Xata

Xata is a serverless Postgres platform designed for modern development and agentic workloads, offering instant database branching with copy-on-write storage so teams can clone any Postgres database in under one second. The platform provides a managed REST API, CLI, TypeScript and Python SDKs, and a WebSocket wire-protocol proxy for direct Postgres connections. Xata supports schema migrations, built-in PII anonymization, and scale-to-zero compute, with deployment options spanning Xata Cloud (SaaS), BYOC, and open-source self-hosted. An open-source AI agent (Xata Agent) monitors and optimizes PostgreSQL performance with MCP server extensibility.

Xata publishes 12 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network, including API Keys API, Billing API, Branches API, and 9 more. Tagged areas include Database, PostgreSQL, Serverless, Developer Tools, and Branching.

The Xata catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context and 1 Spectral governance ruleset.

Xata’s developer surface includes authentication, documentation, engineering blog, pricing, and 16 more developer resources.

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38.6/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 36/100 agent ready Front door AI 3/6 light Heartbeat 96/100 alive saas Full breakdown ↓
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1 published contract

Database PostgreSQL Serverless Developer ToolsBranchingAI Agents

What this lets a business do 2

Business capabilities this provider's published APIs can perform, derived from its own contracts. Browse all capabilities →

SaaS Platform Operations Management

BC-4220

LogsMetrics

POST /organizations/{organizationID}/projects/{projectID}/branches/{branchID}/logs POST /organizations/{organizationID}/projects/{projectID}/branches/{branchID}/metrics

Subscription Billing & Revenue Management

BC-4250

Billing

POST /organizations/{organizationID}/billing/checkout-session

Kin Score

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scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0

Composite quality — 38.6/100 · thin

Contract Quality 9.9 / 19

Developer Ergonomics 3.8 / 15

Access Clarity 3.9 / 15

Operational Transparency 3.6 / 10

Contract Governance 0.9 / 9

Discoverability 5.0 / 8

Regulatory Posture 5.6 / 15

Create-or-Update Ergonomics 0.0 / 10

Agent readiness — 36/100 · agent ready

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

Documented Reversibility 6 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 8 / 8

Request/Response Examples 7 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 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

Delegated User Identity 6 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

Pagination 5 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

MCP Tool Quality 6 / 6

Regulatory Posture applies to this provider. Its tags matched the Horizontal (data, software, accessibility, platform) regime, 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.

Create-or-Update Ergonomics applies to this provider. This API accepts writes, so it carries 10 points of the composite. It is scored from the published contracts themselves: whether a caller can create-or-update in one call, whether the write accepts a key the caller already holds, and whether the response says which branch ran. Without that, every write needs a search-and-branch in front of it, and the first time that check is skipped a duplicate record is created. Scored against the observed mean rather than raw — a provider at the catalog average is unchanged by this facet, not penalised by it.

The six quality facets above are damped to 75 points between them, because the conditional facet above carries the other 25. That is why each facet's contribution is shown against a damped maximum: raising a quality facet moves the composite by 75% of its nominal weight, not 100%. The full arithmetic is at apis.io/rating/.

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Agent readiness — checks not met, largest first (exact, from this profile):

MCP Server +12 pts — deployment.mode + probe verdict on the mcp/ manifest, not the pointer; an unprobed slug falls back to authorship
Idempotency +9 pts — OpenAPI mutating operations declare an idempotency key — a header, a request-body property, or a named de-duplication token whose own description says so (verified); else common[].type matches /idempoten/i (documented)
A2A Agent Card +8 pts — a2a/-a2a.yml manifest, graded on conformance.grade against A2A 1.0.0
Registration Without a Human +6 pts — a `registration_endpoint` in the served RFC 8414 / OIDC discovery document
Typed Event Surface +6 pts — AsyncAPI document, OR webhooks/callbacks objects in the as-published OpenAPI, OR common[].type includes Webhooks
Agent Skills +5 pts — skills artifact present, graded by who authored it

5 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

Kin Score — facets with the most composite points still available (weight × headroom):

Developer Ergonomics scores 25.0 — up to +15.0 composite points
Access Clarity scores 26.3 — up to +14.7 composite points
Contract Quality scores 52.7 — up to +11.8 composite points

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Markets this provider is in provisional

The Kin Score Market layer reads a provider inside its market: its position, and how deep its integrations go. Depth is only comparable within a position. Provisional and unweighted: not part of the Kin Score or agent readiness.

Market	Position	Depth	Registered MCP server	Declares compatibility
Databases (PostgreSQL wire)	builds-on	34.0	-	-
Jamstack Hosting Integrations (Vercel Marketplace and Netlify Integrations publishers)	builds-on	34.0	-	-

Registered MCP server and declares compatibility are report only — not weighted. Undeclared means we found nothing we can read, so there is no number: we never infer integrations.

Standards implemented 3

Standards this provider implements or carries. De facto ones are profiled and measured by the API Commons; formal ones come from the standards directory and are linked by the provider's own tags. The evidence column says how each claim was established — not that it was made.

