Ask the Grid

Ask the Grid provides a live power grid map for the US, Canada, and Mexico, offering real‑time data on prices, transmission, outages, and weather across markets. Users can query the platform in plain English to receive sourced answers, set up radar alerts for assets or collections, and access detailed reports and briefings. The service aggregates data from utilities, ISOs, RTOs, data centers, and other grid operators, delivering comprehensive insights for traders, utilities, and large energy consumers.

Ask the Grid is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Energy, Data, Mapping, Real-Time, and Analytics.

Ask the Grid’s developer surface includes changelog, support, pricing, engineering blog, and 16 more developer resources.

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17.7/100 emerging ▼ -8.4 Agent 18/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0 · Show this score on your site →

AccessFreemium

0 APIs

Energy Data Mapping Real-Time Analytics

Kin Score

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

Composite quality — 17.7/100 · emerging

Contract Quality 0.0 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 1.4 / 17

Access Clarity 7.4 / 17

Operational Transparency 1.5 / 11

Contract Governance 0.0 / 10

Discoverability 4.2 / 9

Regulatory Posture 2.7 / 15

Agent readiness — 18/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 12 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 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 6 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 6 / 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 Energy & Utilities 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
Agentic Access Contract +10 pts — agentic_access artifact present (x-agentic-access), graded by author
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
A2A Agent Card +8 pts — a2a/-a2a.yml manifest, graded on conformance.grade against A2A 1.0.0
Rate-Limit Signaling +7 pts — OpenAPI responses document X-RateLimit-* / RateLimit headers (verified), else a rate_limits artifact or RateLimits link (documented)

9 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

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

Contract Quality scores 0.0 — up to +25.0 composite points
Developer Ergonomics scores 8.3 — up to +18.3 composite points
Contract Governance scores 0.0 — up to +12.0 composite points

Each check links to what satisfies it. Publish the artifact, or tell us where it already lives, and the score moves on the next scoring run.

Improve this rating by publishing the missing artifacts — every area above can be raised, and the full rubric is at apis.io/rating/. Every facet and dimension name above is a link: it opens that measurement's own page — what it means, the exact checks that feed it, how the whole catalog distributes on it, and the providers at the top of it. This rating is computed from the provider profile at artifacts.apis.io/askthegrid-com/apis.yml: open an issue on github.com/api-evangelist/askthegrid-com to ask a question or point us at an artifact you publish. Submit an artifact on GitHub — free → Manage your own listing — the Influence plan, $499/mo →

Standards implemented 2

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)

Dynamic Client Registration

measured — observed by APIs.io (published)

Ask the Grid API pricing

Prices published by Ask the Grid.

Plan	Price
Free	$0
Enterprise	Contact sales

Plan details, limits and sources →

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Askthegrid Com Plans Pricing

2 plans

PLANS

Security Posture 2

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

Askthegrid Com Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Askthegrid Com Vulnerability Disclosure

security.txt · contact published

SECURITY

Resources

Get Started 2

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Login

DeveloperPortal

DeveloperPortal

Agent Surfaces 2

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

LLMsTxt

LLMsTxt

WellKnown

WellKnown

Access & Security 4

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

SecurityTxt

SecurityTxt

Security

Security

VulnerabilityDisclosure

VulnerabilityDisclosure

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 3

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

ChangeLog

ChangeLog

Support

Support

ChangeLog

ChangeLog

Commercial 4

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Plans

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

Pricing

Company 3

The organization behind the API

Newsroom

Newsroom

Blog

Blog

Website

Website

Other 2

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Hosts

Hosts

Vendors

Vendors

Source (apis.yml)

aid: askthegrid-com
name: Ask the Grid
accessModel:
  pricing: freemium
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Freemium
  confidence: low
  probe_state: unreadable
  source:
  - plans
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-06'
  method: derived
image: https://askthegrid.com/og/card?title=Ask+the+Grid&description=AI+platform+for+power+and+energy+professionals%3A+live+maps+of+BC+Hydro%2C+Manitoba+Hydro%2C+SaskPower+and+22+more+North+American+grids%2C+an+agent+that+explains+why%2C+and+price+forecasts.&path=askthegrid.com&image=%2Fsite%2Fproduct%2Fagent-source-citations.jpg&fit=contain
description: Ask the Grid provides a live power grid map for the US, Canada, and Mexico, offering real‑time data on prices,
  transmission, outages, and weather across markets. Users can query the platform in plain English to receive sourced answers,
  set up radar alerts for assets or collections, and access detailed reports and briefings. The service aggregates data from
  utilities, ISOs, RTOs, data centers, and other grid operators, delivering comprehensive insights for traders, utilities,
  and large energy consumers.
url: https://artifacts.apis.io/askthegrid-com/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: harvest:mcp-registry
x-tier: profiled
x-tier-reason: enrichment pass 2026-11-02 (modular-v1; was harvest)
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-11-01'
modified: '2026-11-01'
tags:
- Energy
- Data
- Mapping
- Real-Time
- Analytics
tags_raw:
- Energy
- Data
- Mapping
- Real-time
- Analytics
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: Plans
  url: plans/askthegrid-com-plans-pricing.yml
- type: ChangeLog
  url: changelog/askthegrid-com-changelog.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/askthegrid-com-llms.txt
- type: SecurityTxt
  url: well-known/askthegrid-com-security.txt
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/askthegrid-com-well-known.yml
- type: Hosts
  url: hosts/askthegrid-com-hosts.yml
- type: Vendors
  url: vendors/askthegrid-com-vendors.yml
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://askthegrid.com/terms
- type: Support
  url: https://askthegrid.com/help
- type: Security
  url: https://askthegrid.com/security
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://askthegrid.com/privacy
- type: Pricing
  url: https://askthegrid.com/pricing
- type: Newsroom
  url: https://static.askthegrid.com/media/demos/homepage/understand.mp4
- type: Login
  url: https://askthegrid.com/login
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://askthegrid.com/developers
- type: ChangeLog
  url: https://askthegrid.com/changelog
- type: Blog
  url: https://askthegrid.com/blog
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/askthegrid-com-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/askthegrid-com-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://askthegrid.com/
apis: []
x-coverage:
  state: unreadable
  reason: js-rendered-docs
  detail: Documentation page https://askthegrid.com/developers/console/docs returns a Cloudflare bot challenge, preventing
    machine‑readable access.
  evidence:
  - url: https://askthegrid.com/developers/console/docs
    status: 403
  checked: '2026-11-02'
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-11-02'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 14
  pass: modular-v1
  engine: identity=local,contract=local,surfaces=local,docs=local,regulatory=local

Ask the Grid API — frequently asked questions

How much does the Ask the Grid API cost?

Ask the Grid publishes its prices; its Free plan is $0 as of 2026-11-02. APIs.io lists 2 pricing plans for Ask the Grid, with each plan's price, limits and inclusions under Pricing on this page.

Is the Ask the Grid API ready for AI agents?

Ask the Grid has a Kin Score of 17.7 out of 100 (emerging) and an Agent Readiness score of 18.2 (agent-aware), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.

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get_provider_artifactsEvery artifact this provider publishes, grouped by type.
get_provider_operationsEvery operation across all of their OpenAPIs — one call instead of parsing every spec.
get_provider_toolsEvery MCP tool they ship, with the operation each wraps.
get_provider_evidenceHow each part of their score was established. Free — the basis for a claim should not sit behind it.
get_provider_ratingPRO — composite, band, trend and facet scores.
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