Orama

Orama is an open-source, in-memory search engine and RAG pipeline (full-text, vector, and hybrid search in under 2kb) plus Orama Cloud, a hosted REST platform for managing indexes, ingesting documents, running search, and building answer (RAG) experiences. The OSS engine is a JavaScript library; Orama Cloud is the managed API and dashboard layered on top.

Orama publishes 5 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network, including Answer API, Documents API, Indexes API, and 2 more. Tagged areas include Search, Vector Search, RAG, Open Source, and Search as a Service.

The Orama catalog on APIs.io includes 1 Spectral governance ruleset.

Orama’s developer surface includes authentication, documentation, and 8 more developer resources.

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26.6/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 20/100 agent aware Front door AI 4/6 moderate Heartbeat 74/100 slowing Full breakdown ↓
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AccessFreemiumSelf serve⚡ Free to try

1 published contract

Search Vector Search RAG Open SourceSearch as a Service

Kin Score

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Composite quality — 26.6/100 · thin

Contract Quality 9.0 / 19

Developer Ergonomics 3.4 / 15

Access Clarity 1.0 / 15

Operational Transparency 1.2 / 10

Contract Governance 1.2 / 9

Discoverability 5.0 / 8

Regulatory Posture 0.9 / 15

Create-or-Update Ergonomics 1.1 / 10

Agent readiness — 20/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 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

Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

Pagination 5 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

MCP Tool Quality 6 / 6

Regulatory Posture applies to this provider. Its tags matched the Horizontal (data, software, accessibility, platform) regime, so Regulatory Posture carries 15 points of the composite. If this regime is wrong for your business, say so on your provider repo — the applicability map is public and we will correct it.

Create-or-Update Ergonomics applies to this provider. This API accepts writes, so it carries 10 points of the composite. It is scored from the published contracts themselves: whether a caller can create-or-update in one call, whether the write accepts a key the caller already holds, and whether the response says which branch ran. Without that, every write needs a search-and-branch in front of it, and the first time that check is skipped a duplicate record is created. Scored against the observed mean rather than raw — a provider at the catalog average is unchanged by this facet, not penalised by it.

The six quality facets above are damped to 75 points between them, because the conditional facet above carries the other 25. That is why each facet's contribution is shown against a damped maximum: raising a quality facet moves the composite by 75% of its nominal weight, not 100%. The full arithmetic is at apis.io/rating/.

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Agent readiness — checks not met, largest first (exact, from this profile):

MCP Server +12 pts — deployment.mode + probe verdict on the mcp/ manifest, not the pointer; an unprobed slug falls back to authorship Ask about this →
Idempotency +9 pts — OpenAPI mutating operations declare an idempotency key — a header, a request-body property, or a named de-duplication token whose own description says so (verified); else common[].type matches /idempoten/i (documented) Ask about this →
Stable Error Semantics +8 pts — OpenAPI $refs a shared error schema across 4xx/5xx responses (verified), else common[].type includes ErrorCatalog / ErrorCodes / DeclineCodes Ask about this →
A2A Agent Card +8 pts — a2a/-a2a.yml manifest, graded on conformance.grade against A2A 1.0.0 Ask about this →
Request/Response Examples +7 pts — share of operations carrying request/response examples; else an Examples / Code Samples link Ask about this →
Registration Without a Human +6 pts — a `registration_endpoint` in the served RFC 8414 / OIDC discovery document Ask about this →

9 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

Kin Score — facets with the most composite points still available (weight × headroom):

Access Clarity scores 6.4 — up to +18.7 composite points Ask about this →
Developer Ergonomics scores 22.6 — up to +15.5 composite points Ask about this →
Contract Quality scores 47.8 — up to +13.1 composite points Ask about this →

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Markets this provider is in provisional

The Kin Score Market layer reads a provider inside its market: its position, and how deep its integrations go. Depth is only comparable within a position. Provisional and unweighted: not part of the Kin Score or agent readiness.

Market	Position	Depth	Registered MCP server	Declares compatibility
Official SDKs on JSR (JavaScript Registry)	distribution	9.6 (thin)	-	-

Registered MCP server and declares compatibility are report only — not weighted. Undeclared means we found nothing we can read, so there is no number: we never infer integrations.

