Railway is a cloud application deployment platform (PaaS) that builds, deploys, and scales services, databases, and cron jobs from a Git repository or Docker image. Its programmatic surface is a GraphQL-first Public API served at https://backboard.railway.com/graphql/v2 - the same API that powers the Railway dashboard. There is no REST API; all queries and mutations are issued as GraphQL POST requests, and real-time build, deployment, and environment log streams are delivered as GraphQL subscriptions over a WebSocket endpoint at wss://backboard.railway.com/graphql/v2.
Railway is listed with 13 APIs on the APIs.io network, including Logs API, and 12 more. Tagged areas include Deployment, Platform-as-a-Service, Cloud, Infrastructure, and GraphQL.
The Railway catalog on APIs.io includes 1 event-driven AsyncAPI specification and 1 Spectral governance ruleset.
Railway’s developer surface includes documentation, engineering blog, and 8 more developer resources.
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.
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Create-or-Update Ergonomics could not be measured. We hold no machine-readable contract for
this provider to read, so there is nothing to measure a write surface against. Excluded rather than scored zero:
never-measured and measured-empty are different facts. Publishing an OpenAPI is what makes this facet — and
several others — scorable at all.
The six quality facets above are damped to 85 points between them,
because the conditional facet above carries the other
15. That is why each facet's contribution is shown against a damped
maximum: raising a quality facet moves the composite by 85% 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
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)
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)
Stable Error Semantics+8 pts — OpenAPI $refs a shared error schema across 4xx/5xx responses (verified), else common[].type includes ErrorCatalog / ErrorCodes / DeclineCodes
A2A Agent Card+8 pts — a2a/-a2a.yml manifest, graded on conformance.grade against A2A 1.0.0
10 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.
Kin Score — facets with the most composite points still available (weight × headroom):
Access Clarityscores 15.8 — up to +16.8 composite points
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.
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 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.
GraphQL operations for creating, reading, updating, and deleting Railway projects - the top-level container for services and environments. Queries include project and projects; ...
GraphQL operations for managing services and their per-environment service instances. Queries include service and serviceInstance; mutations include serviceCreate, serviceUpdate...
GraphQL operations for triggering and managing deployments. Queries include deployment and deployments; mutations include serviceInstanceDeployV2, serviceInstanceRedeploy, deplo...
GraphQL operations for isolated project environments (for example production and staging). Queries include environment and environments; mutations include environmentCreate, env...
GraphQL operations for service and environment configuration variables. Queries include variables; mutations include variableUpsert, variableDelete, and variableCollectionUpsert...
GraphQL operations for persistent volumes attached to services. Queries include volume; mutations include volumeCreate, volumeUpdate, volumeDelete, and volumeInstanceUpdate for ...
GraphQL operations for legacy plugins (managed database add-ons such as Postgres, MySQL, Redis, and MongoDB). Queries include plugin; mutations include pluginCreate, pluginUpdat...
GraphQL operations for attaching custom and Railway-provided domains to a service. Queries include customDomain and domains; mutations include customDomainCreate, customDomainDe...
GraphQL operations for reading resource consumption and cost. Queries include usage, estimatedUsage, and metrics for per-service vCPU, memory, network egress, and disk utilization.
GraphQL operations for the authenticated account, its workspaces, teams, and members. Queries include me, workspace, and workspaces; mutations include workspaceUpdate and teamMe...
GraphQL operations for project webhooks that notify external URLs of deployment status changes. Queries include projectWebhooks; mutations include webhookCreate, webhookUpdate, ...
GraphQL log surface for builds, deployments, environments, and HTTP traffic. Available both as point-in-time queries (buildLogs, deploymentLogs, environmentLogs, httpLogs) and a...
Railway is a cloud application deployment platform (PaaS). Its entire programmatic surface is a **GraphQL API** - there is no REST API. The Public API is the same API that power...
AsyncAPI 2.6 description of Railway's **real-time log streaming** surface. Unlike many providers in this catalog, Railway **does** publish a documented public WebSocket transpor...
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