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Soracom

Soracom is a global IoT cellular connectivity and platform provider headquartered in Tokyo, founded in 2014, with regional operations in the US (Soracom Global) and EU. The platform pairs multicarrier SIMs (physical, eSIM, iSIM) across 170+ countries with a deep platform of cloud integration services (Beam, Funnel, Funk), data services (Harvest, Lagoon, Query, Orbit), device management (Inventory, Krypton, Endorse, Napter), and network gateways (VPG / Canal / Direct / Door / Gate / Junction / Peek). Soracom exposes the entire stack through a coverage-aware REST API documented at users.soracom.io and maintained as a public OpenAPI 3.0 specification in the soracom-cli GitHub repo.

agent ready

Reference-quality API operations across every facet — a rich contract, published governance, transparent operations, and machine-readable commercial terms.

Kin Score

API Evangelist profiles Soracom the way a machine reads it — 144 machine-readable artifacts across 45 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 — Soracom scores 72.7/100 (exemplar), 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 — 72.7/100 · exemplar
Contract Quality 17.0 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 14.3 / 20
Commercial Clarity 16.8 / 20
Operational Transparency 4.8 / 13
Governance 10.4 / 12
Discoverability 9.3 / 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 Soracom

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Soracom. 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 45

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.

Soracom SIM Management API

Manage Soracom Air for Cellular SIMs (and Subscribers) — list, get, create Arc virtual SIMs, activate/deactivate/suspend/terminate, set group binding, set IMEI lock, view sessio...

Soracom Group Configuration API

Manage Soracom groups and per-service configuration. Groups bind SIMs and devices to namespaced configuration for SoracomAir, SoracomBeam, SoracomFunnel, SoracomFunk, SoracomHar...

Soracom Billing API

Retrieve usage charges (monthly bills, daily bill items, per-SIM and per-bill-item summaries), export bills to CSV, manage payment methods, register coupons, manage orders, and ...

Soracom Stats and Diagnostics API

Retrieve cellular data usage statistics (per SIM/subscriber/group/account), API and Napter audit logs, operator error logs, and diagnostic features.

Soracom Auth and Access Management API

Authenticate operators (email/password or AuthKey), issue short-lived API Keys + Tokens, manage operator profile, SAM (Soracom Access Management) users and roles, MFA settings, ...

Soracom Lagoon API

Manage Soracom Lagoon (managed Grafana) subscription, plan tier, organization, dashboards, users, licenses, and data sources.

Soracom Cloud Camera Services API

Manage Soracom Cloud Camera Services (SoraCam) devices, livestream URLs, image exports, recording exports, motion events, atomic timestamps, and dedicated cellular pack provisio...

Soracom Batch API

Batch processing — create batch groups, define jobs that invoke API operations across many SIMs or devices, and inspect tasks for status and results.

Soracom Analysis API

[Soracom Query](/en/docs/query/)

Soracom API Sandbox: Coupon API

The API Sandbox: Coupon API from Soracom — 1 operation(s) for api sandbox: coupon.

Soracom API Sandbox: Operator API

The API Sandbox: Operator API from Soracom — 3 operation(s) for api sandbox: operator.

Soracom API Sandbox: Order API

The API Sandbox: Order API from Soracom — 1 operation(s) for api sandbox: order.

Soracom API Sandbox: Stats API

The API Sandbox: Stats API from Soracom — 2 operation(s) for api sandbox: stats.

Soracom API Sandbox: Subscriber API

The API Sandbox: Subscriber API from Soracom — 1 operation(s) for api sandbox: subscriber.

Soracom AuditLog API

[Audit logs](/en/docs/api-audit-logs/)

Soracom CellLocation API

[Cell tower location information](/en/docs/air/get-location-info/#get-cell-tower-location-information)

Soracom Credential API

[Credentials store](/en/docs/credentials-store/) Create, update, and delete credentials

Soracom DataEntry API

[Soracom Harvest Data](/en/docs/harvest/)

Soracom Device API

[Soracom Inventory devices](/en/docs/inventory/)

Soracom DeviceObjectModel API

[Soracom Inventory object model](/en/docs/inventory/define-custom-object/)

Soracom Diagnostic API

[Diagnostic features](/en/guides/diagnostic/)

Soracom Email API

[Email addresses](/en/docs/email/)

Soracom EventHandler API

[Event handlers](/en/docs/event-handler/)

Soracom FileEntry API

[Soracom Harvest Files](/en/docs/harvest/)

Soracom Files API

Download files exported by the following APIs: - [Billing](#/Billing) - [Payment: exportPaymentStatement](#/Payment/exportPaymentStatement) - [Stats](#/Stats) - [Subscriber:expo...

