# Berkshire Hathaway

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/berkshire-hathaway/  
**Website:** https://www.berkshirehathaway.com  
**APIs profiled:** 1

Berkshire Hathaway is a multinational conglomerate holding company headquartered in Omaha, Nebraska. The company's diversified subsidiaries span insurance (GEICO, Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance, National Indemnity), freight rail transportation (BNSF Railway), utilities and energy (Berkshire Hathaway Energy), manufacturing (Precision Castparts, Iscar), wholesale distribution (McLane Company), and services and retailing. BNSF Railway, one of North America's largest freight rail networks, operates a public API Center providing customer APIs for shipment tracking, pricing, scheduling, and waybill management.

## Kin Score — 8.4 / 100 (minimal)

Scored 2026-08-21 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 8.4).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 59.3 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 7.9 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 0.0 |
| Commercial Clarity | 15.8 |
| Access Clarity | 15.8 |

Regulatory layer — **Energy & Utilities**: 8.1 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 3.0 (human-only)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Freemium — onboarding: unknown, pricing: freemium, trial: no (confidence: medium).

## APIs (1)

- **BNSF Railway API** — The BNSF API Center provides customer APIs for programmatic integration with BNSF Railway freight shipping operations. APIs enable real-time shipment tracing, intermodal hub ope...

## Security (1)

- **Berkshire Hathaway Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · DMARC

## Plans (1)

- **Berkshire Hathaway Plans Pricing**

## Use cases (4)

- **Freight Shipment Tracking** — Shippers and logistics providers integrate the BNSF API to display real-time freight tracking in their transportation management systems and customer-facing applications.
- **Freight Pricing and Scheduling** — Customers use the BNSF pricing and schedules APIs to obtain freight rates, compare transit times, and automate rate shopping in procurement and logistics workflows.
- **Waybill Submission** — Shippers submit bills of lading and retrieve waybill information programmatically through the BNSF Waybill Management API to reduce manual data entry and streamline freight docu...
- **Intermodal Hub Operations** — Intermodal customers access container and trailer status, storage location, and driver pickup/delivery details at BNSF intermodal facilities through the Hub Operations API.

## Tags

Conglomerate, Energy, Finance, Freight Rail, Insurance, Investment, Manufacturing, Retail, Utilities, Fortune 100

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