Software Advice

Software Advice is a free online service that helps businesses navigate the software buying process by providing software reviews, comparisons, and personalized recommendations. As a Gartner subsidiary founded in 1999, Software Advice covers over 300 software market categories with user reviews, ratings, and expert advisory services to help buyers find the best software solutions for their needs.

Software Advice publishes 1 API on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include B2B, Software Recommendations, Software Reviews, Analytics, and Gartner.

The Software Advice catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context and 1 Spectral governance ruleset.

Software Advice’s developer surface includes FAQ, engineering blog, YouTube channel, and 14 more developer resources.

🌐 Visit website 📡 Source on GitHub

23.5/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 3/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-08-25 · rubric v0.14.0

AccessFreemium

1 APIs

B2BSoftware RecommendationsSoftware Reviews AnalyticsGartner

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scored 2026-08-25 · rubric v0.14.0

Composite quality — 23.5/100 · emerging

Contract Quality 4.7 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 0.5 / 20

Access Clarity 7.4 / 20

Operational Transparency 1.7 / 13

Contract Governance 3.0 / 12

Discoverability 6.3 / 10

Agent readiness — 3/100 · human only

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 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 Surface 0 / 5

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APIs 1

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

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Software Advice Rate Limits

5 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

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

JSON Schema 1

Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.

Examples 1

Example request and response payloads for these APIs.

Design & Contract 2

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

JSONLDContext

JSONLDContext

Vocabulary

Vocabulary

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubRepository

GitHubRepository

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

VulnerabilityDisclosure

VulnerabilityDisclosure

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Learn 1

Tutorials, courses, talks, and written guidance

YouTube

YouTube

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Contact

Contact

FAQ

FAQ

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

TermsOfService

TermsOfService

Company 5

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

About

About

Blog

Blog

LinkedIn

Facebook

Facebook

Other 2

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

VendorListing

VendorListing

Source (apis.yml)

aid: software-advice
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/software-advice/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
apis:
- aid: software-advice:software-reviews-api
  name: Software Advice Reviews API
  description: Software Advice provides software review data, ratings, and recommendations through their platform. As a Gartner
    subsidiary, Software Advice aggregates user reviews and expert analysis across 300+ software categories to help businesses
    find and evaluate software solutions.
  humanURL: https://www.softwareadvice.com/
  baseURL: https://www.softwareadvice.com/
  tags:
  - Software Reviews
  - B2B
  - Software Recommendations
  - Analytics
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.softwareadvice.com/vendors/
  - type: Website
    url: https://www.softwareadvice.com/
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/software-advice/refs/heads/main/json-schema/software-advice-review-schema.json
  - type: JSONStructure
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/software-advice/refs/heads/main/json-structure/software-advice-review-structure.json
name: Software Advice
tags:
- B2B
- Software Recommendations
- Software Reviews
- Analytics
- Gartner
type: Index
accessModel:
  pricing: freemium
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Freemium
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/software-advice.png
access: 3rd-Party
common:
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/software-advice-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/software-advice-domain-security.yml
- url: https://www.softwareadvice.com/
  name: Software Advice Website
  type: Website
- url: https://www.softwareadvice.com/about-us/
  name: About Us
  type: About
- url: https://www.softwareadvice.com/contact/
  name: Contact
  type: Contact
- url: https://www.softwareadvice.com/vendors/
  name: Vendor Listing
  type: VendorListing
- url: https://www.softwareadvice.com/vendor-listing-faq/
  name: Vendor Listing FAQ
  type: FAQ
- url: https://www.softwareadvice.com/legal-page/privacy/
  name: Privacy Policy
  type: PrivacyPolicy
- url: https://www.softwareadvice.com/general-user-terms
  name: Terms of Service
  type: TermsOfService
- url: https://www.softwareadvice.com/blog/
  name: Blog
  type: Blog
- url: https://twitter.com/SoftwareAdvice
  name: Software Advice on X
  type: X
- url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/software-advice
  name: Software Advice on LinkedIn
  type: LinkedIn
- url: https://www.facebook.com/softwareadvice
  name: Software Advice on Facebook
  type: Facebook
- url: https://www.youtube.com/user/SoftwareAdvice
  name: Software Advice on YouTube
  type: YouTube
- url: https://github.com/api-evangelist/software-advice
  name: Software Advice GitHub
  type: GitHubRepository
- type: JSONLDContext
  url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/software-advice/refs/heads/main/json-ld/software-advice-context.jsonld
- type: Vocabulary
  url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/software-advice/refs/heads/main/vocabulary/software-advice-vocabulary.yml
created: '2026-03-24'
modified: '2026-05-02'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
description: Software Advice is a free online service that helps businesses navigate the software buying process by providing
  software reviews, comparisons, and personalized recommendations. As a Gartner subsidiary founded in 1999, Software Advice
  covers over 300 software market categories with user reviews, ratings, and expert advisory services to help buyers find
  the best software solutions for their needs.

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APIs 1

Software Advice Reviews API

Pricing Plans 1

Software Advice Plans Pricing

Rate Limits 1

Software Advice Rate Limits

FinOps 1

Software Advice Finops

Semantic Vocabularies 1

Software Advice Context

Spectral Rules 1

Software Advice API Rules

JSON Schema 1

Software Advice Review

JSON Structure 1

Software Advice Review Structure