# Course Hero

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/course-hero/  
**Website:** https://www.coursehero.com  
**APIs profiled:** 0

Course Hero is an online learning platform where students and educators access more than 25 million course-specific study resources — practice problems, study guides, class notes, step-by-step explanations, essays, and lab reports — alongside 24/7 tutoring and AI-assisted study tools. Founded in 2006 by Andrew Grauer at Cornell University and headquartered in Redwood City, California, Course Hero is part of Learneo, a family of learning and productivity brands that also includes QuillBot, Symbolab, LitCharts, CliffsNotes, Scribbr, Bartleby, and LanguageTool. Course Hero exposes only internal, undocumented web APIs (under /api/) that power its consumer web and mobile apps; it publishes no public developer program, OpenAPI specification, SDKs, or partner API. This profile was surfaced as a portfolio company of D1 Capital, Sierra Ventures, and SV Angel.

## Kin Score — 10.3 / 100 (minimal)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 10.3).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 50.0 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 2.6 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 4.8 |
| Commercial Clarity | 21.1 |
| Access Clarity | 21.1 |

Regulatory layer — **Education & Research**: 25.9 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 0.0 (human-only)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | 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)

- **Course Hero Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · DMARC

## Tags

Company, EdTech, Education, Learning, Study Resources, Tutoring, Artificial Intelligence, Consumer

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