BigOven
BigOven is a recipe and meal planning platform providing access to over 1,000,000 recipes via a REST API. Developers can search recipes, retrieve nutritional information, manage cloud-based grocery lists, and build diet and meal planning features. The API is offered by Aisle Ahead, Inc. and supports commercial food, nutrition, diet, and grocery applications.
BigOven publishes 7 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network, including Collection API, GroceryList API, Images API, and 4 more. Tagged areas include Recipes, Meal Planning, Grocery Lists, Nutrition, and Food.
The BigOven catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context and 1 Spectral governance ruleset.
BigOven’s developer surface includes authentication, documentation, engineering blog, pricing, and 9 more developer resources.
Kin Score
Markets this provider is in provisional
The Kin Score Market layer reads a provider inside its market: its position, and how deep its integrations go. Depth is only comparable within a position. Provisional and unweighted: not part of the Kin Score or agent readiness.
| Market | Position | Depth | Registered MCP server | Declares compatibility |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| APIs.guru OpenAPI Directory (API definition directory) | standard | 17.2 (thin) | - | - |
Registered MCP server and declares compatibility are report only — not weighted. Undeclared means we found nothing we can read, so there is no number: we never infer integrations.
Standards implemented 1
Standards this provider implements or carries. De facto ones are profiled and measured by the API Commons; formal ones come from the standards directory and are linked by the provider's own tags. The evidence column says how each claim was established — not that it was made.
APIs 7
Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.
BigOven Collection API
The Collection API from BigOven — 3 operation(s) for collection.
BigOven GroceryList API
The GroceryList API from BigOven — 8 operation(s) for grocerylist.
BigOven Images API
The Images API from BigOven — 6 operation(s) for images.
BigOven Me API
The Me API from BigOven — 6 operation(s) for me.
BigOven Note API
The Note API from BigOven — 3 operation(s) for note.
BigOven Recipe API
The Recipe API from BigOven — 21 operation(s) for recipe.
BigOven Review API
The Review API from BigOven — 6 operation(s) for review.
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Open Collections 6
Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).
1,000,000+ Recipe and Grocery List API (v2) Collection API
OPEN COLLECTION1,000,000+ and Grocery List API (v2) Collection Recipe API
OPEN COLLECTIONBigOven API pricing
Not yet checked against BigOven's own pricing page. Compiled by API Evangelist; confirm before you rely on a figure.
| Plan | Price |
|---|---|
| Basic | — |
| Bronze | — |
| Silver | — |
| Gold | — |
| Platinum | — |
Pricing Plans 1
Published pricing tiers and plan structures.
Rate Limits 1
Documented rate limits and quota policies.
Bigoven Rate Limits
RATE LIMITSService Levels 1
Uptime the provider promises or reports, as SLA4OAI. Read from its own pages; APIs.io runs no monitors.
BigOven
SLAFinOps 1
Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.
Bigoven Finops
FINOPSSemantic Vocabularies 1
JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.
Bigoven Context
JSON-LDSpectral Rules 1
Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.
BigOven — jsonschema rules
SPECTRALJSON Schema 56
Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.
API2.Controllers.WebAPI.MeController.Option
JSON SCHEMAAPI2.GroceryListDepartmentResult
JSON SCHEMAAPI2.Models.Accounting
JSON SCHEMAAPI2.Models.BigOvenUser
JSON SCHEMAAPI2.Models.Counts
JSON SCHEMAAPI2.Models.Location
JSON SCHEMAAPI2.Models.Personal
JSON SCHEMAAPI2.Models.Preference
JSON SCHEMAAPI2.Models.Profile
JSON SCHEMAAPI2.Models.Recipes.FeedbackDTO
JSON SCHEMAAPI2.Models.Recipes.RecipeResponse
JSON SCHEMAAPI2.Models.Recipes.RecipeVideoResponse
JSON SCHEMAAPI2.Result
JSON SCHEMABigOven.Model.API.Grocery.GroceryList
JSON SCHEMABigOven.Model.API.Grocery.Item
JSON SCHEMABigOven.Model.API.Image
JSON SCHEMABigOven.Model.API.Ingredient
JSON SCHEMABigOven.Model.API.IngredientInfo
JSON SCHEMABigOven.Model.API.NutritionInfo
JSON SCHEMABigOven.Model.API.Recipe
JSON SCHEMABigOven.Model.API.RecipeInfo
JSON SCHEMABigOven.Model.API.RecipeNote
JSON SCHEMABigOven.Model.API.RecipeNoteList
JSON SCHEMABigOven.Model.API.Reply
JSON SCHEMABigOven.Model.API.Review
JSON SCHEMABigOven.Model.API.UserInfo
JSON SCHEMABigOven.Model.API.UserInfoTiny
JSON SCHEMABigOven.Model.API2.CollectionInfo
JSON SCHEMABigOven.Model.API2.GroceryList
JSON SCHEMABigOven.Model.API2.Photo
JSON SCHEMABigOven.Model.API2.Recipe
JSON SCHEMABigOven.Model.API2.RecipeInfox
JSON SCHEMABigOven.Model.API2.RecipeNote
JSON SCHEMABigOven.Model.API2.RecipeSearchResult
JSON SCHEMABigOven.Model.API2.UserInfoTinyx
JSON SCHEMABigOven.Model.InstructionStep
JSON SCHEMABigOven.Model.RecipeCategory
JSON SCHEMABigOven.Model.RecipeInfoDateTuple2
JSON SCHEMABigOven.Model.RecipeInfoReviewTuple2
JSON SCHEMABigOven.Model.RecipeInfoTiny
JSON SCHEMABigOven.Model.ShoppingListLine
JSON SCHEMABigOven.Result
JSON SCHEMASystem.Object
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Examples 66
Example request and response payloads for these APIs.
