Choose Energy

Choose Energy is a free online energy marketplace, founded in 2008 and operated by Red Ventures, that helps consumers and businesses in deregulated U.S. energy markets compare electricity and natural gas plans, view transparent all-inclusive pricing, and switch providers online in minutes. The platform serves customers across Texas, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Illinois, New Jersey, New York, Maryland, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and other deregulated states, and also offers solar cost estimation, business energy procurement, and educational energy resources. Choose Energy is a consumer-facing web marketplace and does not publish a public developer API.

Choose Energy is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Consumer, Energy, Electricity, and Natural Gas.

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

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12.3/100 minimal ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5

0 APIs

CompanyConsumerEnergyElectricityNatural GasMarketplaceUtilitiesComparisonDeregulated EnergySolar

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Composite quality — 12.3/100 · minimal

Contract Quality 0.0 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 1.3 / 20

Commercial Clarity 4.2 / 20

Operational Transparency 0.0 / 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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Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

LLMsTxt

LLMsTxt

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

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 3

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

About

About

Blog

Blog

Source (apis.yml)

aid: choose-energy
name: Choose Energy
description: Choose Energy is a free online energy marketplace, founded in 2008 and operated by Red Ventures, that helps consumers
  and businesses in deregulated U.S. energy markets compare electricity and natural gas plans, view transparent all-inclusive
  pricing, and switch providers online in minutes. The platform serves customers across Texas, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Illinois,
  New Jersey, New York, Maryland, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and other deregulated states, and also offers solar cost estimation,
  business energy procurement, and educational energy resources. Choose Energy is a consumer-facing web marketplace and does
  not publish a public developer API.
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image: https://www.chooseenergy.com/icon.png
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- Utilities
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- type: Website
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- type: About
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- type: Blog
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- type: Support
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- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.chooseenergy.com/privacy-policy/
- type: TermsOfService
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