# Vanilla Steel

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/vanilla-steel/  
**Website:** https://vanillasteel.com  
**APIs profiled:** 0

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.

## Kin Score — 16.1 / 100 (emerging)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 16.1).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 57.4 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 18.2 |
| Contract Governance | 18.2 |
| Operational Transparency | 13.2 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 0.0 |
| Commercial Clarity | 27.6 |
| Access Clarity | 27.6 |

Regulatory layer — **Securities & Market Data**: 41.7 (matched via weak_tags).

## Agent readiness — 0.0 (human-only)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | no |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Unknown — onboarding: unknown, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: low).

## Security (2)

- **Vanilla Steel Domain Security** — TLSv1.2 · HSTS · DMARC
- **Vanilla Steel Vulnerability Disclosure** — contact published

## Tags

Company, Steel, Metals, Marketplace, Trading, B2B, Procurement, RFQ, Logistics

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