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Amber Electric

Amber Electric is an Australian electricity retailer (ABN 98623603805) that sells wholesale National Electricity Market pricing straight through to residential customers on a flat monthly membership, rather than marking energy up, and automates home batteries, solar exports and EV charging against those half-hourly prices. It sits at the retail end of the Australian energy value chain, between AEMO's wholesale market and the household meter. Its API posture is unusually honest and unusually split. Amber publishes a real, verbatim OpenAPI 3.0.0 contract for a REST API at https://api.amber.com.au/v1 covering sites, prices, forecasts and usage, but the token that unlocks it is generated inside the logged-in customer app at https://app.amber.com.au/developers, so the API is customer-account-required rather than self-serve — a developer who is not an Amber customer cannot obtain a key. One endpoint is the exception: the spec explicitly declares `security: []` on GET /state/{state}/renewables/current, and that grid renewables-percentage feed really does answer anonymously for NSW, VIC, QLD and SA, so open market data and gated consumer data live inside the same contract. Separately, Amber is a designated Consumer Data Right energy data holder that is genuinely live, not merely designated: it is listed on the ACCC CDR Register with a working public base URI at https://public.cdr.amber.com.au, whose CDS discovery endpoints and anonymously-served OpenID Connect configuration advertise the full Consumer Data Standards energy scope set behind private_key_jwt and CDR accreditation.

Amber Electric publishes 2 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network, including Amber API, and 1 more. Tagged areas include Energy, Australia, Electricity, Utilities, and Consumer Data Right.

The Amber Electric catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context and 1 Spectral governance ruleset.

Amber Electric’s developer surface includes getting-started guide, engineering blog, authentication, code examples, documentation, API reference, support, and 40 more developer resources.

59.9/100 strong ▼ -6.4 Agent 48/100 agent ready Front door AI 2/6 trace Heartbeat 100/100 alive open core · MIT Full breakdown ↓
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1 published contract 3 Agent Skills
EnergyAustraliaElectricityUtilitiesConsumer Data RightEnergy MarketsRenewablesSolarBatteriesDERSmart MeteringWholesale Pricing

What this lets a business do 1

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  • Typed Event Surface +6 pts — AsyncAPI document, OR webhooks/callbacks objects in the as-published OpenAPI, OR common[].type includes Webhooks
  • Pagination +5 pts — share of collection GETs (an array, or one wrapped in data/items/results ...) that declare a page/limit/offset/cursor parameter, a Link header or a next/cursor field; na with no collection GETs
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MarketPositionDepthRegistered MCP serverDeclares compatibility
Energy and Utilities regulated 23.7 (thin) - -
Australia Consumer Data Right register (accredited data recipients; banking, energy, non-bank lending) regulated 23.7 (thin) - -

Registered MCP server and declares compatibility are report only — not weighted. Undeclared means we found nothing we can read, so there is no number: we never infer integrations.

Standards implemented 4

Standards this provider implements or carries. De facto ones are profiled and measured by the API Commons; formal ones come from the standards directory and are linked by the provider's own tags. The evidence column says how each claim was established — not that it was made.

tagged — the provider's own APIs.json carries the standard as a tag; implementation not verified
measured — observed by APIs.io (published)
measured — observed by APIs.io (published)
measured — observed by APIs.io (declared)

APIs 2

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Amber Electric Consumer Data Right Energy API

Amber's Consumer Data Right energy data-holder surface, mandated by the Australian CDR regime extended from banking into energy and administered by the ACCC with standards set b...

Amber Electric Amber API

The Amber API from Amber Electric — 5 operation(s) for amber.

Open Collections 1

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

Amber Electric Public API

OPEN COLLECTION

Agent Skills 3

Packaged agent skills for driving this provider's APIs from an AI assistant.

Amber Electric API pricing

Prices published by Amber Electric.

PlanPrice
Monthly subscription $25/month

Plan details, limits and sources →

Rate limits

Rate-limit details →

Billed by: subscription · FinOps profile →

Pricing Plans 2

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Amber Electric Rate Limits

1 limits

RATE LIMITS

Service Levels 1

Uptime the provider promises or reports, as SLA4OAI. Read from its own pages; APIs.io runs no monitors.

