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AO Smith

A. O. Smith Corporation (NYSE: AOS) is a global manufacturer of residential and commercial water heaters, boilers, water treatment and air purification products, headquartered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Its connected-product line runs on the iCOMM platform, which lets homeowners and plumbing professionals monitor and control compatible water heaters — temperature, vacation mode, leak and maintenance alerts, energy-use history — from a mobile app. A. O. Smith operates no public developer program: there is no developer portal, API reference, OpenAPI, SDK or MCP server, and the iCOMM backend is an undocumented GraphQL endpoint reachable only by the mobile apps and by community clients that reverse-engineered it.

AO Smith publishes no API. The 1 entry listed on the APIs.io network are product areas recorded for completeness, each marked as not an API. Tagged areas include IoT, Manufacturing, Smart Home, Water Heaters, and Connected Products.

AO Smith’s developer surface includes developer portal, support, engineering blog, and 10 more developer resources.

15.9/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 3/100 human only Front door AI 1/6 silent Heartbeat 83/100 alive saas Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0 · Show this score on your site →
AccessPaidApprovalNo public API
1 Not an API
IoTManufacturingSmart HomeWater HeatersConnected ProductsWater TreatmentBoilersConsumer Hardware

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scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0
Regulatory Posture applies to this provider. Its tags matched the Horizontal (data, software, accessibility, platform) 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.
The six quality facets above are damped to 85 points between them, because the conditional facet above carries the other 15. That is why each facet's contribution is shown against a damped maximum: raising a quality facet moves the composite by 85% of its nominal weight, not 100%. The full arithmetic is at apis.io/rating/.
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Agent readiness — checks not met, largest first (exact, from this profile):
  • Machine-Readable Contract +18 pts — api_specs includes an OpenAPI document
  • MCP Server +12 pts — deployment.mode + probe verdict on the mcp/ manifest, not the pointer; an unprobed slug falls back to authorship
  • Agentic Access Contract +10 pts — agentic_access artifact present (x-agentic-access), graded by author
  • Machine-Readable Auth +10 pts — a served openid-configuration/oauth-authorization-server carrying `issuer` (served), else the securitySchemes class in the provider OpenAPIs — bound (mutualTLS, DPoP, Signature) > negotiable (oauth2 authorizationCode/clientCredentials, openIdConnect) > bearer (http bearer, apiKey)
  • Idempotency +9 pts — OpenAPI mutating operations declare an idempotency key — a header, a request-body property, or a named de-duplication token whose own description says so (verified); else common[].type matches /idempoten/i (documented)
  • Stable Error Semantics +8 pts — OpenAPI $refs a shared error schema across 4xx/5xx responses (verified), else common[].type includes ErrorCatalog / ErrorCodes / DeclineCodes
12 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.
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APIs 1

This provider publishes no API. The entries below are product areas listed for completeness. Each one is marked NOT AN API and is not counted.

AO Smith iCOMM Connected Technology

AO Smith's iCOMM connected technology platform enables remote monitoring and control of compatible AO Smith water heaters through the A. O. Smith and iCOMM Connectivity mobile a...

NOT AN API

AO Smith API pricing

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Ao Smith Rate Limits

0 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

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

Security Posture 1

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

Ao Smith Domain Security

TLSv1.2 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC

SECURITY

Press 5

Recent news and press coverage referencing this provider.

Artificial Intelligence will redefine the marketing space

A. O. Smith hires Chris Howe as new chief digital ...

A. O. Smith and The Water Council announce ... - Investor Relations

A.O. Smith India on Instagram: "Innovation That Preserves ...

The Water Council and A. O. Smith Kick Off 2018 Competition ...

