# Perenual

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/perenual/  
**Website:** https://perenual.com  
**APIs profiled:** 4

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.

## Kin Score — 28.7 / 100 (thin)

Scored 2026-08-25 under rubric 0.14.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 28.7).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 64.8 |
| Contract Quality | 55.1 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 7.9 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 21.4 |
| Commercial Clarity | 15.8 |
| Access Clarity | 15.8 |

## Agent readiness — 22.9 (agent-aware)

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

## Access

Freemium · Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: freemium, trial: no (confidence: high).

## APIs (4)

- **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

## Agentic access (1)

- **Perenual Agentic Access** — 5 operations

## Security (3)

- **Perenual Authentication** — apiKey · 1 scheme
- **Perenual Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · DMARC
- **Perenual Vulnerability Disclosure** — disclosure policy published

## Plans (1)

- **Perenual Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Plants, Botany, Gardening, Horticulture

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