Orthanc

Orthanc is an open-source, lightweight DICOM server for medical imaging. It provides a RESTful API to store, retrieve, and manage DICOM studies, series, and instances. Orthanc is widely used in hospitals, research labs, and imaging workflows to simplify integration with PACS, viewers, and analysis tools. The platform offers a web interface, extensive documentation, and a vibrant community supporting extensions and plugins.

Orthanc is listed with 1 API on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, DICOM, Medical Imaging, Open Source, and REST API.

Orthanc’s developer surface includes documentation, API reference, engineering blog, and 5 more developer resources.

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10.2/100 minimal ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0 · Show this score on your site →

1 API

Company DICOM Medical Imaging Open Source REST API

Kin Score

Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0

Composite quality — 10.2/100 · minimal

Contract Quality 0.0 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 1.6 / 17

Access Clarity 0.9 / 17

Operational Transparency 0.0 / 11

Contract Governance 1.9 / 10

Discoverability 4.6 / 9

Regulatory Posture 1.5 / 15

Agent readiness — 0/100 · human only

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 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

MCP Tool Quality 6 / 6

Regulatory Posture applies to this provider. Its tags matched the Health 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/.

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

Machine-Readable Contract +18 pts — api_specs includes an OpenAPI document
MCP Server +12 pts — deployment.mode + probe verdict on the mcp/ manifest, not the pointer; an unprobed slug falls back to authorship
Agentic Access Contract +10 pts — agentic_access artifact present (x-agentic-access), graded by author
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)
Stable Error Semantics +8 pts — OpenAPI $refs a shared error schema across 4xx/5xx responses (verified), else common[].type includes ErrorCatalog / ErrorCodes / DeclineCodes

13 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

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

Contract Quality scores 0.0 — up to +25.0 composite points
Access Clarity scores 5.3 — up to +18.9 composite points
Developer Ergonomics scores 9.5 — up to +18.1 composite points

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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.

DICOM

tagged — the provider's own APIs.json carries the standard as a tag; implementation not verified

APIs 1

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

Orthanc API

Orthanc provides a RESTful DICOM API for storing, retrieving and managing medical imaging data.

Security Posture 1

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

Orthanc Domain Security

TLSv1.3

SECURITY

Resources

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

APIReference

APIReference

Design & Contract 1

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Conformance

Conformance

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Commercial 1

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Hosts

Hosts

Source (apis.yml)

aid: orthanc
name: Orthanc
description: Orthanc is an open-source, lightweight DICOM server for medical imaging. It provides a RESTful API to store,
  retrieve, and manage DICOM studies, series, and instances. Orthanc is widely used in hospitals, research labs, and imaging
  workflows to simplify integration with PACS, viewers, and analysis tools. The platform offers a web interface, extensive
  documentation, and a vibrant community supporting extensions and plugins.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/orthanc/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: harvest:tag-qc
x-tier: profiled
x-tier-reason: enrichment pass 2026-10-14 (modular-v1; was harvest)
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  probe_state: unreadable
  source:
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-06'
  method: derived
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-10-14'
modified: '2026-10-14'
tags:
- Company
- DICOM
- Medical Imaging
- Open Source
- REST API
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/orthanc-conformance.yml
- type: Hosts
  url: hosts/orthanc-hosts.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/orthanc-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.orthanc-server.com
- type: Documentation
  url: https://www.orthanc-server.com/static.php?page=documentation
- type: APIReference
  url: https://orthanc.uclouvain.be/api/
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.orthanc-server.com/static.php?page=blog
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.orthanc-server.com/static.php?page=privacy
apis:
- name: Orthanc API
  description: Orthanc provides a RESTful DICOM API for storing, retrieving and managing medical imaging data.
  humanURL: https://www.orthanc-server.com/static.php?page=documentation
  baseURL: null
  aid: orthanc:orthanc-api
x-coverage:
  state: unreadable
  reason: no-machine-readable-spec
  detail: The provider's documentation links to an OpenAPI spec hosted at dataverse.uclouvain.be, which describes the Dataverse
    platform, not Orthanc.
  evidence:
  - url: https://opendata.uclouvain.be/openapi
    status: 302
  checked: '2026-10-14'
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-10-14'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 7
  pass: modular-v1
  engine: identity=local,contract=local,surfaces=local,docs=local,regulatory=local

Orthanc API — frequently asked questions

Does Orthanc have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 1 API from Orthanc, including Orthanc API.

Is the Orthanc API ready for AI agents?

Orthanc has a Kin Score of 10.2 out of 100 (minimal) and an Agent Readiness score of 0.0 (human-only), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.

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