Food and Drug Administration

openFDA is an Elasticsearch-based public API that serves FDA data on drugs, devices, foods, animal/veterinary products, and tobacco. Each noun exposes one or more datasets including adverse events, recall enforcement reports, product labeling, classifications, registrations, and approvals.

Food and Drug Administration publishes 6 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network, including Animal & Veterinary API, Device API, Drug API, and 3 more. Tagged areas include Drugs, Devices, Federal Government, Food Safety, and Public Data.

The Food and Drug Administration catalog on APIs.io includes 1 Spectral governance ruleset.

Food and Drug Administration’s developer surface includes authentication, documentation, GitHub presence, and 9 more developer resources.

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29.7/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 26/100 agent aware Heartbeat 63/100 slowing saas Full breakdown ↓
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1 published contract

Drugs Devices Federal Government Food Safety Public Data Recalls Adverse Events

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Composite quality — 29.7/100 · thin

Contract Quality 9.4 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 3.6 / 17

Access Clarity 3.1 / 17

Operational Transparency 3.2 / 11

Contract Governance 0.0 / 10

Discoverability 5.6 / 9

Regulatory Posture 2.4 / 15

Agent readiness — 26/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

Documented Reversibility 6 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 9 / 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 4 / 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

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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):

MCP Server +12 pts — deployment.mode + probe verdict on the mcp/ manifest, not the pointer; an unprobed slug falls back to authorship
Stable Error Semantics +8 pts — OpenAPI $refs a shared error schema across 4xx/5xx responses (verified), else common[].type includes ErrorCatalog / ErrorCodes / DeclineCodes
A2A Agent Card +8 pts — a2a/-a2a.yml manifest, graded on conformance.grade against A2A 1.0.0
Request/Response Examples +7 pts — share of operations carrying request/response examples; else an Examples / Code Samples link
Registration Without a Human +6 pts — a `registration_endpoint` in the served RFC 8414 / OIDC discovery document
Delegated User Identity +6 pts — a served discovery document listing authorization_code in grant_types_supported (served), else an oauth2 authorizationCode flow or openIdConnect declared in an OpenAPI (documented)

6 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

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

Access Clarity scores 18.4 — up to +16.3 composite points
Developer Ergonomics scores 21.4 — up to +15.7 composite points
Contract Quality scores 44.1 — up to +14.0 composite points

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Market	Position	Depth	Registered MCP server	Declares compatibility
Life Sciences (Biotech and Pharma R&D)	standard	34.5 (thin)	-	-
US Federal API Programs (api.data.gov, Login.gov, GSA MAS, FedRAMP)	standard	34.5 (thin)	-	-

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Standards implemented 1

Standards this provider implements or carries. De facto ones are profiled and measured by the API Commons; formal ones come from the standards directory and are linked by the provider's own tags. The evidence column says how each claim was established — not that it was made.

OpenAPI

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APIs 6

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

Food and Drug Administration Animal & Veterinary API

Adverse events involving animal and veterinary products.

Food and Drug Administration Device API

Device-related endpoints (adverse events, classifications, recalls, 510(k), PMA, UDI).

Food and Drug Administration Drug API

Drug-related endpoints (adverse events, labeling, recalls, NDC).

Food and Drug Administration Food API

Food-related endpoints (enforcement reports, adverse events).

Food and Drug Administration Other API

Cross-cutting datasets (NSDE, substance, harmonized).

Food and Drug Administration Tobacco API

Tobacco product problem reports.

Open Collections 7

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

openFDA Animal & Veterinary API

OPEN COLLECTION

openFDA Animal & Veterinary Device API

OPEN COLLECTION

openFDA Animal & Veterinary Drug API

OPEN COLLECTION

openFDA Animal & Veterinary Food API

OPEN COLLECTION

openFDA Animal & Veterinary Other API

OPEN COLLECTION

openFDA Animal & Veterinary Tobacco API

OPEN COLLECTION

openFDA API

OPEN COLLECTION

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Food and Drug Administration API pricing

Not yet checked against Food and Drug Administration's own pricing page. Compiled by API Evangelist on 2026-05-04; confirm before you rely on a figure. A free plan or tier is listed.

