# Roadie

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/roadie-io/  
**Website:** https://roadie.io  
**APIs profiled:** 6

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.

## Kin Score — 38.5 / 100 (thin)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 38.5).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 74.1 |
| Contract Quality | 57.3 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 31.6 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 23.8 |
| Commercial Clarity | 39.5 |
| Access Clarity | 39.5 |

## Agent readiness — 29.1 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| 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

Paid · Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: paid, trial: no (confidence: high).

## APIs (6)

- **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.

## Agentic access (1)

- **Roadie Io Agentic Access** — 21 operations · 7 acting

## Security (1)

- **Roadie Io Authentication** — http · 1 scheme

## Plans (1)

- **Roadie Io Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Software Catalog, Internal Developer Portal, Backstage, Developer Experience, IDP, Developer Portal, Managed Backstage, Scaffolder, TechDocs, Service Catalog, Platform Engineering

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