Cradlepoint is a Boise, Idaho-based provider of cloud-managed wireless edge routers, 5G adapters, branch-in-a-box appliances, and the NetCloud platform for enterprise wireless WAN (LTE/5G), in-vehicle networks, branch connectivity, and IoT. Ericsson acquired Cradlepoint in 2020 (closed November 2020 for approximately US$1.1B) and Cradlepoint now operates as the core of Ericsson Enterprise Wireless Solutions, working alongside Ericsson Private 5G and the Ericsson NetCloud SASE offering. Cradlepoint exposes its NetCloud Manager (NCM) platform through a documented RESTful API — NCM API v2 (Swagger 1.2, paired X-CP-API-ID/X-CP-API-KEY + X-ECM-API-ID/X-ECM-API-KEY headers, base https://www.cradlepointecm.com/api/v2/) and a newer NCM API v3 (OpenAPI 3.0, bearer-token authentication) — plus a NetCloud Router SDK for on-router Python applications and webhook destinations for alert delivery. The developer area (developer.cradlepoint.com), customer support article base (customer.cradlepoint.com), and Ericsson Enterprise Wireless docs portal (docs.cradlepoint.com) host the Getting Started guides, API reference, sample collections, and Postman bundles.
Cradlepoint publishes 12 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network, including Accounts API, AlertPushDestinations API, Alerts API, and 9 more. Tagged areas include Wireless WAN, 5G, LTE, Edge, and Branch Networking.
The Cradlepoint catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context and 2 Spectral governance rulesets.
Cradlepoint’s developer surface includes authentication, documentation, support, GitHub presence, engineering blog, product news, pricing, and 24 more developer resources.
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carries 10 points of the composite. It is scored from the published contracts
themselves: whether a caller can create-or-update in one call, whether the write accepts a key the caller already
holds, and whether the response says which branch ran. Without that, every write needs a search-and-branch in
front of it, and the first time that check is skipped a duplicate record is created.
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Agent readiness — checks not met, largest first (exact, from this profile):
MCP Server+12 pts — deployment.mode + probe verdict on the mcp/ manifest, not the pointer; an unprobed slug falls back to authorship
Idempotency+9 pts — OpenAPI mutating operations declare an idempotency key — a header, a request-body property, or a named de-duplication token whose own description says so (verified); else common[].type matches /idempoten/i (documented)
Stable Error Semantics+8 pts — OpenAPI $refs a shared error schema across 4xx/5xx responses (verified), else common[].type includes ErrorCatalog / ErrorCodes / DeclineCodes
A2A Agent Card+8 pts — a2a/-a2a.yml manifest, graded on conformance.grade against A2A 1.0.0
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The next-generation NetCloud Manager API. Documented with OpenAPI 3.0, authenticated with bearer tokens, designed for improved performance, stability, and usability over API v2....
Outbound HTTP destinations (alert_push_destinations) configured via the NCM API or UI to receive real-time JSON alert payloads when NCM alert rules fire (router offline, signal ...
Not yet checked against Cradlepoint's own pricing page. Compiled by API Evangelist on 2026-05-25 from cradlepoint.com/products/netcloud-service/; confirm before you rely on a figure.
Yes. APIs.io lists 12 APIs from Cradlepoint, including Cradlepoint NetCloud Manager API v3, Cradlepoint NetCloud Alert Webhooks and Cradlepoint NetCloud Router SDK, and 9 more.
Is there an OpenAPI specification for the Cradlepoint API?
Yes. APIs.io indexes 9 OpenAPI specifications for Cradlepoint, each linked for download from this page.
How do I authenticate with the Cradlepoint API?
Cradlepoint uses bearer-token authentication (apiKey · 2 schemes). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Cradlepoint Authentication.
How much does the Cradlepoint API cost?
APIs.io lists 5 pricing plans for Cradlepoint, with each plan's price, limits and inclusions under Pricing on this page.
Is the Cradlepoint API ready for AI agents?
Cradlepoint has a Kin Score of 38.2 out of 100 (thin) and an Agent Readiness score of 20.7 (agent-aware), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.
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