Poolside

Poolside is an AI foundation model lab (founded 2023 by former GitHub CTO Jason Warner and Eiso Kant) building open-weight foundation models - the Laguna family - purpose-built for agentic software engineering. Poolside does not run a shared public SaaS API the way OpenAI or Groq do. Instead it publishes a full, public API reference (docs.poolside.ai) for an OpenAI-compatible inference API plus an admin/identity API, but the API itself only comes alive once a customer has a provisioned Poolside deployment - into their own AWS/Azure/Google Cloud VPC, on customer-owned NVIDIA GPU clusters via Helm, or fully air-gapped on-prem. There is no public signup page, free tier, or published pricing; access is arranged directly with Poolside's sales team. Separately, Poolside's smaller open-weight model, Laguna XS 2.1, can be called by anyone through third-party inference hosts such as OpenRouter, which is the closest thing to a public, self-serve way to hit a Poolside model over HTTP.

Poolside publishes 2 APIs on the APIs.io network: chat API and models API. Tagged areas include AI, LLM, Foundation Models, Agentic Coding, and Software Engineering.

Poolside’s developer surface includes authentication, documentation, engineering blog, and 9 more developer resources.

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39.0/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 38/100 agent ready Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-08-05 · rubric v0.9.1

AccessEnterpriseSelf serve

4 APIs

AILLMFoundation ModelsAgentic CodingSoftware EngineeringEnterpriseOn-PremOpen Weights

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Composite quality — 39.0/100 · thin

Contract Quality 13.0 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 4.3 / 20

Commercial Clarity 9.5 / 20

Operational Transparency 4.8 / 13

Governance 0.0 / 12

Discoverability 7.4 / 10

Agent readiness — 38/100 · agent ready

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 8 / 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

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APIs 4

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

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Poolside Ai Rate Limits

3 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

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

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

AgenticAccess

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

Access & Security 3

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

TrustCenter

TrustCenter

VulnerabilityDisclosure

VulnerabilityDisclosure

Authentication

Authentication

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

RateLimits

RateLimits

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Plans

Plans

FinOps

FinOps

Company 3

The organization behind the API

LinkedIn

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

Source (apis.yml)

aid: poolside-ai
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/poolside-ai/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
name: Poolside
kind: company
description: Poolside is an AI foundation model lab (founded 2023 by former GitHub CTO Jason Warner and Eiso Kant) building
  open-weight foundation models - the Laguna family - purpose-built for agentic software engineering. Poolside does not run
  a shared public SaaS API the way OpenAI or Groq do. Instead it publishes a full, public API reference (docs.poolside.ai)
  for an OpenAI-compatible inference API plus an admin/identity API, but the API itself only comes alive once a customer has
  a provisioned Poolside deployment - into their own AWS/Azure/Google Cloud VPC, on customer-owned NVIDIA GPU clusters via
  Helm, or fully air-gapped on-prem. There is no public signup page, free tier, or published pricing; access is arranged directly
  with Poolside's sales team. Separately, Poolside's smaller open-weight model, Laguna XS 2.1, can be called by anyone through
  third-party inference hosts such as OpenRouter, which is the closest thing to a public, self-serve way to hit a Poolside
  model over HTTP.
accessModel:
  pricing: enterprise
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Enterprise · Self-serve signup
  confidence: high
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/poolside-ai.png
tags:
- AI
- LLM
- Foundation Models
- Agentic Coding
- Software Engineering
- Enterprise
- On-Prem
- Open Weights
created: '2026-07-02'
modified: '2026-07-02'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
- aid: poolside-ai:poolside-identity-management-api
  name: Poolside Identity Management API
  tags:
  - Admin
  - Teams
  - Users
  - Identity
  image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
  humanURL: https://docs.poolside.ai/organization/identity-management-api
  baseURL: https://<api-domain>/poolside/v1
  properties:
  - url: https://docs.poolside.ai/organization/identity-management-api
    type: Documentation
  - url: https://docs.poolside.ai/poolside-api/team/list-teams
    type: APIReference
  - url: https://docs.poolside.ai/poolside-api/team/add-team-members
    type: APIReference
  - url: https://docs.poolside.ai/poolside-api/user/create-user
    type: APIReference
  description: Poolside's own admin API (/poolside/v1) for automating user and team administration on a deployment - create/get/update/delete
    users, and add, remove, or replace team membership - as an alternative or complement to SCIM. Requires a service account
    API key created by a tenant-admin.
- aid: poolside-ai:poolside-scim-api
  name: Poolside SCIM API
  tags:
  - SCIM
  - Identity
  - Provisioning
  image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
  humanURL: https://docs.poolside.ai/api/overview
  baseURL: https://<api-domain>/scim
  properties:
  - url: https://docs.poolside.ai/api/overview
    type: Documentation
  description: SCIM 2.0 provisioning endpoint (/scim) for connecting an external identity provider (Okta, Entra ID, etc.)
    to automatically provision and deprovision Poolside users on a deployment.
- aid: poolside-ai:poolside-ai-chat-api
  name: Poolside chat API
  description: The chat API from Poolside — 2 operation(s) for chat.
  humanURL: https://docs.poolside.ai/openai-api/chat/create-chat-completion
  baseURL: https://<api-domain>/openai/v1
  tags:
  - chat
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/poolside-ai-chat-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.poolside.ai/api/overview
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.poolside.ai/openai-api/chat/create-chat-completion
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.poolside.ai/api/openai-api-examples
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.poolside.ai/openai-api/chat/create-completion
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.poolside.ai/openai-api/models/list-models
- aid: poolside-ai:poolside-ai-models-api
  name: Poolside models API
  description: The models API from Poolside — 1 operation(s) for models.
  humanURL: https://docs.poolside.ai/openai-api/chat/create-chat-completion
  baseURL: https://<api-domain>/openai/v1
  tags:
  - models
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/poolside-ai-models-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.poolside.ai/api/overview
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.poolside.ai/openai-api/chat/create-chat-completion
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.poolside.ai/api/openai-api-examples
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.poolside.ai/openai-api/chat/create-completion
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.poolside.ai/openai-api/models/list-models
common:
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/poolside-ai-agentic-access.yml
- type: TrustCenter
  url: security/poolside-ai-trust-center.yml
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/poolside-ai-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/poolside-ai-authentication.yml
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/poolsideai
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/poolsideai
- type: Website
  url: https://poolside.ai/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://docs.poolside.ai/
- type: Plans
  url: plans/poolside-ai-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/poolside-ai-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/poolside-ai-finops.yml
- url: https://poolside.ai/blog
  type: Blog
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com

Poolside

Kin Score

APIs 4

Poolside Identity Management API

Poolside SCIM API

Poolside chat API

Poolside models API

Pricing Plans 1

Poolside Ai Plans Pricing

Rate Limits 1

Poolside Ai Rate Limits

FinOps 1

Poolside Ai Finops

Security Posture 3

Poolside Ai Authentication

Poolside Ai Vulnerability Disclosure

Poolside Ai Trust Center

Agentic Access 1

Poolside Ai Agentic Access

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