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 5 more developer resources.

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36.0/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 20/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-08-25 · rubric v0.14.0

AccessFreemiumSelf serve⚡ Free to try

4 APIs

Data Protection SaaS Backup Cloud Backup Microsoft-365 Google Workspace Salesforce

Kin Score

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scored 2026-08-25 · rubric v0.14.0

Composite quality — 36.0/100 · thin

Contract Quality 16.8 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 5.7 / 20

Access Clarity 3.2 / 20

Operational Transparency 1.7 / 13

Contract Governance 1.2 / 12

Discoverability 7.4 / 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 Surface 0 / 5

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APIs 4

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

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.

JSON Schema 1

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

Examples 1

Example request and response payloads for these APIs.

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 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

License

License

Pricing

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
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
tags_raw:
- 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: '0.23'
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
  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: 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

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