SurrealDB

SurrealDB is a multi-model database that unifies documents, graphs, vectors, time-series, full-text search, and relational data within a single ACID transaction framework. It exposes a native HTTP REST API and supports SurrealQL, a powerful query language designed for multi-model data access. The platform includes built-in authentication with JWT tokens, row-level security, and live query subscriptions for real-time applications. SurrealDB Cloud provides a managed hosting option with usage-based pricing, while the open-source engine can be self-hosted. The database also ships a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server enabling AI agents and tools such as Claude, Cursor, and VS Code to query and manage data directly.

SurrealDB is listed with 2 APIs on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Database, Multi-Model, Graph Database, Document Database, and Vector Search.

The SurrealDB catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context.

SurrealDB’s developer surface includes documentation, engineering blog, pricing, changelog, and 13 more developer resources.

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36.1/100 thin ▲ 6.5 Agent 14/100 agent aware Front door AI 6/6 dominant Heartbeat 94/100 alive saas Full breakdown ↓
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2 APIs

Database Multi-Model Graph Database Document Database Vector Search Time SeriesSurrealQLArtificial Intelligence MCP

Kin Score

Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0

Composite quality — 36.1/100 · thin

Contract Quality 9.3 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 2.0 / 17

Access Clarity 8.5 / 17

Operational Transparency 4.7 / 11

Contract Governance 0.0 / 10

Discoverability 5.6 / 9

Regulatory Posture 3.0 / 15

Agent readiness — 14/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 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

Pagination 5 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

MCP Tool Quality 6 / 6

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 could not be measured. We hold no machine-readable contract for this provider to read, so there is nothing to measure a write surface against. Excluded rather than scored zero: never-measured and measured-empty are different facts. Publishing an OpenAPI is what makes this facet — and several others — scorable at all.

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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Agent readiness — checks not met, largest first (exact, from this profile):

MCP Server +12 pts — deployment.mode + probe verdict on the mcp/ manifest, not the pointer; an unprobed slug falls back to authorship
Agentic Access Contract +10 pts — agentic_access artifact present (x-agentic-access), graded by author
Machine-Readable Auth +10 pts — a served openid-configuration/oauth-authorization-server carrying `issuer` (served), else the securitySchemes class in the provider OpenAPIs — bound (mutualTLS, DPoP, Signature) > negotiable (oauth2 authorizationCode/clientCredentials, openIdConnect) > bearer (http bearer, apiKey)
Idempotency +9 pts — OpenAPI mutating operations declare an idempotency key — a header, a request-body property, or a named de-duplication token whose own description says so (verified); else common[].type matches /idempoten/i (documented)
Stable Error Semantics +8 pts — OpenAPI $refs a shared error schema across 4xx/5xx responses (verified), else common[].type includes ErrorCatalog / ErrorCodes / DeclineCodes
A2A Agent Card +8 pts — a2a/-a2a.yml manifest, graded on conformance.grade against A2A 1.0.0

11 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

Kin Score — facets with the most composite points still available (weight × headroom):

Developer Ergonomics scores 11.9 — up to +17.6 composite points
Contract Quality scores 43.6 — up to +14.1 composite points
Contract Governance scores 0.0 — up to +12.0 composite points

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Markets this provider is in provisional

The Kin Score Market layer reads a provider inside its market: its position, and how deep its integrations go. Depth is only comparable within a position. Provisional and unweighted: not part of the Kin Score or agent readiness.

Market	Position	Depth	Registered MCP server	Declares compatibility
Agent Skills (SKILL.md packages)	builds-on	38.9	-	1
IDE Extension Marketplaces (JetBrains, VS Code, Open VSX, Docker Verified Publishers, PyPI orgs)	builds-on	38.9	-	1
Official SDKs on JSR (JavaScript Registry)	builds-on	38.9	-	1

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 1

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)

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

APIs 2

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

SurrealDB HTTP REST API

The SurrealDB HTTP REST API provides stateless access to SurrealDB instances over standard HTTP. It supports CRUD operations on tables and records, SurrealQL query execution via...

SurrealDB MCP Server

SurrealMCP exposes SurrealDB database operations, agent memory, and cloud management as structured tool calls over the Model Context Protocol. It enables MCP-compatible AI clien...

GraphQL 1

GraphQL schemas published by this provider.

SurrealDB GraphQL API

SurrealDB exposes an experimental GraphQL interface that dynamically generates a complete schema from your database's table definitions, field types, custom functions, and acces...

GRAPHQL

SurrealDB API pricing

Prices published by SurrealDB, read 2026-10-07 from surrealdb.com/pricing.

