Kraken Technologies

Kraken Technologies is the United Kingdom energy technology company behind Kraken, the licensed cloud operating system for utilities. Founded in 2016 inside Octopus Energy and spun out as an independent business, Kraken says it supports more than 90 million customer accounts for licensees including E.ON Next, EDF, Origin, Tokyo Gas, National Grid, Good Energy, Plenitude, Energy Queensland, Essential Energy, Portsmouth Water and TalkTalk across electricity, gas, water and broadband. It sits one layer behind the utility rather than in front of the consumer: it does not hold a supply licence, does not settle in the wholesale market and does not publish grid or market data, so the retailers and networks it powers carry the regulatory obligations, not Kraken. Its API posture matches that position and is honestly closed. The Open Kraken programme publicly advertises APIs, events, embedded apps, Flow automation and an MCP-based AI access layer, but every reference surface is gated: docs.kraken.tech forces SSO login on every path, no base URL or endpoint is published anywhere, the Tako design-system package requires a private npm token issued by email, and the Marketplace runs under signed access-and-use terms. There is no self-serve developer signup, no consumer data-portability API of its own, and no open market data.

Kraken Technologies publishes 2 APIs on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Energy, United Kingdom, Utilities, Electricity, and Gas.

Kraken Technologies’ developer surface includes authentication, changelog, documentation, SDKs, engineering blog, support, legal docs, and 27 more developer resources.

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29.8/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 3/100 human only saas Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0

2 APIs 1 MCP Servers

Energy United Kingdom Utilities Electricity Gas Smart Metering Demand Response DER BillingEnergy Platform

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scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0

Composite quality — 29.8/100 · thin

Contract Quality 0.0 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 5.3 / 17

Access Clarity 6.3 / 17

Operational Transparency 3.2 / 11

Contract Governance 1.9 / 10

Discoverability 5.0 / 9

Regulatory Posture 7.3 / 15

Agent readiness — 3/100 · human only

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 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

Regulatory Posture applies to this provider. Its tags matched the Energy & Utilities 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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APIs 2

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

Open Kraken APIs and Events

Open Kraken is the integration layer of the Kraken utility operating system. Kraken publicly describes it as "APIs, events and MCP" for building apps and experiences against dat...

Open Kraken AI Access Layer (MCP)

An AI access layer that Kraken announced as an expansion of Open Kraken, built using the Model Context Protocol and described as MCP gateways that let a utility's own AI agents ...

MCP Servers 1

Model Context Protocol servers that expose these APIs to AI agents.

Kraken Technologies MCP Server

MCP SERVER

Security Posture 4

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

Kraken Technologies Authentication

jwt-bearer/saml/sso · 3 schemes

SECURITY

Kraken Technologies Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Kraken Technologies Vulnerability Disclosure

Hackerone · contact published

SECURITY

Kraken Technologies Trust Center

ISO/IEC 27001:2022, SOC 1 Type 2, SOC 2 Type 2

SECURITY

Resources

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

Agent Surfaces 2

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

MCPServer

MCPServer

LLMsTxt

LLMsTxt

Design & Contract 4

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Conventions

Components

Conformance

Lifecycle

Build 4

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Packages

Packages

SDK

SDK

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

Access & Security 8

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

Authentication

Compliance

Security

VulnerabilityDisclosure

VulnerabilityDisclosure

VulnerabilityDisclosure

VulnerabilityDisclosure

TrustCenter

TrustCenter

TrustCenter

TrustCenter

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Operate 4

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

ChangeLog

PressReleases

ChangeLog

Support

Commercial 4

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Legal

Legal

DataProcessingAgreement

DataProcessingAgreement

TermsOfService

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

Company 5

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

LinkedIn

Blog

Blog

Partners

Partners

PartnerProgram

PartnerProgram

Other 2

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

DesignSystem

DesignSystem

Subprocessors

Subprocessors

Source (apis.yml)

