Akeneo API
Akeneo publishes a full REST API (api.akeneo.com) with CRUD over products, families, attributes, categories, and assets, plus a GraphQL alternative. Auth is OAuth 2.0, scoped per PIM connection. Rate limits are documented: 100 req/sec per instance with small concurrency caps.
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Akeneo scores A on Supergood's API Report Card. Akeneo publishes a full REST API (api.akeneo.com) with CRUD over products, families, attributes, categories, and assets, plus a GraphQL alternative. Auth is OAuth 2.0, scoped per PIM connection. Rate limits are documented: 100 req/sec per instance with small concurrency caps.
Akeneo has a workable official integration path. Most engineering teams can build against it directly. Open API: self-serve, documented, with SDKs
Akeneo is the leading open-source-rooted Product Information Management (PIM) vendor, headquartered in Nantes, France and Boston, MA.
Primary vertical: misc (cross-industry commerce/PIM). Closest Supergood sub-vertical: Enterprise / HR / ERP, Akeneo functions as the product-data system of record that feeds ERP, ecommerce, marketplaces, and POS. A global apparel brand stands up Akeneo PIM as the single source of truth for product data: merchandisers import structured product attributes from suppliers via the SDM, enrich them with locale-specific copy, images, and videos in the PIM, apply rules and workflows for review, and then syndicate completed product records via the Activation module out to Shopify, Adobe Commerce, Amazon, Walmart, partner marketplaces, in-store POS, and printed catalogs.
High in its niche. Akeneo is consistently named alongside Salsify, inriver, Informatica P360, and Stibo Systems as the global leaders in PIM.
Akeneo is the system of record for product data feeding revenue-generating channels.
Founded in 2013, Akeneo grew from an open-source PIM (Symfony / PHP) into a multi-product cloud platform.
Supergood's grades measure one thing: can a customer's engineering team get their own data out programmatically? Supergood checks six things (whether a real API exists, how access is gated, data coverage, auth quality, docs and developer experience, and stability) and rolls them into a letter grade. Supergood re-verifies grades, and they only move on evidence.
Akeneo scores GOOD on MCP availability. Akeneo publishes an official MCP server documented in its API portal, with read access to most PIM concepts and create or update support for many of them. A getting started guide covers connecting clients such as Claude Desktop, Cursor, and VS Code.
Yes. Akeneo publishes an official MCP server, so MCP clients like Claude, Cursor, and Codex can connect to it directly. Setup instructions are in the vendor's documentation.