Soracom Gadget API

Gadget API compatible devices

  • [SoraCam dedicated cellular pack](/en/guides/soracom-cloud-camera-services/setting-cellular-pack/)

Soracom Log API

Error logs

Soracom LoraDevice API

[Soracom Air for LoRaWAN](/en/docs/air-for-lorawan/) devices

Soracom LoraGateway API

[Soracom Air for LoRaWAN](/en/docs/air-for-lorawan/) gateways

Soracom LoraNetworkSet API

[Soracom Air for LoRaWAN](/en/docs/air-for-lorawan/) network sets

Soracom Operator API

- Operator management - Update registration information - Password changes - [Multi-factor authentication](/en/docs/mfa/)

Soracom Order API

- [Coupon codes](/en/guides/accounting/payment/register-coupon/) - [Long term discounts](/en/docs/air/volume-discount/) - Order management - Product catalog

Soracom Payment API

- [Coupon codes](/en/guides/accounting/payment/register-coupon/) - [Usage charges (billing details)](/en/guides/accounting/check-usage/) - [Payment methods](/en/guides/accountin...

Soracom PortMapping API

[Soracom Napter](/en/docs/napter/)

Soracom Query API

Search SIMs, Soracom Inventory devices, and Sigfox devices

Soracom ResourceSummary API

The ResourceSummary API from Soracom — 1 operation(s) for resourcesummary.

Soracom Role API

[Access management (Soracom Access Management)](/en/docs/sam/)

Soracom ShippingAddress API

Shipping address operations for direct sales

Soracom SigfoxDevice API

[Soracom Air for Sigfox](/en/docs/air-for-sigfox/) devices

Soracom SimProfileOrder API

[eSIM profiles](/en/docs/air/provision-esim/)

Soracom Soralet API

[Soracom Orbit](/en/docs/orbit/) Soralet

Soracom Subscriber API

[Soracom Air for Cellular](/en/docs/air/) SIM information, operations, and cancellation

Soracom SystemNotification API

[Email addresses](/en/docs/email/)

Soracom User API

- [Access management (Soracom Access Management)](/en/docs/sam/) - Password changes - [Multi-factor authentication](/en/docs/mfa/) - [Switch user](/en/docs/switch-user/) trust p...

Soracom VirtualPrivateGateway API

- [Virtual Private Gateway (VPG)](/en/docs/vpg/) (Canal / Direct / Door / Gate) - [Soracom Junction](/en/docs/junction/) - [Soracom Peek](/en/docs/peek/)

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Postman Collections 18

A runnable collection turns the contract into something a developer can execute in seconds. We profile them because the fastest way to trust an API is to make a real call against it.

Ready-to-run Postman collections for exercising this provider's APIs.

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Open Collections 18

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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Arazzo Workflows 11

Real integrations are rarely a single call. Arazzo describes the multi-step sequences — auth, then create, then confirm — so both a human and an agent can follow the choreography, not just the endpoints.

Multi-step API workflows described with the Arazzo specification.

Soracom Audit SIM Session Events

Confirm a SIM exists, read its current session status, and pull its session event history for an audit window.

ARAZZO

Soracom Collect SIM Harvest Data

Confirm a SIM exists, pull its Harvest Data entries, and fall back to the generic Harvest endpoint when empty.

ARAZZO

Soracom Create Monthly Traffic Event Handler

Create an event handler that caps a group's monthly traffic and notifies the operator, then verify it.

ARAZZO

Soracom Deactivate IoT SIM with Guard

Read a SIM, deactivate it only when it is currently active, then confirm the inactive status.

ARAZZO

Soracom Export Monthly Billing CSV

Read a finalized monthly bill, kick off an async detailed-billing CSV export, and poll until the download URL is ready.

ARAZZO

Soracom Provision Group and Attach SIM

Create a SIM group, apply a service configuration, attach an existing SIM, and verify the binding.

ARAZZO

Soracom Register and Activate IoT SIM

Register a physical IoT SIM to the operator, activate it, bind it to a SIM group, and confirm its state.

