aid: 4dbios
name: 4D Bios
description: >-
  4D Bios Co., Ltd. (四维生态, Hangzhou, China) is an ag-tech manufacturer of smart vertical-farming
  systems, founded in 2018 by Dr. Gary Hua. It designs and builds fully enclosed, digitally
  controlled plant factories — 3D, nursery, strawberry, leafy-greens and specialty lines — alongside
  containerized grow systems, indoor grow boxes, full-control planting equipment and LED
  horticultural lighting. The hardware is operated from the company's own software layer: the 4D
  Cloud Platform, the 4D CUBE MS management console and 4D BOX, which combine IoT telemetry,
  environmental and HVAC control, nutrient-solution circulation and big-data analytics for
  year-round continuous production. 4D Bios markets a "4D Bios Open Platform API" for customers who
  have already purchased its products and want to build their own software or hardware against the
  platform, and invites third-party platform service providers to develop applications on the Open
  Platform. That API has no public developer portal, reference, or machine-readable contract; the
  Open Platform and IoT consoles are login-gated single-page applications.
image: https://www.4d-bios.com/templates/assets/image/logo_en.svg
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/4dbios/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: harvest:secondary-market
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: harvest
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-09-05'
modified: '2026-09-05'
position: Producing
tags:
- Company
- Agriculture
- Smart Agriculture
- Vertical Farming
- Plant Factory
- Controlled Environment Agriculture
- IoT
- LED Lighting
- Hardware
- Manufacturing
tags_raw:
- Company
- Agriculture
- Smart Agriculture
- Vertical Farming
- Plant Factory
- Controlled Environment Agriculture
- Internet of Things
- LED Lighting
- Hardware
- Manufacturing
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/4dbios-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.4d-bios.com/
- type: Support
  url: https://www.4d-bios.com/contact-us
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.4d-bios.com/privacy-policy
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.4d-bios.com/legal-notices
- type: Login
  url: https://openapi.4d-bios.com/
- type: Plans
  url: plans/4dbios-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/4dbios-rate-limits.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/4dbios-llms.txt
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-09-05'
  status: minimal
  artifacts_added: 5
  pass: local-v3
x-coverage:
  state: gated
  reason: customer-only-docs
  detail: >-
    4D Bios names a "4D Bios Open Platform API" on its own solutions page but conditions it on
    already having bought the hardware — "If you've purchased products from 4D Bios ... you can
    customize functions and integrate them using the 4D Bios Open Platform API" — and publishes no
    reference, spec or developer portal anywhere; the Open Platform console at
    openapi.4d-bios.com answers 200 with the same 14,728-byte Ant Design Vue login shell on every
    path including /openapi.json and /v3/api-docs.
  evidence:
  - url: https://www.4d-bios.com/solutions
    status: 200
  - url: https://openapi.4d-bios.com/openapi.json
    status: 200
  - url: https://www.4d-bios.com/llms.txt
    status: 404
  - url: https://www.4d-bios.com/.well-known/api-catalog
    status: 404
  checked: '2026-09-05'