Orchid Labs

Orchid Labs is the company behind Orchid, an open-source, decentralized marketplace for bandwidth and a privacy-focused VPN. Orchid lets users pay for VPN service through nanopayments settled on a probabilistic payment layer built on Ethereum, using the OXT utility token and Orchid Accounts rather than traditional subscriptions. The stack includes an open-source multi-hop VPN client (Dart), the Orchid DApp for account creation and management, a decentralized directory of bandwidth providers running as smart contracts, and an L2/L3 nanopayment protocol. Backed by a16z, Sequoia Capital, DFJ, and Polychain, Orchid Labs focuses on decentralized privacy infrastructure rather than a conventional developer REST API.

Orchid Labs is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, VPN, Privacy, Decentralized, and Blockchain.

Orchid Labs’ developer surface includes documentation, engineering blog, signup flow, and 7 more developer resources.

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18.2/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5

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CompanyVPNPrivacyDecentralizedBlockchainCryptocurrencyNanopaymentsWeb3Networking

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Composite quality — 18.2/100 · emerging

Contract Quality 0.0 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 3.9 / 20

Commercial Clarity 6.8 / 20

Operational Transparency 0.7 / 13

Governance 0.0 / 12

Discoverability 6.8 / 10

Agent readiness — 0/100 · human only

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 15

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

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Get Started 2

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

DeveloperPortal

DeveloperPortal

SignUp

SignUp

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

TermsOfService

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Whitepaper

Whitepaper

Source (apis.yml)

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name: Orchid Labs
description: Orchid Labs is the company behind Orchid, an open-source, decentralized marketplace for bandwidth and a privacy-focused
  VPN. Orchid lets users pay for VPN service through nanopayments settled on a probabilistic payment layer built on Ethereum,
  using the OXT utility token and Orchid Accounts rather than traditional subscriptions. The stack includes an open-source
  multi-hop VPN client (Dart), the Orchid DApp for account creation and management, a decentralized directory of bandwidth
  providers running as smart contracts, and an L2/L3 nanopayment protocol. Backed by a16z, Sequoia Capital, DFJ, and Polychain,
  Orchid Labs focuses on decentralized privacy infrastructure rather than a conventional developer REST API.
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