Green Software Foundation

The Green Software Foundation is a Linux Foundation project founded by Accenture, GitHub, Microsoft, and ThoughtWorks to build standards, tools, and best practices for reducing the carbon emissions of software. It developed the Software Carbon Intensity specification and provides patterns for building green software.

Green Software Foundation is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Carbon, Linux Foundation, Software, and Sustainability.

Green Software Foundation’s developer surface includes documentation, engineering blog, and 3 more developer resources.

🌐 Visit website 📡 Source on GitHub

18.9/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 3/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6

AccessFreemium

0 APIs

CarbonLinux FoundationSoftwareSustainability

Kin Score

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scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6

Composite quality — 18.9/100 · emerging

Contract Quality 0.0 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 2.2 / 20

Commercial Clarity 7.9 / 20

Operational Transparency 4.8 / 13

Governance 0.0 / 12

Discoverability 4.1 / 10

Agent readiness — 3/100 · human only

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

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

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Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Green Software Foundation Plans Pricing

3 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Green Software Foundation Rate Limits

5 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

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

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrg

GitHubOrg

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Company 2

The organization behind the API

LinkedIn

Blog

Blog

Source (apis.yml)

aid: green-software-foundation
name: Green Software Foundation
description: The Green Software Foundation is a Linux Foundation project founded by Accenture, GitHub, Microsoft, and ThoughtWorks
  to build standards, tools, and best practices for reducing the carbon emissions of software. It developed the Software Carbon
  Intensity specification and provides patterns for building green software.
type: Index
accessModel:
  pricing: freemium
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Freemium
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
position: Consumer
access: 3rd-Party
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/green-software-foundation.png
tags:
- Carbon
- Linux Foundation
- Software
- Sustainability
created: '2026-03-16'
modified: '2026-07-25'
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/green-software-foundation/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis: []
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/green-software-foundation-domain-security.yml
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/green-software-foundation
- type: Documentation
  name: Green Software Foundation Documentation
  description: Official documentation for Green Software Foundation.
  url: https://greensoftware.foundation/articles
- type: GitHubOrg
  name: Green Software Foundation GitHub
  description: Source code and repositories for Green Software Foundation.
  url: https://github.com/Green-Software-Foundation
- url: https://greensoftware.foundation/articles
  type: Blog
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: info@apievangelist.com