Tuya

Tuya Smart is a global leading AI cloud platform service provider (NYSE: TUYA; HKEX: 2391) that enables IoT device manufacturers, solution providers, and app developers to build smart home and industrial IoT applications. The platform provides APIs for device management, smart home management, scene automation, data analytics, and industry-specific integrations across smart home, energy, security, and industrial verticals. Tuya operates six global data centers and handles over 100 million concurrent requests.

Tuya publishes 9 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network, including Device Control API, Device Logs API, Device Users API, and 6 more. Tagged areas include IoT, Smart Home, Devices, Cloud Platform, and Automation.

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

Tuya’s developer surface includes authentication, documentation, signup flow, getting-started guide, developer portal, and 21 more developer resources.

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31.9/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 26/100 agent aware Front door AI 1/6 silent Heartbeat 88/100 alive saas Full breakdown ↓
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1 published contract 1 MCP Servers 1 Agent Skills

IoT Smart Home Devices Cloud Platform Automation Industrial IoT Device Management

Kin Score

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scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0

Composite quality — 31.9/100 · thin

Contract Quality 10.4 / 19

Developer Ergonomics 2.6 / 15

Access Clarity 2.8 / 15

Operational Transparency 0.8 / 10

Contract Governance 2.5 / 9

Discoverability 5.4 / 8

Regulatory Posture 2.5 / 15

Create-or-Update Ergonomics 0.0 / 10

Agent readiness — 26/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 12 / 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 5 / 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 Horizontal (data, software, accessibility, platform) 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 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 75 points between them, because the conditional facet above carries the other 25. That is why each facet's contribution is shown against a damped maximum: raising a quality facet moves the composite by 75% 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):

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
Request/Response Examples +7 pts — share of operations carrying request/response examples; else an Examples / Code Samples link
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):

Developer Ergonomics scores 17.1 — up to +16.6 composite points
Access Clarity scores 18.4 — up to +16.3 composite points
Operational Transparency scores 7.9 — up to +12.0 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
IoT and Smart Home	builds-on	48.3	-	-
Apple Accessory & Device Ecosystem (MFi, Matter, Apple partners)	builds-on	48.3	-	-
Home Assistant Custom Integrations (HACS)	builds-on	48.3	-	-

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 2

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.

Model Context Protocol (MCP)

measured — observed by APIs.io (documented)

OpenAPI

measured — observed by APIs.io (published)

APIs 9

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

Tuya Device Management API

The Tuya Device Management API provides endpoints to query, control, and manage IoT devices registered to a Tuya cloud project. Capabilities include device information retrieval...

Tuya Smart Home API

The Tuya Smart Home API provides management capabilities for smart home deployments, including home and room management, device grouping, scene automation (tap-to-run and automa...

Tuya Authorization API

The Tuya Authorization API handles authentication for cloud-to-cloud integrations. Supports HMAC-SHA256 request signing using Access ID and Access Secret credentials. Provides t...

Tuya Industry API

The Tuya Industry API provides enterprise IoT capabilities for non-consumer deployments including industrial device registration, device management, status queries, device contr...

Tuya Device Control API

Control and command IoT devices

Tuya Device Logs API

Query device operation and event logs

Tuya Device Users API

Manage user associations with devices

Tuya Devices API

Query and manage IoT device information

Tuya Sub Devices API

Manage gateway sub-devices

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Open Collections 6

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

Tuya Device Management Device Control API

OPEN COLLECTION

Tuya Device Management Device Control Device Logs API

OPEN COLLECTION

Tuya Device Management API

OPEN COLLECTION

Tuya Device Management Device Control Device Users API

OPEN COLLECTION

Tuya Device Management Device Control Devices API

OPEN COLLECTION

Tuya Device Management Device Control Sub Devices API

OPEN COLLECTION

MCP Servers 1

Model Context Protocol servers that expose these APIs to AI agents.

MCP Server

MCP SERVER

Agent Skills 1

Packaged agent skills for driving this provider's APIs from an AI assistant.

tuya-smart-control

AGENT SKILL

Tuya API pricing

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

Plan	Price
Contact Sales enterprise	—

Plan details, limits and sources →

Rate limits

Per-API Cloud Limits: see Tuya developer portal API reference varies

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

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Tuya Plans Pricing

1 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Tuya Rate Limits

1 limits

RATE LIMITS

Service Levels 1

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

Tuya

SLA

FinOps 1

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

Tuya Finops

FINOPS

Semantic Vocabularies 1

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

Tuya Context

0 classes · 6 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 2

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

Tuya — jsonschema rules

5 rules · 4 warnings 1 info

SPECTRAL

Tuya API Rules

12 rules · 4 errors 7 warnings

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 2

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

Tuya Device Command

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Tuya Device

17 properties

JSON SCHEMA

JSON Structure 1

JSON Structure definitions describing this provider's data shapes.

