Tako

Tako is an AI answer-engine API for authoritative, source-grounded data. It serves live financial, macroeconomic, and company data as cited answers, structured knowledge cards (charts, tables, maps), and embeddable visualizations for agents and applications. Developers build with four core APIs — Search (fast structured knowledge cards with no LLM in the loop), Answer (a single written, cited response), Contents (the exact numbers behind a card, as CSV), and Agent (asynchronous deep research runs) — plus a Data Graph for discovering what data exists, and Thin-Viz for turning your own data into embeddable Tako cards. Tako pulls from authoritative government, academic, think-tank, and licensed providers (S&P Global, SimilarWeb, YouGov, NOAA) — not scraped web content. It publishes an OpenAPI 3.1 spec, an official hosted MCP server, Python and TypeScript SDKs, an installable Agent Skill, an llms.txt, a Machine Payments Protocol surface, and emphasizes zero data retention, SOC 2 compliance, and guaranteed SLAs. Surfaced as a portfolio company of Ribbit Capital.

Tako publishes 2 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network, including Agent API, and 1 more. Tagged areas include Company, Artificial Intelligence, Data, Search, and Answer Engine.

The Tako catalog on APIs.io includes 1 Spectral governance ruleset.

Tako’s developer surface includes documentation, API reference, getting-started guide, signup flow, pricing, engineering blog, support, and 25 more developer resources.

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1 published contract 1 MCP Servers 3 Agent Skills

Company Artificial Intelligence Data Search Answer Engine Financial Data Knowledge Graph Agents MCP Data Visualization

Kin Score

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scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0

Composite quality — 56.0/100 · strong

Contract Quality 9.6 / 19

Developer Ergonomics 11.3 / 15

Access Clarity 11.4 / 15

Operational Transparency 2.1 / 10

Contract Governance 1.6 / 9

Discoverability 5.6 / 8

Regulatory Posture 3.4 / 15

Create-or-Update Ergonomics 0.0 / 10

Agent readiness — 48/100 · agent ready

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 12 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 8 / 8

Request/Response Examples 7 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 5 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 4 / 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

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Create-or-Update Ergonomics applies to this provider. This API accepts writes, so it carries 10 points of the composite. It is scored from the published contracts themselves: whether a caller can create-or-update in one call, whether the write accepts a key the caller already holds, and whether the response says which branch ran. Without that, every write needs a search-and-branch in front of it, and the first time that check is skipped a duplicate record is created. Scored against the observed mean rather than raw — a provider at the catalog average is unchanged by this facet, not penalised by it.

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

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)
A2A Agent Card +8 pts — a2a/-a2a.yml manifest, graded on conformance.grade against A2A 1.0.0
Registration Without a Human +6 pts — a `registration_endpoint` in the served RFC 8414 / OIDC discovery document
Delegated User Identity +6 pts — a served discovery document listing authorization_code in grant_types_supported (served), else an oauth2 authorizationCode flow or openIdConnect declared in an OpenAPI (documented)
Typed Event Surface +6 pts — AsyncAPI document, OR webhooks/callbacks objects in the as-published OpenAPI, OR common[].type includes Webhooks
Documented Reversibility +6 pts — a reversal operation in the contract, graded up when a window is documented too

4 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

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

Contract Quality scores 51.4 — up to +12.2 composite points
Operational Transparency scores 21.1 — up to +10.3 composite points
Contract Governance scores 18.2 — up to +9.8 composite points

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Standards implemented 3

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)

measured — observed by APIs.io (verified)

Agent Skills

measured — observed by APIs.io (published)

OpenAPI

measured — observed by APIs.io (published)

APIs 2

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

Tako Agent API

The agent API from Tako — 4 operation(s) for agent.

Tako API

The tako API from Tako — 7 operation(s) for tako.

Open Collections 2

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

Knowledge Search agent API

OPEN COLLECTION

Knowledge Search agent tako API

OPEN COLLECTION

MCP Servers 1

Model Context Protocol servers that expose these APIs to AI agents.

