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Platform9

Platform9 is an enterprise private cloud company whose flagship Private Cloud Director is a full-featured VMware alternative for running virtual machines and containers on your own hardware. Built on a hardened OpenStack and Kubernetes foundation, it delivers high availability, live migration, dynamic resource rebalancing, and multi-tenancy, and exposes an OpenStack-compatible REST API (Keystone identity, Nova compute, Cinder block storage, Neutron networking, Glance images, and a Kubernetes service) together with the unified pcdctl CLI so teams can automate compute, storage, networking, and cluster operations programmatically at scale. Platform9 also offers Managed OpenStack, Managed Kubernetes, a free Community Edition, and the vJailbreak VMware migration tool.

human only

Limited machine-readable signal and partial portal coverage — documentation a human can read, but little a machine or agent can consume without scraping.

Kin Score

API Evangelist profiles Platform9 the way a machine reads it — 3 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 — Platform9 scores 35.2/100 (thin), with a separate agent-readiness read of 10/100 (human only). 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 — 35.2/100 · thin
Contract Quality 0.0 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 11.7 / 20
Commercial Clarity 8.4 / 20
Operational Transparency 5.8 / 13
Governance 0.0 / 12
Discoverability 9.3 / 10
Agent readiness — 10/100 · human only
Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 0 / 15
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

How we profile Platform9

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Platform9. 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 1

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.

Platform9 Private Cloud Director API

OpenStack-compatible REST API for Platform9 Private Cloud Director, covering Keystone identity/authentication, Nova compute, Cinder block storage, Neutron networking, Glance ima...

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.

Platform9 Authentication

token/http · 5 schemes

SECURITY

Platform9 Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Resources

Every other property we hold for Platform9 — 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 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Design & Contract 3

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Build 3

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Access & Security 3

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Company 2

The organization behind the API

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