Propeller Aero

Propeller Aero is a drone survey and earthworks analytics platform for construction, mining, aggregates, and waste sites. Teams fly a drone, process imagery with Propeller's AeroPoints ground control and photogrammetry pipeline, and get accurate 3D site surveys, terrain models, volumes, and progress tracking in the Propeller Platform. The Propeller Public API is a paid, premium feature (available on higher tiers such as Scale) that gives programmatic, read-oriented access to organizations, sites, workspaces, surveys, downloadable survey files (orthophotos, terrain, point clouds), user-defined shapes and their calculated widgets (volumes, distances, areas), and DirtMate position-monitoring data. It is a REST API over HTTPS authenticated with a Bearer access token or via OpenID Connect.

Propeller Aero publishes 7 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network, including Organizations API, Position Monitoring API, Shapes API, and 4 more. Tagged areas include Drone Survey, Geospatial, Earthworks, Construction, and Mining.

The Propeller Aero catalog on APIs.io includes 1 Spectral governance ruleset.

Propeller Aero’s developer surface includes authentication, documentation, API reference, support, engineering blog, and 10 more developer resources.

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Drone SurveyGeospatialEarthworksConstruction Mining Photogrammetry Surveying Analytics

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Composite quality — 30.5/100 · thin

Contract Quality 8.9 / 19

Developer Ergonomics 5.4 / 15

Access Clarity 2.6 / 15

Operational Transparency 0.9 / 10

Contract Governance 1.2 / 9

Discoverability 5.0 / 8

Regulatory Posture 1.6 / 15

Create-or-Update Ergonomics 0.0 / 10

Agent readiness — 23/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 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 6 / 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

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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 →
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 →
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Registration Without a Human +6 pts — a `registration_endpoint` in the served RFC 8414 / OIDC discovery document Ask about this →
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8 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

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Developer Ergonomics scores 35.7 — up to +12.9 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
Carbon Markets and Environmental Services (carbon removal, waste, mining)	undeclared	-	-	1
XR & Graphics (XR, 3D, GPU graphics)	undeclared	-	-	1
Energy Subsurface (oil & gas data standards, mining)	undeclared	-	-	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 2

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)

OpenID Connect

measured — observed by APIs.io (declared)

APIs 7

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

Propeller Aero Organizations API

Top-level accounts that own sites, workspaces, and surveys.

Propeller Aero Position Monitoring API

DirtMate position-monitoring configs and recorded epochs.

Propeller Aero Shapes API

User-defined polygons, lines, and points drawn in a workspace.

Propeller Aero Sites API

Survey projects (job sites) within an organization.

Propeller Aero Surveys API

Individual drone survey captures and their downloadable files.

Propeller Aero Widgets API

Calculated measurements (volumes, distances, areas) tied to a shape.

Propeller Aero Workspaces API

Analysis contexts within a site that hold shapes and widgets.

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Open Collections 7

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

Propeller Public Organizations API

OPEN COLLECTION

Propeller Public Organizations Position Monitoring API

OPEN COLLECTION

Propeller Public Organizations Shapes API

OPEN COLLECTION

Propeller Public Organizations Sites API

OPEN COLLECTION

Propeller Public Organizations Surveys API

OPEN COLLECTION

Propeller Public Organizations Widgets API

OPEN COLLECTION

Propeller Public Organizations Workspaces API

OPEN COLLECTION

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Propeller Aero API pricing

Not yet checked against Propeller Aero's own pricing page. Compiled by API Evangelist on 2026-07-04 from www.propelleraero.com/platform/scale/; confirm before you rely on a figure.

Plan	Price
Platform (per-site subscription) subscription	—
Scale subscription	—
AeroPoints Hardware & Processing purchase	—

Plan details, limits and sources →

Rate limits

Public API Requests: see provider documentation requests
Survey File Download URLs: time-limited expiry

Compiled by API Evangelist, not yet checked against Propeller Aero's documentation. Rate-limit details →

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Propeller Aero Plans Pricing

3 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Propeller Aero Rate Limits

2 limits

RATE LIMITS

Compliance 1

Attestations the provider states (SOC 2, ISO 27001 and others), quoted from its own trust page. APIs.io verifies none of them.

Propeller Aero

5 quoted statements, read from Propeller Aero's own page on 2026-11-10.

COMPLIANCE

FinOps 1

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

Propeller Aero 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.

Propeller Aero API Rules

60 rules · 58 error-severity 1 warn-severity 1 info-severity

SPECTRAL

Security Posture 3

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

Propeller Aero Authentication

http/openIdConnect · 2 schemes

SECURITY

Propeller Aero Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC

SECURITY

Propeller Aero Trust Center

SOC 2, GDPR

SECURITY

Agentic Access (API Evangelist recommendations) 1

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

Propeller Aero Agentic Access

17 operations

17 operations · 0 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

APIReference

APIReference

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

AgenticAccess

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

Access & Security 3

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

TrustCenter

TrustCenter

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Authentication

Authentication

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support

Support

RateLimits

RateLimits

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Plans

Plans

FinOps

FinOps

Company 3

The organization behind the API

LinkedIn

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Attestations

Attestations

Source (apis.yml)

