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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 publishes 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.

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29.3/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 3/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-08-05 · rubric v0.9.1
AccessEnterprise
1 APIs
Fortune 500Electric UtilityNatural GasEnergy

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Composite quality — 29.3/100 · thin
Contract Quality 8.5 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 0.0 / 20
Commercial Clarity 5.8 / 20
Operational Transparency 3.4 / 13
Governance 8.3 / 12
Discoverability 5.9 / 10
Agent readiness — 3/100 · human only
Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10
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
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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...

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 API 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

2026-05-25

Artificial intelligence is on a path to become ...

2026-05-25

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

2026-05-25

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

2026-05-25

Energy Department Announces Partnership to Ensure ...

2026-05-25

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

Company 4

The organization behind the API

Website
Website
 Investor Relations
Investor Relations
 LinkedIn
LinkedIn
 Facebook
Facebook

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

X
X

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: southern
accessModel:
  pricing: enterprise
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Enterprise
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  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: '0.19'
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: 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
maintainers:
- FN: API Evangelist
  email: info@apievangelist.com