7 Cups

7 Cups (7cups.com) is an on-demand emotional health and online therapy service founded in 2013 and backed by Y Combinator. It connects people seeking support with a network of trained volunteer listeners for free, anonymous one-on-one chat, and matches members with licensed therapists and social workers for paid online therapy delivered by messaging, audio, or video. The platform also runs peer community forums, group support chat rooms, and self-help "growth path" content. 7 Cups operates across 189 countries in 140 languages with hundreds of thousands of trained listeners. It is a consumer web and mobile product rather than an API-first developer platform; this profile is maintained in the API Evangelist network as a company record and carries no public API at this time.

7 Cups is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Mental Health, Online Therapy, Emotional Support, and Counseling.

7 Cups’ developer surface includes support, signup flow, and 8 more developer resources.

17.4/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
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CompanyMental HealthOnline TherapyEmotional SupportCounselingHealthcareWellnessCommunity

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scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
Composite quality — 17.4/100 · emerging
Contract Quality 0.0 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 0.9 / 20
Commercial Clarity 6.8 / 20
Operational Transparency 0.7 / 13
Governance 0.0 / 12
Discoverability 6.8 / 10
Agent readiness — 0/100 · human only
Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 0 / 15
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3
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Security Posture 1

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

7Cups Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · DNSSEC · DMARC

SECURITY

Resources

Get Started 1

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑
aid: 7cups
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source: []
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/7cups.png
name: 7 Cups
description: 7 Cups (7cups.com) is an on-demand emotional health and online therapy service founded in 2013 and backed by
  Y Combinator. It connects people seeking support with a network of trained volunteer listeners for free, anonymous one-on-one
  chat, and matches members with licensed therapists and social workers for paid online therapy delivered by messaging, audio,
  or video. The platform also runs peer community forums, group support chat rooms, and self-help "growth path" content. 7
  Cups operates across 189 countries in 140 languages with hundreds of thousands of trained listeners. It is a consumer web
  and mobile product rather than an API-first developer platform; this profile is maintained in the API Evangelist network
  as a company record and carries no public API at this time.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/7cups/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- y-combinator
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-17'
tags:
- Company
- Mental Health
- Online Therapy
- Emotional Support
- Counseling
- Healthcare
- Wellness
- Community
apis: []
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/7cups-domain-security.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/7cups-llms.txt
- type: Website
  url: https://www.7cups.com/
- type: About
  url: https://www.7cups.com/about/
- type: Support
  url: https://help.7cups.com/hc/en-us
- type: Community
  url: https://www.7cups.com/community/
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.7cups.com/Documents/PrivacyPolicy
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.7cups.com/Documents/TermsOfService/
- type: SignUp
  url: https://www.7cups.com/online-therapy/signup/
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/7Cups
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: backfilled
  pass: local-v1
  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence