Pica8
Pica8 is a Palo Alto, California open-networking software company, first to market with a commercial SDN network operating system in 2012. It publishes PICOS, a Debian-Linux-based network operating system that runs on third-party white-box and brite-box switches (Edgecore, UfiSpace, FS and others), and AmpCon, a centralized controller that automates zero-touch provisioning, configuration templating, image upgrade, licensing and Ansible playbook execution across a fleet of PICOS switches. PICOS exposes standards-based programmatic interfaces on the device itself - RESTCONF over YANG-modelled datastores, NETCONF with get/get-config/get-schema/edit-config, gNMI-over-gRPC streaming telemetry, sFlow v5, OpenFlow 1.3/1.4 and OVSDB in CrossFlow mode - while AmpCon exposes a JWT-authenticated JSON REST API covering templates, global and per-switch configuration, backup and rollback, switch lifecycle (stage/import/DECOM/RMA/upgrade), grouping, licensing, settings and Ansible playbooks and jobs. Both are customer-deployed: there is no Pica8-hosted API endpoint, so every base URL is the operator's own controller or switch address.
Limited machine-readable signal and partial portal coverage — documentation a human can read, but little a machine or agent can consume without scraping.
API Evangelist profiles Pica8 the way a machine reads it — 17 machine-readable artifacts across 1 API, 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 — Pica8 scores 31.1/100 (thin), with a separate agent-readiness read of 28/100 (agent aware). 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. Every facet and dimension name is a link: it opens that measurement's page on APIs.io, where the rating runs across the whole catalog — the exact checks that feed it, how every profiled provider distributes on it, and who is at the top of it.
Kin Score
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How we profile Pica8
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Pica8. 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 12
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.
PICOS RESTCONF / NETCONF / gNMI Device API
Standards-based on-device programmability in the PICOS network operating system. RESTCONF (RFC 8040) exposes OPTIONS/HEAD/GET/POST/PATCH/PUT/DELETE over YANG-modelled configurat...
Pica8 Backup API
Configuration backup snapshots and rollback.
Pica8 Configuration API
Global and per-switch (site) configuration generation and comparison.
Pica8 Configuration File API
Configuration files used by the configuration-push function.
Pica8 Group API
Switch groups and their permitted action sets.
Pica8 Job API
Ansible playbook execution jobs.
Pica8 License API
Per-switch and per-group license audit and license application.
Pica8 Playbook API
Ansible playbook management.
Pica8 Settings API
Controller system settings, switch model catalog and user administration.
Pica8 Switch API
Switch inventory and lifecycle: stage, import, DECOM, RMA, logs.
Pica8 Template API
Jinja2 configuration templates and their declared variables.
Pica8 Token API
JWT token minting.
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MCP Servers 1
Model Context Protocol servers expose these APIs directly to AI agents. We profile them because agent-native access is the fastest-growing way this provider's capabilities actually get used.
Model Context Protocol servers that expose these APIs to AI agents.
Pica8 MCP Server
MCP SERVERPricing 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 things the Kin Score reads for access clarity — renamed from commercial clarity in rubric 0.12, because a free statutory interface has access terms and no commercial ones.
Published pricing tiers and plan structures.
Pica8 Plans Pricing
PLANSRate 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.
Pica8 Rate Limits
RATE LIMITSSecurity 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.
Resources
Every other property we hold for Pica8 — 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 2
Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call
Documentation 3
Reference material describing how the API behaves
Agent Surfaces 3
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Design & Contract 5
Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events
Build 3
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
Access & Security 2
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Operate 4
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Commercial 3
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 3
The organization behind the API
Other 3
Properties that don't map to a standard resource type
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