# Foursquare

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/foursquare/  
**Website:** https://foursquare.com/  
**APIs profiled:** 12

Foursquare is a location intelligence platform that maintains a global graph of more than 100 million points of interest (POI) and provides developer APIs and SDKs for place search, geotagging, autocomplete, audience measurement, and visit detection across web and mobile.

## Kin Score — 41.3 / 100 (developing)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 41.3).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 64.8 |
| Contract Quality | 67.5 |
| Governance | 9.8 |
| Contract Governance | 9.8 |
| Operational Transparency | 7.9 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 50.0 |
| Commercial Clarity | 28.9 |
| Access Clarity | 28.9 |

## Agent readiness — 34.7 (agent-ready)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | na |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| Idempotency | na |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | na |

## Access

Freemium (free trial) · Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: freemium, trial: yes (confidence: high).

## APIs (12)

- **Foursquare Movement SDK** — Mobile SDK for iOS, Android, and React Native that translates passive device location signals into visit events using the Foursquare POI graph.
- **Foursquare Movement Geofence API** — Server-side API for managing geofences that trigger events when Movement SDK-equipped devices enter or exit defined places.
- **Foursquare Studio Data API** — API for managing datasets, maps, and visualizations within Foursquare Studio for geospatial analytics.
- **Foursquare Measurement API (MAPI)** — API for attribution and audience measurement using Foursquare visit panels.
- **Foursquare Ask API** — Natural-language place search with justifications
- **Foursquare Autocomplete API** — Type-ahead search for places, addresses, and geographies
- **Foursquare Details API** — Retrieve attributes for a specific place
- **Foursquare Geotagging API** — Resolve a coordinate to the most likely place (Place Snap)
- **Foursquare Match API** — Match an external POI record to a Foursquare place
- **Foursquare Photos API** — Photos associated with a place
- **Foursquare Search API** — Find and explore places
- **Foursquare Tips API** — User tips associated with a place

## Agentic access (1)

- **Foursquare Agentic Access** — 8 operations

## Security (2)

- **Foursquare Authentication** — http · 1 scheme
- **Foursquare Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

## Plans (1)

- **Foursquare Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Restaurant, Locations, Places, Geocoding, Recommendations, Reviews, Movement

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/foursquare/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.