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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.

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 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.

Kin Score Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
Composite quality — 64.2/100 · strong
Contract Quality 15.9 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 12.6 / 20
Commercial Clarity 15.8 / 20
Operational Transparency 2.7 / 13
Governance 10.4 / 12
Discoverability 6.8 / 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 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).

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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

0 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.

Features 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.

GPU and CPU virtual machines (Machines API) — H100, A100-80G, A6000, A5000, A4000, V100, P6000 SKUs
Container-as-a-service Deployments with autoscaling, managed endpoint, rolling updates, runs, metrics, logs, and revision history
Gradient ML platform — Notebooks (Jupyter), versioned Datasets, and a model registry
Projects as the organizing container with collaborators, secrets, tags, activity feeds, and model linkage
Private networks (VPCs) and claim/assign/release lifecycle for public IPv4 addresses
Shared drives attached to a private network and per-machine snapshots with point-in-time restore
External storage providers (S3, GCS, Azure Blob) plus a team-level storage utilization breakdown
OS and custom machine templates plus startup scripts with assign/unassign-to-machine semantics
Container registry credentials with a test-connection endpoint, consumed by Deployments
Team-scoped API keys (Bearer auth) and a session lookup endpoint that returns user, team, and preferences
Team-member roster management plus team-scoped secrets shared across projects in a team
Per-second compute billing with up to 70% advertised savings vs. major cloud providers
Terraform provider, GitHub Action for deployments, Paperspace CLI, and a Gradient Python CLI
DigitalOcean acquisition — Paperspace billing is consolidated into the DigitalOcean account billing surface

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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

22 classes · 2 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral 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

5 rules · 3 warnings

SPECTRAL

Paperspace API Rules

5 rules · 2 errors · 3 warnings

SPECTRAL

JSON 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

11 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Paperspace Machine

18 properties

JSON SCHEMA

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.

Paperspace Machine Structure

0 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Examples 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.

Paperspace Authentication

http · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Paperspace Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC

SECURITY

Paperspace Trust Center

SOC 2, ISO 27001, PCI DSS

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.

Paperspace Agentic Access

113 operations · 62 acting · 2 human-in-the-loop

113 operations · 62 acting

AGENTIC

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

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Design & Contract 2

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

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

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

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