Ocient

Ocient is a Chicago-based data platform company founded in 2016 that builds OcientAIQ, a unified data platform for petabyte-scale analytics and production AI. Its Compute-Adjacent Storage Architecture (CASA) colocates NVMe storage with compute so that ingest, query optimization, machine learning, geospatial analysis, security and governance run against very large datasets without moving the data. The platform is reached with standard SQL over a JDBC driver, the pyocient Python DB-API 2.0 driver, a SQLAlchemy dialect, an Apache Spark connector, and an HTTP Query API that executes SQL statements over REST and returns JSON. Ocient serves communications service providers, national security and intelligence, adtech, and financial services customers, and offers OcientCloud, customer-deployed, and hybrid deployment models.

Ocient publishes 2 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network: HTTP Query API and System Information REST Endpoints API. Tagged areas include Company, Data, Analytics, Data Warehouse, and Database.

The Ocient catalog on APIs.io includes 1 Spectral governance ruleset.

Ocient’s developer surface includes documentation, API reference, getting-started guide, engineering blog, support, pricing, CLI, and 37 more developer resources.

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58.0/100 strong ▬ flat Agent 33/100 agent ready Front door AI 6/6 dominant Heartbeat 40/100 slowing saas Full breakdown ↓
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1 published contract 1 MCP Servers 4 Agent Skills

Company Data Analytics Data Warehouse Database SQL Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning Big Data Geospatial A2A

Kin Score

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scored 2026-11-13 · rubric v0.28.0

Composite quality — 58.0/100 · strong

Contract Quality 8.7 / 19

Developer Ergonomics 11.8 / 15

Access Clarity 12.5 / 15

Operational Transparency 1.9 / 10

Contract Governance 2.9 / 9

Discoverability 5.6 / 8

Regulatory Posture 3.3 / 15

Create-or-Update Ergonomics 0.0 / 10

Agent readiness — 33/100 · agent ready

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 12 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 8 / 8

Request/Response Examples 7 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 5 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 8 / 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 0 / 5

Distinct Operations 0 / 3

MCP Tool Quality 6 / 6

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

Agentic Access Contract +10 pts — agentic_access artifact present (x-agentic-access), graded by author Ask about this →
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) Ask about this →
Rate-Limit Signaling +7 pts — OpenAPI responses document X-RateLimit-* / RateLimit headers (verified), else a rate_limits artifact or RateLimits link (documented) Ask about this →
Registration Without a Human +6 pts — a `registration_endpoint` in the served RFC 8414 / OIDC discovery document Ask about this →
Delegated User Identity +6 pts — a served discovery document listing authorization_code in grant_types_supported (served), else an oauth2 authorizationCode flow or openIdConnect declared in an OpenAPI (documented) Ask about this →
Typed Event Surface +6 pts — AsyncAPI document, OR webhooks/callbacks objects in the as-published OpenAPI, OR common[].type includes Webhooks Ask about this →

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Contract Quality scores 46.3 — up to +13.4 composite points Ask about this →
Operational Transparency scores 19.0 — up to +10.5 composite points Ask about this →
Contract Governance scores 31.8 — up to +8.2 composite points Ask about this →

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Standards implemented 5

Standards this provider implements or carries. De facto ones are profiled and measured by the API Commons; formal ones come from the standards directory and are linked by the provider's own tags. The evidence column says how each claim was established — not that it was made.

Agent2Agent

measured — observed by APIs.io (conformant)

Model Context Protocol (MCP)

measured — observed by APIs.io (platform)

Agent Skills

measured — observed by APIs.io (published)

OpenAPI

measured — observed by APIs.io (published)

OpenID Connect

measured — observed by APIs.io (declared)

APIs 2

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

Ocient HTTP Query API

The Ocient HTTP Query API API from Ocient — 10 operation(s) for ocient http query api.

Ocient System Information REST Endpoints API

The System Information REST Endpoints API from Ocient — 6 operation(s) for system information rest endpoints.

Open Collections 2

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

Generated API methods Ocient HTTP Query API API

OPEN COLLECTION

Generated API methods System Information REST Endpoints API

OPEN COLLECTION

MCP Servers 1

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

Ocient Documentation

Remote MCP server at docs.ocient.com over HTTP; 3 tools listed.

MCP SERVER

Agent Skills 4

Packaged agent skills for driving this provider's APIs from an AI assistant.

Execute SQL over the Ocient HTTP Query API

AGENT SKILL

Inspect Ocient System health and configuration

AGENT SKILL

Ocient

AGENT SKILL

Authenticate to Ocient with OpenID Connect SSO

AGENT SKILL

Ocient API pricing

Prices published by Ocient, read 2026-10-07 from ocient.com/pricing/.

