Answers.com

Answers.com is a consumer question-and-answer and reference website where visitors ask questions and get instant answers across trivia, science, history, and everyday topics, increasingly blended with AI-personality chat, flashcard makers, study guides, and a math solver. It operates as a content and reference destination rather than a developer platform, and the enrichment pipeline found no public developer API, OpenAPI specification, SDKs, or /.well-known/ discovery surface. This profile is retained as a company record in the API Evangelist network; the only machine-verifiable artifact is a live domain-security probe of the answers.com host.

Answers.com is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Question And Answer, Reference, Knowledge, and Content.

Answers.com’s developer surface includes support and 5 more developer resources.

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9.9/100 minimal ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-08-20 · rubric v0.12.0

0 APIs

CompanyQuestion And AnswerReference Knowledge Content Consumer Education

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scored 2026-08-20 · rubric v0.12.0

Composite quality — 9.9/100 · minimal

Contract Quality 0.0 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 0.8 / 17

Access Clarity 3.6 / 17

Operational Transparency 0.0 / 11

Contract Governance 0.0 / 10

Discoverability 4.3 / 9

Regulatory Posture 3.9 / 15

Agent readiness — 0/100 · human only

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

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

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

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Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support

Support

HelpCenter

HelpCenter

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

TermsOfService

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

Company 1

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Source (apis.yml)

aid: answerscom
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/answerscom.png
name: Answers.com
description: Answers.com is a consumer question-and-answer and reference website where visitors ask questions and get instant
  answers across trivia, science, history, and everyday topics, increasingly blended with AI-personality chat, flashcard makers,
  study guides, and a math solver. It operates as a content and reference destination rather than a developer platform, and
  the enrichment pipeline found no public developer API, OpenAPI specification, SDKs, or /.well-known/ discovery surface.
  This profile is retained as a company record in the API Evangelist network; the only machine-verifiable artifact is a live
  domain-security probe of the answers.com host.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/answerscom/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- redpoint-ventures
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-18'
tags:
- Company
- Question And Answer
- Reference
- Knowledge
- Content
- Consumer
- Education
tags_raw:
- Company
- Question and Answer
- Reference
- Knowledge
- Content
- Consumer
- Education
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/answerscom-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.answers.com/
- type: Support
  url: https://www.answers.com/pages/contact-us
- type: HelpCenter
  url: https://www.answers.com/pages/faq
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.infospace.com/terms/terms-of-use.html
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://system1.com/terms/privacy-policy
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: backfilled
  pass: local-v1
  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence