{ "data": { "a": { "slug": "autodesk-platform-services", "name": "Autodesk Platform Services", "vendor": "Autodesk", "vendorUrl": "https://aps.autodesk.com", "kind": "http-api", "category": "cad", "summary": "Autodesk Platform Services (APS, formerly Forge) is Autodesk's cloud API set. Its Automation API runs AutoCAD, Inventor, Revit, 3ds Max and Fusion headlessly on design files, beside Model Derivative, Data Management, OSS and Webhooks APIs under OAuth 2.0.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/autodesk-platform-services", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/autodesk-platform-services.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/autodesk-platform-services.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/autodesk-platform-services.json", "dns": "autodesk-platform-services.grade.anchorterminal.com", "repo": "https://github.com/autodesk-platform-services/aps-sdk-openapi", "transports": [], "packages": [ { "registry": "npm", "name": "@aps_sdk/model-derivative" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "@aps_sdk/data-management" } ], "auth": "oauth", "authNotes": "OAuth 2.0 from the Authentication API v2, with two-legged client credentials for an app's own data, three-legged authorisation code for a user's data, with scopes such as data:read, data:write, data:create, bucket:create and code:all per the published OpenAPI specs, plus Secure Service Accounts for server workloads. An app is registered in the APS developer portal after an Autodesk account sign-in in a browser. The Design Automation reference pages did not render for our reader, so its scopes were not read.", "pricing": "usage", "pricingNotes": "Pricing is published on www.autodesk.com, whose robots.txt answered 403, so no price was read. The APS product pages link to a \"Compare pricing\" page and the blog's topic list names Cloud Credits; the per-operation rates for the Automation API and Model Derivative were not established. The developer portal describes a free trial and ADN membership for direct support without stating terms on the pages read.", "priceSummary": "Pay per use", "where": "local", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the seven OpenAPI specs of the aps-sdk-openapi repository, the product overview pages or the support page (checked 2026-11-03). Pricing pages on www.autodesk.com were not read.", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": 0, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-11-03" }, "docsUrl": "https://aps.autodesk.com/en/docs/design-automation/v3/developers_guide/overview/", "openapi": "https://github.com/autodesk-platform-services/aps-sdk-openapi", "capabilities": [ "cad.generate", "cad.edit", "cad.export" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "official", "closed-source", "oauth", "openapi", "enterprise", "status-page", "async-jobs", "typescript", "dotnet", "usage-priced" ], "lastRelease": "2026-09-16", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 44.3, "grade": "E", "agentReady": false, "rank": 1144, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1349, "categoryRank": 5, "methodology": "0.7", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 52, "maintenance": 53, "payments": 0, "reliability": 52, "schema": 59, "security": 47, "transparency": 34 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "low", "date": "2026-11-03" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "OAuth 2.0 with scopes, public OpenAPI specs for six APIs and a status page with APS components make the platform callable by an agent that holds an app's credentials. The Automation API's own docs, quotas, pricing and terms sit on pages our reader could not load, so an agent must plan without published limits or rates.", "bestFor": "Agents that must process existing Autodesk files (Inventor, Revit, AutoCAD, Fusion) at scale with add-ins a team already has, or translate models for viewing.", "strengths": [ "OAuth 2.0 with two-legged and three-legged flows, read and write scopes, and Secure Service Accounts, per the published Authentication v2 spec", "OpenAPI 3.0 specs with every operation described for Authentication, Data Management, Model Derivative, OSS, Webhooks and Construction, updated on 16 September 2026", "Five desktop engines run headlessly in the cloud, so an agent can drive Inventor, Revit, AutoCAD, 3ds Max or Fusion scripts without a workstation", "Status page lists APS components separately, with RSS and Atom history feeds", "Official SDKs on npm and NuGet, Stack Overflow tags, a fortnightly open expert call and paid ADN support" ], "weaknesses": [ "The Design Automation v3 guide, reference, quotas and rate limits did not render for our reader, and no OpenAPI spec for it is published in the SDK repository", "Pricing, terms of service, privacy policy and the Autodesk MCP servers page live on www.autodesk.com, whose robots.txt answered 403", "No per-operation prices, free tier terms or SLA could be established from the pages read", "Workflows need an AppBundle, an Activity and a WorkItem per engine, with add-ins compiled for the desktop product before the first cloud run", "No llms.txt and no idempotency guidance were found" ], "agentNotes": [ "Expect to hold an APS app's client id and secret, mint a two-legged token with the scopes the call needs, and refresh it; a person creates the app in the developer portal", "For the Automation API, the AppBundle (compiled add-in or script), Activity and WorkItem must exist before a job runs; the engine runs the add-in, so geometry edits