# Poolside

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/poolside-ai/  
**Website:** https://poolside.ai/  
**APIs profiled:** 4

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.

## Kin Score — 37.7 / 100 (thin)

Scored 2026-08-25 under rubric 0.14.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 37.7).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 74.1 |
| Contract Quality | 46.6 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 34.2 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 23.8 |
| Commercial Clarity | 47.4 |
| Access Clarity | 47.4 |

## Agent readiness — 25.5 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | bearer |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | verified |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |
| Delegated Identity | no |
| Protected Resource Metadata | no |
| Dynamic Client Registration | no |
| Agentic Commerce | no |

## Access

Enterprise · Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: enterprise, trial: no (confidence: high).

## APIs (4)

- **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.

## Agentic access (1)

- **Poolside Ai Agentic Access** — 3 operations · 2 acting

## Security (3)

- **Poolside Ai Authentication** — http · 1 scheme
- **Poolside Ai Vulnerability Disclosure** — security.txt · contact published
- **Poolside Ai Trust Center** — SOC 2, ISO 27001

## Plans (1)

- **Poolside Ai Plans Pricing**

## Tags

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

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/poolside-ai/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.