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 2 APIs on the APIs.io network: Auth API and Files API. Tagged areas include Web3, IPFS, Storage, and Gateway.

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

🌐 Visit website 📡 Source on GitHub

29.0/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 25/100 agent aware saas Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-09-14 · rubric v0.22.0

AccessFreemiumSelf serve⚡ Free to try

1 APIs

Web3 IPFS Storage Gateway

Kin Score

Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-09-14 · rubric v0.22.0

Composite quality — 29.0/100 · thin

Contract Quality 12.7 / 23

Developer Ergonomics 4.3 / 18

Access Clarity 2.8 / 18

Operational Transparency 0.9 / 12

Contract Governance 0.0 / 11

Discoverability 6.0 / 9

Create-or-Update Ergonomics 0.0 / 10

Agent readiness — 25/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 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 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

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.

Improve this rating by publishing the missing artifacts — every area above can be raised, and the full rubric is at apis.io/rating/. Every facet and dimension name above is a link: it opens that measurement's own page — what it means, the exact checks that feed it, how the whole catalog distributes on it, and the providers at the top of it. This rating is computed from github.com/api-evangelist/pinata: open an issue to ask a question, or submit a pull request to add artifacts. Submit an artifact on GitHub — free → Manage your own listing — the Influence plan, $499/mo →

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 4

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

API Collection

OPEN COLLECTION

Pinata Auth API

OPEN COLLECTION

Pinata Auth Files API

OPEN COLLECTION

Pinata API

OPEN COLLECTION

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
- 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
  - 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

Work with this as data

Every provider here is available over the APIs.io API and to AI agents over MCP.

MCP server

One button, every client — Claude, Cursor, VS Code and the rest.

https://apis.io/mcp

Tools for providers

9 MCP tools reach this

find_providersBrowse and filter every provider in the catalog.
get_provider_artifactsEvery artifact this provider publishes, grouped by type.
get_provider_operationsEvery operation across all of their OpenAPIs — one call instead of parsing every spec.
get_provider_toolsEvery MCP tool they ship, with the operation each wraps.
get_provider_evidenceHow each part of their score was established. Free — the basis for a claim should not sit behind it.
get_provider_ratingPRO — composite, band, trend and facet scores.
apis_io_searchSTART HERE — APIs, providers and tags for one query, each with its total.
resolveTurn a domain, URL or GitHub org into the provider it belongs to.
find_cohortsEvery scored population of providers in the catalog.

All 92 tools →

Call it yourself

curl for this page

This provider

curl "https://apis.io/api/v1/providers/pinata"

All providers

curl "https://apis.io/api/v1/providers?limit=25"

Every operation they expose

curl "https://apis.io/api/v1/providers/pinata/operations?limit=25"

How their score was established

curl "https://apis.io/api/v1/providers/pinata/evidence"

Discovery needs no key. Ratings and market analysis are Pro.

Get an API key

Free tier, no form to fill in. Signing in shares your email address with us — we store it to create your key and to recognise you if you sign in with another provider. See our Privacy Policy and Terms.

GitHub Google LinkedIn

A second provider on the same verified email joins the account you already have.