# Swift Navigation

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/swift-navigation/  
**Website:** https://www.swiftnav.com/  
**APIs profiled:** 4

Swift Navigation builds precise positioning technology for mass-market applications — automotive ADAS and autonomy, mobile handsets, robotics, drones, micromobility, fleet and asset tracking, GIS and construction. Its flagship service, Skylark, is a cloud-based GNSS corrections service that streams RTCM 3.x corrections over NTRIP from regional casters in North America, Europe and Asia Pacific, correcting satellite clock, orbit and atmospheric errors to take positioning from several metres to a few centimetres. Skylark ships in three variants — Nx RTK (network RTK on virtual reference stations), Cx (PPP-RTK, continent-wide, ISO 26262:2018 certified by UL Solutions) and Dx (differential code corrections for handsets and IoT). Swift also publishes the Swift Binary Protocol (SBP), the open, machine-readable wire protocol for its Piksi and Duro GNSS receivers and its Starling positioning engine, along with generated client libraries in six languages, and it publishes the complete gRPC contract for its Sora location time-series service on the Buf Schema Registry.

## Kin Score — 41.7 / 100 (developing)

Scored 2026-08-30 under rubric 0.17.2. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 41.7).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 74.1 |
| Contract Quality | 57.3 |
| Governance | 33.3 |
| Contract Governance | 33.3 |
| Operational Transparency | 26.3 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 54.8 |
| Commercial Clarity | 7.9 |
| Access Clarity | 7.9 |

## Agent readiness — 43.2 (agent-ready)

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

## APIs (4)

- **Skylark Precise Positioning Service** — Real-time GNSS corrections delivered as continuously-open NTRIP streams. A client opens an HTTP GET against a regional caster mountpoint with HTTP Basic credentials issued per d...
- **Swift Binary Protocol (SBP)** — The native binary protocol for Swift Navigation devices — Piksi and Duro GNSS receivers and the Starling positioning engine. 242 message types across 29 packages carry position,...
- **Sora API** — gRPC service for collecting, storing and analysing device location time series. DeviceService (5 RPCs) takes device state and events from the field; AppService (29 RPCs) queries...
- **Swift Navigation Web Data Endpoints** — First-party, keyless JSON endpoints on the Swift Navigation website that power the Skylark User Portal and the receiver compatibility checker — the 134-entry third-party receive...

## Security (2)

- **Swift Navigation Authentication** — 4 schemes
- **Swift Navigation Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

## Plans (1)

- **Swift Navigation Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Company, GNSS, Precise Positioning, Location, Corrections, RTK, NTRIP, RTCM, Automotive, Geospatial, IoT, Robotics, Protocols

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