aid: cove.tool
name: Cove.Tool
description: 'cove.tool (rebranded to "cove" in 2025) is an Atlanta, Georgia building-performance
  analysis platform for architects, engineers and contractors, founded in 2017 by Sandeep Ahuja,
  Patrick Chopson and Daniel Chopson. Its analysis.tool engine runs energy, daylight, glare,
  embodied carbon, water, radiation, shadow and cost-versus-performance optimization on early-stage
  building designs. The company publishes a public REST API — marketed as api.tool — that lets
  software vendors and design firms create projects, upload building geometry, select an energy
  code, kick off daylight and energy simulation, poll job status and retrieve EUI, sDA and ASE
  results without using the web application. Two OpenAPI 3.0 definitions are served from the
  developer portal: a three-operation v1 and a thirteen-operation v2.'
image: https://developers.covetool.com/covetool_logo.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/cove.tool/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: harvest:secondary-market
x-harvest-listing: https://www.hiive.com/securities/cove.tool-stock
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-08-11'
modified: '2026-08-11'
tags:
- Company
- Building Performance
- Energy Modeling
- Daylight Analysis
- Sustainability
- Architecture
- AEC
- Simulation
- Embodied Carbon
- Building Design
apis:
- aid: cove.tool:rest-api-v2
  name: cove.tool REST API v2
  description: 'The current cove.tool REST API. Thirteen operations across six tags — User,
    Profiles, Energy Codes, Projects, Project Geometry and Daylight Analysis — covering account
    creation, project create/read/update, 3D geometry upload, energy-code lookup, and starting,
    polling, retrieving and stopping daylight/energy analysis runs. Token authentication is sent
    in the Authorization header; tokens are minted at https://app.covetool.com/api/get-token.'
  humanURL: https://developers.covetool.com/
  baseURL: https://app.covetool.com/api/v2
  tags:
  - Building Performance
  - Daylight Analysis
  - Energy Modeling
  - Projects
  - Simulation
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/cove.tool-rest-api-v2-openapi.yml
  - type: Overlay
    url: overlays/cove.tool-rest-api-v2-overlay.yaml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developers.covetool.com/
- aid: cove.tool:api-v1
  name: cove.tool API v1
  description: 'The original cove.tool API, still served from the developer portal alongside v2.
    Three operations: obtain an API token, list projects and their associated information, and
    update run values (geometry) for a given project and run.'
  humanURL: https://developers.covetool.com/
  baseURL: https://app.covetool.com/api
  tags:
  - Authentication
  - Projects
  - Building Performance
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/cove.tool-api-v1-openapi.yml
  - type: Overlay
    url: overlays/cove.tool-api-v1-overlay.yaml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developers.covetool.com/
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-08-11'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 22
  pass: local-v1
x-coverage:
  state: covered
  detail: >-
    Two real OpenAPI 3.0 documents were harvested verbatim from the provider's own developer portal
    and the live API host was probed for runtime semantics. The corporate site cove.inc is behind a
    SiteGround captcha (202 on every path including a control path), which cost the pricing,
    newsroom and plugin-download pages, but it did not block the developer surface.
  evidence:
  - url: https://developers.covetool.com/openapi.yaml
    status: 200
  - url: https://developers.covetool.com/openapi-v1.yaml
    status: 200
  - url: https://app.covetool.com/api/v2/energy-codes
    status: 401
  - url: https://cove.inc/
    status: 202
  checked: '2026-08-11'
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/cove.tool-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/cove.tool-authentication.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://cove.inc/
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://developers.covetool.com/
- type: APIReference
  url: https://developers.covetool.com/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://help.covetool.com/en/
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://help.covetool.com/en/articles/6022777-what-is-the-cove-tool-api
- type: Support
  url: https://help.covetool.com/en/
- type: HelpCenter
  url: https://help.covetool.com/en/
- type: SignUp
  url: https://app.covetool.com/login/
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/covetool
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.cove.tools/terms-of-use
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/cove.tool-conventions.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/cove.tool-problem-types.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/cove.tool-lifecycle.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/cove.tool-conformance.yml
- type: Plans
  url: plans/cove.tool-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/cove.tool-rate-limits.yml
- type: DataModel
  url: data-model/cove.tool-data-model.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/cove.tool-llms.txt
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/_index.yml