# Visualforce

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/visualforce/  
**Website:** https://developer.salesforce.com  
**APIs profiled:** 1

Visualforce is a framework that enables developers to build sophisticated, custom user interfaces that can be hosted natively on the Salesforce platform. It uses a tag-based markup language similar to HTML and provides a component-based development model for building pages, email templates, and PDF documents within Salesforce.

## Kin Score — 21.3 / 100 (emerging)

Scored 2026-08-25 under rubric 0.14.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 21.3).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 50.0 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 10.5 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 38.1 |
| Commercial Clarity | 36.8 |
| Access Clarity | 36.8 |

## Agent readiness — 2.5 (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 | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |
| Delegated Identity | no |
| Protected Resource Metadata | no |
| Dynamic Client Registration | no |
| Agentic Commerce | no |

## Access

Freemium — onboarding: unknown, pricing: freemium, trial: no (confidence: medium).

## APIs (1)

- **Visualforce** — Visualforce is the Salesforce framework for building custom user interfaces using tag-based markup and Apex server-side controllers. Developers use it to create pages, email tem...

## Security (1)

- **Visualforce Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · DNSSEC · DMARC

## Plans (1)

- **Visualforce Plans Pricing**

## Use cases (5)

- **Custom Salesforce Pages** — Build custom UI pages that extend Salesforce functionality beyond standard page layouts.
- **PDF Document Generation** — Generate branded PDFs for invoices, quotes, contracts, and reports from Salesforce data.
- **Custom Email Templates** — Create rich HTML email templates with dynamic content from Salesforce records.
- **Embedded Dashboards** — Build custom analytics dashboards and data visualization pages within Salesforce.
- **Wizard-Style Forms** — Create multi-step form workflows for complex data entry processes.

## Tags

Salesforce, UI Framework, Web Development

---

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