Arctic

Arctic provides a unified platform for accessing a wide range of free AI models through a single OpenAI‑compatible API. Users can compare models side‑by‑side, run them via the web playground, integrate via the API & CLI, and explore blockchain‑linked data on the Robinhood Chain. The service is free, open, and includes tools such as MCP server, console, and community features like roadmaps and a shared inference ledger.

Arctic is listed with 2 APIs on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, OpenAI-Compatible, Cryptocurrency, and Platform.

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

Arctic’s developer surface includes CLI, authentication, documentation, API reference, getting-started guide, support, and 18 more developer resources.

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33.2/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 29/100 agent ready Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0 · Show this score on your site →

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2 APIs 1 MCP Servers

Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning OpenAI-Compatible Cryptocurrency Platform

Kin Score

Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0

Composite quality — 33.2/100 · thin

Contract Quality 4.7 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 6.1 / 17

Access Clarity 5.4 / 17

Operational Transparency 3.8 / 11

Contract Governance 2.2 / 10

Discoverability 4.8 / 9

Regulatory Posture 3.7 / 15

Agent readiness — 29/100 · agent ready

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 12 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 9 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 8 / 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

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

Pagination 5 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

MCP Tool Quality 6 / 6

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):

Agentic Access Contract +10 pts — agentic_access artifact present (x-agentic-access), graded by author
A2A Agent Card +8 pts — a2a/-a2a.yml manifest, graded on conformance.grade against A2A 1.0.0
Request/Response Examples +7 pts — share of operations carrying request/response examples; else an Examples / Code Samples link
Registration Without a Human +6 pts — a `registration_endpoint` in the served RFC 8414 / OIDC discovery document
Delegated User Identity +6 pts — a served discovery document listing authorization_code in grant_types_supported (served), else an oauth2 authorizationCode flow or openIdConnect declared in an OpenAPI (documented)
Typed Event Surface +6 pts — AsyncAPI document, OR webhooks/callbacks objects in the as-published OpenAPI, OR common[].type includes Webhooks

7 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

Kin Score — facets with the most composite points still available (weight × headroom):

Contract Quality scores 22.1 — up to +19.5 composite points
Access Clarity scores 31.6 — up to +13.7 composite points
Developer Ergonomics scores 35.7 — up to +12.9 composite points

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Standards implemented 1

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.

Model Context Protocol (MCP)

measured — observed by APIs.io (documented)

APIs 2

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

Arctic API

Arctic provides an OpenAI‑compatible API for accessing AI models and blockchain‑linked data.

Arctic API

Arctic API as documented publicly: 16 operations. Contract generated from the documentation by API Evangelist (2026-11-01); not the provider's own document.

MCP Servers 1

Model Context Protocol servers that expose these APIs to AI agents.

Arctic MCP Server

Remote MCP server at www.arctic.qpon.

MCP SERVER

Arctic API pricing

Prices published by Arctic.

Plan	Price
Open	—
Member	—
Holder	—
Guardian	—

Plan details, limits and sources →

Rate limits

Requests per day (Open): 1d
Requests per day (Member): 1d
Requests per day (Holder): 1d

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Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Arctic Qpon Plans Pricing

4 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Arctic Qpon Rate Limits

4 limits

RATE LIMITS

Semantic Vocabularies 1

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

Arctic Qpon Context

4 classes · 28 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 1

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

Arctic API Rules

40 rules · 38 errors 1 warnings 1 info

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 4

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

GetApiRadarResponse

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

GetApiScanResponse

23 properties

JSON SCHEMA

GetApiV1AudioSpeechResponse

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

PostApiV1ChatCompletionsRequest

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Security Posture 2

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

Arctic Qpon Authentication

1 scheme

SECURITY

Arctic Qpon Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS

SECURITY

Scopes 1

OAuth scopes governing access to this provider's APIs.

Arctic Qpon Scopes

OAuth 2.0 · no documented scopes

0 scopes

SCOPES

Resources

Get Started 1

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

GettingStarted

GettingStarted

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

APIReference

APIReference

Agent Surfaces 2

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

MCPServer

MCPServer

MCP

MCP

Design & Contract 8

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Spectral

JSONLD

Vocabulary

DataModel

Idempotency

Conventions

ErrorCatalog

Conformance

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Build 2

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

CLI

CLI

ToolCrosswalk

ToolCrosswalk

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Authentication

Authentication

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 3

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

RateLimits

RateLimits

Roadmap

Roadmap

Support

Support

Commercial 1

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Plans

Plans

Company 1

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Other 2

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Hosts

Hosts

Vendors

Vendors

Source (apis.yml)