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Semantic Vocabularies 1

JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.

Amber Electric Context

10 classes · 28 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 1

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

Amber Electric API Rules

15 rules · 13 errors 1 warnings 1 info

SPECTRAL

OpenAPI Overlays 3

Overlays applied on top of this provider's contracts. Each card says who wrote it: a document the provider publishes, or one API Evangelist derived or generated.

Amber Electric Public Api Overlay

9 actions · documentation · amber-electric-public-api-openapi.json

DERIVED

Amber Electric Sites Api Overlay

9 actions · documentation · amber-electric-sites-api-openapi.yml

DERIVED

Amber Electric State Api Overlay

3 actions · documentation · amber-electric-state-api-openapi.yml

DERIVED

JSON Schema 8

Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.

ActualInterval

13 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ActualRenewable

8 properties

JSON SCHEMA

CurrentInterval

15 properties

JSON SCHEMA

CurrentRenewable

8 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ForecastInterval

14 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ForecastRenewable

8 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Site

7 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Usage

17 properties

JSON SCHEMA

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Security Posture 2

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Amber Electric Authentication

http/openIdConnect · 2 schemes

SECURITY

Amber Electric Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC

SECURITY

Scopes 1

OAuth scopes governing access to this provider's APIs.

Amber Electric Scopes

16 scopes · authorizationCode/clientCredentials

16 scopes

SCOPES

Agentic Access 1

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Amber Electric Agentic Access

5 operations

5 operations · 0 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Get Started 4