Tuya Device Structure

0 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Examples 2

Example request and response payloads for these APIs.

Tuya Get Device Example

4 fields

EXAMPLE

Tuya Send Device Commands Example

4 fields

EXAMPLE

Security Posture 2

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

Tuya Authentication

apiKey · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Tuya Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

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

Tuya Agentic Access

15 operations · 7 acting · 2 human-in-the-loop

15 operations · 7 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Get Started 3

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Signup

Signup

GettingStarted

GettingStarted

Portal

Portal

Documentation 4

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

OpenAPI

JSONSchema

JSONSchema

Agent Surfaces 4

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

MCPServer

AgentSkills

LlmsText

Design & Contract 3

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

JSONLD

JSONLD

SpectralRules

SpectralRules

Vocabulary

Vocabulary

Build 2

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

PostmanWorkspace

PostmanWorkspace

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

Access & Security 3

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Authentication

Authentication

Authentication

Authentication

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

RateLimits

RateLimits

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Plans

Plans

FinOps

FinOps

TermsOfService

TermsOfService

Company 2

The organization behind the API

LinkedIn

Website

Website

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

API Explorer

API Explorer

Source (apis.yml)

aid: tuya
name: Tuya
description: 'Tuya Smart is a global leading AI cloud platform service provider (NYSE: TUYA; HKEX: 2391) that enables IoT
  device manufacturers, solution providers, and app developers to build smart home and industrial IoT applications. The platform
  provides APIs for device management, smart home management, scene automation, data analytics, and industry-specific integrations
  across smart home, energy, security, and industrial verticals. Tuya operates six global data centers and handles over 100
  million concurrent requests.'
kind: contract
access: 3rd-Party
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: true
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: high
  source:
  - openapi
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: enterprise
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: true
  try_now: true
  public: false
  gated: none
  gated_source:
  - onboarding
  label: Enterprise (free trial) · Self-serve signup
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-06'
  method: derived
image: https://images.tuya.com/smart/tuya-logo.png
tags:
- IoT
- Smart Home
- Devices
- Cloud Platform
- Automation
- Industrial IoT
- Device Management
created: '2025-03-01'
modified: '2026-05-19'
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/tuya/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- aid: tuya:device-management
  name: Tuya Device Management API
  description: The Tuya Device Management API provides endpoints to query, control, and manage IoT devices registered to a
    Tuya cloud project. Capabilities include device information retrieval, factory reset, device renaming, sub-device listing,
    operation log queries, and user-device association management.
  humanURL: https://developer.tuya.com/en/docs/cloud/device-management?id=K9g6rfntdz78a
  baseURL: https://openapi.tuyaus.com
  tags:
  - Devices
  - IoT
  - Device Management
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.tuya.com/en/docs/cloud/device-management?id=K9g6rfntdz78a
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://developer.tuya.com/en/docs/iot/quick-start1?id=K95ztz9u9t89n
- aid: tuya:smart-home
  name: Tuya Smart Home API
  description: The Tuya Smart Home API provides management capabilities for smart home deployments, including home and room
    management, device grouping, scene automation (tap-to-run and automation rules), member management, and data services.
    Enables developers to build full-featured smart home applications.
  humanURL: https://developer.tuya.com/en/docs/cloud/smart_home_paas?id=Kakujwbddm7fv
  baseURL: https://openapi.tuyaus.com
  tags:
  - Smart Home
  - IoT
  - Automation
  - Scene Management
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.tuya.com/en/docs/cloud/smart_home_paas?id=Kakujwbddm7fv
- aid: tuya:authorization
  name: Tuya Authorization API
  description: The Tuya Authorization API handles authentication for cloud-to-cloud integrations. Supports HMAC-SHA256 request
    signing using Access ID and Access Secret credentials. Provides token management endpoints for obtaining, refreshing,
    and revoking access tokens. Supports both cloud authorization (server-to-server) and app authorization (user-scoped) modes.
  humanURL: https://developer.tuya.com/en/docs/iot/guide-explanation?id=Ke0wpiw0dwxun
  baseURL: https://openapi.tuyaus.com
  tags:
  - Authentication
  - Authorization
  - Tokens
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.tuya.com/en/docs/iot/guide-explanation?id=Ke0wpiw0dwxun
