Roadie

Roadie is managed Backstage - a fully hosted internal developer portal (IDP) and software catalog delivered as SaaS, so teams get the Backstage software catalog, TechDocs, Scaffolder software templates, Tech Insights scorecards, and 75+ plugins without operating Backstage themselves. Roadie exposes a public REST API under https://api.roadie.so/api (Bearer-token authenticated with User or Service tokens) for reading catalog entities, pushing Roadie-managed entities and idempotent entity sets into the software catalog, running Scaffolder templates, and querying Tech Insights facts, checks, and scorecards. Roadie also ships six agent-native MCP servers over the same API base. Backstage itself is free and open source; Roadie is the commercial managed product, priced per contributing developer. Operated by Larder Software Limited.

Roadie publishes 5 APIs on the APIs.io network, including Catalog API, Entity Push API, Scaffolder API, and 2 more. Tagged areas include Software Catalog, Internal Developer Portal, Backstage, Developer Experience, and IDP.

Roadie’s developer surface includes authentication, documentation, engineering blog, and 6 more developer resources.

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38.5/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 29/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-08-20 · rubric v0.12.0

AccessPaidSelf serve

6 APIs

Software Catalog Internal Developer PortalBackstageDeveloper Experience IDP Developer PortalManaged BackstageScaffolderTechDocsService Catalog Platform Engineering

Kin Score

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scored 2026-08-20 · rubric v0.12.0

Composite quality — 38.5/100 · thin

Contract Quality 14.3 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 4.8 / 20

Access Clarity 7.9 / 20

Operational Transparency 4.1 / 13

Contract Governance 0.0 / 12

Discoverability 7.4 / 10

Agent readiness — 29/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 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

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APIs 6

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

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Roadie Io Rate Limits

3 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

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

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

AgenticAccess

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Authentication

Authentication

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

RateLimits

RateLimits

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Plans

Plans

FinOps

FinOps

Company 3

The organization behind the API

LinkedIn

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

Source (apis.yml)

