Abstract: Systems and methods for providing compliance indicators for API specifications are disclosed. In accordance with aspects, a method may include receiving, at a deployment pipeline, an application programming interface (API) specification; parsing, by a validation engine, the API specification to determine an API service or protocol for which the API adheres to; parsing, by the validation engine, the API specification to determine a data schema included in the API specification; performing, by the validation engine, a search of a domain dictionary using information in the data schema as a search parameter; determining, by the validation engine and based on the search, a data model included in the domain dictionary, wherein the data model and the data schema correspond; and determining, by the validation engine, a compliance score of the data schema, wherein the compliance score is based on a comparison the data schema with the data model.