# CTERA

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/ctera/  
**Website:** https://www.ctera.com/  
**APIs profiled:** 1

CTERA operates the CTERA Intelligent Data Platform, a unified edge-to-cloud global file system and data fabric for managing unstructured file data across distributed enterprises. The platform combines secure file collaboration, cyber protection and ransomware defense, global file locking, enterprise search, data classification, and AI-readiness (InsightAI) over a single global namespace spanning edge, data center, and public cloud. CTERA is programmable through a RESTful Portal management API (uniform object namespace addressed by URIs), an official Apache-2.0 Python SDK (cterasdk), a CLI toolbox (ctools), and two official Model Context Protocol servers (mcp-ctera-core and mcp-ctera-edge) that give AI agents file-and-folder operations over the Portal and Edge Filer. CTERA was surfaced as a portfolio company of Bessemer Venture Partners.

## Kin Score — 27.5 / 100 (thin)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 27.5).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 75.9 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 4.5 |
| Contract Governance | 4.5 |
| Operational Transparency | 18.4 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 63.7 |
| Commercial Clarity | 21.1 |
| Access Clarity | 21.1 |

## Agent readiness — 13.0 (agent-aware)

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

## Access

Unknown — onboarding: unknown, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: low).

## APIs (1)

- **CTERA Portal RESTful API** — RESTful management API for the CTERA Portal. Exposes a uniform object namespace (users, devices, folders, and more) where each object is addressed by a unique URI, using GET/PUT...

## MCP servers (1)

- **CTERA MCP Server** — CTERA publishes two official, open-source (Apache-2.0) Model Context Protocol servers that give AI agents file-and-folder management over the CTERA Intelligent Data Platform: on...

## Security (2)

- **Ctera Authentication** — session-cookie · 1 scheme
- **Ctera Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

## Tags

Company, Cloud, Storage, File Storage, Global File System, Data Management, Edge Computing, Cyber Protection, Hybrid Cloud, Unstructured Data

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