# Vendr

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/vendr/  
**Website:** https://www.vendr.com/  
**APIs profiled:** 5

Vendr is a SaaS procurement intelligence platform that helps businesses manage software spending through data-driven pricing insights and negotiation guidance. The Vendr API (OpenPrice API) provides access to real contract pricing data from 200,000+ verified software agreements across 20,000+ products, enabling developers to embed fair pricing estimates, negotiation insights, product catalog data, and purchase scope management into their applications.

## Kin Score — 38.5 / 100 (thin)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 38.5).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 74.1 |
| Contract Quality | 72.4 |
| Governance | 9.8 |
| Contract Governance | 9.8 |
| Operational Transparency | 10.5 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 28.6 |
| Commercial Clarity | 23.7 |
| Access Clarity | 23.7 |

## Agent readiness — 33.2 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | documented |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| 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 |

## Access

Freemium · Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: freemium, trial: no (confidence: high).

## APIs (5)

- **Vendr MCP Server** — The Vendr Model Context Protocol (MCP) server exposes Vendr pricing intelligence to AI agents via the MCP standard. It provides tools for searching the product catalog, retrievi...
- **Vendr Catalog API** — Search and retrieve software product catalog data
- **Vendr Pricing API** — Fair price estimates and negotiation insights
- **Vendr Scope API** — Define and submit purchase scope requirements
- **Vendr Webhooks API** — Subscribe to and manage event notifications

## MCP servers (1)

- **MCP Server**

## Agentic access (1)

- **Vendr Agentic Access** — 6 operations · 4 acting

## Security (3)

- **Vendr Authentication** — apiKey · 1 scheme
- **Vendr Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC
- **Vendr Trust Center** — SOC 2, GDPR

## Plans (1)

- **Vendr Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Pricing, Procurement, Software-as-a-Service, Software Spend Management, Negotiation

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