generated: '2026-08-26'
method: searched
source: https://docs.losant.com/getting-started/walkthrough/
sources:
  - https://accounts.losant.com/create-account
  - https://docs.losant.com/getting-started/walkthrough/
  - https://docs.losant.com/mcp/overview/
  - https://docs.losant.com/instance-manager/managing-sandbox-users/
model:
  type: free-tier-account
  note: |
    Losant does NOT run a separate test-vs-live environment. There is one platform, one base URL
    (https://api.losant.com), one key format and no test-mode key prefix. What Losant calls a "Sandbox" is
    a first-class product concept: every user account owns a personal Sandbox that holds the applications
    they own outside an organization. Free self-serve signup makes that Sandbox the rehearsal environment.
    Because there is no test mode, there are also no magic test values - no test card numbers, no test
    identifiers, no simulated device ids. Nothing of that shape is published, so nothing of that shape is
    recorded here.
console:
  url: https://app.losant.com/
  signup: https://accounts.losant.com/create-account
  signin: https://accounts.losant.com/signin
  free: true
  credit_card_required: false
environments:
  - {name: 'Multi-tenant cloud', api: 'https://api.losant.com', broker: 'broker.losant.com', triggers: 'https://triggers.losant.com'}
  - {name: 'Dedicated / self-hosted Enterprise Instance', api: 'customer-specific host', note: 'the CLI and MCP server both accept a LOSANT_API_URL override to target it'}
test_facilities:
  - name: 'Personal Sandbox'
    description: 'Every user account owns a Sandbox that holds personally-owned applications, separate from organization-owned applications. Instance operators can list and manage sandbox users on an Enterprise Instance (instanceSandboxes.get, instanceSandbox.delete, instanceSandbox.undelete).'
  - name: 'Virtual Button workflow trigger'
    description: 'A workflow trigger that fires on demand from the UI or via flow.pressVirtualButton, used to exercise a workflow without a real device. Throttled to 100 calls in a 10-second window per virtual button.'
    operation: flow.pressVirtualButton
    docs: https://docs.losant.com/workflows/triggers/virtual-button/
  - name: 'Device: Force State / Force Connection Status'
    description: 'Write state or connection status for a device from the UI or the API without the physical device being present.'
    operation: device.setConnectionStatus
    docs: https://docs.losant.com/devices/overview/
  - name: 'Notification rule evaluation'
    description: 'Evaluate an Enterprise Instance notification rule without dispatching it.'
    operation: instanceNotificationRule.evaluate
  - name: 'Application templates'
    description: 'Prebuilt applications that can be imported to get a working solution with simulated data.'
    docs: https://docs.losant.com/template-library/overview/
  - name: 'Local MCP server'
    description: 'Run the MCP server on localhost:3000 with a scoped User API Token instead of pointing an agent at the hosted OAuth server.'
    docs: https://docs.losant.com/mcp/overview/
test_values: []
test_values_note: 'None published. Losant has no test-mode key prefix, no magic identifiers and no fixture/trigger tooling of the kind payment and comms APIs publish. This is a recorded absence, not an omission.'