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 6 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network, including Catalog API, Entity Push API, Scaffolder API, and 3 more. Tagged areas include Software Catalog, Internal Developer Portal, Backstage, Developer Experience, and Developer Portal.

The Roadie catalog on APIs.io includes 1 Spectral governance ruleset.

Roadie’s developer surface includes authentication, documentation, engineering blog, and 7 more developer resources.

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27.5/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 19/100 agent aware Front door AI 5/6 prominent Heartbeat 36/100 going silent saas Full breakdown ↓
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AccessPaid

1 published contract

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

What this lets a business do 1

Business capabilities this provider's published APIs can perform, derived from its own contracts. Browse all capabilities →

Software Product Engineering Management

BC-4200

CatalogEntity PushScaffolderTech Insights

POST /scaffolder/v2/tasks GET /catalog/entities POST /catalog/roadie-entities/entities POST /tech-insights/v1/checks/run

Kin Score

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scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0

Composite quality — 27.5/100 · thin

Contract Quality 7.5 / 19

Developer Ergonomics 4.8 / 15

Access Clarity 1.2 / 15

Operational Transparency 0.8 / 10

Contract Governance 1.2 / 9

Discoverability 5.0 / 8

Regulatory Posture 0.9 / 15

Create-or-Update Ergonomics 2.2 / 10

Agent readiness — 19/100 · 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

Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

Pagination 0 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

MCP Tool Quality 6 / 6

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 applies to this provider. This API accepts writes, so it carries 10 points of the composite. It is scored from the published contracts themselves: whether a caller can create-or-update in one call, whether the write accepts a key the caller already holds, and whether the response says which branch ran. Without that, every write needs a search-and-branch in front of it, and the first time that check is skipped a duplicate record is created. Scored against the observed mean rather than raw — a provider at the catalog average is unchanged by this facet, not penalised by it.

The six quality facets above are damped to 75 points between them, because the conditional facet above carries the other 25. That is why each facet's contribution is shown against a damped maximum: raising a quality facet moves the composite by 75% 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
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
Request/Response Examples +7 pts — share of operations carrying request/response examples; else an Examples / Code Samples link
Registration Without a Human +6 pts — a `registration_endpoint` in the served RFC 8414 / OIDC discovery document

10 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

Kin Score — facets with the most composite points still available (weight × headroom):

Access Clarity scores 7.9 — up to +18.4 composite points
Contract Quality scores 40.2 — up to +15.0 composite points
Developer Ergonomics scores 32.1 — up to +13.6 composite points

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Markets this provider is in provisional

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.

Market	Position	Depth	Registered MCP server	Declares compatibility
Backstage Plugin Directory	builds-on	51.8	-	-

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 implemented 1

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.

OpenAPI

measured — observed by APIs.io (published)

APIs 6

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

Roadie MCP Servers

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-ins...

Roadie Catalog API

Read Backstage software catalog entities in your Roadie tenant.

Roadie Entity Push API

Create, delete, and idempotently manage Roadie-owned catalog entities and entity sets.

Roadie Scaffolder API

Backstage software templates - discover, dry-run, execute, and track scaffolder tasks.

Roadie Tech Insights API

Facts, checks, and scorecards describing entity quality and compliance.

Roadie TechDocs API

Technical documentation (docs-like-code) metadata and static content. Modeled from Backstage.

Open Collections 6

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

Roadie Catalog API

OPEN COLLECTION

Roadie Catalog Entity Push API

OPEN COLLECTION

Roadie Catalog Scaffolder API

OPEN COLLECTION

Roadie Catalog Tech Insights API

OPEN COLLECTION

Roadie Catalog TechDocs API

OPEN COLLECTION

Roadie API

OPEN COLLECTION

Roadie API pricing

Not yet checked against Roadie's own pricing page. Compiled by API Evangelist on 2026-07-11 from roadie.io/pricing/; confirm before you rely on a figure.

Plan	Price
Teams paid	—
Growth paid	—
Enterprise Context enterprise	—

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Rate limits

Public API Requests: not published requests
Entity Set Sync: not published requests
Permission Model: RBAC-governed authorization

Compiled by API Evangelist, not yet checked against Roadie's documentation. Rate-limit details →

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Roadie Io Plans Pricing

3 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Roadie Io Rate Limits

3 limits

RATE LIMITS

Service Levels 1

Uptime the provider promises or reports, as SLA4OAI. Read from its own pages; APIs.io runs no monitors.

Roadie

SLA

FinOps 1

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

Roadie Io Finops

FINOPS

Spectral Rules 1

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

Roadie API Rules

62 rules · 58 errors 3 warnings 1 info

SPECTRAL

Security Posture 1

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

Roadie Io Authentication

http · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Roadie Io Agentic Access

21 operations · 7 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

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

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

CapabilityMap

CapabilityMap

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.
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: true
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: high
  source:
  - openapi
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: paid
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Paid
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  generated: '2026-11-06'
  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
- Developer Portal
- Managed Backstage
- Scaffolder
- TechDocs
- Service Catalog
- Platform Engineering
- Developer Tools
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
  - 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: CapabilityMap
  url: capabilities/roadie-io-capability-edges.yml
  name: Roadie Business Capability Map
- 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
x-tags-removed:
- IDP

Roadie API — frequently asked questions

Does Roadie have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 6 APIs from Roadie, including Roadie MCP Servers, Roadie Catalog API and Roadie Entity Push API, and 3 more.

Is there an OpenAPI specification for the Roadie API?

Yes. APIs.io indexes 5 OpenAPI specifications for Roadie, each linked for download from this page.

How do I authenticate with the Roadie API?

Roadie uses bearer-token authentication (http · 1 scheme). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Roadie Io Authentication.

How much does the Roadie API cost?

APIs.io lists 3 pricing plans for Roadie, with each plan's price, limits and inclusions under Pricing on this page.

Is the Roadie API ready for AI agents?

Roadie has a Kin Score of 27.5 out of 100 (thin) and an Agent Readiness score of 19.0 (agent-aware), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.

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