AccuraCite verifies bibliographies and finds real citations, catching AI-hallucinated references before they are published. Every citation supplied as raw text, BibTeX, RIS or an uploaded PDF is checked against eight academic indexes -- OpenAlex, Crossref, Semantic Scholar, PubMed, DBLP, arXiv, CORE and Google Scholar -- and returned as verified, mismatch or not_found, with the matched bibliographic record and a field-level list of what disagreed. A second surface runs the other direction: given a claim, it returns real papers whose abstracts actually support it rather than papers whose titles merely look related. Both are exposed over a small synchronous REST API (POST /api/v1/verify and POST /api/v1/generate) keyed by an X-API-Key header and metered from a shared monthly credit pool. AccuraCite is a solo-founder product built by a computer-science PhD after finding fabricated citations in a co-authored, partly AI-drafted paper.
AccuraCite publishes 4 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network, including Generate API, Verify API, Usage API, and 1 more. Tagged areas include Citations, Research, Bibliography, Academic, and Verification.
The AccuraCite catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context and 1 Spectral governance ruleset.
AccuraCite’s developer surface includes authentication, documentation, API reference, pricing, engineering blog, support, signup flow, and 27 more developer resources.
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Synchronous REST API for citation verification and claim-to-source lookup. Two operations, both POST and both keyed by an X-API-Key header: /api/v1/verify checks a citation stri...
aid: accuracite
name: AccuraCite
type: Index
kind: company
visibility: Public
description: 'AccuraCite verifies bibliographies and finds real citations, catching AI-hallucinated references before they
are published. Every citation supplied as raw text, BibTeX, RIS or an uploaded PDF is checked against eight academic indexes
-- OpenAlex, Crossref, Semantic Scholar, PubMed, DBLP, arXiv, CORE and Google Scholar -- and returned as verified, mismatch
or not_found, with the matched bibliographic record and a field-level list of what disagreed. A second surface runs the
other direction: given a claim, it returns real papers whose abstracts actually support it rather than papers whose titles
merely look related. Both are exposed over a small synchronous REST API (POST /api/v1/verify and POST /api/v1/generate)
keyed by an X-API-Key header and metered from a shared monthly credit pool. AccuraCite is a solo-founder product built by
a computer-science PhD after finding fabricated citations in a co-authored, partly AI-drafted paper.'
accessModel:
pricing: freemium
onboarding: self-serve
trial: false
try_now: true
public: false
gated: none
gated_source:
- onboarding
label: Freemium · Self-serve signup
confidence: high
source:
- plans
- authentication
- rate-limits
- security
generated: '2026-11-06'
method: derived
created: '2026-08-31'
modified: '2026-08-31'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
image: https://accuracite.com/static/img/og-image.png
maintainers:
- FN: AccuraCite Support
email: support@accuracite.com
x-url: https://accuracite.com/feedback
tags:
- Citations
- Research
- Bibliography
- Academic
- Verification
- AI Safety
common:
- type: JSONLD
url: json-ld/accuracite-context.jsonld
- type: Vocabulary
url: vocabulary/accuracite-vocabulary.yml
- type: AgentSkill
url: skills/_index.yml
- type: MCPServer
url: mcp/accuracite-mcp.yml
- type: SDKs
url: packages/accuracite-packages.yml
- type: Packages
url: packages/accuracite-packages.yml
- type: AgenticAccess
url: agentic-access/accuracite-agentic-access.yml
- type: Spectral
url: rules/accuracite-rules.yml
- type: Security
url: security/accuracite-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: Hosts
url: hosts/accuracite-hosts.yml
- type: Vendors
url: vendors/accuracite-vendors.yml
- type: GitHubOrganization
url: https://github.com/AccuraCite
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
url: security/accuracite-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: Website
url: https://accuracite.com/
- type: DomainSecurity
url: security/accuracite-domain-security.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
url: llms/accuracite-llms.txt
- type: Authentication
url: authentication/accuracite-authentication.yml
- type: RateLimits
url: rate-limits/accuracite-rate-limits.yml
- type: Plans
url: plans/accuracite-plans-pricing.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
