# Planet

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/planet/  
**Website:** https://docs.planet.com  
**APIs profiled:** 6

Planet Labs PBC operates the largest constellation of Earth-imaging satellites, capturing a daily scan of the planet's landmass and delivering that imagery, along with derived Planetary Variables and analytics, through a suite of public developer APIs. The Planet Platform exposes a Data API for searching the imagery catalog, an Orders API for requesting and delivering scenes, a Subscriptions API for continuous cloud delivery, a Basemaps API for mosaics, a Tasking API for commanding high-resolution SkySat and Pelican captures, and a Features API for managing areas of interest. All APIs are served from api.planet.com and secured with API keys (HTTP Basic) or OAuth2/OIDC through login.planet.com. Planet ships an official Python SDK and CLI, an experimental Model Context Protocol server, QGIS and ArcGIS plugins, and a large open-source notebook collection. Planet is a portfolio company of DCVC.

## Kin Score — 41.4 / 100 (developing)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 41.4).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 92.6 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 18.2 |
| Contract Governance | 18.2 |
| Operational Transparency | 47.4 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 71.4 |
| Commercial Clarity | 47.4 |
| Access Clarity | 47.4 |

## Agent readiness — 12.6 (agent-aware)

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

## Access

Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: medium).

## APIs (6)

- **Planet Data API** — Programmatically search Planet's imagery catalog by geometry, date range, cloud cover and other filters, then discover the items and downloadable assets that match. Supports ite...
- **Planet Orders API** — Request downloads and cloud delivery of Planet imagery, apply raster and band tools (clipping, harmonization, composites), and deliver results to cloud storage destinations.
- **Planet Subscriptions API** — Set up continuous, hands-off cloud delivery of new imagery and Planetary Variables for an area of interest as it becomes available.
- **Planet Basemaps API** — Access and download Planet's global and regional basemap mosaics, list series and quads, and retrieve mosaic metadata.
- **Planet Tasking API** — Command high-resolution SkySat and Pelican satellites to capture new imagery of a target, manage tasking orders, and track capture status.
- **Planet Features API** — Save and manage reusable areas of interest (feature collections) that can be referenced across the Data, Orders, Subscriptions and Tasking APIs.

## MCP servers (1)

- **Planet MCP Server** — Official experimental Model Context Protocol server from Planet, built on the Planet Python SDK. Runs locally over stdio and lets an AI agent (Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Gemin...

## Security (4)

- **Planet Authentication** — apiKey/oauth2/openIdConnect · 3 schemes
- **Planet Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC
- **Planet Vulnerability Disclosure** — Hackerone
- **Planet Trust Center** — ISO/IEC 27001:2022, ISO/IEC 42001:2023, ISO 9001:2015, UK Cyber Essentials, CMMC Level 2

## Tags

Satellite Imagery, Earth Observation, Geospatial, Remote Sensing, Mapping, Analytics, Location, Data, GIS, OGC, STAC, WMTS, Company

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