Elva
API management platform for discovering, governing, testing, and exposing APIs to developers and AI agents.
Product Overview
What is Elva?
Elva is an API management platform built for modern software teams and agent-based workflows. It scans code repositories to discover APIs without requiring an existing OpenAPI specification, generates structured API documentation, evaluates endpoint quality, and identifies security or compatibility issues. Teams can define audience-specific API contracts, monitor changes across commits, and generate hosted MCP servers with authentication, authorization, and request logging for AI agents.
Key Features
Automatic API Discovery
Scans code repositories to identify endpoints, generate OpenAPI 3.1 specifications, and build a centralized API catalog without requiring pre-existing documentation.
API Quality Scoring
Evaluates endpoints across design, security, developer experience, performance, and agent readiness while highlighting issues that need attention.
Audience-Based Contracts
Defines which endpoints and fields are available to internal teams, partners, public developers, or AI agents, with policy checks for every code change.
MCP Server Hosting
Converts API contracts into hosted MCP servers with scoped access, per-tool authorization, authentication, and detailed call logs.
Agent Testing and Feedback
Provides an MCP Playground for testing real agent interactions and captures feedback about unclear tools, excessive parameters, failures, and timeouts.
Enterprise Deployment
Supports hosted SaaS, private cloud, and on-premises deployment with SSO, SCIM, audit trails, and compatibility with SAML and OIDC identity providers.
Use Cases
- API Governance : Engineering teams can maintain a reliable inventory of APIs, owners, contracts, documentation, and consumer access policies.
- MCP Enablement : Organizations can safely make existing APIs available to Claude, Cursor, ChatGPT, and other MCP-compatible agents.
- Partner Integrations : API teams can publish controlled partner interfaces with approval workflows, strict versioning, and protection against breaking changes.
- API Modernization : Teams can improve undocumented or inconsistent APIs by generating schemas, descriptions, authentication details, and actionable quality reports.
- Developer Platform Operations : Platform teams can monitor API usage, agent activity, latency, failures, token consumption, and key-level access from one system.
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