# Picarro

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/picarro/  
**Website:** https://www.picarro.com/  
**APIs profiled:** 4

Picarro, Inc. is a Santa Clara, California company that builds high-precision gas concentration and stable-isotope analyzers based on Cavity Ring-Down Spectroscopy (CRDS), together with the cloud software and mobile platforms that turn those measurements into operational decisions. Its instruments measure more than 700 compounds — methane, ethane, CO2, N2O, ammonia, ethylene oxide, hydrogen peroxide, water isotopes and cleanroom-level airborne molecular contamination — at parts-per- billion and parts-per-trillion sensitivity. Picarro serves natural gas utilities (mobile methane leak detection and the Picarro Surveyor programme), sterilization and EtO facilities, refinery and chemical-plant fenceline monitoring, semiconductor cleanrooms and FOUP contamination control, pharmaceutical manufacturing, and atmospheric and earth-science research. The company reports 25+ years of operation, 5,000+ instruments installed in about 100 countries, and 77 patents. Its software side is P-Cubed, a cloud data-processing and storage platform with a customer-facing API for custom data transformation routines, a companion mobile app for field leak investigations, and — for semiconductor deployments — a publicly published gRPC/ProtoBuf interface (picarro/sam-foup-public) for external control and monitoring of Picarro Edge systems.

## Kin Score — 50.4 / 100 (developing)

Scored 2026-08-25 under rubric 0.14.0. Trend: flat (-0.7 from 51.1).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 75.9 |
| Contract Quality | 42.6 |
| Governance | 4.5 |
| Contract Governance | 4.5 |
| Operational Transparency | 34.2 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 42.3 |
| Commercial Clarity | 60.5 |
| Access Clarity | 60.5 |

Regulatory layer — **Energy & Utilities**: 63.5 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 32.9 (agent-ready)

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

## APIs (4)

- **Picarro Edge — SAM FOUP gRPC API** — The first-party gRPC/ProtoBuf interface Picarro publishes for external access to Picarro SAM (semiconductor airborne molecular contamination) systems. The `picarro-edge` server ...
- **Picarro Platform Server API** — The gRPC interface to the host computer underneath a Picarro SAM deployment. `platformserver` exposes NetConfig for network connectivity and Wi-Fi management, SysConfig for prod...
- **Picarro Identity (P-Cubed SSO)** — The Keycloak-backed identity service that fronts the Picarro P-Cubed cloud platform. It publishes an anonymous OpenID Connect discovery document for the `picarro` realm, adverti...
- **Picarro P-Cubed Platform** — P-Cubed is Picarro's cloud data processing and storage platform. Picarro analyzers stream or batch data to it, customers interact with the results in a graphics-rich web environ...

## Security (3)

- **Picarro Authentication** — openIdConnect/oauth2/saml2/none · 3 schemes
- **Picarro Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC
- **Picarro Trust Center** — ISO/IEC 27001:2022, ISO/IEC 27017, ISO/IEC 27018, SOC 2 Type 2, ISO 9001:2015

## Tags

Company, Gas Detection, Environmental Monitoring, Emissions, Methane, Greenhouse Gas, Scientific Instruments, Semiconductors, Industrial IoT, Sensors, Analytics, gRPC

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