Upbound

Upbound is a universal cloud platform built on Crossplane, providing managed control planes and a marketplace for cloud infrastructure APIs. The Upbound API enables programmatic management of organizations, spaces, control planes, package repositories, teams, and robot accounts.

Upbound publishes 5 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network, including Control Planes API, Organizations API, Repositories API, and 2 more. Tagged areas include Cloud Infrastructure, Crossplane, Developer Experience, Internal Developer Platform, and Platform Engineering.

The Upbound catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context and 2 Spectral governance rulesets.

Upbound’s developer surface includes authentication, engineering blog, documentation, and 13 more developer resources.

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33.7/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 24/100 agent aware Front door AI 5/6 prominent Heartbeat 98/100 alive Full breakdown ↓
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AccessFreemiumSelf serve⚡ Free to try

1 published contract 1 MCP Servers

Cloud InfrastructureCrossplaneDeveloper Experience Internal Developer Platform Platform Engineering

What this lets a business do 2

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

Cybersecurity Management

BC-620

Robots

POST /organizations/{orgName}/robots POST /organizations/{orgName}/robots/{robotName}/tokens

Information Technology Management

BC-600

Control Planes

POST /organizations/{orgName}/controlplanes DELETE /organizations/{orgName}/controlplanes/{cpName}

Kin Score

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scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0

Composite quality — 33.7/100 · thin

Contract Quality 11.5 / 19

Developer Ergonomics 3.6 / 15

Access Clarity 2.4 / 15

Operational Transparency 1.0 / 10

Contract Governance 1.2 / 9

Discoverability 5.4 / 8

Regulatory Posture 3.2 / 15

Create-or-Update Ergonomics 0.0 / 10

Agent readiness — 24/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 12 / 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 5 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

MCP Tool Quality 6 / 6

Regulatory Posture applies to this provider. Its tags matched the Horizontal (data, software, accessibility, platform) regime, so Regulatory Posture carries 15 points of the composite. If this regime is wrong for your business, say so on your provider repo — the applicability map is public and we will correct it.

Create-or-Update Ergonomics applies to this provider. This API accepts writes, so it carries 10 points of the composite. It is scored from the published contracts themselves: whether a caller can create-or-update in one call, whether the write accepts a key the caller already holds, and whether the response says which branch ran. Without that, every write needs a search-and-branch in front of it, and the first time that check is skipped a duplicate record is created. Scored against the observed mean rather than raw — a provider at the catalog average is unchanged by this facet, not penalised by it.

The six quality facets above are damped to 75 points between them, because the conditional facet above carries the other 25. That is why each facet's contribution is shown against a damped maximum: raising a quality facet moves the composite by 75% of its nominal weight, not 100%. The full arithmetic is at apis.io/rating/.

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Agent readiness — checks not met, largest first (exact, from this profile):

Idempotency +9 pts — OpenAPI mutating operations declare an idempotency key — a header, a request-body property, or a named de-duplication token whose own description says so (verified); else common[].type matches /idempoten/i (documented)
Stable Error Semantics +8 pts — OpenAPI $refs a shared error schema across 4xx/5xx responses (verified), else common[].type includes ErrorCatalog / ErrorCodes / DeclineCodes
A2A Agent Card +8 pts — a2a/-a2a.yml manifest, graded on conformance.grade against A2A 1.0.0
Request/Response Examples +7 pts — share of operations carrying request/response examples; else an Examples / Code Samples link
Registration Without a Human +6 pts — a `registration_endpoint` in the served RFC 8414 / OIDC discovery document
Delegated User Identity +6 pts — a served discovery document listing authorization_code in grant_types_supported (served), else an oauth2 authorizationCode flow or openIdConnect declared in an OpenAPI (documented)

8 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

Kin Score — facets with the most composite points still available (weight × headroom):

Access Clarity scores 15.8 — up to +16.8 composite points
Developer Ergonomics scores 23.8 — up to +15.2 composite points
Operational Transparency scores 10.5 — up to +11.6 composite points

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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
Cloud Native (Kubernetes, CNCF, FinOps)	standard	26.8 (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.

Model Context Protocol (MCP)

measured — observed by APIs.io (documented)

OpenAPI

measured — observed by APIs.io (published)

APIs 5

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

Upbound Control Planes API

Managed control plane lifecycle

Upbound Organizations API

Organization management

Upbound Repositories API

Package registry and repository management

Upbound Robots API

Robot account and token management

Upbound Teams API

Team and membership management

Open Collections 6

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

Upbound Control Planes API

OPEN COLLECTION

Upbound Control Planes Organizations API

OPEN COLLECTION

Upbound Control Planes Repositories API

OPEN COLLECTION

Upbound Control Planes Robots API

OPEN COLLECTION

Upbound Control Planes Teams API

OPEN COLLECTION

Upbound API

OPEN COLLECTION

MCP Servers 1

Model Context Protocol servers that expose these APIs to AI agents.

MCP Server

MCP SERVER

Upbound API pricing

Not yet checked against Upbound's own pricing page. Compiled by API Evangelist on 2026-05-04; confirm before you rely on a figure. A free plan or tier is listed.

Plan	Price
Free freemium	Free
Professional paid	Free
Enterprise enterprise	—

Plan details, limits and sources →

Rate limits

Free Tier Default: 10 requests per minute
Free Tier Monthly Quota: 1000 requests per month
Professional Tier Default: 100 requests per minute

Compiled by API Evangelist, not yet checked against Upbound's documentation. All 5 limits →

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Upbound Plans Pricing

3 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Upbound Rate Limits

5 limits

RATE LIMITS

Service Levels 1

Uptime the provider promises or reports, as SLA4OAI. Read from its own pages; APIs.io runs no monitors.

