Searchcraft

Searchcraft is a developer-first search engine and search-as-a-service platform. Its REST API lets teams create indexes, ingest and manage documents, run fuzzy/exact full-text search with facets and relevancy tuning, query across multiple indexes via federated search, and manage synonyms, stopwords, and usage measurement. It ships as a managed cloud service (Searchcraft Cloud) and a self-hosted engine (Searchcraft Core).

Searchcraft publishes 10 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network, including Authentication API, Documents API, Federation API, and 7 more. Tagged areas include Search, Search as a Service, Full-Text Search, Indexing, and Developer Tools.

The Searchcraft catalog on APIs.io includes 1 Spectral governance ruleset.

Searchcraft’s developer surface includes authentication, documentation, engineering blog, and 8 more developer resources.

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25.1/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 21/100 agent aware Front door AI 6/6 dominant Heartbeat 100/100 alive saas Full breakdown ↓
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AccessFreemiumSelf serve⚡ Free to try

1 published contract

SearchSearch as a ServiceFull-Text Search Indexing Developer Tools

Kin Score

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Composite quality — 25.1/100 · emerging

Contract Quality 8.3 / 19

Developer Ergonomics 3.8 / 15

Access Clarity 1.0 / 15

Operational Transparency 1.2 / 10

Contract Governance 1.2 / 9

Discoverability 5.0 / 8

Regulatory Posture 0.9 / 15

Create-or-Update Ergonomics 0.0 / 10

Agent readiness — 21/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

Documented Reversibility 6 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 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 0 / 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 Well-Known Document 0 / 5

Pagination 5 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

MCP Tool Quality 6 / 6

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Agent readiness — checks not met, largest first (exact, from this profile):

MCP Server +12 pts — deployment.mode + probe verdict on the mcp/ manifest, not the pointer; an unprobed slug falls back to authorship Ask about this →
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Request/Response Examples +7 pts — share of operations carrying request/response examples; else an Examples / Code Samples link Ask about this →
Registration Without a Human +6 pts — a `registration_endpoint` in the served RFC 8414 / OIDC discovery document Ask about this →

8 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

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Access Clarity scores 6.4 — up to +18.7 composite points Ask about this →
Developer Ergonomics scores 25.0 — up to +15.0 composite points Ask about this →
Contract Quality scores 44.4 — up to +13.9 composite points Ask about this →

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Standards implemented 1

Standards this provider implements or carries. De facto ones are profiled and measured by the API Commons; formal ones come from the standards directory and are linked by the provider's own tags. The evidence column says how each claim was established — not that it was made.

OpenAPI

measured — observed by APIs.io (published)

APIs 10

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Searchcraft Authentication API

The Authentication API from Searchcraft — 2 operation(s) for authentication.

Searchcraft Documents API

The Documents API from Searchcraft — 4 operation(s) for documents.

Searchcraft Federation API

The Federation API from Searchcraft — 3 operation(s) for federation.

Searchcraft Indexes API

The Indexes API from Searchcraft — 4 operation(s) for indexes.

Searchcraft Measure API

The Measure API from Searchcraft — 6 operation(s) for measure.

Searchcraft Search API

The Search API from Searchcraft — 2 operation(s) for search.

Searchcraft Stopwords API

The Stopwords API from Searchcraft — 2 operation(s) for stopwords.

Searchcraft Synonyms API

The Synonyms API from Searchcraft — 2 operation(s) for synonyms.

Searchcraft Transactions API

The Transactions API from Searchcraft — 2 operation(s) for transactions.

Searchcraft Health Check API

The Health Check API from Searchcraft — 1 operation(s) for health check.

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Open Collections 11

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

Searchcraft Authentication API

OPEN COLLECTION

Searchcraft Authentication Documents API

OPEN COLLECTION

Searchcraft Authentication Federation API

OPEN COLLECTION

Searchcraft Authentication Healthcheck API

OPEN COLLECTION

Searchcraft Authentication Indexes API

OPEN COLLECTION

Searchcraft Authentication Measure API

OPEN COLLECTION

Searchcraft Authentication Search API

OPEN COLLECTION

Searchcraft Authentication Stopwords API

OPEN COLLECTION

Searchcraft Authentication Synonyms API

OPEN COLLECTION

Searchcraft Authentication Transactions API

OPEN COLLECTION

Searchcraft API

OPEN COLLECTION

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Searchcraft API pricing

Not yet checked against Searchcraft's own pricing page. Compiled by API Evangelist on 2026-06-21 from www.searchcraft.io/; confirm before you rely on a figure. A free plan or tier is listed.

Plan	Price
Searchcraft Cloud usage	—
Searchcraft Core (Self-Hosted) free	—
Enterprise enterprise	—

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Rate limits

Search Requests: see provider documentation requests
Ingest Requests: see provider documentation requests
Usage Metering: tracked via Measure queries

Compiled by API Evangelist, not yet checked against Searchcraft's documentation. Rate-limit details →

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Searchcraft Plans Pricing

3 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Searchcraft Rate Limits

3 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Searchcraft Finops

FINOPS

Spectral Rules 1

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs. Counts are the severity each rule declares, not results of running them.

