# International Business Machines

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/international-business-machines/  
**Website:** https://developer.ibm.com/apis/catalog  
**APIs profiled:** 22

IBM (International Business Machines) provides a comprehensive suite of cloud APIs spanning artificial intelligence, infrastructure, and data management. Key offerings include watsonx.ai for foundation model inference, watsonx Assistant for conversational AI, Natural Language Understanding and Speech services for text and audio processing, Cloud Object Storage for scalable data persistence, VPC infrastructure for virtual networking, and Kubernetes Service for container orchestration.

## Kin Score — 35.1 / 100 (thin)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+2.6 from 32.5).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 50.0 |
| Contract Quality | 67.3 |
| Governance | 9.8 |
| Contract Governance | 9.8 |
| Operational Transparency | 10.5 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 38.1 |
| Commercial Clarity | 15.8 |
| Access Clarity | 15.8 |

## Agent readiness — 29.1 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| 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 |

## Access

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

## APIs (22)

- **International Business Machines Analyze API** — Analyze text content.
- **International Business Machines Buckets API** — Manage storage buckets.
- **International Business Machines Clusters API** — Manage Kubernetes clusters.
- **International Business Machines Custom Language Models API** — Create and manage custom language models.
- **International Business Machines Embeddings API** — Generate text embeddings.
- **International Business Machines Environments API** — Manage assistant environments.
- **International Business Machines Instances API** — Manage virtual server instances.
- **International Business Machines Messages API** — Send messages to an assistant.
- **International Business Machines Models API** — Manage custom models.
- **International Business Machines Objects API** — Manage objects within buckets.
- **International Business Machines Pronunciation API** — Get word pronunciations.
- **International Business Machines Recognition API** — Recognize and transcribe audio.
- **International Business Machines Security Groups API** — Manage security groups.
- **International Business Machines Sessions API** — Manage conversation sessions.
- **International Business Machines Subnets API** — Manage subnets.
- **International Business Machines Synthesis API** — Synthesize text to audio.
- **International Business Machines Text Generation API** — Generate text using foundation models.
- **International Business Machines Voices API** — Manage available voices.
- **International Business Machines Volumes API** — Manage block storage volumes.
- **International Business Machines VPCs API** — Manage Virtual Private Clouds.
- **International Business Machines Worker Nodes API** — Manage worker nodes.
- **International Business Machines Worker Pools API** — Manage worker pools.

## Agentic access (1)

- **International Business Machines Agentic Access** — 42 operations · 20 acting

## Security (3)

- **International Business Machines Authentication** — http · 1 scheme
- **International Business Machines Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC
- **International Business Machines Vulnerability Disclosure** — Hackerone · security.txt · contact published

## Plans (1)

- **International Business Machines Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Artificial Intelligence, Cloud, Enterprise, IBM

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