are written in the desktop product's API, not in a request body", "Back off exponentially on 429, as the OSS spec asks, since no numeric limits were readable; check health.autodesk.com for the Automation API component before retrying failures", "Do not assume a price per job or translation; have the owner read the pricing page, which our reader could not", "Use data:read and read-only scopes for inspection tasks and ask the owner before data:write or bucket:delete, since no confirmation step is documented" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "low", "grade": "E", "methodology": "0.7", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 44.3 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 52, "maintenance": 53, "payments": 0, "reliability": 52, "schema": 59, "security": 47, "transparency": 10 }, "provenanceScore": 58, "checked": { "categories": { "ergonomics": "2026-11-03", "maintenance": "2026-11-03", "payments": "2026-11-03", "reliability": "2026-11-03", "schema": "2026-11-03", "security": "2026-11-03", "transparency": "2026-11-03" }, "last": "2026-11-03", "oldest": "2026-11-03", "stale": false, "staleAfterDays": 90 } }, "connect": { "http": "curl -X POST https://developer.api.autodesk.com/authentication/v2/token -H \"Authorization: Basic $(printf '%s:%s' \"$APS_CLIENT_ID\" \"$APS_CLIENT_SECRET\" | base64)\" -d 'grant_type=client_credentials\u0026scope=data:read'" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/cad.generate", "tool": "https://letme.dev/autodesk-platform-services" }, "area": "design-diagrams", "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Autodesk, Inc.", "domain": "aps.autodesk.com", "domainRegistered": "", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "", "privacy": "", "statusPage": "https://health.autodesk.com/", "changelog": "https://github.com/autodesk-platform-services/aps-sdk-openapi/commits/main", "securityTxt": "unknown", "checked": "2026-11-03", "notes": [ "Autodesk, Inc. is the vendor; the legal entity is taken from the Nasdaq listing recorded on Wikipedia, since www.autodesk.com (terms, privacy, legal notices) answered 403 to robots.txt and was not read.", "aps.autodesk.com/robots.txt allows the docs and product pages (Drupal defaults disallow admin and login paths). developer.api.autodesk.com/robots.txt disallows every path, so the API host was not fetched. health.autodesk.com disallows only /api/ and /embed/.", "aps.autodesk.com/.well-known/security.txt answered 406 to our reader, so its presence is unknown.", "Terms and privacy URLs are left empty because the documents could not be read; the policy reader should take them from www.autodesk.com when it can.", "The API endpoints are on developer.api.autodesk.com, an Autodesk domain." ], "score": 58 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/autodesk-platform-services.json", "live": { "slug": "autodesk-platform-services", "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://health.autodesk.com", "indicator": "none", "summary": "All Systems Operational", "checkedAt": "2026-11-04T21:25:12.74592887Z" }, "versions": [ { "registry": "npm", "name": "@aps_sdk/data-management", "version": "1.1.4", "seenAt": "2026-11-04T20:00:13.352963048Z" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "@aps_sdk/model-derivative", "version": "1.2.1", "seenAt": "2026-11-04T20:00:12.857831756Z" } ], "githubStars": 65, "npmWeekly": 10491, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://aps.autodesk.com/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "none", "checkedAt": "2026-11-04T15:53:19.119162941Z" }, "updatedAt": "2026-11-04T21:25:12.74592887Z" } }, "answer": "Autodesk Platform Services scores 44.3 (E) on agent readiness against SimScale's 41 (E), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. SimScale leads on schema \u0026 documentation, payments \u0026 pricing and transparency \u0026 trust.", "b": { "slug": "simscale", "name": "SimScale", "vendor": "SimScale GmbH", "vendorUrl": "https://www.simscale.com", "kind": "http-api", "category": "cad", "summary": "SimScale is a cloud engineering simulation platform from SimScale GmbH in Munich. Its REST API imports geometry, builds meshes, sets up and runs fluid, structural and thermal simulations and exports results, with Python and C# SDKs, on the Enterprise plan.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/simscale", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/simscale.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/simscale.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/simscale.json", "dns": "simscale.grade.anchorterminal.com", "repo": "https://github.com/SimScaleGmbH/simscale-python-sdk", "transports": [], "packages": [], "auth": "api-key", "authNotes": "An API key per user sent in the X-API-KEY header, issued to Enterprise plan customers; the SDK README asks prospective development partners to write to api@simscale.com. No scopes, expiry or rotation were documented. A sandbox at the /sandbox prefix accepts the fixed key `sandbox-example-api-key` and returns example data for every endpoint without creating anything.", "pricing": "paid", "pricingNotes": "API access is part of the paid Enterprise plan, priced on request with custom users, core hours and instances. Mechanical and Professional plans are also on request (3,000 and 10,000 core hours). The Community plan is free with 2,000 core hours and 10 unrestricted simulations but no API. No price is published and the pages read do not say whether a card is needed; subscriptions can be paid by purchase order or invoice.", "priceSummary": "Paid", "where": "local", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the v0 or v1 OpenAPI documents, the SDK README, the pricing page or the terms (checked 2026-11-03).