# Recipe API

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/recipe-api/  
**Website:** https://recipe-api.com  
**APIs profiled:** 5

Recipe API is a B2B recipe and nutrition API providing structured recipes with comprehensive, USDA-backed nutrition data — 32 nutrients per recipe, structured preparation steps, and per-100g nutrition on individual ingredients. Beyond browsing and filtering an existing catalog by category, cuisine, dietary flag and macro, it will generate a new recipe with nutrition on demand, and generate food photography from a recipe. It positions itself as a lighter-weight alternative for developers who want clean recipe data without much setup, and publishes both an llms.txt and an official MCP server so that AI clients can use it directly. Self-serve from a free evaluation tier through to a paid scale tier, with a documented keyless quick-start call so a developer can try the API before signing up.

## Kin Score — 44.2 / 100 (developing)

Scored 2026-08-25 under rubric 0.14.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 44.2).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 81.5 |
| Contract Quality | 54.8 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 31.6 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 21.4 |
| Commercial Clarity | 69.7 |
| Access Clarity | 69.7 |

## Agent readiness — 42.8 (agent-ready)

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

## APIs (5)

- **Recipe API Discovery API** — Requires API key. No credit cost. Browse categories, cuisines, and dietary options.
- **Recipe API Image Generation API** — The Image Generation API from Recipe API — 1 operation(s) for image generation.
- **Recipe API Ingredients API** — Search ingredients free. Per-100g USDA nutrition by ID costs 1 credit.
- **Recipe API Public API** — No authentication required. Try `/api/v1/dinner` for a complete recipe example.
- **Recipe API Recipes API** — Browse recipes free. Full recipe detail costs 1 credit. Sample data shown inline.

## MCP servers (1)

- **Recipe API MCP Server** — An official Recipe API MCP server, documented for Claude and any MCP client. The JSON-RPC endpoint answers 401 rather than 404, so it exists and is auth-gated — the tool list co...

## Security (1)

- **Recipe Api Authentication** — 1 scheme

## Plans (1)

- **Recipe Api Plans**

## Tags

Recipes, Food, Nutrition, Ingredients, Data, Generative AI, MCP, Agents

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