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://developer.tuya.com/en/docs/iot/api-reference?id=Ka7qb7vhber64
- aid: tuya:industry
  name: Tuya Industry API
  description: The Tuya Industry API provides enterprise IoT capabilities for non-consumer deployments including industrial
    device registration, device management, status queries, device control, user management, and asset management. Designed
    for B2B scenarios in real estate, energy, manufacturing, and facilities management.
  humanURL: https://developer.tuya.com/en/docs/cloud
  baseURL: https://openapi.tuyaus.com
  tags:
  - Industrial IoT
  - Enterprise
  - Asset Management
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.tuya.com/en/docs/cloud
- aid: tuya:tuya-device-control-api
  name: Tuya Device Control API
  description: Control and command IoT devices
  humanURL: https://developer.tuya.com/en/docs/cloud/device-management?id=K9g6rfntdz78a
  baseURL: https://openapi.tuyaus.com
  tags:
  - Device Control
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/tuya-device-control-api-openapi.yml
- aid: tuya:tuya-device-logs-api
  name: Tuya Device Logs API
  description: Query device operation and event logs
  humanURL: https://developer.tuya.com/en/docs/cloud/device-management?id=K9g6rfntdz78a
  baseURL: https://openapi.tuyaus.com
  tags:
  - Device Logs
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/tuya-device-logs-api-openapi.yml
- aid: tuya:tuya-device-users-api
  name: Tuya Device Users API
  description: Manage user associations with devices
  humanURL: https://developer.tuya.com/en/docs/cloud/device-management?id=K9g6rfntdz78a
  baseURL: https://openapi.tuyaus.com
  tags:
  - Device Users
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/tuya-device-users-api-openapi.yml
- aid: tuya:tuya-devices-api
  name: Tuya Devices API
  description: Query and manage IoT device information
  humanURL: https://developer.tuya.com/en/docs/cloud/device-management?id=K9g6rfntdz78a
  baseURL: https://openapi.tuyaus.com
  tags:
  - Devices
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/tuya-devices-api-openapi.yml
- aid: tuya:tuya-sub-devices-api
  name: Tuya Sub Devices API
  description: Manage gateway sub-devices
  humanURL: https://developer.tuya.com/en/docs/cloud/device-management?id=K9g6rfntdz78a
  baseURL: https://openapi.tuyaus.com
  tags:
  - Sub Devices
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/tuya-sub-devices-api-openapi.yml
common:
- type: PostmanWorkspace
  url: https://www.postman.com/kinlaneapi/tuya/overview
- type: Plans
  url: plans/tuya-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/tuya-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/tuya-finops.yml
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/tuya-agentic-access.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/tuya-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/tuya-authentication.yml
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/tuya-smart
- type: Website
  url: https://developer.tuya.com/en/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://developer.tuya.com/en/docs/cloud/
- type: Signup
  url: https://auth.tuya.com/
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://developer.tuya.com/en/docs/iot/quick-start1?id=K95ztz9u9t89n
- type: API Explorer
  url: https://developer.tuya.com/en/docs/cloud
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/tuya
- type: Authentication
  url: https://developer.tuya.com/en/docs/iot/guide-explanation?id=Ke0wpiw0dwxun
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://developer.tuya.com/en/docs/iot/compliance?id=Ka9t0qa3qihn3
- type: Portal
  url: https://iot.tuya.com/
- type: OpenAPI
  url: openapi/_original/tuya-device-management-openapi.yml
- type: JSONSchema
  url: json-schema/tuya-device-schema.json
- type: JSONSchema
  url: json-schema/tuya-command-schema.json
- type: JSONLD
  url: json-ld/tuya-context.jsonld
- type: SpectralRules
  url: rules/tuya-rules.yml
- type: Vocabulary
  url: vocabulary/tuya-vocabulary.yml
- name: MCP Server
  url: https://github.com/tuya/tuya-mcp-sdk
  type: MCPServer
- name: Agent Skills
  url: https://github.com/tuya/tuya-openclaw-skills
  type: AgentSkills
- type: LlmsText
  url: https://developer.tuya.com/llms.txt
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.tuya.com/news

Tuya API — frequently asked questions

Does Tuya have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 9 APIs from Tuya, including Tuya Device Management API, Tuya Smart Home API and Tuya Authorization API, and 6 more.

Is there an OpenAPI specification for the Tuya API?

Yes. APIs.io indexes 5 OpenAPI specifications for Tuya, each linked for download from this page.

How do I authenticate with the Tuya API?

Tuya uses bearer-token authentication (apiKey · 1 scheme). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Tuya Authentication.

How much does the Tuya API cost?

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

Does Tuya have an MCP server?

Yes. APIs.io lists 1 MCP server for Tuya.

Is the Tuya API ready for AI agents?

Tuya has a Kin Score of 31.9 out of 100 (thin) and an Agent Readiness score of 25.8 (agent-aware), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.

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