Salesforce Flow

The Salesforce Flow API enables developers to interact with and manage Salesforce Flow automation processes programmatically. This includes creating, updating, querying, and executing flows within Salesforce using the REST API, Tooling API, and Invocable Actions framework.

Salesforce Flow publishes 5 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network, including Definitions API, Interviews API, Invocable Actions API, and 2 more. Tagged areas include Automation, Business Process, CRM, Flow, and Process Builder.

The Salesforce Flow catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context and 2 Spectral governance rulesets.

Salesforce Flow’s developer surface includes authentication, developer portal, getting-started guide, documentation, engineering blog, and 19 more developer resources.

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47.5/100 developing ▬ flat Agent 26/100 agent aware saas Full breakdown ↓
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Automation Business Process CRM FlowProcess BuilderSalesforce Workflows

Kin Score

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Composite quality — 47.5/100 · developing

Contract Quality 10.9 / 19

Developer Ergonomics 5.2 / 15

Access Clarity 9.1 / 15

Operational Transparency 1.5 / 10

Contract Governance 2.1 / 9

Discoverability 5.2 / 8

Regulatory Posture 5.1 / 15

Create-or-Update Ergonomics 0.0 / 10

Agent readiness — 26/100 · 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 6 / 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

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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

9 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

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

Developer Ergonomics scores 34.5 — up to +13.1 composite points
Operational Transparency scores 15.8 — up to +10.9 composite points
Contract Quality scores 57.9 — up to +10.5 composite points

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Standards implemented 2

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)

OAuth 2.0

measured — observed by APIs.io (declared)

APIs 5

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

Salesforce Tooling API (Flow)

Tooling API endpoints for managing Flow definitions and metadata. Supports deployment, retrieval, and management of Flow versions.

Salesforce Flow Interviews API

API for executing and managing Flow interviews (instances). Provides endpoints to start, resume, pause, and monitor flow execution state.

Salesforce Flow Definitions API

Operations for managing Flow metadata and definitions

Salesforce Flow Interviews API

Operations for executing and managing Flow interviews

Salesforce Flow Invocable Actions API

Operations for triggering invocable flows as actions

Postman Collections 3

Ready-to-run Postman collections for exercising this provider's APIs.

Salesforce Flow REST Flow Definitions API

POSTMAN

Salesforce Flow REST Flow Definitions Flow Interviews API

POSTMAN

Salesforce Flow REST Flow Definitions Invocable Actions API

POSTMAN

Open Collections 4

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

Salesforce Flow REST Flow Definitions API

OPEN COLLECTION

Salesforce Flow REST Flow Definitions Flow Interviews API

OPEN COLLECTION

Salesforce Flow REST Flow Definitions Invocable Actions API

OPEN COLLECTION

Salesforce Flow REST API

OPEN COLLECTION

Salesforce Flow API pricing

Prices published by Salesforce Flow, read 2026-10-28 from www.salesforce.com/agentforce/pricing/?bc=OTH.

Plan	Price
Salesforce Foundations	$0 Includes: Agentforce Builder, Prompt Builder, Agent Script, Agentforce Coworker, Agentforce Vibes
Flex Credits	$500 USD/Per 100k Credits per 100k credits Includes: Agentforce actions are 20 Flex Credits, while Agentforce Voice actions are 30 Flex Credits
Conversations	$2 USD/Per conversation per conversation Includes: Customer-facing Agents, Digital Wallet
Agentforce add-ons	$125 user/ month Includes: Unmetered Agentforce usage for employees
Agentforce Industries add-ons	$150 user/ month Includes: Everything in Sales Cloud & Service Cloud add-ons
Max Edition	from $550 user/ month Includes: Agentforce add-on included; 2.75M Flex Credits per org per year
Agentforce User License	$5 USD/User/Month (Requires Flex Credits) Includes: Access to limited Salesforce CRM objects; Metered Agentforce usage
Agentforce Coworker User License	$50 USD/User/Month Includes: All Coworker searches included; 30 MBs of indexing per user per month

Plan details, limits and sources →

Rate limits

Per-edition 24-hour API request limit: varies by Salesforce edition (Developer / Professional / Enterprise / Performance / Unlimited) and licensed user count;

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

Billed by: user · FinOps profile →

Pricing Plans 2

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Salesforce Flow Plans Pricing

8 plans

PLANS

Salesforce Flow Price Estimates

0 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Salesforce Flow Rate Limits

1 limits

RATE LIMITS

Service Levels 1

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

Salesforce Flow

SLA

FinOps 1

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

Salesforce Flow Finops

FINOPS

Semantic Vocabularies 1

JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.

