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 APIs 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 9 more developer resources.

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52.1/100 developing ▬ flat Agent 41/100 agent ready Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6

AccessFreemiumSelf serve⚡ Free to try

5 APIs 1 MCP Servers

Cloud InfrastructureCrossplaneDeveloper ExperienceInternal Developer PlatformPlatform Engineering

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scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6

Composite quality — 52.1/100 · developing

Contract Quality 17.4 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 6.1 / 20

Commercial Clarity 9.5 / 20

Operational Transparency 4.8 / 13

Governance 7.0 / 12

Discoverability 7.4 / 10

Agent readiness — 41/100 · agent ready

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

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

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APIs 5

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

MCP Servers 1

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

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Upbound Rate Limits

5 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

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

JSON Schema 1

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

Examples 2

Example request and response payloads for these APIs.

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

Company 3

The organization behind the API

Blog

Blog

LinkedIn

Website

Website

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

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
accessModel:
  pricing: freemium
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: true
  public: false
  label: Freemium · Self-serve signup
  confidence: high
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/upbound.png
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: '0.19'
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:
  - 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:
  - 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: 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

APIs 5

Open Collections 1

MCP Servers 1

Pricing Plans 1

Rate Limits 1

FinOps 1

Semantic Vocabularies 1

Spectral Rules 2