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": 0, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-11-03" }, "docsUrl": "https://www.simscale.com/docs/platform/api-and-sdk-documentation/", "openapi": "https://api.simscale.com/v0/openapi.json", "capabilities": [ "cad.simulate", "cad.export" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "official", "closed-source", "paid", "sales-led", "api-key", "openapi", "sandbox", "python", "dotnet", "soc2", "bug-bounty", "security-txt", "eu", "eu-region", "no-status-page", "enterprise", "async-jobs" ], "lastRelease": "2026-03-03", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 41, "grade": "E", "agentReady": false, "rank": 1196, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1349, "categoryRank": 6, "methodology": "0.7", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 55, "maintenance": 33, "payments": 10, "reliability": 15, "schema": 71, "security": 44, "transparency": 65 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-11-03" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "Public OpenAPI documents for v0 and the v1 beta, a keyless sandbox that answers every endpoint with example data, and official Python and C# SDKs let an agent plan a simulation before anyone signs a contract. Running one needs an Enterprise API key priced on request, with no status page, no published rate limits and SDK releases eight months old.", "bestFor": "An enterprise engineering team that wants an agent to automate CFD, FEA or thermal studies on a platform it already licenses, with a sandbox for development.", "strengths": [ "OpenAPI 3.0.3 for v0 (98 operations) and the v1 beta (163 operations), with separately versioned simulation and meshing schemas selectable by query parameter", "Sandbox under /sandbox with a fixed public key that returns example data for every endpoint and starts nothing", "Official Python and C# SDKs generated from the document, with v1 editions named", "SOC 2 Type II, a public Intigriti bug bounty with the API in scope, and a security.txt", "Customers keep ownership of designs, simulations and results, and production runs on AWS in EU regions per the privacy statement" ], "weaknesses": [ "API keys come only with the Enterprise plan, priced on request, and the SDK asks would-be integrators to email api@simscale.com", "No status page, no SLA on any plan, and no rate limit or Retry-After documented beyond a single 429 response in the spec", "One API key per user with no scopes, documented expiry or rotation", "The Python SDK's newest release is 19.1.0 of 3 March 2026 and the SDK repository has no CI", "API-created simulations may be locked out of the Workbench when schema versions diverge, and 10 of 98 v0 operations have no description" ], "agentNotes": [ "Develop against https://api.simscale.com/v0/sandbox with X-API-KEY: sandbox-example-api-key, which returns example data and runs nothing; real keys need an Enterprise plan the owner must arrange", "Follow the geometry import flow in order, requesting a storage location, uploading the file, creating the import, polling its event log, then listing the geometries valid for setup", "Pin simulationSpecSchemaVersion and meshingSpecSchemaVersion when fetching the OpenAPI document, since spec schemas change more often than the API and a mismatch locks the Workbench", "Treat v1 as beta and build on v0 unless the owner wants v1, and read the migration guide in a browser, since it rendered empty for our reader", "No rate limit is published, so space out polling of run status and back off on 429; the terms allow SimScale to impose traffic limits without notice" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "E", "methodology": "0.7", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 41 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 55, "maintenance": 33, "payments": 10, "reliability": 15, "schema": 71, "security": 44, "transparency": 61 }, "provenanceScore": 69, "checked": { "categories": { "ergonomics": "2026-11-03", "maintenance": "2026-11-03", "payments": "2026-11-03", "reliability": "2026-11-03", "schema": "2026-11-03", "security": "2026-11-03", "transparency": "2026-11-03" }, "last": "2026-11-03", "oldest": "2026-11-03", "stale": false, "staleAfterDays": 90 } }, "connect": { "http": "curl -H \"X-API-KEY: sandbox-example-api-key\" https://api.simscale.com/v0/sandbox/projects" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/cad.simulate", "tool": "https://letme.dev/simscale" }, "area": "design-diagrams", "provenance": { "legalEntity": "SimScale GmbH", "domain": "simscale.com", "domainRegistered": "", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://www.simscale.com/terms-and-conditions/", "privacy": "https://www.simscale.com/legal/data-privacy", "statusPage": "", "changelog": "https://github.com/SimScaleGmbH/simscale-python-sdk/releases", "securityTxt": "valid", "checked": "2026-11-03", "notes": [ "SimScale GmbH is named in the terms and conditions (version July 2023, German law, Munich venue), the imprint (HRB 201813) and the data privacy statement (version November 2025, whose section 14 still says July 2023).", "Clause 3.5(g) of the terms forbids scraping or building databases from the Services, and clause 4.2 makes API access conditional on express permission in the agreement. Recorded as facts; www.simscale.com/robots.txt