, $499/mo →

APIs 11

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

Nginx Proxy Manager API

API for managing proxy hosts, certificates, and settings via HTTP endpoints.

Nginx Proxy Manager Audit Log API

The Audit Log API from Nginx Proxy Manager — 2 operation(s) for audit log.

Nginx Proxy Manager Logs API

The Logs API from Nginx Proxy Manager — 2 operation(s) for logs.

Nginx Proxy Manager Nginx API

The Nginx API from Nginx Proxy Manager — 26 operation(s) for nginx.

Nginx Proxy Manager Nginx Proxy Manager API

The Nginx Proxy Manager API API from Nginx Proxy Manager — 1 operation(s) for nginx proxy manager api.

Nginx Proxy Manager Reports API

The Reports API from Nginx Proxy Manager — 1 operation(s) for reports.

Nginx Proxy Manager Schema API

The Schema API from Nginx Proxy Manager — 1 operation(s) for schema.

Nginx Proxy Manager Settings API

The Settings API from Nginx Proxy Manager — 2 operation(s) for settings.

Nginx Proxy Manager Tokens API

The Tokens API from Nginx Proxy Manager — 2 operation(s) for tokens.

Nginx Proxy Manager Users API

The Users API from Nginx Proxy Manager — 8 operation(s) for users.

Nginx Proxy Manager Version API

The Version API from Nginx Proxy Manager — 1 operation(s) for version.

Scroll for all 11

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Nginx Proxy Manager Plans Pricing

0 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Nginx Proxy Manager Rate Limits

0 limits

RATE LIMITS

Spectral Rules 1

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

Nginx Proxy Manager API Rules

3 rules · 1 errors 1 warnings 1 info

SPECTRAL

Security Posture 2

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

Nginx Proxy Manager Authentication

0 schemes

SECURITY

Nginx Proxy Manager Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Scopes 1

OAuth scopes governing access to this provider's APIs.

Nginx Proxy Manager Scopes

OAuth 2.0 · no documented scopes

0 scopes

SCOPES

Agentic Access 1

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

Nginx Proxy Manager Agentic Access

70 operations · 42 acting · 4 human-in-the-loop

70 operations · 42 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Get Started 1

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

GettingStarted

GettingStarted

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

AgenticAccess

Design & Contract 3

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Spectral

Spectral

Vocabulary

Vocabulary

Conformance

Conformance

Build 3

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

SDKs

SDKs

Packages

Packages

SourceCode

SourceCode

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Company 1

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Other 3

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

CapabilityMap

CapabilityMap

Hosts

Hosts

Vendors

Vendors

Source (apis.yml)