aid: kraken-technologies
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/kraken-technologies/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
name: Kraken Technologies
kind: company
description: 'Kraken Technologies is the United Kingdom energy technology company behind Kraken, the licensed cloud operating
  system for utilities. Founded in 2016 inside Octopus Energy and spun out as an independent business, Kraken says it supports
  more than 90 million customer accounts for licensees including E.ON Next, EDF, Origin, Tokyo Gas, National Grid, Good Energy,
  Plenitude, Energy Queensland, Essential Energy, Portsmouth Water and TalkTalk across electricity, gas, water and broadband.
  It sits one layer behind the utility rather than in front of the consumer: it does not hold a supply licence, does not settle
  in the wholesale market and does not publish grid or market data, so the retailers and networks it powers carry the regulatory
  obligations, not Kraken. Its API posture matches that position and is honestly closed. The Open Kraken programme publicly
  advertises APIs, events, embedded apps, Flow automation and an MCP-based AI access layer, but every reference surface is
  gated: docs.kraken.tech forces SSO login on every path, no base URL or endpoint is published anywhere, the Tako design-system
  package requires a private npm token issued by email, and the Marketplace runs under signed access-and-use terms. There
  is no self-serve developer signup, no consumer data-portability API of its own, and no open market data.'
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: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source:
  - authentication
  - security
  generated: '2026-09-03'
  method: derived
image: https://www.kraken.tech/favicon-96x96.png
tags:
- Energy
- United Kingdom
- Utilities
- Electricity
- Gas
- Smart Metering
- Demand Response
- DER
- Billing
- Energy Platform
created: '2026-07-27'
modified: '2026-07-27'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- aid: kraken-technologies:open-kraken-apis-and-events
  name: Open Kraken APIs and Events
  description: Open Kraken is the integration layer of the Kraken utility operating system. Kraken publicly describes it as
    "APIs, events and MCP" for building apps and experiences against data and capabilities inside Kraken and for bringing
    data in from a licensee's own apps and third-party tools, alongside the Flow drag-and-drop automation tool and Embedded
    Apps that render inside the Kraken agent desktop. No base URL, endpoint list, authentication scheme or machine-readable
    contract is published anywhere on the public web. The reference documentation at docs.kraken.tech returns an SSO login
    wall on every path probed on 2026-07-27, including /openapi.json, /llms.txt and /.well-known/openid-configuration, each
    of which redirects to /auth/login/ and serves text/html rather than a spec. Access is available only to Kraken licensees
    and contracted partners.
  humanURL: https://www.kraken.tech/open-kraken
  tags:
  - Energy
  - Utilities
  - Integration
  - Event
  - Embedded Apps
  tags_raw:
  - Energy
  - Utilities
  - Integration
  - Events
  - Embedded Apps
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.kraken.tech/open-kraken
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.kraken.tech/
  - type: ChangeLog
    url: https://www.kraken.tech/product-updates
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/kraken-technologies-authentication.yml
  - type: Conventions
    url: conventions/kraken-technologies-conventions.yml
  - type: SourceCode
    url: https://github.com/kraken-tech/kraken-apps-examples
- aid: kraken-technologies:open-kraken-ai-access-layer-mcp
  name: Open Kraken AI Access Layer (MCP)
  description: An AI access layer that Kraken announced as an expansion of Open Kraken, built using the Model Context Protocol
    and described as MCP gateways that let a utility's own AI agents orchestrate approved actions across Kraken, with fair
    use included. Kraken states the layer is being gradually released. No MCP server URL, tool list, scope model or transport
    is published; a probe of mcp.kraken.tech on 2026-07-27 did not resolve. MCP is the only protocol Kraken names for this
    surface, and it is an agent-integration protocol rather than an energy data standard.
  humanURL: https://www.kraken.tech/open-kraken
  tags:
  - Energy
  - MCP
  - AI Agents
  - Utilities
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.kraken.tech/open-kraken
  - type: Announcement
    url: https://www.kraken.tech/press-releases/kraken-expands-open-kraken-with-ai-access-layer-and-marketplace
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.kraken.tech/
  - type: MCPServer
    url: mcp/kraken-technologies-mcp.yml
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/kraken-technologies-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/kraken-technologies-authentication.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/kraken-technologies-conventions.yml
- type: Components
  url: components/kraken-technologies-components.yml
- type: Packages
  url: packages/kraken-technologies-packages.yml
- type: MCPServer
  url: mcp/kraken-technologies-mcp.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/kraken-technologies-llms.txt
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/kraken-technologies-conformance.yml
- type: Compliance
  url: https://www.kraken.tech/legal/trust-center
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/kraken-technologies-lifecycle.yml
- type: ChangeLog
  url: changelog/kraken-technologies-changelog.yml
- type: Security
  url: https://www.kraken.tech/vulnerability-disclosure-process
- type: Website
  url: https://www.kraken.tech/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://docs.kraken.tech/
- type: DesignSystem
  url: https://tako.kraken.tech/
- type: SDK
  url: https://github.com/kraken-tech/kraken-apps-examples
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/kraken-tech
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/octoenergy
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/krakentech/
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.kraken.tech/insights
- type: PressReleases
  url: https://www.kraken.tech/press-releases
- type: ChangeLog
  url: https://www.kraken.tech/product-updates
- type: Partners
  url: https://www.kraken.tech/marketplace
- type: PartnerProgram
  url: https://www.kraken.tech/bpo-partner-program
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: https://www.kraken.tech/vulnerability-disclosure-process
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/kraken-technologies-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: TrustCenter
  url: https://www.kraken.tech/legal/trust-center
- type: TrustCenter
  url: security/kraken-technologies-trust-center.yml
- type: Support
  url: https://support.kraken.tech/
- type: Legal
  url: https://www.kraken.tech/legal
- type: Subprocessors
  url: https://www.kraken.tech/legal/subprocessors
- type: DataProcessingAgreement
  url: https://www.kraken.tech/legal/dpa
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.kraken.tech/legal/marketplace-access-and-use-terms
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.kraken.tech/legal/privacy-notice
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com

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