Crystallize

Crystallize is a headless product information management (PIM) and commerce platform built around a set of GraphQL APIs. It separates product storytelling from the commerce engine, exposing a Catalogue API for reading structured product data, a Discovery (Search) API for browse and search, a Shop API for cart and checkout, an Order/Subscription API, and a Core/PIM API for managing shapes, items, and tenants.

Crystallize publishes 6 APIs on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Commerce, Headless Commerce, Product Information Management, PIM, and GraphQL.

Crystallize’s developer surface includes developer portal, documentation, signup flow, pricing, engineering blog, GitHub presence, CLI, and 9 more developer resources.

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27.1/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 3/100 human only saas Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0

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6 APIs

Commerce Headless Commerce Product Information Management PIM GraphQL Catalog Search Order Subscription

Kin Score

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scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0

Composite quality — 27.1/100 · thin

Contract Quality 0.0 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 6.4 / 20

Access Clarity 7.1 / 20

Operational Transparency 5.5 / 13

Contract Governance 0.0 / 12

Discoverability 8.2 / 10

Agent readiness — 3/100 · 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 7 / 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

Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

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APIs 6

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Crystallize Catalogue API

Read-optimized GraphQL API for fetching structured product data, shapes, topics, price variants, stock, and rich content for storefronts. Queries are scoped to a tenant identifi...

Crystallize Discovery / Search API

Semantic GraphQL API combining browse, search, and autocomplete in a single endpoint. Supports filtering, faceting, ranking, and rich product discovery experiences for storefronts.

Crystallize Shop API

Edge-distributed GraphQL API for cart, promotions, and checkout flows. Optimized for low-latency storefront writes during the buying journey.

Crystallize Order API

GraphQL API for creating, reading, and managing orders linked to a Crystallize tenant. Used by storefronts and back-office tooling to persist completed transactions.

Crystallize Subscription API

GraphQL API for managing recurring orders, subscription contracts, and renewal events for Crystallize-powered commerce experiences.

Crystallize Core / PIM API

Read/write GraphQL API for managing the product information model: shapes, items, topics, language, price variants, stock locations, and tenant configuration. Powers PIM tooling...

GraphQL 1

GraphQL schemas published by this provider.

Crystallize GraphQL API

Read-optimized GraphQL API for fetching structured product data, shapes, topics, price variants, stock, and rich content for storefronts. Queries are scoped to a tenant identifi...

GRAPHQL

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Crystallize Plans Pricing

1 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Crystallize Rate Limits

2 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Crystallize Finops

FINOPS

Security Posture 1

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Crystallize Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Resources

Get Started 3

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Portal

Portal

Signup

Signup

Login

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

LlmsText

LlmsText

Build 3

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHub

GitHub

SDKs

SDKs

CLI

CLI

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

StatusPage

StatusPage

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Pricing

Pricing

TermsOfService

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Playground

Playground

Source (apis.yml)

