# CandidCost

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

CandidCost provides free homebuying tools built on public U.S. government data, offering transparent cost calculations, fee fairness checks, and qualification assistance. All numbers are sourced, no lender referrals, and user information is never sold. The service is owned by Vaspera Capital, an AI product studio.

## Kin Score — 7.6 / 100 (minimal)

Scored 2026-11-06 under rubric 0.27.0.

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 62.5 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 0.0 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 0.0 |
| Access Clarity | 10.5 |

Regulatory layer — **Horizontal (data, software, accessibility, platform)**: 9.8 (matched via fallback).

## Agent readiness — 3.1 (human-only)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | documented |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | no |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |
| Delegated Identity | no |
| Protected Resource Metadata | no |
| Dynamic Client Registration | no |
| Agentic Commerce | no |
| Pagination Ratio | na |
| Operation Distinctiveness | na |
| MCP Tool Quality | na |

## Access

Unknown — onboarding: unknown, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: low).

## APIs (1)

- **CandidCost API** — CandidCost provides cost estimation APIs.

## Security (1)

- **Candidcost Com Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

## Tags

Home Buying, Real Estate, Finance, Data, Transparency

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