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ThingsBoard

ThingsBoard is an open-source IoT platform for device connectivity, data collection, processing, and visualization. Licensed under Apache 2.0 and developed by ThingsBoard Inc., it supports multi-tenant device management, telemetry over MQTT/HTTP/CoAP/LwM2M/SNMP, a drag-and-drop rule engine, calculated fields, 600+ customizable dashboard widgets, alarms, RPC, OTA firmware updates, edge computing, mobile apps, and a distributed MQTT broker (TBMQ). Available as Community Edition (free, self-hosted), Professional Edition (self-hosted subscription), and ThingsBoard Cloud (managed PaaS).

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 ThingsBoard the way a machine reads it — 115 machine-readable artifacts across 58 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 — ThingsBoard scores 62.5/100 (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 — 62.5/100 · strong
Contract Quality 17.8 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 13.5 / 20
Commercial Clarity 10.0 / 20
Operational Transparency 2.7 / 13
Governance 10.4 / 12
Discoverability 8.0 / 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 ThingsBoard

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for ThingsBoard. 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 58

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.

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Open Collections 15

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.

Thingsboard 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 20

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.

Open-source (Apache 2.0) IoT platform written in Java/Spring with a TypeScript/Angular UI
409 REST endpoints across 59 controllers exposed via OpenAPI 3.1 (live spec at /v3/api-docs)
Device, asset, customer, tenant, and user management with multi-tenant isolation
Device connectivity over MQTT, HTTP, CoAP, LwM2M, and SNMP
Time-series telemetry storage with PostgreSQL, Cassandra, or TimescaleDB backends
Calculated fields — simple, script-based (TBEL), geofencing, and aggregation
Rule engine with drag-and-drop rule chains and rule nodes
600+ customizable widgets, SCADA dashboards, and white-labelling
Alarm management with severity, status, acknowledgement, assignment, and comments
Remote Procedure Calls (one-way, two-way, and persistent v2)
OTA package delivery for firmware/software updates
Edge computing with the ThingsBoard Edge sidecar and bidirectional sync
TBMQ distributed MQTT broker (100M+ connections, 10M msg/sec)
IoT Gateway with adapters for Modbus, OPC-UA, BLE, BACnet, CAN, ODBC, REST, MQTT
Notification center with email, SMS, Slack, MS Teams, mobile push, and web delivery
JWT and API-key (4.3+) authentication, OAuth2 federation, two-factor auth
Mobile applications for Android and iOS built with Flutter
Trendz Analytics for forecasting and predictive maintenance (PE)
Java and Python REST client SDKs
Horizontal scalability via microservices architecture and Kafka/RabbitMQ queues

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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.

Thingsboard Context

24 classes · 16 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.

ThingsBoard API Rules

5 rules · 3 warnings

SPECTRAL

ThingsBoard API Rules

6 rules · 2 errors · 4 warnings

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 11

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.

ThingsBoard Alarm

22 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ThingsBoard Asset

10 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ThingsBoard AssetProfile

12 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ThingsBoard Customer

15 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ThingsBoard Dashboard

12 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ThingsBoard Device

13 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ThingsBoard DeviceProfile

19 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ThingsBoard EntityRelation

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ThingsBoard RuleChain

11 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ThingsBoard Tenant

16 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ThingsBoard User

12 properties

JSON SCHEMA

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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 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.

Thingsboard Authentication

apiKey/http · 2 schemes

SECURITY

Thingsboard 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.

Thingsboard Agentic Access

491 operations · 228 acting · 226 human-in-the-loop

491 operations · 228 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Every other property we hold for ThingsBoard — 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.

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Design & Contract 3

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Company 1

The organization behind the API

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