# Sonos

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/sonos/  
**Website:** https://www.sonos.com/  
**APIs profiled:** 1

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.

## Kin Score — 32.0 / 100 (thin)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 32.0).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 79.6 |
| Contract Quality | 45.1 |
| Governance | 4.5 |
| Contract Governance | 4.5 |
| Operational Transparency | 26.3 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 37.5 |
| Commercial Clarity | 6.6 |
| Access Clarity | 6.6 |

## Agent readiness — 33.5 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | documented |
| 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 (1)

- **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...

## MCP servers (1)

- **Sonos MCP Server** — Sonos does not operate an official hosted MCP server (none found in the docs, the @modelcontextprotocol registry, or the sonos GitHub org). This is a CANDIDATE tool list derived...

## Security (2)

- **Sonos Authentication** — oauth2 · 1 scheme
- **Sonos Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

## Tags

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

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