Chegg

Chegg is an American education technology company that provides direct-to-student learning services, including 24/7 homework and expert Q&A help, step-by-step textbook solutions, practice questions, and writing, grammar, and citation tools. Founded in 2005 and headquartered in Santa Clara, California, Chegg began as a textbook-rental marketplace and expanded into a subscription study-support platform (Chegg Study, Chegg Writing, Chegg Math Solver) plus tutoring and skills offerings. Chegg operates as a consumer web/mobile product rather than a developer platform: it exposes no public developer portal, published API, or SDKs at this time. Its public technical surface is limited to a coordinated vulnerability disclosure program on HackerOne and standard web security/policy pages. Surfaced as a portfolio company of Kleiner Perkins and enriched by the API Evangelist pipeline.

Chegg is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Consumer, Education, EdTech, and Learning.

Chegg’s developer surface includes support, engineering blog, and 6 more developer resources.

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13.4/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-08-21 · rubric v0.12.0

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Company Consumer Education EdTech Learning Students Homework Help Textbooks

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scored 2026-08-21 · rubric v0.12.0

Composite quality — 13.4/100 · emerging

Contract Quality 0.0 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 1.2 / 17

Access Clarity 3.6 / 17

Operational Transparency 1.2 / 11

Contract Governance 0.0 / 10

Discoverability 4.3 / 9

Regulatory Posture 5.6 / 15

Agent readiness — 0/100 · human only

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

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

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

Regulatory Posture applies to this provider. Its tags matched the Education & Research 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.

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Access & Security 3

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

VulnerabilityDisclosure

VulnerabilityDisclosure

Security

Security

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support

Support

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

TermsOfService

TermsOfService

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

Source (apis.yml)

aid: chegg
name: Chegg
description: 'Chegg is an American education technology company that provides direct-to-student learning services, including
  24/7 homework and expert Q&A help, step-by-step textbook solutions, practice questions, and writing, grammar, and citation
  tools. Founded in 2005 and headquartered in Santa Clara, California, Chegg began as a textbook-rental marketplace and expanded
  into a subscription study-support platform (Chegg Study, Chegg Writing, Chegg Math Solver) plus tutoring and skills offerings.
  Chegg operates as a consumer web/mobile product rather than a developer platform: it exposes no public developer portal,
  published API, or SDKs at this time. Its public technical surface is limited to a coordinated vulnerability disclosure program
  on HackerOne and standard web security/policy pages. Surfaced as a portfolio company of Kleiner Perkins and enriched by
  the API Evangelist pipeline.'
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/chegg/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- kleiner-perkins
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source: []
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-18'
image: https://www.chegg.com/favicon.ico
tags:
- Company
- Consumer
- Education
- EdTech
- Learning
- Students
- Homework Help
- Textbooks
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/chegg-domain-security.yml
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/chegg-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: Security
  url: https://hackerone.com/chegg
- type: Website
  url: https://www.chegg.com
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.chegg.com/privacypolicy
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.chegg.com/termsofuse
- type: Support
  url: https://www.chegg.com/contactus
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.chegg.com/press
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: backfilled
  pass: local-v1
  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence

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