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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.

60.1/100 strong ▬ flat Agent 26/100 agent aware Front door AI 1/6 silent Heartbeat 100/100 alive saas Full breakdown ↓
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AccessFreemiumSelf serve⚡ Free to try
1 published contract 3 Agent Skills
Company3DGame EngineWebGLWebGPUGraphicsDeveloper ToolsGaussian SplattingRendering

Kin Score

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scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0
Regulatory Posture applies to this provider. Its tags matched the Horizontal (data, software, accessibility, platform) regime, so Regulatory Posture carries 15 points of the composite. If this regime is wrong for your business, say so on your provider repo — the applicability map is public and we will correct it.
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The six quality facets above are damped to 75 points between them, because the conditional facet above carries the other 25. That is why each facet's contribution is shown against a damped maximum: raising a quality facet moves the composite by 75% of its nominal weight, not 100%. The full arithmetic is at apis.io/rating/.
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Agent readiness — checks not met, largest first (exact, from this profile):
  • MCP Server +12 pts — deployment.mode + probe verdict on the mcp/ manifest, not the pointer; an unprobed slug falls back to authorship
  • Agentic Access Contract +10 pts — agentic_access artifact present (x-agentic-access), graded by author
  • Idempotency +9 pts — OpenAPI mutating operations declare an idempotency key — a header, a request-body property, or a named de-duplication token whose own description says so (verified); else common[].type matches /idempoten/i (documented)
  • A2A Agent Card +8 pts — a2a/-a2a.yml manifest, graded on conformance.grade against A2A 1.0.0
  • Registration Without a Human +6 pts — a `registration_endpoint` in the served RFC 8414 / OIDC discovery document
  • Delegated User Identity +6 pts — a served discovery document listing authorization_code in grant_types_supported (served), else an oauth2 authorizationCode flow or openIdConnect declared in an OpenAPI (documented)
7 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.
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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.

MarketPositionDepthRegistered MCP serverDeclares 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.

measured — observed by APIs.io (published)

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 COLLECTION

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Agent Skills 3

Packaged agent skills for driving this provider's APIs from an AI assistant.

PlayCanvas API pricing

Prices published by PlayCanvas, read 2026-10-28 from playcanvas.com/plans.

PlanPrice
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

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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

6 limits

RATE LIMITS

Service Levels 1

Uptime the provider promises or reports, as SLA4OAI. Read from its own pages; APIs.io runs no monitors.

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Spectral Rules 1

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

PlayCanvas API Rules

72 rules · 65 errors 4 warnings 3 info

SPECTRAL

OpenAPI 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

3 actions · update · playcanvas-rest-openapi.yml

DERIVED

Security Posture 2

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

Playcanvas Authentication

http · 1 scheme

SECURITY

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)

