# LI-COR Intermediate

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/li-cor-intermediate/  
**Website:** https://www.licor.com/  
**APIs profiled:** 2

LI-COR Intermediate, Inc. is the Battery Ventures-backed holding entity for LI-COR, a Lincoln, Nebraska environmental and life-science instrumentation maker founded more than fifty years ago. The group operates under two brands: LI-COR Environmental (licor.com), which builds greenhouse-gas analyzers, eddy-covariance flux systems, photosynthesis and soil-gas instruments, and the HOBO line of data loggers; and LICORbio (licorbio.com), which builds Western blot imaging systems and infrared fluorescent dyes and reagents. Its instruments are cited in more than 73,000 research publications and used across 1,200+ universities in 150+ countries. The connected-device side of the business runs through LI-COR Cloud (licor.cloud, formerly HOBOlink), which exposes a public read-only HOBOLINK External API for pulling logger and sensor observations into customer systems.

## Kin Score — 38.2 / 100 (thin)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 38.2).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 75.9 |
| Contract Quality | 47.6 |
| Governance | 16.7 |
| Contract Governance | 16.7 |
| Operational Transparency | 23.7 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 37.5 |
| Commercial Clarity | 21.1 |
| Access Clarity | 21.1 |

Regulatory layer — **Health**: 31.3 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 40.1 (agent-ready)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | na |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| Idempotency | na |
| Error Semantics | documented |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | derived |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | na |

## Access

Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: medium).

## APIs (2)

- **LI-COR Intermediate Data API** — The Data API from LI-COR Intermediate — 1 operation(s) for data.
- **LI-COR Intermediate Newa API** — The Newa API from LI-COR Intermediate — 1 operation(s) for newa.

## MCP servers (1)

- **LI-COR Intermediate MCP Server**

## Agentic access (1)

- **Li Cor Intermediate Agentic Access** — 2 operations

## Security (2)

- **Li Cor Intermediate Authentication** — http · 1 scheme
- **Li Cor Intermediate Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC

## Tags

Company, Environmental Monitoring, Greenhouse Gas, Climate, Agriculture, Sensors, Data Loggers, IoT, Scientific Instruments, Life Sciences, Time Series Data

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