Faire

Faire is a wholesale marketplace connecting independent retailers with brands. The Faire External API v2 supports both sides of the marketplace: brand-side endpoints for products, orders, inventory, and shipments, and retailer-side endpoints for browsing and ordering.

Faire is listed with 2 APIs on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Marketplace, Wholesale, Retail, and E-Commerce.

Faire’s developer surface includes engineering blog and 9 more developer resources.

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10.2/100 minimal ▬ flat Agent 1/100 human only Front door AI 1/6 silent Heartbeat 100/100 alive saas Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0 · Show this score on your site →

AccessFreemium

2 APIs

Marketplace Wholesale Retail E-Commerce

Kin Score

Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0

Composite quality — 10.2/100 · minimal

Contract Quality 0.0 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 2.0 / 17

Access Clarity 0.9 / 17

Operational Transparency 2.0 / 11

Contract Governance 0.0 / 10

Discoverability 4.1 / 9

Regulatory Posture 1.8 / 15

Agent readiness — 1/100 · 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

Pagination 5 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

MCP Tool Quality 6 / 6

Regulatory Posture applies to this provider. Its tags matched the Horizontal (data, software, accessibility, platform) regime, so Regulatory Posture carries 15 points of the composite. If this regime is wrong for your business, say so on your provider repo — the applicability map is public and we will correct it.

Create-or-Update Ergonomics could not be measured. We hold no machine-readable contract for this provider to read, so there is nothing to measure a write surface against. Excluded rather than scored zero: never-measured and measured-empty are different facts. Publishing an OpenAPI is what makes this facet — and several others — scorable at all.

The six quality facets above are damped to 85 points between them, because the conditional facet above carries the other 15. That is why each facet's contribution is shown against a damped maximum: raising a quality facet moves the composite by 85% of its nominal weight, not 100%. The full arithmetic is at apis.io/rating/.

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Agent readiness — checks not met, largest first (exact, from this profile):

Machine-Readable Contract +18 pts — api_specs includes an OpenAPI document
MCP Server +12 pts — deployment.mode + probe verdict on the mcp/ manifest, not the pointer; an unprobed slug falls back to authorship
Agentic Access Contract +10 pts — agentic_access artifact present (x-agentic-access), graded by author
Machine-Readable Auth +10 pts — a served openid-configuration/oauth-authorization-server carrying `issuer` (served), else the securitySchemes class in the provider OpenAPIs — bound (mutualTLS, DPoP, Signature) > negotiable (oauth2 authorizationCode/clientCredentials, openIdConnect) > bearer (http bearer, apiKey)
Idempotency +9 pts — OpenAPI mutating operations declare an idempotency key — a header, a request-body property, or a named de-duplication token whose own description says so (verified); else common[].type matches /idempoten/i (documented)
Stable Error Semantics +8 pts — OpenAPI $refs a shared error schema across 4xx/5xx responses (verified), else common[].type includes ErrorCatalog / ErrorCodes / DeclineCodes

12 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

Kin Score — facets with the most composite points still available (weight × headroom):

Contract Quality scores 0.0 — up to +25.0 composite points
Access Clarity scores 5.3 — up to +18.9 composite points
Developer Ergonomics scores 11.9 — up to +17.6 composite points

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APIs 2

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

Faire External API v2 (Brand)

REST API for Faire brands to manage products, inventory, orders, shipments, and returns.

Faire External API v2 (Retailer)

REST API endpoints for retailers to browse products, place orders, and manage their account on Faire.

Faire API pricing

Not yet checked against Faire's own pricing page. Compiled by API Evangelist on 2026-05-08 from www.faire.com/; confirm before you rely on a figure. A free plan or tier is listed.

Plan	Price
Brand Commission paid	—
Retailer (Free) free	—

Plan details, limits and sources →

Rate limits

Default External API: not publicly documented requests

Compiled by API Evangelist, not yet checked against Faire's documentation. Rate-limit details →

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Faire Plans Pricing

2 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Faire Rate Limits

1 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

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

Faire Finops

FINOPS

Security Posture 2

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

Faire Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · DMARC

SECURITY

Faire Vulnerability Disclosure

security.txt · contact published

SECURITY

Resources

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

VulnerabilityDisclosure

VulnerabilityDisclosure

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

RateLimits

RateLimits

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Plans

Plans

FinOps

FinOps

Company 3

The organization behind the API

Blog

Blog

LinkedIn

Website

Website

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Developer

Developer

Source (apis.yml)

aid: faire
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/faire/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
name: Faire
kind: company
description: 'Faire is a wholesale marketplace connecting independent retailers with brands. The Faire External API v2 supports
  both sides of the marketplace: brand-side endpoints for products, orders, inventory, and shipments, and retailer-side endpoints
  for browsing and ordering.'
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: freemium
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Freemium
  confidence: low
  source:
  - plans
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-06'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/faire.png
tags:
- Marketplace
- Wholesale
- Retail
- E-Commerce
tags_raw:
- Marketplace
- Wholesale
- Retail
- Ecommerce
created: '2026-05-08'
modified: '2026-10-06'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- aid: faire:external-api-v2-brand
  name: Faire External API v2 (Brand)
  description: REST API for Faire brands to manage products, inventory, orders, shipments, and returns.
  humanURL: https://developers.faire.com/docs
  tags:
  - REST
  - Brands
  - Wholesale
  tags_raw:
  - REST
  - Brand
  - Wholesale
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developers.faire.com/docs
- aid: faire:external-api-v2-retailer
  name: Faire External API v2 (Retailer)
  description: REST API endpoints for retailers to browse products, place orders, and manage their account on Faire.
  humanURL: https://developers.faire.com/docs
  tags:
  - REST
  - Retailer
  - Wholesale
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developers.faire.com/docs
common:
- url: https://www.faire.com/news
  type: Blog
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/faire-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/faire-domain-security.yml
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/Faire
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/fairewholesale
- type: Website
  url: https://www.faire.com/
- type: Developer
  url: https://developers.faire.com/docs
- type: Plans
  url: plans/faire-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/faire-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/faire-finops.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com

Faire API — frequently asked questions

Does Faire have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 2 APIs from Faire, including Faire External API v2 (Brand) and Faire External API v2 (Retailer).

How much does the Faire API cost?

APIs.io lists 2 pricing plans for Faire, with each plan's price, limits and inclusions under Pricing on this page.

Is the Faire API ready for AI agents?

Faire has a Kin Score of 10.2 out of 100 (minimal) and an Agent Readiness score of 0.6 (human-only), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.

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