aid: arctic-qpon
name: Arctic
description: Arctic provides a unified platform for accessing a wide range of free AI models through a single OpenAI‑compatible
  API. Users can compare models side‑by‑side, run them via the web playground, integrate via the API & CLI, and explore blockchain‑linked
  data on the Robinhood Chain. The service is free, open, and includes tools such as MCP server, console, and community features
  like roadmaps and a shared inference ledger.
url: https://artifacts.apis.io/arctic-qpon/apis.yml
accessModel:
  pricing: free
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: true
  public: false
  gated: none
  gated_source:
  - onboarding
  label: Free · Self-serve signup
  confidence: high
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  - rate-limits
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-06'
  method: derived
image: https://www.arctic.qpon/film/arctic.jpg
x-type: company
x-source: harvest:mcp-registry
x-tier: profiled
x-tier-reason: enrichment pass 2026-11-01 (modular-v1; was harvest)
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-11-01'
modified: '2026-11-01'
tags:
- Artificial Intelligence
- Machine Learning
- OpenAI-Compatible
- Cryptocurrency
- Platform
tags_raw:
- AI
- Machine Learning
- OpenAI-compatible
- Crypto
- Platform
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/arctic-qpon-rate-limits.yml
- type: Plans
  url: plans/arctic-qpon-plans-pricing.yml
- type: Spectral
  url: rules/arctic-qpon-rules.yml
- type: JSONLD
  url: json-ld/arctic-qpon-context.jsonld
- type: Vocabulary
  url: vocabulary/arctic-qpon-vocabulary.yml
- type: DataModel
  url: data-model/arctic-qpon-data-model.yml
- type: CLI
  url: cli/arctic-qpon-cli.yml
- type: Idempotency
  url: conventions/arctic-qpon-conventions.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/arctic-qpon-conventions.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/arctic-qpon-authentication.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/arctic-qpon-problem-types.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/arctic-qpon-conformance.yml
- type: ToolCrosswalk
  url: mcp/arctic-qpon-tool-crosswalk.yml
- type: MCPServer
  url: mcp/arctic-qpon-mcp.yml
- type: Hosts
  url: hosts/arctic-qpon-hosts.yml
- type: Vendors
  url: vendors/arctic-qpon-vendors.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/arctic-qpon-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.arctic.qpon/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://www.arctic.qpon/docs
- type: APIReference
  url: https://www.arctic.qpon/docs
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://www.arctic.qpon/playground
- type: Roadmap
  url: https://www.arctic.qpon/roadmap
- type: Support
  url: https://www.arctic.qpon/console
- type: MCP
  url: https://www.arctic.qpon/mcp
apis:
- name: Arctic API
  description: Arctic provides an OpenAI‑compatible API for accessing AI models and blockchain‑linked data.
  humanURL: https://www.arctic.qpon/docs
  aid: arctic-qpon:arctic-api
- aid: arctic-qpon:arctic-qpon-api
  name: Arctic API
  description: 'Arctic API as documented publicly: 16 operations. Contract generated from the documentation by API Evangelist
    (2026-11-01); not

    the provider''s own document.'
  humanURL: https://www.arctic.qpon/docs?guide=api
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/_ae-authored/arctic-qpon-openapi-generated.yml
    x-provenance: generated
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/arctic-qpon-get-api-scan-response-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/arctic-qpon-get-api-radar-response-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/arctic-qpon-post-api-v1-chat-completions-request-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/arctic-qpon-get-api-v1-audio-speech-response-schema.json
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-11-01'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 32
  pass: modular-v1
  engine: identity=oss,contract=oss,surfaces=oss,docs=oss,regulatory=oss

Arctic API — frequently asked questions

Does Arctic have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 2 APIs from Arctic, including Arctic API and Arctic API.

Is there an OpenAPI specification for the Arctic API?

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

How do I authenticate with the Arctic API?

Arctic uses bearer-token authentication (1 scheme). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Arctic Qpon Authentication.

How much does the Arctic API cost?

APIs.io lists 4 pricing plans for Arctic, with each plan's price, limits and inclusions under Pricing on this page.

Does Arctic have an MCP server?

Yes. APIs.io lists 1 MCP server for Arctic: Remote MCP server at www.arctic.qpon.

Is the Arctic API ready for AI agents?

Arctic has a Kin Score of 33.2 out of 100 (thin) and an Agent Readiness score of 29.1 (agent-ready), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.

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