Cumulocity
Cumulocity is an enterprise AIoT (Artificial Intelligence of Things) platform that connects, manages, and analyzes industrial assets from cloud to edge. Founded inside Software AG and divested via a 2025 management buyout into an independent company (sale announced alongside the IBM acquisition of Software AG's StreamSets and webMethods), Cumulocity provides a full-stack platform — REST and MQTT APIs, device management, digital twin modeling, streaming analytics powered by Apama, DataHub data-lake offload, Cockpit dashboards, and on-prem Edge deployments — validated at 100 million devices and 1 million messages/second across industrial equipment, medical devices, manufacturing, utilities, energy, transport, retail, and telecommunications.
Solid contracts, transparent operations, and an easy start — typically complete on four or five facets with one clear soft spot.
API Evangelist profiles Cumulocity the way a machine reads it — 111 machine-readable artifacts across 39 APIs, pulled from the provider's own public surface and indexed so a developer, an analyst, or an AI agent can evaluate it against every other provider on the network.
Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — Cumulocity scores 68.5/100 (strong), with a separate agent-readiness read of 61/100 (agent native). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.
Kin Score
This is the API Evangelist rating — a single, repeatable read computed from the artifacts on this page. Green fill is points earned; the red track is points possible, so every bar shows earned-versus-possible at a glance.
Kin Score
How this is scored →scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
How we profile Cumulocity
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Cumulocity. For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.
APIs 39
Each API is captured as its own OpenAPI definition — every operation, parameter, and response. This is the single most useful machine-readable description of what an API does, and it's what lets us score, lint, mock, and generate against it without asking the provider for anything.
Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.
Cumulocity MQTT and SmartREST API
Constrained-device MQTT broker fronting the Cumulocity REST API with a CSV-based SmartREST 2.0 payload format that saves up to 80% of mobile traffic versus JSON. Supports static...
Cumulocity MQTT Service API
Standards-compliant, multi-tenant MQTT broker for application-level messaging that does not need Cumulocity's domain model. Topics are tenant-scoped, persistent, and bridgeable ...
Cumulocity Alarms API
The Alarms API from Cumulocity — 2 operation(s) for alarms.
Cumulocity Application Binaries API
The Application Binaries API from Cumulocity — 1 operation(s) for application binaries.
Cumulocity Applications API
The Applications API from Cumulocity — 2 operation(s) for applications.
Cumulocity Asset Instances API
The Asset Instances API from Cumulocity — 2 operation(s) for asset instances.
Cumulocity Asset Models API
The Asset Models API from Cumulocity — 2 operation(s) for asset models.
Cumulocity Audit Records API
The Audit Records API from Cumulocity — 2 operation(s) for audit records.
Cumulocity Bayeux Handshake API
The Bayeux Handshake API from Cumulocity — 1 operation(s) for bayeux handshake.
Cumulocity Binaries API
Binary attachments associated with managed objects.
Cumulocity Bootstrap Users API
The Bootstrap Users API from Cumulocity — 1 operation(s) for bootstrap users.
Cumulocity Bulk Operations API
The Bulk Operations API from Cumulocity — 2 operation(s) for bulk operations.
Cumulocity Child References API
Hierarchical relationships between managed objects.
Cumulocity Cloud Sync API
The Cloud Sync API from Cumulocity — 1 operation(s) for cloud sync.
Cumulocity Current User API
The Current User API from Cumulocity — 1 operation(s) for current user.
Cumulocity Device Credentials API
The Device Credentials API from Cumulocity — 1 operation(s) for device credentials.
Cumulocity Event Binaries API
The Event Binaries API from Cumulocity — 1 operation(s) for event binaries.
Cumulocity Events API
The Events API from Cumulocity — 2 operation(s) for events.
Cumulocity External IDs API
The External IDs API from Cumulocity — 2 operation(s) for external ids.
Cumulocity Groups API
The Groups API from Cumulocity — 2 operation(s) for groups.
Cumulocity Managed Objects API
Inventory documents representing devices, assets, groups, and digital twins.
Cumulocity Measurements API
The Measurements API from Cumulocity — 2 operation(s) for measurements.
Cumulocity New Device Requests API
The New Device Requests API from Cumulocity — 2 operation(s) for new device requests.
Cumulocity Offload Configurations API
The Offload Configurations API from Cumulocity — 2 operation(s) for offload configurations.
Cumulocity Offload Jobs API
The Offload Jobs API from Cumulocity — 1 operation(s) for offload jobs.
Cumulocity Operations API
The Operations API from Cumulocity — 2 operation(s) for operations.
Cumulocity Queries API
The Queries API from Cumulocity — 1 operation(s) for queries.
Cumulocity Retention Rules API
The Retention Rules API from Cumulocity — 2 operation(s) for retention rules.
Cumulocity Roles API
The Roles API from Cumulocity — 1 operation(s) for roles.
Cumulocity Series API
The Series API from Cumulocity — 1 operation(s) for series.
Cumulocity Software Updates API
The Software Updates API from Cumulocity — 1 operation(s) for software updates.
Cumulocity Subscriptions API
The Subscriptions API from Cumulocity — 2 operation(s) for subscriptions.
Cumulocity Supported Measurements API
Discover the measurement types reported against a managed object.
Cumulocity System API
The System API from Cumulocity — 2 operation(s) for system.