Tako MCP Server

Remote MCP server at mcp.tako.com over HTTP; 5 tools listed.

MCP SERVER

Agent Skills 3

Packaged agent skills for driving this provider's APIs from an AI assistant.

tako-agent-deep-research

AGENT SKILL

tako-answer-with-data

AGENT SKILL

tako-graph-agent

AGENT SKILL

Tako API pricing

Prices published by Tako, read 2026-10-07 from tako.com/pricing/.

Plan	Price
Search	Search — $7-12/ 1K requests Includes: Instant: $7 / 1K requests (P50 latency 300ms); Fast: $7 / 1K requests (P50 latency 500ms); Deep: $12
Answer	Answer — $9-15/ 1K requests Includes: Instant: $9 / 1K requests (P50 latency 750ms); Fast: $9 / 1K requests (P50 latency 950ms); Deep: $15
Agent	Agent — Variable Includes: Low/Medium/High: Variable
Contents	Contents — $1/ 1K results Includes: From $0.01 per 1k rows · premium sources cost more
Graph	Graph — Free Includes: 180 requests per minute · 10,000 requests per day
Enterprise	Enterprise Includes: Trusted Data, Governance & Security, SLAs & MSAs, Volume discounts

Plan details, limits and sources →

Pricing Plans 2

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Tako Plans Pricing

6 plans

PLANS

Tako Price Estimates

0 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Tako Rate Limits

1 limits

RATE LIMITS

Service Levels 1

Uptime the provider promises or reports, as SLA4OAI. Read from its own pages; APIs.io runs no monitors.

Tako

SLA

FinOps 1

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

Tako Finops

FINOPS

Spectral Rules 1

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

Tako API Rules

54 rules · 50 errors 3 warnings 1 info

SPECTRAL

OpenAPI Overlays 1

Overlays applied on top of this provider's contracts. Each card says who wrote it: a document the provider publishes, or one API Evangelist derived or generated.

Tako Openapi Overlay

3 actions · update · tako-openapi-original.yml

DERIVED

Security Posture 2

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

Tako Authentication

apiKey · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Tako Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Tako Agentic Access

13 operations · 5 acting · 2 human-in-the-loop

13 operations · 5 acting

AGENTIC

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 5

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

LLMsTxt

MCPServer

WellKnown

AgenticAccess

AgentSkill

Design & Contract 6

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

ErrorCatalog

Conventions

Lifecycle

Conformance

DataModel

Components

Build 2

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Packages

Packages

SDKs

SDKs

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Authentication

Authentication

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support

Support

RateLimits

RateLimits

Commercial 5

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Plans

Pricing

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

FinOps

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

Other 3

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Playground

Playground

Overlay

Overlay

APICatalog

APICatalog

Source (apis.yml)

