Govee

Govee builds smart lighting and smart-home devices - RGBIC LED strips, light bars, floor and table lamps, string and permanent outdoor lights, plus sensors, humidifiers, heaters, and other connected appliances. The Govee Developer API (v1, hosted at https://openapi.api.govee.com/router/api/v1) is a free, cloud REST API authenticated with a Govee-API-Key header that lets developers enumerate a user's devices and their capabilities, query live device state, and send control commands - power, brightness, RGB and color-temperature, dynamic light scenes, DIY scenes, and per-segment color and brightness. Device events (for capabilities that support them) are delivered over MQTT, and a separate local LAN API allows direct UDP control on the local network.

Govee publishes 4 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network, including Device Control API, Device State API, Devices API, and 1 more. Tagged areas include Smart Home, Smart Lighting, IoT, LED, and Home Automation.

Govee’s developer surface includes engineering blog, authentication, documentation, and 8 more developer resources.

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26.3/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 19/100 agent aware Front door AI 4/6 moderate saas Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-10-23 · rubric v0.25.0 · Show this score on your site →

AccessFreeSelf serve⚡ Free to try

1 published contract

Smart HomeSmart LightingIoT LED Home Automation Device Control

Kin Score

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scored 2026-10-23 · rubric v0.25.0

Composite quality — 26.3/100 · thin

Contract Quality 9.7 / 19

Developer Ergonomics 4.1 / 15

Access Clarity 0.8 / 15

Operational Transparency 1.0 / 10

Contract Governance 0.0 / 9

Discoverability 5.0 / 8

Regulatory Posture 1.8 / 15

Create-or-Update Ergonomics 0.0 / 10

Agent readiness — 19/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 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 0 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

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Markets this provider is in provisional

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Market	Position	Depth	Registered MCP server	Declares compatibility
IoT and Smart Home	undeclared	-	-	-
ENERGY STAR Certified Products (appliances, electronics, data-center equipment, EV chargers, smart thermostats)	undeclared	-	-	-
Home Assistant Custom Integrations (HACS)	undeclared	-	-	-
IFTTT Services (service publishers)	undeclared	-	-	-

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.

APIs 4

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

Govee Device Control API

Send capability commands to a device.

Govee Device State API

Query the live state of a device.

Govee Devices API

Enumerate account devices and their capabilities.

Govee Scenes API

Dynamic light scenes and DIY scenes.

Open Collections 5

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

Govee Developer Device Control API

OPEN COLLECTION

Govee Developer Device Control Device State API

OPEN COLLECTION

Govee Developer Device Control Devices API

OPEN COLLECTION

Govee Developer Device Control Scenes API

OPEN COLLECTION

Govee Developer API

OPEN COLLECTION

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Govee Plans Pricing

2 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Govee Rate Limits

3 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

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

Govee Finops

FINOPS

Security Posture 2

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

Govee Authentication

apiKey · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Govee Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Govee Agentic Access

5 operations · 1 acting · 1 human-in-the-loop

5 operations · 1 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

AgenticAccess

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Authentication

Authentication

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: govee
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/govee/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
name: Govee
kind: company
description: Govee builds smart lighting and smart-home devices - RGBIC LED strips, light bars, floor and table lamps, string
  and permanent outdoor lights, plus sensors, humidifiers, heaters, and other connected appliances. The Govee Developer API
  (v1, hosted at https://openapi.api.govee.com/router/api/v1) is a free, cloud REST API authenticated with a Govee-API-Key
  header that lets developers enumerate a user's devices and their capabilities, query live device state, and send control
  commands - power, brightness, RGB and color-temperature, dynamic light scenes, DIY scenes, and per-segment color and brightness.
  Device events (for capabilities that support them) are delivered over MQTT, and a separate local LAN API allows direct UDP
  control on the local network.
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: true
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: high
  source:
  - openapi
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: free
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: true
  public: false
  label: Free · Self-serve signup
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  - security
  generated: '2026-09-03'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/govee.png
x-docs-platform: readme
x-docs-platform-confidence: high
x-docs-platform-checked: 2026-10-03
tags:
- Smart Home
- Smart Lighting
- IoT
- LED
- Home Automation
- Device Control
created: '2026-07-03'
modified: '2026-10-06'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- aid: govee:govee-device-control-api
  name: Govee Device Control API
  description: Send capability commands to a device.
  humanURL: https://developer.govee.com/reference/get-you-devices
  baseURL: https://openapi.api.govee.com/router/api/v1
  tags:
  - Device Control
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/govee-device-control-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.govee.com/docs/getting-started
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://developer.govee.com/reference/get-you-devices
  - type: PostmanCollection
    url: collections/govee.postman_collection.json
  - type: OpenCollection
    url: collections/govee.opencollection.json
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://developer.govee.com/reference/get-devices-status
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://developer.govee.com/reference/control-you-devices
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://developer.govee.com/reference/get-light-scene
- aid: govee:govee-device-state-api
  name: Govee Device State API
  description: Query the live state of a device.
  humanURL: https://developer.govee.com/reference/get-you-devices
  baseURL: https://openapi.api.govee.com/router/api/v1
  tags:
  - Device State
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/govee-device-state-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.govee.com/docs/getting-started
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://developer.govee.com/reference/get-you-devices
  - type: PostmanCollection
    url: collections/govee.postman_collection.json
  - type: OpenCollection
    url: collections/govee.opencollection.json
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://developer.govee.com/reference/get-devices-status
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://developer.govee.com/reference/control-you-devices
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://developer.govee.com/reference/get-light-scene
- aid: govee:govee-devices-api
  name: Govee Devices API
  description: Enumerate account devices and their capabilities.
  humanURL: https://developer.govee.com/reference/get-you-devices
  baseURL: https://openapi.api.govee.com/router/api/v1
  tags:
  - Devices
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/govee-devices-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.govee.com/docs/getting-started
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://developer.govee.com/reference/get-you-devices
  - type: PostmanCollection
    url: collections/govee.postman_collection.json
  - type: OpenCollection
    url: collections/govee.opencollection.json
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://developer.govee.com/reference/get-devices-status
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://developer.govee.com/reference/control-you-devices
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://developer.govee.com/reference/get-light-scene
- aid: govee:govee-scenes-api
  name: Govee Scenes API
  description: Dynamic light scenes and DIY scenes.
  humanURL: https://developer.govee.com/reference/get-you-devices
  baseURL: https://openapi.api.govee.com/router/api/v1
  tags:
  - Scenes
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/govee-scenes-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.govee.com/docs/getting-started
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://developer.govee.com/reference/get-you-devices
  - type: PostmanCollection
    url: collections/govee.postman_collection.json
  - type: OpenCollection
    url: collections/govee.opencollection.json
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://developer.govee.com/reference/get-devices-status
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://developer.govee.com/reference/control-you-devices
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://developer.govee.com/reference/get-light-scene
common:
- url: https://us.govee.com/blogs
  type: Blog
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/govee-agentic-access.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/govee-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/govee-authentication.yml
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/Govee-API
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/govee
- type: Website
  url: https://www.govee.com
- type: Documentation
  url: https://developer.govee.com/
- type: Plans
  url: plans/govee-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/govee-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/govee-finops.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com

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