Plan	Price
Cloud Start	$0/hr Includes: 1GB of storage free, forever
Cloud Scale	$0.192/hr Includes: Three nodes minimum. Higher tiers available
Self-hosted Enterprise	Custom

Plan details, limits and sources →

Rate limits

SurrealDB Cloud HTTP API: unlimited requests per minute

Compiled by API Evangelist, not yet checked against SurrealDB's documentation. Rate-limit details →

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Surrealdb Plans Pricing

3 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Surrealdb Rate Limits

1 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

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

Surrealdb Finops

FINOPS

Semantic Vocabularies 1

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

Surrealdb Context

0 classes · 34 properties

JSON-LD

Security Posture 3

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

Surrealdb Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · DMARC

SECURITY

Surrealdb Vulnerability Disclosure

security.txt · contact published

SECURITY

Surrealdb Trust Center

SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, GDPR

SECURITY

Resources

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

Design & Contract 1

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

JSONLDContext

JSONLDContext

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

Access & Security 3

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

TrustCenter

TrustCenter

VulnerabilityDisclosure

VulnerabilityDisclosure

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 3

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

StatusPage

StatusPage

ChangeLog

ChangeLog

RateLimits

RateLimits

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Pricing

Pricing

Plans

Plans

FinOps

FinOps

Company 4

The organization behind the API

BlogFeed

BlogFeed

Website

Website

LinkedIn

Blog

Blog

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Source (apis.yml)

aid: surrealdb
name: SurrealDB
description: SurrealDB is a multi-model database that unifies documents, graphs, vectors, time-series, full-text search, and
  relational data within a single ACID transaction framework. It exposes a native HTTP REST API and supports SurrealQL, a
  powerful query language designed for multi-model data access. The platform includes built-in authentication with JWT tokens,
  row-level security, and live query subscriptions for real-time applications. SurrealDB Cloud provides a managed hosting
  option with usage-based pricing, while the open-source engine can be self-hosted. The database also ships a Model Context
  Protocol (MCP) server enabling AI agents and tools such as Claude, Cursor, and VS Code to query and manage data directly.
type: Index
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: freemium
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Freemium
  confidence: low
  source:
  - plans
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-06'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/surrealdb.png
tags:
- Database
- Multi-Model
- Graph Database
- Document Database
- Vector Search
- Time Series
- SurrealQL
- Artificial Intelligence
- MCP
tags_raw:
- Database
- Multi-Model
- Graph Database
- Document Database
- Vector Database
- Time-Series
- SurrealQL
- AI
- MCP
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/surrealdb/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2026-06-12'
modified: '2026-06-12'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- aid: surrealdb:http-api
  name: SurrealDB HTTP REST API
  description: The SurrealDB HTTP REST API provides stateless access to SurrealDB instances over standard HTTP. It supports
    CRUD operations on tables and records, SurrealQL query execution via POST /sql, GraphQL queries, authentication via JWT
    and basic auth, data import/export, health and version endpoints, and user-defined custom API endpoints via DEFINE API
    statements.
  humanURL: https://surrealdb.com/docs/surrealdb/integration/http
  baseURL: https://cloud.surrealdb.com
  tags:
  - Database
  - REST
  - SurrealQL
  - Multi-Model
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://surrealdb.com/docs/surrealdb/integration/http
  - url: graphql/surrealdb-graphql.md
    type: GraphQL
- aid: surrealdb:mcp-server
  name: SurrealDB MCP Server
  description: SurrealMCP exposes SurrealDB database operations, agent memory, and cloud management as structured tool calls
    over the Model Context Protocol. It enables MCP-compatible AI clients such as Claude, Cursor, and VS Code to query documents,
    graphs, vectors, and relational data through a single connection without custom integration code.
  humanURL: https://surrealdb.com/mcp
  baseURL: https://surrealdb.com/mcp
  tags:
  - MCP
  - Artificial Intelligence
  - Agents
  tags_raw:
  - MCP
  - AI
  - Agent
  - Model Context Protocol
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://surrealdb.com/mcp
common:
- type: TrustCenter
  url: security/surrealdb-trust-center.yml
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/surrealdb-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/surrealdb-domain-security.yml
- type: JSONLDContext
  url: json-ld/surrealdb-context.jsonld
- type: BlogFeed
  url: blogs/blogs.json
- type: Website
  url: https://surrealdb.com
- type: Documentation
  url: https://surrealdb.com/docs
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/surrealdb
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://uk.linkedin.com/company/surrealdb
- type: Blog
  url: https://surrealdb.com/blog
- type: Pricing
  url: https://surrealdb.com/pricing
- type: StatusPage
  url: https://status.surrealdb.com/
- type: ChangeLog
  url: https://surrealdb.com/releases
- type: X
  url: https://x.com/SurrealDB
- type: Plans
  url: plans/surrealdb-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/surrealdb-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/surrealdb-finops.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com

SurrealDB API — frequently asked questions

Does SurrealDB have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 2 APIs from SurrealDB, including SurrealDB HTTP REST API and SurrealDB MCP Server.

How much does the SurrealDB API cost?

SurrealDB publishes its prices; its Cloud Start plan is $0/hr as of 2026-10-07. APIs.io lists 3 pricing plans for SurrealDB, with each plan's price, limits and inclusions under Pricing on this page.

Is the SurrealDB API ready for AI agents?

SurrealDB has a Kin Score of 36.1 out of 100 (thin) and an Agent Readiness score of 13.6 (agent-aware), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.

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