Octopus Energy
Octopus Energy is a UK-founded retail energy supplier and the parent of Kraken Technologies, the AI-powered energy operating system that runs both Octopus and many of the world's largest utilities. Octopus operates a free, open REST API at api.octopus.energy/v1/ that exposes the full UK product catalog, electricity and gas tariff pricing (including the half-hourly wholesale-linked Agile Octopus and Tracker tariffs), meter-point details, half-hourly smart-meter consumption, and industry grid supply points. The Kraken developer portal at developer.octopus.energy adds a second REST surface generated from an OpenAPI spec plus a GraphQL API at /v1/graphql/ with API Collections grouping partner-facing queries and mutations for accounts, ledgers, billing, smart meters, EV charging, heat pumps, batteries, and Intelligent Octopus dispatch. Through Kraken Technologies the same platform powers 90M+ customer accounts at EDF, E.ON, Origin Energy, Tokyo Gas, Plentitude, National Grid, Severn Trent, and other utilities in 30 countries — making Octopus one of the most consequential open and programmable surfaces in retail energy.
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.
API Evangelist profiles Octopus Energy the way a machine reads it — 44 machine-readable artifacts across 9 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 — Octopus Energy scores 58.9/100 (developing), 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.
How we profile Octopus Energy
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Octopus Energy. 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 9
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.
Octopus Energy Kraken REST API
The Octopus Energy developer portal exposes a Kraken-backed REST API alongside the public GraphQL surface. The REST API is generated from an OpenAPI specification published in t...
Octopus Energy Kraken GraphQL API
The Octopus Energy GraphQL API is the primary Kraken interface for partner and customer-facing integrations. A single /v1/graphql/ endpoint exposes queries and mutations grouped...
Octopus Energy Consumption API
Half-hourly smart-meter consumption readings.
Octopus Energy ElectricityMeterPoints API
Electricity meter points (MPAN) and registered meters.
Octopus Energy ElectricityTariffs API
Electricity tariff unit rates and standing charges.
Octopus Energy GasMeterPoints API
Gas meter points (MPRN) and registered meters.
Octopus Energy GasTariffs API
Gas tariff unit rates and standing charges.
Octopus Energy Industry API
UK industry references such as grid supply points.
Octopus Energy Products API
Octopus Energy product catalog and tariff lookups.
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Open Collections 1
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).
Octopus Energy Public API
OPEN COLLECTIONGraphQL 1
Where a provider ships GraphQL, the schema is the contract. We profile it alongside the REST surface so the whole interface is legible in one place.
GraphQL schemas published by this provider.
Octopus Energy GraphQL API
The Octopus Energy GraphQL API is the primary Kraken interface for partner and customer-facing integrations. A single /v1/graphql/ endpoint exposes queries and mutations grouped...
GRAPHQLPricing 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.
Octopus Energy 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.
Octopus Energy Finops
FINOPSFeatures 18
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.
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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.
Octopus Energy Context
JSON-LDSpectral Rules 2
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.
Octopus Energy API Rules
SPECTRALOctopus Energy API Rules
SPECTRALJSON Schema 2
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.
OctopusEnergyConsumptionReading
JSON SCHEMAOctopusEnergyProduct
JSON SCHEMAExamples 3
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 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.
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.
Resources
Every other property we hold for Octopus Energy — 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 5
Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call
Documentation 14
Reference material describing how the API behaves
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Agent Surfaces 1
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Build 8
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
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Access & Security 4
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Learn 1
Tutorials, courses, talks, and written guidance
Operate 4
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Commercial 3
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 8
The organization behind the API
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