Tesla

Tesla, Inc. is an American electric vehicle and clean energy company founded in 2003. Tesla offers the Fleet API for partners to access Tesla vehicles and energy devices with owner-granted permissions, covering vehicle telemetry, remote commands, charging management, energy site management, and fleet management capabilities.

Tesla publishes 4 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network, including Authentication API, Media Control API, Vehicle Commands API, and 1 more. Tagged areas include Automobiles, Cars, Vehicles, Electric Vehicles, and Energy.

The Tesla catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context and 2 Spectral governance rulesets.

Tesla’s developer surface includes developer portal, FAQ, and 19 more developer resources.

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35.5/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 23/100 agent aware self hosted · MIT Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0 · Show this score on your site →

AccessFreemium

1 published contract

Automobiles Cars Vehicles Electric Vehicles Energy Clean Energy IoT

What this lets a business do 1

Business capabilities this provider's published APIs can perform, derived from its own contracts. Browse all capabilities →

Vehicle Connected Services Management

BC-3460

Vehicle CommandsVehicles

POST /api/1/vehicles/{vehicle_id}/command/set_scheduled_charging GET /api/1/vehicles GET /api/1/vehicles/{vehicle_id} GET /api/1/vehicles/{vehicle_id}/vehicle_data

Kin Score

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scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0

Composite quality — 35.5/100 · thin

Contract Quality 7.7 / 16

Developer Ergonomics 5.6 / 13

Access Clarity 1.0 / 13

Operational Transparency 3.3 / 8

Contract Governance 1.1 / 8

Discoverability 5.0 / 7

Regulatory Posture 2.8 / 15

Open Source Surface 2.5 / 10

Create-or-Update Ergonomics 0.0 / 10

Agent readiness — 23/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

Documented Reversibility 6 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 7 / 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.

Open Source Surface applies to this provider. This product is open source and we read its repository directly, so Open Source Surface carries 10 points of the composite. It is scored from what the repository actually publishes — a security policy, a contribution guide, a release history, a code of conduct — read live from the provider rather than inferred from our own catalog pointers. This facet adds; nothing was taken away to make room for it. An open-source project is not excused from the commercial facets, because exemption would strip it of the points it does earn. If we have the wrong repository, or this product is not open source, say so on your provider repo and we will drop the facet rather than have you publish against it.

Create-or-Update Ergonomics applies to this provider. This API accepts writes, so it carries 10 points of the composite. It is scored from the published contracts themselves: whether a caller can create-or-update in one call, whether the write accepts a key the caller already holds, and whether the response says which branch ran. Without that, every write needs a search-and-branch in front of it, and the first time that check is skipped a duplicate record is created. Scored against the observed mean rather than raw — a provider at the catalog average is unchanged by this facet, not penalised by it.

The six quality facets above are damped to 65 points between them, because both conditional facets apply and carry 35 points together. That is why each facet's contribution is shown against a damped maximum: raising a quality facet moves the composite by 65% 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):

MCP Server +12 pts — deployment.mode + probe verdict on the mcp/ manifest, not the pointer; an unprobed slug falls back to authorship
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
A2A Agent Card +8 pts — a2a/-a2a.yml manifest, graded on conformance.grade against A2A 1.0.0
Registration Without a Human +6 pts — a `registration_endpoint` in the served RFC 8414 / OIDC discovery document
Delegated User Identity +6 pts — a served discovery document listing authorization_code in grant_types_supported (served), else an oauth2 authorizationCode flow or openIdConnect declared in an OpenAPI (documented)

7 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

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

Access Clarity scores 7.9 — up to +18.4 composite points
Contract Quality scores 47.5 — up to +13.1 composite points
Developer Ergonomics scores 42.9 — up to +11.4 composite points

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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
Automotive and Mobility	standard	55.8	-	-
EV Charging (charging, roaming, e-mobility)	standard	55.8	-	-
ENERGY STAR Certified Products (appliances, electronics, data-center equipment, EV chargers, smart thermostats)	standard	55.8	-	-
LF Energy Landscape (open-source grid, utilities, EV and DER)	standard	55.8	-	-
LF Energy Projects and Members (grid, DER, EV charging open source)	standard	55.8	-	-

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.

Standards implemented 1

Standards this provider implements or carries. De facto ones are profiled and measured by the API Commons; formal ones come from the standards directory and are linked by the provider's own tags. The evidence column says how each claim was established — not that it was made.

OpenAPI

measured — observed by APIs.io (published)

APIs 4

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

Tesla Authentication API

The Authentication API from Tesla — 1 operation(s) for authentication.

Tesla Media Control API

The Media Control API from Tesla — 8 operation(s) for media control.

Tesla Vehicle Commands API

The Vehicle Commands API from Tesla — 45 operation(s) for vehicle commands.

Tesla Vehicles API

The Vehicles API from Tesla — 11 operation(s) for vehicles.

