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International Business Machines

IBM (International Business Machines) provides a comprehensive suite of cloud APIs spanning artificial intelligence, infrastructure, and data management. Key offerings include watsonx.ai for foundation model inference, watsonx Assistant for conversational AI, Natural Language Understanding and Speech services for text and audio processing, Cloud Object Storage for scalable data persistence, VPC infrastructure for virtual networking, and Kubernetes Service for container orchestration.

agent ready

Real signal across most facets with visible, nameable gaps — the contract exists but is thin, or the portal is good while governance and commercial terms are absent.

Kin Score

API Evangelist profiles International Business Machines the way a machine reads it — 50 machine-readable artifacts across 22 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 — International Business Machines scores 48.1/100 (developing), with a separate agent-readiness read of 48/100 (agent ready). 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 Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
Composite quality — 48.1/100 · developing
Contract Quality 15.5 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 7.0 / 20
Commercial Clarity 7.9 / 20
Operational Transparency 3.4 / 13
Governance 8.8 / 12
Discoverability 5.5 / 10
Agent readiness — 48/100 · agent ready
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 15 / 15
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

How we profile International Business Machines

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for International Business Machines. 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 22

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.

International Business Machines Custom Language Models API

Create and manage custom language models.

International Business Machines Environments API

Manage assistant environments.

International Business Machines Instances API

Manage virtual server instances.

International Business Machines Messages API

Send messages to an assistant.

International Business Machines Objects API

Manage objects within buckets.

International Business Machines Recognition API

Recognize and transcribe audio.

International Business Machines Sessions API

Manage conversation sessions.

International Business Machines Text Generation API

Generate text using foundation models.

International Business Machines Volumes API

Manage block storage volumes.

International Business Machines VPCs API

Manage Virtual Private Clouds.

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Open Collections 8

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).

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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.

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 3

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.

International Business Machines (IBM): hundreds of services across Cloud + AI + Enterprise Software
Detailed pricing: see https://www.ibm.com/cloud/pricing
Service: See IBM Cloud catalog at cloud.ibm.com/catalog

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.

International Business Machines Context

32 classes · 0 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 1

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.

International Business Machines API Rules

5 rules · 4 warnings

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 8

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.

Assistant Message

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Cloud Object Storage Bucket

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Kubernetes Cluster

11 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Foundation Model

7 properties

JSON SCHEMA

NLU Analysis

8 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Speech Recognition Result

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Text Generation Request

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Virtual Private Cloud

8 properties

JSON SCHEMA

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Security Posture 3

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.

International Business Machines Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

International Business Machines Vulnerability Disclosure

Hackerone · security.txt · contact published

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.

International Business Machines Agentic Access

42 operations · 20 acting

42 operations · 20 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Every other property we hold for International Business Machines — 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 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Company 2

The organization behind the API

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