# Spring Cloud Stream

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/spring-cloud-stream/  
**Website:** https://spring.io/projects/spring-cloud-stream  
**APIs profiled:** 3

Spring Cloud Stream is a framework for building event-driven microservices connected with shared messaging systems. It provides a flexible programming model built on established Spring idioms and best practices, including support for persistent pub/sub semantics, consumer groups, and stateful partitions with Apache Kafka and RabbitMQ binders.

## Kin Score — 23.2 / 100 (emerging)

Scored 2026-08-25 under rubric 0.14.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 23.2).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 81.5 |
| Contract Quality | 18.7 |
| Governance | 25.0 |
| Contract Governance | 25.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 10.5 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 14.3 |
| Commercial Clarity | 15.8 |
| Access Clarity | 15.8 |

## Agent readiness — 2.5 (human-only)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |
| Delegated Identity | no |
| Protected Resource Metadata | no |
| Dynamic Client Registration | no |
| Agentic Commerce | no |

## Access

Freemium — onboarding: unknown, pricing: freemium, trial: no (confidence: medium).

## APIs (3)

- **Spring Cloud Stream Core API** — Core programmatic API for building message-driven microservice applications. Provides functional programming model with java.util.function.Function, Consumer and Supplier bindin...
- **Spring Cloud Stream Kafka Binder** — Apache Kafka binder for Spring Cloud Stream providing Kafka producer and consumer binding configuration, Kafka Streams support, partitioning, transaction management, error handl...
- **Spring Cloud Stream RabbitMQ Binder** — RabbitMQ binder for Spring Cloud Stream providing AMQP-based messaging with support for exchanges, queues, routing keys, dead-letter exchanges, consumer groups, and AMQP transac...

## Security (2)

- **Spring Cloud Stream Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC
- **Spring Cloud Stream Vulnerability Disclosure** — security.txt · contact published

## Plans (1)

- **Spring Cloud Stream Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Apache Kafka, AsyncAPI, Event-Driven, Java, Messaging, Microservices, RabbitMQ, Spring Framework, Stream Processing

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/spring-cloud-stream/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.