Upbound

SLA

FinOps 1

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

Upbound Finops

FINOPS

Semantic Vocabularies 1

JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.

Upbound Context

5 classes · 15 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 2

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

Upbound — jsonschema rules

5 rules · 3 warnings 2 info

SPECTRAL

Upbound API Rules

8 rules · 7 warnings 1 info

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 1

Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.

Upbound Control Plane

11 properties

JSON SCHEMA

JSON Structure 1

JSON Structure definitions describing this provider's data shapes.

Upbound Control Plane Structure

0 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Examples 2

Example request and response payloads for these APIs.

Upbound Create Control Plane Example

2 fields

EXAMPLE

Upbound List Control Planes Example

2 fields

EXAMPLE

Security Posture 3

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

Upbound Authentication

http · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Upbound Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC

SECURITY

Upbound Trust Center

SOC 2, ISO 27001

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

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

Upbound Agentic Access

23 operations · 13 acting · 3 human-in-the-loop

23 operations · 13 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

Agent Surfaces 3

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

AgenticAccess

MCPServer

MCPServer

LlmsText

LlmsText

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

Access & Security 3

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

TrustCenter

TrustCenter

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Authentication

Authentication

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

RateLimits

RateLimits

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Plans

Plans

FinOps

FinOps

Company 3

The organization behind the API

Blog

Blog

LinkedIn

Website

Website

Other 2

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

CapabilityMap

CapabilityMap

Marketplace

Marketplace

Source (apis.yml)

aid: upbound
name: Upbound
description: Upbound is a universal cloud platform built on Crossplane, providing managed control planes and a marketplace
  for cloud infrastructure APIs. The Upbound API enables programmatic management of organizations, spaces, control planes,
  package repositories, teams, and robot accounts.
type: Index
deliveryModel:
  model: unknown
  open_source: false
  commercial: false
  callable_host: true
  label: Delivery model not determined — needs a product licence on record
  confidence: low
  source:
  - openapi
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: freemium
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: true
  public: false
  gated: none
  gated_source:
  - onboarding
  label: Freemium · Self-serve signup
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-06'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/upbound.png
x-docs-platform: docusaurus
x-docs-platform-confidence: medium
x-docs-platform-checked: 2026-10-17
x-docs-hosting: vercel
tags:
- Cloud Infrastructure
- Crossplane
- Developer Experience
- Internal Developer Platform
- Platform Engineering
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/upbound/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2026-03-27'
modified: '2026-05-19'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- aid: upbound:upbound-control-planes-api
  name: Upbound Control Planes API
  description: Managed control plane lifecycle
  humanURL: https://www.upbound.io
  baseURL: https://api.upbound.io/v1
  tags:
  - Control Planes
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/upbound-control-planes-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.upbound.io
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://docs.upbound.io/quickstart
- aid: upbound:upbound-organizations-api
  name: Upbound Organizations API
  description: Organization management
  humanURL: https://www.upbound.io
  baseURL: https://api.upbound.io/v1
  tags:
  - Organization
  tags_raw:
  - Organizations
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/upbound-organizations-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.upbound.io
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://docs.upbound.io/quickstart
- aid: upbound:upbound-repositories-api
  name: Upbound Repositories API
  description: Package registry and repository management
  humanURL: https://www.upbound.io
  baseURL: https://api.upbound.io/v1
  tags:
  - Repositories
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/upbound-repositories-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.upbound.io
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://docs.upbound.io/quickstart
- aid: upbound:upbound-robots-api
  name: Upbound Robots API
  description: Robot account and token management
  humanURL: https://www.upbound.io
  baseURL: https://api.upbound.io/v1
  tags:
  - Robots
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/upbound-robots-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.upbound.io
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://docs.upbound.io/quickstart
- aid: upbound:upbound-teams-api
  name: Upbound Teams API
  description: Team and membership management
  humanURL: https://www.upbound.io
  baseURL: https://api.upbound.io/v1
  tags:
  - Team
  tags_raw:
  - Teams
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/upbound-teams-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.upbound.io
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://docs.upbound.io/quickstart
common:
- type: Plans
  url: plans/upbound-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/upbound-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/upbound-finops.yml
- type: CapabilityMap
  url: capabilities/upbound-capability-edges.yml
  name: Upbound Business Capability Map
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/upbound-agentic-access.yml
- type: TrustCenter
  url: security/upbound-trust-center.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/upbound-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/upbound-authentication.yml
- url: https://www.upbound.io/blog
  type: Blog
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/upbound-io
- type: Website
  url: https://www.upbound.io
- type: Documentation
  url: https://docs.upbound.io
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/upbound
- type: Marketplace
  url: https://marketplace.upbound.io
- name: MCP Server
  url: https://github.com/upbound/marketplace-mcp-server
  type: MCPServer
- type: LlmsText
  url: https://docs.upbound.io/llms.txt
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com

Upbound API — frequently asked questions

Does Upbound have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 5 APIs from Upbound, including Upbound Control Planes API, Upbound Organizations API and Upbound Repositories API, and 2 more.

Is there an OpenAPI specification for the Upbound API?

Yes. APIs.io indexes 5 OpenAPI specifications for Upbound, each linked for download from this page.

How do I authenticate with the Upbound API?

Upbound uses bearer-token authentication (http · 1 scheme). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Upbound Authentication.

How much does the Upbound API cost?

APIs.io lists 3 pricing plans for Upbound, with each plan's price, limits and inclusions under Pricing on this page.

Does Upbound have an MCP server?

Yes. APIs.io lists 1 MCP server for Upbound.

Is the Upbound API ready for AI agents?

Upbound has a Kin Score of 33.7 out of 100 (thin) and an Agent Readiness score of 23.6 (agent-aware), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.

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