TIAA
TIAA (Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association of America) is a leading provider of financial services in the academic, research, medical, cultural, and government fields. Originally founded to provide retirement security for educators, TIAA now offers retirement services, insurance, brokerage, and investment management products to individuals and institutions. TIAA operates a developer portal at developer.tiaa.org exposing APIs for financial data aggregation (FDX standard), secure income account management, and gateway integrations enabling plan portability and fintech connectivity.
TIAA publishes 11 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network, including Accounts API, Contributions API, Customer API, and 8 more. Tagged areas include Finance, Financial Data, Fintech, Insurance, and Investment Management.
The TIAA catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context and 2 Spectral governance rulesets.
TIAA’s developer surface includes authentication, developer portal, documentation, engineering blog, and 15 more developer resources.
Kin Score
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Asset and Wealth Management | regulated | 36.4 (thin) | - | - |
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 2
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.
APIs 11
Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.
TIAA Gateway API
The TIAA Gateway is a cloud-based API layer enabling product portability and interoperability across retirement ecosystem partners. It allows banking institutions, financial agg...
TIAA Payroll360 API
TIAA Payroll360 enables direct API connections between HR and payroll systems and TIAA's plan administration platform, automating deductions management, employer onboarding, and...
TIAA Accounts API
Customer account information and balances
TIAA Contributions API
Contribution and allocation management
TIAA Customer API
Customer profile and identity
TIAA Investments API
Investment positions and holdings
TIAA Participants API
Participant account management
TIAA Plans API
Plan configuration and eligibility
TIAA Projections API
Income projections and illustrations
TIAA Tax API
Tax document and income data
TIAA Transactions API
Account transaction history
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Open Collections 11
Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).
TIAA Financial Data Exchange Accounts API
OPEN COLLECTIONTIAA Financial Data Exchange Accounts Contributions API
OPEN COLLECTIONTIAA Financial Data Exchange Accounts Customer API
OPEN COLLECTIONTIAA Financial Data Exchange API
OPEN COLLECTIONTIAA Financial Data Exchange Accounts Investments API
OPEN COLLECTIONTIAA Financial Data Exchange Accounts Participants API
OPEN COLLECTIONTIAA Financial Data Exchange Accounts Plans API
OPEN COLLECTIONTIAA Financial Data Exchange Accounts Projections API
OPEN COLLECTIONTIAA Secure Income Account API
OPEN COLLECTIONTIAA Financial Data Exchange Accounts Tax API
OPEN COLLECTIONTIAA Financial Data Exchange Accounts Transactions API
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TIAA API pricing
Not yet checked against TIAA's own pricing page. Compiled by API Evangelist on 2026-05-05 from www.tiaa.org/public/about-tiaa/working-at-tiaa/api-developer; confirm before you rely on a figure.
| Plan | Price |
|---|---|
| Contact Sales enterprise | — |
Plan details, limits and sources →
Rate limits
- Contracted Rate Limit: see partner agreement varies
Compiled by API Evangelist, not yet checked against TIAA's documentation. Rate-limit details →
Pricing Plans 1
Published pricing tiers and plan structures.
Tiaa Plans Pricing
PLANSRate Limits 1
Documented rate limits and quota policies.
Tiaa Rate Limits
RATE LIMITSService Levels 1
Uptime the provider promises or reports, as SLA4OAI. Read from its own pages; APIs.io runs no monitors.
TIAA
SLAFinOps 1
Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.
Tiaa Finops
FINOPSSemantic Vocabularies 1
JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.
Tiaa Context
JSON-LDSpectral Rules 2
Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.
TIAA — jsonschema rules
SPECTRALTIAA API Rules
SPECTRALJSON Schema 2
Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.
TIAA Account
JSON SCHEMATIAA SIA Participant
JSON SCHEMAJSON Structure 1
JSON Structure definitions describing this provider's data shapes.
Tiaa Account Structure
JSON STRUCTUREExamples 4
Example request and response payloads for these APIs.
Security Posture 2
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.
Scopes 1
OAuth scopes governing access to this provider's APIs.
Agentic Access 1
Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.
Resources
Get Started 1
Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call
Documentation 3
Reference material describing how the API behaves
Agent Surfaces 1
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Design & Contract 1
Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events
Build 1
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
Access & Security 3
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Operate 1
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Commercial 4
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 4
The organization behind the API
Source (apis.yml)
TIAA API — frequently asked questions
Does TIAA have an API?
Yes. APIs.io lists 11 APIs from TIAA, including TIAA Gateway API, TIAA Payroll360 API and TIAA Accounts API, and 8 more.
Is there an OpenAPI specification for the TIAA API?
Yes. APIs.io indexes 9 OpenAPI specifications for TIAA, each linked for download from this page.
How do I authenticate with the TIAA API?
TIAA documents its authentication (oauth2 · 2 schemes). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Tiaa Authentication.
How much does the TIAA API cost?
APIs.io lists 1 pricing plan for TIAA, with each plan's price, limits and inclusions under Pricing on this page.
Is the TIAA API ready for AI agents?
TIAA has a Kin Score of 31.7 out of 100 (thin) and an Agent Readiness score of 24.6 (agent-aware), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.
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