Open Collections 4

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

Tesla Authentication API

OPEN COLLECTION

Tesla Authentication Media Control API

OPEN COLLECTION

Tesla Authentication Vehicle Commands API

OPEN COLLECTION

Tesla Authentication Vehicles API

OPEN COLLECTION

Tesla API pricing

Not yet checked against Tesla's own pricing page. Compiled by API Evangelist on 2026-05-04; confirm before you rely on a figure. A free plan or tier is listed.

Plan	Price
Free freemium	Free
Professional paid	Free
Enterprise enterprise	—

Plan details, limits and sources →

Rate limits

Free Tier Default: 10 requests per minute
Free Tier Monthly Quota: 1000 requests per month
Professional Tier Default: 100 requests per minute

Compiled by API Evangelist, not yet checked against Tesla's documentation. All 5 limits →

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Tesla Plans Pricing

3 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Tesla Rate Limits

5 limits

RATE LIMITS

Service Levels 1

Uptime the provider promises or reports, as SLA4OAI. Read from its own pages; APIs.io runs no monitors.

Tesla

SLA

FinOps 1

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

Tesla Finops

FINOPS

Semantic Vocabularies 1

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

Tesla Context

30 classes · 0 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 2

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

Tesla — jsonschema rules

5 rules · 4 warnings 1 info

SPECTRAL

Tesla API Rules

8 rules · 1 errors 5 warnings 2 info

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 1

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

Tesla Vehicle

10 properties

JSON SCHEMA

JSON Structure 1

JSON Structure definitions describing this provider's data shapes.

Tesla Vehicle State Structure

0 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Examples 1

Example request and response payloads for these APIs.

Tesla List Vehicles Example

2 fields

EXAMPLE

Security Posture 2

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

Tesla Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Tesla Vulnerability Disclosure

no policy recorded

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Tesla Agentic Access

65 operations · 54 acting · 14 human-in-the-loop

65 operations · 54 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Get Started 1

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Portal

Portal

Agent Surfaces 2

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

AgenticAccess

LlmsText

LlmsText

Build 3

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

SDKs

SDKs

SDKs

SDKs

Postman

Postman

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

VulnerabilityDisclosure

VulnerabilityDisclosure

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 5

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

RateLimits

IssueTracker

Releases

FAQ

Contact

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Plans

Plans

FinOps

FinOps

License

License

Company 2

The organization behind the API

LinkedIn

Website

Website

Other 3

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

CapabilityMap

CapabilityMap

Announcements

Announcements

Repository

Repository

Source (apis.yml)

