# Phind

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/phind/  
**Website:** https://www.phind.com  
**APIs profiled:** 2

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.

## Kin Score — 14.8 / 100 (emerging)

Scored 2026-08-30 under rubric 0.17.2. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 14.8).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 59.3 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 5.3 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 9.5 |
| Commercial Clarity | 31.6 |
| Access Clarity | 31.6 |

## Agent readiness — 0.0 (human-only)

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

## Access

Freemium — onboarding: unknown, pricing: freemium, trial: no (confidence: medium).

## APIs (2)

- **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...

## Plans (1)

- **Phind Plans Pricing**

## Tags

AI Coding Assistant, AI Search, Developer Tools, LLM, Answer Engine, Open Weights, Discontinued

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