Tive

Tive is a real-time supply-chain and shipment visibility platform built on cellular IoT trackers. The Tive Public API (v3) lets you programmatically create and track shipments, manage trackers/devices, pull sensor data (location, temperature, humidity, pressure, light, motion, battery), configure alert presets, and subscribe to webhooks for push event delivery.

Tive publishes 6 APIs on the APIs.io network, including Alerts API, Authentication API, Devices API, and 3 more. Tagged areas include Supply Chain, Shipment Visibility, Logistics, IoT, and Trackers.

Tive’s developer surface includes authentication, documentation, engineering blog, and 7 more developer resources.

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34.9/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 20/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-08-25 · rubric v0.14.0
AccessEnterpriseSelf serve
6 APIs
Supply ChainShipment VisibilityLogisticsIoTTrackersReal-Time

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scored 2026-08-25 · rubric v0.14.0
Composite quality — 34.9/100 · thin
Contract Quality 12.9 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 4.8 / 20
Access Clarity 5.8 / 20
Operational Transparency 4.1 / 13
Contract Governance 0.0 / 12
Discoverability 7.4 / 10
Agent readiness — 20/100 · agent aware
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10
Documented Reversibility 0 / 6
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 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 Surface 0 / 5
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APIs 6

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

Tive Alerts API

The Alerts API from Tive — 1 operation(s) for alerts.

Tive Authentication API

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

Tive Devices API

The Devices API from Tive — 2 operation(s) for devices.

Tive Sensor Data API

The Sensor Data API from Tive — 1 operation(s) for sensor data.

Tive Shipments API

The Shipments API from Tive — 3 operation(s) for shipments.

Tive Webhooks API

The Webhooks API from Tive — 2 operation(s) for webhooks.

Open Collections 8

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

API Collection

OPEN COLLECTION

Tive Public Alerts API

OPEN COLLECTION

Tive Public Alerts Authentication API

OPEN COLLECTION

Tive Public Alerts Devices API

OPEN COLLECTION

Tive Public Alerts Sensor Data API

OPEN COLLECTION

Tive Public Alerts Shipments API

OPEN COLLECTION

Tive Public Alerts Webhooks API

OPEN COLLECTION

Tive Public API

OPEN COLLECTION

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Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Tive Plans Pricing

1 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Tive Rate Limits

3 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

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

Tive Finops

FINOPS

Security Posture 2

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

Tive Authentication

http · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Tive Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

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

Tive Agentic Access

15 operations · 7 acting · 1 human-in-the-loop

15 operations · 7 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation
Documentation

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess
AgenticAccess

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity
DomainSecurity
 Authentication
Authentication

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 3

The organization behind the API

LinkedIn
LinkedIn
 Website
Website
 Blog
Blog

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: tive
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/tive/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
name: Tive
kind: company
description: Tive is a real-time supply-chain and shipment visibility platform built on cellular IoT trackers. The Tive Public
  API (v3) lets you programmatically create and track shipments, manage trackers/devices, pull sensor data (location, temperature,
  humidity, pressure, light, motion, battery), configure alert presets, and subscribe to webhooks for push event delivery.
accessModel:
  pricing: enterprise
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Enterprise · Self-serve signup
  confidence: high
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/tive.png
tags:
- Supply Chain
- Shipment Visibility
- Logistics
- IoT
- Trackers
- Real-Time
tags_raw:
- Supply Chain
- Shipment Visibility
- Logistics
- IoT
- Trackers
- Real Time
created: '2026-06-21'
modified: '2026-06-21'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- aid: tive:tive-alerts-api
  name: Tive Alerts API
  description: The Alerts API from Tive — 1 operation(s) for alerts.
  humanURL: https://developers.tive.com/docs/create-a-shipment
  baseURL: https://api.tive.com/public/v3
  tags:
  - Alerts
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/tive-alerts-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developers.tive.com/docs/create-a-shipment
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://developers.tive.com/reference/overview
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developers.tive.com/docs/devices
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developers.tive.com/docs/shipment-data
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developers.tive.com/docs/alert-presets
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developers.tive.com/docs/webhooks
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developers.tive.com/docs/creating-webhooks
- aid: tive:tive-authentication-api
  name: Tive Authentication API
  description: The Authentication API from Tive — 1 operation(s) for authentication.
  humanURL: https://developers.tive.com/docs/create-a-shipment
  baseURL: https://api.tive.com/public/v3
  tags:
  - Authentication
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/tive-authentication-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developers.tive.com/docs/create-a-shipment
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://developers.tive.com/reference/overview
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developers.tive.com/docs/devices
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developers.tive.com/docs/shipment-data
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developers.tive.com/docs/alert-presets
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developers.tive.com/docs/webhooks
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developers.tive.com/docs/creating-webhooks
- aid: tive:tive-devices-api
  name: Tive Devices API
  description: The Devices API from Tive — 2 operation(s) for devices.
  humanURL: https://developers.tive.com/docs/create-a-shipment
  baseURL: https://api.tive.com/public/v3
  tags:
  - Devices
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/tive-devices-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developers.tive.com/docs/create-a-shipment
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://developers.tive.com/reference/overview
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developers.tive.com/docs/devices
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developers.tive.com/docs/shipment-data
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developers.tive.com/docs/alert-presets
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developers.tive.com/docs/webhooks
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developers.tive.com/docs/creating-webhooks
- aid: tive:tive-sensor-data-api
  name: Tive Sensor Data API
  description: The Sensor Data API from Tive — 1 operation(s) for sensor data.
  humanURL: https://developers.tive.com/docs/create-a-shipment
  baseURL: https://api.tive.com/public/v3
  tags:
  - Sensor Data
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/tive-sensor-data-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developers.tive.com/docs/create-a-shipment
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://developers.tive.com/reference/overview
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developers.tive.com/docs/devices
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developers.tive.com/docs/shipment-data
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developers.tive.com/docs/alert-presets
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developers.tive.com/docs/webhooks
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developers.tive.com/docs/creating-webhooks
- aid: tive:tive-shipments-api
  name: Tive Shipments API
  description: The Shipments API from Tive — 3 operation(s) for shipments.
  humanURL: https://developers.tive.com/docs/create-a-shipment
  baseURL: https://api.tive.com/public/v3
  tags:
  - Shipments
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/tive-shipments-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developers.tive.com/docs/create-a-shipment
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://developers.tive.com/reference/overview
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developers.tive.com/docs/devices
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developers.tive.com/docs/shipment-data
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developers.tive.com/docs/alert-presets
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developers.tive.com/docs/webhooks
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developers.tive.com/docs/creating-webhooks
- aid: tive:tive-webhooks-api
  name: Tive Webhooks API
  description: The Webhooks API from Tive — 2 operation(s) for webhooks.
  humanURL: https://developers.tive.com/docs/create-a-shipment
  baseURL: https://api.tive.com/public/v3
  tags:
  - Webhook
  tags_raw:
  - Webhooks
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/tive-webhooks-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developers.tive.com/docs/create-a-shipment
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://developers.tive.com/reference/overview
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developers.tive.com/docs/devices
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developers.tive.com/docs/shipment-data
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developers.tive.com/docs/alert-presets
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developers.tive.com/docs/webhooks
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developers.tive.com/docs/creating-webhooks
common:
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/tive-agentic-access.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/tive-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/tive-authentication.yml
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/tive-inc-
- type: Website
  url: https://www.tive.com
- type: Documentation
  url: https://developers.tive.com/docs
- type: Plans
  url: plans/tive-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/tive-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/tive-finops.yml
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.tive.com/blog
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com

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