# Octen

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/octen-ai/  
**Website:** https://octen.ai  
**APIs profiled:** 2

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.

## Kin Score — 71.2 / 100 (exemplar)

Scored 2026-10-09 under rubric 0.23.0.

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 65.0 |
| Contract Quality | 66.8 |
| Contract Governance | 35.6 |
| Operational Transparency | 68.4 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 73.2 |
| Access Clarity | 92.1 |

Regulatory layer — **Horizontal (data, software, accessibility, platform)**: 27.3 (matched via fallback).

## Agent readiness — 56.9 (agent-ready)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | documented |
| Auth Clarity | served |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | verified |
| OpenAPI Examples | verified |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | derived |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | conformant |
| Dry Run Mode | no |
| Delegated Identity | served |
| Protected Resource Metadata | verified |
| Dynamic Client Registration | yes |
| Agentic Commerce | no |

## APIs (17)

- **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.

## MCP servers (1)

- **Octen MCP** — Remote MCP server at mcp.octen.ai over streamable HTTP requiring an API key; 6 tools listed.

## Agentic access (1)

- **Octen Ai Agentic Access** — 18 operations · 15 acting

## Security (3)

- **Octen Ai Authentication** — apiKey/http · 2 schemes
- **Octen Ai Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC
- **Octen Ai Trust Center** — SOC 2 Type II (Certified), HIPAA (In progress)

## Plans (1)

- **Octen Ai Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Search, Web Search, AI, LLM, Embeddings, Content Extraction, Model Gateway, MCP, Agents, Deep Research, Company

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