Spanning

Spanning (by Kaseya) is a SaaS backup and recovery platform providing cloud-to-cloud data protection for Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, and Salesforce. It protects over 24,000 organizations and 2.5 million users with automated daily backups, unlimited on-demand backups, infinite retention, and granular point-in-time restore. Spanning exposes RESTful APIs for managing user licenses and exporting backed-up account data for Google Workspace and Microsoft 365.

Spanning publishes 4 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network, including Exports API, Shared Drives API, Users API, and 1 more. Tagged areas include Data Protection, SaaS Backup, Cloud Backup, Microsoft 365, and Google Workspace.

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

Spanning’s developer surface includes authentication, documentation, API reference, GitHub presence, pricing, and 11 more developer resources.

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33.0/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 20/100 agent aware Front door AI 1/6 silent Heartbeat 0/100 dormant open core · Apache-2.0 Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-11-13 · rubric v0.28.0 · Show this score on your site →

AccessFreemiumSelf serve⚡ Free to try

1 published contract

Data Protection SaaS Backup Cloud Backup Microsoft 365 Google Workspace Salesforce

Kin Score

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scored 2026-11-13 · rubric v0.28.0

Composite quality — 33.0/100 · thin

Contract Quality 10.0 / 16

Developer Ergonomics 3.9 / 13

Access Clarity 0.8 / 13

Operational Transparency 2.2 / 8

Contract Governance 1.8 / 8

Discoverability 4.3 / 7

Regulatory Posture 1.6 / 15

Open Source Surface 2.5 / 10

Create-or-Update Ergonomics 0.0 / 10

Agent readiness — 20/100 · 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 5 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

MCP Tool Quality 6 / 6

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Open Source Surface applies to this provider. This product is open source and we read its repository directly, so Open Source Surface carries 10 points of the composite. It is scored from what the repository actually publishes — a security policy, a contribution guide, a release history, a code of conduct — read live from the provider rather than inferred from our own catalog pointers. This facet adds; nothing was taken away to make room for it. An open-source project is not excused from the commercial facets, because exemption would strip it of the points it does earn. If we have the wrong repository, or this product is not open source, say so on your provider repo and we will drop the facet rather than have you publish against it.

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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 Ask about this →
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) Ask about this →
Stable Error Semantics +8 pts — OpenAPI $refs a shared error schema across 4xx/5xx responses (verified), else common[].type includes ErrorCatalog / ErrorCodes / DeclineCodes Ask about this →
A2A Agent Card +8 pts — a2a/-a2a.yml manifest, graded on conformance.grade against A2A 1.0.0 Ask about this →
Request/Response Examples +7 pts — share of operations carrying request/response examples; else an Examples / Code Samples link Ask about this →
Registration Without a Human +6 pts — a `registration_endpoint` in the served RFC 8414 / OIDC discovery document Ask about this →

9 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

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

Access Clarity scores 6.4 — up to +18.7 composite points Ask about this →
Developer Ergonomics scores 29.8 — up to +14.0 composite points Ask about this →
Contract Quality scores 61.4 — up to +9.7 composite points Ask about this →

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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 4

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

Spanning Backup for Microsoft 365 API

RESTful API for managing Spanning Backup for Microsoft 365. Region-specific endpoints (US, EU, AP, CA, UK) for user license management and data export operations. Authentication...

Spanning Exports API

Data export management operations

Spanning Shared Drives API

Shared drive backup and export operations

Spanning Users API

User backup license management operations

Open Collections 4

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

Spanning Backup for Google Workspace Exports API

OPEN COLLECTION

Spanning Backup for Google Workspace API

OPEN COLLECTION

Spanning Backup for Google Workspace Exports Shared Drives API

OPEN COLLECTION

Spanning Backup for Google Workspace Exports Users API

OPEN COLLECTION

Spanning API pricing

Not yet checked against Spanning's own pricing page. Compiled by API Evangelist on 2026-05-04; confirm before you rely on a figure. A free plan or tier is listed.

