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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 3 APIs on the APIs.io network: Exports API, Shared Drives API, and Users API. 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 4 more developer resources.

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53.6/100 developing ▬ flat Agent 31/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-08-05 · rubric v0.9.1
AccessFreemiumSelf serve⚡ Free to try
4 APIs
Data ProtectionSaaS BackupCloud BackupMicrosoft 365Google WorkspaceSalesforce

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scored 2026-08-05 · rubric v0.9.1
Composite quality — 53.6/100 · developing
Contract Quality 19.2 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 5.2 / 20
Commercial Clarity 10.0 / 20
Operational Transparency 4.8 / 13
Governance 7.0 / 12
Discoverability 7.4 / 10
Agent readiness — 31/100 · agent aware
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10
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
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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 1

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

Spanning Backup for Google Workspace API

OPEN COLLECTION

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.

Spanning API Rules

5 rules · 3 warnings 2 info

SPECTRAL

Spanning API Rules

8 rules · 1 errors 5 warnings 2 info

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 1

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

Spanning Agentic Access

9 operations · 4 acting

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 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHub
GitHub

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity
DomainSecurity
 Authentication
Authentication

Commercial 1

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Pricing
Pricing

Company 2

The organization behind the API

LinkedIn
LinkedIn
 Website
Website

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
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
accessModel:
  pricing: freemium
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: true
  public: false
  label: Freemium · Self-serve signup
  confidence: high
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  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
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/spanning/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2026-03-27'
modified: '2026-05-19'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
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
  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:
  - 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:
  - 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: 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