# Pachyderm

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/pachyderm/  
**APIs profiled:** 1

Pachyderm is an open-source (Apache-2.0) platform for data-centric pipelines and data versioning, widely used for MLOps. It provides immutable, git-like data lineage through the Pachyderm File System (PFS) and data-driven, containerized pipelines that reprocess only changed data through the Pachyderm Pipeline System (PPS), all running on Kubernetes. The platform is driven by a gRPC/protobuf API with first-party Python, Go, Ruby and Rust clients and the pachctl command-line tool. Pachyderm was acquired by Hewlett Packard Enterprise in January 2023; the standalone marketing, documentation and hosted (Pachyderm Hub) sites have since been retired, but the source, releases, SDKs and CLI remain actively published on GitHub and the language package registries (latest release v2.12.2, January 2025).

## Kin Score — 26.2 / 100 (thin)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 26.2).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 75.9 |
| Contract Quality | 28.2 |
| Governance | 4.5 |
| Contract Governance | 4.5 |
| Operational Transparency | 18.4 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 42.9 |
| Commercial Clarity | 0.0 |
| Access Clarity | 0.0 |

## Agent readiness — 23.9 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | no |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: medium).

## APIs (1)

- **Pachyderm gRPC API** — Pachyderm's platform API, exposed over gRPC/protobuf. Core services are PFS (data versioning — repos, commits, branches, files) and PPS (pipelines — jobs, datums, pipelines, log...

## Security (1)

- **Pachyderm Authentication** — oidc/bearer-token · 3 schemes

## Tags

Company, MLOps, Data Versioning, Data Pipeline, Data Lineage, Machine-Learning, Kubernetes, gRPC, Open-Source

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