# Microsoft Bing

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/microsoft-bing/  
**Website:** https://portal.azure.com/  
**APIs profiled:** 18

Microsoft Bing provides a comprehensive suite of search APIs that enable developers to integrate web, image, video, news, entity, and visual search capabilities into their applications. These APIs are part of Azure AI Services and provide intelligent search experiences powered by Bing's web-scale index.

## Kin Score — 35.5 / 100 (thin)

Scored 2026-08-21 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 35.5).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 74.1 |
| Contract Quality | 49.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 10.5 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 35.7 |
| Commercial Clarity | 36.8 |
| Access Clarity | 36.8 |

## Agent readiness — 29.1 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| Idempotency | no |
| 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 | no |

## Access

Freemium · Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: freemium, trial: no (confidence: high).

## APIs (18)

- **Bing Image Search API** — The Bing Image Search API enables developers to search for images across the web with advanced filtering options.
- **Bing Video Search API** — The Bing Video Search API allows developers to search for videos across the web and retrieve video metadata.
- **Bing News Search API** — The Bing News Search API returns relevant news articles from across the web for a given query.
- **Bing Entity Search API** — The Bing Entity Search API returns structured information about people, places, organizations, and other entities.
- **Bing Autosuggest API** — The Bing Autosuggest API provides intelligent search query suggestions as users type.
- **Bing Spell Check API** — The Bing Spell Check API provides contextual spell checking using machine learning models.
- **Bing Visual Search API** — The Bing Visual Search API enables image-based search by analyzing uploaded images or image URLs.
- **Bing Custom Search API** — The Bing Custom Search API allows developers to create tailored search experiences by defining a custom view of the web.
- **Bing Local Business Search API** — The Bing Local Business Search API returns information about local businesses based on search queries and location.
- **Microsoft Bing Autosuggest API** — The Autosuggest API from Microsoft Bing — 1 operation(s) for autosuggest.
- **Microsoft Bing CustomSearch API** — The CustomSearch API from Microsoft Bing — 1 operation(s) for customsearch.
- **Microsoft Bing EntitySearch API** — The EntitySearch API from Microsoft Bing — 1 operation(s) for entitysearch.
- **Microsoft Bing ImageSearch API** — The ImageSearch API from Microsoft Bing — 1 operation(s) for imagesearch.
- **Microsoft Bing NewsSearch API** — The NewsSearch API from Microsoft Bing — 2 operation(s) for newssearch.
- **Microsoft Bing SpellCheck API** — The SpellCheck API from Microsoft Bing — 1 operation(s) for spellcheck.
- **Microsoft Bing VideoSearch API** — The VideoSearch API from Microsoft Bing — 1 operation(s) for videosearch.
- **Microsoft Bing VisualSearch API** — The VisualSearch API from Microsoft Bing — 1 operation(s) for visualsearch.
- **Microsoft Bing WebSearch API** — The WebSearch API from Microsoft Bing — 1 operation(s) for websearch.

## Agentic access (1)

- **Microsoft Bing Agentic Access** — 10 operations · 1 acting

## Security (2)

- **Microsoft Bing Authentication** — apiKey · 1 scheme
- **Microsoft Bing Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

## Plans (1)

- **Microsoft Bing Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Search, Web Search, Image, Videos, News, Azure AI, Autosuggest, Visual Search

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