# Nexthop AI

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/nexthop-ai/  
**Website:** https://nexthop.ai  
**APIs profiled:** 0

Nexthop AI is a networking infrastructure company building next-generation, highly efficient AI and cloud networking for hyperscalers and neo-cloud operators. Founded by former Arista Networks operations leader Anshul Sadana, it designs scale-out and scale-across Ethernet switches, a networking software portfolio, and optics and cables engineered to lower the cost per token of large GPU clusters by improving power efficiency, cost, reliability, and speed of deployment. The company raised a $500M Series B led by Lightspeed Venture Partners and Andreessen Horowitz at a $4.2B valuation and is tracked in the API Evangelist network as a Kleiner Perkins portfolio lead. It publishes no public web/REST API surface; this profile captures company identity and domain security posture.

## Kin Score — 13.9 / 100 (emerging)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 13.9).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 50.0 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 0.0 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 16.7 |
| Commercial Clarity | 27.6 |
| Access Clarity | 27.6 |

## Agent readiness — 0.0 (human-only)

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

## Access

Unknown — onboarding: unknown, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: low).

## Security (1)

- **Nexthop Ai Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

## Tags

Company, Artificial Intelligence, Networking, Infrastructure, Switches, Data-Center, Cloud, Ethernet, Optics, Hardware

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