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 4 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network, including Chat API, Models API, and 2 more. Tagged areas include Artificial Intelligence, LLM, Foundation Models, Agentic Coding, and Software Engineering.

The Poolside catalog on APIs.io includes 1 Spectral governance ruleset.

Poolside’s developer surface includes authentication, documentation, engineering blog, and 10 more developer resources.

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28.6/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 24/100 agent aware Front door AI 4/6 moderate Heartbeat 45/100 alive saas Full breakdown ↓
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1 published contract

Artificial Intelligence LLM Foundation Models Agentic Coding Software Engineering Enterprise On-Prem Open Weights

What this lets a business do 1

Business capabilities this provider's published APIs can perform, derived from its own contracts. Browse all capabilities →

Information & Data Management

BC-610

Chat

POST /openai/v1/chat/completions

Kin Score

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scored 2026-11-13 · rubric v0.28.0

Composite quality — 28.6/100 · thin

Contract Quality 7.9 / 19

Developer Ergonomics 3.6 / 15

Access Clarity 1.9 / 15

Operational Transparency 2.1 / 10

Contract Governance 1.2 / 9

Discoverability 5.0 / 8

Regulatory Posture 3.1 / 15

Create-or-Update Ergonomics 0.0 / 10

Agent readiness — 24/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

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

Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

Pagination 0 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

MCP Tool Quality 6 / 6

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Create-or-Update Ergonomics applies to this provider. This API accepts writes, so it carries 10 points of the composite. It is scored from the published contracts themselves: whether a caller can create-or-update in one call, whether the write accepts a key the caller already holds, and whether the response says which branch ran. Without that, every write needs a search-and-branch in front of it, and the first time that check is skipped a duplicate record is created. Scored against the observed mean rather than raw — a provider at the catalog average is unchanged by this facet, not penalised by it.

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

MCP Server +12 pts — deployment.mode + probe verdict on the mcp/ manifest, not the pointer; an unprobed slug falls back to authorship Ask about this →
Idempotency +9 pts — OpenAPI mutating operations declare an idempotency key — a header, a request-body property, or a named de-duplication token whose own description says so (verified); else common[].type matches /idempoten/i (documented) Ask about this →
A2A Agent Card +8 pts — a2a/-a2a.yml manifest, graded on conformance.grade against A2A 1.0.0 Ask about this →
Request/Response Examples +7 pts — share of operations carrying request/response examples; else an Examples / Code Samples link Ask about this →
Registration Without a Human +6 pts — a `registration_endpoint` in the served RFC 8414 / OIDC discovery document Ask about this →
Delegated User Identity +6 pts — a served discovery document listing authorization_code in grant_types_supported (served), else an oauth2 authorizationCode flow or openIdConnect declared in an OpenAPI (documented) Ask about this →

9 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

Kin Score — facets with the most composite points still available (weight × headroom):

Access Clarity scores 12.8 — up to +17.4 composite points Ask about this →
Developer Ergonomics scores 23.8 — up to +15.2 composite points Ask about this →
Contract Quality scores 41.9 — up to +14.5 composite points Ask about this →

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Markets this provider is in provisional

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Market	Position	Depth	Registered MCP server	Declares compatibility
IDE Extension Marketplaces (JetBrains, VS Code, Open VSX, Docker Verified Publishers, PyPI orgs)	builds-on	51.7	-	1
Hugging Face Hub Organisations	builds-on	51.7	-	1

Registered MCP server and declares compatibility are report only — not weighted. Undeclared means we found nothing we can read, so there is no number: we never infer integrations.

Standards implemented 3

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.

The OpenAI Interface reaches extended

declared — publishes a spec that declares them

2 core of 338 operations graded · api-commons/models

SCIM 2.0

prose — states compatibility; nothing published to check it against

5 core of 24 operations graded · api-commons/identity

OpenAPI

measured — observed by APIs.io (published)

APIs 4

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

Poolside Identity Management API

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...

Poolside SCIM API

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 deploym...

Poolside Chat API

The chat API from Poolside — 2 operation(s) for chat.

Poolside Models API

The models API from Poolside — 1 operation(s) for models.

Open Collections 2

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

OpenAI Compatible chat API

OPEN COLLECTION

OpenAI Compatible chat models API

OPEN COLLECTION

Poolside API pricing

Not yet checked against Poolside's own pricing page. Compiled by API Evangelist on 2026-07-02 from poolside.ai/; confirm before you rely on a figure.

Plan	Price
Enterprise - Cloud VPC enterprise	—
Enterprise - On-Prem / Air-Gapped enterprise	—
Laguna XS 2.1 via OpenRouter (Third-Party) usage	—

Plan details, limits and sources →

Rate limits

Chat / Completions Throughput: hardware-bound (sized per deployment; not published) requests
Identity Management / SCIM API Requests: not published requests
API Keys per Tenant: not published keys

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

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Poolside Plans Pricing

3 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Poolside Rate Limits

3 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

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

Poolside Finops

FINOPS

Spectral Rules 1

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs. Counts are the severity each rule declares, not results of running them.

Poolside API Rules

36 rules · 34 error-severity 1 warn-severity 1 info-severity

SPECTRAL

Security Posture 3

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

Poolside Authentication

http · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Poolside Vulnerability Disclosure

security.txt · contact published

SECURITY

Poolside Trust Center

SOC 2, ISO 27001

SECURITY

Agentic Access (API Evangelist recommendations) 1

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Poolside Agentic Access

3 operations · 2 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

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

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

CapabilityMap

CapabilityMap

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.
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: false
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - openapi
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: enterprise
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Enterprise
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-13'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/poolside-ai.png
x-docs-platform: mintlify
x-docs-platform-confidence: medium
x-docs-platform-checked: 2026-10-04
tags:
- Artificial Intelligence
- LLM
- Foundation Models
- Agentic Coding
- Software Engineering
- Enterprise
- On-Prem
- Open Weights
tags_raw:
- AI
- LLM
- Foundation Models
- Agentic Coding
- Software Engineering
- Enterprise
- On-Prem
- Open Weights
created: '2026-07-02'
modified: '2026-07-02'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- aid: poolside-ai:poolside-identity-management-api
  name: Poolside Identity Management API
  tags:
  - Admin
  - Team
  - User
  - Identity
  tags_raw:
  - 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
  tags_raw:
  - 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
  tags_raw:
  - 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: CapabilityMap
  url: capabilities/poolside-ai-capability-edges.yml
  name: Poolside Business Capability Map
- 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 API — frequently asked questions

Does Poolside have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 4 APIs from Poolside, including Poolside Identity Management API, Poolside SCIM API and Poolside Chat API, and 1 more.

Is there an OpenAPI specification for the Poolside API?

Yes. APIs.io indexes 2 OpenAPI specifications for Poolside, each linked for download from this page.

How do I authenticate with the Poolside API?

Poolside uses bearer-token authentication (http · 1 scheme). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Poolside Authentication.

How much does the Poolside API cost?

APIs.io lists 3 pricing plans for Poolside, with each plan's price, limits and inclusions under Pricing on this page.

Is the Poolside API ready for AI agents?

Poolside has a Kin Score of 28.6 out of 100 (thin) and an Agent Readiness score of 24.4 (agent-aware), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-13.

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