Impossible Cloud

Impossible Cloud is a European sovereign cloud platform headquartered in Hamburg, Germany, providing S3-compatible object storage (11 nines durability, Object Lock/WORM, no egress or API-call fees), bare metal NVIDIA GPU servers, and managed AI services, all GDPR-ready by design and operated under EU jurisdiction with no US CLOUD Act exposure. For partners, distributors, and resellers it exposes the Management Console public API — a RESTful JSON API for automating storage-account provisioning, partner and member management, region discovery, and usage/billing reporting. The object storage service is fully AWS S3 API compatible, so existing AWS SDKs, the AWS CLI, and S3 tooling work against regional endpoints such as https://eu-central-2.storage.impossibleapi.net.

Impossible Cloud publishes 3 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network: Distributors API, Integrations API, and Partners API. Tagged areas include Company, Cloud, Object Storage, S3, and Storage.

The Impossible Cloud catalog on APIs.io includes 1 Spectral governance ruleset.

Impossible Cloud’s developer surface includes authentication, documentation, API reference, getting-started guide, support, engineering blog, pricing, and 23 more developer resources.

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AccessPaid

1 published contract

Company Cloud Object Storage S3 Storage Infrastructure GPU AI Infrastructure Data Sovereignty Europe GDPR Partner API

What this lets a business do 1

Business capabilities this provider's published APIs can perform, derived from its own contracts. Browse all capabilities →

SaaS Tenant Management

BC-4230

Partners

POST /storage-account DELETE /storage-account/{accountID} GET /storage-account/{accountID} GET /storage-account/{accountID}/usage

Kin Score

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scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0

Composite quality — 58.0/100 · strong

Contract Quality 9.7 / 19

Developer Ergonomics 8.6 / 15

Access Clarity 14.0 / 15

Operational Transparency 1.8 / 10

Contract Governance 2.9 / 9

Discoverability 5.5 / 8

Regulatory Posture 4.4 / 15

Create-or-Update Ergonomics 0.0 / 10

Agent readiness — 18/100 · 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 0 / 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

MCP Tool Quality 6 / 6

Regulatory Posture applies to this provider. Its tags matched the Horizontal (data, software, accessibility, platform) regime, so Regulatory Posture carries 15 points of the composite. If this regime is wrong for your business, say so on your provider repo — the applicability map is public and we will correct it.

Create-or-Update Ergonomics applies to this provider. This API accepts writes, so it carries 10 points of the composite. It is scored from the published contracts themselves: whether a caller can create-or-update in one call, whether the write accepts a key the caller already holds, and whether the response says which branch ran. Without that, every write needs a search-and-branch in front of it, and the first time that check is skipped a duplicate record is created. Scored against the observed mean rather than raw — a provider at the catalog average is unchanged by this facet, not penalised by it.

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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
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
Rate-Limit Signaling +7 pts — OpenAPI responses document X-RateLimit-* / RateLimit headers (verified), else a rate_limits artifact or RateLimits link (documented)
Request/Response Examples +7 pts — share of operations carrying request/response examples; else an Examples / Code Samples link

11 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

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

Contract Quality scores 51.7 — up to +12.1 composite points
Operational Transparency scores 18.4 — up to +10.6 composite points
Developer Ergonomics scores 57.1 — up to +8.6 composite points

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Markets this provider is in provisional

The Kin Score Market layer reads a provider inside its market: its position, and how deep its integrations go. Depth is only comparable within a position. Provisional and unweighted: not part of the Kin Score or agent readiness.

Market	Position	Depth	Registered MCP server	Declares compatibility
Object Storage	undeclared	-	-	2

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.

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

measured — observed by APIs.io (published)

APIs 3

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

Impossible Cloud Distributors API

The Distributors API from Impossible Cloud — 11 operation(s) for distributors.

Impossible Cloud Integrations API

The Integrations API from Impossible Cloud — 1 operation(s) for integrations.

Impossible Cloud Partners API

The Partners API from Impossible Cloud — 5 operation(s) for partners.

Open Collections 3

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

Impossible Cloud Management Console public Distributors API

OPEN COLLECTION

Impossible Cloud Management Console public Distributors Integrations API

OPEN COLLECTION

Impossible Cloud Management Console public Distributors Partners API

OPEN COLLECTION

Impossible Cloud API pricing

Prices published by Impossible Cloud, read 2026-10-28 from www.impossiblecloud.com/pricing.

