Datum

Datum is an open source network cloud built for AI, founded in 2024 and backed by $13.6M from Amplify Partners, CRV, Encoded Ventures, Cervin Ventures, Ex/Ante, Step Function, and Vine Ventures, and founded by Zac Smith and Jacob Smith (ex-Equinix, Packet). Datum gives AI-native developers and alternative cloud providers critical, neutral network infrastructure to compete at scale: an Envoy-based AI Edge with a Coraza OWASP WAF, Layer 7 HTTPProxy/HTTPRoute traffic management, authoritative DNS and programmatic domain management, QUIC-based secure tunnels (Connectors) powered by Iroh, and a Galactic VPC global backbone, all deployed across 17+ global network locations. The platform is exposed through a Kubernetes-style declarative control-plane API at api.datum.net, the datumctl CLI, an official MCP server, and packaged agent Skills, with OAuth 2.0 / OIDC authentication and a forever-free Builder tier. Core platform is licensed AGPLv3.

Datum is listed with 1 API on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Data, Cloud, Networking, and Edge.

Datum’s developer surface includes documentation, API reference, getting-started guide, engineering blog, support, pricing, signup flow, and 22 more developer resources.

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42.1/100 developing ▬ flat Agent 19/100 agent aware Front door AI 4/6 moderate Heartbeat 96/100 alive saas Full breakdown ↓
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1 API 1 MCP Servers

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Kin Score

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scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0

Composite quality — 42.1/100 · developing

Contract Quality 0.0 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 12.1 / 17

Access Clarity 10.7 / 17

Operational Transparency 2.6 / 11

Contract Governance 1.9 / 10

Discoverability 7.2 / 9

Regulatory Posture 3.7 / 15

Agent readiness — 19/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 12 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 5 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 4 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

Delegated User Identity 6 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

Pagination 5 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

MCP Tool Quality 6 / 6

Regulatory Posture applies to this provider. Its tags matched the Horizontal (data, software, accessibility, platform) regime, so Regulatory Posture carries 15 points of the composite. If this regime is wrong for your business, say so on your provider repo — the applicability map is public and we will correct it.

Create-or-Update Ergonomics could not be measured. We hold no machine-readable contract for this provider to read, so there is nothing to measure a write surface against. Excluded rather than scored zero: never-measured and measured-empty are different facts. Publishing an OpenAPI is what makes this facet — and several others — scorable at all.

The six quality facets above are damped to 85 points between them, because the conditional facet above carries the other 15. That is why each facet's contribution is shown against a damped maximum: raising a quality facet moves the composite by 85% of its nominal weight, not 100%. The full arithmetic is at apis.io/rating/.

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Agent readiness — checks not met, largest first (exact, from this profile):

Machine-Readable Contract +18 pts — api_specs includes an OpenAPI document
Agentic Access Contract +10 pts — agentic_access artifact present (x-agentic-access), graded by author
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
Rate-Limit Signaling +7 pts — OpenAPI responses document X-RateLimit-* / RateLimit headers (verified), else a rate_limits artifact or RateLimits link (documented)

8 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

Kin Score — facets with the most composite points still available (weight × headroom):

Contract Quality scores 0.0 — up to +25.0 composite points
Operational Transparency scores 23.7 — up to +9.9 composite points
Contract Governance scores 18.2 — up to +9.8 composite points

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Markets this provider is in provisional

The Kin Score Market layer reads a provider inside its market: its position, and how deep its integrations go. Depth is only comparable within a position. Provisional and unweighted: not part of the Kin Score or agent readiness.

Market	Position	Depth	Registered MCP server	Declares compatibility
Network Edge (CDN, networking, peering, edge compute)	standard	44.1	-	1
Agent Skills (SKILL.md packages)	standard	44.1	-	1
Buf Schema Registry (public Protocol Buffers modules, gRPC / ConnectRPC schema publishers)	standard	44.1	-	1

Registered MCP server and declares compatibility are report only — not weighted. Undeclared means we found nothing we can read, so there is no number: we never infer integrations.

Standards implemented 3

Standards this provider implements or carries. De facto ones are profiled and measured by the API Commons; formal ones come from the standards directory and are linked by the provider's own tags. The evidence column says how each claim was established — not that it was made.

DNS

tagged — the provider's own APIs.json carries the standard as a tag; implementation not verified

Model Context Protocol (MCP)

measured — observed by APIs.io (platform)

Agent Skills

measured — observed by APIs.io (published)

APIs 1

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Datum Cloud API

Kubernetes-style declarative control-plane API for managing Datum Cloud resources — projects, domains, DNS zones and record sets, gateways, HTTPProxies, HTTPRoutes, traffic prot...

MCP Servers 1

Model Context Protocol servers that expose these APIs to AI agents.

Datum MCP Server

Remote MCP server at www.datum.net.

MCP SERVER

Datum API pricing

Prices published by Datum, read 2026-10-07 from www.datum.net/pricing.

Plan	Price
DNS Requests	$0.60 per million after the first 500K per million requests Includes: first 500K
ALB Requests	$1.00 per million per million requests
GSLB Requests	$0.60 per million per million requests
Compute vCPU	$0.0504 per hour
Compute GiB of Memory	$0.0162 per hour
Object Storage Standard tier	$0.0085 per GB per month
Object Storage Performance tier	$0.024 per GB per month
Gateways	$0.045 per hour

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Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Datum Plans Pricing

15 plans

PLANS

Service Levels 1

Uptime the provider promises or reports, as SLA4OAI. Read from its own pages; APIs.io runs no monitors.