Plan	Price
Subscription or term-based license	Contact us for a quote Includes: For cloud, on-premises, and hybrid deployments; annual or multi-year terms, with lower fees for long
Perpetual license	Contact us for a quote Includes: For on-premises deployments only; updates, upgrades, and support on annual or multi-year terms
Bundled AI solutions	Contact us for a quote Includes: Software, support, and managed services

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Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Ocient Plans Pricing

3 plans

PLANS

Terms of Service 1

What its API terms permit and prohibit, quoted from its own page.

Ocient

10 quoted statements, read from Ocient's own page on 2026-11-10.

TERMS

Privacy & Data 1

Its role, the data it processes, retention and transfers, quoted from its own privacy page.

Ocient

13 quoted statements, read from Ocient's own page on 2026-11-10.

PRIVACY

Compliance 1

Attestations the provider states (SOC 2, ISO 27001 and others), quoted from its own trust page. APIs.io verifies none of them.

Ocient

4 quoted statements, read from Ocient's own page on 2026-11-10.

COMPLIANCE

Eligibility 1

Who may sign up and where, quoted from its own terms.

Ocient

6 quoted statements, read from Ocient's own page on 2026-11-10.

ELIGIBILITY

AI Preferences 1

Its stance on AI training, inference and agents, quoted from its own pages.

Ocient

1 quoted statement, read from Ocient's own page on 2026-11-10.

AI PREFS

Data License 1

How its data and outputs may be reused, quoted from its own terms.

Ocient

2 quoted statements, read from Ocient's own page on 2026-11-10.

LICENSE

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Ocient Finops

FINOPS

Spectral Rules 1

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs. Counts are the severity each rule declares, not results of running them.

Ocient API Rules

42 rules · 40 error-severity 1 warn-severity 1 info-severity

SPECTRAL

OpenAPI Overlays 1

Overlays applied on top of this provider's contracts. Each card says who wrote it: a document the provider publishes, or one API Evangelist derived or generated.

Ocient Http Query Api Overlay

8 actions · update · ocient-http-query-api-openapi-original.json

DERIVED

Security Posture 3

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

Ocient Authentication

http/openIdConnect · 0 schemes

SECURITY

Ocient Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Ocient Trust Center

SOC 2, ISO 27001, PCI DSS, GDPR

SECURITY

Resources

Get Started 2

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

DeveloperPortal

DeveloperPortal

GettingStarted

GettingStarted

Documentation 5

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

APIReference

SecurityGuide

OpenAPI

AIPreferences

Agent Surfaces 4

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

WellKnown

LLMsTxt

MCPServer

AgentSkill

Design & Contract 7

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Conventions

ErrorCatalog

ErrorCodes

Lifecycle

VersionCompatibility

VersionCompatibility

Conformance

Conformance

DataModel

DataModel

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Build 5

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization

Packages

SDKs

CLI

ToolCrosswalk

Access & Security 4

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

TrustCenter

DomainSecurity

Compliance

Authentication

Operate 3

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support

Support

ChangeLog

ChangeLog

Contact

Contact

Commercial 6

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Plans

Pricing

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

UsageTerms

DataLicense

Company 3

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

BlogRSS

BlogRSS

Other 5

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Overlay

AgentCard

DataProcessing

Attestations

Eligibility

Source (apis.yml)