Plan	Price
Managed inference (per token)	From €0.05 per 1M tokens
Managed inference – start instantly (per token)	From €0.01 per 1M tokens
Managed inference – per seat	From €19 per seat/month
Managed inference – dedicated GPUs	Talk to sales Includes: Commitment pricing, agreed per contract
Bare metal GPU	From €2.66 per GPU-hour Includes: Fixed terms from 1 to 60 months
AI-native storage – Pay-as-you-go	€7.99 per TB/month Includes: Free egress and API calls; 5 TB free for 30 days
AI-native storage – Reserved capacity	Discounted per TB Includes: 1, 3 or 5 year commitment, from 25 TB
Qwen3 Embedding 8B EU	€0.01 per 1M input tokens

All 10 plans, limits and sources →

Billed by: 1m tokens · FinOps profile →

Pricing Plans 2

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Impossible Cloud Plans Pricing

10 plans

PLANS

Impossible Cloud Price Estimates

0 plans

PLANS

Service Levels 1

Uptime the provider promises or reports, as SLA4OAI. Read from its own pages; APIs.io runs no monitors.

Impossible Cloud

SLA

FinOps 1

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

Impossible Cloud Finops

FINOPS

Spectral Rules 1

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

Impossible Cloud API Rules

56 rules · 51 errors 3 warnings 2 info

SPECTRAL

OpenAPI Overlays 1

Overlays applied on top of this provider's contracts. Each card says who wrote it: a document the provider publishes, or one API Evangelist derived or generated.

Impossible Cloud Management Console Overlay

2 actions · update · impossible-cloud-management-console-openapi-original.json

DERIVED

Security Posture 3

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

Impossible Cloud Authentication

apiKey · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Impossible Cloud Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Impossible Cloud Trust Center

SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

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

Impossible Cloud Agentic Access

24 operations · 11 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Get Started 4

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

DeveloperPortal

DeveloperPortal

GettingStarted

GettingStarted

SignUp

SignUp

Login

Documentation 3

Reference material describing how the API behaves

OpenAPI

OpenAPI

Documentation

Documentation

APIReference

APIReference

Agent Surfaces 3

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

LLMsTxt

LLMsTxt

X-MCPServerCandidate

X-MCPServerCandidate

AgenticAccess

AgenticAccess

Design & Contract 4

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Conformance

Lifecycle

Conventions

DataModel

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

Access & Security 4

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

TrustCenter

DomainSecurity

Authentication

Compliance

Operate 3

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support

Support

HelpCenter

HelpCenter

StatusPage

StatusPage

Commercial 4

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Plans

Pricing

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

Other 2

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

CapabilityMap

CapabilityMap

Overlay

Overlay

Source (apis.yml)

