# Redpanda

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/redpanda/  
**Website:** https://redpanda.com/  
**APIs profiled:** 10

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.

## Kin Score — 32.9 / 100 (thin)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 32.9).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 63.0 |
| Contract Quality | 29.6 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 26.3 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 38.1 |
| Commercial Clarity | 40.8 |
| Access Clarity | 40.8 |

## Agent readiness — 24.0 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | documented |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | documented |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Freemium — onboarding: unknown, pricing: freemium, trial: no (confidence: medium).

## APIs (10)

- **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,...

## MCP servers (1)

- **MCP Server**

## Security (3)

- **Redpanda Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC
- **Redpanda Vulnerability Disclosure** — security.txt · contact published
- **Redpanda Trust Center** — SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA

## Plans (1)

- **Redpanda Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Streaming, Kafka, Event Streaming, Real-Time, Data Platform, Open-Source, C++, Stream Processing

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