# Govee

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/govee/  
**Website:** https://www.govee.com  
**APIs profiled:** 4

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.

## Kin Score — 24.6 / 100 (emerging)

Scored 2026-08-25 under rubric 0.14.0. Trend: falling (-10.8 from 35.4).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 74.1 |
| Contract Quality | 14.4 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 34.2 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 16.7 |
| Commercial Clarity | 28.9 |
| Access Clarity | 28.9 |

## Agent readiness — 19.8 (agent-aware)

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

## Access

Free · Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: free, trial: no (confidence: high).

## APIs (4)

- **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.

## Agentic access (1)

- **Govee Agentic Access** — 5 operations · 4 acting · 1 human-in-the-loop

## Security (2)

- **Govee Authentication** — apiKey · 1 scheme
- **Govee Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

## Plans (1)

- **Govee Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Smart Home, Smart Lighting, IoT, LED, Home Automation, Device Control

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