aid: propeller-aero
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/propeller-aero/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
name: Propeller Aero
kind: company
description: Propeller Aero is a drone survey and earthworks analytics platform for construction, mining, aggregates, and
  waste sites. Teams fly a drone, process imagery with Propeller's AeroPoints ground control and photogrammetry pipeline,
  and get accurate 3D site surveys, terrain models, volumes, and progress tracking in the Propeller Platform. The Propeller
  Public API is a paid, premium feature (available on higher tiers such as Scale) that gives programmatic, read-oriented access
  to organizations, sites, workspaces, surveys, downloadable survey files (orthophotos, terrain, point clouds), user-defined
  shapes and their calculated widgets (volumes, distances, areas), and DirtMate position-monitoring data. It is a REST API
  over HTTPS authenticated with a Bearer access token or via OpenID Connect.
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: paid
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Paid
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-13'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/propeller-aero.png
x-docs-platform: readme
x-docs-platform-confidence: high
x-docs-platform-checked: 2026-10-04
tags:
- Drone Survey
- Geospatial
- Earthworks
- Construction
- Mining
- Photogrammetry
- Surveying
- Analytics
created: '2026-07-04'
modified: '2026-07-04'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- aid: propeller-aero:propeller-aero-organizations-api
  name: Propeller Aero Organizations API
  description: Top-level accounts that own sites, workspaces, and surveys.
  humanURL: https://propelleraero.readme.io/reference
  baseURL: https://api.propelleraero.com/v1
  tags:
  - Organization
  tags_raw:
  - Organizations
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/propeller-aero-organizations-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://propelleraero.readme.io/docs/getting-started
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://propelleraero.readme.io/reference
- aid: propeller-aero:propeller-aero-position-monitoring-api
  name: Propeller Aero Position Monitoring API
  description: DirtMate position-monitoring configs and recorded epochs.
  humanURL: https://propelleraero.readme.io/reference
  baseURL: https://api.propelleraero.com/v1
  tags:
  - Position Monitoring
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/propeller-aero-position-monitoring-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://propelleraero.readme.io/docs/getting-started
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://propelleraero.readme.io/reference
- aid: propeller-aero:propeller-aero-shapes-api
  name: Propeller Aero Shapes API
  description: User-defined polygons, lines, and points drawn in a workspace.
  humanURL: https://propelleraero.readme.io/reference
  baseURL: https://api.propelleraero.com/v1
  tags:
  - Shapes
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/propeller-aero-shapes-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://propelleraero.readme.io/docs/getting-started
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://propelleraero.readme.io/reference
- aid: propeller-aero:propeller-aero-sites-api
  name: Propeller Aero Sites API
  description: Survey projects (job sites) within an organization.
  humanURL: https://propelleraero.readme.io/reference
  baseURL: https://api.propelleraero.com/v1
  tags:
  - Sites
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/propeller-aero-sites-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://propelleraero.readme.io/docs/getting-started
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://propelleraero.readme.io/reference
- aid: propeller-aero:propeller-aero-surveys-api
  name: Propeller Aero Surveys API
  description: Individual drone survey captures and their downloadable files.
  humanURL: https://propelleraero.readme.io/reference
  baseURL: https://api.propelleraero.com/v1
  tags:
  - Surveys
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/propeller-aero-surveys-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://propelleraero.readme.io/docs/getting-started
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://propelleraero.readme.io/reference
- aid: propeller-aero:propeller-aero-widgets-api
  name: Propeller Aero Widgets API
  description: Calculated measurements (volumes, distances, areas) tied to a shape.
  humanURL: https://propelleraero.readme.io/reference
  baseURL: https://api.propelleraero.com/v1
  tags:
  - Widgets
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/propeller-aero-widgets-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://propelleraero.readme.io/docs/getting-started
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://propelleraero.readme.io/reference
- aid: propeller-aero:propeller-aero-workspaces-api
  name: Propeller Aero Workspaces API
  description: Analysis contexts within a site that hold shapes and widgets.
  humanURL: https://propelleraero.readme.io/reference
  baseURL: https://api.propelleraero.com/v1
  tags:
  - Workspace
  tags_raw:
  - Workspaces
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/propeller-aero-workspaces-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://propelleraero.readme.io/docs/getting-started
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://propelleraero.readme.io/reference
common:
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/propeller-aero-agentic-access.yml
- type: TrustCenter
  url: security/propeller-aero-trust-center.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/propeller-aero-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/propeller-aero-authentication.yml
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/propeller-aero
- type: Website
  url: https://www.propelleraero.com/
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/PropellerAero
- type: Documentation
  url: https://propelleraero.readme.io/docs/getting-started
- type: APIReference
  url: https://propelleraero.readme.io/reference
- type: Support
  url: https://help.propelleraero.com/hc/en-us/articles/19383843944599-Using-Propeller-API
- type: Plans
  url: plans/propeller-aero-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/propeller-aero-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/propeller-aero-finops.yml
- url: https://www.propelleraero.com/blog/
  type: Blog
- type: Attestations
  url: compliance/propeller-aero-compliance.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com

Propeller Aero API — frequently asked questions

Does Propeller Aero have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 7 APIs from Propeller Aero, including Propeller Aero Organizations API, Propeller Aero Position Monitoring API and Propeller Aero Shapes API, and 4 more.

Is there an OpenAPI specification for the Propeller Aero API?

Yes. APIs.io indexes 7 OpenAPI specifications for Propeller Aero, each linked for download from this page.

How do I authenticate with the Propeller Aero API?

Propeller Aero uses bearer-token authentication (http/openIdConnect · 2 schemes). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Propeller Aero Authentication.

How much does the Propeller Aero API cost?

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

Is the Propeller Aero API ready for AI agents?

Propeller Aero has a Kin Score of 30.5 out of 100 (thin) and an Agent Readiness score of 23.4 (agent-aware), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-13.

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