# Replicate — API Agent Score

> Score: 77/100 (Grade: B) | Domain: replicate.com | Rubric: 1.0.0 | Checked: July 24, 2026

Replicate scored 77/100 (B), classified "partially-ready".

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## Summary

- Overall: 77/100 (B)
- Classification: partially-ready

## Category Scores

- API Design: 95/100 (A+)
- Developer Experience: 55/100 (D)
- Agent Discovery: 86/100 (A)
- Agent Understanding: 74/100 (B)
- Agent Usability: 73/100 (B)

## Check Results

### API Design

- [pass] Machine-readable, versioned contract — Versioning declared (info.version="1.0.0-a1") and url-versioning detected. Investigated: spec 100%, docs 100%.
- [pass] Auth declared & discoverable — Authentication required (global or on every operation). Investigated: spec 100%, docs 100%.
- [warn] Schema coverage & depth — 30 of 158 public signatures use loose types (anyTypeRatio=0.190). Investigated: sdk 78%, spec 67%.
- [pass] Security & governance hygiene — No credential-shaped strings detected in spec. Investigated: spec 100%, wellknown 0%.
- [pass] Example coverage — README is present and includes a runnable quickstart. Investigated: sdk 100%, spec 0%, docs 0%.

### Developer Experience

- [pass] Description completeness — 99% of operations + parameters have substantive descriptions. Investigated: spec 100%, sdk 80%.
- [pass] Changelog published — changelog documented in the docs site at https://replicate.com/changelog. Investigated: spec 100%, docs 100%, sdk 50%.
- [warn] Quickstart present — Quickstart page reachable (1 variants scanned starting at https://replicate.com/docs) but no runnable code sample detected in HTML or .md variant. Investigated: docs 50%.
- [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 1 sampled docs pages. Investigated: docs 0%.

### Agent Discovery

- [pass] Docs reachable, not hard auth-gated — All 50 sampled pages are publicly accessible. Investigated: docs 100%.
- [pass] Registry & SDK presence — Indexed on Context7 (websites/replicate, 1234 snippets). Investigated: docs 100%, cli 100%, sdk 67%, mcp 0%, wellknown 0%.
- [warn] llms.txt present, valid & comprehensive — Only 44/50 same-origin sampled links resolve (88%); 6 broken. Investigated: docs 57%, sdk 0%.
- [warn] Crawlable / AEO — Sitemap lastmod coverage 50% or newest entry older than 90 days. Investigated: wellknown 75%.

### Agent Understanding

- [pass] Machine-readable errors (RFC 9457) — 4 distinct 4xx/5xx response codes documented. Investigated: docs 100%, sdk 100%, spec 50%.
- [pass] Operation purpose clarity — 100% of operations have a clear summary + operationId an agent can select on. Investigated: spec 100%.
- [warn] Agent-navigable, token-efficient docs — 8 of 45 pages have substantive content differences between markdown and HTML (avg 14% missing). Investigated: docs 60%.
- [warn] Description consistency across surfaces — Mean pairwise description similarity across 3 surfaces (spec, docs, sdk) is 11% (threshold 35% for full credit).
- [fail] Agent instructions file (AGENTS.md) — No AGENTS.md at the site root or /.well-known/. Investigated: wellknown 0%.
- [fail] Docs structured data — Neither JSON-LD nor OpenGraph/meta tags detected across 1 assessed pages (1 JS-rendered). Investigated: docs 0%.

### Agent Usability

- [pass] Idempotency documented — Built-in retry machinery is present (grep-derived). Investigated: sdk 100%, spec 0%, docs 0%.
- [warn] Pagination documented & consistent — 14/15 list method(s) return an auto-paginating iterable. Investigated: sdk 93%, spec 0%, docs 0%.
- [pass] Sandbox separation — Sandbox environments are exposed (sandbox). Investigated: sdk 100%, spec 0%, docs 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%.

## Executive Summary

Replicate's API design and discoverability are strong foundations for a partner program, but two areas need urgent attention: partners and their AI agents currently lack the structured context, machine-readable instructions, and runnable examples needed to integrate confidently — and the onboarding experience creates unnecessary friction with no self-service portal and sparse code samples. Prioritizing agent-readable documentation, a self-service portal with embedded code samples, and runnable collections with test coverage will directly compress the time partners spend evaluating and integrating, while making Replicate's APIs reliably actionable for the AI-powered workflows partners are increasingly building.