Couchsurfing

Couchsurfing is a community-driven travel and hospitality-exchange platform that connects travelers with local hosts offering free accommodation, local meetups, and cultural exchange across more than 200,000 cities worldwide. Members build trust through verified profiles, references, and community events, and use the service to find places to stay, meet locals, and discover events while traveling. Couchsurfing publishes no official public developer API or developer portal; this API Evangelist profile tracks the company's public web, trust, and policy surface for discovery and monitoring, and was originally surfaced as a portfolio company of General Catalyst and Point Nine.

Couchsurfing is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Travel, Hospitality, Community, and Social.

Couchsurfing’s developer surface includes engineering blog, support, and 4 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

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CompanyTravelHospitalityCommunitySocialAccommodationMarketplace

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scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5

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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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

TermsOfService

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

Source (apis.yml)

aid: couchsurfing
name: Couchsurfing
description: Couchsurfing is a community-driven travel and hospitality-exchange platform that connects travelers with local
  hosts offering free accommodation, local meetups, and cultural exchange across more than 200,000 cities worldwide. Members
  build trust through verified profiles, references, and community events, and use the service to find places to stay, meet
  locals, and discover events while traveling. Couchsurfing publishes no official public developer API or developer portal;
  this API Evangelist profile tracks the company's public web, trust, and policy surface for discovery and monitoring, and
  was originally surfaced as a portfolio company of General Catalyst and Point Nine.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/couchsurfing/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- general-catalyst
- point-nine
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: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-18'
image: https://www.couchsurfing.com/images/social-banner.png
tags:
- Company
- Travel
- Hospitality
- Community
- Social
- Accommodation
- Marketplace
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://www.couchsurfing.com
- type: Blog
  url: https://blog.couchsurfing.com
- type: Support
  url: https://support.couchsurfing.org/hc/en-us
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://support.couchsurfing.org/hc/en-us/articles/360003344313-Terms-of-Use
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://support.couchsurfing.org/hc/en-us/articles/360003320394-Privacy-Policy
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/couchsurfing-domain-security.yml
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: backfilled
  pass: local-v1
  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence