Positron

Positron AI is a US-based generative-AI hardware company founded in 2023 and headquartered in Reno, Nevada, building purpose-built Transformer inference accelerators as an alternative to GPU-based inference infrastructure. Its shipping product, Atlas, is a rack inference appliance built on eight in-house Archer accelerators (256 GB HBM) and dual AMD EPYC Genoa processors, with the next-generation Asimov silicon and Titan system slated for 2027. Positron exposes its inference fleet through "Olivaw", a serving and administration layer that publishes two documented HTTP APIs: an OpenAI-compatible completions API (models, chat completions, text completions, with server-sent-event streaming) so existing OpenAI client code can be repointed at a Positron endpoint, and an administrative API for managing models, service nodes, users, and access tokens on an appliance or hosted cluster. The company raised a $230M Series B in February 2026 at a valuation above $1B from ARENA, Jump Trading, Unless, the Qatar Investment Authority, Arm, Helena, DFJ Growth, Atreides, Valor, Resilience Reserve, Flume Ventures and 1517 Fund.

Positron publishes 5 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network, including Access Tokens API, Completion API, Models API, and 2 more. Tagged areas include Artificial Intelligence, Inference, inference-hardware, AI Accelerators, and LLM.

Positron’s developer surface includes documentation, API reference, getting-started guide, support, changelog, authentication, and 25 more developer resources.

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32.2/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 25/100 agent aware Front door AI 6/6 dominant library Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-10-23 · rubric v0.25.0 · Show this score on your site →

2 published contracts

Artificial Intelligence Inferenceinference-hardwareAI Accelerators LLM Transformers OpenAI-Compatible Machine Learning Semiconductors Data Centerllm-servingModel Hosting

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Composite quality — 32.2/100 · thin

Contract Quality 8.4 / 19

Developer Ergonomics 8.5 / 15

Access Clarity 0.0 / 15

Operational Transparency 1.8 / 10

Contract Governance 0.4 / 9

Discoverability 5.6 / 8

Regulatory Posture 2.3 / 15

Create-or-Update Ergonomics 0.0 / 10

Agent readiness — 25/100 · 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 0 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 5 / 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

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Market	Position	Depth	Registered MCP server	Declares compatibility
Data Center Tier Certification (facility certification, open hardware, efficiency bodies)	undeclared	-	-	-
Semiconductor Consortia (RISC-V, OCP hardware, CHIPS awards)	undeclared	-	-	-

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Standards implemented 1

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

APIs 5

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

Positron Access Tokens API

The access_tokens API from Positron — 3 operation(s) for access_tokens.

Positron Completion API

The completion API from Positron — 2 operation(s) for completion.

Positron Models API

The models API from Positron — 5 operation(s) for models.

Positron Service Nodes API

The service_nodes API from Positron — 2 operation(s) for service_nodes.

Positron Users API

The users API from Positron — 3 operation(s) for users.

Open Collections 7

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

Olivaw Admin Access Tokens API

OPEN COLLECTION

Olivaw Admin API

OPEN COLLECTION

Olivaw OpenAI Completion API

OPEN COLLECTION

Olivaw OpenAI API

OPEN COLLECTION

Positron Models API

OPEN COLLECTION

Olivaw Admin Service Nodes API

OPEN COLLECTION

Olivaw Admin Users API

OPEN COLLECTION

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OpenAPI Overlays 2

Overlays applied on top of this provider's contracts. Each card says who wrote it: a document the provider publishes, or one API Evangelist derived or generated.

Positron Admin Overlay

10 actions · update · positron-admin-openapi.yml

DERIVED

Positron Inference Overlay

8 actions · documentation · positron-inference-openapi.yml

DERIVED

Security Posture 2

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

Positron Authentication

apiKey/http-bearer · 2 schemes

SECURITY

Positron Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

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

Positron Agentic Access

23 operations · 13 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Get Started 2