Salesforce Flow Context

0 classes · 23 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 2

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

Salesforce Flow — jsonschema rules

5 rules · 3 warnings 2 info

SPECTRAL

Salesforce Flow API Rules

10 rules · 5 errors 4 warnings 1 info

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 2

Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.

Salesforce Flow Definition

12 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Salesforce Flow Interview

11 properties

JSON SCHEMA

JSON Structure 1

JSON Structure definitions describing this provider's data shapes.

Salesforce Flow Flow Definition Structure

0 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Examples 2

Example request and response payloads for these APIs.

Salesforce Flow Invoke Flow Example

7 fields

EXAMPLE

Salesforce Flow List Flows Example

7 fields

EXAMPLE

Security Posture 2

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

Salesforce Flow Authentication

http/oauth2 · 2 schemes

SECURITY

Salesforce Flow Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · DNSSEC · DMARC

SECURITY

Scopes 1

OAuth scopes governing access to this provider's APIs.

Salesforce Flow Scopes

2 scopes · authorizationCode

2 scopes

SCOPES

Agentic Access 1

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

Salesforce Flow Agentic Access

10 operations · 4 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Get Started 2

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Portal

Portal

GettingStarted

GettingStarted

Documentation 3

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

Flow Definition Schema

JSONSchema

Flow Interview Schema

JSONSchema

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

AgenticAccess

Design & Contract 3

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

SpectralRules

SpectralRules

JSONLDContext

JSONLDContext

Vocabulary

Vocabulary

Build 2

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

PostmanWorkspace

PostmanWorkspace

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

Access & Security 4

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

Authentication

OAuthScopes

Authentication

Learn 1

Tutorials, courses, talks, and written guidance

Trailhead Learning

Trailhead Learning

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

RateLimits

RateLimits

StatusPage

StatusPage

Commercial 4

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Plans

FinOps

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

Source (apis.yml)