aid: nginx-proxy-manager
name: Nginx Proxy Manager
image: https://nginxproxymanager.com/icon.png
description: Nginx Proxy Manager is an open-source Docker-based web application that provides a simple, powerful interface
  for managing Nginx proxy hosts. It enables users to expose services securely with free SSL certificates from Let's Encrypt,
  supports custom Nginx configurations, and is designed with security in mind for home and small-business networks. The platform
  offers a user-friendly UI, Docker deployment, and community-driven development under the MIT license.
url: https://artifacts.apis.io/nginx-proxy-manager/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: harvest:new-submission
x-tier: profiled
x-tier-reason: enrichment pass 2026-10-28 (modular-v1; was harvest)
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-10-28'
modified: '2026-10-28'
tags:
- Company
- OpenSource
- Docker
- Nginx
- Proxy
- SSL
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: CapabilityMap
  url: capabilities/nginx-proxy-manager-capability-edges.yml
  name: Nginx Proxy Manager Business Capability Map
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/nginx-proxy-manager-agentic-access.yml
- type: Spectral
  url: rules/nginx-proxy-manager-rules.yml
- type: Vocabulary
  url: vocabulary/nginx-proxy-manager-vocabulary.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/nginx-proxy-manager-conformance.yml
- type: Hosts
  url: hosts/nginx-proxy-manager-hosts.yml
- type: Vendors
  url: vendors/nginx-proxy-manager-vendors.yml
- type: SDKs
  url: packages/nginx-proxy-manager-packages.yml
- type: Packages
  url: packages/nginx-proxy-manager-packages.yml
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://nginxproxymanager.com/setup/
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/nginx-proxy-manager-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://nginxproxymanager.com/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://nginxproxymanager.com/guide/
- type: SourceCode
  url: https://github.com/NginxProxyManager/nginx-proxy-manager
apis:
- name: Nginx Proxy Manager API
  description: API for managing proxy hosts, certificates, and settings via HTTP endpoints.
  humanURL: https://nginxproxymanager.com/guide/
  baseURL: null
  aid: nginx-proxy-manager:nginx-proxy-manager-api
- aid: nginx-proxy-manager:nginx-proxy-manager-audit-log-api
  name: Nginx Proxy Manager Audit Log API
  description: The Audit Log API from Nginx Proxy Manager — 2 operation(s) for audit log.
  humanURL: https://nginxproxymanager.com/guide/
  tags:
  - Audit Log
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/nginx-proxy-manager-audit-log-api-openapi.yml
- aid: nginx-proxy-manager:nginx-proxy-manager-logs-api
  name: Nginx Proxy Manager Logs API
  description: The Logs API from Nginx Proxy Manager — 2 operation(s) for logs.
  humanURL: https://nginxproxymanager.com/guide/
  tags:
  - Logs
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/nginx-proxy-manager-logs-api-openapi.yml
- aid: nginx-proxy-manager:nginx-proxy-manager-nginx-api
  name: Nginx Proxy Manager Nginx API
  description: The Nginx API from Nginx Proxy Manager — 26 operation(s) for nginx.
  humanURL: https://nginxproxymanager.com/guide/
  tags:
  - Nginx
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/nginx-proxy-manager-nginx-api-openapi.yml
- aid: nginx-proxy-manager:nginx-proxy-manager-nginx-proxy-manager-api-api
  name: Nginx Proxy Manager Nginx Proxy Manager API
  description: The Nginx Proxy Manager API API from Nginx Proxy Manager — 1 operation(s) for nginx proxy manager api.
  humanURL: https://nginxproxymanager.com/guide/
  tags:
  - Nginx Proxy Manager API
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/nginx-proxy-manager-nginx-proxy-manager-api-api-openapi.yml
- aid: nginx-proxy-manager:nginx-proxy-manager-reports-api
  name: Nginx Proxy Manager Reports API
  description: The Reports API from Nginx Proxy Manager — 1 operation(s) for reports.
  humanURL: https://nginxproxymanager.com/guide/
  tags:
  - Reports
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/nginx-proxy-manager-reports-api-openapi.yml
- aid: nginx-proxy-manager:nginx-proxy-manager-schema-api
  name: Nginx Proxy Manager Schema API
  description: The Schema API from Nginx Proxy Manager — 1 operation(s) for schema.
  humanURL: https://nginxproxymanager.com/guide/
  tags:
  - Schema
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/nginx-proxy-manager-schema-api-openapi.yml
- aid: nginx-proxy-manager:nginx-proxy-manager-settings-api
  name: Nginx Proxy Manager Settings API
  description: The Settings API from Nginx Proxy Manager — 2 operation(s) for settings.
  humanURL: https://nginxproxymanager.com/guide/
  tags:
  - Settings
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/nginx-proxy-manager-settings-api-openapi.yml
- aid: nginx-proxy-manager:nginx-proxy-manager-tokens-api
  name: Nginx Proxy Manager Tokens API
  description: The Tokens API from Nginx Proxy Manager — 2 operation(s) for tokens.
  humanURL: https://nginxproxymanager.com/guide/
  tags:
  - Tokens
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/nginx-proxy-manager-tokens-api-openapi.yml
- aid: nginx-proxy-manager:nginx-proxy-manager-users-api
  name: Nginx Proxy Manager Users API
  description: The Users API from Nginx Proxy Manager — 8 operation(s) for users.
  humanURL: https://nginxproxymanager.com/guide/
  tags:
  - Users
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/nginx-proxy-manager-users-api-openapi.yml
- aid: nginx-proxy-manager:nginx-proxy-manager-version-api
  name: Nginx Proxy Manager Version API
  description: The Version API from Nginx Proxy Manager — 1 operation(s) for version.
  humanURL: https://nginxproxymanager.com/guide/
  tags:
  - Version
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/nginx-proxy-manager-version-api-openapi.yml
x-submission-probe: 200, 2026-10-26
x-coverage:
  state: unreadable
  reason: no-machine-readable-spec
  detail: Provider documentation does not host a machine‑readable OpenAPI spec for the API.
  evidence:
  - url: https://nginxproxymanager.com/guide/
    status: 200
  checked: '2026-10-28'
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-10-28'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 13
  pass: modular-v1
  engine: identity=local,contract=local,surfaces=local,docs=local,regulatory=local

Nginx Proxy Manager API — frequently asked questions

Does Nginx Proxy Manager have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 11 APIs from Nginx Proxy Manager, including Nginx Proxy Manager API, Nginx Proxy Manager Audit Log API and Nginx Proxy Manager Logs API, and 8 more.

Is there an OpenAPI specification for the Nginx Proxy Manager API?

Yes. APIs.io indexes 10 OpenAPI specifications for Nginx Proxy Manager, each linked for download from this page.

How do I authenticate with the Nginx Proxy Manager API?

Nginx Proxy Manager documents its authentication (0 schemes). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Nginx Proxy Manager Authentication.

Is the Nginx Proxy Manager API ready for AI agents?

Nginx Proxy Manager has a Kin Score of 24.3 out of 100 (emerging) and an Agent Readiness score of 21.0 (agent-aware), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-10-31.

Work with this as data

Every provider here is available over the APIs.io API and to AI agents over MCP.

MCP server

One button, every client — Claude, Cursor, VS Code and the rest.

https://apis.io/mcp

Tools for providers

9 MCP tools reach this

find_providersBrowse and filter every provider in the catalog.
get_provider_artifactsEvery artifact this provider publishes, grouped by type.
get_provider_operationsEvery operation across all of their OpenAPIs — one call instead of parsing every spec.
get_provider_toolsEvery MCP tool they ship, with the operation each wraps.
get_provider_evidenceHow each part of their score was established. Free — the basis for a claim should not sit behind it.
get_provider_ratingPRO — composite, band, trend and facet scores.
apis_io_searchSTART HERE — APIs, providers and tags for one query, each with its total.
resolveTurn a domain, URL or GitHub org into the provider it belongs to.
find_cohortsEvery scored population of providers in the catalog.

All 92 tools →

Call it yourself

curl for this page

This provider

curl "https://apis.io/api/v1/providers/nginx-proxy-manager"

All providers

curl "https://apis.io/api/v1/providers?limit=25"

Every operation they expose

curl "https://apis.io/api/v1/providers/nginx-proxy-manager/operations?limit=25"

How their score was established

curl "https://apis.io/api/v1/providers/nginx-proxy-manager/evidence"

Discovery needs no key. Ratings and market analysis are Pro.

Get an API key

Free tier, no form to fill in. Signing in shares your email address with us — we store it to create your key and to recognise you if you sign in with another provider. See our Privacy Policy and Terms.

GitHub Google LinkedIn

A second provider on the same verified email joins the account you already have.