# Incus

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/incus/  
**Website:** https://linuxcontainers.org/incus/  
**APIs profiled:** 22

Incus is a modern open source system container and virtual machine manager maintained by LinuxContainers.org as a community-led fork of Canonical's LXD. It provides a unified experience for running and managing system containers and VMs across single hosts and clusters, with image-based deployment, live migration, snapshots, projects, and a comprehensive RESTful API for automation and tooling integration.

## Kin Score — 32.6 / 100 (thin)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 32.6).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 64.8 |
| Contract Quality | 51.2 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 34.2 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 28.6 |
| Commercial Clarity | 15.8 |
| Access Clarity | 15.8 |

## Agent readiness — 26.5 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | verified |
| 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 |

## Access

Freemium — onboarding: unknown, pricing: freemium, trial: no (confidence: medium).

## APIs (22)

- **Incus certificates API** — The certificates API from Incus — 4 operation(s) for certificates.
- **Incus cluster API** — The cluster API from Incus — 7 operation(s) for cluster.
- **Incus cluster-groups API** — The cluster-groups API from Incus — 3 operation(s) for cluster-groups.
- **Incus images API** — The images API from Incus — 14 operation(s) for images.
- **Incus instances API** — The instances API from Incus — 28 operation(s) for instances.
- **Incus Metadata API** — The Metadata API from Incus — 1 operation(s) for metadata.
- **Incus metrics API** — The metrics API from Incus — 1 operation(s) for metrics.
- **Incus network-acls API** — The network-acls API from Incus — 4 operation(s) for network-acls.
- **Incus network-address-sets API** — The network-address-sets API from Incus — 3 operation(s) for network-address-sets.
- **Incus network-allocations API** — The network-allocations API from Incus — 1 operation(s) for network-allocations.
- **Incus network-forwards API** — The network-forwards API from Incus — 3 operation(s) for network-forwards.
- **Incus network-integrations API** — The network-integrations API from Incus — 3 operation(s) for network-integrations.
- **Incus network-load-balancers API** — The network-load-balancers API from Incus — 4 operation(s) for network-load-balancers.
- **Incus network-peers API** — The network-peers API from Incus — 3 operation(s) for network-peers.
- **Incus network-zones API** — The network-zones API from Incus — 6 operation(s) for network-zones.
- **Incus networks API** — The networks API from Incus — 5 operation(s) for networks.
- **Incus operations API** — The operations API from Incus — 7 operation(s) for operations.
- **Incus profiles API** — The profiles API from Incus — 3 operation(s) for profiles.
- **Incus projects API** — The projects API from Incus — 5 operation(s) for projects.
- **Incus server API** — The server API from Incus — 5 operation(s) for server.
- **Incus storage API** — The storage API from Incus — 39 operation(s) for storage.
- **Incus warnings API** — The warnings API from Incus — 3 operation(s) for warnings.

## Agentic access (1)

- **Incus Agentic Access** — 291 operations · 147 acting

## Security (1)

- **Incus Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · DNSSEC · DMARC

## Plans (1)

- **Incus Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Containers, Virtual Machines, Virtualization, Linux, Open-Source

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