# Portainer

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/portainer/  
**Website:** https://www.portainer.io/  
**APIs profiled:** 32

Portainer is an open source container management platform that simplifies deploying, managing, and monitoring Docker, Swarm, Podman, and Kubernetes environments through a unified web UI and REST API.

## Kin Score — 31.1 / 100 (thin)

Scored 2026-08-24 under rubric 0.13.0. Trend: flat (-0.3 from 31.4).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 63.0 |
| Contract Quality | 50.3 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 13.2 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 26.2 |
| Commercial Clarity | 26.3 |
| Access Clarity | 26.3 |

## Agent readiness — 26.9 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | documented |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | bearer |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | partial |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | yes |
| Delegated Identity | no |
| Protected Resource Metadata | no |
| Dynamic Client Registration | no |
| Agentic Commerce | no |

## Access

Freemium · Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: freemium, trial: no (confidence: high).

## APIs (32)

- **Portainer auth API** — Authenticate against Portainer HTTP API
- **Portainer backup API** — Manage backups
- **Portainer custom_templates API** — Manage Custom Templates
- **Portainer docker API** — Manage Docker resources
- **Portainer edge API** — Manage Edge related environment(endpoint) settings
- **Portainer edge_groups API** — Manage Edge Groups
- **Portainer edge_jobs API** — Manage Edge Jobs
- **Portainer edge_stacks API** — Manage Edge Stacks
- **Portainer endpoint_groups API** — Manage environment(endpoint) groups
- **Portainer endpoints API** — Manage Docker environments(endpoints)
- **Portainer gitops API** — Operate git repository
- **Portainer helm API** — Manage Helm charts
- **Portainer intel API** — Manage Intel AMT settings
- **Portainer kubernetes API** — Manage Kubernetes cluster
- **Portainer ldap API** — Manage LDAP settings
- **Portainer motd API** — Fetch the message of the day
- **Portainer registries API** — Manage Docker registries
- **Portainer resource_controls API** — Manage access control on Docker resources
- **Portainer roles API** — Manage roles
- **Portainer settings API** — Manage Portainer settings
- **Portainer ssl API** — Manage ssl settings
- **Portainer stacks API** — Manage stacks
- **Portainer status API** — Information about the Portainer instance
- **Portainer system API** — Manage Portainer system
- **Portainer tags API** — Manage tags
- **Portainer team_memberships API** — Manage team memberships
- **Portainer teams API** — Manage teams
- **Portainer templates API** — Manage App Templates
- **Portainer upload API** — Upload files
- **Portainer users API** — Manage users
- **Portainer webhooks API** — Manage webhooks
- **Portainer websocket API** — Create exec sessions using websockets

## Agentic access (1)

- **Portainer Agentic Access** — 237 operations · 129 acting · 7 human-in-the-loop

## Security (2)

- **Portainer Authentication** — apiKey · 2 schemes
- **Portainer Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC

## Plans (1)

- **Portainer Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Container Management, Containers, Docker, Kubernetes

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