Podman

Podman is a daemonless, open-source container engine for developing, managing, and running OCI containers on Linux, supporting both rootful and rootless operation as a drop-in replacement for Docker. The Podman REST API exposes a Docker-compatible surface alongside Libpod-specific endpoints for pods, volumes, networks, secrets, generators, and system management.

Podman publishes 18 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network, including Artifacts API, Containers API, containers (compat) API, and 15 more. Tagged areas include Cloud-Native, Containers, DevOps, OCI, and Open Source.

The Podman catalog on APIs.io includes 1 Spectral governance ruleset.

Podman’s developer surface includes documentation, engineering blog, getting-started guide, and 18 more developer resources.

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38.1/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 21/100 agent aware Front door AI 1/6 silent self hosted · Apache-2.0 Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-11-13 · rubric v0.28.0 · Show this score on your site →

AccessFreemium

1 published contract

Cloud-Native Containers DevOps OCI Open Source

What this lets a business do 1

Business capabilities this provider's published APIs can perform, derived from its own contracts. Browse all capabilities →

Information Technology Management

BC-600

ContainersNetworksPodsVolumesnetworks (compat)volumes (compat)

POST /libpod/containers/{name}/checkpoint POST /libpod/containers/{name}/kill POST /libpod/networks/{name}/connect POST /libpod/networks/create

Kin Score

Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-11-13 · rubric v0.28.0

Composite quality — 38.1/100 · thin

Contract Quality 8.3 / 16

Developer Ergonomics 3.4 / 13

Access Clarity 1.7 / 13

Operational Transparency 3.0 / 8

Contract Governance 1.1 / 8

Discoverability 4.3 / 7

Regulatory Posture 0.9 / 15

Open Source Surface 10.0 / 10

Create-or-Update Ergonomics 0.0 / 10

Agent readiness — 21/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

Documented Reversibility 6 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 7 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 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

Pagination 0 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

MCP Tool Quality 6 / 6

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.

Open Source Surface applies to this provider. This product is open source and we read its repository directly, so Open Source Surface carries 10 points of the composite. It is scored from what the repository actually publishes — a security policy, a contribution guide, a release history, a code of conduct — read live from the provider rather than inferred from our own catalog pointers. This facet adds; nothing was taken away to make room for it. An open-source project is not excused from the commercial facets, because exemption would strip it of the points it does earn. If we have the wrong repository, or this product is not open source, say so on your provider repo and we will drop the facet rather than have you publish against it.

Create-or-Update Ergonomics applies to this provider. This API accepts writes, so it carries 10 points of the composite. It is scored from the published contracts themselves: whether a caller can create-or-update in one call, whether the write accepts a key the caller already holds, and whether the response says which branch ran. Without that, every write needs a search-and-branch in front of it, and the first time that check is skipped a duplicate record is created. Scored against the observed mean rather than raw — a provider at the catalog average is unchanged by this facet, not penalised by it.

The six quality facets above are damped to 65 points between them, because both conditional facets apply and carry 35 points together. That is why each facet's contribution is shown against a damped maximum: raising a quality facet moves the composite by 65% 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 Ask about this →
Machine-Readable Auth +10 pts — a served openid-configuration/oauth-authorization-server carrying `issuer` (served), else the securitySchemes class in the provider OpenAPIs — bound (mutualTLS, DPoP, Signature) > negotiable (oauth2 authorizationCode/clientCredentials, openIdConnect) > bearer (http bearer, apiKey) Ask about this →
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) Ask about this →
Stable Error Semantics +8 pts — OpenAPI $refs a shared error schema across 4xx/5xx responses (verified), else common[].type includes ErrorCatalog / ErrorCodes / DeclineCodes Ask about this →
A2A Agent Card +8 pts — a2a/-a2a.yml manifest, graded on conformance.grade against A2A 1.0.0 Ask about this →
Registration Without a Human +6 pts — a `registration_endpoint` in the served RFC 8414 / OIDC discovery document Ask about this →

9 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

Kin Score — facets with the most composite points still available (weight × headroom):

Access Clarity scores 12.8 — up to +17.4 composite points Ask about this →
Developer Ergonomics scores 26.2 — up to +14.8 composite points Ask about this →
Contract Quality scores 51.3 — up to +12.2 composite points Ask about this →

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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.

