aid: pliops
name: Pliops
description: 'Pliops is an Israeli data-acceleration semiconductor company, founded in 2017 and headquartered
  in Ramat Gan, that builds the Extreme Data Processor (XDP) — a low-profile PCIe accelerator card that
  offloads storage and key-value data-path work from server CPUs. Its software surface is delivered as
  host libraries rather than as a web API: XDP-AccelKV and XDP-Rocks expose a RocksDB-API-compatible
  key-value engine (the "storelib" shared library) used as a drop-in under MySQL/MyRocks, Redis, KVRocks,
  TiDB, Kafka and Spark, and XDP LightningAI extends the same acceleration to GenAI KV-cache offload for
  vLLM-based inference. Pliops raised roughly $205M from investors including Intel Capital, NVIDIA, AMD,
  SoftBank Ventures Asia and Western Digital, and was acquired by Astera Labs in February 2026, which took
  certain assets, IP and about half the staff into a new Israeli R&D center. Pliops has never operated a
  public developer program: there is no developer portal, no public API reference, no published OpenAPI or
  other machine-readable contract, and no published SDK in any package registry — product and library
  access runs through a sales/evaluation conversation.'
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: false
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
image: https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/74628350?v=4
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/pliops/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-api-posture: no-product-api
x-api-posture-basis: observed
x-api-posture-note: "Pliops has never operated a public developer program: there is no developer portal, no public API reference, no published OpenAPI or other machine-readable contract, and no published SDK in any packag"
x-type: company
x-source: harvest:secondary-market
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-08-26'
modified: '2026-08-26'
tags:
- Company
- Semiconductors
- Hardware
- Data Infrastructure
- Storage
- Key-Value Store
- Data Acceleration
- Artificial Intelligence
- Israel
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/pliops-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://pliops.com/
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/pliops
- type: Packages
  url: packages/pliops-packages.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/pliops-llms.txt
- type: Plans
  url: plans/pliops-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/pliops-rate-limits.yml
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-08-26'
  status: minimal
  artifacts_added: 6
  pass: local-v1
x-coverage:
  state: none
  reason: no-developer-program
  detail: >-
    Pliops sells a PCIe accelerator card whose only programmable surface is a host-side
    C/C++ library shipped under a sales/evaluation agreement (demo@pliops.com) — api.,
    docs. and developer.pliops.com all fail to resolve, the github.com/pliops org holds
    only forks of vllm and fio, no "pliops" package exists in npm/PyPI/RubyGems/crates.io,
    and the company was absorbed by Astera Labs in February 2026.
  evidence:
    - url: https://developer.pliops.com/
      status: 0
    - url: https://api.pliops.com/
      status: 0
    - url: https://github.com/pliops
      status: 200
    - url: https://pliops.com/llms.txt
      status: 202
  checked: '2026-08-26'