Socotra API
Socotra publishes a full REST API at docs.socotra.com covering policy, billing, documents, and webhooks, with token auth, evaluation sandboxes, SDKs, and an open GitHub org. Hard rate limits and SLA targets are not public; commercial customers get them through account channels.
Frequently asked questions
Socotra scores D on the API Report Card. Socotra publishes a full REST API at docs.socotra.com covering policy, billing, documents, and webhooks, with token auth, evaluation sandboxes, SDKs, and an open GitHub org. Hard rate limits and SLA targets are not public; commercial customers get them through account channels.
Without a usable official API, teams fall back on manual exports, file drops, or one-off vendor integrations. The other option is an unofficial API layer like Supergood that automates the authenticated web app directly.
Socotra is a cloud-native, API-first insurance core platform that delivers policy administration, billing, product configuration, document orchestration, customer/agent/internal portals, and reporting/analytics for property & casualty (P&C), specialty, life & health, and embedded insurance carriers and MGAs.
Vertical: Financial Services, specifically Insurance core systems (Policy Administration and Billing). Authoring insurance products in the Configuration SDK (Java/Gradle), versioned in Git, deployed via CI/CD to Socotra environments.
High inside the cloud-native insurance core segment but smaller in absolute footprint than Guidewire, Duck Creek, Majesco, or Sapiens.
Policy data: policy locator, effective/expiration dates, named insureds, additional insureds, coverages, limits, deductibles, endorsements, premium, term, lines of business, product version, geography, distribution channel.
Socotra was founded in 2014 and is one of the youngest, most genuinely cloud-native cores in the insurance category, it was architected from a blank sheet on modern cloud, REST, and microservices principles rather than carrying forward J2EE/Gosu/Mastek-era heritage.
Grades measure one thing: can a customer's engineering team get their own data out programmatically? We check six things (whether a real API exists, how access is gated, data coverage, auth quality, docs and developer experience, and stability) and roll them into a letter grade. Grades get re-verified, and they only move on evidence.
Yes. Supergood maintains an unofficial Socotra API and MCP server so AI agents and internal tools can read and write Socotra data. See the Socotra integration docs at supergood.ai/docs/socotra-api.