# PlaceKitten

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/placekitten/  
**Website:** https://placekitten.com/  
**APIs profiled:** 1

Placeholder kitten image service. Free, no-auth REST contract: /{width}/{height} for color, /g/{width}/{height} for grayscale. Created by Mark James, inspired by placehold.it.

## Kin Score — 23.6 / 100 (emerging)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 23.6).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 66.7 |
| Contract Quality | 62.9 |
| Governance | 9.8 |
| Contract Governance | 9.8 |
| Operational Transparency | 0.0 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 0.0 |
| Commercial Clarity | 0.0 |
| Access Clarity | 0.0 |

## Agent readiness — 20.9 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | na |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | na |
| 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 | na |

## Access

Unknown — onboarding: unknown, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: low).

## APIs (1)

- **PlaceKitten Image API** — Placeholder image retrieval

## Agentic access (1)

- **Placekitten Agentic Access** — 2 operations

## Security (1)

- **Placekitten Domain Security** — TLSv1.3

## Tags

Animals, Public APIs, Placeholder, Image, Deprecated

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