blocks six named bots and admin paths only, and api.simscale.com has no robots.txt.", "security.txt at www.simscale.com/.well-known/security.txt names the Intigriti programme and security@simscale.com as contacts and the programme as policy, with no Expires line.", "No status page was found, since status.simscale.com has no DNS record and no status link appears on the site, the docs hub or the API document.", "The API lives on api.simscale.com, a SimScale domain. The API changelog and migration pages at api.simscale.com/apidoc/v1/ render by script and were not read." ], "score": 69 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/simscale.json", "live": { "slug": "simscale", "versions": [ { "registry": "github", "name": "SimScaleGmbH/simscale-python-sdk", "version": "19.1.0", "released": "2026-03-03", "seenAt": "2026-11-04T20:55:35.488954188Z" } ], "githubStars": 36, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://simscale.com/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "valid", "checkedAt": "2026-11-04T15:53:15.153089946Z" }, "updatedAt": "2026-11-04T20:55:35.488954188Z" } }, "edges": [ { "by": 37, "category": "reliability", "leads": "autodesk-platform-services", "name": "Reliability", "reasons": { "a": "Read with the hosted lines. health.autodesk.com is an Atlassian Statuspage listing APS components (Automation API, Model Derivative, Data Management, Developer Portal, Webhooks and the data model APIs) with history feeds (20). The history page didn't render for our reader; the RSS feed holds 20 items from 22 October to 2 November 2026, none naming an APS component, so most of the 90-day window is unread (15 of 30). Rate limits and quotas are documented on pages under /en/docs that rendered as empty shells, so no number was read (0). The OSS spec documents 429 with an instruction to wait and lengthen the wait on each attempt; no Retry-After header or idempotency guidance was found (7 of 15). No SLA found on the pages read (0). The Automation API is a released product with no beta label on its overview (10). 20 + 15 + 0 + 7 + 0 + 10 = 52.", "b": "Read with the hosted lines on api.simscale.com. No status page, since status.simscale.com has no DNS record and none is linked from the site, the docs hub or the API document (0). No readable incident history (5). No rate limit with a number; the terms reserve the right to impose rate or traffic limits and the v0 document mentions a 429 response once (0). No Retry-After, backoff guidance or idempotency keys; runs can be cancelled (0). No SLA, and the terms say SimScale cannot warrant uninterrupted availability with Free plans carrying no availability obligation (0). /v0 is the generally available version; /v1 is in beta (10). 0 + 5 + 0 + 0 + 0 + 10 = 15." }, "scores": { "a": 52, "b": 15 } }, { "by": 31, "category": "transparency", "leads": "simscale", "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "reasons": { "a": "Closed service. The APS terms of service are on www.autodesk.com and were not read, so terms clarity scores as absent (5 of 30). Privacy policy, data processing and retention statements are on the same host and unread (0 of 30). No deprecation policy or dated notices were readable; the docs pages that would carry them rendered empty (0 of 20). The status page names regional variants for the data APIs, which is the only location disclosure read; no subprocessor list was read (5 of 20). 5 + 0 + 0 + 5 = 10. These scores reflect what our reader could load, not a finding that the documents don't exist.", "b": "Closed service with clear terms (version July 2023) naming SimScale GmbH under German law (15). The data privacy statement (November 2025) gives retention periods for site data, names subprocessors with locations and the LLM providers used on platform content, and the terms give SimScale a licence over paid-plan content for improving the services; the statement's section 14 still says July 2023, and neither document says whether platform content trains models (20 of 30). v1 is announced as beta with a migration guide and v0 stays, but no deprecation policy or dated notices were found (8 of 20). Subprocessors and data locations are disclosed in detail, with production in AWS EU regions (18 of 20). 15 + 20 + 8 + 18 = 61." }, "scores": { "a": 34, "b": 65 } }, { "by": 20, "category": "maintenance", "leads": "autodesk-platform-services", "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "reasons": { "a": "Read for a closed service with open SDK sources. The aps-sdk-openapi repository's last commit is 16 September 2026 (Data Management spec), with Model Derivative on 12 August (20 of 30). Two dated spec changes in the last 90 days; SDK package release dates on npm and NuGet were not read (10 of 20). Stack Overflow tags, a fortnightly expert call, a bookable onboarding call and paid ADN support; GitHub issue response was not read because the API refused us (10 of 25). No APS server in the official MCP registry was looked for because the Autodesk MCP servers page could not be read; official SDKs on npm and NuGet are current per the README badges (10 of 15). SDK CI and dependency health unread (3 of 10). 20 + 10 + 10 + 10 + 3 = 53.", "b": "Read for a closed service with open SDK sources. The Python SDK's newest release is 19.1.0 of 3 March 2026, 245 days before the check, and the v1 document carries no date (5 of 30, for a change in the window being likely from the v1 beta but unproven). Ten SDK releases from February 2025 to March 2026 and none since (0 of 20). api@simscale.com, support@simscale.com and a community forum; response times were not tested and the SDK repository has no issue activity we could read (10 of 15). Official Python and C# SDKs, with v1 editions, generated from the document (15). The SDK repository has no CI workflow and pins the document version at 0.0.0 (3 of 10). 