Desktop Metal

Desktop Metal designs and manufactures additive manufacturing (3D printing) hardware and software for metal and polymer parts, including binder jet and Bound Metal Deposition printers, sintering furnaces, materials, and the cloud/desktop Live Suite software (Live Platform, Live Studio, Live Build, Live Sinter, Live Monitor) that replaced the legacy Fabricate applications. As of April 2025 Desktop Metal is a subsidiary of Nano Dimension. No public or partner developer API is documented; the surfaces below are product features rather than published HTTP APIs.

Desktop Metal publishes 3 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network: Printer Fleet & Live Suite, Fabricate Software, and Materials. Tagged areas include 3D Printing, Metals, Hardware, and Manufacturing Software.

Desktop Metal’s developer surface includes engineering blog, documentation, and 6 more developer resources.

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14.9/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 14/100 agent aware Front door AI 1/6 silent saas Full breakdown ↓
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1 published contract

3D Printing Metals Hardware Manufacturing Software

Kin Score

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scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0

Composite quality — 14.9/100 · emerging

Contract Quality 6.8 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 2.0 / 17

Access Clarity 0.9 / 17

Operational Transparency 0.0 / 11

Contract Governance 0.0 / 10

Discoverability 4.1 / 9

Regulatory Posture 0.9 / 15

Agent readiness — 14/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

Delegated User Identity 0 / 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

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Create-or-Update Ergonomics does not apply to this provider. The published contracts declare no write operations, and a read-only API cannot create-or-update. The facet is excluded from this provider's denominator entirely — not scored zero. A reference or data API is not deficient for being unable to upsert.

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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
Agentic Access Contract +10 pts — agentic_access artifact present (x-agentic-access), graded by author
Machine-Readable Auth +10 pts — a served openid-configuration/oauth-authorization-server carrying `issuer` (served), else the securitySchemes class in the provider OpenAPIs — bound (mutualTLS, DPoP, Signature) > negotiable (oauth2 authorizationCode/clientCredentials, openIdConnect) > bearer (http bearer, apiKey)
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

11 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

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

Access Clarity scores 5.3 — up to +18.9 composite points
Developer Ergonomics scores 11.9 — up to +17.6 composite points
Contract Quality scores 32.1 — up to +17.0 composite points

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Standards implemented 1

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.

OpenAPI

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APIs 3

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

Printer Fleet & Live Suite

Live Platform provisions and manages Desktop Metal AM systems and users, and Live Monitor surfaces real-time fleet, printer, and furnace data (job/event status, time reporting, ...

Fabricate Software

Build preparation and slicing software for Desktop Metal printers. The legacy Fabricate and Fabricate MFG desktop applications have been replaced and upgraded by Live Studio (cl...

Materials

Qualified metal, polymer, composite, ceramic, sand, and wood material portfolio for Desktop Metal's binder jet, Bound Metal Deposition, and DLP/polymer systems, with associated ...

Open Collections 1

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

Desktop Metal

OPEN COLLECTION

Desktop Metal API pricing

Not yet checked against Desktop Metal's own pricing page. Compiled by API Evangelist on 2026-06-20 from www.desktopmetal.com/products/live-suite; confirm before you rely on a figure.

Plan	Price
Enterprise / Capital Equipment enterprise	—

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Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Desktop Metal Plans Pricing

1 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Desktop Metal Rate Limits

0 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

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

Desktop Metal Finops

FINOPS

Security Posture 1

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

Desktop Metal Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Resources

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

RateLimits

RateLimits

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Plans

Plans

FinOps

FinOps

Company 3

The organization behind the API

Blog

Blog

LinkedIn

Website

Website

Source (apis.yml)

