Dupe

Dupe.com is a free AI-powered visual search engine and product-comparison platform that finds near-identical, lower-priced alternatives ("dupes") to designer and higher-priced products. Users paste any product URL, upload an image, or type a description, and Dupe's visual matching surfaces similar items from thousands of online retailers at up to 90% less — spanning furniture, home decor, fashion, footwear, beauty, and more. The service also offers AI research reports, room/outfit restyling, a Chrome extension, an iOS app, and a $DUPE rewards program, and it earns revenue through affiliate commissions at no extra cost to users. Dupe additionally operates a hosted Model Context Protocol (MCP) server so AI assistants can search its catalog programmatically. Backed by Kindred Ventures.

Dupe is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Shopping, E-Commerce, Retail, and Visual Search.

Dupe’s developer surface includes engineering blog, support, and 6 more developer resources.

🌐 Visit website 📡 Source on GitHub

7.2/100 minimal ▬ flat Agent 9/100 agent aware saas Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0

0 APIs 1 MCP Servers

Company Shopping E-Commerce Retail Visual Search Product Discovery Artificial Intelligence Affiliates MCP

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scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0

Composite quality — 7.2/100 · minimal

Contract Quality 0.0 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 1.4 / 20

Access Clarity 0.0 / 20

Operational Transparency 0.0 / 13

Contract Governance 0.0 / 12

Discoverability 5.7 / 10

Agent readiness — 9/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 12 / 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

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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MCP Servers 1

Model Context Protocol servers that expose these APIs to AI agents.

Dupe MCP Server

MCP SERVER

Security Posture 1

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

Dupe Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Resources

Agent Surfaces 2

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

LLMsTxt

LLMsTxt

MCPServer

MCPServer

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

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

TermsOfService

TermsOfService

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

Source (apis.yml)

aid: dupe
name: Dupe
description: Dupe.com is a free AI-powered visual search engine and product-comparison platform that finds near-identical,
  lower-priced alternatives ("dupes") to designer and higher-priced products. Users paste any product URL, upload an image,
  or type a description, and Dupe's visual matching surfaces similar items from thousands of online retailers at up to 90%
  less — spanning furniture, home decor, fashion, footwear, beauty, and more. The service also offers AI research reports,
  room/outfit restyling, a Chrome extension, an iOS app, and a $DUPE rewards program, and it earns revenue through affiliate
  commissions at no extra cost to users. Dupe additionally operates a hosted Model Context Protocol (MCP) server so AI assistants
  can search its catalog programmatically. Backed by Kindred Ventures.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/dupe/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- kindred-ventures
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
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: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source: []
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-18'
image: https://dupe.com/android-chrome-512x512.png
tags:
- Company
- Shopping
- E-Commerce
- Retail
- Visual Search
- Product Discovery
- Artificial Intelligence
- Affiliates
- MCP
tags_raw:
- Company
- Shopping
- E-commerce
- Retail
- Visual Search
- Product Discovery
- Artificial Intelligence
- Affiliate
- MCP
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://dupe.com/
- type: Blog
  url: https://dupe.com/blog
- type: Support
  url: https://dupe.com/contact
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://dupe.com/privacy
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://dupe.com/terms
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/dupe-llms.txt
- type: MCPServer
  url: mcp/dupe-mcp.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/dupe-domain-security.yml
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: backfilled
  pass: local-v1
  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence

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