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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.

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Solid contracts, transparent operations, and an easy start — typically complete on four or five facets with one clear soft spot.

Kin Score

API Evangelist profiles Cumulocity the way a machine reads it — 186 machine-readable artifacts across 17 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 64.4/100 (strong), with a separate agent-readiness read of 22/100 (agent aware). 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. Every facet and dimension name is a link: it opens that measurement's page on APIs.io, where the rating runs across the whole catalog — the exact checks that feed it, how every profiled provider distributes on it, and who is at the top of it.

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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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Postman Collections 37

A runnable collection turns the contract into something a developer can execute in seconds. We profile them because the fastest way to trust an API is to make a real call against it.

Ready-to-run Postman collections for exercising this provider's APIs.

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Open Collections 55

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).

API Collection

OPEN COLLECTION

Cumulocity Alarm API

OPEN COLLECTION

Cumulocity Audit API

OPEN COLLECTION

Cumulocity DataHub API

OPEN COLLECTION

Cumulocity Edge API

OPEN COLLECTION

Cumulocity Event API

OPEN COLLECTION

Cumulocity Identity API

OPEN COLLECTION

Cumulocity Inventory API

OPEN COLLECTION

Cumulocity Tenant API

OPEN COLLECTION

Cumulocity User API

OPEN COLLECTION

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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 things the Kin Score reads for access clarity — renamed from commercial clarity in rubric 0.12, because a free statutory interface has access terms and no commercial ones.

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

0 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 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.

Features 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.

Core REST API covering inventory, identity, measurements, events, alarms, device control, device bootstrap, tenants, users, applications, audit, retention, and real-time
Notification 2.0 — high-throughput, ordered, persistent WebSocket streaming with JWT-token auth and per-subscriber buffering
Bayeux/CometD legacy real-time channel for measurements/events/alarms/operations/inventory subscriptions
MQTT 3.1.1/5.0 broker with SmartREST 2.0 CSV payload format saving up to 80% mobile traffic vs JSON; 16 KiB max payload
MQTT Service — multi-tenant standards-compliant broker for application-level messaging independent of the Cumulocity domain model
Zero-touch device onboarding via bootstrap user + Identity API external-ID lookup
Microservice SDK with Java/Spring archetype and managed container hosting; bootstrap-user auth model
Web SDK with Angular plugins, hosted application uploads, and per-tenant subdomain serving
DataHub — offload operational data to a Parquet/Dremio data lake; query via SQL/JDBC/ODBC/Arrow Flight to Power BI and Tableau
Digital Twin Manager (DTM) — asset modeling, hierarchies, computed smart functions, custom properties
Streaming Analytics powered by Apama EPL and the Analytics Builder low-code block editor
Cockpit dashboards with per-tenant customization, plugins, and the UI Toolkit monorepo
Edge — single-node on-prem deployment, including air-gapped option, with selective cloud sync
Multi-tenancy with management tenant, enterprise tenants, and sub-tenants for OEMs/MSPs
LoRa framework with built-in connectors for TTN, ChirpStack, Kerlink Wanesy, Loriot, Actility, Objenious, Live Objects, Orbiwan
Dynamic Mapper — zero-code bridge between arbitrary message brokers (Kafka, generic MQTT) and the Cumulocity domain model
Cloud Remote Access — SSH/VNC/Telnet to devices through the Cumulocity cloud
Audit API for immutable compliance trail across user actions, operations, and managed-object changes
Retention rules for per-data-type lifecycle (measurements / events / alarms / audit / operations)
SSO via SAML and OIDC; SCIM provisioning for enterprise tenants; per-managed-object inventory roles
{"Client SDKs" => "Java, Python, .NET (C#), JavaScript/TypeScript (@c8y/client), Go (community go-c8y)"}
go-c8y-cli — community-built feature-complete CLI with SSO (auth-code / device flow), session management, piping, and remote-access support
Python and TypeScript MCP server implementations for Claude / agentic access to Cumulocity tenants
Cypress test toolkit for end-to-end UI testing of Cumulocity-based applications
Sub-tenant management tooling for enterprise/management hierarchies
thin-edge.io upstream open-source agent for constrained edge devices
Validated at 100M devices and 1M messages/second; A+ SSL Labs rating
{"Five hosted regions" => "eu-latest, us, emea, apj, cumulocity.com (RoW); Edge for on-prem"}
Three cloud plans (Starter EUR 215/mo, Business, Enterprise) plus Edge Connected and Edge Air-Gapped
30-day full-feature free trial with up to 10 devices

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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...

ASYNCAPI

Cumulocity 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 ...

ASYNCAPI

Cumulocity 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...

ASYNCAPI

Semantic 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

16 classes · 22 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral 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.

Cumulocity API Rules

6 rules · 6 warnings

SPECTRAL

Cumulocity API Rules

5 rules · 3 warnings

SPECTRAL

Cumulocity API Rules

12 rules · 4 errors · 4 warnings

SPECTRAL

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

12 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Cumulocity Event

8 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Cumulocity Managed Object

22 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Cumulocity Measurement

7 properties

JSON SCHEMA

JSON 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

12 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Cumulocity Managed Object Structure

13 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Examples 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.

Cumulocity Authentication

http · 2 schemes

SECURITY

Cumulocity Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

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.

Cumulocity Agentic Access

128 operations · 72 acting · 10 human-in-the-loop

128 operations · 72 acting

AGENTIC

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

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Learn 1

Tutorials, courses, talks, and written guidance

Other 3

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

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Where this information came from

This is an independent, third-party profile of Cumulocity, published by API Evangelist. We do not operate, host, resell, or support these APIs, and we are not affiliated with or endorsed by the company unless stated above. Everything here is built from publicly available information — the company's own site, developer portal, documentation, public repositories, and the specifications it publishes for public use. Nothing is obtained by breaching a system, defeating an access control, or using credentials.

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