Quay

Quay is a container image registry that enables you to build, store, distribute, and deploy container images with built-in security scanning, access controls, and automated build triggers. Available as a hosted service at Quay.io or as a self-hosted solution through Red Hat Quay.

Quay publishes 10 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network, including Build API, Manifest API, Organization API, and 7 more. Tagged areas include Container Images, Containers, Red Hat, Registry, and Security Scanning.

The Quay catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context and 1 Spectral governance ruleset.

Quay’s developer surface includes authentication, documentation, getting-started guide, pricing, engineering blog, signup flow, support, and 10 more developer resources.

🌐 Visit website 📡 Profile data on GitHub

40.9/100 developing ▬ flat Agent 26/100 agent aware Front door AI 1/6 silent saas Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-10-17 · rubric v0.24.0

AccessFreemiumSelf serve⚡ Free to try

1 published contract 1 MCP Servers

Container Images Containers Red Hat Registry Security Scanning

What this lets a business do 2

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

Cybersecurity Management

BC-620

PermissionSecurity

GET /repository/{repository}/manifest/{manifestref}/security PUT /repository/{repository}/permissions/user/{username}

Software Release & Deployment Management

BC-4210

Build

GET /repository/{repository}/build/ POST /repository/{repository}/build/

Kin Score

Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-10-17 · rubric v0.24.0

Composite quality — 40.9/100 · developing

Contract Quality 10.7 / 19

Developer Ergonomics 6.1 / 15

Access Clarity 4.7 / 15

Operational Transparency 1.0 / 10

Contract Governance 0.9 / 9

Discoverability 4.9 / 8

Regulatory Posture 4.0 / 15

Create-or-Update Ergonomics 2.2 / 10

Agent readiness — 26/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 12 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 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

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.

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 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/.

Improve this rating by publishing the missing artifacts — every area above can be raised, and the full rubric is at apis.io/rating/. Every facet and dimension name above is a link: it opens that measurement's own page — what it means, the exact checks that feed it, how the whole catalog distributes on it, and the providers at the top of it. This rating is computed from github.com/api-evangelist/quay: open an issue to ask a question, or submit a pull request to add artifacts. Submit an artifact on GitHub — free → Manage your own listing — the Influence plan, $499/mo →

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
Container Registries (OCI Distribution)	standard	17.2 (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.

APIs 10

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

Quay Build API

Manage Dockerfile builds, build logs, build triggers, and build configuration.

Quay Manifest API

Inspect image manifests, manifest layers, and labels associated with a pushed image.

Quay Organization API

Manage Quay organizations, organization members, billing, application tokens, and organization-wide settings.

Quay Permission API

Manage user and team permissions on repositories.

Quay Repository API

Manage container image repositories including create, list, update, delete, visibility, descriptions, and metadata.

Quay Robot API

Manage robot accounts used for automated repository access including credentials and permissions.

Quay Security API

Retrieve vulnerability scan results for repository images.

Quay Tag API

Manage repository image tags including listing, restoring, expiring, and deleting tags.

Quay Team API

Manage organization teams, team membership, team roles, and team permissions on repositories.

Quay User API

Manage Quay user accounts, profile, starred repositories, and personal OAuth tokens.

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Open Collections 12

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

API Collection

OPEN COLLECTION

Quay Container Registry Build API

OPEN COLLECTION

Quay Container Registry Build Manifest API

OPEN COLLECTION

Quay Container Registry Build Organization API

OPEN COLLECTION

Quay Container Registry Build Permission API

OPEN COLLECTION

Quay Container Registry Build Repository API

OPEN COLLECTION

Quay Container Registry Build Robot API

OPEN COLLECTION

Quay Container Registry Build Security API

OPEN COLLECTION

Quay Container Registry Build Tag API

OPEN COLLECTION

Quay Container Registry Build Team API

OPEN COLLECTION

Quay Container Registry Build User API

OPEN COLLECTION

Quay Container Registry API

OPEN COLLECTION

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MCP Servers 1

Model Context Protocol servers that expose these APIs to AI agents.

MCP Server

MCP SERVER

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Quay Plans Pricing

3 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Quay Rate Limits

5 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

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

Quay Finops

FINOPS

Semantic Vocabularies 1

JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.

Quay Context

5 classes · 2 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 1

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

Quay — jsonschema rules

5 rules · 3 warnings 2 info

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 3

Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.

