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Breef

Breef is an online agency marketplace and payments platform that connects brands with vetted marketing, creative, digital and web agencies. Founded in New York in 2019 as Curated and rebranded to Breef in 2021, the company is now headquartered in Denver. Brands scope a project on the platform, receive curated pitches from hand-picked agencies across 50+ project types in days rather than months, and then run contracts, milestones and payments through Breef — including Breef(Pay), its agency-now-pay-later payment product. The network spans roughly 25,000 vetted agencies across 27 countries. Breef is a hosted end-user SaaS product: it publishes no public developer program, API reference, SDK or webhook surface.

Breef is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Marketing, Advertising, Agencies, and Marketplace.

Breef’s developer surface includes pricing, signup flow, support, engineering blog, and 16 more developer resources.

20.8/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only saas Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0
AccessFreemium
0 APIs
CompanyMarketingAdvertisingAgenciesMarketplaceCreative ServicesProcurementPaymentsSoftware-as-a-Service

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scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0
Regulatory Posture applies to this provider. Its tags matched the Payments regime, so Regulatory Posture carries 15 points of the composite. If this regime is wrong for your business, say so on your provider repo — the applicability map is public and we will correct it.
Create-or-Update Ergonomics could not be measured. We hold no machine-readable contract for this provider to read, so there is nothing to measure a write surface against. Excluded rather than scored zero: never-measured and measured-empty are different facts. Publishing an OpenAPI is what makes this facet — and several others — scorable at all.
The six quality facets above are damped to 85 points between them, because the conditional facet above carries the other 15. That is why each facet's contribution is shown against a damped maximum: raising a quality facet moves the composite by 85% of its nominal weight, not 100%. The full arithmetic is at apis.io/rating/.
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Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Breef Plans Pricing

3 plans

PLANS

Security Posture 1

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Breef Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Resources

Get Started 3

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Operate 3

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Commercial 4

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Company 6

The organization behind the API

Other 2

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑
aid: breef
name: Breef
description: 'Breef is an online agency marketplace and payments platform that connects brands with vetted marketing, creative,
  digital and web agencies. Founded in New York in 2019 as Curated and rebranded to Breef in 2021, the company is now headquartered
  in Denver. Brands scope a project on the platform, receive curated pitches from hand-picked agencies across 50+ project
  types in days rather than months, and then run contracts, milestones and payments through Breef — including Breef(Pay),
  its agency-now-pay-later payment product. The network spans roughly 25,000 vetted agencies across 27 countries. Breef is
  a hosted end-user SaaS product: it publishes no public developer program, API reference, SDK or webhook surface.'
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/breef/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: false
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: freemium
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Freemium
  confidence: low
  source:
  - plans
  - security
  generated: '2026-09-02'
  method: derived
image: https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/5e4d24d0d11c7440ba421ee3/695fecd6ab2c876120054eb4_855332ca372b2b87e1b97fff133e4083_breef.com.jpg
x-type: company
x-source: harvest:secondary-market
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-08-08'
modified: '2026-08-12'
tags:
- Company
- Marketing
- Advertising
- Agencies
- Marketplace
- Creative Services
- Procurement
- Payments
- Software-as-a-Service
tags_raw:
- Company
- Marketing
- Advertising
- Agencies
- Marketplace
- Creative Services
- Procurement
- Payments
- SaaS
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://www.breef.com/
- type: About
  url: https://www.breef.com/about
- type: Pricing
  url: https://www.breef.com/pricing
- type: SignUp
  url: https://www.breef.com/onboarding
- type: Login
  url: https://projects.breef.com/public/signin
- type: Support
  url: https://www.breef.com/contact
- type: HelpCenter
  url: https://www.breef.com/faq
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.breef.com/breefingroom
- type: CaseStudies
  url: https://www.breef.com/case-studies
- type: Careers
  url: https://www.breef.com/careers
- type: Demo
  url: https://www.breef.com/demo
- type: Community
  url: https://www.breef.com/community-standards
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.breef.com/terms-of-use
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.breef.com/privacy-policy
- type: CookiePolicy
  url: https://www.breef.com/cookie-policy
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/breef
- type: Instagram
  url: https://www.instagram.com/breefwork
- type: Plans
  url: plans/breef-plans-pricing.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/breef-domain-security.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/breef-llms.txt
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-08-12'
  status: minimal
  artifacts_added: 1
  pass: local-v1
x-coverage:
  state: none
  reason: no-developer-program
  detail: 'Breef ships only an end-user SaaS product: its 483-URL sitemap carries no developer, API, docs or integrations
    page, no api./developer./docs./app./mcp.breef.com hostname resolves at all, and no npm, PyPI, RubyGems, crates.io or Packagist
    package exists — the only machine-readable contract on the estate is the customer application''s own Django REST Framework
    schema at projects.breef.com/api/schema/, which negotiates application/vnd.oai.openapi but answers anonymous callers with
    403 "Authentication credentials were not provided", so it is an internal app backend rather than a published developer
    program.'
  evidence:
  - url: https://www.breef.com/sitemap.xml
    status: 200
  - url: https://www.breef.com/openapi.json
    status: 404
  - url: https://www.breef.com/developers
    status: 404
  - url: https://www.breef.com/integrations
    status: 404
  - url: https://www.breef.com/.well-known/api-catalog
    status: 404
  - url: https://www.breef.com/.well-known/agent-card.json
    status: 404
  - url: https://www.breef.com/llms.txt
    status: 404
  - url: https://projects.breef.com/graphql
    status: 404
  - url: https://projects.breef.com/api/
    status: 200
  - url: https://projects.breef.com/api/agencies/agency-case-studies
    status: 401
  - url: https://projects.breef.com/api/schema/
    status: 403
  checked: '2026-08-12'

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