Pluton Biosciences

Pluton Biosciences is a microbial discovery company that uses a proprietary Discovery Platform - high-throughput soil microbiome screening combined with computational analysis - to find naturally occurring microbial consortia for agriculture and carbon sequestration. Its lead product is a Biological Nitrogen System: photosynthetic microbial consortia that operate at the soil surface to fix atmospheric nitrogen and mobilize phosphorus. Pluton is a research-and-product company, not an API company; it has no public developer portal. Partnership and licensing inquiries are handled directly.

Pluton Biosciences publishes 2 APIs on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Agriculture, AgTech, Biotech, Microbials, and Soil Carbon.

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16.1/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 3/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-09-14 · rubric v0.22.0

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2 APIs

Agriculture AgTech Biotech Microbials Soil CarbonDiscovery Platform

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scored 2026-09-14 · rubric v0.22.0

Composite quality — 16.1/100 · emerging

Contract Quality 0.0 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 0.0 / 20

Access Clarity 5.8 / 20

Operational Transparency 2.7 / 13

Contract Governance 0.0 / 12

Discoverability 7.6 / 10

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 0 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 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

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APIs 2

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Pluton Discovery Platform

Internal high-throughput microbial discovery platform that screens soil microbiomes and uses computational analysis to identify naturally occurring microbial consortia for agric...

Biological Nitrogen System

Sun-powered, soil-surface biological nutrient delivery system in which photosynthetic microbial consortia fix atmospheric nitrogen and mobilize phosphorus. Field-validated and i...

Pricing Plans 1

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Pluton Biosciences Plans Pricing

1 plans

PLANS

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Pluton Biosciences Rate Limits

2 limits

RATE LIMITS

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Pluton Biosciences Finops

FINOPS

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Pluton Biosciences Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Resources

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LlmsText

LlmsText

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DomainSecurity

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Contact

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Website

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Other 1

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Source (apis.yml)

aid: pluton-biosciences
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/pluton-biosciences/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-api-posture: no-product-api
x-api-posture-basis: observed
x-api-posture-note: Pluton is a research-and-product company, not an API company; it has no public developer portal.
name: Pluton Biosciences
kind: company
description: 'Pluton Biosciences is a microbial discovery company that uses a proprietary Discovery Platform - high-throughput
  soil microbiome screening combined with computational analysis - to find naturally occurring microbial consortia for agriculture
  and carbon sequestration. Its lead product is a Biological Nitrogen System: photosynthetic microbial consortia that operate
  at the soil surface to fix atmospheric nitrogen and mobilize phosphorus. Pluton is a research-and-product company, not an
  API company; it has no public developer portal. Partnership and licensing inquiries are handled directly.'
deliveryModel:
  model: unknown
  open_source: false
  commercial: false
  callable_host: false
  label: Delivery model not determined — needs a product licence on record
  confidence: low
  source:
  - none
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: free
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Free
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/pluton-biosciences.png
tags:
- Agriculture
- AgTech
- Biotech
- Microbials
- Soil Carbon
- Discovery Platform
created: '2026-05-23'
modified: '2026-05-23'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- aid: pluton-biosciences:discovery-platform
  name: Pluton Discovery Platform
  description: Internal high-throughput microbial discovery platform that screens soil microbiomes and uses computational
    analysis to identify naturally occurring microbial consortia for agriculture and carbon sequestration. Internal research
    platform; no external API exposed.
  humanURL: https://www.plutonbio.com/
  baseURL: https://www.plutonbio.com/
  tags:
  - Discovery
  - Microbiome
  - Research Platform
  properties:
  - type: Information
    url: https://www.plutonbio.com/
- aid: pluton-biosciences:biological-nitrogen-system
  name: Biological Nitrogen System
  description: Sun-powered, soil-surface biological nutrient delivery system in which photosynthetic microbial consortia fix
    atmospheric nitrogen and mobilize phosphorus. Field-validated and in active development; not commercially released as
    of 2026.
  humanURL: https://www.plutonbio.com/
  baseURL: https://www.plutonbio.com/
  tags:
  - Microbials
  - Nitrogen Fixation
  - Product
  properties:
  - type: Information
    url: https://www.plutonbio.com/
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/pluton-biosciences-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.plutonbio.com/
- type: Contact
  url: https://www.plutonbio.com/contact-us
- type: Email
  url: mailto:contact@plutonbio.com
- type: LlmsText
  url: https://plutonbio.com/llms.txt
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com

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