aid: impossible-cloud
name: Impossible Cloud
description: Impossible Cloud is a European sovereign cloud platform headquartered in Hamburg, Germany, providing S3-compatible
  object storage (11 nines durability, Object Lock/WORM, no egress or API-call fees), bare metal NVIDIA GPU servers, and managed
  AI services, all GDPR-ready by design and operated under EU jurisdiction with no US CLOUD Act exposure. For partners, distributors,
  and resellers it exposes the Management Console public API — a RESTful JSON API for automating storage-account provisioning,
  partner and member management, region discovery, and usage/billing reporting. The object storage service is fully AWS S3
  API compatible, so existing AWS SDKs, the AWS CLI, and S3 tooling work against regional endpoints such as https://eu-central-2.storage.impossibleapi.net.
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: paid
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Paid
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-06'
  method: derived
image: https://www.impossiblecloud.com/favicon.ico
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/impossible-cloud/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- hv-capital
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-19'
x-docs-platform: gitbook
x-docs-platform-confidence: high
x-docs-platform-checked: 2026-10-03
tags:
- Company
- Cloud
- Object Storage
- S3
- Storage
- Infrastructure
- GPU
- AI Infrastructure
- Data Sovereignty
- Europe
- GDPR
- Partner API
apis:
- aid: impossible-cloud:impossible-cloud-distributors-api
  name: Impossible Cloud Distributors API
  description: The Distributors API from Impossible Cloud — 11 operation(s) for distributors.
  humanURL: https://docs.impossiblecloud.com/partner-portal-help/management-console-api/management-console-api
  baseURL: https://api.partner.impossiblecloud.com/v1
  tags:
  - Distributor
  tags_raw:
  - Distributors
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/impossible-cloud-distributors-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Swagger
    url: https://api.partner.impossiblecloud.com/swagger/
- aid: impossible-cloud:impossible-cloud-integrations-api
  name: Impossible Cloud Integrations API
  description: The Integrations API from Impossible Cloud — 1 operation(s) for integrations.
  humanURL: https://docs.impossiblecloud.com/partner-portal-help/management-console-api/management-console-api
  baseURL: https://api.partner.impossiblecloud.com/v1
  tags:
  - Integration
  tags_raw:
  - Integrations
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/impossible-cloud-integrations-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Swagger
    url: https://api.partner.impossiblecloud.com/swagger/
- aid: impossible-cloud:impossible-cloud-partners-api
  name: Impossible Cloud Partners API
  description: The Partners API from Impossible Cloud — 5 operation(s) for partners.
  humanURL: https://docs.impossiblecloud.com/partner-portal-help/management-console-api/management-console-api
  baseURL: https://api.partner.impossiblecloud.com/v1
  tags:
  - Partners
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/impossible-cloud-partners-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Swagger
    url: https://api.partner.impossiblecloud.com/swagger/
common:
- type: Plans
  url: plans/impossible-cloud-plans-pricing.yml
- type: CapabilityMap
  url: capabilities/impossible-cloud-capability-edges.yml
  name: Impossible Cloud Business Capability Map
- type: OpenAPI
  url: openapi/_original/impossible-cloud-management-console-openapi-original.json
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/impossible-cloud-llms.txt
- type: X-MCPServerCandidate
  url: mcp/impossible-cloud-mcp.yml
  note: 'Renamed from MCPServer 2026-09-03 (roadmap#247): the manifest self-describes as status: candidate — a tool list derived
    from the published API contracts, not an existing server. The scorer already read the manifest and reported mcp_server
    correctly; the MCPServer type was crediting the artifact-type surfaces with a server that does not exist.'
- type: Overlay
  url: overlays/impossible-cloud-management-console-overlay.yaml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/impossible-cloud-conformance.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/impossible-cloud-lifecycle.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/impossible-cloud-conventions.yml
- type: DataModel
  url: data-model/impossible-cloud-data-model.yml
- type: TrustCenter
  url: security/impossible-cloud-trust-center.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/impossible-cloud-domain-security.yml
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/impossible-cloud-agentic-access.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/impossible-cloud-authentication.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.impossiblecloud.com/
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://docs.impossiblecloud.com/impossible-cloud-help/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://docs.impossiblecloud.com/impossible-cloud-help/
- type: APIReference
  url: https://api.partner.impossiblecloud.com/swagger/
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://docs.impossiblecloud.com/partner-portal-help/management-console-api/management-console-api
- type: Support
  url: https://hs.impossiblecloud.com/en/customer-support
- type: HelpCenter
  url: https://kb.impossiblecloud.com/en
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.impossiblecloud.com/blog
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/ImpossibleCloud
- type: Pricing
  url: https://www.impossiblecloud.com/pricing
- type: SignUp
  url: https://console.impossiblecloud.com
- type: Login
  url: https://console.impossiblecloud.com
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.impossiblecloud.com/terms-of-service
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.impossiblecloud.com/legals-privacy
- type: StatusPage
  url: https://status.impossiblecloud.com/
- type: Compliance
  url: https://www.impossiblecloud.com/compliance
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: backfilled
  pass: local-v1
  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence

Impossible Cloud API — frequently asked questions

Does Impossible Cloud have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 3 APIs from Impossible Cloud, including Impossible Cloud Distributors API, Impossible Cloud Integrations API and Impossible Cloud Partners API.

Is there an OpenAPI specification for the Impossible Cloud API?

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

How do I authenticate with the Impossible Cloud API?

Impossible Cloud uses bearer-token authentication (apiKey · 1 scheme). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Impossible Cloud Authentication.

How much does the Impossible Cloud API cost?

Impossible Cloud publishes its prices; its Managed inference (per token) plan is From €0.05 per 1M tokens as of 2026-10-28. APIs.io lists 10 pricing plans for Impossible Cloud, with each plan's price, limits and inclusions under Pricing on this page.

Is the Impossible Cloud API ready for AI agents?

Impossible Cloud has a Kin Score of 58.0 out of 100 (strong) and an Agent Readiness score of 18.4 (agent-aware), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.

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