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Rio Tinto

Rio Tinto is a British-Australian multinational mining and metals corporation and one of the world's largest producers of iron ore, aluminum, copper, and diamonds. Rio Tinto does not publish a public developer API, but operates supplier portals (Supplier Master Data Management and a transactional platform) and a START traceability program. Its GitHub presence is limited to a small number of internal forks (ai-sentry, xpano).

Rio Tinto is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Mining, Metals, Resources, Critical Minerals, and Iron Ore.

Rio Tinto’s developer surface includes engineering blog, support, and 13 more developer resources.

10.1/100 minimal ▬ flat Agent 3/100 human only Front door AI 2/6 trace Heartbeat 100/100 alive Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0 · Show this score on your site →
0 APIs 5 Features 2 Use Cases
MiningMetalsResourcesCritical MineralsIron OreCopperAluminiumSupply Chain

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scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0
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 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):
  • Machine-Readable Contract +18 pts — api_specs includes an OpenAPI document
  • MCP Server +12 pts — deployment.mode + probe verdict on the mcp/ manifest, not the pointer; an unprobed slug falls back to authorship
  • Agentic Access Contract +10 pts — agentic_access artifact present (x-agentic-access), graded by author
  • 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
12 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.
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Markets this provider is in provisional

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MarketPositionDepthRegistered MCP serverDeclares compatibility
Energy Subsurface (oil & gas data standards, mining) standard 34.5 (thin) - -
Electronics Recycling & Circular Economy (e-waste, battery value chain, circularity networks) standard 34.5 (thin) - -

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.

Rio Tinto API pricing

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Rio Tinto Rate Limits

0 limits

RATE LIMITS

Features 5

Notable capabilities this provider offers.

Iron Ore Production

Leading global producer of iron ore from Pilbara and other regions

Aluminum and Bauxite

Integrated aluminum value chain from bauxite mining to smelting

Copper and Diamonds

Copper concentrates and diamond production for global markets

Energy-Transition Minerals

Lithium and other minerals critical to electrification

START Traceability

Product traceability program for responsibly sourced metals

Security Posture 1

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

Rio Tinto Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Use Cases 2

What developers build with this provider.

Supplier Onboarding

Rio Tinto maintains supplier master data and transactional portals

Responsible Sourcing

START provides end-to-end traceability of materials from mine to product

Resources

Get Started 1

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Design & Contract 1

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Company 6

The organization behind the API

Other 2

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑
aid: rio-tinto
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/rio-tinto/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
name: Rio Tinto
type: Index
deliveryModel:
  model: unknown
  open_source: false
  commercial: false
  callable_host: false
  label: Delivery model not determined — needs a product licence on record
  confidence: low
  source:
  - none
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  probe_state: covered
  source:
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-06'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/rio-tinto.png
tags:
- Mining
- Metals
- Resources
- Critical Minerals
- Iron Ore
- Copper
- Aluminium
- Supply Chain
description: Rio Tinto is a British-Australian multinational mining and metals corporation and one of the world's largest
  producers of iron ore, aluminum, copper, and diamonds. Rio Tinto does not publish a public developer API, but operates supplier
  portals (Supplier Master Data Management and a transactional platform) and a START traceability program. Its GitHub presence
  is limited to a small number of internal forks (ai-sentry, xpano).
created: '2026-05-05'
modified: '2026-10-20'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
common:
- type: Hosts
  url: hosts/rio-tinto-hosts.yml
- type: Vendors
  url: vendors/rio-tinto-vendors.yml
- url: https://www.riotinto.com/en/news
  type: Blog
- url: https://www.riotinto.com/en/news/feed/
  type: BlogRSS
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/rio-tinto-domain-security.yml
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/rio-tinto
- type: Website
  url: https://www.riotinto.com/
- type: GitHubOrg
  url: https://github.com/rio-tinto
- type: SupplierPortal
  url: https://www.riotinto.com/en/about/suppliers/supplier-portals
- type: Support
  url: https://www.riotinto.com/en/utility/contact
- type: Careers
  url: https://www.riotinto.com/en/careers
- type: InvestorRelations
  url: https://www.riotinto.com/en/invest
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.riotinto.com/en/utility/terms-conditions
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.riotinto.com/en/utility/privacy-cookies
- type: Vocabulary
  url: vocabulary/rio-tinto-vocabulary.yml
- type: Features
  data:
  - name: Iron Ore Production
    description: Leading global producer of iron ore from Pilbara and other regions
  - name: Aluminum and Bauxite
    description: Integrated aluminum value chain from bauxite mining to smelting
  - name: Copper and Diamonds
    description: Copper concentrates and diamond production for global markets
  - name: Energy-Transition Minerals
    description: Lithium and other minerals critical to electrification
  - name: START Traceability
    description: Product traceability program for responsibly sourced metals
- type: UseCases
  data:
  - name: Supplier Onboarding
    description: Rio Tinto maintains supplier master data and transactional portals
  - name: Responsible Sourcing
    description: START provides end-to-end traceability of materials from mine to product
apis: []
x-coverage:
  state: covered
  reason: identity-verified
  detail: Website riotinto.com verified (title "Rio Tinto | Global"); no public developer API, docs or portal published. Old
    /suppliers pointer redirected to a 404 page and was replaced with the supplier-portals page.
  evidence:
  - url: https://www.riotinto.com/
    status: 200
  - url: https://www.riotinto.com/suppliers
    status: 404
  - url: https://www.riotinto.com/en/about/suppliers/supplier-portals
    status: 200
  - url: https://www.riotinto.com/en/utility/contact
    status: 200
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-10-20'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 53
  pass: modular-v1
  engine: identity=anthropic,contract=anthropic,surfaces=anthropic,docs=anthropic,regulatory=anthropic

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