Purplle

Purplle is an Indian beauty and personal care e-commerce marketplace headquartered in Mumbai, founded in 2012 by Manish Taneja, Rahul Dash, Suyash Katyayani and Anurag Neema. The platform sells skincare, makeup, haircare, fragrance, bath and body, grooming, mom and baby and wellness products across India, carrying a catalogue of 60,000+ products from 1,000+ brands alongside its own homegrown labels — Good Vibes, DERMDOC, Alps Goodness, NY Bae, FACES CANADA, Carmesi, Salm Skin and Juicy Chemistry. Purplle became an Indian unicorn in 2022 and is backed by ADIA, Kedaara, Premji Invest, Peak XV Partners, Goldman Sachs, Verlinvest, JSW Ventures and Blume Ventures. It operates a consumer website and mobile app plus 100+ offline stores, and publishes editorial guidance through Purplle Magazine. Purplle is a direct-to-consumer retailer: as of this profile it publishes no public developer program, API documentation, or machine-readable API contract. It does publish an llms.txt at its web root describing its catalogue for AI agents.

Purplle is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Beauty, Cosmetics, E-Commerce, and Retail.

Purplle’s developer surface includes engineering blog, support, and 6 more developer resources.

5.7/100 minimal ▬ flat Agent 5/100 agent aware saas Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-09-01 · rubric v0.17.2
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CompanyBeautyCosmeticsE-CommerceRetailMarketplacePersonal CareConsumerIndia

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scored 2026-09-01 · rubric v0.17.2
Composite quality — 5.7/100 · minimal
Contract Quality 0.0 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 0.0 / 20
Access Clarity 0.0 / 20
Operational Transparency 0.0 / 13
Contract Governance 0.0 / 12
Discoverability 5.7 / 10
Agent readiness — 5/100 · agent aware
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 7 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 4 / 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 Surface 0 / 5
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Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Purplle Plans Pricing

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PLANS

Rate Limits 1

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Purplle Rate Limits

0 limits

RATE LIMITS

Security Posture 1

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Purplle Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · DMARC

SECURITY

Resources

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Access & Security 1

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Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Company 3

The organization behind the API

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑
aid: purplle
name: Purplle
description: 'Purplle is an Indian beauty and personal care e-commerce marketplace headquartered in Mumbai, founded in 2012
  by Manish Taneja, Rahul Dash, Suyash Katyayani and Anurag Neema. The platform sells skincare, makeup, haircare, fragrance,
  bath and body, grooming, mom and baby and wellness products across India, carrying a catalogue of 60,000+ products from
  1,000+ brands alongside its own homegrown labels — Good Vibes, DERMDOC, Alps Goodness, NY Bae, FACES CANADA, Carmesi, Salm
  Skin and Juicy Chemistry. Purplle became an Indian unicorn in 2022 and is backed by ADIA, Kedaara, Premji Invest, Peak XV
  Partners, Goldman Sachs, Verlinvest, JSW Ventures and Blume Ventures. It operates a consumer website and mobile app plus
  100+ offline stores, and publishes editorial guidance through Purplle Magazine. Purplle is a direct-to-consumer retailer:
  as of this profile it publishes no public developer program, API documentation, or machine-readable API contract. It does
  publish an llms.txt at its web root describing its catalogue for AI agents.'
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
image: https://media6.ppl-media.com/mediafiles/ecomm/promo/1728010486_purplle-logo.svg
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/purplle/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: harvest:secondary-market
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-08-26'
modified: '2026-08-26'
tags:
- Company
- Beauty
- Cosmetics
- E-Commerce
- Retail
- Marketplace
- Personal Care
- Consumer
- India
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://www.purplle.com/
- type: About
  url: https://www.purplle.com/pr/about-us
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.purplle.com/magazine
- type: Support
  url: https://www.purplle.com/contactus
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.purplle.com/privacy-policy
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.purplle.com/terms-of-use
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/purplle-llms.txt
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/purplle-domain-security.yml
x-pointer-verification: 'Every www.purplle.com pointer above is taken verbatim from Purplle''s own published https://www.purplle.com/llms.txt,
  which is the provider asserting these URLs. None could be independently content-verified: the entire site is Angular client-rendered
  behind Radware Bot Manager. Unrecognised paths return a non-standard HTTP 247 JavaScript challenge (577 bytes), and the
  /pr/ route is a CATCH-ALL that answers HTTP 200 with a ~151KB shell and an EMPTY <link rel="canonical"> for any path, including
  the control /pr/not-a-real-page-xyz-9931. A 200 from this host is therefore not evidence a page exists, and no pointer here
  was credited on the basis of one.'
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-08-26'
  status: minimal
  artifacts_added: 6
  pass: local-v1
x-coverage:
  state: none
  reason: no-developer-program
  detail: Purplle is a direct-to-consumer beauty marketplace whose only machine-readable publication is a consumer-catalogue
    llms.txt; api.purplle.com answers HTTP 502 on every path, developer.purplle.com and docs.purplle.com do not resolve, and
    no OpenAPI, GraphQL, MCP or agent-card probe returned a contract on any host.
  evidence:
  - url: https://www.purplle.com/llms.txt
    status: 200
  - url: https://api.purplle.com/openapi.json
    status: 502
  - url: https://www.purplle.com/openapi.json
    status: 247
  - url: https://www.purplle.com/.well-known/agent-card.json
    status: 247
  - url: https://developer.purplle.com/openapi.json
    status: 0
  checked: '2026-08-26'

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