Plakar

Plakar is an open-source, end-to-end encrypted, deduplicated backup and restore platform powered by Kloset, an immutable data store engine. It encrypts and deduplicates data at the source before it leaves your system (encryption keys stay in your own secret manager), stores it in a non-proprietary format on S3-compatible, cloud, or local backends, and supports immutable object-lock backups for zero-trust data protection. Plakar ships a CLI and built-in web UI, an official Go SDK (go-kloset-sdk), and a proto3 gRPC connector protocol for building custom importers, exporters, and storage backends. Sources include PostgreSQL, MySQL/MariaDB, Kubernetes, Proxmox, VMware vSphere, S3, SFTP, and many cloud drives. The commercial self-hosted Plakar Control Plane adds organization-wide scheduling, SLA management, and centralized administration. Backed by Seedcamp.

Plakar is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Backup, Data Protection, Disaster Recovery, and Open-Source.

Plakar’s developer surface includes documentation, getting-started guide, engineering blog, support, CLI, changelog, and 15 more developer resources.

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35.9/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 13/100 agent aware saas Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0

0 APIs

Company Backup Data Protection Disaster Recovery Open-Source Encryption Deduplication Storage CLI gRPCGo SDKKubernetes

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scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0

Composite quality — 35.9/100 · thin

Contract Quality 6.7 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 10.5 / 20

Access Clarity 7.4 / 20

Operational Transparency 3.4 / 13

Contract Governance 2.2 / 12

Discoverability 5.7 / 10

Agent readiness — 13/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 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

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Security Posture 2

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

Plakar Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · DMARC

SECURITY

Plakar Trust Center

SOC 2, ISO 27001

SECURITY

Resources

Get Started 2

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

DeveloperPortal

DeveloperPortal

GettingStarted

GettingStarted

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

LLMsTxt

LLMsTxt

Design & Contract 2

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Conformance

Conformance

Lifecycle

Lifecycle

Build 4

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization

Packages

SDKs

CLI

Access & Security 3

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

TrustCenter

TrustCenter

Compliance

Compliance

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 3

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support

Support

StatusPage

StatusPage

ChangeLog

ChangeLog

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

TermsOfService

TermsOfService

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Protobuf

Protobuf

Source (apis.yml)

aid: plakar
name: Plakar
description: Plakar is an open-source, end-to-end encrypted, deduplicated backup and restore platform powered by Kloset, an
  immutable data store engine. It encrypts and deduplicates data at the source before it leaves your system (encryption keys
  stay in your own secret manager), stores it in a non-proprietary format on S3-compatible, cloud, or local backends, and
  supports immutable object-lock backups for zero-trust data protection. Plakar ships a CLI and built-in web UI, an official
  Go SDK (go-kloset-sdk), and a proto3 gRPC connector protocol for building custom importers, exporters, and storage backends.
  Sources include PostgreSQL, MySQL/MariaDB, Kubernetes, Proxmox, VMware vSphere, S3, SFTP, and many cloud drives. The commercial
  self-hosted Plakar Control Plane adds organization-wide scheduling, SLA management, and centralized administration. Backed
  by Seedcamp.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/plakar/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- seedcamp
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: []
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-20'
image: https://plakar.io/branding/
tags:
- Company
- Backup
- Data Protection
- Disaster Recovery
- Open-Source
- Encryption
- Deduplication
- Storage
- CLI
- gRPC
- Go SDK
- Kubernetes
tags_raw:
- Company
- Backup
- Data Protection
- Disaster Recovery
- Open Source
- Encryption
- Deduplication
- Storage
- CLI
- gRPC
- Go SDK
- Kubernetes
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: Website
  url: http://plakar.io
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://plakar.io/docs
- type: Documentation
  url: https://plakar.io/docs
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://plakar.io/docs/community/v1.1.0/quickstart/first-backup
- type: Blog
  url: https://plakar.io/posts
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/PlakarKorp
- type: Support
  url: https://discord.gg/uuegtnF2Q5
- type: StatusPage
  url: https://status.plakar.io
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://plakar.io/privacy-policy/
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://plakar.io/legal-notice/
- type: TrustCenter
  url: security/plakar-trust-center.yml
- type: Compliance
  url: https://trust.plakar.io
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/plakar-domain-security.yml
- type: Packages
  url: packages/plakar-packages.yml
- type: SDKs
  url: packages/plakar-packages.yml
- type: CLI
  url: cli/plakar-cli.yml
- type: Protobuf
  url: grpc/plakar-connectors.proto
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/plakar-conformance.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/plakar-lifecycle.yml
- type: ChangeLog
  url: changelog/plakar-changelog.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/plakar-llms.txt
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-20'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 9
  pass: local-v1

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