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Nutanix

Nutanix is a hyper-converged infrastructure solution that integrates compute, virtualization, storage, networking, and security to power enterprise applications. Nutanix provides public APIs for managing and automating infrastructure including Prism Central, Prism Element, Karbon Kubernetes, Nutanix Database Service (NDB), Cloud Clusters (NC2), NCM Self-Service, and the GA v4 API platform.

agent ready

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 Nutanix the way a machine reads it — 49 machine-readable artifacts across 21 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 — Nutanix scores 67.8/100 (strong), with a separate agent-readiness read of 55/100 (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 — 67.8/100 · strong
Contract Quality 14.9 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 11.7 / 20
Commercial Clarity 14.7 / 20
Operational Transparency 8.9 / 13
Governance 8.8 / 12
Discoverability 8.8 / 10
Agent readiness — 55/100 · 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 7 / 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 Nutanix

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Nutanix. 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 21

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.

Nutanix Prism Central API V4

The next-generation v4 API for managing the Nutanix Cloud Platform through Prism Central with GA SDKs for Python, Java, Go, and JavaScript. The v4 API is now the recommended ver...

Nutanix Karbon API

API for managing Kubernetes clusters through Nutanix Karbon, including cluster lifecycle, upgrades, and configuration.

Nutanix Database Service API

REST API for Nutanix Database Service (NDB) providing database-as-a-service capabilities for PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQL Server, Oracle, and MongoDB.

Nutanix Cloud Clusters API

REST API for Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2), enabling creation and management of Nutanix clusters on AWS and Azure public clouds.

Nutanix NCM Self-Service API

API for Nutanix Cloud Manager Self-Service (formerly Calm), enabling automation of application deployment and lifecycle management through blueprints and runbooks.

Nutanix Foundation API

API for Foundation and Foundation Central, enabling automated cluster deployment and remote node imaging.

Nutanix Alerts API

Retrieve and manage cluster alerts for monitoring health and operational events.

Nutanix Categories API

Manage categories and category values used for tagging and organizing resources across the Nutanix environment.

Nutanix Clusters API

Retrieve and manage Nutanix cluster configurations and metadata across the Prism Central deployment.

Nutanix Hosts API

Retrieve information about physical hosts in the Nutanix cluster infrastructure.

Nutanix Images API

Manage disk images distributed across clusters for VM provisioning, including ISO and disk image uploads.

Nutanix Network Security Rules API

Manage Flow microsegmentation policies that control network traffic between VMs based on categories.

Nutanix Projects API

Manage projects that define resource quotas, user access, and infrastructure boundaries for self-service consumption.

Nutanix Protection Domains API

Manage protection domains that define groups of VMs and volume groups for data protection and disaster recovery.

Nutanix Snapshots API

Manage VM snapshots for point-in-time recovery of virtual machines.

Nutanix Storage Containers API

Manage storage containers that provide logical storage partitions within the Nutanix distributed storage fabric.

Nutanix Storage Pools API

Manage storage pools which represent groups of physical disks used for storing data across the cluster.

Nutanix Subnets API

Manage AHV network subnets including VLAN and overlay network configurations.

Nutanix Virtual Disks API

Manage virtual disks including disk statistics and configuration within the cluster.

Nutanix VMs API

Manage virtual machines including creation, update, deletion, and power state operations through the intent-based API model.

Nutanix Webhooks API

Manage webhook listeners that receive event notifications from the Nutanix platform.

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Open Collections 2

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).

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.

Nutanix Plans Pricing

5 plans

PLANS

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.

Nutanix Rate Limits

3 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.

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.

Nutanix API Rules

5 rules · 4 warnings

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 18

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.

Cluster

7 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ClusterIntentResponse

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ClusterListResponse

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

EntityMetadata

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Host

11 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ImageIntentInput

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ImageListResponse

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ListMetadata

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

PaginationMetadata

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Reference

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

StorageContainer

8 properties

JSON SCHEMA

StorageContainerInput

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

SubnetIntentInput

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

SubnetListResponse

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

VmIntentInput

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

VmIntentResponse

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

VmListResponse

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

VmSpec

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

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JSON Structure 1

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.

Nutanix Structure

0 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

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.

Nutanix Authentication

http · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Nutanix 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.

Nutanix Agentic Access

54 operations · 31 acting

54 operations · 31 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Every other property we hold for Nutanix — 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.

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Agent Surfaces 2

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Build 3

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Company 3

The organization behind the API

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