Market	Position	Depth	Registered MCP server	Declares compatibility
OpenSSF Best Practices Badge Holders	standard	40.9 (thin)	-	-

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.

OpenAPI

measured — observed by APIs.io (published)

APIs 18

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Podman Artifacts API

Actions related to artifacts

Podman Containers API

Actions related to containers

Podman containers (compat) API

Actions related to containers for the compatibility endpoints

Podman Exec API

Actions related to exec

Podman exec (compat) API

Actions related to exec for the compatibility endpoints

Podman Images API

Actions related to images

Podman images (compat) API

Actions related to images for the compatibility endpoints

Podman Manifests API

Actions related to manifests

Podman Networks API

Actions related to networks

Podman networks (compat) API

Actions related to networks for the compatibility endpoints

Podman Pods API

Actions related to pods

Podman Quadlets API

The quadlets API from Podman — 5 operation(s) for quadlets.

Podman Secrets API

Actions related to secrets

Podman secrets (compat) API

Actions related to secrets for the compatibility endpoints

Podman System API

Actions related to Podman engine

Podman system (compat) API

Actions related to Podman and compatibility engines

Podman Volumes API

Actions related to volumes

Podman volumes (compat) API

Actions related to volumes for the compatibility endpoints

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Open Collections 19

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

supports a RESTful API for the Libpod library artifacts API

OPEN COLLECTION

supports a RESTful API for the Libpod library artifacts containers API

OPEN COLLECTION

supports a RESTful API for the Libpod library artifacts containers (compat) API

OPEN COLLECTION

supports a RESTful API for the Libpod library artifacts exec API

OPEN COLLECTION

supports a RESTful API for the Libpod library artifacts exec (compat) API

OPEN COLLECTION

supports a RESTful API for the Libpod library artifacts images API

OPEN COLLECTION

supports a RESTful API for the Libpod library artifacts images (compat) API

OPEN COLLECTION

supports a RESTful API for the Libpod library artifacts manifests API

OPEN COLLECTION

supports a RESTful API for the Libpod library artifacts networks API

OPEN COLLECTION

supports a RESTful API for the Libpod library artifacts networks (compat) API

OPEN COLLECTION

supports a RESTful API for the Libpod library artifacts pods API

OPEN COLLECTION

supports a RESTful API for the Libpod library artifacts quadlets API

OPEN COLLECTION

supports a RESTful API for the Libpod library artifacts secrets API

OPEN COLLECTION

supports a RESTful API for the Libpod library artifacts secrets (compat) API

OPEN COLLECTION

supports a RESTful API for the Libpod library artifacts system API

OPEN COLLECTION

supports a RESTful API for the Libpod library artifacts system (compat) API

OPEN COLLECTION

supports a RESTful API for the Libpod library artifacts volumes API

OPEN COLLECTION

supports a RESTful API for the Libpod library artifacts volumes (compat) API

OPEN COLLECTION

supports a RESTful API for the Libpod library

OPEN COLLECTION

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Podman API pricing

Not yet checked against Podman's own pricing page. Compiled by API Evangelist on 2026-05-04; confirm before you rely on a figure. A free plan or tier is listed.

Plan	Price
Free freemium	Free
Professional paid	Free
Enterprise enterprise	—

Plan details, limits and sources →

Rate limits

Free Tier Default: 10 requests per minute
Free Tier Monthly Quota: 1000 requests per month
Professional Tier Default: 100 requests per minute

Compiled by API Evangelist, not yet checked against Podman's documentation. All 5 limits →

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Podman Plans Pricing

3 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Podman Rate Limits

5 limits

RATE LIMITS

Terms of Service 1

What its API terms permit and prohibit, quoted from its own page.

