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Spear

Spear is a developer platform focused on API development workflows, providing tools for API design, collaboration, and delivery. The platform enables teams to build, test, and ship APIs faster through a unified workspace experience.

Spear publishes 1 API on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include API Development, Collaboration, Developer Tools, and Platform.

The Spear catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context and 1 Spectral governance ruleset.

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13.8/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 3/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-08-25 · rubric v0.14.0
AccessFreemium
1 APIs
API DevelopmentCollaborationDeveloper ToolsPlatform

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scored 2026-08-25 · rubric v0.14.0
Composite quality — 13.8/100 · emerging
Contract Quality 2.7 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 0.0 / 20
Access Clarity 3.2 / 20
Operational Transparency 1.0 / 13
Contract Governance 1.2 / 12
Discoverability 5.7 / 10
Agent readiness — 3/100 · human only
Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10
Documented Reversibility 0 / 6
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
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 1

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

Spear

Spear is a developer platform focused on API development workflows, providing tools for API design, collaboration, and delivery through a unified workspace experience.

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Spear Plans Pricing

3 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Spear Rate Limits

5 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

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

Spear Finops

FINOPS

Semantic Vocabularies 1

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

Spear Context

3 classes · 10 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 1

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

Spear API Rules

5 rules · 4 warnings 1 info

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 1

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

Spear Workspace

8 properties

JSON SCHEMA

JSON Structure 1

JSON Structure definitions describing this provider's data shapes.

Spear Workspace Structure

0 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Examples 1

Example request and response payloads for these APIs.

Spear Workspace Example

3 fields

EXAMPLE

Security Posture 1

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

Spear Domain Security

TLSv1.3

SECURITY

Resources

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

LlmsText
LlmsText

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity
DomainSecurity

Company 1

The organization behind the API

Website
Website

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: spear
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/spear/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
name: Spear
description: Spear is a developer platform focused on API development workflows, providing tools for API design, collaboration,
  and delivery. The platform enables teams to build, test, and ship APIs faster through a unified workspace experience.
type: Index
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/spear.png
access: 3rd-Party
tags:
- API Development
- Collaboration
- Developer Tools
- Platform
created: '2024-01-01'
modified: '2026-05-02'
position: Consumer
segments:
- Developer Tools
- API Development
apis:
- aid: spear:spear
  name: Spear
  tags:
  - API Development
  - Collaboration
  - Developer Tools
  - Platform
  humanURL: https://spear.dev
  properties:
  - url: https://spear.dev
    type: Website
  description: Spear is a developer platform focused on API development workflows, providing tools for API design, collaboration,
    and delivery through a unified workspace experience.
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/spear-domain-security.yml
- url: https://spear.dev
  name: Website | Spear
  type: Website
  description: 'null'
- type: LlmsText
  url: https://spear.dev/llms.txt
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
specificationVersion: '0.23'

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