Quay Manifest Security Scan

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Quay Repository

11 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Quay Tag

9 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Security Posture 2

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

Quay Authentication

oauth2 · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Quay Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS

SECURITY

Scopes 1

OAuth scopes governing access to this provider's APIs.

Quay Scopes

6 scopes · authorizationCode

6 scopes

SCOPES

Agentic Access 1

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

Quay Agentic Access

16 operations · 8 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Get Started 2

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

GettingStarted

GettingStarted

Signup

Signup

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

Agent Surfaces 2

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

AgenticAccess

MCPServer

MCPServer

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

Access & Security 3

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Authentication

Authentication

OAuthScopes

OAuthScopes

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

RateLimits

RateLimits

Support

Support

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Plans

Plans

FinOps

FinOps

Pricing

Pricing

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: quay
name: Quay
description: Quay is a container image registry that enables you to build, store, distribute, and deploy container images
  with built-in security scanning, access controls, and automated build triggers. Available as a hosted service at Quay.io
  or as a self-hosted solution through Red Hat Quay.
type: Index
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
  label: Freemium · Self-serve signup
  confidence: high
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/quay.png
tags:
- Container Images
- Containers
- Red Hat
- Registry
- Security Scanning
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/quay/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2026-03-26'
modified: '2026-05-19'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- aid: quay:quay-build-api
  name: Quay Build API
  description: Manage Dockerfile builds, build logs, build triggers, and build configuration.
  humanURL: https://quay.io/
  baseURL: https://quay.io/api/v1
  tags:
  - Builds
  tags_raw:
  - Build
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/quay-build-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.quay.io/
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://docs.quay.io/guides/
  - type: Pricing
    url: https://quay.io/plans/
  - type: JSONLD
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/quay/refs/heads/main/json-ld/quay-context.jsonld
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/quay/refs/heads/main/json-schema/quay-repository-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/quay/refs/heads/main/json-schema/quay-tag-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/quay/refs/heads/main/json-schema/quay-manifest-security-schema.json
- aid: quay:quay-manifest-api
  name: Quay Manifest API
  description: Inspect image manifests, manifest layers, and labels associated with a pushed image.
  humanURL: https://quay.io/
  baseURL: https://quay.io/api/v1
  tags:
  - Manifests
  tags_raw:
  - Manifest
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/quay-manifest-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.quay.io/
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://docs.quay.io/guides/
  - type: Pricing
    url: https://quay.io/plans/
  - type: JSONLD
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/quay/refs/heads/main/json-ld/quay-context.jsonld
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/quay/refs/heads/main/json-schema/quay-repository-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/quay/refs/heads/main/json-schema/quay-tag-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/quay/refs/heads/main/json-schema/quay-manifest-security-schema.json
- aid: quay:quay-organization-api
  name: Quay Organization API
  description: Manage Quay organizations, organization members, billing, application tokens, and organization-wide settings.
  humanURL: https://quay.io/
  baseURL: https://quay.io/api/v1
  tags:
  - Organization
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/quay-organization-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.quay.io/
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://docs.quay.io/guides/
  - type: Pricing
    url: https://quay.io/plans/
  - type: JSONLD
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/quay/refs/heads/main/json-ld/quay-context.jsonld
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/quay/refs/heads/main/json-schema/quay-repository-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/quay/refs/heads/main/json-schema/quay-tag-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/quay/refs/heads/main/json-schema/quay-manifest-security-schema.json
- aid: quay:quay-permission-api
  name: Quay Permission API
  description: Manage user and team permissions on repositories.
  humanURL: https://quay.io/
  baseURL: https://quay.io/api/v1
  tags:
  - Permission
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/quay-permission-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.quay.io/
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://docs.quay.io/guides/
  - type: Pricing
    url: https://quay.io/plans/
  - type: JSONLD
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/quay/refs/heads/main/json-ld/quay-context.jsonld
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/quay/refs/heads/main/json-schema/quay-repository-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/quay/refs/heads/main/json-schema/quay-tag-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/quay/refs/heads/main/json-schema/quay-manifest-security-schema.json
- aid: quay:quay-repository-api
  name: Quay Repository API
  description: Manage container image repositories including create, list, update, delete, visibility, descriptions, and metadata.
  humanURL: https://quay.io/
  baseURL: https://quay.io/api/v1
  tags:
  - Repository
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/quay-repository-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.quay.io/
