# Bland — API Agent Score

> Score: 71/100 (Grade: B) | Domain: bland.ai | Rubric: 1.0.0 | Checked: July 24, 2026

Bland scored 71/100 (B), classified "partially-ready".

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## Summary

- Overall: 71/100 (B)
- Classification: partially-ready

## Category Scores

- API Design: 91/100 (A+)
- Developer Experience: 54/100 (D)
- Agent Discovery: 96/100 (A+)
- Agent Understanding: 88/100 (A)
- Agent Usability: 43/100 (F)

## Check Results

### API Design

- [pass] Auth declared & discoverable — authentication documented in the docs site at https://docs.bland.ai/sdks/web-agent-sdk. Investigated: spec 100%, docs 100%.
- [warn] Schema coverage & depth — 1 of 9 public signatures use loose types (anyTypeRatio=0.111). Investigated: sdk 83%, spec 67%.
- [warn] Machine-readable, versioned contract — info.version="1.0.0" set but no versioning scheme (URL / header / media type) detected. Investigated: spec 75%, docs 50%.
- [pass] Security & governance hygiene — No credential-shaped strings detected in spec. Investigated: spec 100%, wellknown 100%.
- [pass] Example coverage — README is present and includes a runnable quickstart. Investigated: sdk 100%, spec 0%, docs 0%.

### Developer Experience

- [pass] Quickstart present — Quickstart at https://docs.bland.ai/quickstart with a runnable first-call sample. Investigated: docs 100%.
- [pass] Changelog published — changelog documented in the docs site at https://docs.bland.ai/changelog/07_21_2026. Investigated: spec 100%, docs 100%, sdk 0%.
- [fail] Self-service developer portal — No signup page detected across conventional paths (/signup, /sign-up, /register, /get-started, /console/signup, /dashboard/signup, /try, /try-free, /free, /free-trial, /start, /start-free). Investigated: docs 0%.
- [fail] Code samples in docs — No detectable code samples across 20 sampled docs pages. Investigated: docs 0%.
- [fail] Description completeness — 56% description completeness. Investigated: spec 0%, sdk 0%.

### Agent Discovery

- [pass] Docs reachable, not hard auth-gated — All 1 pages are publicly accessible. Investigated: docs 100%.
- [pass] Registry & SDK presence — Indexed on Context7 (websites/bland_ai, 1656 snippets). Investigated: docs 100%, sdk 92%, cli 0%.
- [warn] llms.txt present, valid & comprehensive — llms.txt contains parseable links but doesn't fully follow the proposed structure: https://docs.bland.ai/llms.txt: No blockquote summary found. Investigated: docs 83%, sdk 0%.
- [pass] Crawlable / AEO — Docs paths crawlable by all monitored AI agents. Investigated: wellknown 100%.

### Agent Understanding

- [pass] Machine-readable errors (RFC 9457) — Only 2 distinct 4xx/5xx codes documented (plus 0 "default" catch-all responses). Investigated: docs 100%, spec 50%.
- [pass] Operation purpose clarity — 97% of operations have a clear summary + operationId an agent can select on. Investigated: spec 100%.
- [pass] Agent-navigable, token-efficient docs — All 1 pages contain server-rendered content. Investigated: docs 100%.
- [pass] Docs structured data — JSON-LD Article markup on 20/20 assessed pages (100%) with dateModified present. Investigated: docs 100%.
- [warn] Description consistency across surfaces — Mean pairwise description similarity across 2 surfaces (docs, sdk) is 13% (threshold 35% for full credit).
- [fail] Agent instructions file (AGENTS.md) — No AGENTS.md at the site root or /.well-known/. Investigated: wellknown 0%.

### Agent Usability

- [warn] Sandbox separation — No test-mode flag or sandbox environment is exposed. Investigated: sdk 50%, spec 0%, docs 0%.
- [fail] Idempotency documented — 0% of mutating operations document idempotency. Investigated: spec 0%, docs 0%, sdk 0%.
- [fail] Rate-limit signaling — No rate-limit response headers documented. Investigated: spec 0%, docs 0%.
- [fail] Runnable collection with test scripts — No public Postman workspace discovered for the org. Investigated: platform 0%.
- [skip] Pagination documented & consistent — No surface produced evidence for this capability in this run.

## Executive Summary

Bland's API contract and discoverability are strong — partners and agents can find and parse the surface without friction. The critical gaps are in operational reliability and hands-on onboarding: agents hitting Bland's APIs today have no idempotency or rate-limit guidance to build resilient workflows, no runnable collection to validate against, and partners face a steep first-call experience with thin descriptions and no self-service portal. Fixing operational trust signals and runnable context first will unblock partner integrations fastest; pairing that with a polished self-service portal and richer inline docs will compress onboarding from weeks to minutes.