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TensorDock

TensorDock operates a global GPU cloud marketplace that connects independent hardware hosts with customers needing affordable on-demand and spot GPU compute. The platform exposes two REST APIs — the original Marketplace API (v0) at marketplace.tensordock.com and the newer Instances API (v2) at dashboard.tensordock.com — to deploy, manage, and scale virtual machines across 100+ locations in 20+ countries with 42+ GPU models ranging from consumer RTX cards to H100 SXM5. TensorDock targets AI startups, researchers, rendering shops, and gaming services that need cost-effective compute (advertised at up to 80% less than hyperscalers) without quotas or long-term commitments.

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 TensorDock the way a machine reads it — 40 machine-readable artifacts across 3 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 — TensorDock scores 65.1/100 (strong), with a separate agent-readiness read of 48/100 (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 — 65.1/100 · strong
Contract Quality 16.6 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 11.7 / 20
Commercial Clarity 15.8 / 20
Operational Transparency 3.4 / 13
Governance 8.8 / 12
Discoverability 8.8 / 10
Agent readiness — 48/100 · 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 0 / 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 TensorDock

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for TensorDock. 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 3

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.

TensorDock Marketplace API

The original TensorDock Marketplace REST API (v0) for deploying, managing, starting, stopping, and deleting GPU virtual machines across the global marketplace of independent har...

TensorDock Instances API

The current TensorDock Instances API (v2) at https://dashboard.tensordock.com/api/v2/instances for creating, listing, inspecting, starting, stopping, modifying, and deleting GPU...

TensorDock Secrets API

The TensorDock Secrets API (v2) for managing SSH keys and generic secrets that are encrypted at rest and in transit and can be attached to instances at deploy time. Two secret t...

Open Collections 2

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).

TensorDock Instances API

OPEN COLLECTION

TensorDock Secrets API

OPEN COLLECTION

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.

Tensordock Rate Limits

2 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 19

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 marketplace aggregating 30,000+ GPUs across 100+ locations in 20+ countries
42+ NVIDIA GPU models from consumer (RTX 3090/4090/5090) to data center (H100 SXM5, A100, V100, L40S, L4, RTX 6000 Ada, A6000)
Per-microsecond billing with pay-as-you-go and reserved pricing on request
On-demand virtual machines with KVM virtualization, root access, and dedicated GPU passthrough
Spot/interruptible instances with custom bid pricing and soft-validate APIs
Instant VMs (beta) with sub-30-second deployment from pre-configured templates
Container deployment, scaling, and termination endpoints
CPU-only Compute VMs from $0.012/vCPU/hour for transcoding and batch jobs
Windows 10 and Linux (Ubuntu, Debian, CentOS) images plus custom cloud-init support
Whitelabel storefront product for resellers and managed cloud providers
Two REST APIs — Marketplace v0 (api_key + api_token, form parameters) and Instances v2 (Bearer token, JSON:API envelope)
Secrets API (v2) with SSHKEY and GENERIC/SECRET types, encrypted at rest and in transit
Hostnode discovery API listing all available GPU/CPU configurations per location
99.99% uptime SLA per host with agent-based monitoring and downtime compensation policy
SSH access revoked from hosts and active monitoring for tenant isolation
Postman collection covering Authorization, Hostnodes, Virtual Machines, Spot validation, Containers, and Billing endpoint groups
Rust client wrapper (tensordock-rs) and community Python SDK
100 requests per minute per organization on the v2 API
Customer balance, revenue, and monthly summary endpoints for host operators

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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.

Tensordock Context

0 classes · 9 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.

TensorDock API Rules

5 rules · 3 warnings

SPECTRAL

TensorDock API Rules

8 rules · 3 errors · 5 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.

TensorDock Hostnode

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

TensorDock Instance

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

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.

Tensordock Authentication

http · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Tensordock 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.

Tensordock Agentic Access

11 operations · 7 acting · 1 human-in-the-loop

11 operations · 7 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Every other property we hold for TensorDock — 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 7

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

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Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Build 7

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

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