Vanilla Steel

Vanilla Steel is a Berlin-based B2B steel trading platform (Vanilla Steel GmbH, backed by seedcamp) that matches European steel buyers and sellers, arranges financing, and manages logistics end-to-end, connecting 500+ European suppliers with 5,000+ buyers and sellers and returning a best offer within 48 hours from a single format-agnostic request. Its SaaS products — the RFQ Classifier Outlook add-in, the RFQ Extractor OAuth mailbox-ingestion service for Microsoft 365 and Gmail, and the Quoting App — use AI to turn inbound Requests for Quotation into structured trading workflows. Vanilla Steel publishes no public developer API.

Vanilla Steel is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Steel, Metals, Marketplace, and Trading.

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16.1/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-08-21 · rubric v0.12.0
0 APIs
CompanySteelMetalsMarketplaceTradingB2BProcurementRFQLogistics

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scored 2026-08-21 · rubric v0.12.0
Composite quality — 16.1/100 · emerging
Contract Quality 0.0 / 21
Developer Ergonomics 0.0 / 17
Access Clarity 4.7 / 17
Operational Transparency 1.5 / 11
Contract Governance 1.9 / 10
Discoverability 4.9 / 9
Regulatory Posture 6.3 / 15
Agent readiness — 0/100 · human only
Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10
Documented Reversibility 0 / 6
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 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
Regulatory Posture applies to this provider. Its tags matched the Securities & Market Data regime (on an ambiguous tag, where no other regime matched), 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.
The six quality facets above are damped to 85 points between them, because the conditional facet above carries the other 15. That is why each facet's contribution is shown against a damped maximum: raising a quality facet moves the composite by 85% of its nominal weight, not 100%. The full arithmetic is at apis.io/rating/.
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Security Posture 2

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

Vanilla Steel Domain Security

TLSv1.2 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Vanilla Steel Vulnerability Disclosure

contact published

SECURITY

Resources

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Login
Login

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LLMsTxt
LLMsTxt

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DomainSecurity
 VulnerabilityDisclosure
VulnerabilityDisclosure
 Security
Security

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 PrivacyPolicy
PrivacyPolicy

Company 2

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Website
Website
 Careers
Careers

Other 2

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Imprint
Imprint
 Subprocessors
Subprocessors

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: vanilla-steel
name: Vanilla Steel
description: Vanilla Steel is a Berlin-based B2B steel trading platform (Vanilla Steel GmbH, backed by seedcamp) that matches
  European steel buyers and sellers, arranges financing, and manages logistics end-to-end, connecting 500+ European suppliers
  with 5,000+ buyers and sellers and returning a best offer within 48 hours from a single format-agnostic request. Its SaaS
  products — the RFQ Classifier Outlook add-in, the RFQ Extractor OAuth mailbox-ingestion service for Microsoft 365 and Gmail,
  and the Quoting App — use AI to turn inbound Requests for Quotation into structured trading workflows. Vanilla Steel publishes
  no public developer API.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/vanilla-steel/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- seedcamp
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source: []
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-21'
image: https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/675269acd09605f5a8107201/6757b240ba8e952843e01281_Opengraph.png
tags:
- Company
- Steel
- Metals
- Marketplace
- Trading
- B2B
- Procurement
- RFQ
- Logistics
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://vanillasteel.com
- type: Login
  url: https://app.vanillasteel.com
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://vanillasteel.com/software/terms
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://vanillasteel.com/software/privacy-policy
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/Vanilla-Steel
- type: Careers
  url: https://vanillasteel.com/careers
- type: Imprint
  url: https://vanillasteel.com/imprint
- type: Subprocessors
  url: https://vanillasteel.com/software/subprocessors
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/vanilla-steel-domain-security.yml
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/vanilla-steel-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: Security
  url: https://vanillasteel.com/software/terms
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/vanilla-steel-conformance.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/vanilla-steel-llms.txt
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-21'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 5
  pass: local-v1

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