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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 APIs on the APIs.io network, including API Keys API, Billing API, Branches API, and 9 more. Tagged areas include Database, Postgres, 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 14 more developer resources.

52.6/100 developing ▬ flat Agent 41/100 agent ready Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6
AccessFreemiumSelf serve⚡ Free to try
12 APIs
DatabasePostgresServerlessDeveloper ToolsBranchingAI Agent

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scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6
Composite quality — 52.6/100 · developing
Contract Quality 15.5 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 4.3 / 20
Commercial Clarity 11.6 / 20
Operational Transparency 6.8 / 13
Governance 7.0 / 12
Discoverability 7.4 / 10
Agent readiness — 41/100 · agent ready
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10
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
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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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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

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 API 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

7 properties

JSON SCHEMA

BranchCredentials

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

BranchMetadata

14 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ErrorResponse

17 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Organization

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Project

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

QueryResult

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

SQLRequest

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

User

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

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Examples 6

Example request and response payloads for these APIs.

Xata Sql Query Example

1 fields

EXAMPLE

Xata Sql Response Example

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

disclosure policy published

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

64 operations · 35 acting

64 operations · 35 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Access & Security 5

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Company 3

The organization behind the API

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑
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
accessModel:
  pricing: freemium
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: true
  public: false
  label: Freemium · Self-serve signup
  confidence: high
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/xata.png
tags:
- 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: '0.19'
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:
  - 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:
  - 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:
  - 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:
  - 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:
  - Webhooks
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/xata-webhooks-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://xata.io/docs/overview
common:
- 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