SpotHero

SpotHero is the leading digital parking marketplace in North America, offering a flexible parking API and developer toolkit that connects vehicles, drivers, and mobility apps with the largest network of off-street parking facilities. The platform enables navigation apps, rideshare services, connected cars, and enterprise fleets to seamlessly book and manage parking reservations. SpotHero was acquired by Uber in 2026 to power parking reservation experiences within the Uber app.

SpotHero publishes 6 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network, including Availability API, Facilities API, Rates API, and 3 more. Tagged areas include Parking, Mobility, Transportation, Navigation, and Reservations.

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

SpotHero’s developer surface includes authentication, documentation, engineering blog, and 21 more developer resources.

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30.8/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 39/100 agent ready Front door AI 1/6 silent Heartbeat 100/100 alive saas Full breakdown ↓
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1 published contract 1 MCP Servers

Parking Mobility Transportation Navigation Reservations

What this lets a business do 2

Business capabilities this provider's published APIs can perform, derived from its own contracts. Browse all capabilities →

Consumer Travel, Events & Local Services

AE-210

Availability

GET /facilities/{facility_id}/availability

Mobility Services Operations Management

BC-3490

Reservations

POST /reservations DELETE /reservations/{reservation_id}

Kin Score

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scored 2026-11-13 · rubric v0.28.0

Composite quality — 30.8/100 · thin

Contract Quality 10.6 / 19

Developer Ergonomics 3.8 / 15

Access Clarity 1.0 / 15

Operational Transparency 1.2 / 10

Contract Governance 2.5 / 9

Discoverability 5.1 / 8

Regulatory Posture 1.6 / 15

Create-or-Update Ergonomics 0.0 / 10

Agent readiness — 39/100 · agent ready

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

Documented Reversibility 6 / 6

MCP Server 12 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 8 / 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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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.

Model Context Protocol (MCP)

OPEN COLLECTION

SpotHero Parking Availability Search API

OPEN COLLECTION

MCP Servers 1

Model Context Protocol servers that expose these APIs to AI agents.

SpotHero MCP Server

Remote MCP server at api.spothero.com over HTTP; 7 tools listed.

MCP SERVER

SpotHero API pricing

Not yet checked against SpotHero'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 SpotHero's documentation. All 5 limits →

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

SpotHero Plans Pricing

3 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

SpotHero Rate Limits

5 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

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

SpotHero Finops

FINOPS

Semantic Vocabularies 1

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

Spothero Context

38 classes · 0 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.

SpotHero — jsonschema rules

5 rules · 4 warn-severity 1 info-severity

SPECTRAL

SpotHero API Rules

14 rules · 6 error-severity 7 warn-severity 1 info-severity

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 2

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

SpotHero Facility

15 properties

JSON SCHEMA

SpotHero Reservation

15 properties

JSON SCHEMA

JSON Structure 2

JSON Structure definitions describing this provider's data shapes.

SpotHero Facility Structure

0 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

SpotHero Reservation Structure

0 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Examples 2

Example request and response payloads for these APIs.

SpotHero Create Reservation Example

3 fields

EXAMPLE

SpotHero Search Parking Example

3 fields

EXAMPLE

Security Posture 2

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

SpotHero Authentication

apiKey · 1 scheme

SECURITY

SpotHero Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · DMARC

SECURITY

Agentic Access (API Evangelist recommendations) 1

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

SpotHero Agentic Access

8 operations · 2 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Get Started 1

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

DeveloperPortal

DeveloperPortal

Documentation 3

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

JSONSchema

JSONSchema

JSONSchema

JSONSchema

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

AgenticAccess

Design & Contract 5

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

JSONStructure

JSONStructure

JSONLD

SpectralRules

Vocabulary

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

PostmanWorkspace

PostmanWorkspace

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Authentication

Authentication

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

RateLimits

RateLimits

Contact

Contact

Commercial 4

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Plans

FinOps

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

Company 3

The organization behind the API

LinkedIn

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

Other 2

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

ParentCompany

ParentCompany

CapabilityMap

CapabilityMap

Source (apis.yml)

