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Redpanda

Redpanda is a Kafka API-compatible streaming data platform written in C++ with no JVM and no ZooKeeper, optimized for low latency and operational simplicity. The core broker (redpanda) is open source and available under the Business Source License 1.1, and a fully managed cloud service (Redpanda Cloud — Serverless, Dedicated, BYOC) is offered commercially. Redpanda Connect (formerly Benthos) provides stream processing. The platform exposes the Kafka wire protocol, an Admin API, a Schema Registry API, an HTTP Proxy (Pandaproxy), Kafka-compatible client APIs, and the Redpanda Cloud Control Plane and Data Plane APIs for managed deployments.

Redpanda publishes 1 API on the APIs.io network: Admin API. Tagged areas include Streaming, Kafka, Event Streaming, Real-Time, and Data Platform.

Redpanda’s developer surface includes documentation, API reference, getting-started guide, pricing, signup flow, developer console, code examples, and 25 more developer resources.

45.4/100 developing ▬ flat Agent 32/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6
AccessFreemium
10 APIs 1 MCP Servers
StreamingKafkaEvent StreamingReal-TimeData PlatformOpen SourceC++Stream Processing

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scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6
Composite quality — 45.4/100 · developing
Contract Quality 8.1 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 8.7 / 20
Commercial Clarity 14.2 / 20
Operational Transparency 8.9 / 13
Governance 0.0 / 12
Discoverability 5.6 / 10
Agent readiness — 32/100 · agent aware
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10
MCP Server 12 / 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
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APIs 10

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

Redpanda Kafka API

Redpanda implements the Apache Kafka wire protocol natively, allowing existing Kafka clients (producers, consumers, AdminClient, Streams, Connect) to work unchanged against Redp...

Redpanda Admin API

The Redpanda Admin API is a built-in HTTP REST API (default port 9644) exposing cluster operations not covered by the Kafka protocol — broker membership, decommissioning, rebala...

Redpanda Schema Registry API

The Redpanda Schema Registry API is a Confluent-Schema-Registry-compatible REST API for managing Avro, JSON Schema, and Protobuf schema versions and subjects bound to topic events.

Redpanda HTTP Proxy (Pandaproxy) API

The Redpanda HTTP Proxy (Pandaproxy) provides a REST API for producing and consuming topic data without a Kafka client library, useful for environments where embedding a Kafka d...

Redpanda Cloud Control Plane API

The Redpanda Cloud Control Plane API manages organization-wide resources — clusters, networks, resource groups, users, and serverless namespaces — across the Redpanda Cloud (Ser...

Redpanda Cloud Data Plane API

The Redpanda Cloud Data Plane API manages in-cluster resources — topics, ACLs, RBAC, users, schema registry, and connectors — for an individual Redpanda Cloud cluster.

Redpanda Console API

The Redpanda Console API powers the Redpanda Console UI (open-source) — topics, consumer groups, broker view, schema registry browsing, and ACL management — and can be called di...

Redpanda Connect (Benthos) API

Redpanda Connect (formerly Benthos) is a declarative stream-processor exposing an HTTP API for managing pipelines, inputs, outputs, processors, and metrics — bridging Kafka, S3,...

Redpanda rpk CLI Surface

rpk is the Redpanda command-line tool, wrapping the Kafka, Admin, Schema Registry, and Cloud APIs into operator-friendly commands for deployment, configuration, topic management...

Redpanda Iceberg Topic API

Redpanda Iceberg Topics expose topic data as Apache Iceberg tables in object storage, accessible from the Iceberg REST catalog and consumable by query engines like Spark, Trino,...

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Open Collections 6

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

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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.

