# PiCloud

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

PiCloud was a cloud-computing startup founded in 2009 that offered a pay-as-you-go, serverless platform for running Python workloads across public (AWS) and private clouds without provisioning, configuring, or managing virtual servers — popular for batch processing, high-performance computing, and scientific computing. It raised a seed round from Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), Kleiner Perkins, Plug and Play, and Greylock. The team was acquired by Dropbox in November 2013 and the PiCloud service was shut down on February 25, 2014 (its platform lived on briefly as the open-source Multyvac project). The picloud.com domain is now parked, and there is no live API, developer portal, or documentation to enrich.

## Kin Score — 5.0 / 100 (minimal)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 5.0).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 50.0 |
| 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 |

## Access

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

## Tags

Company, Cloud Computing, Serverless, High Performance Computing, Batch Processing, Python, Defunct, Acquired

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