5 + 0 + 10 + 15 + 3 = 33." }, "scores": { "a": 53, "b": 33 } }, { "by": 12, "category": "schema", "leads": "simscale", "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "reasons": { "a": "OpenAPI 3.0 specs for Authentication v2, Data Management, Model Derivative v2, OSS, Webhooks, Secure Service Accounts and Construction are public in the aps-sdk-openapi repository with every operation described; the Design Automation v3 API, the one the audit led with, has none there and its reference did not render (18 of 25). No llms.txt found and the docs are not served as Markdown (0). The specs state purpose per operation and the product pages explain the engines and workflow; the Automation API's own guide was unread (12 of 20). Typed schemas, enums and required fields in the specs read (11 of 15). The specs carry 429 and error responses with descriptions; examples in the guides were unread (8 of 15). APIs are versioned in the path (v2, v3), the specs carry versions 1.0 and 2.0 with dated commits, and the blog has a changelog topic, but no changelog page was readable (10 of 15). 18 + 0 + 12 + 11 + 8 + 10 = 59.", "b": "Public OpenAPI 3.0.3 documents for /v0 (98 operations) and /v1 (163 operations), with the simulation and meshing schema versions selectable by query parameter (25). No llms.txt and no Markdown docs; the API docs are Swagger UI and script-rendered pages (0). The introduction explains the sandbox, versioning and Workbench compatibility, and operations carry one-line summaries, but 10 of the 98 v0 operations have no description and the guides for v1 rendered empty (12 of 20). 2,112 schemas with 355 enum lists, required fields and a typed security scheme (13 of 15). The sandbox answers every endpoint with example data, which stands in for examples, and responses are typed for 400, 403, 404, 409, 422 and 429 (11 of 15). Path versions v0 and v1 with a migration guide and changelog for v1, and dated SDK releases, though the changelog page itself rendered empty (10 of 15). 25 + 0 + 12 + 13 + 11 + 10 = 71." }, "scores": { "a": 59, "b": 71 } }, { "by": 10, "category": "payments", "leads": "simscale", "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "reasons": { "a": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the specs or pages read (0). Pricing is on www.autodesk.com/products/autodesk-platform-services/overview#pricing, where aps.autodesk.com/pricing redirects; www.autodesk.com/robots.txt answered 403, so no price was read and the line scores as absent (0). A free trial is referred to on the developer pages, but its terms and whether a card is needed were on the unread pages (0). A person signs in to the developer portal to create the app that holds the client id and secret (0). 0 + 0 + 0 + 0 = 0, the reading contentful, personio and coupa took on 7 October 2026 when their pricing pages were unreadable.", "b": "No x402, MPP or L402 (0). No price is published; Mechanical, Professional and Enterprise are on request and the Community plan carries no API (0). The sandbox with its fixed public key lets an agent exercise every endpoint without an account or card, though it runs nothing, and the free Community plan has no API; read as a partial free route (10 of 20). An API key comes with an Enterprise contract arranged by people (0). 0 + 0 + 10 + 0 = 10." }, "scores": { "a": 0, "b": 10 } } ], "facts": [ { "a": "HTTP API", "b": "HTTP API", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "Autodesk", "b": "SimScale GmbH", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "no (local only)", "b": "no (local only)", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "", "b": "", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "OAuth", "b": "API key", "name": "Auth" }, { "a": "Pay per use", "b": "Paid", "name": "Pricing" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "x402" }, { "a": "0", "b": "0", "name": "Tools exposed" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "no", "name": "Read-only variant documented" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "llms.txt" }, { "a": "2026-09-16", "b": "2026-03-03", "name": "Last release" }, { "a": "no document linked", "b": "no date given", "name": "Terms last updated" }, { "a": "no document linked", "b": "no date given", "name": "Privacy policy last updated" }, { "a": "not read yet", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Customer content may train models" }, { "a": "not read yet", "b": "yes", "name": "Terms restrict automated access" }, { "a": "not read yet", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Terms restrict benchmarking" }, { "a": "not read yet", "b": "yes", "name": "Terms or service can change without notice" }, { "a": "not read yet", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Arbitration or class-action waiver" } ], "faq": [ { "answer": "Autodesk Platform Services scores 44.3 (E) on agent readiness against SimScale's 41 (E), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. SimScale leads on schema \u0026 documentation, payments \u0026 pricing and transparency \u0026 trust.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, Autodesk Platform Services or SimScale?" }, { "answer": "Autodesk Platform Services uses an OAuth sign-in. SimScale needs an API key.", "question": "Do Autodesk Platform Services and SimScale need an API key?" }, { "answer": "No hosted endpoint is listed for Autodesk Platform Services. 