Cloudability (an IBM Apptio product) is a cloud cost management and FinOps platform providing cost visibility, optimization recommendations, anomaly detection, and governance across AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and other multi-cloud environments. The Cloudability API v3 is REST-oriented with JSON responses, HTTP basic authentication using an API token, cursor-style limit/offset pagination, and operations for reporting, business mappings, rightsizing recommendations, anomalies, vendor credentials, and views.
Cloudability is listed with 7 APIs on the APIs.io network, including API v3, and 6 more. Tagged areas include Cloud Cost Management, Cost Optimization, FinOps, Multi-Cloud, and Recommendations.
The Cloudability catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context and 1 Spectral governance ruleset.
Cloudability’s developer surface includes documentation, GitHub presence, training material, API reference, getting-started guide, support, engineering blog, and 34 more developer resources.
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The Cloudability v3 API is the modern REST interface for the platform. It exposes resource-oriented endpoints for reporting, dimensions and metrics, business mappings, anomalies...
The legacy v1 API remains available for older integrations covering cost reporting and dimensions. Apptio recommends migrating to v3 for new integrations. v1 uses an api_key que...
Business Mappings define rule-based dimensions that allocate spend to cost centers, products, environments, or applications. The API lets callers list, create, update and delete...
The Rightsizing API surfaces machine-learning generated downsizing, modernization and termination recommendations for AWS EC2, RDS, EBS, Azure VMs and disks, and Google Compute ...
The Anomalies API exposes detected cost anomalies on dimensions such as service, account, and business mapping. Callers can query open anomalies, retrieve baseline / actual cost...
The Vendor Credentials API manages connections to AWS payer accounts, Azure billing scopes, GCP billing projects, OCI tenancies and other cloud vendors. It supports listing exis...
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tags:
- Cloud Cost Management
- Cost Optimization
- FinOps
- Multi-Cloud
- Recommendations
- Reporting
description: Cloudability (an IBM Apptio product) is a cloud cost management and FinOps platform providing cost visibility,
optimization recommendations, anomaly detection, and governance across AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and other multi-cloud environments.
The Cloudability API v3 is REST-oriented with JSON responses, HTTP basic authentication using an API token, cursor-style
limit/offset pagination, and operations for reporting, business mappings, rightsizing recommendations, anomalies, vendor
credentials, and views.
apis:
- aid: cloudability:api-v3
name: Cloudability API v3
tags:
- Cloud Cost Management
- FinOps
- Recommendations
- Reporting
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baseURL: https://api.cloudability.com/v3
humanURL: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloudability-commercial/cloudability-premium/saas?topic=api-getting-started-cloudability-v3
properties:
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- url: https://github.com/IBM/Apptio-Tools/tree/main/cloudability/postman-collection
type: Postman
- url: authentication/cloudability-authentication.yml
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- url: conventions/cloudability-conventions.yml
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- url: errors/cloudability-problem-types.yml
type: ErrorCatalog
description: The Cloudability v3 API is the modern REST interface for the platform. It exposes resource-oriented endpoints
for reporting, dimensions and metrics, business mappings, anomalies, rightsizing recommendations, vendor credentials,
views, dashboards, and budgets. Responses default to JSON (CSV available via Accept header), pagination uses limit and
offset together, and sort accepts +attribute / -attribute syntax. Authentication uses HTTP basic auth with an API token
issued from the Cloudability portal.
- aid: cloudability:api-v1
name: Cloudability API v1 (Legacy)
tags:
- Cloud Cost Management
- FinOps
- Legacy
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
baseURL: https://app.cloudability.com/api/v1
humanURL: https://community.ibm.com/community/user/discussion/apis-getting-started-with-cloudability-apis
properties:
- url: https://community.ibm.com/community/user/discussion/apis-getting-started-with-cloudability-apis
type: Documentation
description: The legacy v1 API remains available for older integrations covering cost reporting and dimensions. Apptio recommends
migrating to v3 for new integrations. v1 uses an api_key query parameter for authentication.
- aid: cloudability:reporting
name: Cloudability Reporting API
tags:
- Cost Reporting
- Dimensions
- FinOps
- Metrics
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
baseURL: https://api.cloudability.com/v3/reporting
humanURL: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloudability-commercial/cloudability-premium/saas
properties:
- url: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloudability-commercial/cloudability-premium/saas
type: Documentation
description: The Reporting endpoints under v3 build cost-and-usage queries against Cloudability's normalized billing dataset.
