Paperspace
Paperspace is a GPU cloud platform for AI, ML, and 3D rendering workloads, acquired by DigitalOcean in 2023. The platform combines on-demand GPU/CPU machines (Core), the Gradient ML workflow stack (Notebooks, Datasets, Models, Workflows), and container-as-a-service Deployments under a single team-scoped REST API at api.paperspace.com/v1. Compute is billed per second across H100, A100, A6000, V100, A5000, A4000, and P6000 SKUs, with Bearer-token authentication using team-scoped API keys.
Solid contracts, transparent operations, and an easy start — typically complete on four or five facets with one clear soft spot.
API Evangelist profiles Paperspace the way a machine reads it — 64 machine-readable artifacts across 25 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 — Paperspace scores 64.2/100 (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.
How we profile Paperspace
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Paperspace. 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 25
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.
Paperspace Machines API
Programmatically manage Paperspace virtual machines — GPU and CPU compute instances. Covers the machine lifecycle (create, start, stop, restart, delete), machine events, team-me...
Paperspace Deployments API
Container-as-a-service deployments that run user-provided images on Paperspace GPU machines with a managed endpoint, autoscaling, rolling updates, runs, metrics, logs, and revis...
Paperspace Projects API
Projects are the top-level organizing container in Paperspace. The Projects API covers project lifecycle, activity feeds, collaborator management, project-scoped secrets, tags, ...
Paperspace Datasets API
Versioned data collections used by Paperspace Gradient notebooks, workflows, and deployments. The Datasets API exposes the dataset lifecycle plus a versioned data revision sub-r...
Paperspace Container Registries API
Manage container registry credentials used by Paperspace Deployments to pull private images, including a test-connection endpoint that verifies the configured credentials.
Paperspace Models API
Register and manage trained ML models in the Paperspace Gradient model registry. Models can be associated with projects and consumed by Deployments.
Paperspace Activity API
The Activity API from Paperspace — 1 operation(s) for activity.
Paperspace Authentication API
The Authentication API from Paperspace — 1 operation(s) for authentication.
Paperspace Collaborators API
The Collaborators API from Paperspace — 2 operation(s) for collaborators.
Paperspace Custom Templates API
The Custom Templates API from Paperspace — 2 operation(s) for custom templates.
Paperspace Dataset Versions API
The Dataset Versions API from Paperspace — 2 operation(s) for dataset versions.
Paperspace Machine Access API
Team-member access grants on individual machines.
Paperspace Machine Events API
Machine-event history stream.
Paperspace Machine Types API
Region/availability lookups for machine types.
Paperspace OS Templates API
The OS Templates API from Paperspace — 1 operation(s) for os templates.
Paperspace Private Networks API
The Private Networks API from Paperspace — 2 operation(s) for private networks.
Paperspace Public IPs API
The Public IPs API from Paperspace — 2 operation(s) for public ips.
Paperspace Secrets API
The Secrets API from Paperspace — 2 operation(s) for secrets.
Paperspace Shared Drives API
The Shared Drives API from Paperspace — 2 operation(s) for shared drives.
Paperspace Snapshots API
The Snapshots API from Paperspace — 3 operation(s) for snapshots.
Paperspace Startup Scripts API
The Startup Scripts API from Paperspace — 4 operation(s) for startup scripts.
Paperspace Storage Providers API
The Storage Providers API from Paperspace — 3 operation(s) for storage providers.
Paperspace Tags API
The Tags API from Paperspace — 1 operation(s) for tags.
Paperspace Team Members API
The Team Members API from Paperspace — 2 operation(s) for team members.
Paperspace Team Secrets API
The Team Secrets API from Paperspace — 2 operation(s) for team secrets.
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Open Collections 10
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).
Paperspace Container Registries API
OPEN COLLECTIONPaperspace Datasets API
OPEN COLLECTIONPaperspace Deployments API
OPEN COLLECTIONPaperspace Machines API
OPEN COLLECTIONPaperspace Models API
OPEN COLLECTIONPaperspace Networking API
OPEN COLLECTIONPaperspace Projects API
OPEN COLLECTIONPaperspace Storage API
OPEN COLLECTIONPaperspace Team and Authentication API
OPEN COLLECTIONPaperspace Templates and Startup Scripts 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 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.
Paperspace 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.
Paperspace Finops
FINOPSFeatures 14
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.
Paperspace 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.
Paperspace API Rules
SPECTRALPaperspace 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.
Paperspace Deployment
JSON SCHEMAPaperspace Machine
JSON SCHEMAJSON 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.
Paperspace Machine Structure
JSON STRUCTUREExamples 2
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 Paperspace — 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 3
Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call
Documentation 5
Reference material describing how the API behaves
Agent Surfaces 1
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Design & Contract 2
Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events
Build 16
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
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Access & Security 3
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Learn 1
Tutorials, courses, talks, and written guidance
Operate 4
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Commercial 5
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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