Searchcraft API Rules

53 rules · 49 error-severity 3 warn-severity 1 info-severity

SPECTRAL

Security Posture 2

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Searchcraft Authentication

apiKey · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Searchcraft Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Agentic Access (API Evangelist recommendations) 1

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Searchcraft Agentic Access

45 operations · 27 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

AgenticAccess

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Authentication

Authentication

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

RateLimits

RateLimits

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Plans

Plans

FinOps

FinOps

Company 3

The organization behind the API

LinkedIn

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

Source (apis.yml)

aid: searchcraft
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/searchcraft/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
name: Searchcraft
kind: company
description: Searchcraft is a developer-first search engine and search-as-a-service platform. Its REST API lets teams create
  indexes, ingest and manage documents, run fuzzy/exact full-text search with facets and relevancy tuning, query across multiple
  indexes via federated search, and manage synonyms, stopwords, and usage measurement. It ships as a managed cloud service
  (Searchcraft Cloud) and a self-hosted engine (Searchcraft Core).
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: false
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - openapi
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: freemium
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: true
  public: false
  gated: none
  gated_source:
  - onboarding
  label: Freemium · Self-serve signup
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-13'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/searchcraft.png
tags:
- Search
- Search as a Service
- Full-Text Search
- Indexing
- Developer Tools
tags_raw:
- Search
- Search as a Service
- Full Text Search
- Indexing
- Developer Tools
created: '2026-06-21'
modified: '2026-06-21'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- aid: searchcraft:searchcraft-authentication-api
  name: Searchcraft Authentication API
  description: The Authentication API from Searchcraft — 2 operation(s) for authentication.
  humanURL: https://docs.searchcraft.io/api/index-management/
  baseURL: https://your-cluster.searchcraft.io
  tags:
  - Authentication
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/searchcraft-authentication-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.searchcraft.io/api/index-management/
  - type: PostmanCollection
    url: collections/searchcraft.postman_collection.json
  - type: OpenCollection
    url: collections/searchcraft.opencollection.json
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.searchcraft.io/api/document-management/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.searchcraft.io/api/search/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.searchcraft.io/api/synonyms/
- aid: searchcraft:searchcraft-documents-api
  name: Searchcraft Documents API
  description: The Documents API from Searchcraft — 4 operation(s) for documents.
  humanURL: https://docs.searchcraft.io/api/index-management/
  baseURL: https://your-cluster.searchcraft.io
  tags:
  - Documents
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/searchcraft-documents-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.searchcraft.io/api/index-management/
  - type: PostmanCollection
    url: collections/searchcraft.postman_collection.json
  - type: OpenCollection
    url: collections/searchcraft.opencollection.json
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.searchcraft.io/api/document-management/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.searchcraft.io/api/search/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.searchcraft.io/api/synonyms/
- aid: searchcraft:searchcraft-federation-api
  name: Searchcraft Federation API
  description: The Federation API from Searchcraft — 3 operation(s) for federation.
  humanURL: https://docs.searchcraft.io/api/index-management/
  baseURL: https://your-cluster.searchcraft.io
  tags:
  - Federation
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/searchcraft-federation-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.searchcraft.io/api/index-management/
  - type: PostmanCollection
    url: collections/searchcraft.postman_collection.json
  - type: OpenCollection
    url: collections/searchcraft.opencollection.json
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.searchcraft.io/api/document-management/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.searchcraft.io/api/search/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.searchcraft.io/api/synonyms/
- aid: searchcraft:searchcraft-indexes-api
  name: Searchcraft Indexes API
  description: The Indexes API from Searchcraft — 4 operation(s) for indexes.
  humanURL: https://docs.searchcraft.io/api/index-management/
  baseURL: https://your-cluster.searchcraft.io
  tags:
  - Index
  tags_raw:
  - Indexes
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/searchcraft-indexes-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.searchcraft.io/api/index-management/
  - type: PostmanCollection
    url: collections/searchcraft.postman_collection.json
  - type: OpenCollection
    url: collections/searchcraft.opencollection.json
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.searchcraft.io/api/document-management/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.searchcraft.io/api/search/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.searchcraft.io/api/synonyms/
- aid: searchcraft:searchcraft-measure-api
  name: Searchcraft Measure API
  description: The Measure API from Searchcraft — 6 operation(s) for measure.
  humanURL: https://docs.searchcraft.io/api/index-management/
  baseURL: https://your-cluster.searchcraft.io
  tags:
  - Measure
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/searchcraft-measure-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.searchcraft.io/api/index-management/
  - type: PostmanCollection
    url: collections/searchcraft.postman_collection.json
  - type: OpenCollection
    url: collections/searchcraft.opencollection.json
