Pinata

Pinata is an IPFS pinning and dedicated-gateway provider with a Files API, IPFS Pinning Service API, dedicated Gateways, Groups, and Workspaces. Built around IPFS CIDs with JWT-authenticated REST APIs and an SDK.

Pinata publishes 6 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network, including Auth API, Files API, and 4 more. Tagged areas include Web3, IPFS, Storage, and Gateways.

Pinata’s developer surface includes authentication, engineering blog, and 9 more developer resources.

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25.5/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 33/100 agent ready Front door AI 4/6 moderate saas Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-10-23 · rubric v0.25.0 · Show this score on your site →

AccessFreemiumSelf serve⚡ Free to try

1 published contract 1 MCP Servers

Web3 IPFS Storage Gateways

Kin Score

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scored 2026-10-23 · rubric v0.25.0

Composite quality — 25.5/100 · emerging

Contract Quality 9.5 / 19

Developer Ergonomics 3.6 / 15

Access Clarity 1.2 / 15

Operational Transparency 0.8 / 10

Contract Governance 0.0 / 9

Discoverability 5.0 / 8

Regulatory Posture 1.8 / 15

Create-or-Update Ergonomics 0.0 / 10

Agent readiness — 33/100 · agent ready

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 12 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 7 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 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

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Create-or-Update Ergonomics applies to this provider. This API accepts writes, so it carries 10 points of the composite. It is scored from the published contracts themselves: whether a caller can create-or-update in one call, whether the write accepts a key the caller already holds, and whether the response says which branch ran. Without that, every write needs a search-and-branch in front of it, and the first time that check is skipped a duplicate record is created. Scored against the observed mean rather than raw — a provider at the catalog average is unchanged by this facet, not penalised by it.

The six quality facets above are damped to 75 points between them, because the conditional facet above carries the other 25. That is why each facet's contribution is shown against a damped maximum: raising a quality facet moves the composite by 75% of its nominal weight, not 100%. The full arithmetic is at apis.io/rating/.

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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
Raycast Store Extensions (first-party publishers + community-wrapped products)	undeclared	-	-	-

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 6

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

Pinata Files API

REST API for uploading, listing, organizing, and deleting files pinned to IPFS or stored privately. Supports public and private (Submarine) modes, signed URLs, and Groups.

Pinata IPFS Pinning Service API

Implementation of the IPFS Pinning Service API standard for compatibility with go-ipfs / kubo and js-ipfs clients.

Pinata Dedicated Gateway

Dedicated IPFS HTTP gateway endpoint per account for content retrieval with custom subdomain, access controls, and analytics.

Pinata Groups API

REST API for organizing CIDs into named Groups with bulk add/remove operations.

Pinata Auth API

Test API credentials.

Pinata Files API

Upload, list, and manage pinned files.

Open Collections 3

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

Pinata Auth API

OPEN COLLECTION

Pinata Auth Files API

OPEN COLLECTION

Pinata API

OPEN COLLECTION

MCP Servers 1

Model Context Protocol servers that expose these APIs to AI agents.

Pinata MCP Server

Remote MCP server at docs.pinata.cloud over HTTP; 3 tools listed.

MCP SERVER

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Pinata Plans Pricing

5 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Pinata Rate Limits

2 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Pinata Finops

FINOPS

Security Posture 2

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

Pinata Authentication

http · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Pinata Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Pinata Agentic Access

5 operations · 2 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Agent Surfaces 2

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

AgenticAccess

LlmsText

LlmsText

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Authentication

Authentication

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

RateLimits

RateLimits

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Plans

Plans

FinOps

FinOps

Company 3

The organization behind the API

LinkedIn

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

Source (apis.yml)

aid: pinata
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/pinata/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
name: Pinata
kind: company
description: Pinata is an IPFS pinning and dedicated-gateway provider with a Files API, IPFS Pinning Service API, dedicated
  Gateways, Groups, and Workspaces. Built around IPFS CIDs with JWT-authenticated REST APIs and an SDK.
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: true
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: high
  source:
  - openapi
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: freemium
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: true
  public: false
  label: Freemium · Self-serve signup
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  - security
  generated: '2026-09-03'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/pinata.png
tags:
- Web3
- IPFS
- Storage
- Gateways
tags_raw:
- Web3
- IPFS
- Storage
- Gateway
created: '2026-05-08'
modified: '2026-05-08'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- aid: pinata:files-api
  name: Pinata Files API
  description: REST API for uploading, listing, organizing, and deleting files pinned to IPFS or stored privately. Supports
    public and private (Submarine) modes, signed URLs, and Groups.
  humanURL: https://docs.pinata.cloud/api-reference/endpoint/upload-a-file
  baseURL: https://api.pinata.cloud/v3
  tags:
  - REST
  - IPFS
  - File
  tags_raw:
  - REST
  - IPFS
  - Files
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.pinata.cloud/api-reference
- aid: pinata:pinning-service-api
  name: Pinata IPFS Pinning Service API
  description: Implementation of the IPFS Pinning Service API standard for compatibility with go-ipfs / kubo and js-ipfs clients.
  humanURL: https://docs.pinata.cloud/api-reference/endpoint/ipfs-pinning-service-api
  baseURL: https://api.pinata.cloud/psa
  tags:
  - REST
  - IPFS
  - Pinning Service
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.pinata.cloud/api-reference/endpoint/ipfs-pinning-service-api
- aid: pinata:gateway-api
  name: Pinata Dedicated Gateway
  description: Dedicated IPFS HTTP gateway endpoint per account for content retrieval with custom subdomain, access controls,
    and analytics.
  humanURL: https://docs.pinata.cloud/gateways/dedicated-ipfs-gateways
  baseURL: https://{your-gateway}.mypinata.cloud
  tags:
  - HTTP
  - Gateways
  tags_raw:
  - HTTP
  - Gateway
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.pinata.cloud/gateways/dedicated-ipfs-gateways
- aid: pinata:groups-api
  name: Pinata Groups API
  description: REST API for organizing CIDs into named Groups with bulk add/remove operations.
  humanURL: https://docs.pinata.cloud/api-reference/endpoint/v3-create-a-public-group
  baseURL: https://api.pinata.cloud/v3
  tags:
  - REST
  - Group
  tags_raw:
  - REST
  - Groups
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.pinata.cloud/api-reference/endpoint/v3-create-a-public-group
- aid: pinata:pinata-auth-api
  name: Pinata Auth API
  description: Test API credentials.
  humanURL: https://docs.pinata.cloud/api-reference/endpoint/upload-a-file
  baseURL: https://api.pinata.cloud/v3
  tags:
  - Authentication
  tags_raw:
  - Auth
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/pinata-auth-api-openapi.yml
- aid: pinata:pinata-files-api
  name: Pinata Files API
  description: Upload, list, and manage pinned files.
  humanURL: https://docs.pinata.cloud/api-reference/endpoint/upload-a-file
  baseURL: https://api.pinata.cloud/v3
  tags:
  - File
  tags_raw:
  - Files
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/pinata-files-api-openapi.yml
common:
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/pinata-agentic-access.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/pinata-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/pinata-authentication.yml
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/PinataCloud
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/pinatacloud
- type: Website
  url: https://pinata.cloud/
- type: Plans
  url: plans/pinata-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/pinata-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/pinata-finops.yml
- type: LlmsText
  url: https://docs.pinata.cloud/llms.txt
- type: Blog
  url: https://pinata.cloud/blog/rss/
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com

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