Standards implemented 1

Standards this provider implements or carries. De facto ones are profiled and measured by the API Commons; formal ones come from the standards directory and are linked by the provider's own tags. The evidence column says how each claim was established — not that it was made.

OpenAPI

measured — observed by APIs.io (published)

APIs 5

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

Orama Open Source Engine

The open-source @orama/orama library (Apache 2.0) - a complete in-memory search engine and RAG pipeline that runs in the browser, on the server, or at the edge in under 2kb. Exp...

Orama Answer API

Generate retrieval-augmented (RAG) answers over an index.

Orama Documents API

Insert, update, delete, and bulk-replace documents in an index.

Orama Indexes API

Manage Orama Cloud index schema and deployments.

Orama Search API

Run full-text, vector, and hybrid search queries.

Open Collections 5

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

Orama Cloud Answer API

OPEN COLLECTION

Orama Cloud Answer Documents API

OPEN COLLECTION

Orama Cloud Answer Indexes API

OPEN COLLECTION

Orama Cloud Answer Search API

OPEN COLLECTION

Orama Cloud API

OPEN COLLECTION

Orama API pricing

Not yet checked against Orama's own pricing page. Compiled by API Evangelist on 2026-06-21 from orama.com/pricing; confirm before you rely on a figure. A free plan or tier is listed.

Plan	Price
Open Source free	—
Free free	—
Pro paid	—
Premium paid	—
Enterprise enterprise	—

Plan details, limits and sources →

Rate limits

Search Queries: unlimited requests
Answer Sessions: unlimited sessions
Embeddings Generation: unlimited embeddings

Compiled by API Evangelist, not yet checked against Orama's documentation. All 6 limits →

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Orama Plans Pricing

5 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Orama Rate Limits

6 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

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

Orama Finops

FINOPS

Spectral Rules 1

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs. Counts are the severity each rule declares, not results of running them.

Orama API Rules

64 rules · 62 error-severity 1 warn-severity 1 info-severity

SPECTRAL

Security Posture 2

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

Orama Authentication

http · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Orama Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Agentic Access (API Evangelist recommendations) 1

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

Orama Agentic Access

8 operations · 7 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 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

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 2

The organization behind the API

LinkedIn

Website

Website

Source (apis.yml)