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Agent Surfaces 6

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Design & Contract 8

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

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Build 6

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Access & Security 3

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Operate 5

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Commercial 5

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Company 4

The organization behind the API

Other 4

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑
aid: amber-electric
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/amber-electric/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
name: Amber Electric
kind: company
description: 'Amber Electric is an Australian electricity retailer (ABN 98623603805) that sells wholesale National Electricity
  Market pricing straight through to residential customers on a flat monthly membership, rather than marking energy up, and
  automates home batteries, solar exports and EV charging against those half-hourly prices. It sits at the retail end of the
  Australian energy value chain, between AEMO''s wholesale market and the household meter. Its API posture is unusually honest
  and unusually split. Amber publishes a real, verbatim OpenAPI 3.0.0 contract for a REST API at https://api.amber.com.au/v1
  covering sites, prices, forecasts and usage, but the token that unlocks it is generated inside the logged-in customer app
  at https://app.amber.com.au/developers, so the API is customer-account-required rather than self-serve — a developer who
  is not an Amber customer cannot obtain a key. One endpoint is the exception: the spec explicitly declares `security: []`
  on GET /state/{state}/renewables/current, and that grid renewables-percentage feed really does answer anonymously for NSW,
  VIC, QLD and SA, so open market data and gated consumer data live inside the same contract. Separately, Amber is a designated
  Consumer Data Right energy data holder that is genuinely live, not merely designated: it is listed on the ACCC CDR Register
  with a working public base URI at https://public.cdr.amber.com.au, whose CDS discovery endpoints and anonymously-served
  OpenID Connect configuration advertise the full Consumer Data Standards energy scope set behind private_key_jwt and CDR
  accreditation.'
deliveryModel:
  model: open-core
  license: MIT
  open_source: true
  commercial: true
  callable_host: true
  label: Open core · an OSS project plus a commercial hosted product
  confidence: high
  source:
  - license
  - openapi
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: paid
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Paid
  confidence: high
  probe_state: covered
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  - scopes
  - rate-limits
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-06'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/amber-electric.png
tags:
- Energy
- Australia
- Electricity
- Utilities
- Consumer Data Right
- Energy Markets
- Renewables
- Solar
- Batteries
- DER
- Smart Metering
- Wholesale Pricing
created: '2026-07-27'
modified: '2026-10-21'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
common:
- type: CapabilityMap
  url: capabilities/amber-electric-capability-edges.yml
  name: Amber Electric Business Capability Map
- type: Plans
  url: plans/amber-electric-plans-pricing.yml
- type: Spectral
  url: rules/amber-electric-rules.yml
- type: JSONLD
  url: json-ld/amber-electric-context.jsonld
- type: Vocabulary
  url: vocabulary/amber-electric-vocabulary.yml
- type: Hosts
  url: hosts/amber-electric-hosts.yml
- type: IntegrationEdges
  url: integrations/amber-electric-integration-edges.yml
- type: Vendors
  url: vendors/amber-electric-vendors.yml
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://help.amber.com.au/hc/en-us/articles/360037454111-What-is-the-onboarding-process
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.amber.com.au/blog
- url: https://www.amber.com.au/blog/rss.xml
  type: BlogRSS
- type: IssueTracker
  url: https://github.com/amberelectric/public-api/issues
- type: License
  name: MIT
  url: https://github.com/amberelectric/public-api/blob/main/LICENSE
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/amber-electric-agentic-access.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/amber-electric-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/amber-electric-authentication.yml
- type: Packages
  url: packages/amber-electric-packages.yml
- type: SDKs
  url: packages/amber-electric-packages.yml
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/amber-electric-well-known.yml
- type: X-MCPServerCandidate
  url: mcp/amber-electric-mcp.yml
  note: 'Renamed from MCPServer 2026-09-03 (roadmap#247): the manifest self-describes as status: candidate — a tool list derived
    from the published API contracts, not an existing server. The scorer already read the manifest and reported mcp_server
    correctly; the MCPServer type was crediting the artifact-type surfaces with a server that does not exist.'
- type: Overlay
  url: overlays/amber-electric-public-api-overlay.yaml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/amber-electric-conformance.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/amber-electric-problem-types.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/amber-electric-lifecycle.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/amber-electric-conventions.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/amber-electric-rate-limits.yml
- type: DataModel
  url: data-model/amber-electric-data-model.yml
- type: Examples
  url: examples/amber-electric-examples.yml
- type: OAuthScopes
  url: scopes/amber-electric-scopes.yml
- type: AgentSkill
  name: Read live grid renewables for an Australian state
  url: skills/amber-electric-grid-renewables.md
- type: AgentSkill
  name: Read current and forecast electricity prices for an Amber site
  url: skills/amber-electric-site-prices.md
- type: AgentSkill
  name: Pull interval usage and cost history for an Amber site
  url: skills/amber-electric-usage-history.md
- type: Website
  url: https://www.amber.com.au/
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://app.amber.com.au/developers
- type: Documentation
  url: https://app.amber.com.au/developers/documentation/
- type: APIReference
  url: https://app.amber.com.au/developers/documentation
- type: SourceCode
  url: https://github.com/amberelectric/public-api