Plan	Price
Free freemium	Free
Professional paid	Free
Enterprise enterprise	—

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Rate limits

Free Tier Default: 10 requests per minute
Free Tier Monthly Quota: 1000 requests per month
Professional Tier Default: 100 requests per minute

Compiled by API Evangelist, not yet checked against Food and Drug Administration's documentation. All 5 limits →

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Food And Drug Administration Plans Pricing

3 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Food And Drug Administration Rate Limits

5 limits

RATE LIMITS

Service Levels 1

Uptime the provider promises or reports, as SLA4OAI. Read from its own pages; APIs.io runs no monitors.

Food and Drug Administration

SLA

FinOps 1

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

Food And Drug Administration Finops

FINOPS

Spectral Rules 1

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

Food and Drug Administration — openfda rules

0 rules ·

SPECTRAL

Security Posture 2

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

Food And Drug Administration Authentication

apiKey · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Food And Drug Administration Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Food And Drug Administration Agentic Access

22 operations

22 operations · 0 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

AgenticAccess

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHub

GitHub

Access & Security 3

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Authentication

Authentication

Authentication

Authentication

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

RateLimits

RateLimits

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Plans

Plans

FinOps

FinOps

TermsOfService

TermsOfService

Company 2

The organization behind the API

LinkedIn

Website

Website

Source (apis.yml)

