Spire Global

Spire Global operates a constellation of more than 100 LEMUR nanosatellites collecting maritime AIS, aviation ADS-B, GNSS-RO weather profiles, and RF geolocation data, and offers Space Services for hosted payloads and managed satellite missions. Its data products are exposed as developer-friendly APIs: Spire Maritime 2.0 (now operated by Kpler) delivers vessel-tracking AIS through a GraphQL endpoint; Spire Aviation publishes REST APIs and real-time streams for flight metadata, live ADS-B tracking, historic positions, and event feeds; Spire Weather and Climate provides RESTful weather and ocean data APIs including 30 years of maritime weather history; and Spire Space Services exposes a developer portal for managed satellite operations. Spire's APIs are documented at product-specific subdomains and authenticated with API keys.

Spire Global is listed with 5 APIs on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Satellite, Earth Observation, AIS, Maritime, and ADS-B.

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9.8/100 minimal ▼ -6.0 Agent 1/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-10-17 · rubric v0.24.0

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5 APIs

Satellite Earth Observation AIS Maritime ADS-B Aviation WeatherRF GeolocationGraphQL LEMURGNSS-ROGeospatial

Kin Score

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scored 2026-10-17 · rubric v0.24.0

Composite quality — 9.8/100 · minimal

Contract Quality 0.0 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 1.6 / 17

Access Clarity 0.9 / 17

Operational Transparency 0.9 / 11

Contract Governance 0.0 / 10

Discoverability 6.1 / 9

Regulatory Posture 0.9 / 15

Agent readiness — 1/100 · 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 Well-Known Document 0 / 5

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Markets this provider is in provisional

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Market	Position	Depth	Registered MCP server	Declares compatibility
Drones and Airspace (UAS, UTM, air traffic)	undeclared	-	-	-

Registered MCP server and declares compatibility are report only — not weighted. Undeclared means we found nothing we can read, so there is no number: we never infer integrations.

Standards implemented 2

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.

AIS

tagged — the provider's own APIs.json carries the standard as a tag; implementation not verified

GraphQL

tagged — the provider's own APIs.json carries the standard as a tag; implementation not verified

APIs 5

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

Spire Maritime 2.0 API (GraphQL)

Single GraphQL endpoint delivering Spire's satellite AIS maritime data - vessel positions, voyages, port calls, and predicted ETAs - with flexible querying for analytics and int...

Spire Aviation API

REST APIs and real-time event and tracking streams for global flight data, including space-based ADS-B positions, flight metadata, historic flights, and delayed tracking streams.

Spire Weather and Climate API

RESTful weather and climate APIs covering global numerical weather prediction outputs, ocean currents, salinity, and 30 years of maritime weather history.

Spire Space Services Developer API

Developer portal and APIs for Spire Space Services, exposing managed satellite operations, hosted payloads, and on-orbit asset interactions.

Spire RF Geolocation

Radio-frequency geolocation data products delivering detected emitter positions for maritime domain awareness, security, and dark-vessel detection use cases. Delivered through e...

GraphQL 1

GraphQL schemas published by this provider.

Spire Global GraphQL API

Single GraphQL endpoint delivering Spire's satellite AIS maritime data - vessel positions, voyages, port calls, and predicted ETAs - with flexible querying for analytics and int...

GRAPHQL

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Spire Global Plans Pricing

1 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Spire Global Rate Limits

2 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

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

Spire Global Finops

FINOPS

Security Posture 1

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

Spire Global Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · DMARC

SECURITY

Resources

Documentation 4

Reference material describing how the API behaves

MaritimeDocs

MaritimeDocs

AviationDocs

AviationDocs

WeatherDocs

WeatherDocs

SpaceServicesDocs

SpaceServicesDocs

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

RateLimits

RateLimits

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Plans

Plans

FinOps

FinOps

Company 4

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Newsroom

Newsroom

LinkedIn

BlogRSS

BlogRSS

Other 3

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

DeveloperResources

DeveloperResources

Products

Products

Source (apis.yml)