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SimScale leads on schema \u0026 documentation, payments \u0026 pricing and transparency \u0026 trust. Both do cad export.", "tasks": null, "tutorials": [], "verdicts": { "autodesk-platform-services": "OAuth 2.0 with scopes, public OpenAPI specs for six APIs and a status page with APS components make the platform callable by an agent that holds an app's credentials. The Automation API's own docs, quotas, pricing and terms sit on pages our reader could not load, so an agent must plan without published limits or rates.", "simscale": "Public OpenAPI documents for v0 and the v1 beta, a keyless sandbox that answers every endpoint with example data, and official Python and C# SDKs let an agent plan a simulation before anyone signs a contract. Running one needs an Enterprise API key priced on request, with no status page, no published rate limits and SDK releases eight months old." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/autodesk-platform-services-vs-simscale", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/autodesk-platform-services-vs-simscale.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/autodesk-platform-services-vs-simscale.md", "mcp": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/autodesk-platform-services-vs-simscale.min.md" }, "markdown": "Autodesk Platform Services scores 44.3 (E) on agent readiness against SimScale's 41 (E), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. SimScale leads on schema \u0026 documentation, payments \u0026 pricing and transparency \u0026 trust. Both do cad export.\n\n- Autodesk Platform Services: grade E, 44.3/100, rank #1144 of 1349. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/autodesk-platform-services.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/autodesk-platform-services.json\n- SimScale: grade E, 41/100, rank #1196 of 1349. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/simscale.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/simscale.json\n- Best CAD, simulation and fabrication APIs for AI agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/cad/index.md\n- All 15 cad comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cad/index.md\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### Autodesk Platform Services (E)\n\nGood for: Agents that must process existing Autodesk files (Inventor, Revit, AutoCAD, Fusion) at scale with add-ins a team already has, or translate models for viewing.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 52 against 15\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 53 against 33\n\nWatch for: The Design Automation v3 guide, reference, quotas and rate limits did not render for our reader, and no OpenAPI spec for it is published in the SDK repository\n\n### SimScale (E)\n\nGood for: An enterprise engineering team that wants an agent to automate CFD, FEA or thermal studies on a platform it already licenses, with a sandbox for development.\n\nAhead on:\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 71 against 59\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 10 against 0\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 65 against 34\n\nWatch for: API keys come only with the Enterprise plan, priced on request, and the SDK asks would-be integrators to email api@simscale.com\n\n\n## Why the edge\n\n### Reliability: Autodesk Platform Services +37\n\n- Autodesk Platform Services (52): Read with the hosted lines. health.autodesk.com is an Atlassian Statuspage listing APS components (Automation API, Model Derivative, Data Management, Developer Portal, Webhooks and the data model APIs) with history feeds (20). The history page didn't render for our reader; the RSS feed holds 20 items from 22 October to 2 November 2026, none naming an APS component, so most of the 90-day window is unread (15 of 30). Rate limits and quotas are documented on pages under /en/docs that rendered as empty shells, so no number was read (0). The OSS spec documents 429 with an instruction to wait and lengthen the wait on each attempt; no Retry-After header or idempotency guidance was found (7 of 15). No SLA found on the pages read (0). The Automation API is a released product with no beta label on its overview (10). 20 + 15 + 0 + 7 + 0 + 10 = 52.\n- SimScale (15): Read with the hosted lines on api.simscale.com. No status page, since status.simscale.com has no DNS record and none is linked from the site, the docs hub or the API document (0). No readable incident history (5). No rate limit with a number; the terms reserve the right to impose rate or traffic limits and the v0 document mentions a 429 response once (0). No Retry-After, backoff guidance or idempotency keys; runs can be cancelled (0). No SLA, and the terms say SimScale cannot warrant uninterrupted availability with Free plans carrying no availability obligation (0). /v0 is the generally available version; /v1 is in beta (10). 0 + 5 + 0 + 0 + 0 + 10 = 15.\n\n### Transparency \u0026 trust: SimScale +31\n\n- Autodesk Platform Services (34): Closed service. The APS terms of service are on www.autodesk.com and were not read, so terms clarity scores as absent (5 of 30). Privacy policy, data processing and retention statements are on the same host and unread (0 of 30). No deprecation policy or dated notices were readable; the docs pages that would carry them rendered empty (0 of 20). The status page names regional variants for the data APIs, which is the only location disclosure read; no subprocessor list was read (5 of 20). 