aid: spothero
name: SpotHero
description: SpotHero is the leading digital parking marketplace in North America, offering a flexible parking API and developer
  toolkit that connects vehicles, drivers, and mobility apps with the largest network of off-street parking facilities. The
  platform enables navigation apps, rideshare services, connected cars, and enterprise fleets to seamlessly book and manage
  parking reservations. SpotHero was acquired by Uber in 2026 to power parking reservation experiences within the Uber app.
type: Index
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  license_evidence:
    not_product:
    - spothero/herolab-spotnow
  open_source: unknown
  commercial: true
  callable_host: true
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: low
  source:
  - openapi
  - pricing
  - repository-not-product
  generated: '2026-09-25'
  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
position: Consuming
access: 3rd-Party
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/spothero.png
tags:
- Parking
- Mobility
- Transportation
- Navigation
- Reservations
created: '2025-02-06'
modified: '2026-05-19'
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/spothero/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- aid: spothero:spotnow-api
  name: SpotHero SpotNow API
  description: SpotNow is SpotHero's server and API built in Kotlin for real-time parking availability and instant booking
    functionality, exposed via the HeroLab platform.
  humanURL: https://github.com/spothero/herolab-spotnow
  baseURL: https://api.spothero.com
  tags:
  - Parking
  - Real-Time
  - Availability
  - Kotlin
  properties:
  - type: Repository
    url: https://github.com/spothero/herolab-spotnow
- aid: spothero:spothero-availability-api
  name: SpotHero Availability API
  description: Check real-time parking availability
  humanURL: https://spothero.com/developers
  baseURL: https://api.spothero.com/v2
  tags:
  - Availability
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/spothero-availability-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://spothero.com/developers
  - type: DeveloperPortal
    url: https://api.spothero.com/v2/docs
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://spothero.com/developers
- aid: spothero:spothero-facilities-api
  name: SpotHero Facilities API
  description: Retrieve facility details, amenities, pricing, and directions
  humanURL: https://spothero.com/developers
  baseURL: https://api.spothero.com/v2
  tags:
  - Facilities
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/spothero-facilities-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://spothero.com/developers
  - type: DeveloperPortal
    url: https://api.spothero.com/v2/docs
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://spothero.com/developers
- aid: spothero:spothero-rates-api
  name: SpotHero Rates API
  description: Retrieve pricing and rate information
  humanURL: https://spothero.com/developers
  baseURL: https://api.spothero.com/v2
  tags:
  - Rates
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/spothero-rates-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://spothero.com/developers
  - type: DeveloperPortal
    url: https://api.spothero.com/v2/docs
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://spothero.com/developers
- aid: spothero:spothero-reservations-api
  name: SpotHero Reservations API
  description: Create, manage, and cancel parking reservations
  humanURL: https://spothero.com/developers
  baseURL: https://api.spothero.com/v2
  tags:
  - Reservations
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/spothero-reservations-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://spothero.com/developers
  - type: DeveloperPortal
    url: https://api.spothero.com/v2/docs
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://spothero.com/developers
- aid: spothero:spothero-search-api
  name: SpotHero Search API
  description: Search for available parking locations and facilities
  humanURL: https://spothero.com/developers
  baseURL: https://api.spothero.com/v2
  tags:
  - Search
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/spothero-search-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://spothero.com/developers
  - type: DeveloperPortal
    url: https://api.spothero.com/v2/docs
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://spothero.com/developers
common:
- type: Plans
  url: plans/spothero-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/spothero-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/spothero-finops.yml
- type: ParentCompany
  url: https://apis.io/providers/uber/
  name: Uber
  x-relationship: acquired
  x-evidence: SpotHero was acquired by Uber in 2026 to power parking reservation experiences within the Uber app.
- type: CapabilityMap
  url: capabilities/spothero-capability-edges.yml
  name: SpotHero Business Capability Map
- type: PostmanWorkspace
  url: https://www.postman.com/kinlaneapi/spothero/overview
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/spothero-agentic-access.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/spothero-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/spothero-authentication.yml
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/spothero
- type: Documentation
  url: https://spothero.com/developers
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://api.spothero.com/v2/docs
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://spothero.com/terms
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://spothero.com/privacy
- type: Website
  url: https://spothero.com
- type: Contact
  url: mailto:partner.support@spothero.com
- type: JSONSchema
  url: json-schema/spothero-reservation-schema.json
- type: JSONSchema
  url: json-schema/spothero-facility-schema.json
- type: JSONStructure
  url: json-structure/spothero-reservation-structure.json
- type: JSONStructure
  url: json-structure/spothero-facility-structure.json
- type: JSONLD
  url: json-ld/spothero-context.jsonld
- type: SpectralRules
  url: rules/spothero-rules.yml
- type: Vocabulary
  url: vocabulary/spothero-vocabulary.yml
- url: https://blog.spothero.com/feed/
  type: Blog
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com

SpotHero API — frequently asked questions

Does SpotHero have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 6 APIs from SpotHero, including SpotHero SpotNow API, SpotHero Availability API and SpotHero Facilities API, and 3 more.

Is there an OpenAPI specification for the SpotHero API?

Yes. APIs.io indexes 5 OpenAPI specifications for SpotHero, each linked for download from this page.

How do I authenticate with the SpotHero API?

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

How much does the SpotHero API cost?

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

Does SpotHero have an MCP server?

Yes. APIs.io lists 1 MCP server for SpotHero: Remote MCP server at api.spothero.com over HTTP; 7 tools listed.

Is the SpotHero API ready for AI agents?

SpotHero has a Kin Score of 30.8 out of 100 (thin) and an Agent Readiness score of 39.1 (agent-ready), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-13.

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