url: errors/accuracite-problem-types.yml
- type: Conventions
url: conventions/accuracite-conventions.yml
- type: DataModel
url: data-model/accuracite-data-model.yml
- type: Conformance
url: conformance/accuracite-conformance.yml
- type: Lifecycle
url: lifecycle/accuracite-lifecycle.yml
- type: Documentation
url: https://accuracite.com/api-docs
- type: APIReference
url: https://accuracite.com/api-docs
- type: Pricing
url: https://accuracite.com/pricing
- type: Blog
url: https://accuracite.com/blog
- type: Support
url: https://accuracite.com/feedback
- type: SignUp
url: https://accuracite.com/login
- type: TermsOfService
url: https://accuracite.com/terms
- type: PrivacyPolicy
url: https://accuracite.com/privacy
- type: ApiCatalog
url: https://accuracite.com/.well-known/api-catalog
- type: SecurityTxt
url: https://accuracite.com/.well-known/security.txt
apis:
- name: AccuraCite API
description: 'Synchronous REST API for citation verification and claim-to-source lookup. Two operations, both POST and both
keyed by an X-API-Key header: /api/v1/verify checks a citation string (or a bare URL, or a batch of up to 10) against
eight academic indexes and returns verified / mismatch / not_found with the matched record, and /api/v1/generate returns
real papers whose abstracts support a supplied claim. Documented rate limits are 60/min verify and 30/min generate, metered
from a shared credit pool (1 credit per verify, 4 per generated citation); API access is available on all plans. OpenAPI
spec is published at https://accuracite.com/openapi.json. /openapi.json, /openapi.yaml, /swagger.json, /api/v1/openapi.json,
/api-docs.json, /redoc and /apis.json all returned 404 on 2026-08-31, as did every /.well-known/ path -- so the API reference
at /api-docs is the only contract. Originally PARKED by the apis.io gate as low confidence, which was a false negative:
accuracite.com serves a 4KB llms.txt naming the docs page and both endpoints explicitly.'
humanURL: https://accuracite.com/api-docs
baseURL: https://accuracite.com/api/v1
tags:
- Citations
- Verification
properties:
- type: Documentation
url: https://accuracite.com/api-docs
- type: APIReference
url: https://accuracite.com/api-docs
- type: LLMsTxt
url: https://accuracite.com/llms.txt
- type: Pricing
url: https://accuracite.com/pricing
- type: JSONSchema
url: json-schema/accuracite-verify-result-schema.json
- type: JSONSchema
url: json-schema/accuracite-generate-request-schema.json
- type: JSONSchema
url: json-schema/accuracite-verify-citations-batch-request-schema.json
- type: JSONSchema
url: json-schema/accuracite-verify-batch-request-schema.json
- type: JSONSchema
url: json-schema/accuracite-verify-single-request-schema.json
- type: JSONSchema
url: json-schema/accuracite-verify-citation-fields-request-schema.json
aid: accuracite:accuracite-api
- aid: accuracite:accuracite-generate-api
name: AccuraCite Generate API
description: The Generate API from AccuraCite — 1 operation(s) for generate.
humanURL: https://accuracite.com/api-docs
baseURL: https://accuracite.com/api/v1
tags:
- Generate
properties:
- type: OpenAPI
url: openapi/accuracite-generate-api-openapi.yml
- type: JSONSchema
url: json-schema/accuracite-verify-result-schema.json
- type: JSONSchema
url: json-schema/accuracite-generate-request-schema.json
- type: JSONSchema
url: json-schema/accuracite-verify-citations-batch-request-schema.json
- type: JSONSchema
url: json-schema/accuracite-verify-batch-request-schema.json
- type: JSONSchema
url: json-schema/accuracite-verify-single-request-schema.json
- type: JSONSchema
url: json-schema/accuracite-verify-citation-fields-request-schema.json
- aid: accuracite:accuracite-verify-api
name: AccuraCite Verify API
description: The Verify API from AccuraCite — 1 operation(s) for verify.
humanURL: https://accuracite.com/api-docs
baseURL: https://accuracite.com/api/v1
tags:
- Verify
properties:
- type: OpenAPI
url: openapi/accuracite-verify-api-openapi.yml
- type: JSONSchema
url: json-schema/accuracite-verify-result-schema.json
- type: JSONSchema
url: json-schema/accuracite-generate-request-schema.json
- type: JSONSchema
url: json-schema/accuracite-verify-citations-batch-request-schema.json
- type: JSONSchema
url: json-schema/accuracite-verify-batch-request-schema.json
- type: JSONSchema
url: json-schema/accuracite-verify-single-request-schema.json
- type: JSONSchema
url: json-schema/accuracite-verify-citation-fields-request-schema.json
- aid: accuracite:accuracite-usage-api
name: AccuraCite Usage API
description: The Usage API from AccuraCite — 1 operation(s) for usage.
