Orkes

Orkes is a modern workflow orchestration platform built on Netflix Conductor for orchestrating microservices, AI agents, and durable workflows.

Orkes publishes 8 APIs on the APIs.io network, including Authentication API, Human Tasks API, Schedules API, and 5 more. Tagged areas include Microservices.

Orkes’ developer surface includes authentication, engineering blog, and 8 more developer resources.

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28.5/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 20/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-09-14 · rubric v0.22.0

AccessFreemiumSelf serve⚡ Free to try

1 APIs

Microservices

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scored 2026-09-14 · rubric v0.22.0

Composite quality — 28.5/100 · thin

Contract Quality 11.9 / 23

Developer Ergonomics 2.6 / 18

Access Clarity 4.3 / 18

Operational Transparency 1.2 / 12

Contract Governance 0.0 / 11

Discoverability 4.3 / 9

Create-or-Update Ergonomics 2.2 / 10

Agent readiness — 20/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 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

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.

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 github.com/api-evangelist/orkes: open an issue to ask a question, or submit a pull request to add artifacts. Submit an artifact on GitHub — free → Manage your own listing — the Influence plan, $499/mo →

APIs 8

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

Orkes Authentication API

The Authentication API from Orkes — 1 operation(s) for authentication.

Orkes Human Tasks API

The Human Tasks API from Orkes — 5 operation(s) for human tasks.

Orkes Schedules API

The Schedules API from Orkes — 4 operation(s) for schedules.

Orkes Secrets API

The Secrets API from Orkes — 2 operation(s) for secrets.

Orkes Task Metadata API

The Task Metadata API from Orkes — 2 operation(s) for task metadata.

Orkes Tasks API

The Tasks API from Orkes — 2 operation(s) for tasks.

Orkes Workflow Execution API

The Workflow Execution API from Orkes — 7 operation(s) for workflow execution.

Orkes Workflow Metadata API

The Workflow Metadata API from Orkes — 2 operation(s) for workflow metadata.

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Open Collections 10

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

API Collection

OPEN COLLECTION

Orkes Conductor REST Authentication API

OPEN COLLECTION

Orkes Conductor REST API

OPEN COLLECTION

Orkes Conductor REST Authentication Human Tasks API

OPEN COLLECTION

Orkes Conductor REST Authentication Schedules API

OPEN COLLECTION

Orkes Conductor REST Authentication Secrets API

OPEN COLLECTION

Orkes Conductor REST Authentication Task Metadata API

OPEN COLLECTION

Orkes Conductor REST Authentication Tasks API

OPEN COLLECTION

Orkes Conductor REST Authentication Workflow Execution API

OPEN COLLECTION

Orkes Conductor REST Authentication Workflow Metadata API

OPEN COLLECTION

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Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Orkes Plans Pricing

3 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Orkes Rate Limits

5 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

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

Orkes Finops

FINOPS

Security Posture 4

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

Orkes Authentication

http · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Orkes Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Orkes Vulnerability Disclosure

disclosure policy published

SECURITY

Orkes Trust Center

SOC 2

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

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

Orkes Agentic Access

35 operations · 22 acting · 1 human-in-the-loop

35 operations · 22 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Agent Surfaces 2

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

AgenticAccess

LlmsText

LlmsText

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

Access & Security 4

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

TrustCenter

TrustCenter

VulnerabilityDisclosure

VulnerabilityDisclosure

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Authentication

Authentication

Company 3

The organization behind the API

LinkedIn

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

Source (apis.yml)

aid: orkes
name: Orkes
description: Orkes is a modern workflow orchestration platform built on Netflix Conductor for orchestrating microservices,
  AI agents, and durable workflows.
type: Index
deliveryModel:
  model: unknown
  open_source: false
  commercial: false
  callable_host: false
  label: Delivery model not determined — needs a product licence on record
  confidence: low
  source:
  - openapi
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: freemium
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: true
  public: false
  label: Freemium · Self-serve signup
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  - security
  generated: '2026-09-03'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/orkes.png
tags:
- Microservices
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/orkes/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2026-03-26'
modified: '2026-05-19'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- aid: orkes:orkes-authentication-api
  name: Orkes Authentication API
  description: The Authentication API from Orkes — 1 operation(s) for authentication.
  humanURL: https://orkes.io/
  tags:
  - Authentication
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/orkes-authentication-api-openapi.yml
- aid: orkes:orkes-human-tasks-api
  name: Orkes Human Tasks API
  description: The Human Tasks API from Orkes — 5 operation(s) for human tasks.
  humanURL: https://orkes.io/
  tags:
  - Human Tasks
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/orkes-human-tasks-api-openapi.yml
- aid: orkes:orkes-schedules-api
  name: Orkes Schedules API
  description: The Schedules API from Orkes — 4 operation(s) for schedules.
  humanURL: https://orkes.io/
  tags:
  - Schedules
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/orkes-schedules-api-openapi.yml
- aid: orkes:orkes-secrets-api
  name: Orkes Secrets API
  description: The Secrets API from Orkes — 2 operation(s) for secrets.
  humanURL: https://orkes.io/
  tags:
  - Secrets
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/orkes-secrets-api-openapi.yml
- aid: orkes:orkes-task-metadata-api
  name: Orkes Task Metadata API
  description: The Task Metadata API from Orkes — 2 operation(s) for task metadata.
  humanURL: https://orkes.io/
  tags:
  - Task Metadata
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/orkes-task-metadata-api-openapi.yml
- aid: orkes:orkes-tasks-api
  name: Orkes Tasks API
  description: The Tasks API from Orkes — 2 operation(s) for tasks.
  humanURL: https://orkes.io/
  tags:
  - Task
  tags_raw:
  - Tasks
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/orkes-tasks-api-openapi.yml
- aid: orkes:orkes-workflow-execution-api
  name: Orkes Workflow Execution API
  description: The Workflow Execution API from Orkes — 7 operation(s) for workflow execution.
  humanURL: https://orkes.io/
  tags:
  - Workflow Execution
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/orkes-workflow-execution-api-openapi.yml
- aid: orkes:orkes-workflow-metadata-api
  name: Orkes Workflow Metadata API
  description: The Workflow Metadata API from Orkes — 2 operation(s) for workflow metadata.
  humanURL: https://orkes.io/
  tags:
  - Workflow Metadata
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/orkes-workflow-metadata-api-openapi.yml
common:
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/orkes-agentic-access.yml
- type: TrustCenter
  url: security/orkes-trust-center.yml
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/orkes-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/orkes-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/orkes-authentication.yml
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/orkes-io
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/orkes-inc
- type: Website
  url: https://orkes.io/
- type: LlmsText
  url: https://orkes.io/llms.txt
- url: https://orkes.io/blog
  type: Blog
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com

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