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.searchcraft.io/api/document-management/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.searchcraft.io/api/search/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.searchcraft.io/api/synonyms/
- aid: searchcraft:searchcraft-search-api
  name: Searchcraft Search API
  description: The Search API from Searchcraft — 2 operation(s) for search.
  humanURL: https://docs.searchcraft.io/api/index-management/
  baseURL: https://your-cluster.searchcraft.io
  tags:
  - Search
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/searchcraft-search-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.searchcraft.io/api/index-management/
  - type: PostmanCollection
    url: collections/searchcraft.postman_collection.json
  - type: OpenCollection
    url: collections/searchcraft.opencollection.json
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.searchcraft.io/api/document-management/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.searchcraft.io/api/search/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.searchcraft.io/api/synonyms/
- aid: searchcraft:searchcraft-stopwords-api
  name: Searchcraft Stopwords API
  description: The Stopwords API from Searchcraft — 2 operation(s) for stopwords.
  humanURL: https://docs.searchcraft.io/api/index-management/
  baseURL: https://your-cluster.searchcraft.io
  tags:
  - StopWords
  tags_raw:
  - Stopwords
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/searchcraft-stopwords-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.searchcraft.io/api/index-management/
  - type: PostmanCollection
    url: collections/searchcraft.postman_collection.json
  - type: OpenCollection
    url: collections/searchcraft.opencollection.json
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.searchcraft.io/api/document-management/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.searchcraft.io/api/search/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.searchcraft.io/api/synonyms/
- aid: searchcraft:searchcraft-synonyms-api
  name: Searchcraft Synonyms API
  description: The Synonyms API from Searchcraft — 2 operation(s) for synonyms.
  humanURL: https://docs.searchcraft.io/api/index-management/
  baseURL: https://your-cluster.searchcraft.io
  tags:
  - Synonyms
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/searchcraft-synonyms-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.searchcraft.io/api/index-management/
  - type: PostmanCollection
    url: collections/searchcraft.postman_collection.json
  - type: OpenCollection
    url: collections/searchcraft.opencollection.json
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.searchcraft.io/api/document-management/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.searchcraft.io/api/search/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.searchcraft.io/api/synonyms/
- aid: searchcraft:searchcraft-transactions-api
  name: Searchcraft Transactions API
  description: The Transactions API from Searchcraft — 2 operation(s) for transactions.
  humanURL: https://docs.searchcraft.io/api/index-management/
  baseURL: https://your-cluster.searchcraft.io
  tags:
  - Transaction
  tags_raw:
  - Transactions
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/searchcraft-transactions-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.searchcraft.io/api/index-management/
  - type: PostmanCollection
    url: collections/searchcraft.postman_collection.json
  - type: OpenCollection
    url: collections/searchcraft.opencollection.json
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.searchcraft.io/api/document-management/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.searchcraft.io/api/search/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.searchcraft.io/api/synonyms/
- aid: searchcraft:searchcraft-health-check-api
  name: Searchcraft Health Check API
  description: The Health Check API from Searchcraft — 1 operation(s) for health check.
  humanURL: https://docs.searchcraft.io/api/index-management/
  baseURL: https://your-cluster.searchcraft.io
  tags:
  - Health Check
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/searchcraft-health-check-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.searchcraft.io/api/index-management/
  - type: PostmanCollection
    url: collections/searchcraft.postman_collection.json
  - type: OpenCollection
    url: collections/searchcraft.opencollection.json
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.searchcraft.io/api/document-management/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.searchcraft.io/api/search/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.searchcraft.io/api/synonyms/
common:
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/searchcraft-agentic-access.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/searchcraft-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/searchcraft-authentication.yml
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/searchcraft-inc
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/searchcraft
- type: Website
  url: https://www.searchcraft.io/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://docs.searchcraft.io/
- type: Plans
  url: plans/searchcraft-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/searchcraft-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/searchcraft-finops.yml
- url: https://searchcraft.io/posts
  type: Blog
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com

Searchcraft API — frequently asked questions

Does Searchcraft have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 10 APIs from Searchcraft, including Searchcraft Authentication API, Searchcraft Documents API and Searchcraft Federation API, and 7 more.

Is there an OpenAPI specification for the Searchcraft API?

Yes. APIs.io indexes 10 OpenAPI specifications for Searchcraft, each linked for download from this page.

How do I authenticate with the Searchcraft API?

Searchcraft uses bearer-token authentication (apiKey · 1 scheme). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Searchcraft Authentication.

How much does the Searchcraft API cost?

APIs.io lists 3 pricing plans for Searchcraft, with each plan's price, limits and inclusions under Pricing on this page.

Is the Searchcraft API ready for AI agents?

Searchcraft has a Kin Score of 25.1 out of 100 (emerging) and an Agent Readiness score of 21.3 (agent-aware), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-13.

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