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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9.0/100 minimal ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only Front door AI 1/6 silent saas Full breakdown ↓
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Drones Autonomous Aircraft Drone Delivery Unmanned Aerial SystemsAutonomous LogisticsLast Mile Delivery Quick Commerce Healthcare LogisticsMedical DeliveryBlood DeliveryVaccine DeliveryRetail DeliveryRestaurant DeliveryAviation BVLOSDetect And AvoidVTOL Robotics Hardware

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scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0

Composite quality — 9.0/100 · minimal

Contract Quality 0.0 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 0.0 / 17

Access Clarity 3.6 / 17

Operational Transparency 0.0 / 11

Contract Governance 0.0 / 10

Discoverability 4.2 / 9

Regulatory Posture 1.6 / 15

Agent readiness — 0/100 · human only

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 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 0 / 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

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

Machine-Readable Contract +18 pts — api_specs includes an OpenAPI document
MCP Server +12 pts — deployment.mode + probe verdict on the mcp/ manifest, not the pointer; an unprobed slug falls back to authorship
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Machine-Readable Auth +10 pts — a served openid-configuration/oauth-authorization-server carrying `issuer` (served), else the securitySchemes class in the provider OpenAPIs — bound (mutualTLS, DPoP, Signature) > negotiable (oauth2 authorizationCode/clientCredentials, openIdConnect) > bearer (http bearer, apiKey)
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)
Stable Error Semantics +8 pts — OpenAPI $refs a shared error schema across 4xx/5xx responses (verified), else common[].type includes ErrorCatalog / ErrorCodes / DeclineCodes

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

Contract Quality scores 0.0 — up to +25.0 composite points
Developer Ergonomics scores 0.0 — up to +20.0 composite points
Access Clarity scores 21.1 — up to +15.8 composite points

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Markets this provider is in provisional

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Market	Position	Depth	Registered MCP server	Declares compatibility
Drones and Airspace (UAS, UTM, air traffic)	standard	17.2 (thin)	-	-

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.

Security Posture 1

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

Zipline Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Resources

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Learn 1

Tutorials, courses, talks, and written guidance

YouTube

YouTube

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Privacy

Privacy

TermsOfService

TermsOfService

Company 7

The organization behind the API

Website

Newsroom

Careers

Twitter

LinkedIn

Instagram

Instagram

Facebook

Facebook

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Other 3

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Safety

Safety

Impact

Impact

TikTok

TikTok

Source (apis.yml)

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
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: false
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source:
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-06'
  method: derived
position: Producing
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: '0.23'
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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