# RunPod

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/runpod/  
**Website:** https://runpod.io  
**APIs profiled:** 10

RunPod is a managed GPU cloud and serverless inference platform offering on-demand and persistent GPU Pods, autoscaling Serverless endpoints, network volumes, container templates, and a REST + GraphQL control plane for provisioning H100, H200, B200, A100, L40S, and consumer RTX GPUs. RunPod targets AI/ML developers who need flexible, per-second-billed GPU compute for training, fine-tuning, and inference workloads.

## Kin Score — 52.6 / 100 (developing)

Scored 2026-08-21 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 52.6).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 81.5 |
| Contract Quality | 55.2 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 39.5 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 52.4 |
| Commercial Clarity | 75.0 |
| Access Clarity | 75.0 |

## Agent readiness — 29.1 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| 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 |

## Access

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

## APIs (10)

- **RunPod GraphQL API** — The RunPod GraphQL API provides programmatic access to Pods, templates, and Serverless endpoints via GraphQL queries and mutations. It is the original control-plane interface an...
- **RunPod Serverless** — RunPod Serverless provides pay-as-you-go inference endpoints with autoscaling workers, queue-based and load-balanced endpoint types, FlashBoot cold-start optimization, and per-s...
- **RunPod Billing API** — The Billing API from RunPod — 3 operation(s) for billing.
- **RunPod Containerregistryauth API** — The Containerregistryauth API from RunPod — 2 operation(s) for containerregistryauth.
- **RunPod Docs API** — The Docs API from RunPod — 1 operation(s) for docs.
- **RunPod Endpoints API** — The Endpoints API from RunPod — 3 operation(s) for endpoints.
- **RunPod Networkvolumes API** — The Networkvolumes API from RunPod — 3 operation(s) for networkvolumes.
- **RunPod Openapi.json API** — The Openapi.json API from RunPod — 1 operation(s) for openapi.json.
- **RunPod Pods API** — The Pods API from RunPod — 7 operation(s) for pods.
- **RunPod Templates API** — The Templates API from RunPod — 3 operation(s) for templates.

## Agentic access (1)

- **Runpod Agentic Access** — 37 operations · 22 acting · 2 human-in-the-loop

## Security (3)

- **Runpod Authentication** — http · 1 scheme
- **Runpod Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC
- **Runpod Trust Center** — SOC 2, HIPAA, GDPR

## Plans (1)

- **Runpod Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Artificial Intelligence, Cloud, Compute, GPU, Inference, Machine-Learning, Serverless

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