Turvo

Turvo is a collaborative cloud transportation management system (TMS) that unifies shippers, freight brokers, and carriers on a single real-time platform. Its self-service Public API is a JSON REST interface (base https://publicapi.turvo.com) secured with OAuth 2.0 plus a per-tenant API key, covering shipments, orders, locations, accounts (customers), and carriers, with event-driven webhooks for status changes and location updates. API credentials and the interactive reference are provisioned per tenant from the API profile inside the Turvo application, so the surface is self-serve for Turvo customers rather than openly public.

Turvo publishes 7 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network, including Accounts API, Authentication API, Carriers API, and 4 more. Tagged areas include Logistics, Transportation Management System, TMS, Supply Chain, and Freight.

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

Turvo’s developer surface includes engineering blog, pricing, authentication, documentation, and 9 more developer resources.

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1 published contract

Logistics Transportation Management System TMS Supply Chain Freight Shipments Carrier

What this lets a business do 3

Business capabilities this provider's published APIs can perform, derived from its own contracts. Browse all capabilities →

Shipment Visibility & Tracking Management

BC-2510

Tracking

GET /shipments/{id}/locationUpdates

Customer Relationship Management

BC-420

Accounts

GET /accounts/list POST /accounts

Transport Operations Management

BC-2420

Shipments

POST /shipments DELETE /shipments/{id}

Kin Score

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Composite quality — 30.0/100 · thin

Contract Quality 10.0 / 19

Developer Ergonomics 4.1 / 15

Access Clarity 3.8 / 15

Operational Transparency 0.7 / 10

Contract Governance 1.2 / 9

Discoverability 5.0 / 8

Regulatory Posture 0.8 / 15

Create-or-Update Ergonomics 0.0 / 10

Agent readiness — 21/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

Documented Reversibility 6 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 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 0 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

MCP Tool Quality 6 / 6

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MCP Server +12 pts — deployment.mode + probe verdict on the mcp/ manifest, not the pointer; an unprobed slug falls back to authorship Ask about this →
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Registration Without a Human +6 pts — a `registration_endpoint` in the served RFC 8414 / OIDC discovery document Ask about this →

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Standards implemented 1

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.

OpenAPI

measured — observed by APIs.io (published)

APIs 7

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

Turvo Accounts API

Customers, shippers, and business partners.

Turvo Authentication API

OAuth 2.0 token exchange for the Public API.

Turvo Carriers API

Transportation providers hauling freight.

Turvo Locations API

Facility and address master used as shipment stops.

Turvo Orders API

Customer demand records planned into shipments.

Turvo Shipments API

Freight loads - the core shipment object in Turvo.

Turvo Tracking API

Real-time location updates and status milestones on a shipment.

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Open Collections 8

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

Turvo Public Accounts API

OPEN COLLECTION

Turvo Public Accounts Authentication API

OPEN COLLECTION

Turvo Public Accounts Carriers API

OPEN COLLECTION

Turvo Public Accounts Locations API

OPEN COLLECTION

Turvo Public Accounts Orders API

OPEN COLLECTION

Turvo Public Accounts Shipments API

OPEN COLLECTION

Turvo Public Accounts Tracking API

OPEN COLLECTION

Turvo Public API

OPEN COLLECTION

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Turvo API pricing

Prices published by Turvo, read 2026-09-20 from turvo.com/pricing/.

Plan	Price
Plan, Execute and Settle Freight	Starts at $5,000/ Month Includes: Dedicated Onboarding Manager, Virtual Training, Data Migration, Support Center, Turvo Community & Ac
Collaboration and Visibility Across the Supply Chain	*Available Upon Request Includes: Dedicated Onboarding Manager, Virtual Training, Data Migration, Support Center, Turvo Community & Ac

Plan details, limits and sources →

Rate limits

Public API Requests: not published requests
Bulk Endpoint Batch: bulk (thousands per call) records
Webhook Delivery: event-driven events

Compiled by API Evangelist, not yet checked against Turvo's documentation. Rate-limit details →

Pricing Plans 2

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Turvo Plans Pricing

2 plans

PLANS

Turvo Price Estimates

0 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Turvo Rate Limits

3 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

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

Turvo Finops

FINOPS

Spectral Rules 1

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs. Counts are the severity each rule declares, not results of running them.

