Firecracker
Firecracker is an open source virtual machine monitor (VMM) built by Amazon Web Services that uses KVM to create and manage lightweight microVMs. Designed for serverless computing and container workloads, it provides the security and isolation of traditional VMs with the speed and resource efficiency of containers. Firecracker exposes a RESTful management API over a Unix Domain Socket, specified in OpenAPI (Swagger 2.0).
Limited machine-readable signal and partial portal coverage — documentation a human can read, but little a machine or agent can consume without scraping.
API Evangelist profiles Firecracker the way a machine reads it — 43 machine-readable artifacts across 1 API, 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 — Firecracker scores 37.5/100 (thin), with a separate agent-readiness read of 23/100 (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.
Kin Score
How this is scored →scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0
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How we profile Firecracker
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Firecracker. 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 19
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.
Firecracker Actions API
The Actions API from Firecracker — 1 operation(s) for actions.
Firecracker Balloon API
The Balloon API from Firecracker — 5 operation(s) for balloon.
Firecracker Boot Source API
The Boot Source API from Firecracker — 1 operation(s) for boot source.
Firecracker Cpu Config API
The Cpu Config API from Firecracker — 1 operation(s) for cpu config.
Firecracker Drives API
The Drives API from Firecracker — 1 operation(s) for drives.
Firecracker Entropy API
The Entropy API from Firecracker — 1 operation(s) for entropy.
Firecracker Firecracker API API
The Firecracker API API from Firecracker — 1 operation(s) for firecracker api.
Firecracker Hotplug API
The Hotplug API from Firecracker — 1 operation(s) for hotplug.
Firecracker Logger API
The Logger API from Firecracker — 1 operation(s) for logger.
Firecracker Machine Config API
The Machine Config API from Firecracker — 1 operation(s) for machine config.
Firecracker Metrics API
The Metrics API from Firecracker — 1 operation(s) for metrics.
Firecracker Mmds API
The Mmds API from Firecracker — 2 operation(s) for mmds.
Firecracker Network Interfaces API
The Network Interfaces API from Firecracker — 1 operation(s) for network interfaces.
Firecracker Pmem API
The Pmem API from Firecracker — 1 operation(s) for pmem.
Firecracker Serial API
The Serial API from Firecracker — 1 operation(s) for serial.
Firecracker Snapshot API
The Snapshot API from Firecracker — 2 operation(s) for snapshot.
Firecracker Version API
The Version API from Firecracker — 1 operation(s) for version.
Firecracker Vm API
The Vm API from Firecracker — 2 operation(s) for vm.
Firecracker Vsock API
The Vsock API from Firecracker — 1 operation(s) for vsock.
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Open Collections 20
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 COLLECTIONFirecracker Actions API
OPEN COLLECTIONFirecracker Actions Balloon API
OPEN COLLECTIONFirecracker Actions Boot Source API
OPEN COLLECTIONFirecracker Actions Cpu Config API
OPEN COLLECTIONFirecracker Actions Drives API
OPEN COLLECTIONFirecracker Actions Entropy API
OPEN COLLECTIONFirecracker Actions Firecracker API API
OPEN COLLECTIONFirecracker Actions Hotplug API
OPEN COLLECTIONFirecracker Actions Logger API
OPEN COLLECTIONFirecracker Actions Machine Config API
OPEN COLLECTIONFirecracker Actions Metrics API
OPEN COLLECTIONFirecracker Actions Mmds API
OPEN COLLECTIONFirecracker Actions Network Interfaces API
OPEN COLLECTIONFirecracker Actions Pmem API
OPEN COLLECTIONFirecracker Actions Serial API
OPEN COLLECTIONFirecracker Actions Snapshot API
OPEN COLLECTIONFirecracker Actions Version API
OPEN COLLECTIONFirecracker Actions Vm API
OPEN COLLECTIONFirecracker Actions Vsock 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 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.
Firecracker 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.
Firecracker Finops
FINOPSAgentic 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 Firecracker — 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 1
Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call
Documentation 2
Reference material describing how the API behaves
Agent Surfaces 1
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Build 3
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
Access & Security 1
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Operate 5
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Commercial 1
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 2
The organization behind the API
Other 1
Properties that don't map to a standard resource type
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