DuckDuckGo

aid: duckduckgo
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/duckduckgo/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
name: DuckDuckGo
kind: company
description: DuckDuckGo is an independent online-privacy company best known for its tracker-free search engine and the DuckDuckGo
  Browser (iOS, Android, macOS, Windows). It operates the public Instant Answer API at api.duckduckgo.com (free, JSON/XML),
  the Duck.ai anonymous AI-chat proxy at duck.ai (routes to Anthropic Claude, OpenAI GPT, Meta Llama, Mistral models without
  storing or training on prompts), the Tracker Radar open dataset (CC BY-NC-SA), Email Protection (@duck.com forwarding addresses),
  and Privacy Pro (VPN + Personal Information Removal + Identity Theft Restoration).
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
tags:
- Search
- Privacy
- Browser
- AI Chat
- Email Protection
- VPN
- Trackers
- Identity
created: '2026-05-23'
modified: '2026-05-23'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
- aid: duckduckgo:instant-answer-api
  name: DuckDuckGo Instant Answer API
  humanURL: https://duckduckgo.com/api
  baseURL: https://api.duckduckgo.com
  tags:
  - Search
  - Instant Answer
  - Public API
  - Free
  description: The DuckDuckGo Instant Answer API returns the boxed answer that appears above DuckDuckGo search results - topic
    summaries (largely sourced from Wikipedia / structured sites), definitions, categories, disambiguations, and !bang redirects.
    It is a free, key-less GET endpoint that returns JSON (default), JSON-P (via callback) or XML. It does not return the
    DuckDuckGo search-results listing itself; it returns only zero-click / instant-answer payloads (Abstract, Answer, Definition,
    RelatedTopics, Results, Redirect for bangs, plus Image/Heading/Type metadata). Attribution to DuckDuckGo is required when
    displayed.
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://duckduckgo.com/api
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/instant-answer-openapi.yml
  - type: Examples
    url: examples/
  - type: Capabilities
    url: capabilities/shared/instant-answer-capabilities.yaml
  - type: SpectralRules
    url: rules/instant-answer-rules.yml
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/instant-answer-response-schema.json
  - type: JSONLD
    url: json-ld/duckduckgo-context.jsonld
  - type: Pricing
    url: https://duckduckgo.com/api
- aid: duckduckgo:duck-ai
  name: Duck.ai Anonymous AI Chat
  humanURL: https://duck.ai/
  baseURL: https://duck.ai
  tags:
  - AI Chat
  - LLM Proxy
  - Privacy
  - Anonymous
  description: Duck.ai is DuckDuckGo's anonymizing proxy in front of third-party LLMs. Free tier currently includes Anthropic
    Claude 4.5 Haiku, Meta Llama 4 Scout, Mistral Small 3 24B, OpenAI GPT-4o mini / GPT-5 mini / gpt-oss-120b. Duck.ai Plus
    adds GPT-4o, GPT-5.2, Claude Sonnet 4.5, Llama 4 Maverick. Duck.ai Pro adds Claude Opus 4.6, higher reasoning effort and
    2x usage limits. DuckDuckGo strips IP / identifiers before forwarding to upstream model providers and does not retain
    prompts or train on them. There is no public REST API; access is via the web UI and the in-browser integration in DuckDuckGo
    Browser.
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/duckai/
  - type: Portal
    url: https://duck.ai/
  - type: Pricing
    url: plans/duckduckgo-plans-pricing.yml
  - type: Capabilities
    url: capabilities/shared/duck-ai-capabilities.yaml
- aid: duckduckgo:tracker-radar
  name: DuckDuckGo Tracker Radar Dataset
  humanURL: https://github.com/duckduckgo/tracker-radar
  baseURL: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/duckduckgo/tracker-radar/main/
  tags:
  - Trackers
  - Open Data
  - Privacy Dataset
  - JSON
  description: Tracker Radar is the open dataset that powers DuckDuckGo's tracker and fingerprinting protection. It is a JSON
    corpus of the most common third-party domains on the web, with metadata covering behavior, classification, ownership,
    prevalence, fingerprinting, cookies, privacy policies, and performance. Distributed under Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0
    (commercial licensing available on request). Files are addressable as raw JSON under /domains in the GitHub repo, so it
    is consumable as a static read-only "data API" over HTTPS.
  properties:
  - type: SourceCode
    url: https://github.com/duckduckgo/tracker-radar
  - type: License
    url: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/tracker-radar-domain-schema.json
  - type: Examples
    url: examples/tracker-radar-domain-example.json
- aid: duckduckgo:bang-redirector
  name: DuckDuckGo !Bang Redirector
  humanURL: https://duckduckgo.com/bangs
  baseURL: https://duckduckgo.com/
  tags:
  - Search
  - Redirect
  - Bang
  description: The !bang system - in place since 2008 and now spanning thousands of destinations - lets a query like "!w filter
    bubble" 302-redirect to the destination site's own search (Wikipedia in that example). When called via the Instant Answer
    API, a bang query returns a Redirect field with the target URL rather than performing the redirect, so it can be used
    programmatically as a normalized "search-on-other-site" router.
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://duckduckgo.com/bangs
  - type: Submission
    url: https://duckduckgo.com/newbang
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://duckduckgo.com/
- type: Portal
  url: https://duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/
- type: Blog
  url: https://spreadprivacy.com/
- type: BlogRSS
  url: https://spreadprivacy.com/rss/
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/duckduckgo
- type: SourceCode
  url: https://github.com/duckduckgo
- type: Browser
  title: DuckDuckGo Browser
  url: https://duckduckgo.com/app
- type: AIChat
  title: Duck.ai
  url: https://duck.ai/
- type: EmailProtection
  url: https://duckduckgo.com/email/
- type: PrivacyPro
  url: https://duckduckgo.com/privacy-pro
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://duckduckgo.com/privacy
- type: Plans
  url: plans/duckduckgo-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/duckduckgo-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/duckduckgo-finops.yml
- type: Vocabulary
  url: vocabulary/duckduckgo-vocabulary.yml
- type: JSONLD
  url: json-ld/duckduckgo-context.jsonld
- type: LlmsText
  url: https://duck.ai/llms.txt
integrations:
- name: Apple Safari Intelligent Tracking Prevention (uses tracker data feeds)
- name: Mozilla Firefox (DuckDuckGo as default search option)
- name: Brave Browser (DuckDuckGo selectable as default search)
- name: Tor Browser (DuckDuckGo as default search)
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com