Plan	Price
Free freemium	Free
Professional paid	Free
Enterprise enterprise	—

Plan details, limits and sources →

Rate limits

Free Tier Default: 10 requests per minute
Free Tier Monthly Quota: 1000 requests per month
Professional Tier Default: 100 requests per minute

Compiled by API Evangelist, not yet checked against Spanning's documentation. All 5 limits →

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Spanning Plans Pricing

3 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Spanning Rate Limits

5 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

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

Spanning Finops

FINOPS

Semantic Vocabularies 1

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

Spanning Context

10 classes · 11 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 2

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs. Counts are the severity each rule declares, not results of running them.

Spanning — jsonschema rules

5 rules · 3 warn-severity 2 info-severity

SPECTRAL

Spanning API Rules

8 rules · 1 error-severity 5 warn-severity 2 info-severity

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 1

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

Spanning Backup User

8 properties

JSON SCHEMA

JSON Structure 1

JSON Structure definitions describing this provider's data shapes.

Spanning User Structure

0 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Examples 1

Example request and response payloads for these APIs.

Spanning List Users Example

4 fields

EXAMPLE

Security Posture 2

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

Spanning Authentication

apiKey · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Spanning Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Agentic Access (API Evangelist recommendations) 1

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

Spanning Agentic Access

9 operations · 4 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

APIReference

APIReference

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

AgenticAccess

Build 2

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

PostmanWorkspace

PostmanWorkspace

GitHub

GitHub

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Authentication

Authentication

Operate 3

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

RateLimits

RateLimits

IssueTracker

IssueTracker

Releases

Releases

Commercial 4

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Plans

FinOps

License

Pricing

Company 2

The organization behind the API

LinkedIn

Website

Website

Source (apis.yml)