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

DeveloperPortal

DeveloperPortal

GettingStarted

GettingStarted

Documentation 4

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

APIReference

OpenAPI

OpenAPI

Agent Surfaces 5

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

X-MCPServerCandidate

AgenticAccess

WellKnown

LLMsTxt

AgentSkill

Design & Contract 5

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Conventions

ErrorCatalog

DataModel

Lifecycle

Conformance

Build 2

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

Packages

Packages

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Authentication

Authentication

Operate 4

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

IssueTracker

Support

ChangeLog

ChangeLog

Company 5

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Press

Press

Careers

Careers

LinkedIn

Twitter

Twitter

Other 2

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Overlay

Overlay

Overlay

Overlay

Source (apis.yml)

aid: positron
name: Positron
description: 'Positron AI is a US-based generative-AI hardware company founded in 2023 and headquartered in Reno, Nevada,
  building purpose-built Transformer inference accelerators as an alternative to GPU-based inference infrastructure. Its shipping
  product, Atlas, is a rack inference appliance built on eight in-house Archer accelerators (256 GB HBM) and dual AMD EPYC
  Genoa processors, with the next-generation Asimov silicon and Titan system slated for 2027. Positron exposes its inference
  fleet through "Olivaw", a serving and administration layer that publishes two documented HTTP APIs: an OpenAI-compatible
  completions API (models, chat completions, text completions, with server-sent-event streaming) so existing OpenAI client
  code can be repointed at a Positron endpoint, and an administrative API for managing models, service nodes, users, and access
  tokens on an appliance or hosted cluster. The company raised a $230M Series B in February 2026 at a valuation above $1B
  from ARENA, Jump Trading, Unless, the Qatar Investment Authority, Arm, Helena, DFJ Growth, Atreides, Valor, Resilience Reserve,
  Flume Ventures and 1517 Fund.'
deliveryModel:
  model: library
  license_evidence:
    not_product:
    - positron-ai/admin-api-docs
  open_source: unknown
  commercial: false
  callable_host: false
  label: Library · distributed through package registries, no callable service
  confidence: low
  source:
  - openapi
  - repository-not-product
  generated: '2026-09-25'
  method: derived
accessModel:
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  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source:
  - authentication
  - security
  generated: '2026-09-03'
  method: derived
image: https://www.positron.ai/opengraph-image-pwu6ef.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/positron/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: harvest:secondary-market
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-08-02'
modified: '2026-08-02'
tags:
- Artificial Intelligence
- Inference
- inference-hardware
- AI Accelerators
- LLM
- Transformers
- OpenAI-Compatible
- Machine Learning
- Semiconductors
- Data Center
- llm-serving
- Model Hosting
tags_raw:
- artificial-intelligence
- ai-inference
- inference-hardware
- ai-accelerators
- large-language-models
- transformers
- openai-compatible
- machine-learning
- semiconductors
- data-center
- llm-serving
- model-hosting
- Machine-Learning
- Data-Center
- AI Inference
apis:
- aid: positron:positron-access-tokens-api
  name: Positron Access Tokens API
  description: The access_tokens API from Positron — 3 operation(s) for access_tokens.
  humanURL: https://support.positron.ai/api-documentation
  baseURL: https://api.positron.ai/
  tags:
  - Access Tokens
  tags_raw:
  - access_tokens
  properties:
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  - type: Documentation
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  - type: APIReference
    url: https://support.positron.ai/api-documentation
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/positron-authentication.yml
  - type: Conventions
    url: conventions/positron-conventions.yml
  - type: ErrorCatalog
    url: errors/positron-problem-types.yml
  - type: DataModel
    url: data-model/positron-data-model.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://github.com/positron-ai/admin-api-docs
  - type: SourceCode
    url: https://github.com/positron-ai/admin-api-docs
- aid: positron:positron-completion-api
  name: Positron Completion API
  description: The completion API from Positron — 2 operation(s) for completion.
  humanURL: https://support.positron.ai/api-documentation
  baseURL: https://api.positron.ai/
  tags:
  - Completion
  tags_raw:
  - completion
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/positron-completion-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://support.positron.ai/api-documentation
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://support.positron.ai/api-documentation
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/positron-authentication.yml
  - type: Conventions
    url: conventions/positron-conventions.yml
  - type: ErrorCatalog
    url: errors/positron-problem-types.yml
  - type: DataModel
    url: data-model/positron-data-model.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://github.com/positron-ai/admin-api-docs
  - type: SourceCode
    url: https://github.com/positron-ai/admin-api-docs
- aid: positron:positron-models-api
  name: Positron Models API
  description: The models API from Positron — 5 operation(s) for models.
