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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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28.7/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 23/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-08-25 · rubric v0.14.0
AccessFreemiumSelf serve⚡ Free to try
4 APIs
PlantsBotanyGardeningHorticulture

Kin Score

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scored 2026-08-25 · rubric v0.14.0
Composite quality — 28.7/100 · thin
Contract Quality 13.8 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 4.3 / 20
Access Clarity 3.2 / 20
Operational Transparency 1.0 / 13
Contract Governance 0.0 / 12
Discoverability 6.5 / 10
Agent readiness — 23/100 · agent aware
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10
Documented Reversibility 6 / 6
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10
Idempotency 9 / 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 4 / 4
Delegated User Identity 0 / 6
Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5
Registration Without a Human 0 / 6
Agentic Commerce Surface 0 / 5
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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 6

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

API Collection

OPEN COLLECTION

Perenual Care API

OPEN COLLECTION

Perenual Care Maps API

OPEN COLLECTION

Perenual API

OPEN COLLECTION

Perenual Care Pests API

OPEN COLLECTION

Perenual Care Species 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: '0.23'
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

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