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Redpanda Rate Limits

6 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

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

Security Posture 3

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

Redpanda Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC

SECURITY

Redpanda Vulnerability Disclosure

security.txt · contact published

SECURITY

Redpanda Trust Center

SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA

SECURITY

Resources

Get Started 4

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Agent Surfaces 2

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Build 3

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Access & Security 3

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Learn 1

Tutorials, courses, talks, and written guidance

Operate 4

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Commercial 4

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Company 4

The organization behind the API

Other 5

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑
aid: redpanda
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/redpanda/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
name: Redpanda
kind: opensource
description: Redpanda is a Kafka API-compatible streaming data platform written in C++ with no JVM and no ZooKeeper, optimized
  for low latency and operational simplicity. The core broker (redpanda) is open source and available under the Business Source
  License 1.1, and a fully managed cloud service (Redpanda Cloud — Serverless, Dedicated, BYOC) is offered commercially. Redpanda
  Connect (formerly Benthos) provides stream processing. The platform exposes the Kafka wire protocol, an Admin API, a Schema
  Registry API, an HTTP Proxy (Pandaproxy), Kafka-compatible client APIs, and the Redpanda Cloud Control Plane and Data Plane
  APIs for managed deployments.
accessModel:
  pricing: freemium
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Freemium
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/redpanda.png
tags:
- Streaming
- Kafka
- Event Streaming
- Real-Time
- Data Platform
- Open Source
- C++
- Stream Processing
created: '2026-05-08'
modified: '2026-05-19'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
- aid: redpanda:redpanda-kafka-api
  name: Redpanda Kafka API
  tags:
  - Kafka
  - Wire Protocol
  - Producers
  - Consumers
  properties:
  - url: https://docs.redpanda.com/current/develop/kafka-clients/
    type: Documentation
  - url: https://kafka.apache.org/protocol
    type: APIReference
  description: Redpanda implements the Apache Kafka wire protocol natively, allowing existing Kafka clients (producers, consumers,
    AdminClient, Streams, Connect) to work unchanged against Redpanda brokers on TCP port 9092 (or the cluster's configured
    Kafka API port).
- aid: redpanda:redpanda-admin-api
  name: Redpanda Admin API
  tags:
  - Admin
  - Cluster
  - Brokers
  - Configuration
  - Operations
  properties:
  - url: https://docs.redpanda.com/api/admin-api/
    type: Documentation
  - url: https://docs.redpanda.com/current/reference/api-reference/admin-api/
    type: APIReference
  - url: openapi/redpanda-admin-cluster-openapi.json
    type: OpenAPI
  - url: openapi/redpanda-admin-broker-openapi.json
    type: OpenAPI
  - url: openapi/redpanda-admin-partition-openapi.json
    type: OpenAPI
  - url: openapi/redpanda-admin-debug-openapi.json
    type: OpenAPI
  - url: openapi/redpanda-admin-transform-openapi.json
    type: OpenAPI
  - url: openapi/redpanda-admin-usage-openapi.json
    type: OpenAPI
  description: The Redpanda Admin API is a built-in HTTP REST API (default port 9644) exposing cluster operations not covered
    by the Kafka protocol — broker membership, decommissioning, rebalance, license, debug bundle, configuration, leadership,
    security, and partitions.
- aid: redpanda:redpanda-schema-registry-api
  name: Redpanda Schema Registry API
  tags:
  - Schema Registry
  - Avro
  - JSON Schema
  - Protobuf
  properties:
  - url: https://docs.redpanda.com/current/manage/schema-reg/
    type: Documentation
  - url: https://docs.redpanda.com/api/schema-registry-api/
    type: APIReference
  description: The Redpanda Schema Registry API is a Confluent-Schema-Registry-compatible REST API for managing Avro, JSON
    Schema, and Protobuf schema versions and subjects bound to topic events.
- aid: redpanda:redpanda-http-proxy-api
  name: Redpanda HTTP Proxy (Pandaproxy) API
  tags:
  - HTTP Proxy
  - REST
  - Producers
  - Consumers
  properties:
  - url: https://docs.redpanda.com/current/develop/http-proxy/
    type: Documentation
  - url: https://docs.redpanda.com/api/pandaproxy/
    type: APIReference
  description: The Redpanda HTTP Proxy (Pandaproxy) provides a REST API for producing and consuming topic data without a Kafka
    client library, useful for environments where embedding a Kafka driver is impractical.
- aid: redpanda:redpanda-cloud-control-plane-api
  name: Redpanda Cloud Control Plane API
  tags:
  - Cloud
  - Control Plane
  - Clusters
  - Networks
  - Organizations
  - Resource Groups
  properties:
  - url: https://docs.redpanda.com/redpanda-cloud/manage/api/
    type: Documentation
  description: The Redpanda Cloud Control Plane API manages organization-wide resources — clusters, networks, resource groups,
    users, and serverless namespaces — across the Redpanda Cloud (Serverless, Dedicated, BYOC) deployments.
- aid: redpanda:redpanda-cloud-data-plane-api
  name: Redpanda Cloud Data Plane API
  tags:
  - Cloud
  - Data Plane
  - Topics
  - ACLs
  - Users
  properties:
  - url: https://docs.redpanda.com/redpanda-cloud/manage/api/
    type: Documentation
