PlayCanvas
PlayCanvas is an open-source WebGL/WebGPU 3D engine and cloud platform for building games, product configurators, and interactive 3D experiences that run in any web browser. It offers a browser-based collaborative Editor, a standalone engine on npm/CDN, React components, and Web Components, plus the SuperSplat toolchain for Gaussian-splat capture and publishing. PlayCanvas exposes a REST API (beta) for automating the platform — managing project assets, version-control branches and checkpoints, listing scenes, exporting projects, downloading self-hostable apps, polling asynchronous jobs, and publishing splats — authenticated with Bearer access tokens over HTTPS.
PlayCanvas publishes 9 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network, including Apps API, Assets API, Branches API, and 6 more. Tagged areas include Company, 3D, Game Engine, WebGL, and WebGPU.
The PlayCanvas catalog on APIs.io includes 1 Spectral governance ruleset.
PlayCanvas’ developer surface includes documentation, API reference, getting-started guide, engineering blog, support, pricing, signup flow, and 24 more developer resources.
Kin Score
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| XR & Graphics (XR, 3D, GPU graphics) | distribution | 9.6 (thin) | - | 1 |
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.
Standards implemented 1
Standards this provider implements or carries. De facto ones are profiled and measured by the API Commons; formal ones come from the standards directory and are linked by the provider's own tags. The evidence column says how each claim was established — not that it was made.
APIs 9
Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.
PlayCanvas Apps API
Published applications and self-hostable app downloads.
PlayCanvas Assets API
Project asset create/read/update/delete.
PlayCanvas Branches API
Version-control branches.
PlayCanvas Checkpoints API
Branch checkpoints (snapshots).
PlayCanvas Jobs API
Asynchronous job polling.
PlayCanvas Projects API
Project-level operations.
PlayCanvas Scenes API
Project scenes.
PlayCanvas Splats API
SuperSplat Gaussian-splat publishing.
PlayCanvas Rate Limits API
Account rate-limit inspection.
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Open Collections 9
Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).
PlayCanvas REST Apps API
OPEN COLLECTIONPlayCanvas REST Apps Assets API
OPEN COLLECTIONPlayCanvas REST Apps Branches API
OPEN COLLECTIONPlayCanvas REST Apps Checkpoints API
OPEN COLLECTIONPlayCanvas REST Apps Jobs API
OPEN COLLECTIONPlayCanvas REST Apps Projects API
OPEN COLLECTIONPlayCanvas REST Apps RateLimits API
OPEN COLLECTIONPlayCanvas REST Apps Scenes API
OPEN COLLECTIONPlayCanvas REST Apps Splats API
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Agent Skills 3
Packaged agent skills for driving this provider's APIs from an AI assistant.
Branch and checkpoint a PlayCanvas project
AGENT SKILLManage PlayCanvas project assets
AGENT SKILLPlayCanvas API pricing
Prices published by PlayCanvas, read 2026-10-28 from playcanvas.com/plans.
| Plan | Price |
|---|---|
| Free | $0/ month Includes: 1GB Storage, Unlimited Public Projects, Free App Hosting, Access to REST API |
| Personal | $15/ month Includes: 10GB Storage, Unlimited Private Projects |
| Organization | $50 per seat/ month Includes: 50GB Storage, Team Management, Unlimited Private Projects |
Plan details, limits and sources →
Rate limits
- Normal (free): 120 requests per minute
- Normal (paid): 240 requests per minute
- Strict (free): 5 requests per minute
Billed by: seat · FinOps profile →
Pricing Plans 2
Published pricing tiers and plan structures.
Rate Limits 1
Documented rate limits and quota policies.
Playcanvas Rate Limits
RATE LIMITSService Levels 1
Uptime the provider promises or reports, as SLA4OAI. Read from its own pages; APIs.io runs no monitors.
PlayCanvas
SLAFinOps 1
Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.
Playcanvas Finops
FINOPSSpectral Rules 1
Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.
PlayCanvas API Rules
SPECTRALOpenAPI Overlays 1
Overlays applied on top of this provider's contracts. Each card says who wrote it: a document the provider publishes, or one API Evangelist derived or generated.
Playcanvas Rest Overlay
DERIVEDSecurity Posture 2
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.
Resources
Get Started 3
Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call
Documentation 2
Reference material describing how the API behaves
Agent Surfaces 4
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Design & Contract 6
Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events
Build 3
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
Access & Security 2
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Operate 3
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Commercial 4
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 3
The organization behind the API
Other 1
Properties that don't map to a standard resource type
Source (apis.yml)
PlayCanvas API — frequently asked questions
Does PlayCanvas have an API?
Yes. APIs.io lists 9 APIs from PlayCanvas, including PlayCanvas Apps API, PlayCanvas Assets API and PlayCanvas Branches API, and 6 more.
Is there an OpenAPI specification for the PlayCanvas API?
Yes. APIs.io indexes 9 OpenAPI specifications for PlayCanvas, each linked for download from this page.
How do I authenticate with the PlayCanvas API?
PlayCanvas uses bearer-token authentication (http · 1 scheme). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Playcanvas Authentication.
How much does the PlayCanvas API cost?
PlayCanvas publishes its prices; its Free plan is $0/ month as of 2026-10-28. APIs.io lists 3 pricing plans for PlayCanvas, with each plan's price, limits and inclusions under Pricing on this page.
Is the PlayCanvas API ready for AI agents?
PlayCanvas has a Kin Score of 60.1 out of 100 (strong) and an Agent Readiness score of 26.2 (agent-aware), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.
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