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Score

Score is an open-source, platform-agnostic workload specification developed under the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) Sandbox program. It provides a developer-centric YAML specification that enables teams to define application workloads once and deploy them across multiple container platforms including Docker Compose, Kubernetes, and cloud runtimes without environment-specific configuration drift. The score-spec organization provides reference CLI implementations (score-compose and score-k8s) that translate Score YAML into platform-specific manifests, eliminating YAML bloat and reducing cognitive load for platform engineering teams.

Score publishes 3 APIs on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Platform Engineering, Cloud Native, CNCF, Workload Specification, and Kubernetes.

The Score catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context.

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

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25.8/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 3/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-08-05 · rubric v0.9.1
AccessFreemium
3 APIs
Platform EngineeringCloud NativeCNCFWorkload SpecificationKubernetesDockerDeveloper ExperienceOpen Source

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Composite quality — 25.8/100 · emerging
Contract Quality 3.2 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 2.2 / 20
Commercial Clarity 7.9 / 20
Operational Transparency 4.8 / 13
Governance 1.2 / 12
Discoverability 6.5 / 10
Agent readiness — 3/100 · human only
Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 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 3

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

Score Specification

The Score Specification (score.yaml) is a declarative, platform-agnostic workload definition format that captures containers, service ports, and resource dependencies in a singl...

score-compose

score-compose is the reference Score implementation that translates Score YAML workload specifications into Docker Compose configuration files. It enables local development envi...

score-k8s

score-k8s is the reference Score implementation that translates Score YAML workload specifications into Kubernetes manifests including Deployments, Services, ConfigMaps, and Sec...

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Score Plans Pricing

3 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Score Rate Limits

5 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

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

Score Finops

FINOPS

Semantic Vocabularies 1

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

Score Context

44 classes · 1 properties

JSON-LD

Examples 2

Example request and response payloads for these APIs.

Score Basic Workload Example

6 fields

EXAMPLE

Score Compose Output Example

4 fields

EXAMPLE

Security Posture 1

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

Score Domain Security

TLSv1.3

SECURITY

Resources

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation
Documentation

Design & Contract 2

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

JSONLDContext
JSONLDContext
 Vocabulary
Vocabulary

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization
GitHubOrganization

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity
DomainSecurity

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Slack Channel
Slack Channel

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Website
Website
 Blog
Blog

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: score
accessModel:
  pricing: freemium
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Freemium
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/score.png
name: Score
description: Score is an open-source, platform-agnostic workload specification developed under the Cloud Native Computing
  Foundation (CNCF) Sandbox program. It provides a developer-centric YAML specification that enables teams to define application
  workloads once and deploy them across multiple container platforms including Docker Compose, Kubernetes, and cloud runtimes
  without environment-specific configuration drift. The score-spec organization provides reference CLI implementations (score-compose
  and score-k8s) that translate Score YAML into platform-specific manifests, eliminating YAML bloat and reducing cognitive
  load for platform engineering teams.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/score/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2026-05-02'
modified: '2026-05-02'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
tags:
- Platform Engineering
- Cloud Native
- CNCF
- Workload Specification
- Kubernetes
- Docker
- Developer Experience
- Open Source
apis:
- aid: score:score-specification
  name: Score Specification
  description: The Score Specification (score.yaml) is a declarative, platform-agnostic workload definition format that captures
    containers, service ports, and resource dependencies in a single file. Reference CLI implementations (score-compose and
    score-k8s) translate Score files into Docker Compose manifests or Kubernetes manifests respectively. The specification
    supports metadata, container definitions with environment variables and volume mounts, service port exposure, health probes,
    and resource references using placeholder syntax.
  humanURL: https://score.dev/
  tags:
  - Platform Engineering
  - Workload Specification
  - Cloud Native
  - CNCF
  - Open Source
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.score.dev/
  - type: Specification
    url: https://docs.score.dev/docs/score-specification/score-spec-reference/
  - type: GitHubRepository
    url: https://github.com/score-spec/spec
  - type: Vocabulary
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/score/refs/heads/main/vocabulary/score-vocabulary.yml
  - type: JSONLDContext
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/score/refs/heads/main/json-ld/score-context.jsonld
- aid: score:score-compose
  name: score-compose
  description: score-compose is the reference Score implementation that translates Score YAML workload specifications into
    Docker Compose configuration files. It enables local development environments that mirror production workload definitions,
    supports resource provisioners for common dependencies like databases and message queues, and generates runnable Docker
    Compose files from a single score.yaml source.
  humanURL: https://score.dev/
  tags:
  - Docker Compose
  - CLI
  - Local Development
  - Platform Engineering
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.score.dev/docs/score-implementation/score-compose/
  - type: GitHubRepository
    url: https://github.com/score-spec/score-compose
- aid: score:score-k8s
  name: score-k8s
  description: score-k8s is the reference Score implementation that translates Score YAML workload specifications into Kubernetes
    manifests including Deployments, Services, ConfigMaps, and Secrets. It supports Kubernetes resource provisioners, patch
    templates for customizing generated manifests, and enables consistent workload configuration from development to production
    on Kubernetes.
  humanURL: https://score.dev/
  tags:
  - Kubernetes
  - CLI
  - Platform Engineering
  - Cloud Native
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.score.dev/docs/score-implementation/score-k8s/
  - type: GitHubRepository
    url: https://github.com/score-spec/score-k8s
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/score-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://score.dev/
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/score-spec
- type: Documentation
  url: https://docs.score.dev/
- type: Slack Channel
  url: https://cloud-native.slack.com/archives/C07DN0D1UCW
- type: JSONLDContext
  url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/score/refs/heads/main/json-ld/score-context.jsonld
- type: Vocabulary
  url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/score/refs/heads/main/vocabulary/score-vocabulary.yml
- url: https://score.dev/index.xml
  type: Blog
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com