Orbital

Orbital is a data gateway and integration platform that connects APIs, databases, event streams, and other data sources without requiring glue code or manual integration maintenance. The platform delivers self-repairing integrations through instant, on-the-fly orchestration that automatically adapts as APIs and schemas evolve, eliminating the need to write resolvers, generate API clients, or maintain YAML mapping files.

Orbital publishes 6 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network, including Caches API, Connections API, Schemas API, and 3 more. Tagged areas include Data and Gateways.

The Orbital catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context and 1 Spectral governance ruleset.

Orbital’s developer surface includes documentation, changelog, pricing, engineering blog, and 8 more developer resources.

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28.8/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 24/100 agent aware Front door AI 5/6 prominent Heartbeat 100/100 alive saas Full breakdown ↓
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2 published contracts

Data Gateways

Kin Score

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Composite quality — 28.8/100 · thin

Contract Quality 10.7 / 19

Developer Ergonomics 1.8 / 15

Access Clarity 2.8 / 15

Operational Transparency 2.3 / 10

Contract Governance 0.9 / 9

Discoverability 4.2 / 8

Regulatory Posture 1.6 / 15

Create-or-Update Ergonomics 0.0 / 10

Agent readiness — 24/100 · 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 8 / 8

Request/Response Examples 7 / 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 0 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

MCP Tool Quality 6 / 6

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 applies to this provider. This API accepts writes, so it carries 10 points of the composite. It is scored from the published contracts themselves: whether a caller can create-or-update in one call, whether the write accepts a key the caller already holds, and whether the response says which branch ran. Without that, every write needs a search-and-branch in front of it, and the first time that check is skipped a duplicate record is created. Scored against the observed mean rather than raw — a provider at the catalog average is unchanged by this facet, not penalised by it.

The six quality facets above are damped to 75 points between them, because the conditional facet above carries the other 25. That is why each facet's contribution is shown against a damped maximum: raising a quality facet moves the composite by 75% of its nominal weight, not 100%. The full arithmetic is at apis.io/rating/.

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

MCP Server +12 pts — deployment.mode + probe verdict on the mcp/ manifest, not the pointer; an unprobed slug falls back to authorship
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
Registration Without a Human +6 pts — a `registration_endpoint` in the served RFC 8414 / OIDC discovery document
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):

Developer Ergonomics scores 11.9 — up to +17.6 composite points
Access Clarity scores 18.4 — up to +16.3 composite points
Contract Governance scores 9.8 — up to +10.8 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.

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Standards implemented 1

Standards this provider implements or carries. De facto ones are profiled and measured by the API Commons; formal ones come from the standards directory and are linked by the provider's own tags. The evidence column says how each claim was established — not that it was made.

OpenAPI

measured — observed by APIs.io (published)

APIs 6

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

Orbital Caches API

The Caches API from Orbital — 1 operation(s) for caches.

Orbital Connections API

The Connections API from Orbital — 2 operation(s) for connections.

Orbital Schemas API

The Schemas API from Orbital — 2 operation(s) for schemas.

Orbital Services API

The Services API from Orbital — 2 operation(s) for services.

Orbital Taxiql API

The Taxiql API from Orbital — 1 operation(s) for taxiql.

Orbital Types API

The Types API from Orbital — 2 operation(s) for types.

Open Collections 8

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

Orbital Query Caches API

OPEN COLLECTION

Orbital Query Caches Connections API

OPEN COLLECTION

Orbital Query API

OPEN COLLECTION

Orbital Schema Management API

OPEN COLLECTION

Orbital Query Caches Schemas API

OPEN COLLECTION

Orbital Query Caches Services API

OPEN COLLECTION

Orbital Query Caches Taxiql API

OPEN COLLECTION

Orbital Query Caches Types API

OPEN COLLECTION

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Orbital API pricing

Not yet checked against Orbital's own pricing page. Compiled by API Evangelist on 2026-05-04; confirm before you rely on a figure. A free plan or tier is listed.

Plan	Price
Free freemium	Free
Professional paid	Free
Enterprise enterprise	—

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Rate limits

Free Tier Default: 10 requests per minute
Free Tier Monthly Quota: 1000 requests per month
Professional Tier Default: 100 requests per minute

Compiled by API Evangelist, not yet checked against Orbital's documentation. All 5 limits →

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Orbital Plans Pricing

3 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Orbital Rate Limits

5 limits

RATE LIMITS

Service Levels 1

Uptime the provider promises or reports, as SLA4OAI. Read from its own pages; APIs.io runs no monitors.

Orbital

SLA

FinOps 1

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

Orbital Finops

FINOPS

Semantic Vocabularies 1

JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.

Orbital Context

35 classes · 0 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 1

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

Orbital — jsonschema rules

5 rules · 3 warnings 2 info

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 6

Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.

