# Couchsurfing

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/couchsurfing/  
**Website:** https://www.couchsurfing.com  
**APIs profiled:** 0

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.

## Kin Score — 10.5 / 100 (minimal)

Scored 2026-08-17 under rubric 0.11.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 10.5).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 50.0 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 0.0 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 6.5 |
| Commercial Clarity | 21.1 |

## Agent readiness — 0.0 (human-only)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| 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 |

## Access

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

## Security (1)

- **Couchsurfing Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

## Tags

Company, Travel, Hospitality, Community, Social, Accommodation, Marketplace

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