aid: food-and-drug-administration
name: Food and Drug Administration
description: openFDA is an Elasticsearch-based public API that serves FDA data on drugs, devices, foods, animal/veterinary
  products, and tobacco. Each noun exposes one or more datasets including adverse events, recall enforcement reports, product
  labeling, classifications, registrations, and approvals.
type: Index
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  license_evidence:
    not_product:
    - fda/openfda
  open_source: unknown
  commercial: true
  callable_host: true
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: low
  source:
  - openapi
  - pricing
  - repository-not-product
  generated: '2026-09-25'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: freemium
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: true
  public: false
  gated: none
  gated_source:
  - onboarding
  label: Freemium · Self-serve signup
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-06'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/food-and-drug-administration.png
access: 3rd-Party
created: '2024-12-03'
modified: '2026-05-19'
position: Consuming
tags:
- Drugs
- Devices
- Federal Government
- Food Safety
- Public Data
- Recalls
- Adverse Events
tags_raw:
- Drugs
- Devices
- Federal Government
- Food Safety
- Public Data
- Recalls
- Adverse Events
- Federal-Government
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/food-and-drug-administration/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- aid: food-and-drug-administration:food-and-drug-administration-animal-veterinary-api
  name: Food and Drug Administration Animal & Veterinary API
  description: Adverse events involving animal and veterinary products.
  humanURL: https://open.fda.gov/apis
  baseURL: https://api.fda.gov
  tags:
  - Animal & Veterinary
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/food-and-drug-administration-animal-veterinary-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://open.fda.gov/apis
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://open.fda.gov/apis/authentication/
  - type: TermsOfService
    url: https://open.fda.gov/terms/
  - type: StatusPage
    url: https://open.fda.gov/about/status/
  - type: Capabilities
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/food-and-drug-administration/refs/heads/main/capabilities/openfda-capabilities.yml
  - type: Rules
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/food-and-drug-administration/refs/heads/main/rules/openfda-rules.yml
- aid: food-and-drug-administration:food-and-drug-administration-device-api
  name: Food and Drug Administration Device API
  description: Device-related endpoints (adverse events, classifications, recalls, 510(k), PMA, UDI).
  humanURL: https://open.fda.gov/apis
  baseURL: https://api.fda.gov
  tags:
  - Device
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/food-and-drug-administration-device-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://open.fda.gov/apis
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://open.fda.gov/apis/authentication/
  - type: TermsOfService
    url: https://open.fda.gov/terms/
  - type: StatusPage
    url: https://open.fda.gov/about/status/
  - type: Capabilities
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/food-and-drug-administration/refs/heads/main/capabilities/openfda-capabilities.yml
  - type: Rules
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/food-and-drug-administration/refs/heads/main/rules/openfda-rules.yml
- aid: food-and-drug-administration:food-and-drug-administration-drug-api
  name: Food and Drug Administration Drug API
  description: Drug-related endpoints (adverse events, labeling, recalls, NDC).
  humanURL: https://open.fda.gov/apis
  baseURL: https://api.fda.gov
  tags:
  - Drug
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/food-and-drug-administration-drug-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://open.fda.gov/apis
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://open.fda.gov/apis/authentication/
  - type: TermsOfService
    url: https://open.fda.gov/terms/
  - type: StatusPage
    url: https://open.fda.gov/about/status/
  - type: Capabilities
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/food-and-drug-administration/refs/heads/main/capabilities/openfda-capabilities.yml
  - type: Rules
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/food-and-drug-administration/refs/heads/main/rules/openfda-rules.yml
- aid: food-and-drug-administration:food-and-drug-administration-food-api
  name: Food and Drug Administration Food API
  description: Food-related endpoints (enforcement reports, adverse events).
  humanURL: https://open.fda.gov/apis
  baseURL: https://api.fda.gov
  tags:
  - Food
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/food-and-drug-administration-food-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://open.fda.gov/apis
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://open.fda.gov/apis/authentication/
  - type: TermsOfService
    url: https://open.fda.gov/terms/
  - type: StatusPage
    url: https://open.fda.gov/about/status/
  - type: Capabilities
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/food-and-drug-administration/refs/heads/main/capabilities/openfda-capabilities.yml
  - type: Rules
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/food-and-drug-administration/refs/heads/main/rules/openfda-rules.yml
- aid: food-and-drug-administration:food-and-drug-administration-other-api
  name: Food and Drug Administration Other API
  description: Cross-cutting datasets (NSDE, substance, harmonized).
  humanURL: https://open.fda.gov/apis
  baseURL: https://api.fda.gov
  tags: []
  tags_raw:
  - Other
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/food-and-drug-administration-other-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://open.fda.gov/apis
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://open.fda.gov/apis/authentication/
  - type: TermsOfService
    url: https://open.fda.gov/terms/
  - type: StatusPage
    url: https://open.fda.gov/about/status/
  - type: Capabilities
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/food-and-drug-administration/refs/heads/main/capabilities/openfda-capabilities.yml
  - type: Rules
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/food-and-drug-administration/refs/heads/main/rules/openfda-rules.yml
- aid: food-and-drug-administration:food-and-drug-administration-tobacco-api
  name: Food and Drug Administration Tobacco API
  description: Tobacco product problem reports.
  humanURL: https://open.fda.gov/apis
  baseURL: https://api.fda.gov
  tags:
  - Tobacco
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/food-and-drug-administration-tobacco-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://open.fda.gov/apis
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://open.fda.gov/apis/authentication/
  - type: TermsOfService
    url: https://open.fda.gov/terms/
  - type: StatusPage
    url: https://open.fda.gov/about/status/
  - type: Capabilities
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/food-and-drug-administration/refs/heads/main/capabilities/openfda-capabilities.yml
  - type: Rules
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/food-and-drug-administration/refs/heads/main/rules/openfda-rules.yml
common:
- type: Plans
  url: plans/food-and-drug-administration-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/food-and-drug-administration-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/food-and-drug-administration-finops.yml
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/food-and-drug-administration-agentic-access.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/food-and-drug-administration-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/food-and-drug-administration-authentication.yml
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/fda
- type: Website
  url: https://www.fda.gov/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://open.fda.gov/apis
- type: Authentication
  url: https://open.fda.gov/apis/authentication/
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://open.fda.gov/terms/
- type: GitHub
  url: https://github.com/FDA/openfda
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com

Food and Drug Administration API — frequently asked questions

Does Food and Drug Administration have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 6 APIs from Food and Drug Administration, including Food and Drug Administration Animal & Veterinary API, Food and Drug Administration Device API and Food and Drug Administration Drug API, and 3 more.

Is there an OpenAPI specification for the Food and Drug Administration API?

Yes. APIs.io indexes 6 OpenAPI specifications for Food and Drug Administration, each linked for download from this page.

How do I authenticate with the Food and Drug Administration API?

Food and Drug Administration uses bearer-token authentication (apiKey · 1 scheme). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Food And Drug Administration Authentication.

How much does the Food and Drug Administration API cost?

APIs.io lists 3 pricing plans for Food and Drug Administration, with each plan's price, limits and inclusions under Pricing on this page.

Is the Food and Drug Administration API ready for AI agents?

Food and Drug Administration has a Kin Score of 29.7 out of 100 (thin) and an Agent Readiness score of 25.7 (agent-aware), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.

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