Resources

Get Started 1

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Commercial 4

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Company 3

The organization behind the API

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑
name: AO Smith
description: 'A. O. Smith Corporation (NYSE: AOS) is a global manufacturer of residential and commercial water heaters, boilers,
  water treatment and air purification products, headquartered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Its connected-product line runs on
  the iCOMM platform, which lets homeowners and plumbing professionals monitor and control compatible water heaters — temperature,
  vacation mode, leak and maintenance alerts, energy-use history — from a mobile app. A. O. Smith operates no public developer
  program: there is no developer portal, API reference, OpenAPI, SDK or MCP server, and the iCOMM backend is an undocumented
  GraphQL endpoint reachable only by the mobile apps and by community clients that reverse-engineered it.'
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: false
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: paid
  onboarding: approval
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  gated: private
  gated_source:
  - apis
  label: Paid · Requires approval
  confidence: medium
  probe_state: none
  source:
  - finops
  - rate-limits
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-06'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/ao-smith.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/ao-smith/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2026-03-23'
modified: '2026-09-02'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
tags:
- IoT
- Manufacturing
- Smart Home
- Water Heaters
- Connected Products
- Water Treatment
- Boilers
- Consumer Hardware
apis:
- x-published: false
  name: AO Smith iCOMM Connected Technology
  description: AO Smith's iCOMM connected technology platform enables remote monitoring and control of compatible AO Smith
    water heaters through the A. O. Smith and iCOMM Connectivity mobile apps — tracking water and energy usage, setting temperature,
    enabling vacation mode, and receiving leak and maintenance alerts. It is NOT a published developer API. The base URL below
    is the Apollo GraphQL endpoint the mobile apps call; it was established as A. O. Smith infrastructure because r2.wh8.co
    CNAMEs to router-default.apps.aosmith-prod.hd1m.p1.openshiftapps.com, the same OpenShift cluster that serves A. O. Smith's
    3scale portal. It is undocumented, credentialed, and returns "GraphQL introspection is not allowed" to any schema query.
    The value previously recorded here, https://api.aosmith.com, has no DNS record at all.
  image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
  humanURL: https://www.hotwater.com/water-heaters/residential/connected/
  baseURL: https://r2.wh8.co
  tags:
  - Connected Products
  - IoT
  - Smart Home
  - Water Heaters
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.hotwater.com/resources/mobile-apps.html
  contact:
  - FN: AO Smith Customer Support
    url: https://www.aosmith.com/about-us/contact.html
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: info@apievangelist.com
  X: apievangelist
  url: https://apievangelist.com
common:
- type: Plans
  url: plans/ao-smith-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/ao-smith-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/ao-smith-finops.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.aosmith.com/
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/ao-smith-domain-security.yml
- type: Packages
  url: packages/ao-smith-packages.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/ao-smith-llms.txt
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/a-o-smith-corporation
- type: Portal
  url: https://www.aosmith.com
- type: Support
  url: https://www.aosmith.com/about-us/contact.html
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.aosmith.com/news.html
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.aosmith.com/terms-and-conditions.html
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.aosmith.com/privacy-policy
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-09-02'
  status: minimal
  artifacts_added: 4
  pass: local-v1
x-coverage:
  state: none
  reason: no-developer-program
  detail: A. O. Smith ships connected water heaters but no developer program — the iCOMM platform is an end-user mobile app
    whose only backend is an undocumented Apollo GraphQL endpoint with introspection disabled, and the Red Hat 3scale portal
    on A. O. Smith's own OpenShift cluster is a stock unconfigured install advertising nothing but 3scale's built-in "Echo
    API" demo.
  evidence:
  - url: https://r2.wh8.co/graphql
    status: 200
  - url: https://3scale.apps.aosmith-prod.hd1m.p1.openshiftapps.com/
    status: 200
  - url: https://api.aosmith.com/
    status: 0
  - url: https://www.aosmith.com/.well-known/api-catalog
    status: 404
  - url: https://www.hotwater.com/llms.txt
    status: 404
  checked: '2026-09-02'

AO Smith API — frequently asked questions

Does AO Smith have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 1 API from AO Smith, including AO Smith iCOMM Connected Technology.

Is the AO Smith API ready for AI agents?

AO Smith has a Kin Score of 15.9 out of 100 (emerging) and an Agent Readiness score of 2.5 (human-only), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.

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