Phind

Phind was an AI answer engine and coding assistant built for developers, offering conversational, multi-step technical search on the web and through a VS Code extension. Founded in 2022 by Michael Royzen and Justin Wei (Y Combinator S22), Phind trained its own code models and briefly held the top-ranked open-source coding model on Hugging Face. The phind.com product was a consumer/subscription service and never shipped an official public or partner developer API - the only genuinely public developer artifacts were its open-weight models on Hugging Face (Phind-CodeLlama-34B v1/v2, Python-v1, and later Phind-70B). Community "Phind API" projects on GitHub and RapidAPI are unofficial reverse-engineered wrappers, not an official interface. Phind shut down on January 16, 2026; Pro subscribers received prorated refunds and could export chat history through January 30, 2026 before servers were wiped. This entry is a historical record; API surfaces are modeled, not officially documented.

Phind is listed with 1 API on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include AI Coding Assistant, AI Search, Developer Tools, LLM, and Answer Engine.

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0.0/100 minimal ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only saas Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-10-09 · rubric v0.23.0

AccessFreemium

1 API1 Not an API

AI Coding Assistant AI Search Developer Tools LLM Answer Engine Open Weights Discontinued Defunct Foundation Models

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scored 2026-10-09 · rubric v0.23.0

Composite quality — 0.0/100 · minimal

Contract Quality 0.0 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 0.0 / 17

Access Clarity 0.0 / 17

Operational Transparency 0.0 / 11

Contract Governance 0.0 / 10

Discoverability 0.0 / 9

Regulatory Posture 0.0 / 15

Agent readiness — 0/100 · human only

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

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

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

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APIs 2

Individual APIs this provider publishes. MODELED: a real API behind a partner or contract gate; there is no public reference, so API Evangelist drew its shape. NOT AN API: a product area with no API behind it, not counted.

Phind AI Answer Engine

Conceptual (modeled) surface for Phind's AI answer engine - the developer-focused conversational search that powered phind.com and the VS Code extension. Phind never published a...

NOT AN API

Phind Open-Weight Models

Phind's genuinely public developer artifacts - open-weight models published to the Phind organization on Hugging Face. These include the code models Phind-CodeLlama-34B-v1, Phin...

MODELED, NO PUBLIC REFERENCE

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Phind Plans Pricing

5 plans

PLANS

Resources

Commercial 1

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Plans

Plans

Company 3

The organization behind the API

LinkedIn

Website

Website

CrunchBase

CrunchBase

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

HuggingFace

HuggingFace

Source (apis.yml)

aid: phind
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/phind/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
name: Phind
kind: company
description: Phind was an AI answer engine and coding assistant built for developers, offering conversational, multi-step
  technical search on the web and through a VS Code extension. Founded in 2022 by Michael Royzen and Justin Wei (Y Combinator
  S22), Phind trained its own code models and briefly held the top-ranked open-source coding model on Hugging Face. The phind.com
  product was a consumer/subscription service and never shipped an official public or partner developer API - the only genuinely
  public developer artifacts were its open-weight models on Hugging Face (Phind-CodeLlama-34B v1/v2, Python-v1, and later
  Phind-70B). Community "Phind API" projects on GitHub and RapidAPI are unofficial reverse-engineered wrappers, not an official
  interface. Phind shut down on January 16, 2026; Pro subscribers received prorated refunds and could export chat history
  through January 30, 2026 before servers were wiped. This entry is a historical record; API surfaces are modeled, not officially
  documented.
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: false
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: freemium
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Freemium
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/phind.png
tags:
- AI Coding Assistant
- AI Search
- Developer Tools
- LLM
- Answer Engine
- Open Weights
- Discontinued
- Defunct
- Foundation Models
created: '2026-07-11'
modified: '2026-07-11'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- aid: phind:phind-ai-answer-engine
  x-published: false
  name: Phind AI Answer Engine
  tags:
  - AI Coding Assistant
  - AI Search
  - Answer Engine
  - LLM
  image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
  humanURL: https://www.phind.com
  endpointsModeled: true
  properties:
  - url: https://www.phind.com
    type: Website
  description: Conceptual (modeled) surface for Phind's AI answer engine - the developer-focused conversational search that
    powered phind.com and the VS Code extension. Phind never published an official public or partner developer API for this
    service; it was consumed only through the Phind web UI and editor extension. No official base URL, authentication, OpenAPI,
    or endpoint reference was ever documented. Any third-party "Phind API" on GitHub or RapidAPI is an unofficial reverse-engineered
    wrapper of the website's internal endpoints and is not represented here as official. This API is listed for discovery
    only and is marked endpointsModeled.
- aid: phind:phind-open-weight-models
  name: Phind Open-Weight Models
  tags:
  - Open Weights
  - Models
  - Code Models
  - LLM
  image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
  humanURL: https://huggingface.co/Phind
  endpointsModeled: true
  properties:
  - url: https://huggingface.co/Phind
    type: Documentation
  - url: https://huggingface.co/Phind/Phind-CodeLlama-34B-v2
    type: SourceCode
  description: Phind's genuinely public developer artifacts - open-weight models published to the Phind organization on Hugging
    Face. These include the code models Phind-CodeLlama-34B-v1, Phind-CodeLlama-34B-v2, and Phind-CodeLlama-34B-Python-v1
    (fine-tunes of Meta's Code Llama 34B, released August 2023 and briefly the top-ranked open-source coding models on HumanEval),
    plus the later Phind-70B, Phind-SVG, and Magic-Edit. These are downloadable model weights hosted on Hugging Face, not
    a hosted HTTP inference API operated by Phind; they can be self-hosted or run through third-party inference stacks. Listed
    as endpointsModeled because Phind exposed no official hosted inference endpoint for them.
common:
- type: Plans
  url: plans/phind-plans-pricing.yml
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/phind
- type: Website
  url: https://www.phind.com
- type: HuggingFace
  url: https://huggingface.co/Phind
- type: CrunchBase
  url: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/phind
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
x-status: defunct

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