# Sofar Ocean

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/sofar-ocean/  
**Website:** https://www.sofarocean.com  
**APIs profiled:** 4

Sofar Ocean operates one of the world's largest privately owned networks of real-time ocean weather sensors. Its Spotter buoys and Smart Mooring subsurface sensors stream wave, wind, sea-surface temperature, barometric pressure, and acoustic data via cellular and satellite telemetry, and the Wayfinder platform turns that data into maritime voyage optimization. The Sofar API (Spotter & Smart Mooring plus the Operational Wave Spectra forecast) gives developers token-authenticated access to device telemetry, historical and geospatial data queries, subsurface sensor readings, NetCDF wave-spectra forecasts, and outbound data-forwarding webhooks.

## Kin Score — 51.3 / 100 (developing)

Scored 2026-08-17 under rubric 0.11.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 51.3).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 81.5 |
| Contract Quality | 69.4 |
| Governance | 11.5 |
| Operational Transparency | 28.9 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 69.0 |
| Commercial Clarity | 34.2 |

## Agent readiness — 43.9 (agent-ready)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| MCP Server | derived |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | verified |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | no |
| Event Surface Described | yes |
| Agent Skills | derived |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: medium).

## APIs (4)

- **Sofar Ocean Devices API** — Spotter device discovery
- **Sofar Ocean Smart Mooring API** — Data collected by Smart Mooring subsurface sensors
- **Sofar Ocean Spotter Data API** — Data collected by onboard Spotter sensors
- **Sofar Ocean Wave Spectra API** — Sofar Operational WaveWatch III wave spectra forecast

## MCP servers (1)

- **sofar-ocean-mcp.yml**

## Agentic access (1)

- **Sofar Ocean Agentic Access** — 8 operations

## Security (2)

- **Sofar Ocean Authentication** — apiKey · 2 schemes
- **Sofar Ocean Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

## Tags

Company, Climate, Ocean Data, Weather, Maritime, Sensors, IoT, Environmental Data, Wave Data, Buoys

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