Datum

SLA

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Datum Finops

FINOPS

Security Posture 2

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Datum Authentication

oauth2/openIdConnect · 2 schemes

SECURITY

Datum Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Scopes 1

OAuth scopes governing access to this provider's APIs.

Datum Scopes

6 scopes

SCOPES

Resources

Get Started 3

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

DeveloperPortal

DeveloperPortal

GettingStarted

GettingStarted

SignUp

SignUp

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

APIReference

APIReference

Agent Surfaces 4

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

WellKnown

MCPServer

AgentSkill

LLMsTxt

Design & Contract 4

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Components

Lifecycle

Conventions

Conformance

Build 3

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

CLI

CLI

Packages

Packages

Access & Security 3

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Authentication

Authentication

OAuthScopes

OAuthScopes

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 3

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Roadmap

Roadmap

Support

Support

StatusPage

StatusPage

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Plans

Plans

Pricing

Pricing

Company 3

The organization behind the API

BlogRSS

BlogRSS

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

Other 2

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

OpenIDConnect

OpenIDConnect

APICatalog

APICatalog

Source (apis.yml)

aid: datum
name: Datum
description: 'Datum is an open source network cloud built for AI, founded in 2024 and backed by $13.6M from Amplify Partners,
  CRV, Encoded Ventures, Cervin Ventures, Ex/Ante, Step Function, and Vine Ventures, and founded by Zac Smith and Jacob Smith
  (ex-Equinix, Packet). Datum gives AI-native developers and alternative cloud providers critical, neutral network infrastructure
  to compete at scale: an Envoy-based AI Edge with a Coraza OWASP WAF, Layer 7 HTTPProxy/HTTPRoute traffic management, authoritative
  DNS and programmatic domain management, QUIC-based secure tunnels (Connectors) powered by Iroh, and a Galactic VPC global
  backbone, all deployed across 17+ global network locations. The platform is exposed through a Kubernetes-style declarative
  control-plane API at api.datum.net, the datumctl CLI, an official MCP server, and packaged agent Skills, with OAuth 2.0
  / OIDC authentication and a forever-free Builder tier. Core platform is licensed AGPLv3.'
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/datum/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: false
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: paid
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Paid
  confidence: high
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  - scopes
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-06'
  method: derived
image: https://www.datum.net/brand/social/
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- crv
- amplify-partners
- encoded-ventures
- cervin-ventures
- ex-ante
- step-function
- vine-ventures
x-tier: enriched
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead-enriched
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-10-06'
tags:
- Company
- Data
- Cloud
- Networking
- Edge
- Artificial Intelligence
- DNS
- Infrastructure
- CDN
- Developer Tools
tags_raw:
- Company
- Data
- Cloud
- Networking
- Edge
- AI
- DNS
- Infrastructure
- CDN
- Developer Tools
apis:
- name: Datum Cloud API
  description: Kubernetes-style declarative control-plane API for managing Datum Cloud resources — projects, domains, DNS
    zones and record sets, gateways, HTTPProxies, HTTPRoutes, traffic protection policies (WAF), and organization/user membership.
    Authenticated with OAuth 2.0 / OIDC bearer tokens or service-account credentials; the surface is also reachable via the
    datumctl CLI, the official MCP server, and kubectl/Helm/Terraform through an exec-credential kubeconfig.
  humanURL: https://www.datum.net/docs/api/reference/
  baseURL: https://api.datum.net
  tags:
  - Cloud
  - Networking
  - DNS
  - Edge
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.datum.net/docs/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://www.datum.net/docs/api/reference/
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: Plans
  url: plans/datum-plans-pricing.yml
- url: https://www.datum.net/rss.xml
  type: BlogRSS
- type: Website
  url: https://www.datum.net/
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://www.datum.net/docs/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://www.datum.net/docs/
- type: APIReference
  url: https://www.datum.net/docs/api/reference/
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://www.datum.net/docs/datumctl/quickstart.md
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.datum.net/blog/
- type: Roadmap
  url: https://www.datum.net/roadmap/
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/datum-cloud
- type: Support
  url: https://www.datum.net/contact/
- type: Pricing
  url: https://www.datum.net/pricing/
- type: SignUp
  url: https://www.datum.net/pricing/
- type: StatusPage
  url: https://www.datumstatus.net
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/datum-authentication.yml
- type: OAuthScopes
  url: scopes/datum-scopes.yml
- type: OpenIDConnect
  url: https://www.datum.net/.well-known/openid-configuration
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/datum-well-known.yml
- type: APICatalog
  url: https://www.datum.net/.well-known/api-catalog
- type: MCPServer
  url: mcp/datum-mcp.yml
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/_index.yml
- type: CLI
  url: cli/datum-cli.yml
- type: Packages
  url: packages/datum-packages.yml
- type: Components
  url: components/datum-components.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/datum-llms.txt
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/datum-lifecycle.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/datum-conventions.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/datum-conformance.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/datum-domain-security.yml
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: backfilled
  pass: local-v1
  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence

Datum API — frequently asked questions

Does Datum have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 1 API from Datum, including Datum Cloud API.

How do I authenticate with the Datum API?

Datum documents its authentication (oauth2/openIdConnect · 2 schemes). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Datum Authentication.

How much does the Datum API cost?

Datum publishes its prices; its DNS Requests plan is $0.60 per million after the first 500K per million requests as of 2026-10-07. APIs.io lists 15 pricing plans for Datum, with each plan's price, limits and inclusions under Pricing on this page.

Does Datum have an MCP server?

Yes. APIs.io lists 1 MCP server for Datum: Remote MCP server at www.datum.net.

Is the Datum API ready for AI agents?

Datum has a Kin Score of 42.1 out of 100 (developing) and an Agent Readiness score of 19.4 (agent-aware), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.

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