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Autodesk, Inc. · aps.autodesk.com · status page · who's behind it

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.

Best 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.

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Assessment. 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.

Facts

Access how an agent reaches and pays for it
Auth
OAuth
Pricing
Pay per use
x402
No
Licence
not stated
Tools exposed
0
Where it lives packages, source, docs and releases
Packages
npm @aps_sdk/model-derivative
npm @aps_sdk/data-management
llms.txt
not found
Last release
From our research 7 facts checked against the vendor's pages
Surface listed
The Automation API (Design Automation v3) and the APIs around it, read from the aps.autodesk.com product pages, the support page, the aps-sdk-openapi and aps-sdk-node repositories, health.autodesk.com and its history feed on 3 November 2026. The docs under /en/docs rendered as empty shells and www.autodesk.com refused robots.txt, so those pages are unread. No app was created and no call was made
Where it runs
Autodesk's cloud; the status page lists regional variants for the data APIs (for example Data Management and AEC Data Model by region). The engines run server-side; add-ins are built on the desktop product's SDK
Automation API engines
AutoCAD (DWG), Inventor (IAM, IPT, IDW), Revit (RVT, RTE, RFA), 3ds Max (MAX files, MAXScript and Python) and Fusion (API scripts, Fusion team data). Example jobs named by Autodesk include title block updates, iLogic rules, BOM export, family creation, drawing generation, bulk migration
Other APIs
Model Derivative (translation to SVF and SVF2, properties, hierarchy, thumbnails), Data Management (hubs, projects, folders, items, versions), OSS buckets and signed uploads, Webhooks, Construction Cloud account admin and issues
OpenAPI specs read
datamanagement.yaml 41 operations, oss.yaml 21, secureServiceAccount.yaml 10, webhooks.yaml 12, authentication.yaml 8, modelderivative.yaml 11, construction accountadmin 30 and issues 14, all with descriptions and 2-legged and 3-legged security schemes. Last commit 16 September 2026
Support
Stack Overflow with the autodesk-platform-services tag, a 30-minute onboarding call booked with the APS business development team, the Autodesk Developer Network for direct engineering support (paid membership), and the Ask the APS Expert call every other Wednesday
Legal entity
Autodesk, Inc., Nasdaq ADSK. The APS terms of service are on www.autodesk.com, which was not read

Facts verified 3 November 2026 from vendor docs, repositories and package registries. JSON · Markdown

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

Before you call it notes for agents

  1. 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
  2. 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
  3. 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
  4. Do not assume a price per job or translation; have the owner read the pricing page, which our reader could not
  5. 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

Who's behind it provenance 58/100

  • Legal entity namedAutodesk, Inc.20/20
  • Domain ageaps.autodesk.com, no registry record we could read0/15
  • Endpoint on the vendor's domainaps.autodesk.com15/15
  • Terms of servicenot found0/10
  • Privacy policynot found0/10
  • Status pagehealth.autodesk.com10/10
  • Changelogpublished10/10
  • security.txtcould not be fetched0/10
  • People named3 named with their role, none with a public profile7/10
  • Support routehelp pages, a community5/5

Terms and privacy, as read

Terms of service none to read

TL;DR We found no terms of service published for this product, so there is nothing to read and the check scores 0.

Privacy policy none to read

TL;DR We found no privacy policy published for this product, so there is nothing to read and the check scores 0.

A reading by a fixed set of rules, each answered with the vendor's own sentence. It isn't legal advice, a rule can miss a clause or misread one, and the document itself is what binds. How it's read and scored.

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.

Checked 2026-11-03 against the vendor's own pages and the domain registry. Provenance is half of Transparency & trust.

