Care.com

Care.com is a two-sided online marketplace that connects families with caregivers across childcare, senior care, pet care, housekeeping, tutoring, and special-needs care, plus a "Care for Business" employer benefit used by companies such as Google, Starbucks, and Best Buy. Founded in 2007 by Sheila Lirio Marcelo, the company went public on the NYSE (CRCM) in 2014 and was acquired by IAC (IAC Inc.) in February 2020 for approximately $500 million, taking it private. Care.com is consumer- and enterprise-facing and does NOT publish a documented public developer API - there is no developer portal, no public API reference, and no self-service API keys. Its GitHub organization (github.com/caredotcom) contains only internal DevOps/infra tooling, not customer-facing API libraries. The only partner-facing programmatic surface is a private job-import integration inside Care.com Recruiting Solutions / Care for Business, used to sync job postings from an employer ATS; it is provisioned through a partnership agreement rather than openly documented. Note - Care.com is frequently confused with Caring.com (a separate senior-care directory owned by Caring, Inc. that DOES publish a JSON API at docs.caring.com); this entry is about care.com only. Access to the marketplace itself is via paid Basic and Premium memberships; there is no published API pricing.

Care.com is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Care, Childcare, Senior Care, Pet Care, and Housekeeping.

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8.3/100 minimal ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5

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CareChildcareSenior CarePet CareHousekeepingMarketplaceCaregiversTwo-Sided MarketplaceIACNo Public API

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Composite quality — 8.3/100 · minimal

Contract Quality 0.0 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 0.9 / 20

Commercial Clarity 0.0 / 20

Operational Transparency 0.7 / 13

Governance 0.0 / 12

Discoverability 6.8 / 10

Agent readiness — 0/100 · human only

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 15

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

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Build 1

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GitHubOrganization

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

HelpCenter

HelpCenter

Commercial 1

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Plans

Plans

Company 3

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

CorporateWebsite

CorporateWebsite

LinkedIn

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

ParentCompany

ParentCompany

Source (apis.yml)

aid: carecom
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/carecom/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
name: Care.com
kind: company
description: Care.com is a two-sided online marketplace that connects families with caregivers across childcare, senior care,
  pet care, housekeeping, tutoring, and special-needs care, plus a "Care for Business" employer benefit used by companies
  such as Google, Starbucks, and Best Buy. Founded in 2007 by Sheila Lirio Marcelo, the company went public on the NYSE (CRCM)
  in 2014 and was acquired by IAC (IAC Inc.) in February 2020 for approximately $500 million, taking it private. Care.com
  is consumer- and enterprise-facing and does NOT publish a documented public developer API - there is no developer portal,
  no public API reference, and no self-service API keys. Its GitHub organization (github.com/caredotcom) contains only internal
  DevOps/infra tooling, not customer-facing API libraries. The only partner-facing programmatic surface is a private job-import
  integration inside Care.com Recruiting Solutions / Care for Business, used to sync job postings from an employer ATS; it
  is provisioned through a partnership agreement rather than openly documented. Note - Care.com is frequently confused with
  Caring.com (a separate senior-care directory owned by Caring, Inc. that DOES publish a JSON API at docs.caring.com); this
  entry is about care.com only. Access to the marketplace itself is via paid Basic and Premium memberships; there is no published
  API pricing.
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/carecom.png
tags:
- Care
- Childcare
- Senior Care
- Pet Care
- Housekeeping
- Marketplace
- Caregivers
- Two-Sided Marketplace
- IAC
- No Public API
created: '2026-07-03'
modified: '2026-07-03'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/carecom-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.care.com
- type: CorporateWebsite
  url: https://www.care.com/about/
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/care-com
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/caredotcom
- type: HelpCenter
  url: https://help.care.com
- type: Plans
  url: https://www.care.com/hiw/
- type: ParentCompany
  url: https://www.iac.com
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com