aid: tesla
name: Tesla
description: Tesla, Inc. is an American electric vehicle and clean energy company founded in 2003. Tesla offers the Fleet
  API for partners to access Tesla vehicles and energy devices with owner-granted permissions, covering vehicle telemetry,
  remote commands, charging management, energy site management, and fleet management capabilities.
type: Index
deliveryModel:
  model: self-hosted
  license: MIT
  open_source: true
  commercial: false
  callable_host: true
  label: Self-hosted open source · you run it yourself
  confidence: high
  source:
  - license
  - openapi
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: freemium
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Freemium
  confidence: low
  source:
  - plans
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-06'
  method: derived
image: ''
tags:
- Automobiles
- Cars
- Vehicles
- Electric Vehicles
- Energy
- Clean Energy
- IoT
url: https://developer.tesla.com/
created: '2025-02-25'
modified: '2026-05-19'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- aid: tesla:tesla-authentication-api
  name: Tesla Authentication API
  description: The Authentication API from Tesla — 1 operation(s) for authentication.
  humanURL: https://developer.tesla.com/docs/fleet-api
  baseURL: https://fleet-api.prd.na.vn.cloud.tesla.com/api/1
  tags:
  - Authentication
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/tesla-authentication-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.tesla.com/docs/fleet-api
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.tesla.com/docs/fleet-api/endpoints/vehicle-endpoints
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.tesla.com/docs/fleet-api/endpoints/vehicle-commands
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.tesla.com/docs/fleet-api/endpoints/charging-endpoints
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.tesla.com/docs/fleet-api/endpoints/energy
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://developer.tesla.com/docs/fleet-api/authentication/overview
  - type: Billing
    url: https://developer.tesla.com/docs/fleet-api/billing-and-limits
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://tesla-api.timdorr.com/
  - type: Repository
    url: https://github.com/timdorr/tesla-api
- aid: tesla:tesla-media-control-api
  name: Tesla Media Control API
  description: The Media Control API from Tesla — 8 operation(s) for media control.
  humanURL: https://developer.tesla.com/docs/fleet-api
  baseURL: https://fleet-api.prd.na.vn.cloud.tesla.com/api/1
  tags:
  - Media Control
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/tesla-media-control-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.tesla.com/docs/fleet-api
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.tesla.com/docs/fleet-api/endpoints/vehicle-endpoints
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.tesla.com/docs/fleet-api/endpoints/vehicle-commands
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.tesla.com/docs/fleet-api/endpoints/charging-endpoints
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.tesla.com/docs/fleet-api/endpoints/energy
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://developer.tesla.com/docs/fleet-api/authentication/overview
  - type: Billing
    url: https://developer.tesla.com/docs/fleet-api/billing-and-limits
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://tesla-api.timdorr.com/
  - type: Repository
    url: https://github.com/timdorr/tesla-api
- aid: tesla:tesla-vehicle-commands-api
  name: Tesla Vehicle Commands API
  description: The Vehicle Commands API from Tesla — 45 operation(s) for vehicle commands.
  humanURL: https://developer.tesla.com/docs/fleet-api
  baseURL: https://fleet-api.prd.na.vn.cloud.tesla.com/api/1
  tags:
  - Vehicle Commands
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/tesla-vehicle-commands-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.tesla.com/docs/fleet-api
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.tesla.com/docs/fleet-api/endpoints/vehicle-endpoints
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.tesla.com/docs/fleet-api/endpoints/vehicle-commands
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.tesla.com/docs/fleet-api/endpoints/charging-endpoints
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.tesla.com/docs/fleet-api/endpoints/energy
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://developer.tesla.com/docs/fleet-api/authentication/overview
  - type: Billing
    url: https://developer.tesla.com/docs/fleet-api/billing-and-limits
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://tesla-api.timdorr.com/
  - type: Repository
    url: https://github.com/timdorr/tesla-api
- aid: tesla:tesla-vehicles-api
  name: Tesla Vehicles API
  description: The Vehicles API from Tesla — 11 operation(s) for vehicles.
  humanURL: https://developer.tesla.com/docs/fleet-api
  baseURL: https://fleet-api.prd.na.vn.cloud.tesla.com/api/1
  tags:
  - Vehicles
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/tesla-vehicles-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.tesla.com/docs/fleet-api
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.tesla.com/docs/fleet-api/endpoints/vehicle-endpoints
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.tesla.com/docs/fleet-api/endpoints/vehicle-commands
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.tesla.com/docs/fleet-api/endpoints/charging-endpoints
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.tesla.com/docs/fleet-api/endpoints/energy
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://developer.tesla.com/docs/fleet-api/authentication/overview
  - type: Billing
    url: https://developer.tesla.com/docs/fleet-api/billing-and-limits
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://tesla-api.timdorr.com/
  - type: Repository
    url: https://github.com/timdorr/tesla-api
common:
- type: Plans
  url: plans/tesla-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/tesla-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/tesla-finops.yml
- type: CapabilityMap
  url: capabilities/tesla-capability-edges.yml
  name: Tesla Business Capability Map
- type: IssueTracker
  url: https://github.com/timdorr/tesla-api/issues
- type: Releases
  url: https://github.com/timdorr/tesla-api/releases
- type: License
  name: MIT
  url: https://github.com/timdorr/tesla-api/blob/master/LICENSE
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/tesla-agentic-access.yml
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/tesla-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/tesla-domain-security.yml
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/tesla-motors
- name: Tesla Developer Portal
  url: https://developer.tesla.com/
  type: Portal
- name: Tesla Fleet API Announcements
  url: https://developer.tesla.com/docs/fleet-api/announcements
  type: Announcements
- name: Tesla Fleet API FAQ
  url: https://developer.tesla.com/docs/fleet-api/support/faq
  type: FAQ
- name: Tesla Developer Support
  url: https://developer.tesla.com/docs/fleet-api/support/contact
  type: Contact
- name: Tesla GitHub Organization
  url: https://github.com/teslamotors
  type: Repository
- name: Tesla Website
  url: https://www.tesla.com
  type: Website
- name: TeslaPy SDK
  url: https://github.com/tdorssers/TeslaPy
  type: SDKs
- name: Tesla API Ruby Gem
  url: https://github.com/timdorr/tesla-api
  type: SDKs
- name: Tesla Postman Collection
  url: https://documenter.getpostman.com/view/781424/2s9YRCWB4f
  type: Postman
- type: LlmsText
  url: https://tesla-api.timdorr.com/llms.txt
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com

Tesla API — frequently asked questions

Does Tesla have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 4 APIs from Tesla, including Tesla Authentication API, Tesla Media Control API and Tesla Vehicle Commands API, and 1 more.

Is there an OpenAPI specification for the Tesla API?

Yes. APIs.io indexes 4 OpenAPI specifications for Tesla, each linked for download from this page.

How do I authenticate with the Tesla API?

Tesla uses bearer-token authentication.

How much does the Tesla API cost?

APIs.io lists 3 pricing plans for Tesla, with each plan's price, limits and inclusions under Pricing on this page.

Is the Tesla API ready for AI agents?

Tesla has a Kin Score of 35.5 out of 100 (thin) and an Agent Readiness score of 22.7 (agent-aware), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.

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