OpenAPI

measured — observed by APIs.io (published)

OAuth 2.0

measured — observed by APIs.io (declared)

OpenID Connect

measured — observed by APIs.io (declared)

APIs 12

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Xata API Keys API

Operations for managing API keys, including creation, listing, and deletion

Xata Billing API

Internal organization billing operations

Xata Branches API

Operations for managing database branches within projects, including creation, configuration, and deletion

Xata Gateway API

PostgreSQL connectivity via HTTP SQL, WebSocket wire protocol proxy, and native wire protocol.

Xata GitHub App API

Operations for managing GitHub App installation mappings

Xata Logs API

Operations for retrieving log entries for a branch

Xata Marketplace API

Operations for linking user accounts to cloud marketplace subscriptions

Xata Metrics API

Operations for retrieving observability metrics for a branch

Xata Organizations API

Operations for creating, retrieving, updating, and deleting organizations

Xata Projects API

Operations for creating, retrieving, updating, and deleting projects within an organization

Xata Projects Webhooks API

The Projects Webhooks API from Xata — 1 operation(s) for projects webhooks.

Xata Webhooks API

The Webhooks API from Xata — 2 operation(s) for webhooks.

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Xata API Keys Webhooks API

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Xata API pricing

Not yet checked against Xata's own pricing page. Compiled by API Evangelist on 2026-06-12 from xata.io/pricing; confirm before you rely on a figure. A free plan or tier is listed.

Plan	Price
Open Source free	Free
Xata Cloud freemium	$0.012 per compute (micro instance) · $1.536 per compute (8xlarge instance)
BYOC (Bring Your Own Cloud) paid	$0.012 per compute (micro instance) · $1.536 per compute (8xlarge instance)
Enterprise enterprise	—

Plan details, limits and sources →

Rate limits

Management API: 60 requests per minute
SQL Gateway: 1000 requests per minute
Bulk API Key Deletion: 60 requests per minute

Compiled by API Evangelist, not yet checked against Xata's documentation. Rate-limit details →

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Xata Plans Pricing

4 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Xata Rate Limits

3 limits

RATE LIMITS

Service Levels 1

Uptime the provider promises or reports, as SLA4OAI. Read from its own pages; APIs.io runs no monitors.

Xata

SLA

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Xata Finops

FINOPS

Semantic Vocabularies 1

JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.

Xata Context

65 classes · 0 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 1

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

Xata — jsonschema rules

5 rules · 3 warnings 2 info

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 10

Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.

APIKeyPreview

11 properties

JSON SCHEMA

BillingInvoice

1 fields

EXAMPLE

Security Posture 4

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

Xata Authentication

apiKey/oauth2/openIdConnect · 4 schemes

SECURITY

Xata Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Xata Vulnerability Disclosure

no policy recorded

SECURITY

Xata Trust Center

HIPAA, GDPR

SECURITY

Scopes 1

OAuth scopes governing access to this provider's APIs.

Xata Scopes

15 scopes · implicit

15 scopes

SCOPES

Agentic Access 1

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Xata Agentic Access

66 operations · 32 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

OpenAPI

OpenAPI

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

AgenticAccess

Build 2

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

PostmanWorkspace

PostmanWorkspace

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

Access & Security 5

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

TrustCenter

TrustCenter

VulnerabilityDisclosure

VulnerabilityDisclosure

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Authentication

Authentication

OAuthScopes

OAuthScopes

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

StatusPage

StatusPage

RateLimits

RateLimits

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Pricing

Pricing

Plans

Plans

FinOps

FinOps

Company 3

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

LinkedIn

Blog

Blog

Other 2

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

CapabilityMap

CapabilityMap

Source (apis.yml)

