# Apache Thrift

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/thrift/  
**Website:** https://thrift.apache.org/  
**APIs profiled:** 1

Apache Thrift is a cross-language RPC framework originally developed at Facebook for scalable cross-language services development. It provides a lightweight, language-independent software stack for point-to-point RPC implementation with clean abstractions for data transport, serialization, and application-level processing. The framework includes an Interface Definition Language (IDL) compiler that generates client and server code for 28+ programming languages including C++, Java, Python, Go, Ruby, PHP, Node.js, C#, and many others, enabling seamless cross-language service communication.

## Kin Score — 20.1 / 100 (emerging)

Scored 2026-08-25 under rubric 0.14.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 20.1).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 68.5 |
| Contract Quality | 22.7 |
| Governance | 9.8 |
| Contract Governance | 9.8 |
| Operational Transparency | 10.5 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 9.5 |
| Commercial Clarity | 15.8 |
| Access Clarity | 15.8 |

## Agent readiness — 2.5 (human-only)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| 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 |
| Delegated Identity | no |
| Protected Resource Metadata | no |
| Dynamic Client Registration | no |
| Agentic Commerce | no |

## Access

Freemium — onboarding: unknown, pricing: freemium, trial: no (confidence: medium).

## APIs (1)

- **Apache Thrift** — Apache Thrift is a lightweight, language-independent software stack for point-to-point RPC implementation. It provides abstractions for data transport, serialization, and applic...

## Security (2)

- **Thrift Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC
- **Thrift Vulnerability Disclosure** — security.txt · contact published

## Plans (1)

- **Thrift Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Apache, Code Generation, Cross-Language, Open-Source, RPC, SDK, Serialization, Thrift

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