aid: spire-global
name: Spire Global
description: 'Spire Global operates a constellation of more than 100 LEMUR nanosatellites collecting maritime AIS, aviation
  ADS-B, GNSS-RO weather profiles, and RF geolocation data, and offers Space Services for hosted payloads and managed satellite
  missions. Its data products are exposed as developer-friendly APIs: Spire Maritime 2.0 (now operated by Kpler) delivers
  vessel-tracking AIS through a GraphQL endpoint; Spire Aviation publishes REST APIs and real-time streams for flight metadata,
  live ADS-B tracking, historic positions, and event feeds; Spire Weather and Climate provides RESTful weather and ocean data
  APIs including 30 years of maritime weather history; and Spire Space Services exposes a developer portal for managed satellite
  operations. Spire''s APIs are documented at product-specific subdomains and authenticated with API keys.'
type: Index
deliveryModel:
  model: unknown
  open_source: false
  commercial: false
  callable_host: false
  label: Delivery model not determined — needs a product licence on record
  confidence: low
  source:
  - none
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: free
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Free
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
position: Producing
access: 3rd-Party
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/spire-global.png
tags:
- Satellite
- Earth Observation
- AIS
- Maritime
- ADS-B
- Aviation
- Weather
- RF Geolocation
- GraphQL
- LEMUR
- GNSS-RO
- Geospatial
tags_raw:
- Satellites
- Earth Observation
- AIS
- Maritime
- ADS-B
- Aviation
- Weather
- RF Geolocation
- GraphQL
- LEMUR
- GNSS-RO
- Geospatial
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/spire-global/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2026-05-23'
modified: '2026-05-23'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- aid: spire-global:maritime-graphql
  name: Spire Maritime 2.0 API (GraphQL)
  description: Single GraphQL endpoint delivering Spire's satellite AIS maritime data - vessel positions, voyages, port calls,
    and predicted ETAs - with flexible querying for analytics and integration use cases. Now operated under the Kpler maritime
    brand following the 2024 acquisition.
  humanURL: https://documentation.spire.com/
  baseURL: https://api.maritime.spire.com
  tags:
  - Maritime
  - AIS
  - GraphQL
  - Vessels
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://documentation.spire.com/
  - url: graphql/spire-global-graphql.md
    type: GraphQL
- aid: spire-global:aviation
  name: Spire Aviation API
  description: REST APIs and real-time event and tracking streams for global flight data, including space-based ADS-B positions,
    flight metadata, historic flights, and delayed tracking streams.
  humanURL: https://aviation-docs.spire.com/
  baseURL: https://api.aviation.spire.com
  tags:
  - Aviation
  - ADS-B
  - Flights
  - Streaming
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://aviation-docs.spire.com/
- aid: spire-global:weather
  name: Spire Weather and Climate API
  description: RESTful weather and climate APIs covering global numerical weather prediction outputs, ocean currents, salinity,
    and 30 years of maritime weather history.
  humanURL: https://developers.wx.spire.com/
  baseURL: https://api.wx.spire.com
  tags:
  - Weather
  - Climate
  - Ocean
  - Forecast
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developers.wx.spire.com/
- aid: spire-global:space-services
  name: Spire Space Services Developer API
  description: Developer portal and APIs for Spire Space Services, exposing managed satellite operations, hosted payloads,
    and on-orbit asset interactions.
  humanURL: https://developers.spire.com/
  baseURL: https://developers.spire.com/
  tags:
  - Space Services
  - Hosted Payloads
  - Satellite
  tags_raw:
  - Space Services
  - Hosted Payloads
  - Satellites
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developers.spire.com/
- aid: spire-global:rf-geolocation
  name: Spire RF Geolocation
  description: Radio-frequency geolocation data products delivering detected emitter positions for maritime domain awareness,
    security, and dark-vessel detection use cases. Delivered through enterprise data feeds.
  humanURL: https://spire.com/space-services/rf-geolocation/
  baseURL: https://spire.com/space-services/rf-geolocation/
  tags:
  - RF
  - Geolocation
  - Maritime Awareness
  - Security
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://spire.com/space-services/rf-geolocation/
common:
- type: Plans
  url: plans/spire-global-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/spire-global-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/spire-global-finops.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/spire-global-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://spire.com/
- type: DeveloperResources
  url: https://spire.com/developers/
- type: MaritimeDocs
  url: https://documentation.spire.com/
- type: AviationDocs
  url: https://aviation-docs.spire.com/
- type: WeatherDocs
  url: https://developers.wx.spire.com/
- type: SpaceServicesDocs
  url: https://developers.spire.com/
- type: Products
  url: https://www.spire.com/products/
- type: Newsroom
  url: https://spire.com/newsroom/
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/spire-global
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/spire-global/
- type: X
  url: https://x.com/SpireGlobal
- url: https://spire.com/feed/
  type: BlogRSS
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com

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