# tidb

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/tidb/  
**APIs profiled:** 23

TiDB is an open-source distributed SQL database that supports Hybrid Transactional and Analytical Processing workloads, with horizontal scalability, strong consistency, and high availability.

## Kin Score — 32.7 / 100 (thin)

Scored 2026-08-25 under rubric 0.14.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 32.7).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 50.0 |
| Contract Quality | 72.4 |
| Governance | 25.0 |
| Contract Governance | 25.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 7.9 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 11.9 |
| Commercial Clarity | 15.8 |
| Access Clarity | 15.8 |

## Agent readiness — 24.4 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | documented |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | bearer |
| 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 | yes |
| Delegated Identity | no |
| Protected Resource Metadata | no |
| Dynamic Client Registration | no |
| Agentic Commerce | no |

## Access

Freemium · Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: freemium, trial: no (confidence: high).

## APIs (23)

- **tidb API Keys API** — Operations for creating, listing, updating, and deleting TiDB Cloud API keys.
- **tidb Audit Logs API** — Operations for retrieving organization-level console audit logs.
- **tidb Billing API** — Operations for retrieving monthly billing summaries, cost details, and usage trends.
- **tidb Chat2Data API** — Operations for translating natural language questions into SQL and executing them against TiDB Cloud clusters.
- **tidb Clusters API** — Operations for creating, listing, updating, and deleting TiDB Cloud Dedicated clusters.
- **tidb Data App API Keys API** — Operations for managing API keys scoped to a specific Data App.
- **tidb Data Apps API** — Operations for creating, listing, updating, and deleting Data Apps.
- **tidb Data Sources API** — Operations for linking and managing TiDB Cloud clusters as data sources within a Data App.
- **tidb Data Summaries API** — Operations for generating and managing AI summaries of database schemas used as context for SQL generation.
- **tidb DDL API** — Endpoints for managing and inspecting DDL jobs, including ownership and history.
- **tidb Deployments API** — Operations for deploying and managing versions of a Data App.
- **tidb Diagnostics API** — Endpoints for downloading debug information and managing server diagnostics.
- **tidb Endpoints API** — Operations for creating, listing, updating, testing, and deleting custom SQL-backed API endpoints.
- **tidb Imports API** — Operations for creating and managing data import tasks into TiDB Cloud clusters.
- **tidb Integrations API** — Operations for managing third-party integrations with TiDB Cloud clusters.
- **tidb MVCC API** — Endpoints for retrieving multi-version concurrency control (MVCC) key details for debugging.
- **tidb Regions API** — Operations for listing available cloud regions and node specifications.
- **tidb Schema API** — Endpoints for retrieving database and table schema information from the TiDB information schema.
- **tidb Sessions API** — Operations for creating and managing multi-round conversational chat sessions.
- **tidb Settings API** — Endpoints for retrieving and modifying TiDB server runtime settings.
- **tidb SQL Refinement API** — Operations for refining and improving previously generated SQL queries.
- **tidb Statistics API** — Endpoints for exporting optimizer statistics used for query planning.
- **tidb Status API** — Endpoints for retrieving the operational status of the TiDB server instance.

## Agentic access (1)

- **Tidb Agentic Access** — 74 operations · 32 acting · 1 human-in-the-loop

## Security (2)

- **Tidb Authentication** — http · 1 scheme
- **Tidb Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · DMARC

## Plans (1)

- **Tidb Plans Pricing**

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