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/amberelectric
- type: Support
  url: https://help.amber.com.au/hc/en-us
- type: Community
  url: https://github.com/amberelectric/public-api/discussions
- type: Pricing
  url: https://www.amber.com.au/pricing
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.amber.com.au/terms-and-conditions/terms
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.amber.com.au/legal/privacy
- type: SignUp
  url: https://app.amber.com.au/signup
- type: Login
  url: https://app.amber.com.au/sign-in
- type: StatusPage
  name: SmartShift Status
  url: https://www.amber.com.au/status
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/amberelectric/
apis:
- aid: amber-electric:amber-electric-cdr-energy-api
  name: Amber Electric Consumer Data Right Energy API
  description: 'Amber''s Consumer Data Right energy data-holder surface, mandated by the Australian CDR regime extended from
    banking into energy and administered by the ACCC with standards set by the Data Standards Body. Amber is listed on the
    public CDR Register as an energy data holder brand (dataHolderBrandId 54968899-b7b5-ef11-95f6-6045bd3f1493, ABN 98623603805,
    lastUpdated 2026-07-23) with the public base URI https://public.cdr.amber.com.au. The implementation was verified live
    on 2026-07-27, not merely claimed: the Consumer Data Standards discovery endpoints /cds-au/v1/discovery/status and /cds-au/v1/discovery/outages
    both returned 200 with conformant CDS payloads, and /.well-known/openid-configuration is served anonymously. Access is
    accredited-only — dynamic client registration at https://secure.cdr.amber.com.au/connect/register with private_key_jwt
    client authentication and PAR, reachable only by an accredited CDR data recipient holding a software statement assertion
    from the CDR Register. No general developer can call it.'
  humanURL: https://www.cdr.gov.au/
  baseURL: https://public.cdr.amber.com.au/cds-au/v1
  tags:
  - Consumer Data Right
  - Energy
  - Open Data
  - Regulated
  - OpenID Connect
  - Australia
  properties:
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/amber-electric-cdr-openid-configuration.json
  - type: OpenIDConnectDiscovery
    url: https://public.cdr.amber.com.au/.well-known/openid-configuration
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://consumerdatastandardsaustralia.github.io/standards/
  - type: Registry
    url: https://api.cdr.gov.au/cdr-register/v1/energy/data-holders/brands/summary
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.cdr.gov.au/consumers/energy
  - type: OAuthScopes
    url: scopes/amber-electric-scopes.yml
- aid: amber-electric:amber-electric-amber-api
  name: Amber Electric Amber API
  description: The Amber API from Amber Electric — 5 operation(s) for amber.
  humanURL: https://www.cdr.gov.au/
  baseURL: https://public.cdr.amber.com.au/cds-au/v1
  tags:
  - Amber
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/amber-electric-amber-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://app.amber.com.au/developers
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://app.amber.com.au/developers/documentation
  - type: SourceCode
    url: https://github.com/amberelectric/public-api
  - type: Support
    url: https://github.com/amberelectric/public-api/discussions
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/amber-electric-site-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/amber-electric-usage-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/amber-electric-current-interval-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/amber-electric-forecast-interval-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/amber-electric-actual-interval-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/amber-electric-forecast-renewable-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/amber-electric-current-renewable-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/amber-electric-actual-renewable-schema.json
x-coverage:
  state: covered
  reason: identity-verified
  detail: Website https://www.amber.com.au/ (title "Renewable Energy Provider | Save With Wholesale Electricity", Amber Electric
    wordmark) verified 2026-10-21; link pointers taken from the homepage footer/nav. help.amber.com.au and www.amber.com.au/status
    answer our crawler with a Cloudflare challenge (403) but pre-flight browser fetch got 200, so treated as live. www.cdr.gov.au
    was unreachable (timeout) from our network, not confirmed dead, left in place.
  evidence:
  - url: https://www.amber.com.au/
    status: 200
  - url: https://www.amber.com.au/terms-and-conditions/terms
    status: 200
  - url: https://www.amber.com.au/legal/privacy
    status: 200
  - url: https://www.amber.com.au/pricing
    status: 200
  - url: https://www.amber.com.au/blog
    status: 200
  - url: https://help.amber.com.au/hc/en-us
    status: 403
  - url: https://www.amber.com.au/status
    status: 403
  - url: https://github.com/amberelectric
    status: 200
  - url: https://app.amber.com.au/developers/documentation
    status: 200
  - url: https://www.cdr.gov.au/consumers/energy
    status: 0
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-10-21'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 18
  pass: modular-v1
  engine: identity=anthropic,contract=anthropic,surfaces=anthropic,docs=anthropic,regulatory=anthropic

Amber Electric API — frequently asked questions

Does Amber Electric have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 2 APIs from Amber Electric, including Amber Electric Consumer Data Right Energy API and Amber Electric Amber API.

Is there an OpenAPI specification for the Amber Electric API?

Yes. APIs.io indexes 1 OpenAPI specification for Amber Electric, each linked for download from this page.

How do I authenticate with the Amber Electric API?

Amber Electric documents its authentication (http/openIdConnect · 2 schemes). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Amber Electric Authentication.

How much does the Amber Electric API cost?

Amber Electric publishes its prices; its Monthly subscription plan is $25/month as of 2026-10-21. APIs.io lists 1 pricing plan for Amber Electric, with each plan's price, limits and inclusions under Pricing on this page.

Is the Amber Electric API ready for AI agents?

Amber Electric has a Kin Score of 59.9 out of 100 (strong) and an Agent Readiness score of 47.5 (agent-ready), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.

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