aid: roadie-io
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/roadie-io/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
name: Roadie
kind: company
description: Roadie is managed Backstage - a fully hosted internal developer portal (IDP) and software catalog delivered as
  SaaS, so teams get the Backstage software catalog, TechDocs, Scaffolder software templates, Tech Insights scorecards, and
  75+ plugins without operating Backstage themselves. Roadie exposes a public REST API under https://api.roadie.so/api (Bearer-token
  authenticated with User or Service tokens) for reading catalog entities, pushing Roadie-managed entities and idempotent
  entity sets into the software catalog, running Scaffolder templates, and querying Tech Insights facts, checks, and scorecards.
  Roadie also ships six agent-native MCP servers over the same API base. Backstage itself is free and open source; Roadie
  is the commercial managed product, priced per contributing developer. Operated by Larder Software Limited.
accessModel:
  pricing: paid
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Paid · 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/roadie-io.png
tags:
- Software Catalog
- Internal Developer Portal
- Backstage
- Developer Experience
- IDP
- Developer Portal
- Managed Backstage
- Scaffolder
- TechDocs
- Service Catalog
- Platform Engineering
created: '2026-07-11'
modified: '2026-07-11'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- aid: roadie-io:roadie-io-mcp-servers
  name: Roadie MCP Servers
  tags:
  - MCP
  - Agents
  - Artificial Intelligence
  - agent-native
  tags_raw:
  - MCP
  - Agents
  - AI
  - Agent Native
  image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
  humanURL: https://roadie.io/docs/api/roadie-mcp/
  baseURL: https://api.roadie.so/api/mcp/v1
  properties:
  - url: https://roadie.io/docs/api/roadie-mcp/
    type: Documentation
  - url: https://roadie.io/docs/api/roadie-mcp/scaffolder/
    type: APIReference
  description: Six agent-native Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers over the Roadie API - api-docs-query, backend-config,
    catalog-decorators, rich-catalog-entity, scaffolder-use, and tech-insights-facts - letting AI agents discover API docs,
    read rich catalog entities, and find, validate, and execute scaffolder templates under Roadie's permission model.
- aid: roadie-io:roadie-io-catalog-api
  name: Roadie Catalog API
  description: Read Backstage software catalog entities in your Roadie tenant.
  humanURL: https://roadie.io/docs/api/catalog/
  baseURL: https://api.roadie.so/api/catalog
  tags:
  - Catalog
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/roadie-io-catalog-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://roadie.io/docs/api/overview/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://roadie.io/docs/api/catalog/
  - type: PostmanCollection
    url: collections/roadie-io.postman_collection.json
  - type: OpenCollection
    url: collections/roadie-io.opencollection.json
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://roadie.io/docs/api/entity-push-api/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://roadie.io/docs/integrations/roadie-api/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://roadie.io/docs/api/templates/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://roadie.io/docs/api/templates/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://roadie.io/docs/api/techinsights/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://roadie.io/docs/api/techinsights/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://roadie.io/docs/getting-started/technical-documentation/
- aid: roadie-io:roadie-io-entity-push-api
  name: Roadie Entity Push API
  description: Create, delete, and idempotently manage Roadie-owned catalog entities and entity sets.
  humanURL: https://roadie.io/docs/api/catalog/
  baseURL: https://api.roadie.so/api/catalog
  tags:
  - Entity Push
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/roadie-io-entity-push-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://roadie.io/docs/api/overview/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://roadie.io/docs/api/catalog/
  - type: PostmanCollection
    url: collections/roadie-io.postman_collection.json
  - type: OpenCollection
    url: collections/roadie-io.opencollection.json
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://roadie.io/docs/api/entity-push-api/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://roadie.io/docs/integrations/roadie-api/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://roadie.io/docs/api/templates/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://roadie.io/docs/api/templates/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://roadie.io/docs/api/techinsights/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://roadie.io/docs/api/techinsights/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://roadie.io/docs/getting-started/technical-documentation/
- aid: roadie-io:roadie-io-scaffolder-api
  name: Roadie Scaffolder API
  description: Backstage software templates - discover, dry-run, execute, and track scaffolder tasks.
  humanURL: https://roadie.io/docs/api/catalog/
  baseURL: https://api.roadie.so/api/catalog
  tags:
  - Scaffolder
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/roadie-io-scaffolder-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://roadie.io/docs/api/overview/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://roadie.io/docs/api/catalog/
  - type: PostmanCollection
    url: collections/roadie-io.postman_collection.json
  - type: OpenCollection
    url: collections/roadie-io.opencollection.json
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://roadie.io/docs/api/entity-push-api/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://roadie.io/docs/integrations/roadie-api/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://roadie.io/docs/api/templates/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://roadie.io/docs/api/templates/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://roadie.io/docs/api/techinsights/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://roadie.io/docs/api/techinsights/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://roadie.io/docs/getting-started/technical-documentation/
- aid: roadie-io:roadie-io-tech-insights-api
  name: Roadie Tech Insights API
  description: Facts, checks, and scorecards describing entity quality and compliance.
  humanURL: https://roadie.io/docs/api/catalog/
  baseURL: https://api.roadie.so/api/catalog
  tags:
  - Tech Insights
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/roadie-io-tech-insights-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://roadie.io/docs/api/overview/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://roadie.io/docs/api/catalog/
  - type: PostmanCollection
    url: collections/roadie-io.postman_collection.json
  - type: OpenCollection
    url: collections/roadie-io.opencollection.json
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://roadie.io/docs/api/entity-push-api/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://roadie.io/docs/integrations/roadie-api/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://roadie.io/docs/api/templates/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://roadie.io/docs/api/templates/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://roadie.io/docs/api/techinsights/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://roadie.io/docs/api/techinsights/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://roadie.io/docs/getting-started/technical-documentation/
- aid: roadie-io:roadie-io-techdocs-api
  name: Roadie TechDocs API
  description: Technical documentation (docs-like-code) metadata and static content. Modeled from Backstage.
  humanURL: https://roadie.io/docs/api/catalog/
  baseURL: https://api.roadie.so/api/catalog
  tags:
  - TechDocs
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/roadie-io-techdocs-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://roadie.io/docs/api/overview/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://roadie.io/docs/api/catalog/
  - type: PostmanCollection
    url: collections/roadie-io.postman_collection.json
  - type: OpenCollection
    url: collections/roadie-io.opencollection.json
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://roadie.io/docs/api/entity-push-api/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://roadie.io/docs/integrations/roadie-api/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://roadie.io/docs/api/templates/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://roadie.io/docs/api/templates/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://roadie.io/docs/api/techinsights/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://roadie.io/docs/api/techinsights/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://roadie.io/docs/getting-started/technical-documentation/
common:
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/roadie-io-agentic-access.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/roadie-io-authentication.yml
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/roadiehq
- type: Website
  url: https://roadie.io
- type: Documentation
  url: https://roadie.io/docs/
- type: Plans
  url: plans/roadie-io-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/roadie-io-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/roadie-io-finops.yml
- url: https://roadie.io/blog/
  type: Blog
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com

Roadie

Kin Score

APIs 6

Roadie MCP Servers

Roadie Catalog API

Roadie Entity Push API

Roadie Scaffolder API

Roadie Tech Insights API

Roadie TechDocs API

Open Collections 7

API Collection

Roadie Catalog API

Roadie Catalog Entity Push API

Roadie Catalog Scaffolder API

Roadie Catalog Tech Insights API

Roadie Catalog TechDocs API

Roadie API

Pricing Plans 1

Roadie Io Plans Pricing

Rate Limits 1

Roadie Io Rate Limits

FinOps 1

Roadie Io Finops

Security Posture 1

Roadie Io Authentication

Agentic Access 1

Roadie Io Agentic Access

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