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 is listed with 2 APIs on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Agriculture, AgTech, Biotechnology, Microbials, and Soil Carbon.

Pluton Biosciences’ developer surface includes engineering blog and 9 more developer resources.

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6.4/100 minimal ▬ flat Agent 11/100 agent aware Front door AI 1/6 silent Heartbeat 23/100 dormant Full breakdown ↓
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2 APIs 1 MCP Servers

Agriculture AgTech Biotechnology Microbials Soil CarbonDiscovery Platform

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scored 2026-11-13 · rubric v0.28.0

Composite quality — 6.4/100 · minimal

Contract Quality 0.0 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 0.4 / 17

Access Clarity 0.7 / 17

Operational Transparency 0.5 / 11

Contract Governance 0.0 / 10

Discoverability 5.7 / 9

Regulatory Posture 0.0 / 15

Agent readiness — 11/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 12 / 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

Pagination 5 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

MCP Tool Quality 6 / 6

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Agent readiness — checks not met, largest first (exact, from this profile):

Machine-Readable Contract +18 pts — api_specs includes an OpenAPI document Ask about this →
Agentic Access Contract +10 pts — agentic_access artifact present (x-agentic-access), graded by author Ask about this →
Machine-Readable Auth +10 pts — a served openid-configuration/oauth-authorization-server carrying `issuer` (served), else the securitySchemes class in the provider OpenAPIs — bound (mutualTLS, DPoP, Signature) > negotiable (oauth2 authorizationCode/clientCredentials, openIdConnect) > bearer (http bearer, apiKey) Ask about this →
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Stable Error Semantics +8 pts — OpenAPI $refs a shared error schema across 4xx/5xx responses (verified), else common[].type includes ErrorCatalog / ErrorCodes / DeclineCodes Ask about this →
A2A Agent Card +8 pts — a2a/-a2a.yml manifest, graded on conformance.grade against A2A 1.0.0 Ask about this →

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Access Clarity scores 4.3 — up to +19.1 composite points Ask about this →

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Standards implemented 2

Standards this provider implements or carries. De facto ones are profiled and measured by the API Commons; formal ones come from the standards directory and are linked by the provider's own tags. The evidence column says how each claim was established — not that it was made.

Model Context Protocol (MCP)

measured — observed by APIs.io (verified)

Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP)

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APIs 2

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

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...

MCP Servers 1

Model Context Protocol servers that expose these APIs to AI agents.

Pluton Biosciences MCP Server

Remote MCP server at www.plutonbio.com over HTTP; 10 tools listed.

MCP SERVER

Pluton Biosciences API pricing

Not yet checked against Pluton Biosciences's own pricing page. Compiled by API Evangelist on 2026-05-22; confirm before you rely on a figure. A free plan or tier is listed.

Plan	Price
Free freemium	Free

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Rate limits

Free Tier Default: 10 requests per minute
Pro Tier Default: 120 requests per minute

Compiled by API Evangelist, not yet checked against Pluton Biosciences's documentation. Rate-limit details →

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Pluton Biosciences Plans Pricing

1 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Pluton Biosciences Rate Limits

2 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Pluton Biosciences Finops

FINOPS

Security Posture 1

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

Pluton Biosciences Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Resources

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

LlmsText

LlmsText

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

RateLimits

RateLimits

Contact

Contact

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Plans

Plans

FinOps

FinOps

Company 3

The organization behind the API

Blog

Blog

BlogRSS

BlogRSS

Website

Website

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Email

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
  gated_conflict: 'x-api-posture: private but 2 published API entries'
  label: Free
  confidence: low
  source:
  - plans
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-13'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/pluton-biosciences.png
tags:
- Agriculture
- AgTech
- Biotechnology
- Microbials
- Soil Carbon
- Discovery Platform
tags_raw:
- Agriculture
- AgTech
- Biotech
- Microbials
- Soil Carbon
- Discovery Platform
created: '2026-05-23'
modified: '2026-10-06'
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/
  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/
  tags:
  - Microbials
  - Nitrogen Fixation
  - Product
  properties:
  - type: Information
    url: https://www.plutonbio.com/
common:
- type: Plans
  url: plans/pluton-biosciences-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/pluton-biosciences-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/pluton-biosciences-finops.yml
- url: https://www.plutonbio.com/blog
  type: Blog
- url: https://www.plutonbio.com/blog-feed.xml
  type: BlogRSS
- 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

Pluton Biosciences API — frequently asked questions

Does Pluton Biosciences have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 2 APIs from Pluton Biosciences, including Pluton Discovery Platform and Biological Nitrogen System.

How much does the Pluton Biosciences API cost?

APIs.io lists 1 pricing plan for Pluton Biosciences, with each plan's price, limits and inclusions under Pricing on this page.

Does Pluton Biosciences have an MCP server?

Yes. APIs.io lists 1 MCP server for Pluton Biosciences: Remote MCP server at www.plutonbio.com over HTTP; 10 tools listed.

Is the Pluton Biosciences API ready for AI agents?

Pluton Biosciences has a Kin Score of 6.4 out of 100 (minimal) and an Agent Readiness score of 10.9 (agent-aware), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-13.

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