# Alluxio

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/alluxio/  
**Website:** https://www.alluxio.io  
**APIs profiled:** 1

Alluxio is a data platform company providing a distributed caching and data-orchestration layer that sits between compute engines and persistent storage to accelerate I/O-intensive AI/ML and analytics workloads. Its high-throughput, low-latency cache serves data to PyTorch, TensorFlow, Spark, Ray and other frameworks across AWS, GCP, Azure and Oracle Cloud, mounting underlying object and file stores (S3, GCS, Azure Blob, HDFS, OSS, COS, TOS) and exposing them through an S3-compatible REST API, a FUSE-based POSIX API, and a Python FSSpec client. The Apache-2.0 open-source project (github.com/Alluxio/alluxio) underpins the commercial Alluxio Enterprise AI product. Alluxio is a portfolio company of a16z.

## Kin Score — 26.7 / 100 (thin)

Scored 2026-08-30 under rubric 0.17.2. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 26.7).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 66.7 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 18.4 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 64.3 |
| Commercial Clarity | 23.7 |
| Access Clarity | 23.7 |

## Agent readiness — 2.5 (human-only)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | bearer |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | no |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |
| Delegated Identity | no |
| Protected Resource Metadata | no |
| Dynamic Client Registration | no |
| Agentic Commerce | no |

## Access

Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: medium).

## APIs (1)

- **Alluxio S3 API** — S3-compatible REST API exposed by every Alluxio worker (HTTP port 29998, HTTPS 29996) that lets applications built for Amazon S3 read and write cached data without code changes....

## Security (2)

- **Alluxio Authentication** — http-signature/none/tls-mutual · 4 schemes
- **Alluxio Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS

## Tags

Company, Data Orchestration, Data Caching, AI Infrastructure, Machine-Learning, Analytics, Distributed Storage, Object Storage, S3, Open-Source

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/alluxio/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.