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Perenual

Perenual provides a comprehensive plant database API offering access to over 10,000+ plant species, including details on care, watering, sunlight, edibility, toxicity, pests, diseases, and care guides.

Perenual publishes 4 APIs on the APIs.io network, including Care API, Maps API, Pests API, and 1 more. Tagged areas include Plants, Botany, Gardening, and Horticulture.

Perenual’s developer surface includes authentication, documentation, and 5 more developer resources.

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38.1/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 31/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-08-05 · rubric v0.9.1
AccessFreemiumSelf serve⚡ Free to try
4 APIs
PlantsBotanyGardeningHorticulture

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scored 2026-08-05 · rubric v0.9.1
Composite quality — 38.1/100 · thin
Contract Quality 15.7 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 3.9 / 20
Commercial Clarity 7.9 / 20
Operational Transparency 4.1 / 13
Governance 0.0 / 12
Discoverability 6.5 / 10
Agent readiness — 31/100 · agent aware
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10
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
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APIs 4

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

Perenual Care API

Plant care guides

Perenual Maps API

Hardiness map data

Perenual Pests API

Pest and disease data

Perenual Species API

Plant species data

Open Collections 1

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

Perenual API

OPEN COLLECTION

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Perenual Plans Pricing

3 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Perenual Rate Limits

5 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

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

Perenual Finops

FINOPS

Security Posture 3

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

Perenual Authentication

apiKey · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Perenual Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · DMARC

SECURITY

Perenual Vulnerability Disclosure

disclosure policy published

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

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

Perenual Agentic Access

5 operations

5 operations · 0 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation
Documentation

Agent Surfaces 2

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess
AgenticAccess
 LlmsText
LlmsText

Access & Security 3

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

VulnerabilityDisclosure
VulnerabilityDisclosure
 DomainSecurity
DomainSecurity
 Authentication
Authentication

Company 1

The organization behind the API

Website
Website

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: perenual
name: Perenual
description: Perenual provides a comprehensive plant database API offering access to over 10,000+ plant species, including
  details on care, watering, sunlight, edibility, toxicity, pests, diseases, and care guides.
type: Index
accessModel:
  pricing: freemium
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: true
  public: false
  label: Freemium · Self-serve signup
  confidence: high
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
position: Consumer
access: 3rd-Party
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/perenual.png
tags:
- Plants
- Botany
- Gardening
- Horticulture
created: '2025-02-24'
modified: '2026-05-19'
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/perenual/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
specificationVersion: '0.20'
apis:
- aid: perenual:perenual-care-api
  name: Perenual Care API
  description: Plant care guides
  humanURL: https://perenual.com/docs/api
  baseURL: https://perenual.com/api/v2
  tags:
  - Care
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/perenual-care-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://perenual.com/docs/api
- aid: perenual:perenual-maps-api
  name: Perenual Maps API
  description: Hardiness map data
  humanURL: https://perenual.com/docs/api
  baseURL: https://perenual.com/api/v2
  tags:
  - Maps
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/perenual-maps-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://perenual.com/docs/api
- aid: perenual:perenual-pests-api
  name: Perenual Pests API
  description: Pest and disease data
  humanURL: https://perenual.com/docs/api
  baseURL: https://perenual.com/api/v2
  tags:
  - Pests
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/perenual-pests-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://perenual.com/docs/api
- aid: perenual:perenual-species-api
  name: Perenual Species API
  description: Plant species data
  humanURL: https://perenual.com/docs/api
  baseURL: https://perenual.com/api/v2
  tags:
  - Species
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/perenual-species-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://perenual.com/docs/api
common:
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/perenual-agentic-access.yml
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/perenual-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/perenual-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/perenual-authentication.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://perenual.com
- type: Documentation
  url: https://perenual.com/docs/api
- type: LlmsText
  url: https://perenual.com/llms.txt
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com