Podman

4 quoted statements, read from Podman's own page on 2026-11-10.

TERMS

Data License 1

How its data and outputs may be reused, quoted from its own terms.

Podman

2 quoted statements, read from Podman's own page on 2026-11-10.

LICENSE

FinOps 1

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

Podman Finops

FINOPS

Spectral Rules 1

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs. Counts are the severity each rule declares, not results of running them.

Podman API Rules

56 rules · 43 error-severity 12 warn-severity 1 info-severity

SPECTRAL

Security Posture 1

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

Podman Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · DMARC

SECURITY

Agentic Access (API Evangelist recommendations) 1

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Podman Agentic Access

193 operations · 115 acting · 8 human-in-the-loop

193 operations · 115 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Get Started 1

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

GettingStarted

GettingStarted

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

ContributionGuide

ContributionGuide

Documentation

Documentation

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

AgenticAccess

Build 3

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

CodeOfConduct

CodeOfConduct

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

SourceCode

SourceCode

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

SecurityPolicy

SecurityPolicy

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 4

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

RateLimits

IssueTracker

Releases

Community

Commercial 5

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Plans

FinOps

License

UsageTerms

DataLicense

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

CapabilityMap

CapabilityMap

Source (apis.yml)

aid: podman
name: Podman
description: Podman is a daemonless, open-source container engine for developing, managing, and running OCI containers on
  Linux, supporting both rootful and rootless operation as a drop-in replacement for Docker. The Podman REST API exposes a
  Docker-compatible surface alongside Libpod-specific endpoints for pods, volumes, networks, secrets, generators, and system
  management.
type: Index
deliveryModel:
  model: self-hosted
  license: Apache-2.0
  open_source: true
  commercial: false
  callable_host: true
  label: Self-hosted open source · you run it yourself
  confidence: high
  source:
  - license
  - openapi
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: freemium
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Freemium
  confidence: low
  source:
  - plans
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-13'
  method: derived
position: Consuming
access: 3rd-Party
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/podman.png
x-docs-platform: readthedocs
x-docs-platform-confidence: high
x-docs-platform-checked: 2026-10-04
tags:
- Cloud-Native
- Containers
- DevOps
- OCI
- Open Source
tags_raw:
- Cloud Native
- Containers
- DevOps
- OCI
- Open Source
- Open-Source
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/podman/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2026-03-16'
modified: '2026-05-19'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- aid: podman:podman-artifacts-api
  name: Podman Artifacts API
  description: Actions related to artifacts
  humanURL: https://docs.podman.io/en/latest/_static/api.html
  baseURL: http://d/v6.0.0/libpod
  tags:
  - Artifacts
  tags_raw:
  - artifacts
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/podman-artifacts-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.podman.io/en/latest/_static/api.html
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://docs.podman.io/en/latest/markdown/podman-system-service.1.html
- aid: podman:podman-containers-api
  name: Podman Containers API
  description: Actions related to containers
  humanURL: https://docs.podman.io/en/latest/_static/api.html
  baseURL: http://d/v6.0.0/libpod
  tags:
  - Containers
  tags_raw:
  - containers
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/podman-containers-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.podman.io/en/latest/_static/api.html
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://docs.podman.io/en/latest/markdown/podman-system-service.1.html
- aid: podman:podman-containers-compat-api
  name: Podman containers (compat) API
  description: Actions related to containers for the compatibility endpoints
  humanURL: https://docs.podman.io/en/latest/_static/api.html
  baseURL: http://d/v6.0.0/libpod
  tags:
  - containers (compat)
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/podman-containers-compat-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.podman.io/en/latest/_static/api.html
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://docs.podman.io/en/latest/markdown/podman-system-service.1.html
- aid: podman:podman-exec-api
  name: Podman Exec API
  description: Actions related to exec
  humanURL: https://docs.podman.io/en/latest/_static/api.html
