# Parse

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/parse/  
**Website:** https://parseplatform.org  
**APIs profiled:** 1

Parse is an open-source Backend-as-a-Service (BaaS). Originally the mobile backend company founded in 2011, backed by GV and DCVC, and acquired by Facebook in 2013 before the hosted parse.com service was shut down in 2017, Parse now lives on as the community-maintained Parse Platform. It centers on Parse Server, a self-hostable Node.js/Express backend, paired with first-party client SDKs for JavaScript, Apple (iOS/macOS), Android, Flutter/Dart, PHP, .NET, Swift and Arduino. Parse exposes a documented REST API over HTTP+JSON providing a schemaless object store, user authentication and sessions, roles and ACL/class-level permissions, file storage, rich queries, Cloud Code, Cloud Code Webhooks, LiveQuery real-time subscriptions, analytics and push notifications.

## Kin Score — 38.1 / 100 (thin)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 38.1).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 75.9 |
| Contract Quality | 45.1 |
| Governance | 4.5 |
| Contract Governance | 4.5 |
| Operational Transparency | 44.7 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 64.3 |
| Commercial Clarity | 0.0 |
| Access Clarity | 0.0 |

## Agent readiness — 36.3 (agent-ready)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| Idempotency | documented |
| Error Semantics | documented |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | no |
| Event Surface Described | yes |
| 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)

- **Parse REST API** — HTTP+JSON REST API for the Parse Platform: object CRUD and queries, users and sessions, roles, files, analytics and push. Parse Server is self-hosted, so the base URL is the ope...

## MCP servers (1)

- **Parse MCP Server**

## Security (3)

- **Parse Authentication** — apiKey · 5 schemes
- **Parse Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · DMARC
- **Parse Vulnerability Disclosure** — contact published

## Tags

Company, Backend-as-a-Service, Mobile, Open-Source, REST API, Database, Authentication, Push Notifications, Real-Time

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