aid: crystallize
name: Crystallize
description: Crystallize is a headless product information management (PIM) and commerce platform built around a set of GraphQL
  APIs. It separates product storytelling from the commerce engine, exposing a Catalogue API for reading structured product
  data, a Discovery (Search) API for browse and search, a Shop API for cart and checkout, an Order/Subscription API, and a
  Core/PIM API for managing shapes, items, and tenants.
type: Index
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: false
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: free
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Free
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/crystallize.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/crystallize/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2026-05-23'
modified: '2026-05-23'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
tags:
- Commerce
- Headless Commerce
- Product Information Management
- PIM
- GraphQL
- Catalog
- Search
- Order
- Subscription
tags_raw:
- Commerce
- Headless Commerce
- Product Information Management
- PIM
- GraphQL
- Catalog
- Search
- Orders
- Subscriptions
apis:
- aid: crystallize:catalogue-api
  name: Crystallize Catalogue API
  description: Read-optimized GraphQL API for fetching structured product data, shapes, topics, price variants, stock, and
    rich content for storefronts. Queries are scoped to a tenant identifier and return path-based catalogue content.
  humanURL: https://crystallize.com/learn/developer-guides/catalogue-api
  baseURL: https://api.crystallize.com
  tags:
  - GraphQL
  - Catalogue
  - Product
  - Content
  tags_raw:
  - GraphQL
  - Catalogue
  - Products
  - Content
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://crystallize.com/learn/developer-guides/catalogue-api
  - type: Playground
    url: https://crystallize.com/learn/developer-guides/query-explorer/graphql-playground
  - url: graphql/crystallize-graphql.md
    type: GraphQL
- aid: crystallize:discovery-search-api
  name: Crystallize Discovery / Search API
  description: Semantic GraphQL API combining browse, search, and autocomplete in a single endpoint. Supports filtering, faceting,
    ranking, and rich product discovery experiences for storefronts.
  humanURL: https://crystallize.com/learn/developer-guides/api-overview
  baseURL: https://api.crystallize.com
  tags:
  - GraphQL
  - Search
  - Discovery
  - Autocomplete
  - Browse
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://crystallize.com/learn/developer-guides/api-overview
- aid: crystallize:shop-api
  name: Crystallize Shop API
  description: Edge-distributed GraphQL API for cart, promotions, and checkout flows. Optimized for low-latency storefront
    writes during the buying journey.
  humanURL: https://crystallize.com/docs/developer/apis/shop-api
  baseURL: https://shop-api.crystallize.com
  tags:
  - GraphQL
  - Cart
  - Checkout
  - Promotions
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://crystallize.com/docs/developer/apis/shop-api
- aid: crystallize:order-api
  name: Crystallize Order API
  description: GraphQL API for creating, reading, and managing orders linked to a Crystallize tenant. Used by storefronts
    and back-office tooling to persist completed transactions.
  humanURL: https://crystallize.com/learn/developer-guides/order-api
  baseURL: https://api.crystallize.com
  tags:
  - GraphQL
  - Order
  tags_raw:
  - GraphQL
  - Orders
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://crystallize.com/learn/developer-guides/order-api
- aid: crystallize:subscription-api
  name: Crystallize Subscription API
  description: GraphQL API for managing recurring orders, subscription contracts, and renewal events for Crystallize-powered
    commerce experiences.
  humanURL: https://crystallize.com/learn/developer-guides/api-overview
  baseURL: https://api.crystallize.com
  tags:
  - GraphQL
  - Subscription
  - Recurring Billing
  tags_raw:
  - GraphQL
  - Subscriptions
  - Recurring Billing
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://crystallize.com/learn/developer-guides/api-overview
- aid: crystallize:core-pim-api
  name: Crystallize Core / PIM API
  description: 'Read/write GraphQL API for managing the product information model: shapes, items, topics, language, price
    variants, stock locations, and tenant configuration. Powers PIM tooling and back-office automation.'
  humanURL: https://crystallize.com/docs/developer/apis
  baseURL: https://pim.crystallize.com/graphql
  tags:
  - GraphQL
  - PIM
  - Core
  - Shapes
  - Tenants
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://crystallize.com/docs/developer/apis
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/crystallize-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://crystallize.com
- type: Portal
  url: https://crystallize.com/learn
- type: Documentation
  url: https://crystallize.com/learn
- type: Signup
  url: https://crystallize.com/signup
- type: Login
  url: https://app.crystallize.com
- type: Pricing
  url: https://crystallize.com/plans
- type: Blog
  url: https://crystallize.com/blog
- type: GitHub
  url: https://github.com/CrystallizeAPI
- type: SDKs
  url: https://crystallize.com/learn/open-source/sdks-and-libraries/js-api-client
- type: CLI
  url: https://crystallize.com/learn/open-source/cli
- type: Playground
  url: https://crystallize.com/learn/developer-guides/query-explorer/graphql-playground
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://crystallize.com/terms
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://crystallize.com/privacy
- type: StatusPage
  url: https://status.crystallize.com
- type: LlmsText
  url: https://crystallize.com/llms.txt
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kinlane@gmail.com

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