  description: The Redpanda Cloud Data Plane API manages in-cluster resources — topics, ACLs, RBAC, users, schema registry,
    and connectors — for an individual Redpanda Cloud cluster.
- aid: redpanda:redpanda-console-api
  name: Redpanda Console API
  tags:
  - Console
  - UI
  - Backend API
  properties:
  - url: https://docs.redpanda.com/current/manage/console/
    type: Documentation
  - url: https://github.com/redpanda-data/console
    type: Source
  description: The Redpanda Console API powers the Redpanda Console UI (open-source) — topics, consumer groups, broker view,
    schema registry browsing, and ACL management — and can be called directly to embed Console functionality.
- aid: redpanda:redpanda-connect-api
  name: Redpanda Connect (Benthos) API
  tags:
  - Stream Processing
  - Connectors
  - Benthos
  - ETL
  properties:
  - url: https://docs.redpanda.com/redpanda-connect/about/
    type: Documentation
  - url: https://github.com/redpanda-data/connect
    type: Source
  description: Redpanda Connect (formerly Benthos) is a declarative stream-processor exposing an HTTP API for managing pipelines,
    inputs, outputs, processors, and metrics — bridging Kafka, S3, databases, and HTTP sinks.
- aid: redpanda:redpanda-rpk-api
  name: Redpanda rpk CLI Surface
  tags:
  - CLI
  - rpk
  - Operations
  properties:
  - url: https://docs.redpanda.com/current/reference/rpk/
    type: Documentation
  - url: https://github.com/redpanda-data/redpanda
    type: Source
  description: rpk is the Redpanda command-line tool, wrapping the Kafka, Admin, Schema Registry, and Cloud APIs into operator-friendly
    commands for deployment, configuration, topic management, ACLs, and benchmarking.
- aid: redpanda:redpanda-iceberg-topic-api
  name: Redpanda Iceberg Topic API
  tags:
  - Iceberg
  - Lakehouse
  - Tiered Storage
  properties:
  - url: https://docs.redpanda.com/current/manage/iceberg/
    type: Documentation
  description: Redpanda Iceberg Topics expose topic data as Apache Iceberg tables in object storage, accessible from the Iceberg
    REST catalog and consumable by query engines like Spark, Trino, and Snowflake.
common:
- type: TrustCenter
  url: security/redpanda-trust-center.yml
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/redpanda-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/redpanda-domain-security.yml
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/redpanda-data
- type: Website
  url: https://redpanda.com/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://docs.redpanda.com/
- type: APIReference
  url: https://docs.redpanda.com/api/
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://docs.redpanda.com/current/get-started/
- type: Pricing
  url: https://www.redpanda.com/pricing
- type: Signup
  url: https://cloud.redpanda.com/signup
- type: Login
  url: https://cloud.redpanda.com/
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/redpanda-data
- type: Source
  url: https://github.com/redpanda-data/redpanda
- type: License
  url: https://github.com/redpanda-data/redpanda/blob/dev/licenses/bsl.md
- type: Helm Charts
  url: https://github.com/redpanda-data/helm-charts
- type: Console
  url: https://github.com/redpanda-data/console
- type: Connect
  url: https://github.com/redpanda-data/connect
- type: Operator
  url: https://github.com/redpanda-data/redpanda-operator
- type: Examples
  url: https://github.com/redpanda-data/redpanda-examples
- type: StatusPage
  url: https://status.redpanda.com/
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.redpanda.com/blog
- type: ChangeLog
  url: https://docs.redpanda.com/current/release-notes/
- type: Governance
  url: https://www.redpanda.com/about
- type: X (Twitter)
  url: https://x.com/redpandadata
- type: YouTube
  url: https://www.youtube.com/@RedpandaData
- type: Slack Community
  url: https://redpandacommunity.slack.com/
- type: rpk CLI
  url: https://docs.redpanda.com/current/reference/rpk/
- type: Plans
  url: plans/redpanda-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/redpanda-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/redpanda-finops.yml
- type: Integrations
  url: https://www.redpanda.com/partners
- name: MCP Server
  url: https://www.redpanda.com/blog/building-low-code-mcp-servers-in-redpanda-cloud
  type: MCPServer
- type: LlmsText
  url: https://docs.redpanda.com/llms.txt
integrations:
- name: Redpanda
- name: Snowflake
- name: Databricks
- name: Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- name: Fiveonefour
- name: TigerBeetle
- name: Akamai Technologies
- name: Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
- name: Azure
- name: Cohere
- name: Wipro
- name: Accenture
- name: Ness
- name: EPAM
- name: TCS
- name: Slalom
- name: MongoDB
- name: Conduktor
- name: Ververica
- name: Atlan
- name: Converge
- name: Elastic
- name: Exafluence
- name: phData
- name: Pure Storage
- name: Starburst
- name: TinyBird
- name: Trace3
- name: Aerospike
- name: ClickHouse
- name: Cloud303
- name: Couchbase
- name: Datanised
- name: Decodable
- name: Delta Consulting
- name: DeltaStream
- name: DisruptX
- name: Dremio
- name: Firebolt
- name: Gravity9
- name: Hazelcast
- name: HiveMQ
- name: Imply
- name: IntVerse
- name: IT-Novum
- name: Lenses
- name: Mantel Group
- name: Materialize
- name: Metanet Global
- name: MindLabs
- name: Molo17
- name: Ockam
- name: One-Way Automation
- name: Onibex
- name: Orium
- name: Pandata Group
- name: Pinecone
- name: Platformatory
- name: PuppyGraph
- name: Qdrant
- name: REDspace
- name: RichIT
- name: Rock8
- name: ScyllaDB
- name: SingleStore
- name: Snowplow
- name: SSCI
- name: TechRom
- name: Teknologika
- name: TimePlus
- name: Timestamp
- name: Upbound
- name: VerticalServe
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com