# Grid Status

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/gridstatus/  
**Website:** https://www.gridstatus.io  
**APIs profiled:** 11

Grid Status is a United States electricity grid and power market data platform. The hosted Grid Status API (api.gridstatus.io) exposes hundreds of curated datasets - day-ahead and real-time LMP and settlement point prices, load and load forecasts, fuel mix, ancillary services, storage, and transmission constraints - across CAISO, ERCOT, PJM, MISO, NYISO, SPP, ISONE, and IESO through a uniform dataset query model authenticated with an API key. Grid Status also maintains the open-source gridstatus Python library (BSD-3-Clause) for pulling raw data directly from ISO/RTO sources, and the gridstatusio client for the hosted API.

## Kin Score — 37.4 / 100 (thin)

Scored 2026-08-25 under rubric 0.14.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 37.4).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 74.1 |
| Contract Quality | 53.5 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 34.2 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 23.8 |
| Commercial Clarity | 39.5 |
| Access Clarity | 39.5 |

Regulatory layer — **Energy & Utilities**: 16.2 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 22.9 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | na |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | bearer |
| Idempotency | na |
| 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 | na |
| Delegated Identity | no |
| Protected Resource Metadata | no |
| Dynamic Client Registration | no |
| Agentic Commerce | no |

## Access

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

## APIs (11)

- **Grid Status API Info API** — API name and version.
- **Grid Status API Usage API** — Usage and limits for the current user or organization.
- **Grid Status Block Pricing Data API** — Block-averaged prices for an ISO.
- **Grid Status Constraints API** — Transmission constraints, binding activity, and shift factors.
- **Grid Status CSV Exports API** — Bulk per-day CSV export files on S3.
- **Grid Status Dataset Audit API** — Ingest audit history for a dataset.
- **Grid Status Dataset Metadata API** — List datasets and fetch per-dataset metadata.
- **Grid Status Dataset Updates API** — Recent row insert/update activity for a dataset.
- **Grid Status Pricing Locations API** — Nodes, hubs, and zones behind LMP datasets.
- **Grid Status Query Data API** — Query dataset rows with filters, resampling, and pagination.
- **Grid Status Reports API** — Daily peak reports (paid plans).

## Agentic access (1)

- **Gridstatus Agentic Access** — 25 operations

## Security (2)

- **Gridstatus Authentication** — apiKey · 2 schemes
- **Gridstatus Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

## Plans (1)

- **Gridstatus Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Day-Ahead Prices, Electricity, Grid Data, Energy Markets, LMP, Load, Fuel Mix, Open-Source

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