Southern Company

Southern Company is a leading American gas and electric utility holding company headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia. Through its subsidiaries — Alabama Power, Georgia Power, Mississippi Power, Southern Natural Gas, and Southern Company Gas — it serves 9 million gas and electric utility customers across 6 states. Southern Company is a Fortune 500 company with operations spanning electricity generation, transmission, distribution, and natural gas distribution.

Southern Company is listed with 1 API on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Fortune 500, Electric Utility, Natural Gas, and Energy.

The Southern Company catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context and 1 Spectral governance ruleset.

Southern Company’s developer surface includes engineering blog and 12 more developer resources.

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19.0/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 1/100 human only Front door AI 1/6 silent Heartbeat 100/100 alive Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0 · Show this score on your site →

AccessEnterprise

1 API

Fortune 500 Electric Utility Natural Gas Energy

Kin Score

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scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0

Composite quality — 19.0/100 · emerging

Contract Quality 5.7 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 2.0 / 17

Access Clarity 0.9 / 17

Operational Transparency 0.9 / 11

Contract Governance 2.4 / 10

Discoverability 4.9 / 9

Regulatory Posture 1.4 / 15

Agent readiness — 1/100 · human only

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 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 5 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

MCP Tool Quality 6 / 6

Regulatory Posture applies to this provider. Its tags matched the Energy & Utilities regime, so Regulatory Posture carries 15 points of the composite. If this regime is wrong for your business, say so on your provider repo — the applicability map is public and we will correct it.

Create-or-Update Ergonomics could not be measured. We hold no machine-readable contract for this provider to read, so there is nothing to measure a write surface against. Excluded rather than scored zero: never-measured and measured-empty are different facts. Publishing an OpenAPI is what makes this facet — and several others — scorable at all.

The six quality facets above are damped to 85 points between them, because the conditional facet above carries the other 15. That is why each facet's contribution is shown against a damped maximum: raising a quality facet moves the composite by 85% of its nominal weight, not 100%. The full arithmetic is at apis.io/rating/.

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Agent readiness — checks not met, largest first (exact, from this profile):

Machine-Readable Contract +18 pts — api_specs includes an OpenAPI document
MCP Server +12 pts — deployment.mode + probe verdict on the mcp/ manifest, not the pointer; an unprobed slug falls back to authorship
Agentic Access Contract +10 pts — agentic_access artifact present (x-agentic-access), graded by author
Machine-Readable Auth +10 pts — a served openid-configuration/oauth-authorization-server carrying `issuer` (served), else the securitySchemes class in the provider OpenAPIs — bound (mutualTLS, DPoP, Signature) > negotiable (oauth2 authorizationCode/clientCredentials, openIdConnect) > bearer (http bearer, apiKey)
Idempotency +9 pts — OpenAPI mutating operations declare an idempotency key — a header, a request-body property, or a named de-duplication token whose own description says so (verified); else common[].type matches /idempoten/i (documented)
Stable Error Semantics +8 pts — OpenAPI $refs a shared error schema across 4xx/5xx responses (verified), else common[].type includes ErrorCatalog / ErrorCodes / DeclineCodes

12 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

Kin Score — facets with the most composite points still available (weight × headroom):

Access Clarity scores 5.3 — up to +18.9 composite points
Contract Quality scores 26.7 — up to +18.3 composite points
Developer Ergonomics scores 11.9 — up to +17.6 composite points

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APIs 1

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

Southern Company Customer Account API

The Southern Company Customer Account API provides access to utility account data for Alabama Power, Georgia Power, and Mississippi Power customers. It supports reading energy u...

Southern Company API pricing

Not yet checked against Southern Company's own pricing page. Compiled by API Evangelist on 2026-05-05 from www.southerncompany.com/; confirm before you rely on a figure.

Plan	Price
Contact Sales enterprise	—

Plan details, limits and sources →

Rate limits

No public limits documented: not publicly published varies

Compiled by API Evangelist, not yet checked against Southern Company's documentation. Rate-limit details →

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Southern Plans Pricing

1 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Southern Rate Limits

1 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Southern Finops

FINOPS

Semantic Vocabularies 1

JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.

