Alibaba Local Services

Alibaba Local Services (阿里巴巴本地生活) is Alibaba Group's on-demand local-life services business, formed in 2018 by integrating the Ele.me food-delivery platform with the Koubei local-services and restaurant-discovery platform. It operates on-demand food and grocery delivery, local merchant services, reviews and reservations, and last-mile logistics across China, and received a major financing round led by the SoftBank Vision Fund. This API Evangelist profile was surfaced as a SoftBank Vision Fund portfolio company and added to the network as a lead; no distinct public developer API surface has been confirmed for the holding entity under this name (its consumer platforms Ele.me and Koubei operate their own separate open platforms).

Alibaba Local Services is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Logistics, Food Delivery, Local Services, and On-Demand.

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6.8/100 minimal ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.5

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CompanyLogisticsFood DeliveryLocal ServicesOn-DemandDeliveryE-CommerceChina

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Composite quality — 6.8/100 · minimal

Contract Quality 0.0 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 0.0 / 20

Commercial Clarity 0.0 / 20

Operational Transparency 0.0 / 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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Source (apis.yml)

aid: alibaba-local-services
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  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source: []
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
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name: Alibaba Local Services
description: Alibaba Local Services (阿里巴巴本地生活) is Alibaba Group's on-demand local-life services business, formed in 2018 by
  integrating the Ele.me food-delivery platform with the Koubei local-services and restaurant-discovery platform. It operates
  on-demand food and grocery delivery, local merchant services, reviews and reservations, and last-mile logistics across China,
  and received a major financing round led by the SoftBank Vision Fund. This API Evangelist profile was surfaced as a SoftBank
  Vision Fund portfolio company and added to the network as a lead; no distinct public developer API surface has been confirmed
  for the holding entity under this name (its consumer platforms Ele.me and Koubei operate their own separate open platforms).
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/alibaba-local-services/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- softbank-vision-fund
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-17'
tags:
- Company
- Logistics
- Food Delivery
- Local Services
- On-Demand
- Delivery
- E-Commerce
- China
apis: []
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