Platform9

Platform9 is an enterprise private cloud company whose flagship Private Cloud Director is a full-featured VMware alternative for running virtual machines and containers on your own hardware. Built on a hardened OpenStack and Kubernetes foundation, it delivers high availability, live migration, dynamic resource rebalancing, and multi-tenancy, and exposes an OpenStack-compatible REST API (Keystone identity, Nova compute, Cinder block storage, Neutron networking, Glance images, and a Kubernetes service) together with the unified pcdctl CLI so teams can automate compute, storage, networking, and cluster operations programmatically at scale. Platform9 also offers Managed OpenStack, Managed Kubernetes, a free Community Edition, and the vJailbreak VMware migration tool.

Platform9 publishes 1 API on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Infrastructure, Private Cloud, OpenStack, and Kubernetes.

Platform9’s developer surface includes documentation, API reference, getting-started guide, support, engineering blog, pricing, signup flow, and 16 more developer resources.

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37.7/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 3/100 human only Front door AI 2/6 trace saas Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-09-25 · rubric v0.23.0

1 APIs

Company Infrastructure Private Cloud OpenStack Kubernetes Virtualization Infrastructure-as-a-ServiceVMware MigrationCloud Management

Kin Score

Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-09-25 · rubric v0.23.0

Composite quality — 37.7/100 · thin

Contract Quality 0.0 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 10.9 / 17

Access Clarity 7.2 / 17

Operational Transparency 4.7 / 11

Contract Governance 1.9 / 10

Discoverability 6.2 / 9

Regulatory Posture 3.8 / 15

Agent readiness — 3/100 · human only

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 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

Regulatory Posture applies to this provider. Its tags matched the Horizontal (data, software, accessibility, platform) regime, so Regulatory Posture carries 15 points of the composite. If this regime is wrong for your business, say so on your provider repo — the applicability map is public and we will correct it.

Create-or-Update Ergonomics could not be measured. We hold no machine-readable contract for this provider to read, so there is nothing to measure a write surface against. Excluded rather than scored zero: never-measured and measured-empty are different facts. Publishing an OpenAPI is what makes this facet — and several others — scorable at all.

The six quality facets above are damped to 85 points between them, because the conditional facet above carries the other 15. That is why each facet's contribution is shown against a damped maximum: raising a quality facet moves the composite by 85% of its nominal weight, not 100%. The full arithmetic is at apis.io/rating/.

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APIs 1

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

Platform9 Private Cloud Director API

OpenStack-compatible REST API for Platform9 Private Cloud Director, covering Keystone identity/authentication, Nova compute, Cinder block storage, Neutron networking, Glance ima...

Security Posture 2

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

Platform9 Authentication

token/http · 5 schemes

SECURITY

Platform9 Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Resources

Get Started 3

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

DeveloperPortal

DeveloperPortal

GettingStarted

GettingStarted

SignUp

SignUp

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

APIReference

APIReference

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

LLMsTxt

LLMsTxt

Design & Contract 3

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Conventions

Conventions

Conformance

Conformance

Lifecycle

Lifecycle

Build 3

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

CLI

CLI

Packages

Packages

Access & Security 3

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Authentication

Authentication

Compliance

Compliance

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 4

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support

StatusPage

Deprecation

ChangeLog

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Pricing

Pricing

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

Source (apis.yml)

aid: platform9
name: Platform9
description: Platform9 is an enterprise private cloud company whose flagship Private Cloud Director is a full-featured VMware
  alternative for running virtual machines and containers on your own hardware. Built on a hardened OpenStack and Kubernetes
  foundation, it delivers high availability, live migration, dynamic resource rebalancing, and multi-tenancy, and exposes
  an OpenStack-compatible REST API (Keystone identity, Nova compute, Cinder block storage, Neutron networking, Glance images,
  and a Kubernetes service) together with the unified pcdctl CLI so teams can automate compute, storage, networking, and cluster
  operations programmatically at scale. Platform9 also offers Managed OpenStack, Managed Kubernetes, a free Community Edition,
  and the vJailbreak VMware migration tool.
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: false
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source:
  - authentication
  - security
  generated: '2026-09-03'
  method: derived
image: https://logo.clearbit.com/platform9.com
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/platform9/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- redpoint-ventures
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-20'
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-20'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 10
  pass: local-v1
tags:
- Company
- Infrastructure
- Private Cloud
- OpenStack
- Kubernetes
- Virtualization
- Infrastructure-as-a-Service
- VMware Migration
- Cloud Management
tags_raw:
- Company
- Infrastructure
- Private Cloud
- OpenStack
- Kubernetes
- Virtualization
- IaaS
- VMware Migration
- Cloud Management
apis:
- name: Platform9 Private Cloud Director API
  description: OpenStack-compatible REST API for Platform9 Private Cloud Director, covering Keystone identity/authentication,
    Nova compute, Cinder block storage, Neutron networking, Glance images, and a Kubernetes service. Token-based auth via
    the X-Auth-Token header issued by Keystone v3.
  humanURL: https://docs.platform9.com/api-docs
  baseURL: https://docs.platform9.com/api-docs
  tags:
  - Private Cloud
  - OpenStack
  - Kubernetes
  - Compute
  - Storage
  - Networking
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.platform9.com/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.platform9.com/api-docs
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/platform9-authentication.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: Website
  url: http://platform9.com/
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://docs.platform9.com/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://docs.platform9.com/private-cloud-director/
- type: APIReference
  url: https://docs.platform9.com/api-docs
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://docs.platform9.com/private-cloud-director/getting-started/getting-started
- type: Support
  url: https://support.platform9.com/
- type: Blog
  url: https://platform9.com/blog/
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/platform9
- type: Pricing
  url: https://platform9.com/pricing/
- type: SignUp
  url: https://platform9.com/signup/
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://platform9.com/privacy/
- type: StatusPage
  url: https://status.platform9.com/
- type: Deprecation
  url: https://docs.platform9.com/private-cloud-director/getting-started/host-operating-system-support-matrix
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/platform9-llms.txt
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/platform9-authentication.yml
- type: CLI
  url: cli/platform9-cli.yml
- type: Packages
  url: packages/platform9-packages.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/platform9-conventions.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/platform9-conformance.yml
- type: Compliance
  url: conformance/platform9-conformance.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/platform9-lifecycle.yml
- type: ChangeLog
  url: changelog/platform9-changelog.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/platform9-domain-security.yml

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