aid: ocient
name: Ocient
description: Ocient is a Chicago-based data platform company founded in 2016 that builds OcientAIQ, a unified data platform
  for petabyte-scale analytics and production AI. Its Compute-Adjacent Storage Architecture (CASA) colocates NVMe storage
  with compute so that ingest, query optimization, machine learning, geospatial analysis, security and governance run against
  very large datasets without moving the data. The platform is reached with standard SQL over a JDBC driver, the pyocient
  Python DB-API 2.0 driver, a SQLAlchemy dialect, an Apache Spark connector, and an HTTP Query API that executes SQL statements
  over REST and returns JSON. Ocient serves communications service providers, national security and intelligence, adtech,
  and financial services customers, and offers OcientCloud, customer-deployed, and hybrid deployment models.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/ocient/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:
  - openapi
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: paid
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Paid
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-13'
  method: derived
image: https://ocient.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/logo_adjust-2r.png
x-type: company
x-source: harvest:secondary-market
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-08-02'
modified: '2026-09-16'
x-docs-platform: mintlify
x-docs-platform-confidence: medium
x-docs-platform-checked: 2026-10-04
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-08-02'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 20
  pass: local-v1
tags:
- Company
- Data
- Analytics
- Data Warehouse
- Database
- SQL
- Artificial Intelligence
- Machine Learning
- Big Data
- Geospatial
- A2A
tags_raw:
- Company
- Data
- Analytics
- Data Warehouse
- Database
- SQL
- Artificial Intelligence
- Machine Learning
- Big Data
- Geospatial
- Machine-Learning
- A2A
apis:
- aid: ocient:ocient-ocient-http-query-api-api
  name: Ocient HTTP Query API
  description: The Ocient HTTP Query API API from Ocient — 10 operation(s) for ocient http query api.
  humanURL: https://docs.ocient.com/ocient-http-query-api
  baseURL: https://docs.ocient.com/api-playgrounds/ocient-http-query-api
  tags:
  - Ocient HTTP Query API
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/ocient-ocient-http-query-api-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.ocient.com/ocient-http-query-api
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/ocient-authentication.yml
  - type: ToolCrosswalk
    url: mcp/ocient-tool-crosswalk.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.ocient.com/api-playgrounds/system-information-rest-endpoints/get-version
- aid: ocient:ocient-system-information-rest-endpoints-api
  name: Ocient System Information REST Endpoints API
  description: The System Information REST Endpoints API from Ocient — 6 operation(s) for system information rest endpoints.
  humanURL: https://docs.ocient.com/ocient-http-query-api
  baseURL: https://docs.ocient.com/api-playgrounds/ocient-http-query-api
  tags:
  - System Information REST Endpoints
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/ocient-system-information-rest-endpoints-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.ocient.com/ocient-http-query-api
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/ocient-authentication.yml
  - type: ToolCrosswalk
    url: mcp/ocient-tool-crosswalk.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.ocient.com/api-playgrounds/system-information-rest-endpoints/get-version
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: Plans
  url: plans/ocient-plans-pricing.yml
- type: TrustCenter
  url: security/ocient-trust-center.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/ocient-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://ocient.com/
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://docs.ocient.com/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://docs.ocient.com/
- type: APIReference
  url: https://docs.ocient.com/ocient-http-query-api
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://docs.ocient.com/connect-to-ocient
- type: Blog
  url: https://ocient.com/blog/
- type: BlogRSS
  url: https://ocient.com/feed/
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/ocient
- type: Support
  url: https://ocient.com/contact-us/
- type: Pricing
  url: https://ocient.com/pricing/
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://ocient.com/terms-of-use/
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://ocient.com/privacy-statement/
- type: Compliance
  url: https://ocient.com/security-and-compliance/
- type: SecurityGuide
  url: https://docs.ocient.com/ocient-security-guide
- type: OpenAPI
  url: openapi/_original/ocient-http-query-api-openapi-original.json
- type: Packages
  url: packages/ocient-packages.yml
- type: SDKs
  url: packages/ocient-packages.yml
- type: CLI
  url: cli/ocient-cli.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/ocient-authentication.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/ocient-conventions.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/ocient-problem-types.yml
- type: ErrorCodes
  url: errors/ocient-error-codes.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/ocient-lifecycle.yml
- type: VersionCompatibility
  url: https://docs.ocient.com/version-compatibility
- type: ChangeLog
  url: changelog/ocient-changelog.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/ocient-conformance.yml
- type: DataModel
  url: data-model/ocient-data-model.yml
- type: Overlay
  url: overlays/ocient-http-query-api-overlay.yaml
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/ocient-well-known.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/ocient-llms.txt
- type: MCPServer
  url: mcp/ocient-mcp.yml
- type: ToolCrosswalk
  url: mcp/ocient-tool-crosswalk.yml
- type: AgentCard
  url: a2a/ocient-a2a.yml
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/_index.yml
- type: Contact
  url: mailto:info@ocient.com
- type: UsageTerms
  url: terms/ocient-terms-of-service.yml
- type: DataProcessing
  url: privacy/ocient-privacy-policy.yml
- type: Attestations
  url: compliance/ocient-compliance.yml
- type: Eligibility
  url: eligibility/ocient-eligibility.yml
- type: AIPreferences
  url: ai-preferences/ocient-ai-preferences.yml
- type: DataLicense
  url: data-license/ocient-data-license.yml
x-a2a:
  verified: true
  probed: '2026-09-26'
  url: https://docs.ocient.com/.well-known/agent-card.json
  grade: conformant
  protocol_version: '0.3'
  control: 404

Ocient API — frequently asked questions

Does Ocient have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 2 APIs from Ocient, including Ocient HTTP Query API and Ocient System Information REST Endpoints API.

Is there an OpenAPI specification for the Ocient API?

Yes. APIs.io indexes 2 OpenAPI specifications for Ocient, each linked for download from this page.

How do I authenticate with the Ocient API?

Ocient uses bearer-token authentication (http/openIdConnect · 0 schemes). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Ocient Authentication.

How much does the Ocient API cost?

APIs.io lists 3 pricing plans for Ocient, with each plan's price, limits and inclusions under Pricing on this page.

Does Ocient have an MCP server?

Yes. APIs.io lists 1 MCP server for Ocient: Remote MCP server at docs.ocient.com over HTTP; 3 tools listed.

Is the Ocient API ready for AI agents?

Ocient has a Kin Score of 58.0 out of 100 (strong) and an Agent Readiness score of 33.0 (agent-ready), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-13.

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