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Get a free API key

Email in, key out. No card, no verification email, no sales call — paste the key into one command and your agent is reading normalized machine data.

3machines

100calls / hour

$0forever

0cards required

Step 1 — your API key

Save it now. Forge stores only a hash of this key, so this is the one and only time it can be shown. Sign up again with the same email and you get a replacement, not this key back.

Step 2 — connect Claude Code (MCP)

Step 3 — or call the REST API directly

Normalize, identify, coverage, OEE, energy and shift reports are free on this key. Predictions, diagnosis and fleet health need a card — they return 402, which is billing, not a broken key. Full tool list and rates on pricing; the API reference is in the docs.

Upgrade → Read the docs

What you get

A sandbox key is the real kernel, not a demo

Same endpoints

The key authenticates against forge.foundrynet.io and mcp.foundrynet.io immediately — the same 14 protocol adapters, 18 OEM families and 16,908 curated mappings paying customers hit. Nothing is stubbed.

Honest limits

3 machines, 100 calls an hour, and the paid tools gated behind a 402. Those are the only differences. When you outgrow them the same key upgrades — you do not re-integrate.