# Ocelot

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/ocelot/  
**Website:** https://ocelot.readthedocs.io/  
**APIs profiled:** 4

Ocelot is an open-source API Gateway built with .NET for microservices architectures. It provides routing, authentication, rate limiting, load balancing, and service discovery features for managing and securing APIs in .NET ecosystems.

## Kin Score — 34.4 / 100 (thin)

Scored 2026-08-25 under rubric 0.14.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 34.4).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 64.8 |
| Contract Quality | 51.2 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 26.3 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 42.9 |
| Commercial Clarity | 15.8 |
| Access Clarity | 15.8 |

## Agent readiness — 22.3 (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 | partial |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| 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 (4)

- **Ocelot API Gateway** — Ocelot is an open-source .NET API Gateway that provides routing, authentication, authorization, rate limiting, load balancing, caching, and service discovery for microservices a...
- **Ocelot Authentication API** — Obtain access tokens for the Administration API
- **Ocelot Cache API** — Clear output cache regions
- **Ocelot Configuration API** — Read and update the active gateway configuration

## Agentic access (1)

- **Ocelot Agentic Access** — 4 operations · 3 acting

## Security (2)

- **Ocelot Authentication** — http · 1 scheme
- **Ocelot Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS

## Plans (1)

- **Ocelot Plans Pricing**

## Tags

.NET, API Gateway, Microservices, Open-Source

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