Serchen

aid: serchen
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/serchen/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
name: Serchen
description: 'Serchen is a business-software marketplace and buyer review platform operated by Ketchell Ltd of Bournemouth,
  United Kingdom, trading as Serchen since 1997. It lists software products and IT service providers across hundreds of categories
  and industry hubs, collects and moderates first-hand buyer reviews, generates AI review summaries, and lets buyers compare
  products side by side. Vendors claim a free listing and can pay for Basic or Premium Membership, newsletter placement in
  Serchen Daily, category spotlights and guest posts. Serchen is a discovery and demand surface rather than a software vendor:
  it publishes no public API, SDK, webhook surface or developer portal, and its only machine-readable artifacts are a sitemap
  index and a robots.txt carrying Cloudflare Content-Signal directives.'
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/serchen.png
tags:
- Cloud Services
- Directory
- Software-as-a-Service
- Software Marketplace
- Reviews
- Business Software
- Vendor Discovery
- Comparison
- Lead Generation
tags_raw:
- Cloud Services
- Directory
- SaaS
- Software Marketplace
- Reviews
- Business Software
- Vendor Discovery
- Comparison
- Lead Generation
type: Index
access: 3rd-Party
apis: []
common:
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/serchen-rate-limits.yml
- type: Pricing
  url: https://www.serchen.com/blog/serchen-basic-vs-premium-membership
- url: https://www.serchen.com/
  name: Serchen Website
  type: Website
- url: https://www.serchen.com/get-listed
  name: Get Listed
  type: GettingStarted
- url: https://www.serchen.com/login
  name: Sign in
  type: Login
- url: https://www.serchen.com/blog
  name: Serchen Blog
  type: Blog
- url: https://www.serchen.com/terms
  name: Terms of Use
  type: TermsOfService
- url: https://www.serchen.com/terms
  name: Privacy Policy (the site footer Privacy link resolves to Terms of Use; Serchen serves no separate privacy page)
  type: PrivacyPolicy
- url: https://www.serchen.com/contact
  name: Contact Serchen
  type: Contact
- url: https://www.serchen.com/contact
  name: Contact Serchen
  type: Support
- url: https://newsletter.serchen.com/
  name: Serchen Daily newsletter
  type: Newsletter
- url: https://x.com/serchen
  name: Serchen on X
  type: X
- url: https://uk.linkedin.com/company/serchen
  name: Serchen on LinkedIn
  type: LinkedIn
- url: plans/serchen-plans-pricing.yml
  name: Serchen vendor membership tiers
  type: Plans
- url: llms/serchen-llms.txt
  name: Serchen llms.txt (generated)
  type: LLMsTxt
- url: well-known/serchen-robots.txt
  name: Content-Signal directives in robots.txt
  type: ContentSignal
- url: security/serchen-domain-security.yml
  name: Domain security posture
  type: DomainSecurity
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
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
accessModel:
  pricing: freemium
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Freemium
  confidence: medium
  probe_state: none
  source:
  - plans
  - rate-limits
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-06'
  method: derived
created: '2026-03-24'
modified: '2026-08-29'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-08-29'
  status: minimal
  artifacts_added: 5
  pass: local-v1
x-coverage:
  state: none
  reason: no-developer-program
  detail: 'Serchen is a software-listing marketplace with no developer surface at all: the site navigation and sitemap index
    carry no /developers or /api page, every OpenAPI, GraphQL, llms.txt and /.well-known/ path 404s on www.serchen.com, and
    robots.txt disallows /api/ because it is a Next.js internal route prefix rather than a published API.'
  evidence:
  - url: https://www.serchen.com/openapi.json
    status: 404
  - url: https://www.serchen.com/graphql
    status: 404
  - url: https://www.serchen.com/.well-known/api-catalog
    status: 404
  - url: https://www.serchen.com/.well-known/agent-card.json
    status: 404
  - url: https://www.serchen.com/llms.txt
    status: 404
  - url: https://www.serchen.com/sitemap.xml
    status: 200
  - url: https://www.serchen.com/robots.txt
    status: 200
  checked: '2026-08-29'