apis.yml Raw ↑
aid: playcanvas
name: PlayCanvas
description: 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.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/playcanvas/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- 500-global
- techstars
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
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
  gated: none
  gated_source:
  - onboarding
  label: Freemium · Self-serve signup
  confidence: high
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  - rate-limits
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-06'
  method: derived
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-10-06'
image: https://playcanvas.com/static-assets/images/social/playcanvas.png
x-docs-platform: docusaurus
x-docs-platform-confidence: medium
x-docs-platform-checked: 2026-10-04
x-docs-hosting: github-pages
tags:
- Company
- 3D
- Game Engine
- WebGL
- WebGPU
- Graphics
- Developer Tools
- Gaussian Splatting
- Rendering
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
apis:
- aid: playcanvas:playcanvas-apps-api
  name: PlayCanvas Apps API
  description: Published applications and self-hostable app downloads.
  humanURL: https://developer.playcanvas.com/user-manual/api/
  baseURL: https://playcanvas.com/api
  tags:
  - Application
  tags_raw:
  - Apps
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/playcanvas-apps-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.playcanvas.com/user-manual/api/
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/playcanvas-authentication.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: rate-limits/playcanvas-rate-limits.yml
  - type: ErrorCatalog
    url: errors/playcanvas-problem-types.yml
  - type: DataModel
    url: data-model/playcanvas-data-model.yml
  - type: Conventions
    url: conventions/playcanvas-conventions.yml
- aid: playcanvas:playcanvas-assets-api
  name: PlayCanvas Assets API
  description: Project asset create/read/update/delete.
  humanURL: https://developer.playcanvas.com/user-manual/api/
  baseURL: https://playcanvas.com/api
  tags:
  - Assets
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/playcanvas-assets-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.playcanvas.com/user-manual/api/
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/playcanvas-authentication.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: rate-limits/playcanvas-rate-limits.yml
  - type: ErrorCatalog
    url: errors/playcanvas-problem-types.yml
  - type: DataModel
    url: data-model/playcanvas-data-model.yml
  - type: Conventions
    url: conventions/playcanvas-conventions.yml
- aid: playcanvas:playcanvas-branches-api
  name: PlayCanvas Branches API
  description: Version-control branches.
  humanURL: https://developer.playcanvas.com/user-manual/api/
  baseURL: https://playcanvas.com/api
  tags:
  - Branches
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/playcanvas-branches-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.playcanvas.com/user-manual/api/
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/playcanvas-authentication.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: rate-limits/playcanvas-rate-limits.yml
  - type: ErrorCatalog
    url: errors/playcanvas-problem-types.yml
  - type: DataModel
    url: data-model/playcanvas-data-model.yml
  - type: Conventions
    url: conventions/playcanvas-conventions.yml
- aid: playcanvas:playcanvas-checkpoints-api
  name: PlayCanvas Checkpoints API
  description: Branch checkpoints (snapshots).
  humanURL: https://developer.playcanvas.com/user-manual/api/
  baseURL: https://playcanvas.com/api
  tags:
  - Checkpoints
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/playcanvas-checkpoints-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.playcanvas.com/user-manual/api/
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/playcanvas-authentication.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: rate-limits/playcanvas-rate-limits.yml
  - type: ErrorCatalog
    url: errors/playcanvas-problem-types.yml
  - type: DataModel
    url: data-model/playcanvas-data-model.yml
  - type: Conventions
    url: conventions/playcanvas-conventions.yml
- aid: playcanvas:playcanvas-jobs-api
  name: PlayCanvas Jobs API
  description: Asynchronous job polling.
  humanURL: https://developer.playcanvas.com/user-manual/api/
  baseURL: https://playcanvas.com/api
  tags:
  - Job
  tags_raw:
  - Jobs
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/playcanvas-jobs-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.playcanvas.com/user-manual/api/
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/playcanvas-authentication.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: rate-limits/playcanvas-rate-limits.yml
  - type: ErrorCatalog
    url: errors/playcanvas-problem-types.yml
  - type: DataModel
    url: data-model/playcanvas-data-model.yml
  - type: Conventions
    url: conventions/playcanvas-conventions.yml
- aid: playcanvas:playcanvas-projects-api
  name: PlayCanvas Projects API
  description: Project-level operations.
  humanURL: https://developer.playcanvas.com/user-manual/api/
  baseURL: https://playcanvas.com/api
  tags:
  - Project
  tags_raw:
  - Projects
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/playcanvas-projects-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.playcanvas.com/user-manual/api/
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/playcanvas-authentication.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: rate-limits/playcanvas-rate-limits.yml
  - type: ErrorCatalog
    url: errors/playcanvas-problem-types.yml
  - type: DataModel
    url: data-model/playcanvas-data-model.yml
  - type: Conventions
    url: conventions/playcanvas-conventions.yml
- aid: playcanvas:playcanvas-scenes-api
  name: PlayCanvas Scenes API
  description: Project scenes.
  humanURL: https://developer.playcanvas.com/user-manual/api/
  baseURL: https://playcanvas.com/api
  tags:
  - Scenes
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/playcanvas-scenes-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.playcanvas.com/user-manual/api/
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/playcanvas-authentication.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: rate-limits/playcanvas-rate-limits.yml
  - type: ErrorCatalog
    url: errors/playcanvas-problem-types.yml
  - type: DataModel
    url: data-model/playcanvas-data-model.yml
  - type: Conventions
    url: conventions/playcanvas-conventions.yml
- aid: playcanvas:playcanvas-splats-api
  name: PlayCanvas Splats API
  description: SuperSplat Gaussian-splat publishing.
  humanURL: https://developer.playcanvas.com/user-manual/api/
  baseURL: https://playcanvas.com/api
  tags:
  - Splats
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/playcanvas-splats-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.playcanvas.com/user-manual/api/
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/playcanvas-authentication.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: rate-limits/playcanvas-rate-limits.yml
  - type: ErrorCatalog
    url: errors/playcanvas-problem-types.yml
  - type: DataModel
    url: data-model/playcanvas-data-model.yml
  - type: Conventions
    url: conventions/playcanvas-conventions.yml
- aid: playcanvas:playcanvas-rate-limits-api
  name: PlayCanvas Rate Limits API
  description: Account rate-limit inspection.
  humanURL: https://developer.playcanvas.com/user-manual/api/
  baseURL: https://playcanvas.com/api
  tags:
  - Rate Limits
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/playcanvas-rate-limits-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.playcanvas.com/user-manual/api/
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/playcanvas-authentication.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: rate-limits/playcanvas-rate-limits.yml
  - type: ErrorCatalog
    url: errors/playcanvas-problem-types.yml
  - type: DataModel
    url: data-model/playcanvas-data-model.yml
  - type: Conventions
    url: conventions/playcanvas-conventions.yml
common:
- type: Plans
  url: plans/playcanvas-plans-pricing.yml
- url: https://blog.playcanvas.com/rss.xml
  type: BlogRSS
- type: Overlay
  url: overlays/playcanvas-rest-overlay.yaml
- type: Website
  url: https://playcanvas.com
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://developer.playcanvas.com
- type: Documentation
  url: https://developer.playcanvas.com/user-manual/
- type: APIReference
  url: https://api.playcanvas.com
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://developer.playcanvas.com/user-manual/getting-started/
- type: Blog
  url: https://blog.playcanvas.com
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/playcanvas
- type: Support
  url: https://forum.playcanvas.com
- type: Pricing
  url: https://playcanvas.com/plans
- type: SignUp
  url: https://login.playcanvas.com/signup
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://playcanvas.com/terms
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://playcanvas.com/privacy
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/playcanvas-authentication.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/playcanvas-domain-security.yml
- type: Packages
  url: packages/playcanvas-packages.yml
- type: SDKs
  url: packages/playcanvas-packages.yml
- type: Components
  url: components/playcanvas-components.yml
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/playcanvas-well-known.yml
- type: X-MCPServerCandidate
  url: mcp/playcanvas-mcp.yml
  note: 'Renamed from MCPServer 2026-09-03 (roadmap#247): the manifest self-describes as status: candidate — a tool list derived
    from the published API contracts, not an existing server. The scorer already read the manifest and reported mcp_server
    correctly; the MCPServer type was crediting the artifact-type surfaces with a server that does not exist.'
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/playcanvas-llms.txt
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/playcanvas-conformance.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/playcanvas-lifecycle.yml
- type: ChangeLog
  url: changelog/playcanvas-changelog.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/playcanvas-rate-limits.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/playcanvas-conventions.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/playcanvas-problem-types.yml
- type: DataModel
  url: data-model/playcanvas-data-model.yml
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/_index.yml
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-20'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 17
  pass: local-v1

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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