Zipline
Zipline is a South San Francisco–headquartered autonomous logistics company operating the world's largest commercial drone delivery network, with more than two million customer deliveries flown across the United States, Rwanda, Ghana, Nigeria, Kenya, Côte d'Ivoire, and Japan. Zipline designs, builds, and operates two end-to-end aircraft platforms: Platform 1 (P1, "Sparrow"), a long-range fixed-wing aircraft that launches from a catapult, parachutes payloads from altitude, and is used primarily for national-scale healthcare logistics — delivering blood products, vaccines, medicines, and lab samples to hospitals and clinics — and Platform 2 (P2), a short-range hybrid VTOL aircraft with an autonomous tethered "droid" delivery vehicle that lowers packages from a hovering aircraft directly to a designated point on the ground, enabling precision quick-commerce delivery from restaurants, retailers, pharmacies, and hospitals. Zipline's customer roster includes Walmart, OhioHealth, Michigan Medicine, Cleveland Clinic, Mayo Clinic Florida, MultiCare, Sweetgreen, GNC, Jet's Pizza, the governments of Rwanda, Ghana, Nigeria, and Kenya, and Japan's Toyota Tsusho, with the P2 platform actively scaling across the Dallas–Fort Worth Metroplex, Pea Ridge (AR), and expanding into Houston and Phoenix in 2026. The company also operates one of the largest civil autonomous aviation stacks in the world — proprietary detect-and-avoid, route planning, weather, fleet operations, and flight-control software — and in 2025 received the first-ever FAA Part 135 BVLOS (beyond-visual-line-of-sight) operational approval permitting drone package delivery without visual observers. Zipline is a privately held company; its revenue model is drone-as-a-service contracts with healthcare systems, retailers, restaurant brands, and governments. There is no public developer API, SDK, OpenAPI/AsyncAPI specification, GitHub organization, status page, changelog, or self-service developer portal — integrations with customer systems (order management, EHR, WMS, dispatch) are delivered as managed enterprise integrations rather than as a public programmable API.
Zipline is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Drones, Autonomous Aircraft, Drone Delivery, Unmanned Aerial Systems, and Autonomous Logistics.
Zipline’s developer surface includes privacy policy, YouTube channel, and 12 more developer resources.
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aid: zipline
name: Zipline
description: 'Zipline is a South San Francisco–headquartered autonomous logistics company operating the world''s largest commercial
drone delivery network, with more than two million customer deliveries flown across the United States, Rwanda, Ghana, Nigeria,
Kenya, Côte d''Ivoire, and Japan. Zipline designs, builds, and operates two end-to-end aircraft platforms: Platform 1 (P1,
"Sparrow"), a long-range fixed-wing aircraft that launches from a catapult, parachutes payloads from altitude, and is used
primarily for national-scale healthcare logistics — delivering blood products, vaccines, medicines, and lab samples to hospitals
and clinics — and Platform 2 (P2), a short-range hybrid VTOL aircraft with an autonomous tethered "droid" delivery vehicle
that lowers packages from a hovering aircraft directly to a designated point on the ground, enabling precision quick-commerce
delivery from restaurants, retailers, pharmacies, and hospitals. Zipline''s customer roster includes Walmart, OhioHealth,
Michigan Medicine, Cleveland Clinic, Mayo Clinic Florida, MultiCare, Sweetgreen, GNC, Jet''s Pizza, the governments of Rwanda,
Ghana, Nigeria, and Kenya, and Japan''s Toyota Tsusho, with the P2 platform actively scaling across the Dallas–Fort Worth
Metroplex, Pea Ridge (AR), and expanding into Houston and Phoenix in 2026. The company also operates one of the largest
civil autonomous aviation stacks in the world — proprietary detect-and-avoid, route planning, weather, fleet operations,
and flight-control software — and in 2025 received the first-ever FAA Part 135 BVLOS (beyond-visual-line-of-sight) operational
approval permitting drone package delivery without visual observers. Zipline is a privately held company; its revenue model
is drone-as-a-service contracts with healthcare systems, retailers, restaurant brands, and governments. There is no public
developer API, SDK, OpenAPI/AsyncAPI specification, GitHub organization, status page, changelog, or self-service developer
portal — integrations with customer systems (order management, EHR, WMS, dispatch) are delivered as managed enterprise integrations
rather than as a public programmable API.'
type: Index
accessModel:
pricing: unknown
onboarding: unknown
trial: false
try_now: false
public: false
label: Unknown
confidence: low
source: []
generated: '2026-07-22'
method: derived
position: Provider
access: 3rd-Party
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/zipline.png
tags:
- Drones
- Autonomous Aircraft
- Drone Delivery
- Unmanned Aerial Systems
- Autonomous Logistics
- Last Mile Delivery
- Quick Commerce
- Healthcare Logistics
- Medical Delivery
- Blood Delivery
- Vaccine Delivery
- Retail Delivery
- Restaurant Delivery
- Aviation
- BVLOS
- Detect And Avoid
- VTOL
- Robotics
- Hardware
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/zipline/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2026-05-25'
modified: '2026-05-25'
specificationVersion: '0.20'
apis: []
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
url: security/zipline-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
url: https://www.zipline.com
- type: Safety
url: https://www.zipline.com/safety
- type: Impact
url: https://www.zipline.com/impact
- type: Newsroom
url: https://www.zipline.com/newsroom
- type: Careers
url: https://www.zipline.com/careers
- type: Privacy
url: https://www.zipline.com/privacy
- type: TermsOfService
url: https://www.zipline.com/terms-of-service
- type: Twitter
url: https://twitter.com/flyzipline
- type: LinkedIn
url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/zipline
- type: YouTube
url: https://www.youtube.com/@flyzipline
- type: Instagram
url: https://www.instagram.com/flyzipline
- type: Facebook
url: https://www.facebook.com/flyzipline
- type: TikTok
url: https://www.tiktok.com/@flyzipline
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
email: kin@apievangelist.com
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