  humanURL: https://support.positron.ai/api-documentation
  baseURL: https://api.positron.ai/
  tags:
  - Models
  tags_raw:
  - models
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/positron-models-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://support.positron.ai/api-documentation
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://support.positron.ai/api-documentation
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/positron-authentication.yml
  - type: Conventions
    url: conventions/positron-conventions.yml
  - type: ErrorCatalog
    url: errors/positron-problem-types.yml
  - type: DataModel
    url: data-model/positron-data-model.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://github.com/positron-ai/admin-api-docs
  - type: SourceCode
    url: https://github.com/positron-ai/admin-api-docs
- aid: positron:positron-service-nodes-api
  name: Positron Service Nodes API
  description: The service_nodes API from Positron — 2 operation(s) for service_nodes.
  humanURL: https://support.positron.ai/api-documentation
  baseURL: https://api.positron.ai/
  tags: []
  tags_raw:
  - service_nodes
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/positron-service-nodes-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://support.positron.ai/api-documentation
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://support.positron.ai/api-documentation
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/positron-authentication.yml
  - type: Conventions
    url: conventions/positron-conventions.yml
  - type: ErrorCatalog
    url: errors/positron-problem-types.yml
  - type: DataModel
    url: data-model/positron-data-model.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://github.com/positron-ai/admin-api-docs
  - type: SourceCode
    url: https://github.com/positron-ai/admin-api-docs
- aid: positron:positron-users-api
  name: Positron Users API
  description: The users API from Positron — 3 operation(s) for users.
  humanURL: https://support.positron.ai/api-documentation
  baseURL: https://api.positron.ai/
  tags:
  - User
  tags_raw:
  - users
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/positron-users-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://support.positron.ai/api-documentation
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://support.positron.ai/api-documentation
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/positron-authentication.yml
  - type: Conventions
    url: conventions/positron-conventions.yml
  - type: ErrorCatalog
    url: errors/positron-problem-types.yml
  - type: DataModel
    url: data-model/positron-data-model.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://github.com/positron-ai/admin-api-docs
  - type: SourceCode
    url: https://github.com/positron-ai/admin-api-docs
common:
- type: IssueTracker
  url: https://github.com/positron-ai/admin-api-docs/issues
- type: X-MCPServerCandidate
  url: mcp/positron-mcp.yml
  note: 'Renamed from MCPServer 2026-09-03 (roadmap#247): the manifest self-describes as status: candidate — a tool list derived
    from the published API contracts, not an existing server. The scorer already read the manifest and reported mcp_server
    correctly; the MCPServer type was crediting the artifact-type surfaces with a server that does not exist.'
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/positron-domain-security.yml
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/positron-agentic-access.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.positron.ai/
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://support.positron.ai/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://support.positron.ai/api-documentation
- type: APIReference
  url: https://support.positron.ai/api-documentation
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://support.positron.ai/user-guide
- type: Support
  url: https://www.positron.ai/contact-sales
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/positron-ai
- type: ChangeLog
  url: https://support.positron.ai/release-notes
- type: ChangeLog
  url: changelog/positron-changelog.yml
- type: Press
  url: https://www.positron.ai/press
- type: Careers
  url: https://www.positron.ai/careers
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/positron-ai/
- type: Twitter
  url: https://twitter.com/positron_ai
- type: OpenAPI
  url: openapi/_original/positron-inference-openapi.yml
- type: OpenAPI
  url: openapi/_original/positron-admin-openapi.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/positron-authentication.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/positron-conventions.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/positron-problem-types.yml
- type: DataModel
  url: data-model/positron-data-model.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/positron-lifecycle.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/positron-conformance.yml
- type: Packages
  url: packages/positron-packages.yml
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/positron-well-known.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/positron-llms.txt
- type: Overlay
  url: overlays/positron-inference-overlay.yaml
- type: Overlay
  url: overlays/positron-admin-overlay.yaml
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/_index.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
- FN: Positron AI
  email: api@positron.ai
  url: https://www.positron.ai/
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-08-02'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 23
  pass: local-v1

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