Octen
Octen (Octen.AI) is an AI-native web search and retrieval platform built for LLM applications and agents. Its REST API at api.octen.ai exposes Broad Search (multi-angle query decomposition), Web Search, News Search, Business Search, Image Search, Video Search, URL Extract, text and vision-language Embeddings, Answer, Deep Research, Grounded Generation, and an OpenAI/Anthropic-compatible Model Gateway, alongside a hosted MCP server (mcp.octen.ai), a CLI, a Python SDK, and published agent skills.
Octen publishes 17 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network, including Answer API, Broad Search API, Business Search API, and 14 more. Tagged areas include Search, Web Search, Artificial Intelligence, LLM, and Embeddings.
The Octen catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context and 1 Spectral governance ruleset.
Octen’s developer surface includes CLI, changelog, authentication, documentation, API reference, getting-started guide, signup flow, and 37 more developer resources.
What this lets a business do 2
Business capabilities this provider's published APIs can perform, derived from its own contracts. Browse all capabilities →
Kin Score
APIs 17
Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.
Octen MCP Server
Hosted Model Context Protocol server exposing Octen broad_search, search, image_search, video_search and extract tools at https://mcp.octen.ai/mcp (x-api-key or OAuth), also run...
Octen Answer API
The Answer API from Octen — 1 operation(s) for answer.
Octen Broad Search API
The Broad Search API from Octen — 1 operation(s) for broad search.
Octen Business Search API
The Business Search API from Octen — 1 operation(s) for business search.
Octen Embedding API
The Embedding API from Octen — 1 operation(s) for embedding.
Octen Extract API
The Extract API from Octen — 1 operation(s) for extract.
Octen Grounded Generation API
The Grounded Generation API from Octen — 2 operation(s) for grounded generation.
Octen Image Search API
The Image Search API from Octen — 1 operation(s) for image search.
Octen Images API
The Images API from Octen — 1 operation(s) for images.
Octen Messages API
The Messages API from Octen — 1 operation(s) for messages.
Octen News Search API
The News Search API from Octen — 1 operation(s) for news search.
Octen Research API
The Research API from Octen — 1 operation(s) for research.
Octen Search API
The Search API from Octen — 1 operation(s) for search.
Octen Video Search API
The Video Search API from Octen — 1 operation(s) for video search.
Octen Videos API
The Videos API from Octen — 2 operation(s) for videos.
Octen Vl Embedding API
The Vl Embedding API from Octen — 1 operation(s) for vl embedding.
Octen Chat Completions API
The Chat Completions API from Octen — 1 operation(s) for chat completions.
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MCP Servers 1
Model Context Protocol servers that expose these APIs to AI agents.
Octen MCP
Remote MCP server at mcp.octen.ai over streamable HTTP requiring an API key; 6 tools listed.
MCP SERVERAgent Skills 4
Packaged agent skills for driving this provider's APIs from an AI assistant.
octen-ai-broad-search-research
AGENT SKILLocten-ai-deep-research-report
AGENT SKILLocten-ai-grounded-chat
AGENT SKILLocten-ai-web-search-with-content
AGENT SKILLPricing Plans 2
Published pricing tiers and plan structures.
Rate Limits 1
Documented rate limits and quota policies.
Octen Ai Rate Limits
RATE LIMITSFinOps 1
Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.
Octen Ai Finops
FINOPSSemantic Vocabularies 1
JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.
Octen Ai Context
JSON-LDSpectral Rules 1
Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.
Octen API Rules
SPECTRALOpenAPI Overlays 1
Overlays applied on top of this provider's contracts. Each card says who wrote it: a document the provider publishes, or one API Evangelist derived or generated.
Octen Ai Openapi Overlay
DERIVEDJSON Schema 6
Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.
BusinessSearchRequest
JSON SCHEMAChatCompletionRequest
JSON SCHEMADeepResearchChunk
JSON SCHEMAExtractRequest
JSON SCHEMAMessagesRequest
JSON SCHEMANewsSearchRequest
JSON SCHEMASecurity Posture 3
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.
Agentic Access 1
Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.
Resources
Get Started 3
Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call
Documentation 2
Reference material describing how the API behaves
Agent Surfaces 5
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Design & Contract 8
Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events
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Build 5
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
Access & Security 4
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Operate 6
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Commercial 4
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 2
The organization behind the API
Other 5
Properties that don't map to a standard resource type
Source (apis.yml)
Octen API — frequently asked questions
Does Octen have an API?
Yes. APIs.io lists 17 APIs from Octen, including Octen MCP Server, Octen Answer API and Octen Broad Search API, and 14 more.
Is there an OpenAPI specification for the Octen API?
Yes. APIs.io indexes 16 OpenAPI specifications for Octen, each linked for download from this page.
How do I authenticate with the Octen API?
Octen documents its authentication (apiKey/http · 2 schemes). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Octen Ai Authentication.
How much does the Octen API cost?
APIs.io lists 5 pricing plans for Octen, with each plan's price, limits and inclusions under Pricing Plans on this page.
Does Octen have an MCP server?
Yes. APIs.io lists 1 MCP server for Octen: Remote MCP server at mcp.octen.ai over streamable HTTP requiring an API key; 6 tools listed.
Is the Octen API ready for AI agents?
Octen has a Kin Score of 72.8 out of 100 (exemplar) and an Agent Readiness score of 57.8 (agent-ready), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-10-31.
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