# Cognite

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/cognite/  
**Website:** https://www.cognite.com  
**APIs profiled:** 90

Cognite is an industrial AI and data platform provider whose core product, Cognite Data Fusion (CDF), contextualizes and integrates data from OT, IT, and ET systems across oil and gas, energy, manufacturing, and mining industries. CDF exposes a comprehensive REST API covering assets, time series, events, files, 3D models, data modeling, entity matching, transformations, functions, and workflows, with SDKs available for Python, JavaScript, Java, .NET, and Rust.

## Kin Score — 33.2 / 100 (thin)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 33.2).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 50.0 |
| Contract Quality | 68.1 |
| Governance | 9.8 |
| Contract Governance | 9.8 |
| Operational Transparency | 2.6 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 40.5 |
| Commercial Clarity | 7.9 |
| Access Clarity | 7.9 |

## Agent readiness — 37.9 (agent-ready)

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

## Access

Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: medium).

## APIs (90)

- **Cognite Data Fusion API** — The Cognite Data Fusion (CDF) REST API provides programmatic access to industrial data including assets, time series, events, files, sequences, 3D models, data modeling spaces a...
- **Cognite 3D Asset Mapping API** — The 3D Asset Mapping API from Cognite — 5 operation(s) for 3d asset mapping.
- **Cognite 3D Files API** — The 3D Files API from Cognite — 2 operation(s) for 3d files.
- **Cognite 3D Jobs API** — The 3D Jobs API from Cognite — 6 operation(s) for 3d jobs.
- **Cognite 3D Model Revisions API** — The 3D Model Revisions API from Cognite — 11 operation(s) for 3d model revisions.
- **Cognite 3D Models API** — The 3D Models API from Cognite — 4 operation(s) for 3d models.
- **Cognite Annotations API** — Annotations reflect contextual information in base CDF resource types, such as Files and Time series, that are not present on the object itself. The benefits of the annotations ...
- **Cognite Assets API** — The assets resource type stores digital representations of objects or groups of objects from the physical world. Assets are organized in hierarchies. For example, a water pump a...
- **Cognite Connections API** — The Connections API from Cognite — 3 operation(s) for connections.
- **Cognite Containers API** — The Containers API from Cognite — 9 operation(s) for containers.
- **Cognite Data models API** — The Data models API from Cognite — 3 operation(s) for data models.
- **Cognite Data point subscriptions API** — A data point subscription is a way to listen to changes to time series data points, in ingestion order. A single subscription can listen to many time series, and a time series c...
- **Cognite Data products API** — Data products are governed, ready-for-consumption data assets derived from data domains, following data mesh principles. **Key characteristics:** - **Clear ownership**: Defined ...
- **Cognite Data sets API** — Data sets let you document and track data lineage, ensure data integrity, and allow 3rd parties to write their insights securely back to a Cognite Data Fusion (CDF) project. Dat...
- **Cognite Destinations API** — A hosted extractor writes to a **destination**. The destination contains credentials for CDF, and additional information about where the data should land, such as data set ID. M...
- **Cognite Diagrams API** — The Diagrams API from Cognite — 6 operation(s) for diagrams.
- **Cognite Document AI API** — The Document AI API from Cognite — 2 operation(s) for document ai.
- **Cognite Document parsing API** — The Document parsing API from Cognite — 1 operation(s) for document parsing.
- **Cognite Document preview API** — The document preview service is a utility API that can render most document types as an image or PDF. This can be very helpful if you want to display a preview of a file in a fr...
- **Cognite Documents API** — A document is a file that has been indexed by the document search engine. Every time a file is uploaded, updated or deleted in the Files API, it will also be scheduled for proce...
- **Cognite Engineering diagrams API** — The Engineering diagrams API from Cognite — 4 operation(s) for engineering diagrams.
- **Cognite Entities API** — The Entities API from Cognite — 4 operation(s) for entities.
- **Cognite Entity matching API** — The entity matching contextualization endpoints lets you match CDF resources. For example, you can match time series to assets. The model uses similarity between string-fields f...
- **Cognite Events API** — Events objects store complex information about multiple assets over a time period. Typical types of events that would be stored in this service might include Alarms, Process Dat...
- **Cognite Extraction Pipelines API** — Extraction Pipeline objects represent the applications and software that are deployed to ingest operational data into CDF. An extraction pipeline can consist of a number of diff...
- **Cognite Extraction Pipelines Config API** — Extraction Pipelines Configs are configuration file revisions tied to an extraction pipeline. Users can create new configuration revisions, and extractors can fetch the latest, ...
- **Cognite Extraction Pipelines Runs API** — Extraction Pipelines Runs are CDF objects to store statuses related to an extraction pipeline. The supported statuses are: success, failure and seen. The statuses are related to...
- **Cognite Extractors API** — Extractors are tools used to move data from various source systems to CDF. The extractors API is used to manage extractor releases, give access to downloads, and contextualize w...
- **Cognite Files API** — A file stores a sequence of bytes connected to one or more assets. For example, a file can contain a piping and instrumentation diagram (P&IDs) showing how multiple assets are c...
- **Cognite Function calls API** — Function calls let you execute functions asynchronously with a timeout of 15 minutes.
- **Cognite Function schedules API** — Function schedules allow you to run functions with a specific input at intervals defined by a cron expression. These function calls will be asynchronous and show up in the funct...
- **Cognite Functions API** — Functions enables Python code to be hosted and executed in the cloud, on demand or by using a schedule. Execution, status and logs are available through the API. A function is u...
- **Cognite Geometries API** — The Geometries API from Cognite — 4 operation(s) for geometries.
- **Cognite Geospatial API** — The Geospatial API allows to model a problem domain when data has a geometric or geographic nature. The geospatial data is organized in feature types that are homogeneous collec...
- **Cognite Groups API** — Groups are used to give principals the capabilities to access CDF resources. One principal can be a member in multiple groups and one group can have multiple members. Note that ...
- **Cognite Instances API** — The Instances API from Cognite — 9 operation(s) for instances.
- **Cognite Integrations API** — Each integration represents an application running on-premises.
- **Cognite Jobs API** — A hosted extractor **job** represents the running extractor. Jobs produce logs and metrics that give the state of the job. For details on available states and metrics see docume...
- **Cognite Labels API** — The Labels API from Cognite — 4 operation(s) for labels.
- **Cognite Libraries API** — The Libraries API from Cognite — 6 operation(s) for libraries.
- …and 50 more, listed in full on the page.

## Agentic access (1)

- **Cognite Agentic Access** — 980 operations · 708 acting · 4 human-in-the-loop

## Security (4)

- **Cognite Authentication** — http/oauth2/openIdConnect · 4 schemes
- **Cognite Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC
- **Cognite Vulnerability Disclosure** — security.txt · contact published
- **Cognite Trust Center** — SOC 2, ISO 27001, ISO 27018, GDPR, CSA STAR

## Tags

Industrial IoT, Manufacturing, Industrial Data, Digital Twin, Asset Management, Time Series, Industrial AI

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