Knox Systems

Knox Systems is a federal cloud compliance and managed-security company that provides an accelerated path to FedRAMP authorization for SaaS and AI vendors selling into the U.S. government, marketed as "FedRAMP in 90 days for 90% less." Its platform combines a pre-authorized FedRAMP boundary, a deployable Landing Zone, hardened images, and Knox AI — a continuous-monitoring and automated remediation engine trained on federal audit data — running across AWS, Azure, and GCP at FedRAMP Moderate, FedRAMP High, and DISA Impact Level 4. Vendors inherit Knox's authorization and controls rather than pursuing an independent ATO, and Knox reports 15+ authorizations to operate across federal and DoD agencies including DHS, FEMA, the Marine Corps, Treasury, and the VA. Knox Systems is a private company backed by Felicis, and operates a partner-led business rather than a public developer API program — as of this enrichment pass it publishes no public API, developer portal, SDKs, or API documentation.

Knox Systems is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Compliance, Security, Government, and FedRAMP.

Knox Systems’ developer surface includes engineering blog, pricing, and 17 more developer resources.

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21.1/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only Front door AI 4/6 moderate Heartbeat 100/100 alive saas Full breakdown ↓
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Company Compliance Security Government FedRAMP Cloud Artificial Intelligence Public Sector Governance Managed Service

Kin Score

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scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0

Composite quality — 21.1/100 · emerging

Contract Quality 0.0 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 0.4 / 17

Access Clarity 8.5 / 17

Operational Transparency 1.2 / 11

Contract Governance 1.9 / 10

Discoverability 4.7 / 9

Regulatory Posture 3.5 / 15

Agent readiness — 0/100 · human only

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

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 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 5 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

MCP Tool Quality 6 / 6

Regulatory Posture applies to this provider. Its tags matched the Government & Public Sector 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 could not be measured. We hold no machine-readable contract for this provider to read, so there is nothing to measure a write surface against. Excluded rather than scored zero: never-measured and measured-empty are different facts. Publishing an OpenAPI is what makes this facet — and several others — scorable at all.

The six quality facets above are damped to 85 points between them, because the conditional facet above carries the other 15. That is why each facet's contribution is shown against a damped maximum: raising a quality facet moves the composite by 85% of its nominal weight, not 100%. The full arithmetic is at apis.io/rating/.

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Agent readiness — checks not met, largest first (exact, from this profile):

Machine-Readable Contract +18 pts — api_specs includes an OpenAPI document
MCP Server +12 pts — deployment.mode + probe verdict on the mcp/ manifest, not the pointer; an unprobed slug falls back to authorship
Agentic Access Contract +10 pts — agentic_access artifact present (x-agentic-access), graded by author
Machine-Readable Auth +10 pts — a served openid-configuration/oauth-authorization-server carrying `issuer` (served), else the securitySchemes class in the provider OpenAPIs — bound (mutualTLS, DPoP, Signature) > negotiable (oauth2 authorizationCode/clientCredentials, openIdConnect) > bearer (http bearer, apiKey)
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

13 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

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

Contract Quality scores 0.0 — up to +25.0 composite points
Developer Ergonomics scores 2.4 — up to +19.5 composite points
Operational Transparency scores 10.5 — up to +11.6 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
Government Cloud (FedRAMP, GovRAMP, G-Cloud)	standard	26.8 (thin)	-	-

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.

Knox Systems API pricing

Prices published by Knox Systems, read 2026-10-07 from knoxsystems.com/pricing.

Plan	Price
with KNOX — Base Rate	$500k/App Includes: Includes all assessments, documentation, and continuous monitoring

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Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Knoxsystems Plans Pricing

1 plans

PLANS

Security Posture 2

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

Knoxsystems Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC

SECURITY

Knoxsystems Vulnerability Disclosure

Hackerone · contact published

SECURITY

Resources

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

LLMsTxt

LLMsTxt

Design & Contract 1

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Conformance

Conformance

Access & Security 4

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Security

Security

VulnerabilityDisclosure

VulnerabilityDisclosure

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Compliance

Compliance

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

ContactSales

ContactSales

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Plans

Plans

Pricing

Pricing

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

Company 5

The organization behind the API

Website

About

Blog

Careers

LinkedIn

Other 4

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Platform

Resources

CaseStudies

Events

Source (apis.yml)

aid: knoxsystems
name: Knox Systems
description: Knox Systems is a federal cloud compliance and managed-security company that provides an accelerated path to
  FedRAMP authorization for SaaS and AI vendors selling into the U.S. government, marketed as "FedRAMP in 90 days for 90%
  less." Its platform combines a pre-authorized FedRAMP boundary, a deployable Landing Zone, hardened images, and Knox AI
  — a continuous-monitoring and automated remediation engine trained on federal audit data — running across AWS, Azure, and
  GCP at FedRAMP Moderate, FedRAMP High, and DISA Impact Level 4. Vendors inherit Knox's authorization and controls rather
  than pursuing an independent ATO, and Knox reports 15+ authorizations to operate across federal and DoD agencies including
  DHS, FEMA, the Marine Corps, Treasury, and the VA. Knox Systems is a private company backed by Felicis, and operates a partner-led
  business rather than a public developer API program — as of this enrichment pass it publishes no public API, developer portal,
  SDKs, or API documentation.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/knoxsystems/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: false
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: paid
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Paid
  confidence: low
  source:
  - plans
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-06'
  method: derived
image: https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/6795d8efb385360bc692d663/686aa5134fc3fa66790ecbdc_KNOX%20Logo%20KO.svg
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- felicis
x-tier: profiled
x-tier-reason: enriched-no-public-api
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-19'
tags:
- Company
- Compliance
- Security
- Government
- FedRAMP
- Cloud
- Artificial Intelligence
- Public Sector
- Governance
- Managed Service
tags_raw:
- Company
- Compliance
- Security
- Government
- FedRAMP
- Cloud
- Artificial Intelligence
- Public Sector
- Governance
- Managed Services
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: Plans
  url: plans/knoxsystems-plans-pricing.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://knoxsystems.com
- type: About
  url: https://knoxsystems.com/about
- type: Platform
  url: https://knoxsystems.com/platform
- type: Blog
  url: https://knoxsystems.com/knox-news
- type: Pricing
  url: https://knoxsystems.com/pricing
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://knoxsystems.com/policies/privacy-policy
- type: Security
  name: Report a vulnerability to Knox Systems
  url: mailto:support@knoxsystems.com?subject=Vulnerability%20Report%20Submission
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/knoxsystems-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/knoxsystems-domain-security.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/knoxsystems-conformance.yml
- type: Compliance
  url: https://knoxsystems.com/platform
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/knoxsystems-llms.txt
- type: Resources
  name: FedRAMP resource library
  url: https://knoxsystems.com/resources
- type: CaseStudies
  url: https://knoxsystems.com/customer-stories
- type: Events
  url: https://knoxsystems.com/events
- type: Careers
  url: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/knox-systems
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/knox-systems-inc/
- type: ContactSales
  url: https://knoxsystems.com/book-a-meeting
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: backfilled
  pass: local-v1
  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence

Knox Systems API — frequently asked questions

How much does the Knox Systems API cost?

Knox Systems publishes its prices; its with KNOX — Base Rate plan is $500k/App as of 2026-10-07. APIs.io lists 1 pricing plan for Knox Systems, with each plan's price, limits and inclusions under Pricing on this page.

Is the Knox Systems API ready for AI agents?

Knox Systems has a Kin Score of 21.1 out of 100 (emerging) and an Agent Readiness score of 0.0 (human-only), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.

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