Callers select metrics (unblended cost, amortized cost, usage_quantity), dimensions (vendor, account_id, service_name,
business_mapping, region), filters, and date ranges to produce tabular results that can be exported as JSON or CSV.
- aid: cloudability:business-mappings
name: Cloudability Business Mappings API
tags:
- Allocations
- Business Mappings
- Showback
- Tagging
tags_raw:
- Allocation
- Business Mappings
- Showback
- Tagging
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
baseURL: https://api.cloudability.com/v3/business-mappings
humanURL: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloudability-commercial/cloudability-premium/saas
properties:
- url: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloudability-commercial/cloudability-premium/saas
type: Documentation
description: Business Mappings define rule-based dimensions that allocate spend to cost centers, products, environments,
or applications. The API lets callers list, create, update and delete mappings, manage rule order and statements, and
preview the resulting allocation against billing data.
- aid: cloudability:rightsizing
name: Cloudability Rightsizing Recommendations API
tags:
- Cost Optimization
- Recommendations
- Rightsizing
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
baseURL: https://api.cloudability.com/v3/rightsizing
humanURL: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloudability-commercial/cloudability-premium/saas
properties:
- url: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloudability-commercial/cloudability-premium/saas
type: Documentation
description: The Rightsizing API surfaces machine-learning generated downsizing, modernization and termination recommendations
for AWS EC2, RDS, EBS, Azure VMs and disks, and Google Compute Engine instances, including estimated savings, confidence,
and supporting utilization metrics.
- aid: cloudability:anomalies
name: Cloudability Anomaly Detection API
tags:
- Alerts
- Anomaly Detection
- Cost Optimization
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
baseURL: https://api.cloudability.com/v3/anomalies
humanURL: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloudability-commercial/cloudability-premium/saas
properties:
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type: Documentation
description: The Anomalies API exposes detected cost anomalies on dimensions such as service, account, and business mapping.
Callers can query open anomalies, retrieve baseline / actual cost deltas, classify anomalies, and acknowledge them through
the API.
- aid: cloudability:vendor-credentials
name: Cloudability Vendor Credentials API
tags:
- Amazon Web Services
- Microsoft Azure
- GCP
- Onboarding
tags_raw:
- AWS
- Azure
- GCP
- Onboarding
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
baseURL: https://api.cloudability.com/v3/vendors
humanURL: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloudability-commercial/cloudability-premium/saas
properties:
- url: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloudability-commercial/cloudability-premium/saas
type: Documentation
description: The Vendor Credentials API manages connections to AWS payer accounts, Azure billing scopes, GCP billing projects,
OCI tenancies and other cloud vendors. It supports listing existing credentials, validating connectivity, rotating secrets,
and onboarding new accounts.
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
url: security/cloudability-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
url: https://www.apptio.com/products/cloudability/
- type: Documentation
url: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloudability-commercial/cloudability-premium/saas
- type: GitHub
url: https://github.com/cloudability
- type: Training
url: https://education.apptio.com/courses/ibm-cloudability-api
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- type: Spectral
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- type: APIReference
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url: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloudability-commercial/cloudability-premium/saas?topic=api-getting-started-cloudability-v3
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url: https://www.apptio.com/company/data-privacy/
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url: security/cloudability-trust-center.yml
- type: Compliance
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- type: Conventions
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- type: ErrorCatalog
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- type: FinOps
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url: mcp/cloudability-mcp.yml
- type: DataModel
url: data-model/cloudability-data-model.yml
integrations:
- name: Apptio
- name: ApptioCareers-Employee[1]
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
email: kin@apievangelist.com
x-enrichment:
date: '2026-09-05'
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pass: local-v3
x-parent: apptio
x-relationship: acquisition
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Cloudability API — frequently asked questions
Does Cloudability have an API?
Yes. APIs.io lists 7 APIs from Cloudability, including Cloudability API v3, Cloudability API v1 (Legacy) and Cloudability Reporting API, and 4 more.
How do I authenticate with the Cloudability API?
Cloudability uses bearer-token authentication (2 schemes). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Cloudability Authentication.
Is the Cloudability API ready for AI agents?
Cloudability has a Kin Score of 47.0 out of 100 (developing) and an Agent Readiness score of 7.9 (agent-aware), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.
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