# Stack Overflow

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/stack-overflow/  
**Website:** https://stackoverflow.com  
**APIs profiled:** 10

Stack Overflow is the world's largest question-and-answer community for developers, with over 23 million questions on programming, software development, and technology topics. Stack Overflow offers two API products: the public Stack Exchange API v2.3 for read/write access to Stack Overflow questions, answers, comments, users, tags, and badges; and the Stack Overflow for Teams API v3, a private team knowledge-base API with endpoints for questions, answers, articles, user groups, and SME management.

## Kin Score — 38.4 / 100 (thin)

Scored 2026-08-21 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.5 from 37.9).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 68.5 |
| Contract Quality | 63.7 |
| Governance | 28.8 |
| Contract Governance | 28.8 |
| Operational Transparency | 10.5 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 14.3 |
| Commercial Clarity | 39.5 |
| Access Clarity | 39.5 |

## Agent readiness — 32.1 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | partial |
| 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 |

## Access

Freemium · Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: freemium, trial: no (confidence: high).

## APIs (10)

- **Stack Overflow Answers API** — Operations for managing answers to questions in a Teams workspace.
- **Stack Overflow Articles API** — Operations for managing knowledge articles in a Teams workspace.
- **Stack Overflow Badges API** — Operations for retrieving badge information on Stack Overflow.
- **Stack Overflow Comments API** — Operations for retrieving and writing comments on Stack Overflow posts.
- **Stack Overflow Questions API** — Operations for managing questions in a Stack Overflow for Teams workspace.
- **Stack Overflow Search API** — Operations for searching Stack Overflow questions and content.
- **Stack Overflow SMEs API** — Operations for managing Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) for tags in a Teams workspace.
- **Stack Overflow Tags API** — Operations for managing tags in a Teams workspace.
- **Stack Overflow User Groups API** — Operations for managing user groups in a Teams workspace.
- **Stack Overflow Users API** — Operations for managing users in a Teams workspace.

## Agentic access (1)

- **Stack Overflow Agentic Access** — 37 operations · 8 acting

## Security (2)

- **Stack Overflow Authentication** — http/oauth2 · 2 schemes
- **Stack Overflow Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

## Plans (1)

- **Stack Overflow Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Answers, Code, Developer Community, Developer Tools, Knowledge Base, Programming, Q&A, Questions, Stack Overflow

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