aid: xata
name: Xata
description: Xata is a serverless Postgres platform designed for modern development and agentic workloads, offering instant
  database branching with copy-on-write storage so teams can clone any Postgres database in under one second. The platform
  provides a managed REST API, CLI, TypeScript and Python SDKs, and a WebSocket wire-protocol proxy for direct Postgres connections.
  Xata supports schema migrations, built-in PII anonymization, and scale-to-zero compute, with deployment options spanning
  Xata Cloud (SaaS), BYOC, and open-source self-hosted. An open-source AI agent (Xata Agent) monitors and optimizes PostgreSQL
  performance with MCP server extensibility.
type: Index
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: true
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: high
  source:
  - openapi
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: freemium
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: true
  public: false
  gated: none
  gated_source:
  - onboarding
  label: Freemium · Self-serve signup
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-06'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/xata.png
tags:
- Database
- PostgreSQL
- Serverless
- Developer Tools
- Branching
- AI Agents
tags_raw:
- Database
- Postgres
- Serverless
- Developer Tools
- Branching
- AI Agent
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/xata/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2026-06-12'
modified: '2026-06-12'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- aid: xata:xata-api-keys-api
  name: Xata API Keys API
  description: Operations for managing API keys, including creation, listing, and deletion
  humanURL: https://xata.io/docs/overview
  baseURL: https://api.xata.tech
  tags:
  - APIKeys
  tags_raw:
  - API Keys
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/xata-api-keys-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://xata.io/docs/overview
- aid: xata:xata-billing-api
  name: Xata Billing API
  description: Internal organization billing operations
  humanURL: https://xata.io/docs/overview
  baseURL: https://api.xata.tech
  tags:
  - Billing
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/xata-billing-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://xata.io/docs/overview
- aid: xata:xata-branches-api
  name: Xata Branches API
  description: Operations for managing database branches within projects, including creation, configuration, and deletion
  humanURL: https://xata.io/docs/overview
  baseURL: https://api.xata.tech
  tags:
  - Branches
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/xata-branches-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://xata.io/docs/overview
- aid: xata:xata-gateway-api
  name: Xata Gateway API
  description: PostgreSQL connectivity via HTTP SQL, WebSocket wire protocol proxy, and native wire protocol.
  humanURL: https://xata.io/docs/overview
  baseURL: https://api.xata.tech
  tags:
  - Gateways
  tags_raw:
  - Gateway
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/xata-gateway-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://xata.io/docs/overview
- aid: xata:xata-github-app-api
  name: Xata GitHub App API
  description: Operations for managing GitHub App installation mappings
  humanURL: https://xata.io/docs/overview
  baseURL: https://api.xata.tech
  tags:
  - GitHub App
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/xata-github-app-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://xata.io/docs/overview
- aid: xata:xata-logs-api
  name: Xata Logs API
  description: Operations for retrieving log entries for a branch
  humanURL: https://xata.io/docs/overview
  baseURL: https://api.xata.tech
  tags:
  - Logs
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/xata-logs-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://xata.io/docs/overview
- aid: xata:xata-marketplace-api
  name: Xata Marketplace API
  description: Operations for linking user accounts to cloud marketplace subscriptions
  humanURL: https://xata.io/docs/overview
  baseURL: https://api.xata.tech
  tags:
  - Marketplace
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/xata-marketplace-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://xata.io/docs/overview
- aid: xata:xata-metrics-api
  name: Xata Metrics API
  description: Operations for retrieving observability metrics for a branch
  humanURL: https://xata.io/docs/overview
  baseURL: https://api.xata.tech
  tags:
  - Metrics
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/xata-metrics-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://xata.io/docs/overview
- aid: xata:xata-organizations-api
  name: Xata Organizations API
  description: Operations for creating, retrieving, updating, and deleting organizations
  humanURL: https://xata.io/docs/overview
  baseURL: https://api.xata.tech
  tags:
  - Organization
  tags_raw:
  - Organizations
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/xata-organizations-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://xata.io/docs/overview
- aid: xata:xata-projects-api
  name: Xata Projects API
  description: Operations for creating, retrieving, updating, and deleting projects within an organization
  humanURL: https://xata.io/docs/overview
  baseURL: https://api.xata.tech
  tags:
  - Project
  tags_raw:
  - Projects
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/xata-projects-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://xata.io/docs/overview
- aid: xata:xata-projects-webhooks-api
  name: Xata Projects Webhooks API
  description: The Projects Webhooks API from Xata — 1 operation(s) for projects webhooks.
  humanURL: https://xata.io/docs/overview
  baseURL: https://api.xata.tech
  tags:
  - Projects Webhooks
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/xata-projects-webhooks-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://xata.io/docs/overview
- aid: xata:xata-webhooks-api
  name: Xata Webhooks API
  description: The Webhooks API from Xata — 2 operation(s) for webhooks.
  humanURL: https://xata.io/docs/overview
  baseURL: https://api.xata.tech
  tags:
  - Webhook
  tags_raw:
  - Webhooks
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/xata-webhooks-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://xata.io/docs/overview
common:
- type: PostmanWorkspace
  url: https://www.postman.com/kinlaneapi/xata/overview
- type: CapabilityMap
  url: capabilities/xata-capability-edges.yml
  name: Xata Business Capability Map
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/xata-agentic-access.yml
- type: TrustCenter
  url: security/xata-trust-center.yml
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/xata-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/xata-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/xata-authentication.yml
- type: OAuthScopes
  url: scopes/xata-scopes.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://xata.io/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://xata.io/docs/overview
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/xataio
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/xataio
- type: X
  url: https://twitter.com/xata
- type: Blog
  url: https://xata.io/blog
- type: Pricing
  url: https://xata.io/pricing
- type: StatusPage
  url: https://www.xatastatus.com/
- type: OpenAPI
  url: https://api.xata.tech/openapi.json
- type: Plans
  url: plans/xata-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/xata-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/xata-finops.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com

Xata API — frequently asked questions

Does Xata have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 12 APIs from Xata, including Xata API Keys API, Xata Billing API and Xata Branches API, and 9 more.

Is there an OpenAPI specification for the Xata API?

Yes. APIs.io indexes 12 OpenAPI specifications for Xata, each linked for download from this page.

How do I authenticate with the Xata API?

Xata documents its authentication (apiKey/oauth2/openIdConnect · 4 schemes). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Xata Authentication.

How much does the Xata API cost?

APIs.io lists 4 pricing plans for Xata, with each plan's price, limits and inclusions under Pricing on this page.

Is the Xata API ready for AI agents?

Xata has a Kin Score of 38.6 out of 100 (thin) and an Agent Readiness score of 35.6 (agent-ready), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.

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