# Ofo

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/ofo/  
**APIs profiled:** 0

Ofo (Chinese: 小黄车, "little yellow bike") was a Beijing dockless bicycle-sharing company founded in 2014 by Dai Wei and four classmates from the Peking University cycling club, and launched publicly on 7 September 2015. At its 2017 peak it had deployed more than 10 million bicycles across roughly 250 cities in 20 countries, reported over 60 million monthly active users, and was valued at around US$2 billion; in March 2018 it raised an $866M round led by Alibaba. Ofo's bikes were unlocked exclusively through its own consumer iOS and Android app. The company never operated a developer portal, never published a machine-readable API contract, and never shipped official client SDKs — the only documentation of its endpoints is third-party reverse-engineering of the private mobile-app API at one.ofo.com. Ofo withdrew from most international markets in July 2018, collapsed under a deposit-refund backlog that left more than 10 million users queuing for refunds from December 2018, and had ceased bike-rental operations by 2020. ofo.com is still registered through Alibaba Cloud and still resolves, but its origin refuses connections on ports 80 and 443; the historic ofo.so host dropped and was re-registered by an unrelated party in April 2025 and now serves a parked arcade-game lander. This profile is retained as a historical record; there is no API surface to enrich.

## Kin Score — 4.6 / 100 (minimal)

Scored 2026-09-02 under rubric 0.18.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 4.6).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 46.3 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 0.0 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 0.0 |
| Commercial Clarity | 0.0 |
| Access Clarity | 0.0 |

## 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 |
| Delegated Identity | no |
| Protected Resource Metadata | no |
| Dynamic Client Registration | no |
| Agentic Commerce | no |

## Access

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

## Security (1)

- **Ofo Domain Security** — no transport/DNS hardening detected

## Tags

Company, Defunct, Transportation, Mobility, Micromobility, Bike Sharing, Sharing Economy, Consumer, China

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