Cloudability

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 publishes 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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52.8/100 developing ▬ flat Agent 8/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-09-25 · rubric v0.23.0

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7 APIs

Cloud Cost Management Cost Optimization FinOps Multi-Cloud Recommendations Reporting

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scored 2026-09-25 · rubric v0.23.0

Composite quality — 52.8/100 · developing

Contract Quality 1.4 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 11.7 / 17

Access Clarity 9.8 / 17

Operational Transparency 6.4 / 11

Contract Governance 6.9 / 10

Discoverability 6.1 / 9

Regulatory Posture 5.3 / 15

Agent readiness — 8/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 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

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APIs 7

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

Cloudability API v3

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...

Cloudability API v1 (Legacy)

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...

Cloudability Reporting API

The Reporting endpoints under v3 build cost-and-usage queries against Cloudability's normalized billing dataset. Callers select metrics (unblended cost, amortized cost, usage_qu...

Cloudability Business Mappings API

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...

Cloudability Rightsizing Recommendations API

The Rightsizing API surfaces machine-learning generated downsizing, modernization and termination recommendations for AWS EC2, RDS, EBS, Azure VMs and disks, and Google Compute ...

Cloudability Anomaly Detection API

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...

Cloudability Vendor Credentials API

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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Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Cloudability Plans Pricing

0 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Cloudability Rate Limits

0 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

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

Cloudability Finops

FINOPS

Semantic Vocabularies 1

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

Cloudability Context

0 classes · 7 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 1

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

Cloudability API Rules

11 rules · 4 errors 6 warnings 1 info

SPECTRAL

Security Posture 4

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

Cloudability Authentication

2 schemes

SECURITY

Cloudability Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC

SECURITY

Cloudability Vulnerability Disclosure

Hackerone

SECURITY

Cloudability Trust Center

SOC 2 Type II, ISO/IEC 27001:2013, FedRAMP, Cloud Security Alliance STAR Level One, EU GDPR, CCPA, EU-US Privacy Shield

SECURITY

Resources

Get Started 3

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

DeveloperPortal

DeveloperPortal

GettingStarted

GettingStarted

SignUp

SignUp

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

APIReference

APIReference

Agent Surfaces 3

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

WellKnown

WellKnown

LLMsTxt

LLMsTxt

X-MCPServerCandidate

X-MCPServerCandidate

Design & Contract 7

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

JSONLD

Spectral

Conformance

Conventions

ErrorCatalog

Lifecycle

DataModel

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Build 5

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHub

GitHub

Postman

Postman

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

Packages

Packages

SDKs

SDKs

Access & Security 7

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

SecurityTxt

SecurityTxt

Security

Security

VulnerabilityDisclosure

VulnerabilityDisclosure

TrustCenter

TrustCenter

Compliance

Compliance

Authentication

Authentication

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Learn 1

Tutorials, courses, talks, and written guidance

Training

Training

Operate 7

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support

HelpCenter

Roadmap

StatusPage

Deprecation

ChangeLog

RateLimits

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Commercial 4

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

Plans

FinOps

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

Source (apis.yml)

aid: cloudability
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/cloudability/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
name: Cloudability
deliveryModel:
  model: unknown
  open_source: false
  commercial: false
  callable_host: false
  label: Delivery model not determined — needs a product licence on record
  confidence: low
  source:
  - none
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: freemium
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Freemium
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
created: '2026-03-27'
modified: '2026-09-05'
type: Index
access: 3rd-Party
position: Consuming
specificationVersion: '0.23'
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/cloudability.png
kind: company
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
  image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
  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:
  - url: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloudability-commercial/cloudability-premium/saas?topic=api-getting-started-cloudability-v3
    type: Documentation
  - url: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloudability-commercial/cloudability-premium/saas?topic=api-getting-started-cloudability-v3
    type: GettingStarted
  - url: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloudability-commercial/cloudability-premium/saas?topic=cloudability-api
    type: APIReference
  - url: https://github.com/IBM/Apptio-Tools/tree/main/cloudability/postman-collection
    type: Postman
  - url: authentication/cloudability-authentication.yml
    type: Authentication
  - url: conventions/cloudability-conventions.yml
    type: Conventions
  - 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:
  - url: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloudability-commercial/cloudability-premium/saas
    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:
  - 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
- type: JSONLD
  url: json-ld/cloudability-context.jsonld
- type: Spectral
  url: rules/cloudability-rules.yml
- type: Integrations
  url: https://www.apptio.com/company/partners/
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloudability-commercial
- type: APIReference
  url: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloudability-commercial/cloudability-premium/saas?topic=cloudability-api
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloudability-commercial/cloudability-premium/saas?topic=api-getting-started-cloudability-v3
- type: Postman
  url: https://github.com/IBM/Apptio-Tools/tree/main/cloudability/postman-collection
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/cloudability
- type: Support
  url: https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7032143
- type: HelpCenter
  url: https://community.ibm.com/community/user/groups/community-home?CommunityKey=15c0e07d-35c0-49de-a84b-019253d13376
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.apptio.com/blog/
- type: Roadmap
  url: https://automation-management.ideas.ibm.com/?project=CLOUDY
- type: SignUp
  url: https://frontdoor.apptio.com/login
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.ibm.com/terms
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.apptio.com/company/data-privacy/
- type: StatusPage
  url: https://status.cloudability.com/
- type: Packages
  url: packages/cloudability-packages.yml
- type: SDKs
  url: packages/cloudability-packages.yml
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/cloudability-well-known.yml
- type: SecurityTxt
  url: well-known/cloudability-security.txt
- type: Security
  url: security/cloudability-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/cloudability-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: TrustCenter
  url: security/cloudability-trust-center.yml
- type: Compliance
  url: security/cloudability-trust-center.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/cloudability-conformance.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/cloudability-authentication.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/cloudability-conventions.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/cloudability-problem-types.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/cloudability-lifecycle.yml
- type: Deprecation
  url: lifecycle/cloudability-lifecycle.yml
- type: ChangeLog
  url: changelog/cloudability-changelog.yml
- type: Plans
  url: plans/cloudability-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/cloudability-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/cloudability-finops.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/cloudability-llms.txt
- type: X-MCPServerCandidate
  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'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 1
  pass: local-v3
x-parent: apptio
x-relationship: acquisition
x-acquired: 2019

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