Parallels

Parallels is a virtualization and remote-access software company (part of Alludo, with the Parallels virtualization division held by KKR) best known for Parallels Desktop for Mac, which runs Windows, Linux and other operating systems on Apple hardware for over 7 million users. Its enterprise line, Parallels RAS (Remote Application Server), delivers virtual apps and desktops (VDI/DaaS) across on-premises and hybrid-cloud deployments. For developers and IT admins, Parallels exposes a self-hosted Parallels RAS REST API (token-authenticated, port 20443) plus a RAS PowerShell administration module and the prlctl/prlsrvctl command-line tools, and publishes official Terraform, Packer, Vagrant, and Docker Machine integrations for Parallels Desktop from its GitHub organization.

Parallels is listed with 1 API on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Virtualization, Remote Desktop, VDI, and DaaS.

Parallels’ developer surface includes documentation, API reference, getting-started guide, support, engineering blog, signup flow, authentication, and 14 more developer resources.

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26.6/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 3/100 human only Front door AI 1/6 silent Heartbeat 94/100 alive saas Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0 · Show this score on your site →

1 API

Company Virtualization Remote Desktop VDI DaaS Mac Infrastructure IT Management

Kin Score

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

Composite quality — 26.6/100 · thin

Contract Quality 0.0 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 12.1 / 17

Access Clarity 0.0 / 17

Operational Transparency 4.7 / 11

Contract Governance 0.0 / 10

Discoverability 6.2 / 9

Regulatory Posture 1.8 / 15

Agent readiness — 3/100 · human only

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 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 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 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 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
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
A2A Agent Card +8 pts — a2a/-a2a.yml manifest, graded on conformance.grade against A2A 1.0.0

12 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 0.0 — up to +20.0 composite points
Contract Governance scores 0.0 — up to +12.0 composite points

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Markets this provider is in provisional

The Kin Score Market layer reads a provider inside its market: its position, and how deep its integrations go. Depth is only comparable within a position. Provisional and unweighted: not part of the Kin Score or agent readiness.

Market	Position	Depth	Registered MCP server	Declares compatibility
IDE Extension Marketplaces (JetBrains, VS Code, Open VSX, Docker Verified Publishers, PyPI orgs)	builds-on	51.8	-	-
Jenkins Plugins + CD Foundation Landscape	builds-on	51.8	-	-

Registered MCP server and declares compatibility are report only — not weighted. Undeclared means we found nothing we can read, so there is no number: we never infer integrations.

APIs 1

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

Parallels RAS REST API

Self-hosted administration REST API for Parallels RAS (Remote Application Server). Applications authenticate with administrator credentials to obtain an authToken, then manage i...

Security Posture 2

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

Parallels Authentication

token · 2 schemes

SECURITY

Parallels Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Resources

Get Started 3

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

DeveloperPortal

DeveloperPortal

GettingStarted

GettingStarted

SignUp

SignUp

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

APIReference

APIReference

Agent Surfaces 2

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

WellKnown

WellKnown

LLMsTxt

LLMsTxt

Design & Contract 2

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Conventions

Conventions

Lifecycle

Lifecycle

Build 4

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization

CLI

Packages

SDKs

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Authentication

Authentication

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 4

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support

StatusPage

ChangeLog

Deprecation

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

Source (apis.yml)

aid: parallels
name: Parallels
description: Parallels is a virtualization and remote-access software company (part of Alludo, with the Parallels virtualization
  division held by KKR) best known for Parallels Desktop for Mac, which runs Windows, Linux and other operating systems on
  Apple hardware for over 7 million users. Its enterprise line, Parallels RAS (Remote Application Server), delivers virtual
  apps and desktops (VDI/DaaS) across on-premises and hybrid-cloud deployments. For developers and IT admins, Parallels exposes
  a self-hosted Parallels RAS REST API (token-authenticated, port 20443) plus a RAS PowerShell administration module and the
  prlctl/prlsrvctl command-line tools, and publishes official Terraform, Packer, Vagrant, and Docker Machine integrations
  for Parallels Desktop from its GitHub organization.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/parallels/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- bessemer-venture-partners
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: false
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source:
  - authentication
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-06'
  method: derived
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-20'
image: https://www.parallels.com/static/pl/fileadmin/res/img/general/default-og-logo.png
x-docs-platform: gitbook
x-docs-platform-confidence: high
x-docs-platform-checked: 2026-10-04
tags:
- Company
- Virtualization
- Remote Desktop
- VDI
- DaaS
- Mac
- Infrastructure
- IT Management
apis:
- name: Parallels RAS REST API
  description: Self-hosted administration REST API for Parallels RAS (Remote Application Server). Applications authenticate
    with administrator credentials to obtain an authToken, then manage infrastructure (agents, providers, RD session hosts,
    VDI), farm and site settings, publishing (apps/desktops/folders), policies, and RD sessions.
  humanURL: https://docs.parallels.com/landing/ras-rest-api-guide
  baseURL: https://api-host:20443/api
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.parallels.com/landing/ras-rest-api-guide
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.parallels.com/landing/ras-rest-api-guide/api-reference
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://docs.parallels.com/landing/ras-rest-api-guide
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/parallels-authentication.yml
  - type: Conventions
    url: conventions/parallels-conventions.yml
  - type: Lifecycle
    url: lifecycle/parallels-lifecycle.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://www.parallels.com/
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://docs.parallels.com/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://docs.parallels.com/landing/ras-rest-api-guide
- type: APIReference
  url: https://docs.parallels.com/landing/ras-rest-api-guide/api-reference
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://docs.parallels.com/landing/ras-rest-api-guide
- type: Support
  url: https://www.parallels.com/support/
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.parallels.com/blogs/
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/Parallels
- type: SignUp
  url: https://my.parallels.com/
- type: StatusPage
  url: https://status.parallels.com/
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/parallels-authentication.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/parallels-conventions.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/parallels-lifecycle.yml
- type: ChangeLog
  url: changelog/parallels-changelog.yml
- type: Deprecation
  url: https://kb.parallels.com/en/122073
- type: CLI
  url: cli/parallels-cli.yml
- type: Packages
  url: packages/parallels-packages.yml
- type: SDKs
  url: packages/parallels-packages.yml
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/parallels-well-known.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/parallels-llms.txt
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/parallels-domain-security.yml
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-20'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 9
  pass: local-v1

Parallels API — frequently asked questions

Does Parallels have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 1 API from Parallels, including Parallels RAS REST API.

How do I authenticate with the Parallels API?

Parallels uses bearer-token authentication (token · 2 schemes). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Parallels Authentication.

Is the Parallels API ready for AI agents?

Parallels has a Kin Score of 26.6 out of 100 (thin) and an Agent Readiness score of 2.5 (human-only), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.

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