Helsing
Helsing SE is a Munich-based European defense AI company founded in March 2021 by Torsten Reil, Gundbert Scherf, and Niklas Köhler. Helsing builds AI software and autonomous weapons systems for European and allied militaries — reconnaissance-strike software (Altra), electronic-warfare AI (Cirra), an AI fighter pilot (Centaur), loitering-munition strike drones (HF-1 and HX-2), an autonomous combat aircraft (CA-1 Europa), and underwater autonomy (Lura acoustic processing, SG-1 Fathom long-endurance underwater drones). The company is sales-led and government-restricted; there is no public REST API or developer portal. This profile documents the publicly visible product surfaces and partnerships rather than endpoint shapes. Funding totals roughly €1.37B across four rounds, with a $1.2B Series E at an $18B valuation reportedly being finalized as of May 2026. Daniel Ek's Prima Materia is the largest shareholder. Public partnerships include Saab (Gripen E integration of Centaur, including the 2025 Project Beyond combat trial), Airbus, Rheinmetall, the Bundeswehr, and the Eurofighter Typhoon EK programme.
More than an index entry, but the surface is still mostly links rather than artifacts — the cohort most likely to move a full band from modest, well-targeted work.
API Evangelist profiles Helsing the way a machine reads it — 32 machine-readable artifacts across 8 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 — Helsing scores 20.3/100 (emerging), with a separate agent-readiness read of 7/100 (human only). 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 Helsing
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Helsing. 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 8
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.
Helsing Altra
Altra is Helsing's reconnaissance-strike software platform. It fuses multi-sensor and multi-drone data feeds to cover wider areas, identify targets, and coordinate strikes. Altr...
Helsing Centaur
Centaur is Helsing's AI fighter pilot. It can function as an autonomous combat agent on board fighter jets, operate independently or as part of a swarm, and integrate with allie...
Helsing Cirra
Cirra is Helsing's electronic-warfare AI for detecting, classifying, and responding to electromagnetic-spectrum threats. It powers Helsing's contribution to programmes such as t...
Helsing Lura
Lura is Helsing's underwater AI. It rapidly processes acoustic data to detect and classify ships and submarines while emitting significantly less noise than conventional sonar.
Helsing HF-1
HF-1 is an AI-enabled loitering-munition strike drone. It uses on-board AI and stored map data to navigate and target without relying on GPS. HF-1 has been used by the Ukrainian...
Helsing HX-2
HX-2 is Helsing's next-generation AI strike drone. Like HF-1 it operates without GPS and runs on-board target recognition. HX-2 is manufactured at Helsing's factory in southern ...
Helsing CA-1 Europa
CA-1 Europa is Helsing's autonomous combat aircraft. It flies Centaur as its AI pilot and is targeted for first flight in 2027.
Helsing SG-1 Fathom
SG-1 Fathom is Helsing's long-endurance underwater drone, capable of operating submerged for up to 90 days and running Lura's acoustic-processing AI on board.
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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.
Helsing 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.
Helsing Finops
FINOPSFeatures 9
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.
Altra Reconnaissance-Strike Software
Fuses multi-sensor and multi-drone data to identify targets and coordinate strikes across a wider area.
Centaur AI Fighter Pilot
Autonomous combat agent for fighter aircraft, demonstrated in 2025's Project Beyond against a human-piloted Gripen.
Cirra Electronic Warfare AI
AI for detecting, classifying, and responding to electromagnetic-spectrum threats; integrated into the Eurofighter Typhoon EK programme.
Lura Underwater AI
Quiet acoustic processing for detection and classification of ships and submarines.
HF-1 Loitering Munition
GPS-independent AI strike drone fielded in Ukraine.
HX-2 Loitering Munition
Next-generation GPS-independent AI strike drone manufactured in southern Germany.
CA-1 Europa Autonomous Combat Aircraft
Helsing's own UCAV platform flying Centaur, first flight targeted for 2027.
SG-1 Fathom Underwater Drone
Long-endurance underwater drone capable of 90-day submerged operations running Lura on board.
Sovereign European Defense AI
European-headquartered AI defense supplier serving Germany, France, the UK, Estonia, Ukraine, and allied militaries.
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Security Posture 1
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.
Use Cases 5
What developers actually build with this provider — captured so the catalogue answers 'what is this for', not just 'what does this expose'.
What developers build with this provider.
Sovereign European Air Combat AI
Provide Centaur AI fighter-pilot capability for European and allied air forces, including Saab Gripen and Eurofighter programmes.
Loitering Munition Strike
Deliver HF-1 and HX-2 GPS-independent strike drones to allied militaries and Ukraine.
Electronic Warfare
Provide Cirra EW AI inside platforms such as the Eurofighter Typhoon EK.
Underwater Surveillance and ASW
Run Lura acoustic processing on SG-1 Fathom and partner platforms for anti-submarine warfare.
Reconnaissance-Strike Coordination
Use Altra to fuse multi-drone and multi-sensor feeds for targeting and strike coordination.
Integrations 6
Pre-built integrations with other platforms tell you where this provider already fits in a stack.
Pre-built integrations with other platforms and tools.
Saab
Centaur integrated into the Saab Gripen E; 2025 Project Beyond combat trial.
Eurofighter Typhoon EK
Helsing's AI (including Cirra) integrated into the Eurofighter Typhoon EK electronic-warfare variant.
Airbus
Strategic partnership for European defense aerospace programmes.
Rheinmetall
Industrial partnership inside Germany's defense base.
Bundeswehr
Customer relationship with the German armed forces.
Government of Ukraine
Operational user of HF-1 strike drones in the defence against Russia's invasion.
Resources
Every other property we hold for Helsing — 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
Access & Security 1
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Operate 1
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Company 4
The organization behind the API
Other 1
Properties that don't map to a standard resource type
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