908 Devices

908 Devices Inc. (Nasdaq: MASS) is a Burlington, Massachusetts maker of purpose-built handheld chemical analysis devices for public safety, defense, customs and forensic teams. Its flagship MX908 is a handheld high-pressure mass spectrometer that identifies narcotics, explosives and hazardous materials at trace level in about 30 seconds; the portfolio also includes the VipIR, XplorIR, ProtectIR and InterceptIR FTIR/Raman analyzers and, since the May 2026 acquisition of NIRLAB AG of Lausanne, a cloud-connected NIR spectroscopy platform. As of this profile the company publishes no public developer program, API reference, OpenAPI or SDK: MX908 integration ships as an RS232 serial port, field data moves over Bluetooth via the MX908 Remote and Team Leader mobile apps, and the NIRLAB cloud console at app.nirlab.com is login-gated. NIRLAB's FIELDLAB is marketed to app developers, but its reference sits behind a contact-sales form.

908 Devices is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Chemical Analysis, Mass Spectrometry, Spectroscopy, and Scientific Instruments.

908 Devices’ developer surface includes engineering blog, support, YouTube channel, changelog, and 14 more developer resources.

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scored 2026-09-25 · rubric v0.23.0
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CompanyChemical AnalysisMass SpectrometrySpectroscopyScientific InstrumentsPublic SafetyDefenseNarcotics DetectionHazmatHardwareLife Sciences

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scored 2026-09-25 · rubric v0.23.0
Regulatory Posture applies to this provider. Its tags matched the Health regime, so Regulatory Posture carries 15 points of the composite. If this regime is wrong for your business, say so on your provider repo — the applicability map is public and we will correct it.
Create-or-Update Ergonomics could not be measured. We hold no machine-readable contract for this provider to read, so there is nothing to measure a write surface against. Excluded rather than scored zero: never-measured and measured-empty are different facts. Publishing an OpenAPI is what makes this facet — and several others — scorable at all.
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Security Posture 1

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908 Devices Domain Security

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Operate 2

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Commercial 3

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apis.yml Raw ↑
aid: 908-devices
name: 908 Devices
description: '908 Devices Inc. (Nasdaq: MASS) is a Burlington, Massachusetts maker of purpose-built handheld chemical analysis
  devices for public safety, defense, customs and forensic teams. Its flagship MX908 is a handheld high-pressure mass spectrometer
  that identifies narcotics, explosives and hazardous materials at trace level in about 30 seconds; the portfolio also includes
  the VipIR, XplorIR, ProtectIR and InterceptIR FTIR/Raman analyzers and, since the May 2026 acquisition of NIRLAB AG of Lausanne,
  a cloud-connected NIR spectroscopy platform. As of this profile the company publishes no public developer program, API reference,
  OpenAPI or SDK: MX908 integration ships as an RS232 serial port, field data moves over Bluetooth via the MX908 Remote and
  Team Leader mobile apps, and the NIRLAB cloud console at app.nirlab.com is login-gated. NIRLAB''s FIELDLAB is marketed to
  app developers, but its reference sits behind a contact-sales form.'
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/908-devices/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
image: https://908devices.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/908Devices_Logo_Primary.jpg
x-type: company
x-source: harvest:secondary-market
x-tier: profiled
x-tier-reason: 'enrichment pass 2026-09-05: full STEP 0b contract discovery run across six hosts, no public API contract found'
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-09-05'
modified: '2026-09-05'
position: Producing
tags:
- Company
- Chemical Analysis
- Mass Spectrometry
- Spectroscopy
- Scientific Instruments
- Public Safety
- Defense
- Narcotics Detection
- Hazmat
- Hardware
- Life Sciences
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://908devices.com/
- type: Blog
  url: https://908devices.com/blog/
- type: BlogRSS
  url: https://908devices.com/blog/feed/
- type: Newsroom
  url: https://908devices.com/news/
- type: x-NewsRSS
  url: https://908devices.com/news/feed/
- type: About
  url: https://908devices.com/about/
- type: Careers
  url: https://908devices.com/careers/
- type: Support
  url: https://908devices.com/contact/
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://908devices.com/terms-of-use/
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://908devices.com/privacy-policy/
- type: InvestorRelations
  url: https://ir.908devices.com/
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/908-devices
- type: YouTube
  url: https://www.youtube.com/@908devices
- type: Twitter
  url: https://x.com/908devices
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/908-devices-llms.txt
- type: ChangeLog
  url: changelog/908-devices-changelog.yml
- type: Plans
  url: plans/908-devices-plans-pricing.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/908-devices-domain-security.yml
x-secondary-market-listing:
  venue: Forge Global
  url: https://forgeglobal.com/908-devices_stock/
  note: Carried by the harvest as the seed Website pointer. It is a secondary-market venue listing, not the company site,
    and was replaced by https://908devices.com/ in this pass.
x-subsidiaries:
  nirlab-ag:
    name: NIRLAB AG
    website: https://www.nirlab.com/
    acquired: '2026-05-06'
    source: https://908devices.com/news/908-devices-acquires-nirlab-ag-expanding-its-narcotics-detection-portfolio/
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-09-05'
  status: minimal
  artifacts_added: 6
  pass: local-v3
x-coverage:
  state: gated
  reason: sales-gate
  detail: 'FIELDLAB — the one developer-facing product in the 908 Devices portfolio, marketed at "app developers and chemists"
    to build custom mobile NIR spectroscopy applications on the NIRLAB platform 908 Devices acquired in May 2026 — publishes
    no reference, endpoint or spec: the page''s only call to action is a contact-sales form, the NIRLAB cloud console at app.nirlab.com
    redirects straight to a login, and on the core instrument line the published integration mechanism is an RS232 serial
    port rather than a network API.'
  evidence:
  - url: https://www.nirlab.com/fieldlab/
    status: 200
  - url: https://app.nirlab.com/
    status: 200
  - url: https://908devices.com/openapi.json
    status: 404
  - url: https://908devices.com/.well-known/api-catalog
    status: 404
  - url: https://908devices.com/news/908-devices-announces-mx908-integration-capabilities/
    status: 200
  checked: '2026-09-05'

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