Orbital Cache

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Orbital Connection

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Orbital Query

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Orbital Schema

8 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Orbital Service

7 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Orbital Type

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Security Posture 1

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

Orbital Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

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

Orbital Agentic Access

18 operations · 6 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

Agent Surfaces 2

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

AgenticAccess

LlmsText

LlmsText

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

RateLimits

RateLimits

ChangeLog

ChangeLog

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Plans

Plans

FinOps

FinOps

Pricing

Pricing

Company 3

The organization behind the API

LinkedIn

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

Source (apis.yml)

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url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/orbital/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
apis:
- aid: orbital:orbital-caches-api
  name: Orbital Caches API
  description: The Caches API from Orbital — 1 operation(s) for caches.
  humanURL: https://orbitalhq.com/docs/querying/writing-queries
  tags:
  - Caches
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/orbital-caches-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://orbitalhq.com/docs/querying/writing-queries
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/query.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/connection.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/cache.json
  - type: JSONLD
    url: json-ld/orbital-context.jsonld
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://orbitalhq.com/docs/describing-data-sources/open-api
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/service.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/type.json
- aid: orbital:orbital-connections-api
  name: Orbital Connections API
  description: The Connections API from Orbital — 2 operation(s) for connections.
  humanURL: https://orbitalhq.com/docs/querying/writing-queries
  tags:
  - Connections
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/orbital-connections-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://orbitalhq.com/docs/querying/writing-queries
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/query.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/connection.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/cache.json
  - type: JSONLD
    url: json-ld/orbital-context.jsonld
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://orbitalhq.com/docs/describing-data-sources/open-api
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/service.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/type.json
- aid: orbital:orbital-schemas-api
  name: Orbital Schemas API
  description: The Schemas API from Orbital — 2 operation(s) for schemas.
  humanURL: https://orbitalhq.com/docs/querying/writing-queries
  tags:
  - Schema
  tags_raw:
  - Schemas
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/orbital-schemas-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://orbitalhq.com/docs/querying/writing-queries
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/query.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/connection.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/cache.json
  - type: JSONLD
    url: json-ld/orbital-context.jsonld
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://orbitalhq.com/docs/describing-data-sources/open-api
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/service.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/type.json
- aid: orbital:orbital-services-api
  name: Orbital Services API
  description: The Services API from Orbital — 2 operation(s) for services.
  humanURL: https://orbitalhq.com/docs/querying/writing-queries
  tags:
  - Services
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/orbital-services-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://orbitalhq.com/docs/querying/writing-queries
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/query.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/connection.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/cache.json
  - type: JSONLD
    url: json-ld/orbital-context.jsonld
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://orbitalhq.com/docs/describing-data-sources/open-api
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/service.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/type.json
- aid: orbital:orbital-taxiql-api
  name: Orbital Taxiql API
  description: The Taxiql API from Orbital — 1 operation(s) for taxiql.
  humanURL: https://orbitalhq.com/docs/querying/writing-queries
  tags:
  - Taxiql
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/orbital-taxiql-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://orbitalhq.com/docs/querying/writing-queries
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/query.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/connection.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/cache.json
  - type: JSONLD
    url: json-ld/orbital-context.jsonld
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://orbitalhq.com/docs/describing-data-sources/open-api
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/service.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/type.json
- aid: orbital:orbital-types-api
  name: Orbital Types API
  description: The Types API from Orbital — 2 operation(s) for types.
  humanURL: https://orbitalhq.com/docs/querying/writing-queries
  tags:
  - Types
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/orbital-types-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://orbitalhq.com/docs/querying/writing-queries
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/query.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/connection.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/cache.json
  - type: JSONLD
    url: json-ld/orbital-context.jsonld
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://orbitalhq.com/docs/describing-data-sources/open-api
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/service.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/type.json
name: Orbital
tags:
- Data
- Gateways
kind: contract
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: false
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - openapi
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: freemium
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Freemium
  confidence: low
  source:
  - plans
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-06'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/orbital.png
access: 3rd-Party
created: '2026-01-05'
modified: '2026-05-19'
position: Consuming
description: Orbital is a data gateway and integration platform that connects APIs, databases, event streams, and other data
  sources without requiring glue code or manual integration maintenance. The platform delivers self-repairing integrations
  through instant, on-the-fly orchestration that automatically adapts as APIs and schemas evolve, eliminating the need to
  write resolvers, generate API clients, or maintain YAML mapping files.
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
specificationVersion: '0.23'
common:
- type: Plans
  url: plans/orbital-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/orbital-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/orbital-finops.yml
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/orbital-agentic-access.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/orbital-domain-security.yml
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/orbital-finance
- name: Orbital - Automated integration for modern dev teams.
  description: 'null'
  url: https://orbitalhq.com/
  type: Website
- name: Getting started - Orbital
  description: 'null'
  url: https://orbitalhq.com/docs
  type: Documentation
- name: Changelog - Orbital
  description: 'null'
  url: https://orbitalhq.com/changelog
  type: ChangeLog
- name: Pricing - Orbital
  description: 'null'
  url: https://orbitalhq.com/pricing
  type: Pricing
- name: Blog - Orbital
  description: 'null'
  url: https://orbitalhq.com/blog
  type: Blog
- type: LlmsText
  url: https://orbitalhq.com/llms.txt

Orbital API — frequently asked questions

Does Orbital have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 6 APIs from Orbital, including Orbital Caches API, Orbital Connections API and Orbital Schemas API, and 3 more.

Is there an OpenAPI specification for the Orbital API?

Yes. APIs.io indexes 6 OpenAPI specifications for Orbital, each linked for download from this page.

How much does the Orbital API cost?

APIs.io lists 3 pricing plans for Orbital, with each plan's price, limits and inclusions under Pricing on this page.

Is the Orbital API ready for AI agents?

Orbital has a Kin Score of 28.8 out of 100 (thin) and an Agent Readiness score of 24.4 (agent-aware), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.

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