Turvo API Rules

59 rules · 55 error-severity 3 warn-severity 1 info-severity

SPECTRAL

Security Posture 2

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

Turvo Authentication

apiKey/http · 2 schemes

SECURITY

Turvo Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · DMARC

SECURITY

Agentic Access (API Evangelist recommendations) 1

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

Turvo Agentic Access

24 operations · 13 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

AgenticAccess

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Authentication

Authentication

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

RateLimits

RateLimits

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Pricing

Pricing

Plans

Plans

FinOps

FinOps

Company 4

The organization behind the API

Blog

Blog

BlogRSS

BlogRSS

LinkedIn

Website

Website

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

CapabilityMap

CapabilityMap

Source (apis.yml)

aid: turvo
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/turvo/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
name: Turvo
kind: company
description: Turvo is a collaborative cloud transportation management system (TMS) that unifies shippers, freight brokers,
  and carriers on a single real-time platform. Its self-service Public API is a JSON REST interface (base https://publicapi.turvo.com)
  secured with OAuth 2.0 plus a per-tenant API key, covering shipments, orders, locations, accounts (customers), and carriers,
  with event-driven webhooks for status changes and location updates. API credentials and the interactive reference are provisioned
  per tenant from the API profile inside the Turvo application, so the surface is self-serve for Turvo customers rather than
  openly public.
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: medium
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-13'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/turvo.png
tags:
- Logistics
- Transportation Management System
- TMS
- Supply Chain
- Freight
- Shipments
- Carrier
tags_raw:
- Logistics
- Transportation Management System
- TMS
- Supply Chain
- Freight
- Shipments
- Carriers
created: '2026-07-05'
modified: '2026-10-06'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- aid: turvo:turvo-accounts-api
  name: Turvo Accounts API
  description: Customers, shippers, and business partners.
  humanURL: https://help.turvo.com/hc/en-us/sections/12970447299987-API-Documentation
  baseURL: https://publicapi.turvo.com/v1
  tags:
  - Account
  tags_raw:
  - Accounts
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/turvo-accounts-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://help.turvo.com/hc/en-us/articles/4407388745619-Using-Turvo-s-self-service-Public-API-and-webhooks
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://app.turvo.com/lobby/documentation
  - type: PostmanCollection
    url: collections/turvo.postman_collection.json
  - type: OpenCollection
    url: collections/turvo.opencollection.json
- aid: turvo:turvo-authentication-api
  name: Turvo Authentication API
  description: OAuth 2.0 token exchange for the Public API.
  humanURL: https://help.turvo.com/hc/en-us/sections/12970447299987-API-Documentation
  baseURL: https://publicapi.turvo.com/v1
  tags:
  - Authentication
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/turvo-authentication-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://help.turvo.com/hc/en-us/articles/4407388745619-Using-Turvo-s-self-service-Public-API-and-webhooks
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://app.turvo.com/lobby/documentation
  - type: PostmanCollection
    url: collections/turvo.postman_collection.json
  - type: OpenCollection
    url: collections/turvo.opencollection.json
- aid: turvo:turvo-carriers-api
  name: Turvo Carriers API
  description: Transportation providers hauling freight.
  humanURL: https://help.turvo.com/hc/en-us/sections/12970447299987-API-Documentation
  baseURL: https://publicapi.turvo.com/v1
  tags:
  - Carrier
  tags_raw:
  - Carriers
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/turvo-carriers-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://help.turvo.com/hc/en-us/articles/4407388745619-Using-Turvo-s-self-service-Public-API-and-webhooks
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://app.turvo.com/lobby/documentation
  - type: PostmanCollection
    url: collections/turvo.postman_collection.json
  - type: OpenCollection
    url: collections/turvo.opencollection.json
- aid: turvo:turvo-locations-api
  name: Turvo Locations API
  description: Facility and address master used as shipment stops.
  humanURL: https://help.turvo.com/hc/en-us/sections/12970447299987-API-Documentation
