# Niantic

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/niantic/  
**Website:** https://nianticlabs.com/  
**APIs profiled:** 1

Niantic Spatial, Inc. (spun out of Niantic, Inc. in 2025 after the sale of its games division to Scopely) builds real-world foundation models for physical AI. Its Large Geospatial Model (LGM), trained on 30+ billion posed real-world images, powers a three-part geospatial platform — Reconstruct (3D models via Gaussian splats and meshes), Localize (VPS, centimeter-level 6DoF visual positioning that works indoors, outdoors, and in GPS-denied environments), and Understand (semantic querying of 3D maps). Developers build on the Niantic Spatial Development Kit (NSDK 4.x, formerly the Lightship ARDK) across Unity, Swift, Android, and ROS 2, connecting to Scaniverse and VPS 2.0. Enterprise focus areas include robotics, defense and intelligence, and oil and gas.

## Kin Score — 30.2 / 100 (thin)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 30.2).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 75.9 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 26.3 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 64.3 |
| Commercial Clarity | 31.6 |
| Access Clarity | 31.6 |

## Agent readiness — 8.5 (agent-aware)

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

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

## APIs (1)

- **Niantic Spatial Development Kit (NSDK)** — NSDK 4.x is Niantic Spatial's unified, SDK-first developer platform for Unity, Swift, Android, and ROS 2, exposing VPS 2.0 visual positioning (centimeter-level 6DoF localization...

## Security (2)

- **Niantic Authentication** — apiKey/token · 2 schemes
- **Niantic Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC

## Tags

Company, Geospatial, Augmented Reality, Computer-Vision, Visual Positioning, Spatial Computing, SDK, Physical AI, Robotics

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