# Ory

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/ory/  
**Website:** https://www.ory.com  
**APIs profiled:** 23

Ory is an open source identity infrastructure platform providing OAuth2 and OpenID Connect (Hydra), identity and user management (Kratos), permissions and authorization (Keto), and a reverse proxy with policy enforcement (Oathkeeper).

## Kin Score — 29.4 / 100 (thin)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (-0.2 from 29.6).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 59.3 |
| Contract Quality | 50.3 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 10.5 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 23.8 |
| Commercial Clarity | 23.7 |
| Access Clarity | 23.7 |

## Agent readiness — 43.0 (agent-ready)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | documented |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | verified |
| 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 |

## Access

Freemium · Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: freemium, trial: no (confidence: high).

## APIs (23)

- **Ory api API** — The api API from Ory — 4 operation(s) for api.
- **Ory courier API** — APIs for managing email and SMS message delivery.
- **Ory frontend API** — Endpoints used by frontend applications (e.g. Single-Page-App, Native Apps, Server Apps, ...) to manage a user's own profile.
- **Ory identity API** — APIs for managing identities.
- **Ory jwk API** — JSON Web Keys
- **Ory metadata API** — Service Metadata
- **Ory oAuth2 API** — OAuth 2.0
- **Ory oidc API** — OpenID Connect
- **Ory permission API** — The permission API from Ory — 4 operation(s) for permission.
- **Ory relationship API** — The relationship API from Ory — 4 operation(s) for relationship.
- **Ory wellknown API** — Well-Known Endpoints
- **Ory Billing API** — Ory Network workspace / project subscriptions.
- **Ory Courier API** — Admin access to queued and dispatched courier messages.
- **Ory Event Streams API** — Ory Network event stream configuration.
- **Ory Identity (Admin) API** — Privileged Kratos identity and session management.
- **Ory Identity (Self-Service) API** — Public Kratos flows for login, registration, recovery, verification, settings, logout, and sessions.
- **Ory OAuth2 (Admin) API** — Privileged Hydra client, token, consent, and key management.
- **Ory OAuth2 (Public) API** — Public OAuth2 / OpenID Connect provider endpoints (Hydra).
- **Ory Organizations API** — B2B organization management for SSO.
- **Ory Permissions API** — Keto permission checks, expand, and namespace reads.
- **Ory Project Tokens API** — Ory Network project API token management.
- **Ory Projects API** — Ory Network Console project management.
- **Ory Relationships API** — Keto relationship-tuple writes and OPL syntax checks.

## MCP servers (1)

- **MCP Server**

## Agentic access (1)

- **Ory Agentic Access** — 128 operations · 57 acting · 6 human-in-the-loop

## Security (4)

- **Ory Authentication** — apiKey/http/oauth2 · 4 schemes
- **Ory Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC
- **Ory Vulnerability Disclosure** — Hackerone · security.txt · contact published
- **Ory Trust Center** — SOC 2, ISO 27001, PCI DSS, GDPR

## Plans (1)

- **Ory Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Authentication, Authorization, Identity, OpenID Connect, Open-Source

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