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://docs.quay.io/guides/
  - type: Pricing
    url: https://quay.io/plans/
  - type: JSONLD
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/quay/refs/heads/main/json-ld/quay-context.jsonld
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/quay/refs/heads/main/json-schema/quay-repository-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/quay/refs/heads/main/json-schema/quay-tag-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/quay/refs/heads/main/json-schema/quay-manifest-security-schema.json
- aid: quay:quay-robot-api
  name: Quay Robot API
  description: Manage robot accounts used for automated repository access including credentials and permissions.
  humanURL: https://quay.io/
  baseURL: https://quay.io/api/v1
  tags:
  - Robot
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/quay-robot-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.quay.io/
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://docs.quay.io/guides/
  - type: Pricing
    url: https://quay.io/plans/
  - type: JSONLD
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/quay/refs/heads/main/json-ld/quay-context.jsonld
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/quay/refs/heads/main/json-schema/quay-repository-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/quay/refs/heads/main/json-schema/quay-tag-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/quay/refs/heads/main/json-schema/quay-manifest-security-schema.json
- aid: quay:quay-security-api
  name: Quay Security API
  description: Retrieve vulnerability scan results for repository images.
  humanURL: https://quay.io/
  baseURL: https://quay.io/api/v1
  tags:
  - Security
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/quay-security-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.quay.io/
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://docs.quay.io/guides/
  - type: Pricing
    url: https://quay.io/plans/
  - type: JSONLD
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/quay/refs/heads/main/json-ld/quay-context.jsonld
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/quay/refs/heads/main/json-schema/quay-repository-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/quay/refs/heads/main/json-schema/quay-tag-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/quay/refs/heads/main/json-schema/quay-manifest-security-schema.json
- aid: quay:quay-tag-api
  name: Quay Tag API
  description: Manage repository image tags including listing, restoring, expiring, and deleting tags.
  humanURL: https://quay.io/
  baseURL: https://quay.io/api/v1
  tags:
  - Tag
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/quay-tag-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.quay.io/
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://docs.quay.io/guides/
  - type: Pricing
    url: https://quay.io/plans/
  - type: JSONLD
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/quay/refs/heads/main/json-ld/quay-context.jsonld
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/quay/refs/heads/main/json-schema/quay-repository-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/quay/refs/heads/main/json-schema/quay-tag-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/quay/refs/heads/main/json-schema/quay-manifest-security-schema.json
- aid: quay:quay-team-api
  name: Quay Team API
  description: Manage organization teams, team membership, team roles, and team permissions on repositories.
  humanURL: https://quay.io/
  baseURL: https://quay.io/api/v1
  tags:
  - Team
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/quay-team-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.quay.io/
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://docs.quay.io/guides/
  - type: Pricing
    url: https://quay.io/plans/
  - type: JSONLD
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/quay/refs/heads/main/json-ld/quay-context.jsonld
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/quay/refs/heads/main/json-schema/quay-repository-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/quay/refs/heads/main/json-schema/quay-tag-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/quay/refs/heads/main/json-schema/quay-manifest-security-schema.json
- aid: quay:quay-user-api
  name: Quay User API
  description: Manage Quay user accounts, profile, starred repositories, and personal OAuth tokens.
  humanURL: https://quay.io/
  baseURL: https://quay.io/api/v1
  tags:
  - User
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/quay-user-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.quay.io/
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://docs.quay.io/guides/
  - type: Pricing
    url: https://quay.io/plans/
  - type: JSONLD
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/quay/refs/heads/main/json-ld/quay-context.jsonld
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/quay/refs/heads/main/json-schema/quay-repository-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/quay/refs/heads/main/json-schema/quay-tag-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/quay/refs/heads/main/json-schema/quay-manifest-security-schema.json
common:
- type: Plans
  url: plans/quay-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/quay-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/quay-finops.yml
- type: CapabilityMap
  url: capabilities/quay-capability-edges.yml
  name: Quay Business Capability Map
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/quay-agentic-access.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/quay-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/quay-authentication.yml
- type: OAuthScopes
  url: scopes/quay-scopes.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://quay.io/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://docs.quay.io/
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://docs.quay.io/guides/
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/quay
- type: Pricing
  url: https://quay.io/plans/
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.redhat.com/en/blog
- type: Signup
  url: https://quay.io/signin/
- type: Support
  url: https://access.redhat.com/products/red-hat-quay/
- name: MCP Server
  url: https://github.com/quay/quay-mcp-server
  type: MCPServer
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com

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