Humans behind the project who makes it and where to get help

Key people

Autodesk, Inc. on GitHub

Ownership Public company (Nasdaq: ADSK)

Researched 3 November 2026 from public pages. Autodesk Platform Services is a product line of Autodesk, Inc., so the people are the company's founders and chief executive. Autodesk's own leadership and about pages are on www.autodesk.com, whose robots.txt answered 403 on 3 November 2026, so the roster is taken from the Wikipedia article as the Adobe listings were, and nobody on the APS team is named. No personal accounts are listed. As a public company Autodesk has no investor list. Shown for information, not part of the grade yet. People's accounts link to their own profiles; check them before you rely on one.

Sources (4)

Live watched around the clock · updated 2026-11-04 18:56 UTC

  • Vendor status page all systems normal, All Systems Operational · 10 minutes ago
  • security.txt none · 3 hours ago

Live data comes from our pollers, trackers and scrapers and doesn't change the score until a benchmark run. What we watch · /api/v1/live/autodesk-platform-services.json

Notable

  • The Automation API runs five engines in Autodesk's cloud, AutoCAD (scripts, add-ins, AutoLISP on DWG), Inventor (add-ins and iLogic on IAM, IPT, IDW), Revit (the Revit DB API on RVT, RTE, RFA), 3ds Max (MAXScript, Python, plug-ins) and Fusion (API scripts and Fusion team data) source
  • 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, every operation described; the Design Automation v3 API has no spec there source
  • Every documentation page under aps.autodesk.com/en/docs rendered as an empty shell for our reader on 3 November 2026 (title, Request and Response headings, no body), so the Design Automation guide, quotas and rate limits were not read source
  • www.autodesk.com/robots.txt answered 403, so the pricing, terms of service, privacy and the Autodesk MCP servers pages it hosts were not read; developer.api.autodesk.com/robots.txt disallows every path source
  • health.autodesk.com is an Atlassian Statuspage with APS components (Automation API, Model Derivative, Data Management, Developer Portal, Webhooks, data model APIs); the 20 items in its history feed, 22 October to 2 November 2026, name no APS component source
  • The OSS spec documents 429 as "Rate limit exceeded. Please wait for a few moments before retrying. Increase the wait time with each attempt", with no numbers source
  • Official SDK packages on npm (@aps_sdk/authentication, data-management, model-derivative, oss, webhooks, secure-service-account, construction) and NuGet; the Node README says more services are coming and does not list Design Automation source

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Score breakdown methodology v0.7 · October 2026 research run

Assessed on 3 November 2026 from public evidence, against the published checklist. Confidence low. Performance and Task success are pending until our probes and task suites run, so the total is over the 7 assessed categories, each weight divided by 80.

CategoryWeight this runScorePoints
Reliabilitychecked 3 November 2026 16%20 10.4
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.
Performancenot scored in this run 10%pending pending n/a
Schema & documentationchecked 3 November 2026 13%16.2 9.6
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.
Agent ergonomicschecked 3 November 2026 13%16.2 8.4
Data Management lists support filter and page parameters and Model Derivative returns per-object properties, so responses can be narrowed on the APIs with specs; the Automation API's job outputs are files (15 of 25). Pagination and filtering on the data APIs (15 of 20). Error responses are typed in the specs with reasons and the OSS spec explains 429, though the Automation API's error catalogue was unread (12 of 20). No idempotency key or safe-retry guidance was found; WorkItems are submitted and polled (0 of 20). Official SDKs in TypeScript (npm) and .NET (NuGet), but a Design Automation job needs an AppBundle, an Activity and a WorkItem and the add-in compiled against the desktop product (10 of 15). 15 + 15 + 12 + 0 + 10 = 52.
Security & authchecked 3 November 2026 14%17.5 8.2
OAuth 2.0 with client credentials and authorisation code flows and named scopes (data:read, data:write, data:create, bucket scopes, code:all) in the published Authentication v2 spec, plus Secure Service Accounts for server workloads (30). Read-only scopes exist; no confirmation step before destructive calls was found (12 of 20). The engines execute add-ins and scripts on uploaded design files, and no prompt-injection guidance for agents was found on the pages read (5 of 15). No audit log or per-call visibility was found on the pages read (0 of 15). Autodesk's trust and security pages are on www.autodesk.com, unread, and aps.autodesk.com/.well-known/security.txt answered 406, and no disclosure policy, bug bounty or certification was established from the pages read (0 of 20). 30 + 12 + 5 + 0 + 0 = 47.
Payments & pricingchecked 3 November 2026 10%12.5 0.0
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.
Task successnot scored in this run 10%pending pending n/a
Maintenance & communitychecked 3 November 2026 7%8.8 4.6
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.
Transparency & trusteditorial 10, provenance 58checked 3 November 2026 7%8.8 3.0
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.
Negative events≤15None recorded0
Total44.3 · E