5 + 0 + 0 + 5 = 10. These scores reflect what our reader could load, not a finding that the documents don't exist.\n- SimScale (65): Closed service with clear terms (version July 2023) naming SimScale GmbH under German law (15). The data privacy statement (November 2025) gives retention periods for site data, names subprocessors with locations and the LLM providers used on platform content, and the terms give SimScale a licence over paid-plan content for improving the services; the statement's section 14 still says July 2023, and neither document says whether platform content trains models (20 of 30). v1 is announced as beta with a migration guide and v0 stays, but no deprecation policy or dated notices were found (8 of 20). Subprocessors and data locations are disclosed in detail, with production in AWS EU regions (18 of 20). 15 + 20 + 8 + 18 = 61.\n\n### Maintenance \u0026 community: Autodesk Platform Services +20\n\n- Autodesk Platform Services (53): Read for a closed service with open SDK sources. The aps-sdk-openapi repository's last commit is 16 September 2026 (Data Management spec), with Model Derivative on 12 August (20 of 30). Two dated spec changes in the last 90 days; SDK package release dates on npm and NuGet were not read (10 of 20). Stack Overflow tags, a fortnightly expert call, a bookable onboarding call and paid ADN support; GitHub issue response was not read because the API refused us (10 of 25). No APS server in the official MCP registry was looked for because the Autodesk MCP servers page could not be read; official SDKs on npm and NuGet are current per the README badges (10 of 15). SDK CI and dependency health unread (3 of 10). 20 + 10 + 10 + 10 + 3 = 53.\n- SimScale (33): Read for a closed service with open SDK sources. The Python SDK's newest release is 19.1.0 of 3 March 2026, 245 days before the check, and the v1 document carries no date (5 of 30, for a change in the window being likely from the v1 beta but unproven). Ten SDK releases from February 2025 to March 2026 and none since (0 of 20). api@simscale.com, support@simscale.com and a community forum; response times were not tested and the SDK repository has no issue activity we could read (10 of 15). Official Python and C# SDKs, with v1 editions, generated from the document (15). The SDK repository has no CI workflow and pins the document version at 0.0.0 (3 of 10). 5 + 0 + 10 + 15 + 3 = 33.\n\n### Schema \u0026 documentation: SimScale +12\n\n- Autodesk Platform Services (59): OpenAPI 3.0 specs for Authentication v2, Data Management, Model Derivative v2, OSS, Webhooks, Secure Service Accounts and Construction are public in the aps-sdk-openapi repository with every operation described; the Design Automation v3 API, the one the audit led with, has none there and its reference did not render (18 of 25). No llms.txt found and the docs are not served as Markdown (0). The specs state purpose per operation and the product pages explain the engines and workflow; the Automation API's own guide was unread (12 of 20). Typed schemas, enums and required fields in the specs read (11 of 15). The specs carry 429 and error responses with descriptions; examples in the guides were unread (8 of 15). APIs are versioned in the path (v2, v3), the specs carry versions 1.0 and 2.0 with dated commits, and the blog has a changelog topic, but no changelog page was readable (10 of 15). 18 + 0 + 12 + 11 + 8 + 10 = 59.\n- SimScale (71): Public OpenAPI 3.0.3 documents for /v0 (98 operations) and /v1 (163 operations), with the simulation and meshing schema versions selectable by query parameter (25). No llms.txt and no Markdown docs; the API docs are Swagger UI and script-rendered pages (0). The introduction explains the sandbox, versioning and Workbench compatibility, and operations carry one-line summaries, but 10 of the 98 v0 operations have no description and the guides for v1 rendered empty (12 of 20). 2,112 schemas with 355 enum lists, required fields and a typed security scheme (13 of 15). The sandbox answers every endpoint with example data, which stands in for examples, and responses are typed for 400, 403, 404, 409, 422 and 429 (11 of 15). Path versions v0 and v1 with a migration guide and changelog for v1, and dated SDK releases, though the changelog page itself rendered empty (10 of 15). 25 + 0 + 12 + 13 + 11 + 10 = 71.\n\n### Payments \u0026 pricing: SimScale +10\n\n- Autodesk Platform Services (0): No x402, MPP or L402 in the specs or pages read (0). Pricing is on www.autodesk.com/products/autodesk-platform-services/overview#pricing, where aps.autodesk.com/pricing redirects; www.autodesk.com/robots.txt answered 403, so no price was read and the line scores as absent (0). A free trial is referred to on the developer pages, but its terms and whether a card is needed were on the unread pages (0). A person signs in to the developer portal to create the app that holds the client id and secret (0). 0 + 0 + 0 + 0 = 0, the reading contentful, personio and coupa took on 7 October 2026 when their pricing pages were unreadable.\n- SimScale (10): No x402, MPP or L402 (0). No price is published; Mechanical, Professional and Enterprise are on request and the Community plan carries no API (0). The sandbox with its fixed public key lets an agent exercise every endpoint without an account or card, though it runs nothing, and the free Community plan has no API; read as a partial free route (10 of 20). An API key comes with an Enterprise contract arranged by people (0). 