aid: orama
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/orama/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
name: Orama
kind: company
description: Orama is an open-source, in-memory search engine and RAG pipeline (full-text, vector, and hybrid search in under
  2kb) plus Orama Cloud, a hosted REST platform for managing indexes, ingesting documents, running search, and building answer
  (RAG) experiences. The OSS engine is a JavaScript library; Orama Cloud is the managed API and dashboard layered on top.
deliveryModel:
  model: unknown
  license_evidence:
    repo: oramasearch/orama
    spdx: NOASSERTION
    stars: 10562
  open_source: unknown
  commercial: true
  callable_host: true
  label: Delivery model not determined — needs a product licence on record
  confidence: low
  source:
  - openapi
  - pricing
  - repository-unlicensed
  generated: '2026-09-25'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: freemium
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: true
  public: false
  gated: none
  gated_source:
  - onboarding
  label: Freemium · Self-serve signup
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-13'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/orama.png
tags:
- Search
- Vector Search
- RAG
- Open Source
- Search as a Service
tags_raw:
- Search
- Vector Search
- RAG
- Open Source
- Search as a Service
- Open-Source
created: '2026-06-21'
modified: '2026-06-21'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- aid: orama:oss-engine
  name: Orama Open Source Engine
  tags:
  - Open Source
  - Library
  - In-Memory
  tags_raw:
  - Open Source
  - Library
  - In Memory
  - Open-Source
  image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
  humanURL: https://docs.orama.com/open-source
  baseURL: https://github.com/oramasearch/orama
  properties:
  - url: https://docs.orama.com/open-source
    type: Documentation
  - url: https://github.com/oramasearch/orama
    type: SourceCode
  description: The open-source @orama/orama library (Apache 2.0) - a complete in-memory search engine and RAG pipeline that
    runs in the browser, on the server, or at the edge in under 2kb. Exposes JavaScript functions (create, insert, remove,
    search) for full-text, vector, and hybrid search; not an HTTP API.
- aid: orama:orama-answer-api
  name: Orama Answer API
  description: Generate retrieval-augmented (RAG) answers over an index.
  humanURL: https://docs.orama.com/cloud
  baseURL: https://api.askorama.ai/api/v1
  tags:
  - Answers
  tags_raw:
  - Answer
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/orama-answer-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.orama.com/cloud
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.orama.com/cloud/data-sources/custom-integrations/rest-apis
  - type: PostmanCollection
    url: collections/orama.postman_collection.json
  - type: OpenCollection
    url: collections/orama.opencollection.json
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.orama.com/cloud/data-sources/custom-integrations/rest-apis
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.orama.com/cloud/performing-search
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.orama.com/cloud/answer-engine
- aid: orama:orama-documents-api
  name: Orama Documents API
  description: Insert, update, delete, and bulk-replace documents in an index.
  humanURL: https://docs.orama.com/cloud
  baseURL: https://api.askorama.ai/api/v1
  tags:
  - Documents
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/orama-documents-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.orama.com/cloud
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.orama.com/cloud/data-sources/custom-integrations/rest-apis
  - type: PostmanCollection
    url: collections/orama.postman_collection.json
  - type: OpenCollection
    url: collections/orama.opencollection.json
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.orama.com/cloud/data-sources/custom-integrations/rest-apis
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.orama.com/cloud/performing-search
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.orama.com/cloud/answer-engine
- aid: orama:orama-indexes-api
  name: Orama Indexes API
  description: Manage Orama Cloud index schema and deployments.
  humanURL: https://docs.orama.com/cloud
  baseURL: https://api.askorama.ai/api/v1
  tags:
  - Index
  tags_raw:
  - Indexes
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/orama-indexes-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.orama.com/cloud
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.orama.com/cloud/data-sources/custom-integrations/rest-apis
  - type: PostmanCollection
    url: collections/orama.postman_collection.json
  - type: OpenCollection
    url: collections/orama.opencollection.json
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.orama.com/cloud/data-sources/custom-integrations/rest-apis
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.orama.com/cloud/performing-search
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.orama.com/cloud/answer-engine
- aid: orama:orama-search-api
  name: Orama Search API
  description: Run full-text, vector, and hybrid search queries.
  humanURL: https://docs.orama.com/cloud
  baseURL: https://api.askorama.ai/api/v1
  tags:
  - Search
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/orama-search-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.orama.com/cloud
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.orama.com/cloud/data-sources/custom-integrations/rest-apis
  - type: PostmanCollection
    url: collections/orama.postman_collection.json
  - type: OpenCollection
    url: collections/orama.opencollection.json
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.orama.com/cloud/data-sources/custom-integrations/rest-apis
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.orama.com/cloud/performing-search
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.orama.com/cloud/answer-engine
common:
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/orama-agentic-access.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/orama-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/orama-authentication.yml
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/oramasearch
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/askorama
- type: Website
  url: https://orama.com
- type: Documentation
  url: https://docs.orama.com
- type: Plans
  url: plans/orama-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/orama-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/orama-finops.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com

Orama API — frequently asked questions

Does Orama have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 5 APIs from Orama, including Orama Open Source Engine, Orama Answer API and Orama Documents API, and 2 more.

Is there an OpenAPI specification for the Orama API?

Yes. APIs.io indexes 4 OpenAPI specifications for Orama, each linked for download from this page.

How do I authenticate with the Orama API?

Orama uses bearer-token authentication (http · 1 scheme). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Orama Authentication.

How much does the Orama API cost?

APIs.io lists 5 pricing plans for Orama, with each plan's price, limits and inclusions under Pricing on this page.

Is the Orama API ready for AI agents?

Orama has a Kin Score of 26.6 out of 100 (thin) and an Agent Readiness score of 19.6 (agent-aware), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-13.

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