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 publishes 2 APIs on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include AI Coding Assistant, AI Search, Developer Tools, LLM, and Answer Engine.

14.3/100 minimal ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-20 · rubric v0.4
2 APIs 0 Features
AI Coding AssistantAI SearchDeveloper ToolsLLMAnswer EngineOpen WeightsDiscontinued

API Rating

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scored 2026-07-20 · rubric v0.4
Composite quality — 14.3/100 · minimal
Contract Quality 0.0 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 0.0 / 20
Commercial Clarity 6.3 / 20
Operational Transparency 0.0 / 13
Governance 0.0 / 12
Discoverability 8.0 / 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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APIs

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...

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...

Pricing Plans

Phind Plans Pricing

5 plans

PLANS

Resources

Commercial 1

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Company 3

The organization behind the API

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑
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.
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
tags:
- AI Coding Assistant
- AI Search
- Developer Tools
- LLM
- Answer Engine
- Open Weights
- Discontinued
created: '2026-07-11'
modified: '2026-07-11'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
- aid: phind:phind-ai-answer-engine
  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