0 + 0 + 10 + 0 = 10.\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Autodesk Platform Services | SimScale | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 52 | 15 | Autodesk Platform Services +37 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 59 | 71 | SimScale +12 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 52 | 55 | SimScale +3 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 47 | 44 | Autodesk Platform Services +3 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 0 | 10 | SimScale +10 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 53 | 33 | Autodesk Platform Services +20 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 34 | 65 | SimScale +31 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **44.3 · E** | **41 · E** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Autodesk Platform Services | SimScale |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | Autodesk | SimScale GmbH |\n| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | no (local only) |\n| Transports | | |\n| Auth | OAuth | API key |\n| Pricing | Pay per use | Paid |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Tools exposed | 0 | 0 |\n| Read-only variant documented | yes | no |\n| llms.txt | no | no |\n| Last release | 2026-09-16 | 2026-03-03 |\n| Terms last updated | no document linked | no date given |\n| Privacy policy last updated | no document linked | no date given |\n| Customer content may train models | not read yet | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict automated access | not read yet | yes |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | not read yet | not found in the text |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | not read yet | yes |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not read yet | not found in the text |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Autodesk Platform Services.** OAuth 2.0 with scopes, public OpenAPI specs for six APIs and a status page with APS components make the platform callable by an agent that holds an app's credentials. The Automation API's own docs, quotas, pricing and terms sit on pages our reader could not load, so an agent must plan without published limits or rates.\n\n**SimScale.** Public OpenAPI documents for v0 and the v1 beta, a keyless sandbox that answers every endpoint with example data, and official Python and C# SDKs let an agent plan a simulation before anyone signs a contract. Running one needs an Enterprise API key priced on request, with no status page, no published rate limits and SDK releases eight months old.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Autodesk Platform Services\n\n1. Expect to hold an APS app's client id and secret, mint a two-legged token with the scopes the call needs, and refresh it; a person creates the app in the developer portal\n2. For the Automation API, the AppBundle (compiled add-in or script), Activity and WorkItem must exist before a job runs; the engine runs the add-in, so geometry edits are written in the desktop product's API, not in a request body\n3. Back off exponentially on 429, as the OSS spec asks, since no numeric limits were readable; check health.autodesk.com for the Automation API component before retrying failures\n4. Do not assume a price per job or translation; have the owner read the pricing page, which our reader could not\n5. Use data:read and read-only scopes for inspection tasks and ask the owner before data:write or bucket:delete, since no confirmation step is documented\n\n### SimScale\n\n1. Develop against https://api.simscale.com/v0/sandbox with X-API-KEY: sandbox-example-api-key, which returns example data and runs nothing; real keys need an Enterprise plan the owner must arrange\n2. Follow the geometry import flow in order, requesting a storage location, uploading the file, creating the import, polling its event log, then listing the geometries valid for setup\n3. Pin simulationSpecSchemaVersion and meshingSpecSchemaVersion when fetching the OpenAPI document, since spec schemas change more often than the API and a mismatch locks the Workbench\n4. Treat v1 as beta and build on v0 unless the owner wants v1, and read the migration guide in a browser, since it rendered empty for our reader\n5. No rate limit is published, so space out polling of run status and back off on 429; the terms allow SimScale to impose traffic limits without notice\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Autodesk Platform Services or SimScale?\n\nAutodesk Platform Services scores 44.3 (E) on agent readiness against SimScale's 41 (E), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. SimScale leads on schema \u0026 documentation, payments \u0026 pricing and transparency \u0026 trust.\n\n### Do Autodesk Platform Services and SimScale need an API key?\n\nAutodesk Platform Services uses an OAuth sign-in. SimScale needs an API key.\n\n### Can an agent call Autodesk Platform Services and SimScale without installing anything?\n\nNo hosted endpoint is listed for Autodesk Platform Services. No hosted endpoint is listed for SimScale.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/autodesk-platform-services-vs-simscale.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/autodesk-platform-services-vs-simscale.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"autodesk-platform-services\", \"b\": \"simscale\"}`. 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