# Elva

> Elva is an API management platform built for the agentic era. It reads your repos to build a complete API catalog, enforces per-audience contracts, generates tests, and turns your APIs into governed, hosted MCP servers that AI agents can call.

Elva is built by Theneo, an API documentation platform used by 20,000 companies.

## Product

- [API Catalog](https://getelva.ai/catalog.md): Automatic API discovery, organization, and scoring
- [API Contracts](https://getelva.ai/contracts.md): Define, enforce, and publish contracts with field-level control
- [MCP Management](https://getelva.ai/mcp.md): Generate, host, and govern MCP servers
- [API Testing](https://getelva.ai/testing.md): Generated tests and chaos suites

## Reference

- [Pricing](https://getelva.ai/pricing.md): Plans, limits, and what each tier includes
- [Enterprise](https://getelva.ai/enterprise.md): Unlimited scale, SSO/SCIM, on-prem, audit trail
- [Security](https://getelva.ai/security.md): Request path, data handling, and posture
- [Glossary](https://getelva.ai/glossary.md): Definitions: API contracts, drift, MCP servers and gateways, tool calls, AI readiness

## Compare

- [Elva vs Postman](https://getelva.ai/vs/postman.md): System of record vs request workspace
- [Elva vs Swagger](https://getelva.ai/vs/swagger.md): Generated specs vs hand-maintained ones
- [Elva vs Insomnia](https://getelva.ai/vs/insomnia.md): Governed catalog vs local client
- [Elva vs Apidog](https://getelva.ai/vs/apidog.md): Code-derived contracts vs design-first specs

## Optional

- [About](https://getelva.ai/about.md): The team and the thesis behind Elva
- [Blog](https://getelva.ai/blog.md): Engineering notes on APIs, contracts, and MCP