Zoho Creator

Zoho Creator is a low-code application development platform with a REST API for managing forms, records, reports, workflows, and custom application data. The API enables developers to perform CRUD operations on application data, upload and download files, retrieve metadata about forms and reports, execute custom server-side functions, and build custom API endpoints. It uses OAuth 2.0 for authentication and supports Data APIs, Publish APIs, File APIs, Meta APIs, Bulk Read APIs, and Custom APIs with an OpenAPI 3.0 specification available for download.

Zoho Creator publishes 6 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network, including Bulk Insert APIs API, Bulk Read APIs API, Data APIs API, and 3 more. Tagged areas include Low-Code, Application Development, No-Code, Forms, and Records.

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

Zoho Creator’s developer surface includes authentication, documentation, engineering blog, pricing, and 12 more developer resources.

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32.9/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 27/100 agent aware saas Full breakdown ↓
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AccessFreemiumSelf serve⚡ Free to try

1 published contract

Low-Code Application Development No-Code Forms Records Workflows Database CRUD Business Applications

Kin Score

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scored 2026-11-13 · rubric v0.28.0

Composite quality — 32.9/100 · thin

Contract Quality 10.6 / 19

Developer Ergonomics 1.8 / 15

Access Clarity 2.2 / 15

Operational Transparency 2.8 / 10

Contract Governance 0.9 / 9

Discoverability 5.0 / 8

Regulatory Posture 4.9 / 15

Create-or-Update Ergonomics 0.0 / 10

Agent readiness — 27/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 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

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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 Ask about this →
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Developer Ergonomics scores 11.9 — up to +17.6 composite points Ask about this →
Access Clarity scores 14.9 — up to +17.0 composite points Ask about this →
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Standards implemented 2

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)

APIs 6

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

Zoho Creator Bulk Insert APIs API

APIs to insert a large set of data into a form

Zoho Creator Bulk Read APIs API

APIs to fetch a large set of data in a report

Zoho Creator Data APIs API

APIs to add, update, delete or get records in a form/report

Zoho Creator File APIs API

APIs to upload or download files in a report

Zoho Creator Meta APIs API

Get list of applications, forms, reports and fields

Zoho Creator Publish APIs API

APIs to add or get records in a published form/report

Open Collections 6

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

Zoho Creator API v2 conforming OpenAPI Specification Bulk Insert APIs API

OPEN COLLECTION

Zoho Creator API v2 conforming OpenAPI Specification Bulk Insert APIs Bulk Read APIs API

OPEN COLLECTION

Zoho Creator API v2 conforming OpenAPI Specification Bulk Insert APIs Data APIs API

OPEN COLLECTION

Zoho Creator API v2 conforming OpenAPI Specification Bulk Insert APIs File APIs API

OPEN COLLECTION

Zoho Creator API v2 conforming OpenAPI Specification Bulk Insert APIs Meta APIs API

OPEN COLLECTION

Zoho Creator API v2 conforming OpenAPI Specification Bulk Insert APIs Publish APIs API

OPEN COLLECTION

Zoho Creator API pricing

Not yet checked against Zoho Creator's own pricing page. Compiled by API Evangelist; confirm before you rely on a figure. A free plan or tier is listed.

Plan	Price
Free Edition	Free
Standard	$8
Professional	$20
Enterprise	$25
Flex	—
Zoho One	—

Plan details, limits and sources →

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Zoho Creator Plans Pricing

6 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Zoho Creator Rate Limits

0 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

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

Zoho Creator Finops

FINOPS

Semantic Vocabularies 1

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

Zoho Creator Context

0 classes · 25 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 1

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs. Counts are the severity each rule declares, not results of running them.

Zoho Creator — jsonschema rules

5 rules · 3 warn-severity 2 info-severity

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 3

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

Zoho Creator API Response

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Zoho Creator Bulk Job

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Zoho Creator Record

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Examples 6

Example request and response payloads for these APIs.

Add Record Request

1 fields

EXAMPLE

Add Record Response

3 fields

EXAMPLE

Bulk Insert Request

2 fields

EXAMPLE

Bulk Job Status Response

3 fields

EXAMPLE

Get Form Fields Response

3 fields

EXAMPLE

Get Records Response

3 fields

EXAMPLE

Security Posture 3

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

Zoho Creator Authentication

oauth2 · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Zoho Creator Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Zoho Creator Vulnerability Disclosure

security.txt · contact published

SECURITY

Scopes 1

OAuth scopes governing access to this provider's APIs.