aid: desktop-metal
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/desktop-metal/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
name: Desktop Metal
kind: company
description: Desktop Metal designs and manufactures additive manufacturing (3D printing) hardware and software for metal and
  polymer parts, including binder jet and Bound Metal Deposition printers, sintering furnaces, materials, and the cloud/desktop
  Live Suite software (Live Platform, Live Studio, Live Build, Live Sinter, Live Monitor) that replaced the legacy Fabricate
  applications. As of April 2025 Desktop Metal is a subsidiary of Nano Dimension. No public or partner developer API is documented;
  the surfaces below are product features rather than published HTTP APIs.
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: enterprise
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Enterprise
  confidence: low
  source:
  - plans
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-06'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/desktop-metal.png
tags:
- 3D Printing
- Metals
- Hardware
- Manufacturing Software
tags_raw:
- 3D Printing
- Additive Manufacturing
- Metal
- Hardware
- Manufacturing Software
created: '2026-06-20'
modified: '2026-10-06'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- aid: desktop-metal:printer-fleet-live-suite
  name: Printer Fleet & Live Suite
  tags:
  - Fleet Management
  - Live Suite
  - Live Monitor
  - Product Feature
  image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
  humanURL: https://www.desktopmetal.com/products/live-suite
  properties:
  - url: https://www.desktopmetal.com/products/live-suite
    type: Documentation
  - url: https://www.desktopmetal.com/products/live-monitor
    type: Documentation
  - url: openapi/_original/desktop-metal-openapi.yml
    type: OpenAPI
  description: Live Platform provisions and manages Desktop Metal AM systems and users, and Live Monitor surfaces real-time
    fleet, printer, and furnace data (job/event status, time reporting, consumable usage, OEE) in a web browser with 30-day
    exportable history for trend analysis and Industry 4.0 integration. This is delivered as a product UI and data export,
    not as a documented public REST/HTTP API.
- aid: desktop-metal:fabricate-software
  name: Fabricate Software
  tags:
  - Build Preparation
  - Slicing
  - Live Studio
  - Live Build
  - Product Feature
  image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
  humanURL: https://www.desktopmetal.com/products/live-suite
  properties:
  - url: https://www.desktopmetal.com/products/live-suite
    type: Documentation
  - url: openapi/_original/desktop-metal-openapi.yml
    type: OpenAPI
  description: Build preparation and slicing software for Desktop Metal printers. The legacy Fabricate and Fabricate MFG desktop
    applications have been replaced and upgraded by Live Studio (cloud build preparation for Bound Metal Deposition / Studio
    System) and Live Build MFG/DLP (binder jet and DLP build preparation). Distributed as installable/cloud applications;
    no documented public API surface.
- aid: desktop-metal:materials
  name: Materials
  tags:
  - Materials
  - Metals
  - Polymer
  - Product Feature
  tags_raw:
  - Materials
  - Metal
  - Polymer
  - Product Feature
  image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
  humanURL: https://www.desktopmetal.com/materials
  properties:
  - url: https://www.desktopmetal.com/materials
    type: Documentation
  - url: openapi/_original/desktop-metal-openapi.yml
    type: OpenAPI
  description: Qualified metal, polymer, composite, ceramic, sand, and wood material portfolio for Desktop Metal's binder
    jet, Bound Metal Deposition, and DLP/polymer systems, with associated material parameters and process profiles. Presented
    as a product catalog; no documented public API for material data.
common:
- url: https://www.desktopmetal.com/press
  type: Blog
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/desktop-metal-domain-security.yml
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/desktop-metal
- type: Website
  url: https://www.desktopmetal.com
- type: Documentation
  url: https://www.desktopmetal.com/products/live-suite
- type: Plans
  url: plans/desktop-metal-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/desktop-metal-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/desktop-metal-finops.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com

Desktop Metal API — frequently asked questions

Does Desktop Metal have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 3 APIs from Desktop Metal, including Printer Fleet & Live Suite, Fabricate Software and Materials.

Is there an OpenAPI specification for the Desktop Metal API?

Yes. APIs.io indexes 3 OpenAPI specifications for Desktop Metal, each linked for download from this page.

How much does the Desktop Metal API cost?

APIs.io lists 1 pricing plan for Desktop Metal, with each plan's price, limits and inclusions under Pricing on this page.

Is the Desktop Metal API ready for AI agents?

Desktop Metal has a Kin Score of 14.9 out of 100 (emerging) and an Agent Readiness score of 13.6 (agent-aware), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.

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