StrongDM

StrongDM is a Zero Trust Privileged Access Management (PAM) platform that brokers and governs access to infrastructure — databases, servers, Kubernetes clusters, cloud resources, network devices, and internal web apps — through a central control plane. It enforces policy and authorization continuously with adaptive action controls, full session recording and audit, and no standing privileges. Automation is exposed through the StrongDM Admin API, a gRPC-based control-plane API that first-party SDKs (Go, Java, Python, Ruby, C#) wrap with REST-like ergonomics and request signing, plus a Terraform provider and the sdm command-line client. This profile was enriched by the API Evangelist pipeline from StrongDM's public developer surface.

StrongDM is listed with 2 APIs on the APIs.io network, including Admin API, and 1 more. Tagged areas include Company, Security, Privileged Access Management, Zero Trust, and Identity and Access Management.

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

StrongDM’s developer surface includes documentation, API reference, getting-started guide, engineering blog, pricing, support, signup flow, and 18 more developer resources.

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43.7/100 developing ▼ -21.2 Agent 21/100 agent aware Front door AI 6/6 dominant saas Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-10-17 · rubric v0.24.0

2 APIs

Company Security Privileged Access Management Zero Trust Identity and Access Management Identity Infrastructure Audit Compliance DevOps

Kin Score

Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-10-17 · rubric v0.24.0

Composite quality — 43.7/100 · developing

Contract Quality 3.0 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 12.1 / 17

Access Clarity 4.5 / 17

Operational Transparency 7.3 / 11

Contract Governance 3.2 / 10

Discoverability 6.2 / 9

Regulatory Posture 3.2 / 15

Agent readiness — 21/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 6 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 9 / 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 4 / 4

Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

Regulatory Posture applies to this provider. Its tags matched the Horizontal (data, software, accessibility, platform) regime, so Regulatory Posture carries 15 points of the composite. If this regime is wrong for your business, say so on your provider repo — the applicability map is public and we will correct it.

Create-or-Update Ergonomics does not apply to this provider. The published contracts declare no write operations, and a read-only API cannot create-or-update. The facet is excluded from this provider's denominator entirely — not scored zero. A reference or data API is not deficient for being unable to upsert.

The six quality facets above are damped to 85 points between them, because the conditional facet above carries the other 15. That is why each facet's contribution is shown against a damped maximum: raising a quality facet moves the composite by 85% of its nominal weight, not 100%. The full arithmetic is at apis.io/rating/.

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APIs 2

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

StrongDM Admin API

The StrongDM control-plane API for automating management of resources, accounts, roles, access grants, gateways, relays, secret stores, and audit logs. The transport is gRPC wit...

StrongDM Admin API

The Admin API from StrongDM — 4 operation(s) for admin.

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Strongdm Rate Limits

4 limits

RATE LIMITS

Semantic Vocabularies 1

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

Strongdm Context

1 classes · 1 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 1

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

StrongDM API Rules

11 rules · 9 errors 1 warnings 1 info

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 1

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

GetAdminResourcesResourceidResponse

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Security Posture 3

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

Strongdm Authentication

apiKey · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Strongdm Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Strongdm Trust Center

SOC 2, PCI DSS, GDPR

SECURITY

Resources

Get Started 3

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

DeveloperPortal

DeveloperPortal

GettingStarted

GettingStarted

SignUp

SignUp

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

APIReference

APIReference

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

LLMsTxt

LLMsTxt

Design & Contract 3

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Conventions

Conventions

Lifecycle

Lifecycle

Conformance

Conformance

Build 4

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization

Packages

SDKs

CLI

Access & Security 4

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

TrustCenter

DomainSecurity

Authentication

Compliance

Operate 4

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support

StatusPage

RateLimits

ChangeLog

Commercial 1

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Pricing

Pricing

Company 3

The organization behind the API

BlogRSS

BlogRSS

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

Source (apis.yml)

aid: strongdm
name: StrongDM
description: StrongDM is a Zero Trust Privileged Access Management (PAM) platform that brokers and governs access to infrastructure
  — databases, servers, Kubernetes clusters, cloud resources, network devices, and internal web apps — through a central control
  plane. It enforces policy and authorization continuously with adaptive action controls, full session recording and audit,
  and no standing privileges. Automation is exposed through the StrongDM Admin API, a gRPC-based control-plane API that first-party
  SDKs (Go, Java, Python, Ruby, C#) wrap with REST-like ergonomics and request signing, plus a Terraform provider and the
  sdm command-line client. This profile was enriched by the API Evangelist pipeline from StrongDM's public developer surface.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/strongdm/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- bloomberg-beta
- dcvc
- gv
- tiger-global
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: false
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source:
  - authentication
  - rate-limits
  - security
  generated: '2026-09-03'
  method: derived
specificationVersion: '0.23'
x-docs-platform: gitbook
x-docs-platform-confidence: high
x-docs-platform-checked: 2026-10-04
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-21'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 12
  pass: local-v1
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-10-06'
image: https://www.strongdm.com/hubfs/strongdm-logo.svg
tags:
- Company
- Security
- Privileged Access Management
- Zero Trust
- Identity and Access Management
- Identity
- Infrastructure
- Audit
- Compliance
- DevOps
tags_raw:
- Company
- Security
- Privileged Access Management
- Zero Trust
- Access Management
- Identity
- Infrastructure
- Audit
- Compliance
- DevOps
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
apis:
- name: StrongDM Admin API
  description: The StrongDM control-plane API for automating management of resources, accounts, roles, access grants, gateways,
    relays, secret stores, and audit logs. The transport is gRPC with request signing; StrongDM ships first-party SDKs (Go,
    Java, Python, Ruby, C#) that wrap it with REST-like ergonomics and handle signing, retries, and pagination. Authentication
    is an API access key plus secret key generated in the Admin UI.
  humanURL: https://docs.strongdm.com/
  baseURL: https://app.strongdm.com
  tags:
  - Privileged Access Management
  - Identity and Access Management
  - Audit
  - Security
  tags_raw:
  - Privileged Access Management
  - Access Management
  - Audit
  - Security
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.strongdm.com/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.strongdm.com/
- aid: strongdm:strongdm-admin-api
  name: StrongDM Admin API
  description: The Admin API from StrongDM — 4 operation(s) for admin.
  humanURL: https://docs.strongdm.com/
  baseURL: https://app.strongdm.com
  tags:
  - Admin
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/strongdm-admin-api-openapi.yml
common:
- url: https://discover.strongdm.com/blog/rss.xml
  type: BlogRSS
- type: TrustCenter
  url: security/strongdm-trust-center.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/strongdm-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.strongdm.com/
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://docs.strongdm.com/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://docs.strongdm.com/
- type: APIReference
  url: https://docs.strongdm.com/
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://docs.strongdm.com/
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.strongdm.com/blog
- type: Pricing
  url: https://www.strongdm.com/pricing
- type: Support
  url: https://www.strongdm.com/contact
- type: SignUp
  url: https://app.strongdm.com/app/login
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/strongdm
- type: StatusPage
  url: https://status.strongdm.com/
- type: Packages
  url: packages/strongdm-packages.yml
- type: SDKs
  url: packages/strongdm-packages.yml
- type: CLI
  url: cli/strongdm-cli.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/strongdm-authentication.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/strongdm-conventions.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/strongdm-rate-limits.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/strongdm-lifecycle.yml
- type: ChangeLog
  url: changelog/strongdm-changelog.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/strongdm-conformance.yml
- type: Compliance
  url: https://security.strongdm.com/
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/strongdm-llms.txt

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