Southern Context

12 classes · 13 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 1

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

Southern Company — jsonschema rules

5 rules · 3 warnings 2 info

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 2

Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.

Southern Company Energy Usage

9 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Southern Company Utility Account

10 properties

JSON SCHEMA

JSON Structure 1

JSON Structure definitions describing this provider's data shapes.

Southern Utility Account Structure

0 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Examples 2

Example request and response payloads for these APIs.

Southern Energy Usage Example

8 fields

EXAMPLE

Southern Utility Account Example

10 fields

EXAMPLE

Security Posture 1

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

Southern Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Press 5

Recent news and press coverage referencing this provider.

SREB Commission on AI in Education

Artificial intelligence is on a path to become ...

Southern Company Subsidiaries Among the First To Use AI ...

Trump's “AI Action Plan” would let billionaire tech ...

Energy Department Announces Partnership to Ensure ...

Resources

Design & Contract 2

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

JSONLDContext

JSONLDContext

Vocabulary

Vocabulary

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

RateLimits

RateLimits

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Plans

Plans

FinOps

FinOps

Company 5

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Investor Relations

Investor Relations

LinkedIn

Facebook

Facebook

Blog

Blog

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Source (apis.yml)

aid: southern
deliveryModel:
  model: unknown
  license_evidence:
    not_product:
    - apearson/southern-company-api
  open_source: unknown
  commercial: false
  callable_host: false
  label: Delivery model not determined — needs a product licence on record
  confidence: low
  source:
  - repository-not-product
  generated: '2026-09-25'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: enterprise
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Enterprise
  confidence: low
  source:
  - plans
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-06'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/southern.png
name: Southern Company
description: Southern Company is a leading American gas and electric utility holding company headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia.
  Through its subsidiaries — Alabama Power, Georgia Power, Mississippi Power, Southern Natural Gas, and Southern Company Gas
  — it serves 9 million gas and electric utility customers across 6 states. Southern Company is a Fortune 500 company with
  operations spanning electricity generation, transmission, distribution, and natural gas distribution.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/southern/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2026-03-21'
modified: '2026-07-25'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
tags:
- Fortune 500
- Electric Utility
- Natural Gas
- Energy
apis:
- aid: southern:southern-company-customer-api
  name: Southern Company Customer Account API
  description: The Southern Company Customer Account API provides access to utility account data for Alabama Power, Georgia
    Power, and Mississippi Power customers. It supports reading energy usage data, account balances, billing history, and
    daily consumption data with costs and kilowatt-hour measurements.
  humanURL: https://www.southerncompany.com/
  baseURL: https://customerservice2.southernco.com
  tags:
  - Electric Utility
  - Energy Usage
  - Customer Data
  - Billing
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.southerncompany.com/
  - type: GitHub
    url: https://github.com/apearson/southern-company-api
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/southern/refs/heads/main/json-schema/southern-utility-account-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/southern/refs/heads/main/json-schema/southern-energy-usage-schema.json
common:
- type: Plans
  url: plans/southern-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/southern-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/southern-finops.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/southern-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.southerncompany.com
- type: Investor Relations
  url: https://investor.southerncompany.com/
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/Southern-Company-HA
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/southern-company
- type: X
  url: https://twitter.com/SouthernCompany
- type: Facebook
  url: https://www.facebook.com/SOCompany
- type: JSONLDContext
  url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/southern/refs/heads/main/json-ld/southern-context.jsonld
- type: Vocabulary
  url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/southern/refs/heads/main/vocabulary/southern-vocabulary.yml
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.southerncompany.com/newsroom.html
maintainers:
- FN: API Evangelist
  email: info@apievangelist.com

Southern Company API — frequently asked questions

Does Southern Company have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 1 API from Southern Company, including Southern Company Customer Account API.

How much does the Southern Company API cost?

APIs.io lists 1 pricing plan for Southern Company, with each plan's price, limits and inclusions under Pricing on this page.

Is the Southern Company API ready for AI agents?

Southern Company has a Kin Score of 19.0 out of 100 (emerging) and an Agent Readiness score of 0.6 (human-only), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.

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