humanURL: https://accuracite.com/api-docs
baseURL: https://accuracite.com/api/v1
tags:
- Usage
properties:
- type: OpenAPI
url: openapi/accuracite-usage-api-openapi.yml
x-correction-request:
requested: '2026-10-02'
source:
- https://github.com/api-evangelist/accuracite/issues/2
request: 'Issue #2 (DoanThu, AccuraCite), verified 2026-10-02. mcp/accuracite-mcp.yml (''ships NO MCP server'', candidate
tools) is stale. Verified: npm package accuracite-mcp 0.1.1 (mcpName com.accuracite/accuracite-mcp, bin accuracite-mcp,
repository github.com/DoanThu/accuracite mcp-server/), a local stdio server run with npx -y accuracite-mcp and ACCURACITE_API_KEY;
its published source registers exactly two tools: verify_citation (text, 1-2000 chars -> POST /api/v1/verify) and find_citations
(claim, 1-5000 chars; limit 1-10 -> POST /api/v1/generate); no batch tool. Smithery listing https://smithery.ai/servers/accuracite/accuracite-mcp
is 200 and names both tools; https://accuracite.com/api-docs has an ''MCP Server'' section with the npx config; announcement
https://accuracite.com/blog/accuracite-mcp-server-for-claude-and-cursor is 200 (an invented /blog path returns a real
404). Replace the candidate MCP record with the real local server and these two tools (verify_citation_batch and find_sources_for_claim
do not exist - drop them). AUTH/PLAN: https://accuracite.com/pricing FAQ says API access is on every plan including Free
via X-API-Key from the shared monthly credit pool; the Free plan lists REST API Access. Change plan_required from ''Pro
or Bulk Verification'' to all plans. Not verified: the official MCP Registry entry (registry.modelcontextprotocol.io timed
out from here) - re-check it on reprofile and record it only if it answers. There is no hosted/remote MCP endpoint, so
do not record one. Re-evaluate the ''parked - low confidence'' status with these artifacts plus the OpenAPI from the earlier
request.'
earlier:
requested: '2026-09-28'
source:
- https://github.com/api-evangelist/accuracite/pull/1
request: 'PR #1 (DoanThu, 2026-09-04), verified live 2026-09-28: AccuraCite publishes an OpenAPI at https://accuracite.com/openapi.json
(OpenAPI 3.1.0, ''AccuraCite API'' v1.0.0; /api/v1/verify and /api/v1/generate; linked from /api-docs). Pull it into
openapi/, add the OpenAPI pointer and remove ''OpenAPI is published''. Also live: https://accuracite.com/apis.json,
/.well-known/api-catalog (linkset, points at the OpenAPI), /.well-known/security.txt.'
x-enrichment:
date: '2026-10-02'
status: enriched
artifacts_added: 12
pass: modular-v1
engine: identity=local,contract=local,surfaces=local,docs=local,regulatory=local
AccuraCite API — frequently asked questions
Does AccuraCite have an API?
Yes. APIs.io lists 4 APIs from AccuraCite, including AccuraCite API, AccuraCite Generate API and AccuraCite Verify API, and 1 more.
Is there an OpenAPI specification for the AccuraCite API?
Yes. APIs.io indexes 3 OpenAPI specifications for AccuraCite, each linked for download from this page.
How do I authenticate with the AccuraCite API?
AccuraCite uses bearer-token authentication (1 scheme). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Accuracite Authentication.
How much does the AccuraCite API cost?
AccuraCite publishes its prices; its Free plan is $0 as of 2026-10-28. APIs.io lists 7 pricing plans for AccuraCite, with each plan's price, limits and inclusions under Pricing on this page.
Does AccuraCite have an MCP server?
Yes. APIs.io lists 1 MCP server for AccuraCite.
Is the AccuraCite API ready for AI agents?
AccuraCite has a Kin Score of 61.3 out of 100 (strong) and an Agent Readiness score of 37.4 (agent-ready), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.
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