Cogent Communications

aid: cogent-communications
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/cogent-communications/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
name: Cogent Communications
type: Index
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: enterprise
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Enterprise
  confidence: medium
  probe_state: none
  source:
  - plans
  - rate-limits
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-06'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/cogent-communications.png
tags:
- Internet
- Networks
- Data Center
- Telecommunications
- Colocation
- Bandwidth
- Ethernet
- Peering
- Fiber
- Internet Service Provider
tags_raw:
- Internet
- Network
- Data Center
- Telecommunications
- Colocation
- Bandwidth
- Ethernet
- Peering
- Fiber
- Internet Service Provider
- Data-Center
description: 'Cogent Communications Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: CCOI, AS174) is a facilities-based Tier 1 internet service provider
  headquartered in Washington, DC, selling Dedicated Internet Access, IP Transit, Ethernet, MPLS IP-VPN, SD-WAN, optical wavelength
  transport, Global Peer Connect peering ports and colocation across its own global fiber network. Cogent publishes no public
  API, developer portal or machine-readable contract: a full probe on 2026-09-14 found no OpenAPI, AsyncAPI, GraphQL, MCP
  server or agent card on any host it operates, and the api.cogentco.com and developer.cogentco.com names a prior scaffold
  recorded do not exist in DNS. Its programmatic-adjacent surfaces are two login-gated portals — eCogent for billing, orders,
  tickets, DNS changes and IP/BGP requests, and the Global Peer Exchange portal for peering ports. What it does publish openly
  is a dated Network Services SLA with quantified latency, jitter and packet-delivery commitments, plus monthly network performance
  statistics.'
created: '2026-04-19'
modified: '2026-09-14'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis: []
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://www.cogentco.com/
- type: About
  url: https://www.cogentco.com/en/about-cogent
- type: Services
  url: https://www.cogentco.com/en/products-and-services
- type: Support
  url: https://www.cogentco.com/en/customer-service
- type: FAQ
  url: https://www.cogentco.com/faq
- type: Login
  url: https://ecogent.cogentco.com/
- type: Contact
  url: https://www.cogentco.com/en/contact/sales-inquiry
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.cogentco.com/en/cogent-blog
- type: BlogRSS
  url: https://www.cogentco.com/en/?format=feed&type=rss
- type: PressReleases
  url: https://www.cogentco.com/en/about-cogent/press-releases
- type: Careers
  url: https://www.cogentco.com/en/about-cogent/careers
- type: InvestorRelations
  url: https://www.cogentco.com/en/about-cogent/investor-relations
- type: ServiceLevelAgreement
  url: https://www.cogentco.com/files/docs/network/performance/global_sla.pdf
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/cogent-communications-lifecycle.yml
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.cogentco.com/privacy-policy
- type: Plans
  url: plans/cogent-communications-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/cogent-communications-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/cogent-communications-finops.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/cogent-communications-domain-security.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/cogent-communications-llms.txt
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/cogent-communications
- type: X
  url: https://twitter.com/cogentco
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-09-14'
  status: minimal
  artifacts_added: 3
  pass: local-v3
x-coverage:
  state: none
  reason: no-developer-program
  detail: Cogent sells network transport, not software, and runs no developer program at all — the cogentco.com sitemap has
    no developer, API or docs section, api.cogentco.com and developer.cogentco.com are NXDOMAIN, and the only two interactive
    surfaces (eCogent at ecogent.cogentco.com and the Global Peer Exchange portal) are catch-all login apps that answer HTTP
    200 with the same HTML page for every path probed, including a random control path that cannot exist.
  evidence:
  - url: https://developer.cogentco.com/
    status: 0
  - url: https://api.cogentco.com/
    status: 0
  - url: https://www.cogentco.com/openapi.json
    status: 404
  - url: https://www.cogentco.com/llms.txt
    status: 404
  - url: https://www.cogentco.com/.well-known/agent-card.json
    status: 404
  - url: https://ecogent.cogentco.com/.well-known/cogent-communications-negative-control-7f3ab91c.json
    status: 200
  - url: https://www.cogentco.com/en/sitemap
    status: 200
  checked: '2026-09-14'