Thinger.io is a platform to connect devices to the Internet and build on top of them: read sensors, control actuators, store time series, show dashboards and trigger integrations. You use it from a web console, a REST API, a command-line tool or an AI agent.

Thinger.io at a glance

Who it is for

• Makers and developers who want a board online in minutes.
• Companies that build connected products and need fleets, white-label consoles and their own instance.
• Integrators who connect existing equipment over MQTT, HTTP or LPWAN networks.

How devices connect

• IOTMP: the protocol of the Thinger.io device libraries for Arduino, ESP-IDF, Zephyr and Linux. The device keeps one secure connection open, so the platform can read and call its device resources at any time.
• MQTT: for devices and gateways that already publish to a broker.
• HTTP: for devices and services that send data from time to time, including LoRaWAN and Sigfox network servers.

See Connect a device to choose.

What you can do with the data

• Store it in Data Buckets and show it on dashboards.
• React to it with alarms and endpoints that call other services.
• Manage fleets with products, and share resources with projects.
• Extend the instance with plugins.
• Automate everything through the REST API, the CLI or an AI agent. To work with your account from Claude, VS Code or Cursor, see Connect an AI agent.

Where it runs

Start with a free Cloud account at console.thinger.io, whose server is iot.thinger.io. Companies use a private instance with their own domain. See Deployment and Plans and limits.

Open source

The client side is open source under the MIT license: the Arduino library, the thinger CLI, the Dashboard SDK and the plugins. Browse every repository at github.com/thinger-io. The server is not open source.

Get help

Channel	Use it for
Community forum	Questions, projects and answers from other users and the Thinger.io team. Search it first: most problems are already solved there.
Discord	Chat with other users and the developers of Thinger.io.
GitHub	Bugs and feature requests for the libraries, the CLI and the plugins, as issues of each repository.
Technical support	Professional support for companies and private instances.
info@thinger.io	Sales, partnerships and ideas for the roadmap.

Learn more

Quick startCreate a free Thinger.io account, connect an ESP32 and read its first value from the console in about 15 minutes.Core conceptsHow devices, device resources, properties, Data Buckets, dashboards, endpoints, products, projects and access tokens fit together in Thinger.io.Connect an AI agentInstall the thinger CLI, sign in, and connect Claude Code, Claude Desktop or any other MCP client to your Thinger.io account.Connect a deviceChoose how to connect your hardware to Thinger.io - device libraries over IOTMP, MQTT, HTTP or a LoRaWAN or Sigfox network.CLIEvery command and option of the thinger CLI, plus how to install it, sign in, use profiles, script it with JSON output and run its MCP server.