Collection_Collections
EXAMPLECollection_Getcollection
EXAMPLECollection_Getcollectionmeta
EXAMPLEGrocerylist_Addrecipe
EXAMPLEGrocerylist_Delete
EXAMPLEGrocerylist_Deleteitembyguid
EXAMPLEGrocerylist_Department
EXAMPLEGrocerylist_Get
EXAMPLEGrocerylist_Post
EXAMPLEImages_Get
EXAMPLEImages_Getpendingbyuser
EXAMPLEImages_Getrecipephotos
EXAMPLEImages_Getscanimages
EXAMPLEImages_Uploadrecipeimage
EXAMPLEImages_Uploaduseravatar
EXAMPLEMe_Getoptions
EXAMPLEMe_Index
EXAMPLEMe_Putme
EXAMPLEMe_Putmepersonal
EXAMPLEMe_Putmepreferences
EXAMPLEMe_Skinny
EXAMPLENote_Delete
EXAMPLENote_Get
EXAMPLENote_Getnotes
EXAMPLENote_Post
EXAMPLENote_Put
EXAMPLERecipe_Autocomplete
EXAMPLERecipe_Autocompletemyrecipes
EXAMPLERecipe_Categories
EXAMPLERecipe_Delete
EXAMPLERecipe_Feedback
EXAMPLERecipe_Get
EXAMPLERecipe_Getactiverecipe
EXAMPLERecipe_Getrandomrecipe
EXAMPLERecipe_Getrecipewithsteps
EXAMPLERecipe_Getstep
EXAMPLERecipe_Getstepnumber
EXAMPLERecipe_Getsteps
EXAMPLERecipe_Getv2
EXAMPLERecipe_Post
EXAMPLERecipe_Put
EXAMPLERecipe_Raves
EXAMPLERecipe_Recentviews
EXAMPLERecipe_Recipesearch
EXAMPLERecipe_Recipesearchrandom
EXAMPLERecipe_Related
EXAMPLERecipe_Scan
EXAMPLERecipe_Zaprecipe
EXAMPLEReview_Delete
EXAMPLEReview_Deletereply
EXAMPLEReview_Get
EXAMPLEReview_Getreplies
EXAMPLEReview_Getreviews
EXAMPLEReview_Post
EXAMPLEReview_Postreply
EXAMPLEReview_Put
EXAMPLEReview_Putlegacy
EXAMPLEReview_Putreply
EXAMPLEGet Recipe Recipeid Review
EXAMPLEGet Recipe Review Reviewid
EXAMPLEPost Grocerylist Item
EXAMPLEPut Me Profile
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Security Posture 2
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.
Agentic Access 1
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Resources
Documentation 1
Reference material describing how the API behaves
Agent Surfaces 1
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Build 1
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
Access & Security 2
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Operate 1
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Commercial 3
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 3
The organization behind the API
Other 1
Properties that don't map to a standard resource type
Source (apis.yml)
BigOven API — frequently asked questions
Does BigOven have an API?
Yes. APIs.io lists 7 APIs from BigOven, including BigOven Collection API, BigOven GroceryList API and BigOven Images API, and 4 more.
Is there an OpenAPI specification for the BigOven API?
Yes. APIs.io indexes 7 OpenAPI specifications for BigOven, each linked for download from this page.
How do I authenticate with the BigOven API?
BigOven uses bearer-token authentication (apiKey/http · 2 schemes). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Bigoven Authentication.
How much does the BigOven API cost?
APIs.io lists 5 pricing plans for BigOven, with each plan's price, limits and inclusions under Pricing on this page.
Is the BigOven API ready for AI agents?
BigOven has a Kin Score of 26.5 out of 100 (thin) and an Agent Readiness score of 22.4 (agent-aware), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.
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