# APILayer

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/apilayer/  
**Website:** https://apilayer.com/  
**APIs profiled:** 1

APILayer is an API marketplace and hub that enables developers to discover, integrate, and build with high-quality, reliable API services. The platform hosts 100+ APIs across categories including geolocation, currency, weather, dev tools, marketing, finance, security, and AI/ML, serving 445,000+ developers with 30 million+ API calls monthly.

## Kin Score — 21.7 / 100 (emerging)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 21.7).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 75.9 |
| Contract Quality | 19.7 |
| Governance | 9.8 |
| Contract Governance | 9.8 |
| Operational Transparency | 10.5 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 10.7 |
| Commercial Clarity | 22.4 |
| Access Clarity | 22.4 |

## Agent readiness — 3.0 (human-only)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Freemium — onboarding: unknown, pricing: freemium, trial: no (confidence: medium).

## APIs (1)

- **APILayer Marketplace API** — The APILayer Marketplace API provides access to 100+ APIs across geolocation, currency, weather, dev tools, marketing, finance, security, and AI/ML categories. Individual APIs i...

## Security (1)

- **Apilayer Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

## Plans (1)

- **Apilayer Plans Pricing**

## Use cases (5)

- **IP Geolocation** — Determine user location, timezone, and geographic data from IP addresses using IPstack or IPapi.
- **Currency Conversion** — Access real-time and historical currency exchange rates using Fixer or Currencylayer APIs.
- **Weather Data** — Integrate real-time weather forecasts and historical weather data using Weatherstack.
- **Search Engine Data** — Scrape search engine results programmatically using the Serpstack API.
- **Phone Validation** — Validate and look up phone number details globally using Numverify.

## Tags

API Catalog, API Discovery, API Marketplace, Developer Tools, SaaS APIs

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/apilayer/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.