  baseURL: http://d/v6.0.0/libpod
  tags:
  - Exec
  tags_raw:
  - exec
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/podman-exec-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.podman.io/en/latest/_static/api.html
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://docs.podman.io/en/latest/markdown/podman-system-service.1.html
- aid: podman:podman-exec-compat-api
  name: Podman exec (compat) API
  description: Actions related to exec for the compatibility endpoints
  humanURL: https://docs.podman.io/en/latest/_static/api.html
  baseURL: http://d/v6.0.0/libpod
  tags:
  - exec (compat)
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/podman-exec-compat-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.podman.io/en/latest/_static/api.html
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://docs.podman.io/en/latest/markdown/podman-system-service.1.html
- aid: podman:podman-images-api
  name: Podman Images API
  description: Actions related to images
  humanURL: https://docs.podman.io/en/latest/_static/api.html
  baseURL: http://d/v6.0.0/libpod
  tags:
  - Image
  tags_raw:
  - images
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/podman-images-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.podman.io/en/latest/_static/api.html
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://docs.podman.io/en/latest/markdown/podman-system-service.1.html
- aid: podman:podman-images-compat-api
  name: Podman images (compat) API
  description: Actions related to images for the compatibility endpoints
  humanURL: https://docs.podman.io/en/latest/_static/api.html
  baseURL: http://d/v6.0.0/libpod
  tags:
  - images (compat)
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/podman-images-compat-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.podman.io/en/latest/_static/api.html
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://docs.podman.io/en/latest/markdown/podman-system-service.1.html
- aid: podman:podman-manifests-api
  name: Podman Manifests API
  description: Actions related to manifests
  humanURL: https://docs.podman.io/en/latest/_static/api.html
  baseURL: http://d/v6.0.0/libpod
  tags:
  - Manifests
  tags_raw:
  - manifests
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/podman-manifests-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.podman.io/en/latest/_static/api.html
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://docs.podman.io/en/latest/markdown/podman-system-service.1.html
- aid: podman:podman-networks-api
  name: Podman Networks API
  description: Actions related to networks
  humanURL: https://docs.podman.io/en/latest/_static/api.html
  baseURL: http://d/v6.0.0/libpod
  tags:
  - Networks
  tags_raw:
  - networks
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/podman-networks-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.podman.io/en/latest/_static/api.html
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://docs.podman.io/en/latest/markdown/podman-system-service.1.html
- aid: podman:podman-networks-compat-api
  name: Podman networks (compat) API
  description: Actions related to networks for the compatibility endpoints
  humanURL: https://docs.podman.io/en/latest/_static/api.html
  baseURL: http://d/v6.0.0/libpod
  tags:
  - networks (compat)
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/podman-networks-compat-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.podman.io/en/latest/_static/api.html
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://docs.podman.io/en/latest/markdown/podman-system-service.1.html
- aid: podman:podman-pods-api
  name: Podman Pods API
  description: Actions related to pods
  humanURL: https://docs.podman.io/en/latest/_static/api.html
  baseURL: http://d/v6.0.0/libpod
  tags:
  - Pods
  tags_raw:
  - pods
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/podman-pods-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.podman.io/en/latest/_static/api.html
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://docs.podman.io/en/latest/markdown/podman-system-service.1.html
- aid: podman:podman-quadlets-api
  name: Podman Quadlets API
  description: The quadlets API from Podman — 5 operation(s) for quadlets.
  humanURL: https://docs.podman.io/en/latest/_static/api.html
  baseURL: http://d/v6.0.0/libpod
  tags:
  - quadlets
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/podman-quadlets-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.podman.io/en/latest/_static/api.html
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://docs.podman.io/en/latest/markdown/podman-system-service.1.html
- aid: podman:podman-secrets-api
  name: Podman Secrets API
  description: Actions related to secrets
  humanURL: https://docs.podman.io/en/latest/_static/api.html
  baseURL: http://d/v6.0.0/libpod
  tags:
  - Secrets
  tags_raw:
  - secrets
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/podman-secrets-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.podman.io/en/latest/_static/api.html
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://docs.podman.io/en/latest/markdown/podman-system-service.1.html
- aid: podman:podman-secrets-compat-api
  name: Podman secrets (compat) API
  description: Actions related to secrets for the compatibility endpoints
  humanURL: https://docs.podman.io/en/latest/_static/api.html
  baseURL: http://d/v6.0.0/libpod
  tags:
  - secrets (compat)
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/podman-secrets-compat-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.podman.io/en/latest/_static/api.html
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://docs.podman.io/en/latest/markdown/podman-system-service.1.html
- aid: podman:podman-system-api
  name: Podman System API
  description: Actions related to Podman engine
  humanURL: https://docs.podman.io/en/latest/_static/api.html
  baseURL: http://d/v6.0.0/libpod
  tags:
  - System
  tags_raw:
  - system
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/podman-system-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.podman.io/en/latest/_static/api.html
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://docs.podman.io/en/latest/markdown/podman-system-service.1.html
- aid: podman:podman-system-compat-api
  name: Podman system (compat) API
  description: Actions related to Podman and compatibility engines
  humanURL: https://docs.podman.io/en/latest/_static/api.html
  baseURL: http://d/v6.0.0/libpod
  tags:
  - system (compat)
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/podman-system-compat-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.podman.io/en/latest/_static/api.html
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://docs.podman.io/en/latest/markdown/podman-system-service.1.html
- aid: podman:podman-volumes-api
  name: Podman Volumes API
  description: Actions related to volumes
  humanURL: https://docs.podman.io/en/latest/_static/api.html
  baseURL: http://d/v6.0.0/libpod
  tags:
  - Volumes
  tags_raw:
  - volumes
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/podman-volumes-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.podman.io/en/latest/_static/api.html
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://docs.podman.io/en/latest/markdown/podman-system-service.1.html
- aid: podman:podman-volumes-compat-api
  name: Podman volumes (compat) API
  description: Actions related to volumes for the compatibility endpoints
  humanURL: https://docs.podman.io/en/latest/_static/api.html
  baseURL: http://d/v6.0.0/libpod
  tags:
  - volumes (compat)
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/podman-volumes-compat-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.podman.io/en/latest/_static/api.html
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://docs.podman.io/en/latest/markdown/podman-system-service.1.html
common:
- type: Plans
  url: plans/podman-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/podman-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/podman-finops.yml
- type: CapabilityMap
  url: capabilities/podman-capability-edges.yml
  name: Podman Business Capability Map
- type: IssueTracker
  url: https://github.com/containers/podman/issues
- type: Releases
  url: https://github.com/containers/podman/releases
- type: SecurityPolicy
  url: https://github.com/podman-container-tools/podman/blob/main/SECURITY.md
- type: CodeOfConduct
  url: https://github.com/podman-container-tools/podman/blob/main/CODE-OF-CONDUCT.md
- type: ContributionGuide
  url: https://github.com/podman-container-tools/podman/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md
- type: License
  name: Apache-2.0
  url: https://github.com/containers/podman/blob/main/LICENSE
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/podman-agentic-access.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/podman-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://podman.io/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://docs.podman.io/
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/containers
- type: SourceCode
  url: https://github.com/containers/podman
- type: Blog
  url: https://podman.io/blogs/
- type: Community
  url: https://podman.io/community/
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://podman.io/get-started
- type: UsageTerms
  url: terms/podman-terms-of-service.yml
- type: DataLicense
  url: data-license/podman-data-license.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com

Podman API — frequently asked questions

Does Podman have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 18 APIs from Podman, including Podman Artifacts API, Podman Containers API and Podman containers (compat) API, and 15 more.

Is there an OpenAPI specification for the Podman API?

Yes. APIs.io indexes 18 OpenAPI specifications for Podman, each linked for download from this page.

How much does the Podman API cost?

APIs.io lists 3 pricing plans for Podman, with each plan's price, limits and inclusions under Pricing on this page.

Is the Podman API ready for AI agents?

Podman has a Kin Score of 38.1 out of 100 (thin) and an Agent Readiness score of 20.6 (agent-aware), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-13.

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