Zoho Creator Scopes

10 scopes · authorizationCode

10 scopes

SCOPES

Agentic Access (API Evangelist recommendations) 1

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

Zoho Creator Agentic Access

27 operations · 10 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

AgenticAccess

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrg

GitHubOrg

Access & Security 4

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

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 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Source (apis.yml)

aid: zoho-creator
name: Zoho Creator
description: Zoho Creator is a low-code application development platform with a REST API for managing forms, records, reports,
  workflows, and custom application data. The API enables developers to perform CRUD operations on application data, upload
  and download files, retrieve metadata about forms and reports, execute custom server-side functions, and build custom API
  endpoints. It uses OAuth 2.0 for authentication and supports Data APIs, Publish APIs, File APIs, Meta APIs, Bulk Read APIs,
  and Custom APIs with an OpenAPI 3.0 specification available for download.
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: '2026-11-13'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/zoho-creator.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/zoho-creator/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2026-06-13'
modified: '2026-06-13'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
tags:
- Low-Code
- Application Development
- No-Code
- Forms
- Records
- Workflows
- Database
- CRUD
- Business Applications
apis:
- aid: zoho-creator:zoho-creator-bulk-insert-apis-api
  name: Zoho Creator Bulk Insert APIs API
  description: APIs to insert a large set of data into a form
  humanURL: https://www.zoho.com/creator/help/api/v2.1/
  baseURL: https://creator.zoho.com/api/v2.1/
  tags:
  - Bulk Insert APIs
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/zoho-creator-bulk-insert-apis-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.zoho.com/creator/help/api/v2.1/
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://www.zoho.com/creator/help/api/v2.1/oauth.html
- aid: zoho-creator:zoho-creator-bulk-read-apis-api
  name: Zoho Creator Bulk Read APIs API
  description: APIs to fetch a large set of data in a report
  humanURL: https://www.zoho.com/creator/help/api/v2.1/
  baseURL: https://creator.zoho.com/api/v2.1/
  tags:
  - Bulk Read APIs
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/zoho-creator-bulk-read-apis-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.zoho.com/creator/help/api/v2.1/
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://www.zoho.com/creator/help/api/v2.1/oauth.html
- aid: zoho-creator:zoho-creator-data-apis-api
  name: Zoho Creator Data APIs API
  description: APIs to add, update, delete or get records in a form/report
  humanURL: https://www.zoho.com/creator/help/api/v2.1/
  baseURL: https://creator.zoho.com/api/v2.1/
  tags:
  - Data API
  tags_raw:
  - Data APIs
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/zoho-creator-data-apis-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.zoho.com/creator/help/api/v2.1/
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://www.zoho.com/creator/help/api/v2.1/oauth.html
- aid: zoho-creator:zoho-creator-file-apis-api
  name: Zoho Creator File APIs API
  description: APIs to upload or download files in a report
  humanURL: https://www.zoho.com/creator/help/api/v2.1/
  baseURL: https://creator.zoho.com/api/v2.1/
  tags:
  - File APIs
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/zoho-creator-file-apis-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.zoho.com/creator/help/api/v2.1/
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://www.zoho.com/creator/help/api/v2.1/oauth.html
- aid: zoho-creator:zoho-creator-meta-apis-api
  name: Zoho Creator Meta APIs API
  description: Get list of applications, forms, reports and fields
  humanURL: https://www.zoho.com/creator/help/api/v2.1/
  baseURL: https://creator.zoho.com/api/v2.1/
  tags:
  - Meta APIs
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/zoho-creator-meta-apis-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.zoho.com/creator/help/api/v2.1/
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://www.zoho.com/creator/help/api/v2.1/oauth.html
- aid: zoho-creator:zoho-creator-publish-apis-api
  name: Zoho Creator Publish APIs API
  description: APIs to add or get records in a published form/report
  humanURL: https://www.zoho.com/creator/help/api/v2.1/
  baseURL: https://creator.zoho.com/api/v2.1/
  tags:
  - Publish APIs
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/zoho-creator-publish-apis-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.zoho.com/creator/help/api/v2.1/
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://www.zoho.com/creator/help/api/v2.1/oauth.html
common:
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/zoho-creator-agentic-access.yml
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/zoho-creator-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/zoho-creator-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/zoho-creator-authentication.yml
- type: OAuthScopes
  url: scopes/zoho-creator-scopes.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.zoho.com/creator/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://www.zoho.com/creator/help/
- type: GitHubOrg
  url: https://github.com/zoho
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/zohocreator/
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.zoho.com/blog/creator
- type: Pricing
  url: https://www.zoho.com/creator/pricing.html
- type: StatusPage
  url: https://zohostatus.com/
- type: X
  url: https://twitter.com/ZohoCreator
- type: Plans
  url: plans/zoho-creator-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/zoho-creator-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/zoho-creator-finops.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
x-parent: zoho
x-relationship: product

Zoho Creator API — frequently asked questions

Does Zoho Creator have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 6 APIs from Zoho Creator, including Zoho Creator Bulk Insert APIs API, Zoho Creator Bulk Read APIs API and Zoho Creator Data APIs API, and 3 more.

Is there an OpenAPI specification for the Zoho Creator API?

Yes. APIs.io indexes 6 OpenAPI specifications for Zoho Creator, each linked for download from this page.

How do I authenticate with the Zoho Creator API?

Zoho Creator documents its authentication (oauth2 · 1 scheme). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Zoho Creator Authentication.

How much does the Zoho Creator API cost?

APIs.io lists 6 pricing plans for Zoho Creator, with each plan's price, limits and inclusions under Pricing on this page.

Is the Zoho Creator API ready for AI agents?

Zoho Creator has a Kin Score of 32.9 out of 100 (thin) and an Agent Readiness score of 27.1 (agent-aware), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-13.

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