aid: tako
name: Tako
description: Tako is an AI answer-engine API for authoritative, source-grounded data. It serves live financial, macroeconomic,
  and company data as cited answers, structured knowledge cards (charts, tables, maps), and embeddable visualizations for
  agents and applications. Developers build with four core APIs — Search (fast structured knowledge cards with no LLM in the
  loop), Answer (a single written, cited response), Contents (the exact numbers behind a card, as CSV), and Agent (asynchronous
  deep research runs) — plus a Data Graph for discovering what data exists, and Thin-Viz for turning your own data into embeddable
  Tako cards. Tako pulls from authoritative government, academic, think-tank, and licensed providers (S&P Global, SimilarWeb,
  YouGov, NOAA) — not scraped web content. It publishes an OpenAPI 3.1 spec, an official hosted MCP server, Python and TypeScript
  SDKs, an installable Agent Skill, an llms.txt, a Machine Payments Protocol surface, and emphasizes zero data retention,
  SOC 2 compliance, and guaranteed SLAs. Surfaced as a portfolio company of Ribbit Capital.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/tako/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: true
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: high
  source:
  - openapi
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: paid
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Paid
  confidence: high
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  - rate-limits
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-06'
  method: derived
image: https://tako.com/apple-touch-icon
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- ribbit-capital
x-tier: enriched
x-tier-reason: has-openapi
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-09-16'
x-docs-platform: mintlify
x-docs-platform-confidence: medium
x-docs-platform-checked: 2026-10-17
x-docs-hosting: vercel
tags:
- Company
- Artificial Intelligence
- Data
- Search
- Answer Engine
- Financial Data
- Knowledge Graph
- Agents
- MCP
- Data Visualization
tags_raw:
- Company
- AI
- Data
- Search
- Answer Engine
- Financial Data
- Knowledge Graph
- Agents
- MCP
- Data Visualization
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
- FN: Tako API Support
  email: api-support@trytako.com
apis:
- aid: tako:tako-agent-api
  name: Tako Agent API
  description: The agent API from Tako — 4 operation(s) for agent.
  humanURL: https://docs.tako.com
  baseURL: https://tako.com/api
  tags:
  - Agents
  tags_raw:
  - agent
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/tako-agent-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/tako-authentication.yml
- aid: tako:tako-tako-api
  name: Tako API
  description: The tako API from Tako — 7 operation(s) for tako.
  humanURL: https://docs.tako.com
  baseURL: https://tako.com/api
  tags:
  - Tako
  tags_raw:
  - tako
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/tako-tako-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/tako-authentication.yml
common:
- type: Plans
  url: plans/tako-plans-pricing.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.tako.com/
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://docs.tako.com
- type: Documentation
  url: https://docs.tako.com
- type: APIReference
  url: https://docs.tako.com/api-reference/search-v3
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://docs.tako.com/documentation/getting-started/quickstart
- type: SignUp
  url: https://tako.com/console/api-keys
- type: Pricing
  url: https://tako.com/pricing
- type: Blog
  url: https://tako.com/blog
- type: Playground
  url: https://tako.com/playground
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://tako.com/tos
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://tako.com/privacy
- type: Support
  url: https://docs.tako.com
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/tako-llms.txt
- type: MCPServer
  url: mcp/tako-mcp.yml
- type: Packages
  url: packages/tako-packages.yml
- type: SDKs
  url: packages/tako-packages.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/tako-authentication.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/tako-problem-types.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/tako-conventions.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/tako-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/tako-finops.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/tako-lifecycle.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/tako-conformance.yml
- type: DataModel
  url: data-model/tako-data-model.yml
- type: Overlay
  url: overlays/tako-openapi-overlay.yaml
- type: Components
  url: components/tako-components.yml
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/tako-well-known.yml
- type: APICatalog
  url: well-known/tako-api-catalog.json
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/tako-domain-security.yml
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/tako-agentic-access.yml
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/_index.yml
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-21'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 20
  pass: local-v1

Tako API — frequently asked questions

Does Tako have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 2 APIs from Tako, including Tako Agent API and Tako API.

Is there an OpenAPI specification for the Tako API?

Yes. APIs.io indexes 2 OpenAPI specifications for Tako, each linked for download from this page.

How do I authenticate with the Tako API?

Tako uses bearer-token authentication (apiKey · 1 scheme). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Tako Authentication.

How much does the Tako API cost?

Tako publishes its prices; its Search plan is Search — $7-12/ 1K requests as of 2026-10-07. APIs.io lists 6 pricing plans for Tako, with each plan's price, limits and inclusions under Pricing on this page.

Does Tako have an MCP server?

Yes. APIs.io lists 1 MCP server for Tako: Remote MCP server at mcp.tako.com over HTTP; 5 tools listed.

Is the Tako API ready for AI agents?

Tako has a Kin Score of 56.0 out of 100 (strong) and an Agent Readiness score of 48.4 (agent-ready), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.

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