# Zipline

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/zipline/  
**Website:** https://www.zipline.com  
**APIs profiled:** 0

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.

## Kin Score — 9.0 / 100 (minimal)

Scored 2026-08-21 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 9.0).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 50.0 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 0.0 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 0.0 |
| Commercial Clarity | 21.1 |
| Access Clarity | 21.1 |

Regulatory layer — **Health**: 17.5 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 0.0 (human-only)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| 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 |

## Access

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

## Security (1)

- **Zipline Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

## 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

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/zipline/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.