# Unkey

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/unkey/  
**Website:** https://www.unkey.com  
**APIs profiled:** 8

Unkey is the developer platform for modern APIs, providing globally distributed API key management, rate limiting, identity management, analytics, and deployment capabilities. The platform enables API providers to issue, verify, and revoke keys with metadata, expiration, usage credits, permissions, and roles — without managing any infrastructure.

## Kin Score — 43.2 / 100 (developing)

Scored 2026-08-25 under rubric 0.14.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 43.2).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 74.1 |
| Contract Quality | 71.9 |
| Governance | 28.8 |
| Contract Governance | 28.8 |
| Operational Transparency | 26.3 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 28.6 |
| Commercial Clarity | 26.3 |
| Access Clarity | 26.3 |

## Agent readiness — 28.1 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | bearer |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | verified |
| OpenAPI Examples | partial |
| 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 · Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: freemium, trial: no (confidence: high).

## APIs (8)

- **Unkey analytics API** — Analytics query operations
- **Unkey apis API** — API management operations
- **Unkey deploy API** — Deployment operations
- **Unkey identities API** — Identity management operations
- **Unkey keys API** — API key management operations
- **Unkey liveness API** — Health check operations
- **Unkey permissions API** — Permission and role management operations
- **Unkey ratelimit API** — Rate limiting operations

## Agentic access (1)

- **Unkey Agentic Access** — 42 operations · 41 acting · 4 human-in-the-loop

## Security (2)

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

## Plans (1)

- **Unkey Plans Pricing**

## Tags

APIKeys, Rate Limiting, Authentication, Developer Platform, Access Control, Identity, Analytics

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