aid: kardinal
name: Kardinal
description: >-
  Kardinal is a Paris-based logistics optimization company whose Always-on Route
  Optimization (ARO) API solves vehicle routing problems for last-mile delivery,
  post and parcel, waste and bulk transport, fresh delivery, field services and
  retail operators. Integrators submit a plan — resources (vehicles), orders
  (stops) and constraints such as capacities, time windows, driver skills and
  breaks — with a single idempotent PUT, and the engine optimizes it continuously
  rather than in a nightly batch, so new orders, cancellations, traffic and field
  updates are absorbed into the running solution instead of forcing a rerun. The
  REST API is documented with a published OpenAPI 3.0.3 definition covering 40
  operations across authentication, plans, resources, orders and solutions, and is
  reachable per customer environment at https://<env>.kardinal.ai/api/v2 using
  short-lived JWT bearer tokens.
image: https://kardinal.ai/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/cropped-Icon-blue-270x270.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/kardinal/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: serena-portfolio
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-08-17'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 27
  pass: local-v1
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-08-17'
modified: '2026-08-17'
tags:
- Company
- Software-as-a-Service
- Route Optimization
- Vehicle Routing
- Last Mile Delivery
- Logistics
- Supply Chain
- Transportation
- Fleet Management
- Optimization
tags_raw:
- Company
- SaaS
- Route Optimization
- Vehicle Routing
- Last Mile Delivery
- Logistics
- Supply Chain
- Transportation
- Fleet Management
- Optimization
apis:
- aid: kardinal:aro
  name: Kardinal ARO API
  description: >-
    The Kardinal Always-on Route Optimization (ARO) v2 REST API. Create and update
    optimization plans, manage the resources (vehicles) and orders (stops) inside
    them, drive the optimization lifecycle, and retrieve the computed solution with
    per-resource tours, waypoint arrival times, objectives and unaffected stops.
    Authentication is JWT bearer, with password login, MFA/OTP, Azure and Google SSO,
    and a refresh-token flow. Access is provisioned by invitation per customer
    environment; there is no self-serve sign-up.
  humanURL: https://developers.kardinal.ai/
  baseURL: https://app.kardinal.ai/api/v2
  tags:
  - Route Optimization
  - Vehicle Routing
  - Logistics
  - Optimization
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/kardinal-aro-openapi-original.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developers.kardinal.ai/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://developers.kardinal.ai/api-reference/authenticate/request-a-password-token
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://developers.kardinal.ai/getting-started/first-api-call
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/kardinal-authentication.yml
  - type: ErrorCatalog
    url: errors/kardinal-error-codes.yml
  - type: DataModel
    url: data-model/kardinal-data-model.yml
  - type: ToolCrosswalk
    url: mcp/kardinal-tool-crosswalk.yml
  - type: Overlay
    url: overlays/kardinal-aro-overlay.yaml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://kardinal.ai/
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://developers.kardinal.ai/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://developers.kardinal.ai/
- type: APIReference
  url: https://developers.kardinal.ai/api-reference/authenticate/request-a-password-token
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://developers.kardinal.ai/getting-started/first-api-call
- type: Support
  url: https://kardinal.ai/contact/
- type: Blog
  url: https://kardinal.ai/blog/
- type: BlogRSS
  url: https://kardinal.ai/feed/
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/KardinalAI
- type: Pricing
  url: https://kardinal.ai/route-optimization-api/
- type: TermsOfService
  name: Terms of Service (Laskar mobile application)
  url: https://kardinal.ai/terms-of-service-laskar/
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://kardinal.ai/privacy-policy/
- type: LegalNotice
  url: https://kardinal.ai/legal-notice/
- type: FAQ
  url: https://kardinal.ai/fr/faq-route-optimization/
- type: MCPServer
  url: mcp/kardinal-mcp.yml
- type: ToolCrosswalk
  url: mcp/kardinal-tool-crosswalk.yml
- type: AgentCard
  url: a2a/kardinal-a2a.yml
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/_index.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/kardinal-llms.txt
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/kardinal-authentication.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/kardinal-conventions.yml
- type: Idempotency
  url: conventions/kardinal-conventions.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/kardinal-error-codes.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/kardinal-lifecycle.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/kardinal-conformance.yml
- type: DataModel
  url: data-model/kardinal-data-model.yml
- type: Sandbox
  url: sandbox/kardinal-sandbox.yml
- type: Plans
  url: plans/kardinal-plans-pricing.yml
- type: Overlay
  url: overlays/kardinal-aro-overlay.yaml
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/kardinal-agentic-access.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/kardinal-domain-security.yml