aid: spanning
name: Spanning
description: Spanning (by Kaseya) is a SaaS backup and recovery platform providing cloud-to-cloud data protection for Microsoft
  365, Google Workspace, and Salesforce. It protects over 24,000 organizations and 2.5 million users with automated daily
  backups, unlimited on-demand backups, infinite retention, and granular point-in-time restore. Spanning exposes RESTful APIs
  for managing user licenses and exporting backed-up account data for Google Workspace and Microsoft 365.
type: Index
deliveryModel:
  model: open-core
  license: Apache-2.0
  open_source: true
  commercial: true
  callable_host: true
  label: Open core · an OSS project plus a commercial hosted product
  confidence: high
  source:
  - license
  - 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: '2026-11-13'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/spanning.png
tags:
- Data Protection
- SaaS Backup
- Cloud Backup
- Microsoft 365
- Google Workspace
- Salesforce
tags_raw:
- Data Protection
- SaaS Backup
- Cloud Backup
- Microsoft 365
- Google Workspace
- Salesforce
- Microsoft-365
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/spanning/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2026-03-27'
modified: '2026-05-19'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- aid: spanning:spanning-microsoft365-api
  name: Spanning Backup for Microsoft 365 API
  description: RESTful API for managing Spanning Backup for Microsoft 365. Region-specific endpoints (US, EU, AP, CA, UK)
    for user license management and data export operations. Authentication uses API tokens obtained from the Spanning admin
    portal.
  humanURL: https://spanning.com/products/microsoft-365-backup/
  baseURL: https://o365-us.spanningbackup.com
  tags:
  - Data Protection
  - SaaS Backup
  - Microsoft 365
  - Cloud Backup
  tags_raw:
  - Data Protection
  - SaaS Backup
  - Microsoft 365
  - Cloud Backup
  - Microsoft-365
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://o365-docs.spanningbackup.com/
  - type: GitHubRepository
    url: https://github.com/SpanningCloudApps/SB365-Powershell
- aid: spanning:spanning-exports-api
  name: Spanning Exports API
  description: Data export management operations
  humanURL: https://spanning.com/products/google-workspace-backup/
  baseURL: https://api.spanningbackup.com
  tags:
  - Export
  tags_raw:
  - Exports
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/spanning-exports-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://api.spanningbackup.com/index.html
  - type: SpectralRules
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/spanning/refs/heads/main/rules/spanning-rules.yml
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/spanning/refs/heads/main/json-schema/spanning-user-schema.json
  - type: JSONStructure
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/spanning/refs/heads/main/json-structure/spanning-user-structure.json
  - type: JSONLDContext
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/spanning/refs/heads/main/json-ld/spanning-context.jsonld
  - type: Vocabulary
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/spanning/refs/heads/main/vocabulary/spanning-vocabulary.yml
- aid: spanning:spanning-shared-drives-api
  name: Spanning Shared Drives API
  description: Shared drive backup and export operations
  humanURL: https://spanning.com/products/google-workspace-backup/
  baseURL: https://api.spanningbackup.com
  tags:
  - Shared Drives
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/spanning-shared-drives-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://api.spanningbackup.com/index.html
  - type: SpectralRules
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/spanning/refs/heads/main/rules/spanning-rules.yml
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/spanning/refs/heads/main/json-schema/spanning-user-schema.json
  - type: JSONStructure
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/spanning/refs/heads/main/json-structure/spanning-user-structure.json
  - type: JSONLDContext
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/spanning/refs/heads/main/json-ld/spanning-context.jsonld
  - type: Vocabulary
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/spanning/refs/heads/main/vocabulary/spanning-vocabulary.yml
- aid: spanning:spanning-users-api
  name: Spanning Users API
  description: User backup license management operations
  humanURL: https://spanning.com/products/google-workspace-backup/
  baseURL: https://api.spanningbackup.com
  tags:
  - User
  tags_raw:
  - Users
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/spanning-users-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://api.spanningbackup.com/index.html
  - type: SpectralRules
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/spanning/refs/heads/main/rules/spanning-rules.yml
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/spanning/refs/heads/main/json-schema/spanning-user-schema.json
  - type: JSONStructure
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/spanning/refs/heads/main/json-structure/spanning-user-structure.json
  - type: JSONLDContext
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/spanning/refs/heads/main/json-ld/spanning-context.jsonld
  - type: Vocabulary
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/spanning/refs/heads/main/vocabulary/spanning-vocabulary.yml
common:
- type: PostmanWorkspace
  url: https://www.postman.com/kinlaneapi/spanning/overview
- type: Plans
  url: plans/spanning-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/spanning-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/spanning-finops.yml
- type: IssueTracker
  url: https://github.com/SpanningCloudApps/SB365-Powershell/issues
- type: Releases
  url: https://github.com/SpanningCloudApps/SB365-Powershell/releases
- type: License
  name: Apache-2.0
  url: https://github.com/SpanningCloudApps/SB365-Powershell/blob/master/LICENSE
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/spanning-agentic-access.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/spanning-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/spanning-authentication.yml
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/spanning-cloud-apps
- type: Website
  url: https://spanning.com
- type: Documentation
  url: https://spanning.com/resources
- type: APIReference
  url: https://api.spanningbackup.com/index.html
- type: GitHub
  url: https://github.com/SpanningCloudApps
- type: Pricing
  url: https://spanning.com/pricing/
- type: Integrations
  url: https://www.spanning.com/partners/
integrations:
- name: google-backup-hero
- name: Kaseya Careers
- name: Spanning Dashboard that is for compliance
- name: cdw
- name: tech tech data
- name: arrow
- name: xertica brand
- name: cloudbakers
- name: emcsquared brand
- name: google partner brand
- name: cas brand
- name: technology alliance
- name: 2024 fall badge
- name: best-software-top-50
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com

Spanning API — frequently asked questions

Does Spanning have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 4 APIs from Spanning, including Spanning Backup for Microsoft 365 API, Spanning Exports API and Spanning Shared Drives API, and 1 more.

Is there an OpenAPI specification for the Spanning API?

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

How do I authenticate with the Spanning API?

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

How much does the Spanning API cost?

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

Is the Spanning API ready for AI agents?

Spanning has a Kin Score of 33.0 out of 100 (thin) and an Agent Readiness score of 19.6 (agent-aware), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-13.

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