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  1. Graded 44.3 E methodology v0.7

Fix list 19 items, the biggest gain first

Everything this grade says the listing lacks, from the reasons above, the checklist, the provenance checks, the deductions, what we couldn't check and what the review panel asked for, with the steps, ready to paste into a coding agent working on Autodesk Platform Services. A fix counts at the next check, once it's public.

What we couldn't check

  • unchecked: the Design Automation v3 developer guide, API reference, quotas and rate limits, which rendered as empty shells under aps.autodesk.com/en/docs; curl answered 406 for the same pages
  • unchecked: pricing, cloud credit rates, free trial terms, the APS terms of service, privacy policy and the Autodesk MCP servers page, all on www.autodesk.com, whose robots.txt answered 403
  • unchecked: the 90-day incident history for APS components beyond the 20 feed items of 22 October to 2 November 2026
  • unchecked: SDK release dates, CI and issue response on the autodesk-platform-services GitHub organisation, whose API answered 403; only two repositories were cloned
  • unchecked: firstReleased. Forge launched years before the APS rename and the Design Automation v3 API's release date was on unread pages, so the field is left empty
  • Judgement call on category. Listed in cad, as the audit led, on the Automation API that edits and generates design files; the wider platform also fits infrastructure or data APIs, which a later pass could split out
  • The Autodesk MCP servers announced on www.autodesk.com (Model Data Explorer, Fusion, Revit and others, some marked coming soon in search snippets) were not read first-hand and are not part of this grade

Sources 17

  1. Automation APIs overview aps.autodesk.com · seen 2026-11-03
  2. Automation API product page aps.autodesk.com · seen 2026-11-03
  3. Model Derivative product page aps.autodesk.com · seen 2026-11-03
  4. Authentication product page aps.autodesk.com · seen 2026-11-03
  5. Design Automation v3 guide (rendered empty) aps.autodesk.com · seen 2026-11-03
  6. Design Automation quotas page (rendered empty) aps.autodesk.com · seen 2026-11-03
  7. pricing redirect to www.autodesk.com (301) aps.autodesk.com · seen 2026-11-03
  8. support page aps.autodesk.com · seen 2026-11-03
  9. blog index (shell with topics) aps.autodesk.com · seen 2026-11-03
  10. OpenAPI specs, shallow clone of aps-sdk-openapi github.com · seen 2026-11-03
  11. Node SDK README raw.githubusercontent.com · seen 2026-11-03
  12. status page health.autodesk.com · seen 2026-11-03
  13. status history feed health.autodesk.com · seen 2026-11-03
  14. robots.txt aps.autodesk.com aps.autodesk.com · seen 2026-11-03
  15. robots.txt www.autodesk.com (403) autodesk.com · seen 2026-11-03
  16. robots.txt developer.api.autodesk.com (disallow all) developer.api.autodesk.com · seen 2026-11-03
  17. Autodesk on Wikipedia (entity, exchange) en.wikipedia.org · seen 2026-11-03

Probe metrics

Not measured yet. Our benchmark probes haven't run, so there's no availability, latency or error rate from a run and Performance is pending. The live panel above has what the pollers have seen so far, which doesn't change the score.

Pricing & changes

Pay per use Pay per use 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.

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  • security.txt on aps.autodesk.com is none, the listing says unknown source
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