# Pokémon TCG API

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/pokemon-tcg/  
**Website:** https://pokemontcg.io  
**APIs profiled:** 3

The Pokémon TCG API is a free, community-run REST API created and maintained by Andrew Backes that serves Pokémon Trading Card Game data - more than 20,000 cards across 170+ sets, from Base Set onward. Every card carries full gameplay data (attacks, abilities, weaknesses, resistances, retreat costs), format legalities, high-resolution card images, and daily-updated market prices from TCGplayer and Cardmarket. A Lucene-like query syntax supports keyword, phrase, wildcard, exact, range, and nested-field searches across every field. The API works without authentication at a reduced rate limit; a free API key from the developer portal, sent in the X-Api-Key header, raises the limits. Official SDKs cover Python, Ruby, JavaScript, TypeScript, C#, Kotlin, PHP, Go, Dart, and Elixir.

## Kin Score — 37.8 / 100 (thin)

Scored 2026-08-25 under rubric 0.14.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 37.8).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 74.1 |
| Contract Quality | 57.4 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 34.2 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 28.6 |
| Commercial Clarity | 39.5 |
| Access Clarity | 39.5 |

Regulatory layer — **Payments**: 18.8 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 25.8 (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 | partial |
| 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

Free · Open access — onboarding: open, pricing: free, trial: no (confidence: high).

## APIs (3)

- **Pokémon TCG API Cards API** — Individual Pokémon, Trainer, and Energy cards with full gameplay data, images, legalities, and market prices.
- **Pokémon TCG API Metadata API** — The controlled vocabularies used across cards - energy types, card subtypes, supertypes, and rarities.
- **Pokémon TCG API Sets API** — Trading card game sets (expansions), from Base Set onward.

## Agentic access (1)

- **Pokemon Tcg Agentic Access** — 8 operations

## Security (2)

- **Pokemon Tcg Authentication** — apiKey · 1 scheme
- **Pokemon Tcg Domain Security** — TLSv1.3

## Plans (1)

- **Pokemon Tcg Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Pokemon, Trading Cards, TCG, Gaming, Card Games, Collectibles, Card Prices

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