# Cohesity

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/cohesity/  
**Website:** https://www.cohesity.com/  
**APIs profiled:** 2

Cohesity is a data security and management company providing backup, disaster recovery, archive, and cyber resilience capabilities across on-premises, cloud, and SaaS workloads. Following the merger with Veritas, the combined company protects enterprise data while powering automation, orchestration, and AI- driven recovery. The Cohesity developer surface centers on the Cohesity REST API, exposed both per-cluster (DataProtect/cluster API) and via the Helios global control plane, with versioned v1 and v2 endpoints, API-key authentication, and SDKs for Python, PowerShell, Ansible, Terraform, and ServiceNow.

## Kin Score — 20.2 / 100 (emerging)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 20.2).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 66.7 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 28.9 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 33.3 |
| Commercial Clarity | 15.8 |
| Access Clarity | 15.8 |

## 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 (2)

- **Cohesity Helios REST API** — Helios is Cohesity's SaaS-based control plane that manages a fleet of Cohesity clusters from a single global pane of glass. The Helios REST API authenticates via an apiKey gener...
- **Cohesity DataProtect REST API** — The DataProtect REST API is the per-cluster RESTful interface exposed by every Cohesity cluster, providing programmatic control over data management operations including backups...

## Security (1)

- **Cohesity Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

## Plans (1)

- **Cohesity Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Automation, Backup, Cyber Resilience, Data Management, Data Protection, Data Security, DataProtect, Disaster Recovery, Helios, Orchestration

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