Sonos

Sonos is a consumer audio company whose wireless home-sound systems are controlled programmatically through the Sonos Control API — a cloud-based REST API that lets third-party integrations discover a household's players and groups and drive playback, volume, grouping, favorites, playlists, home theater options, audio clips, and cloud-queue sessions. The API authenticates with OAuth 2.0 (authorization code grant) using the single playback-control-all scope, is organized into per-resource namespaces (households, groups, groupVolume, playback, playbackMetadata, playbackSession, playerVolume, favorites, playlists, audioClip, homeTheater), and delivers real-time state through an event-subscription (webhook callback) model.

Sonos is listed with 1 API on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Consumer, Audio, Music, and Smart Home.

The Sonos catalog on APIs.io includes 1 event-driven AsyncAPI specification.

Sonos’ developer surface includes engineering blog, documentation, API reference, getting-started guide, signup flow, support, authentication, and 15 more developer resources.

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31.3/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 24/100 agent aware saas Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-10-17 · rubric v0.24.0

AccessSelf serve

1 API

Company Consumer Audio Music Smart Home IoT Streaming Speakers Home Automation Voice

Kin Score

Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-10-17 · rubric v0.24.0

Composite quality — 31.3/100 · thin

Contract Quality 8.3 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 6.8 / 17

Access Clarity 1.1 / 17

Operational Transparency 2.9 / 11

Contract Governance 0.5 / 10

Discoverability 5.6 / 9

Regulatory Posture 4.0 / 15

Agent readiness — 24/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 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 6 / 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

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Markets this provider is in provisional

The Kin Score Market layer reads a provider inside its market: its position, and how deep its integrations go. Depth is only comparable within a position. Provisional and unweighted: not part of the Kin Score or agent readiness.

Market	Position	Depth	Registered MCP server	Declares compatibility
IoT and Smart Home	undeclared	-	-	-

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.

APIs 1

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

Sonos Control API

Cloud-based REST API for controlling Sonos players and groups: playback, volume, grouping, favorites, playlists, home theater, audio clips, and cloud-queue playback sessions, wi...

Event Specifications 1

AsyncAPI definitions for this provider's event-driven and streaming APIs.

Sonos Events Webhooks

ASYNCAPI

Security Posture 2

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

Sonos Authentication

oauth2 · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Sonos Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Scopes 1

OAuth scopes governing access to this provider's APIs.

Sonos Scopes

1 scope · authorizationCode

1 scopes

SCOPES

Resources

Get Started 3

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

DeveloperPortal

DeveloperPortal

GettingStarted

GettingStarted

SignUp

SignUp

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

APIReference

APIReference

Agent Surfaces 3

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

WellKnown

WellKnown

X-MCPServerCandidate

X-MCPServerCandidate

AgentSkill

AgentSkill

Design & Contract 6

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Lifecycle

Conventions

Webhooks

Conformance

ErrorCatalog

DataModel

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

Access & Security 3

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Authentication

Authentication

OAuthScopes

OAuthScopes

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support

Support

StatusPage

StatusPage

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Blog

Blog

Website

Website

Source (apis.yml)

aid: sonos
name: Sonos
description: Sonos is a consumer audio company whose wireless home-sound systems are controlled programmatically through the
  Sonos Control API — a cloud-based REST API that lets third-party integrations discover a household's players and groups
  and drive playback, volume, grouping, favorites, playlists, home theater options, audio clips, and cloud-queue sessions.
  The API authenticates with OAuth 2.0 (authorization code grant) using the single playback-control-all scope, is organized
  into per-resource namespaces (households, groups, groupVolume, playback, playbackMetadata, playbackSession, playerVolume,
  favorites, playlists, audioClip, homeTheater), and delivers real-time state through an event-subscription (webhook callback)
  model.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/sonos/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- redpoint-ventures
x-tier: profiled
x-tier-reason: has-public-api
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: false
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Self-serve signup
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - authentication
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-10-06'
tags:
- Company
- Consumer
- Audio
- Music
- Smart Home
- IoT
- Streaming
- Speakers
- Home Automation
- Voice
image: https://www.sonos.com/apple-touch-icon.png
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
apis:
- name: Sonos Control API
  description: 'Cloud-based REST API for controlling Sonos players and groups: playback, volume, grouping, favorites, playlists,
    home theater, audio clips, and cloud-queue playback sessions, with OAuth 2.0 auth and event subscriptions.'
  humanURL: https://docs.sonos.com/reference
  baseURL: https://api.ws.sonos.com/control/api/v1
  tags:
  - Audio
  - Music
  - Playback
  - Smart Home
  properties:
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.sonos.com/reference
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.sonos.com/docs
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://docs.sonos.com/docs/authorize
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/sonos-authentication.yml
  - type: OAuthScopes
    url: scopes/sonos-scopes.yml
  - type: Conventions
    url: conventions/sonos-conventions.yml
  - type: Webhooks
    url: asyncapi/sonos-events-webhooks.yml
  - type: ErrorCatalog
    url: errors/sonos-problem-types.yml
  - type: DataModel
    url: data-model/sonos-data-model.yml
  - type: X-MCPServerCandidate
    url: mcp/sonos-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: AgentSkill
    url: skills/_index.yml
common:
- url: https://www.sonos.com/en-us/blog
  type: Blog
- type: Website
  url: https://www.sonos.com/
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://developer.sonos.com/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://docs.sonos.com/docs
- type: APIReference
  url: https://docs.sonos.com/reference
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://docs.sonos.com/docs/authorize
- type: SignUp
  url: https://developer.sonos.com/
- type: Support
  url: https://support.sonos.com/
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/sonos
- type: StatusPage
  url: https://status.sonos.com/
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/sonos-lifecycle.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/sonos-authentication.yml
- type: OAuthScopes
  url: scopes/sonos-scopes.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/sonos-conventions.yml
- type: Webhooks
  url: asyncapi/sonos-events-webhooks.yml
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/sonos-well-known.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/sonos-conformance.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/sonos-problem-types.yml
- type: DataModel
  url: data-model/sonos-data-model.yml
- type: X-MCPServerCandidate
  url: mcp/sonos-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: AgentSkill
  url: skills/_index.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/sonos-domain-security.yml
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-21'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 15
  pass: local-v1

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