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Mendable

Mendable is an AI answers and enterprise search platform that lets teams ingest their documentation, websites, and knowledge sources and serve grounded, cited AI chat answers over them. Built by the Firecrawl / Mendable team, it exposes a REST API at https://api.mendable.ai/v1 for creating conversations, asking questions over ingested content with streaming, ingesting and managing data sources, and rating answers.

Mendable publishes 4 APIs on the APIs.io network, including Chat API, Conversations API, Ingestion API, and 1 more. Tagged areas include AI, Answers, Enterprise Search, RAG, and Support.

Mendable’s developer surface includes authentication, documentation, engineering blog, and 9 more developer resources.

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39.4/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 34/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-08-05 · rubric v0.9.1
AccessFreemiumSelf serve⚡ Free to try
4 APIs
AIAnswersEnterprise SearchRAGSupport

Kin Score

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scored 2026-08-05 · rubric v0.9.1
Composite quality — 39.4/100 · thin
Contract Quality 15.5 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 4.3 / 20
Commercial Clarity 7.4 / 20
Operational Transparency 4.8 / 13
Governance 0.0 / 12
Discoverability 7.4 / 10
Agent readiness — 34/100 · agent aware
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 7 / 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
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APIs 4

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

Mendable Chat API

Ask grounded questions over ingested content.

Mendable Conversations API

Create conversation sessions.

Mendable Ingestion API

Ingest and track data sources.

Mendable Ratings API

Rate answer messages.

Open Collections 1

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

Mendable API

OPEN COLLECTION

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Mendable Plans Pricing

2 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Mendable Rate Limits

4 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

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

Mendable Finops

FINOPS

Security Posture 3

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

Mendable Authentication

apiKey/http · 2 schemes

SECURITY

Mendable Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Mendable Trust Center

SOC 2, GDPR

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

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

Mendable Agentic Access

6 operations · 6 acting

6 operations · 6 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

GitHubOrganization
GitHubOrganization

Access & Security 3

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

TrustCenter
TrustCenter
 DomainSecurity
DomainSecurity
 Authentication
Authentication

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

LinkedIn
LinkedIn
 Website
Website
 Blog
Blog

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: mendable
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/mendable/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
name: Mendable
kind: company
description: Mendable is an AI answers and enterprise search platform that lets teams ingest their documentation, websites,
  and knowledge sources and serve grounded, cited AI chat answers over them. Built by the Firecrawl / Mendable team, it exposes
  a REST API at https://api.mendable.ai/v1 for creating conversations, asking questions over ingested content with streaming,
  ingesting and managing data sources, and rating answers.
accessModel:
  pricing: freemium
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: true
  public: false
  label: Freemium · Self-serve signup
  confidence: high
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/mendable.png
tags:
- AI
- Answers
- Enterprise Search
- RAG
- Support
created: '2026-06-20'
modified: '2026-06-20'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
- aid: mendable:mendable-chat-api
  name: Mendable Chat API
  description: Ask grounded questions over ingested content.
  humanURL: https://docs.mendable.ai/mendable-api/chat
  baseURL: https://api.mendable.ai/v1
  tags:
  - Chat
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/mendable-chat-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.mendable.ai/mendable-api/chat
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.mendable.ai/mendable-api/overview
  - type: PostmanCollection
    url: collections/mendable.postman_collection.json
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.mendable.ai/mendable-api/conversation
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.mendable.ai/mendable-api/ingestion
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.mendable.ai/mendable-api/rating
- aid: mendable:mendable-conversations-api
  name: Mendable Conversations API
  description: Create conversation sessions.
  humanURL: https://docs.mendable.ai/mendable-api/chat
  baseURL: https://api.mendable.ai/v1
  tags:
  - Conversations
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/mendable-conversations-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.mendable.ai/mendable-api/chat
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.mendable.ai/mendable-api/overview
  - type: PostmanCollection
    url: collections/mendable.postman_collection.json
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.mendable.ai/mendable-api/conversation
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.mendable.ai/mendable-api/ingestion
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.mendable.ai/mendable-api/rating
- aid: mendable:mendable-ingestion-api
  name: Mendable Ingestion API
  description: Ingest and track data sources.
  humanURL: https://docs.mendable.ai/mendable-api/chat
  baseURL: https://api.mendable.ai/v1
  tags:
  - Ingestion
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/mendable-ingestion-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.mendable.ai/mendable-api/chat
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.mendable.ai/mendable-api/overview
  - type: PostmanCollection
    url: collections/mendable.postman_collection.json
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.mendable.ai/mendable-api/conversation
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.mendable.ai/mendable-api/ingestion
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.mendable.ai/mendable-api/rating
- aid: mendable:mendable-ratings-api
  name: Mendable Ratings API
  description: Rate answer messages.
  humanURL: https://docs.mendable.ai/mendable-api/chat
  baseURL: https://api.mendable.ai/v1
  tags:
  - Ratings
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/mendable-ratings-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.mendable.ai/mendable-api/chat
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.mendable.ai/mendable-api/overview
  - type: PostmanCollection
    url: collections/mendable.postman_collection.json
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.mendable.ai/mendable-api/conversation
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.mendable.ai/mendable-api/ingestion
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.mendable.ai/mendable-api/rating
common:
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/mendable-agentic-access.yml
- type: TrustCenter
  url: security/mendable-trust-center.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/mendable-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/mendable-authentication.yml
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/mendableai
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/mendable
- type: Website
  url: https://www.mendable.ai
- type: Documentation
  url: https://docs.mendable.ai
- type: Plans
  url: plans/mendable-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/mendable-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/mendable-finops.yml
- url: https://mendable.ai/blog
  type: Blog
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com