# X-Road (NIIS)

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/x-road-global/  
**Website:** https://x-road.global  
**APIs profiled:** 2

X-Road is open-source data exchange layer software maintained by the Nordic Institute for Interoperability Solutions (NIIS), used by governments (Estonia, Finland, Iceland and others) to build secure, federated information exchange ecosystems. Organisations run their own Security Servers and Central Servers; each ships a REST management API (Security Server Admin API, Central Server Admin API) plus SOAP management, monitoring and operational-monitoring services, all published as OpenAPI and WSDL in the nordic-institute/X-Road repository under the MIT license.

## Kin Score — 38.9 / 100 (thin)

Scored 2026-11-13 under rubric 0.28.0.

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 66.1 |
| Contract Quality | 62.4 |
| Contract Governance | 22.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 28.6 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 31.0 |
| Access Clarity | 8.5 |

Regulatory layer — **Government & Public Sector**: 26.5 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 25.2 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | bearer |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | verified |
| OpenAPI Examples | partial |
| 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 |
| Delegated Identity | no |
| Protected Resource Metadata | no |
| Dynamic Client Registration | no |
| Agentic Commerce | no |
| Pagination Ratio | no |
| Operation Distinctiveness | mostly |
| MCP Tool Quality | na |

## Access

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

## APIs (40)

- **X-Road Management Services (SOAP)** — SOAP management services of the X-Road central service (client registration, deletion, owner change, etc.).
- **X-Road Environmental and Operational Monitoring (SOAP)** — SOAP services for Security Server environmental monitoring and operational monitoring data (getSecurityServerOperationalData, health data).
- **X-Road (NIIS) Backups API** — resources related to Backups and Backup Restoration
- **X-Road (NIIS) Certificate Authorities API** — CA endpoints
- **X-Road (NIIS) Certification Services API** — resources related to Certification Services
- **X-Road (NIIS) Clients API** — resources related to Clients (Members and Subsystems)
- **X-Road (NIIS) Configuration Parts API** — resources related to Configuration Parts
- **X-Road (NIIS) Configuration Source Anchors API** — resources related to Configuration Source Anchors
- **X-Road (NIIS) Configuration Sources API** — general resources related to Configuration Sources
- **X-Road (NIIS) Dataspace API** — data space provisioning endpoints
- **X-Road (NIIS) Diagnostics API** — diagnostics endpoints
- **X-Road (NIIS) Ds Tls Certification Authorities API** — resources related to approved DataSpace TLS certification authorities
- **X-Road (NIIS) Ds Tls Intermediate Cas API** — resources related to Intermediate Certificate Authorities of approved DataSpace TLS certification authorities
- **X-Road (NIIS) Endpoints API** — services' endpoints related endpoints
- **X-Road (NIIS) Global Groups API** — resources related to Global Groups
- **X-Road (NIIS) Initialization API** — resources related to Central Server initialization
- **X-Road (NIIS) Intermediate Cas API** — resources related to Intermediate Certificate Authorities
- **X-Road (NIIS) Issuer Service API** — resources related to the Issuer Service's shared host
- **X-Road (NIIS) Keys API** — keys endpoints
- **X-Road (NIIS) Language API** — language endpoints
- **X-Road (NIIS) Local Groups API** — local groups endpoints
- **X-Road (NIIS) Mail API** — The mail API from X-Road (NIIS) — 2 operation(s) for mail.
- **X-Road (NIIS) Management Requests API** — resources related to management requests
- **X-Road (NIIS) Management Services API** — resources related to Management Services
- **X-Road (NIIS) Member Classes API** — resources related to Central Server's member classes
- **X-Road (NIIS) Member Names API** — member names endpoints
- **X-Road (NIIS) Members API** — resources related to Members
- **X-Road (NIIS) Ocsp Responders API** — resources related to OCSP Responders
- **X-Road (NIIS) Security Servers API** — resources related to Security Servers
- **X-Road (NIIS) Service Descriptions API** — service descriptions endpoints
- **X-Road (NIIS) Services API** — services endpoints
- **X-Road (NIIS) Signing Keys API** — resources related to Global Configuration Signing Keys
- **X-Road (NIIS) Subsystems API** — resources related to Subsystems
- **X-Road (NIIS) System API** — resources related to System info
- **X-Road (NIIS) Timestamping Services API** — resources related to Central Server's Timestamping Services
- **X-Road (NIIS) Token Certificates API** — The token-certificates API from X-Road (NIIS) — 9 operation(s) for token-certificates.
- **X-Road (NIIS) Tokens API** — resources related to Tokens
- **X-Road (NIIS) Trusted Anchors API** — resources related to Trusted Anchors
- **X-Road (NIIS) X Road Instances API** — x-road-instances endpoints
- **X-Road (NIIS) Open API** — The Open API API from X-Road (NIIS) — 1 operation(s) for open api.

## Agentic access (1)

- **X-Road (NIIS) Agentic Access** — 263 operations · 138 acting · 5 human-in-the-loop

## Security (3)

- **X-Road (NIIS) Authentication** — apiKey · 1 scheme
- **X-Road (NIIS) Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS
- **X-Road (NIIS) Vulnerability Disclosure** — no policy recorded

## Tags

Company, Government, Interoperability, Data Exchange, Open Source, Digital Public Infrastructure, Security

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