Cumulocity Tenant Options API
The Tenant Options API from Cumulocity — 2 operation(s) for tenant options.
Cumulocity Tenant Statistics API
The Tenant Statistics API from Cumulocity — 1 operation(s) for tenant statistics.
Cumulocity Tenants API
The Tenants API from Cumulocity — 2 operation(s) for tenants.
Cumulocity Tokens API
The Tokens API from Cumulocity — 2 operation(s) for tokens.
Cumulocity Users API
The Users API from Cumulocity — 2 operation(s) for users.
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Open Collections 17
Open, tool-agnostic collections carry the same runnable value as Postman without locking you to one client — the portable, forkable form of the same exercise.
Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).
Cumulocity Alarm API
OPEN COLLECTIONCumulocity Application API
OPEN COLLECTIONCumulocity Audit API
OPEN COLLECTIONCumulocity DataHub API
OPEN COLLECTIONCumulocity Device Bootstrap API
OPEN COLLECTIONCumulocity Device Control API
OPEN COLLECTIONCumulocity Digital Twin Manager API
OPEN COLLECTIONCumulocity Edge API
OPEN COLLECTIONCumulocity Event API
OPEN COLLECTIONCumulocity Identity API
OPEN COLLECTIONCumulocity Inventory API
OPEN COLLECTIONCumulocity Measurement API
OPEN COLLECTIONCumulocity Notification 2.0 API
OPEN COLLECTIONCumulocity Real-Time Notifications API
OPEN COLLECTIONCumulocity Retention Rules API
OPEN COLLECTIONCumulocity Tenant API
OPEN COLLECTIONCumulocity User API
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Pricing Plans 1
Pricing is part of the interface. Machine-readable plans tell you what a tier costs and includes before you commit — one of the six things the Kin Score reads for commercial clarity.
Published pricing tiers and plan structures.
Rate Limits 1
Rate limits are the difference between a demo that works and a production integration that doesn't fall over. Publishing them is an operational-transparency signal — and a hard requirement for any agent that plans its own throughput.
Documented rate limits and quota policies.
Cumulocity Rate Limits
RATE LIMITSFinOps 1
Cost, billing, and metering signals let a buyer model the financial operations of an API before it's live. We profile them for the same reason we profile pricing: the money is part of the contract.
Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.
Cumulocity Finops
FINOPSFeatures 30
The notable capabilities this provider advertises, captured as structured features so they can be searched and compared instead of read one landing page at a time.
Notable capabilities this provider offers.
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Event Specifications 3
Not every API is request/response. AsyncAPI describes the event-driven and streaming side — the webhooks and channels — so the asynchronous half of the interface is documented the same way the synchronous half is.
AsyncAPI definitions for this provider's event-driven and streaming APIs.
Cumulocity MQTT and SmartREST API
Constrained-device MQTT broker fronting the Cumulocity REST API with a CSV-based SmartREST 2.0 payload format that saves up to 80% of mobile traffic versus JSON. Supports static...
ASYNCAPICumulocity MQTT Service
Standards-compliant, multi-tenant MQTT broker for application-level messaging that does not need Cumulocity's domain model. Topics are tenant-scoped, persistent, and bridgeable ...
ASYNCAPICumulocity Notification 2.0 WebSocket
WebSocket consumer endpoint for Notification 2.0. After creating a Subscription and exchanging it for a short-lived JWT token via POST /notification2/token, connect to this WebS...
ASYNCAPISemantic Vocabularies 1
JSON-LD contexts give the data shared meaning across APIs. We profile them because semantics are what let a machine reconcile 'customer' here with 'customer' somewhere else.
JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.
Cumulocity Context
JSON-LDSpectral Rules 3
Governance rulesets we run against this provider's specs — the automated checks behind parts of the score. Profiling them makes the quality bar explicit and re-runnable, not a matter of opinion.
JSON Schema 4
Standalone JSON Schema definitions describe the data models behind the API. We profile them so the shapes are validatable on their own — useful long after a single request is forgotten.
Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.
Cumulocity Alarm
JSON SCHEMACumulocity Event
JSON SCHEMACumulocity Managed Object
JSON SCHEMACumulocity Measurement
JSON SCHEMAJSON Structure 2
JSON Structure captures the data shapes in a form built for tooling — a complement to JSON Schema that keeps the model machine-legible.
JSON Structure definitions describing this provider's data shapes.
Cumulocity Alarm Structure
JSON STRUCTURECumulocity Managed Object Structure
JSON STRUCTUREExamples 6
Real request and response payloads are what turn a spec from abstract into obvious — and they're one of the twelve things an agent needs to call an API correctly on the first try.
Example request and response payloads for these APIs.
Security Posture 2
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.
Agentic Access 1
An x-agentic-access contract marks which operations are safe for an agent to run on its own and which need a human in the loop. It is the difference between an API an agent can use and one it can use safely.
Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.
Resources
Every other property we hold for Cumulocity — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.
Get Started 3
Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call
Documentation 22
Reference material describing how the API behaves
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Agent Surfaces 1
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Build 21
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
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Access & Security 5
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Learn 1
Tutorials, courses, talks, and written guidance
Operate 5
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Commercial 5
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 3
The organization behind the API
Other 2
Properties that don't map to a standard resource type
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