name: Salesforce Flow
description: The Salesforce Flow API enables developers to interact with and manage Salesforce Flow automation processes programmatically.
  This includes creating, updating, querying, and executing flows within Salesforce using the REST API, Tooling API, and Invocable
  Actions framework.
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: freemium
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: true
  public: false
  gated: none
  gated_source:
  - onboarding
  label: Freemium · Self-serve signup
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-06'
  method: derived
image: ''
url: https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/atlas.en-us.api_rest.meta/api_rest/resources_flow.htm
created: 2024-01-15 00:00:00+00:00
modified: '2026-09-16'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
tags:
- Automation
- Business Process
- CRM
- Flow
- Process Builder
- Salesforce
- Workflows
tags_raw:
- Automation
- Business Process
- CRM
- Flow
- Process Builder
- Salesforce
- Workflow
apis:
- name: Salesforce Tooling API (Flow)
  description: Tooling API endpoints for managing Flow definitions and metadata. Supports deployment, retrieval, and management
    of Flow versions.
  image: https://www.salesforce.com/content/dam/web/en_us/www/images/nav/logo-salesforce.svg
  humanURL: https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/atlas.en-us.api_tooling.meta/api_tooling/
  baseURL: https://yourInstance.salesforce.com/services/data/v59.0/tooling
  tags:
  - Flow Definition
  - Metadata
  - Tooling
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/atlas.en-us.api_tooling.meta/api_tooling/tooling_api_objects_flow.htm
- name: Salesforce Flow Interviews API
  description: API for executing and managing Flow interviews (instances). Provides endpoints to start, resume, pause, and
    monitor flow execution state.
  image: https://www.salesforce.com/content/dam/web/en_us/www/images/nav/logo-salesforce.svg
  humanURL: https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/atlas.en-us.api_rest.meta/api_rest/resources_actions_invocable_flow.htm
  baseURL: https://yourInstance.salesforce.com/services/data/v59.0/actions/custom/flow
  tags:
  - Execution
  - Flow Interview
  - Runtime
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/atlas.en-us.api_rest.meta/api_rest/resources_actions_invocable_flow.htm
- aid: salesforce-flow:salesforce-flow-flow-definitions-api
  name: Salesforce Flow Definitions API
  description: Operations for managing Flow metadata and definitions
  humanURL: https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/atlas.en-us.api_rest.meta/api_rest/resources_flow.htm
  baseURL: https://yourInstance.salesforce.com/services/data/v59.0
  tags:
  - Flow Definitions
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/salesforce-flow-flow-definitions-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/atlas.en-us.api_rest.meta/api_rest/resources_flow.htm
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/atlas.en-us.api_rest.meta/api_rest/intro_oauth_and_connected_apps.htm
- aid: salesforce-flow:salesforce-flow-flow-interviews-api
  name: Salesforce Flow Interviews API
  description: Operations for executing and managing Flow interviews
  humanURL: https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/atlas.en-us.api_rest.meta/api_rest/resources_flow.htm
  baseURL: https://yourInstance.salesforce.com/services/data/v59.0
  tags:
  - Flow Interviews
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/salesforce-flow-flow-interviews-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/atlas.en-us.api_rest.meta/api_rest/resources_flow.htm
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/atlas.en-us.api_rest.meta/api_rest/intro_oauth_and_connected_apps.htm
- aid: salesforce-flow:salesforce-flow-invocable-actions-api
  name: Salesforce Flow Invocable Actions API
  description: Operations for triggering invocable flows as actions
  humanURL: https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/atlas.en-us.api_rest.meta/api_rest/resources_flow.htm
  baseURL: https://yourInstance.salesforce.com/services/data/v59.0
  tags:
  - Invocable Actions
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/salesforce-flow-invocable-actions-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/atlas.en-us.api_rest.meta/api_rest/resources_flow.htm
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/atlas.en-us.api_rest.meta/api_rest/intro_oauth_and_connected_apps.htm
common:
- type: Plans
  url: plans/salesforce-flow-plans-pricing.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/salesforce-flow-finops.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.salesforce.com/
- type: PostmanWorkspace
  url: https://www.postman.com/kinlaneapi/salesforce-flow/overview
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/salesforce-flow-agentic-access.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/salesforce-flow-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/salesforce-flow-authentication.yml
- type: OAuthScopes
  url: scopes/salesforce-flow-scopes.yml
- type: Portal
  url: https://developer.salesforce.com/
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://trailhead.salesforce.com/content/learn/modules/flow-builder
- type: Authentication
  url: https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/atlas.en-us.api_rest.meta/api_rest/intro_oauth_and_connected_apps.htm
- type: RateLimits
  url: https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/atlas.en-us.salesforce_app_limits_cheatsheet.meta/salesforce_app_limits_cheatsheet/salesforce_app_limits_platform_api.htm
- type: StatusPage
  url: https://status.salesforce.com/
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.salesforce.com/company/legal/agreements/
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.salesforce.com/company/privacy/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/atlas.en-us.flow.meta/flow/
- type: Trailhead Learning
  url: https://trailhead.salesforce.com/content/learn/modules/flow-builder
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/salesforce
- type: SpectralRules
  url: rules/salesforce-flow-rules.yml
- type: JSONSchema
  url: json-schema/salesforce-flow-flow-definition-schema.json
  title: Flow Definition Schema
- type: JSONSchema
  url: json-schema/salesforce-flow-flow-interview-schema.json
  title: Flow Interview Schema
- type: JSONLDContext
  url: json-ld/salesforce-flow-context.jsonld
- type: Vocabulary
  url: vocabulary/salesforce-flow-vocabulary.yml
- url: https://developer.salesforce.com/blogs/feed
  type: Blog
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
include: []

Salesforce Flow API — frequently asked questions

Does Salesforce Flow have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 5 APIs from Salesforce Flow, including Salesforce Tooling API (Flow), Salesforce Flow Interviews API and Salesforce Flow Definitions API, and 2 more.

Is there an OpenAPI specification for the Salesforce Flow API?

Yes. APIs.io indexes 3 OpenAPI specifications for Salesforce Flow, each linked for download from this page.

How do I authenticate with the Salesforce Flow API?

Salesforce Flow documents its authentication (http/oauth2 · 2 schemes). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Salesforce Flow Authentication.

How much does the Salesforce Flow API cost?

Salesforce Flow publishes its prices; its Salesforce Foundations plan is $0 as of 2026-10-28. APIs.io lists 8 pricing plans for Salesforce Flow, with each plan's price, limits and inclusions under Pricing on this page.

Is the Salesforce Flow API ready for AI agents?

Salesforce Flow has a Kin Score of 47.5 out of 100 (developing) and an Agent Readiness score of 25.5 (agent-aware), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.

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