ARAZZO

Soracom Register and Verify Coupon

List currently registered coupons, register a new coupon code, then re-list to confirm the credit applied.

ARAZZO

Soracom Register Inventory Device to Group

Create a Soracom Inventory device, bind it to an Inventory group, and confirm the binding.

ARAZZO

Soracom Register Subscriber to Group

Register a subscriber by IMSI, activate it, bind it to a group, and confirm its state.

ARAZZO

Soracom Send SMS to Active IoT SIM

Look up a SIM, branch on whether it is active, and send a downlink SMS only when it can receive one.

ARAZZO

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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.

Soracom Plans Pricing

17 plans

PLANS

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.

Soracom 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 31

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.

Global multicarrier cellular IoT connectivity spanning 170+ countries on Air for Cellular (plan01s)
Region-specific plans — plan-US, plan-D, plan-K, plan-DU (Japan), planP1 (60+ countries eSIM), planX series, plan-NL1 — for tuned coverage and price
eSIM and iSIM (planP1/planX1/planX2) with multi-IMSI profile management
Soracom Arc — Wireguard-based virtual SIM that joins non-cellular IP devices via soratun
Soracom Air for LoRaWAN and Air for Sigfox — managed LPWAN connectivity
Soracom Beam — cloud proxy for TLS termination and HTTP/MQTT/TCP/UDP/WebSocket protocol conversion
Soracom Funnel — adapter that forwards device payloads to AWS Kinesis/IoT, Azure Event Hubs, GCP Pub/Sub, and more
Soracom Funk — serverless invocation of AWS Lambda / Azure Functions / Google Cloud Functions from device payloads
Soracom Harvest Data — managed time-series store; Harvest Files for binary uploads
Soracom Orbit — inline WebAssembly Soralets that transform device payloads in flight
Soracom Lagoon — managed Grafana-style dashboards (Free / Maker $9.80/mo / Pro $49.80/mo)
Soracom Query — columnar SQL analytics over SIM session, location, and data history
Soracom Napter — on-demand secure remote TCP port mapping into SIM-attached devices
Soracom Inventory — LwM2M device registration, object models, observe/notify, and remote execution
Soracom Endorse — hardware-rooted SIM-based device authentication
Soracom Krypton — credential and certificate provisioning rooted in SIM identity
Virtual Private Gateway (VPG) — Canal (AWS VPC peering), Direct (AWS Direct Connect), Door (IPSec VPN), Gate (reverse-NAT to cloud)
Soracom Junction — Layer-3 packet rule engine (mirror/inspect/redirect) attached to VPG
Soracom Peek — managed packet capture per SIM or per VPG
Soracom Flux — visual workflow automation across Soracom data
Soracom Access Management (SAM) — sub-users, roles, IAM-style policy documents, MFA
Switch-user (cross-operator delegation) for distributors and managed-service providers
Coverage-aware API endpoints — api.soracom.io / jp.api.soracom.io (Japan) and g.api.soracom.io (global)
Soracom Sandbox API at api-sandbox.soracom.io for safe integration testing
Auto-generated soracom CLI built directly from the OpenAPI spec
Official SDKs in Go and Ruby; community SDKs and clients in Java, Swift, JavaScript
Orbit SDKs for Rust, TinyGo, C, and AssemblyScript
Soracom Cloud Camera Services (SoraCam) — managed cameras with livestream, image exports, motion events
Reverse-NAT, IMEI lock, IP whitelisting, and TLS-everywhere posture for industrial IoT
Audit logs for all API calls and all Napter sessions
Direct billing endpoints (/v1/bills) with daily and monthly granularity and CSV export

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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.

Soracom Context

0 classes · 7 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.

Soracom API Rules

5 rules · 3 warnings

SPECTRAL

Soracom API Rules

6 rules · 1 errors · 5 warnings

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 5

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.

Soracom Harvest Data Entry

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Soracom Inventory Device

9 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Soracom Group

7 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Soracom Napter Port Mapping

9 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Soracom SIM

16 properties

JSON SCHEMA

JSON Structure 2

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.

Soracom Device Structure

9 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Soracom Sim Structure

13 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Examples 5

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 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.

Soracom Authentication

apiKey · 2 schemes

SECURITY

Soracom Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

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.

Soracom Agentic Access

960 operations · 616 acting · 72 human-in-the-loop

960 operations · 616 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Every other property we hold for Soracom — 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 4

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Other 2

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

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