  baseURL: https://publicapi.turvo.com/v1
  tags:
  - Location
  tags_raw:
  - Locations
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/turvo-locations-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://help.turvo.com/hc/en-us/articles/4407388745619-Using-Turvo-s-self-service-Public-API-and-webhooks
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://app.turvo.com/lobby/documentation
  - type: PostmanCollection
    url: collections/turvo.postman_collection.json
  - type: OpenCollection
    url: collections/turvo.opencollection.json
- aid: turvo:turvo-orders-api
  name: Turvo Orders API
  description: Customer demand records planned into shipments.
  humanURL: https://help.turvo.com/hc/en-us/sections/12970447299987-API-Documentation
  baseURL: https://publicapi.turvo.com/v1
  tags:
  - Order
  tags_raw:
  - Orders
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/turvo-orders-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://help.turvo.com/hc/en-us/articles/4407388745619-Using-Turvo-s-self-service-Public-API-and-webhooks
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://app.turvo.com/lobby/documentation
  - type: PostmanCollection
    url: collections/turvo.postman_collection.json
  - type: OpenCollection
    url: collections/turvo.opencollection.json
- aid: turvo:turvo-shipments-api
  name: Turvo Shipments API
  description: Freight loads - the core shipment object in Turvo.
  humanURL: https://help.turvo.com/hc/en-us/sections/12970447299987-API-Documentation
  baseURL: https://publicapi.turvo.com/v1
  tags:
  - Shipments
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/turvo-shipments-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://help.turvo.com/hc/en-us/articles/4407388745619-Using-Turvo-s-self-service-Public-API-and-webhooks
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://app.turvo.com/lobby/documentation
  - type: PostmanCollection
    url: collections/turvo.postman_collection.json
  - type: OpenCollection
    url: collections/turvo.opencollection.json
- aid: turvo:turvo-tracking-api
  name: Turvo Tracking API
  description: Real-time location updates and status milestones on a shipment.
  humanURL: https://help.turvo.com/hc/en-us/sections/12970447299987-API-Documentation
  baseURL: https://publicapi.turvo.com/v1
  tags:
  - Tracking
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/turvo-tracking-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://help.turvo.com/hc/en-us/articles/4407388745619-Using-Turvo-s-self-service-Public-API-and-webhooks
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://app.turvo.com/lobby/documentation
  - type: PostmanCollection
    url: collections/turvo.postman_collection.json
  - type: OpenCollection
    url: collections/turvo.opencollection.json
common:
- url: https://turvo.com/resources/articles/
  type: Blog
- url: https://turvo.com/feed/
  type: BlogRSS
- type: Pricing
  url: https://turvo.com/pricing/
- type: CapabilityMap
  url: capabilities/turvo-capability-edges.yml
  name: Turvo Business Capability Map
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/turvo-agentic-access.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/turvo-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/turvo-authentication.yml
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/turvo
- type: Website
  url: https://turvo.com
- type: Documentation
  url: https://help.turvo.com/hc/en-us/sections/12970447299987-API-Documentation
- type: Plans
  url: plans/turvo-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/turvo-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/turvo-finops.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com

Turvo API — frequently asked questions

Does Turvo have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 7 APIs from Turvo, including Turvo Accounts API, Turvo Authentication API and Turvo Carriers API, and 4 more.

Is there an OpenAPI specification for the Turvo API?

Yes. APIs.io indexes 7 OpenAPI specifications for Turvo, each linked for download from this page.

How do I authenticate with the Turvo API?

Turvo uses bearer-token authentication (apiKey/http · 2 schemes). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Turvo Authentication.

How much does the Turvo API cost?

Turvo publishes its prices; its Plan, Execute and Settle Freight plan is Starts at $5,000/ Month as of 2026-09-20. APIs.io lists 2 pricing plans for Turvo, with each plan's price, limits and inclusions under Pricing on this page.

Is the Turvo API ready for AI agents?

Turvo has a Kin Score of 30.0 out of 100 (thin) and an Agent Readiness score of 20.6 (agent-aware), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-13.

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