# Software Advice

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/software-advice/  
**Website:** https://www.softwareadvice.com/  
**APIs profiled:** 1

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.

## Kin Score — 23.5 / 100 (emerging)

Scored 2026-08-25 under rubric 0.14.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 23.5).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 63.0 |
| Contract Quality | 18.7 |
| Governance | 25.0 |
| Contract Governance | 25.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 13.2 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 2.4 |
| Commercial Clarity | 36.8 |
| Access Clarity | 36.8 |

## Agent readiness — 2.5 (human-only)

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

## Access

Freemium — onboarding: unknown, pricing: freemium, trial: no (confidence: medium).

## APIs (1)

- **Software Advice Reviews API** — Software Advice provides software review data, ratings, and recommendations through their platform. As a Gartner subsidiary, Software Advice aggregates user reviews and expert a...

## Security (2)

- **Software Advice Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC
- **Software Advice Vulnerability Disclosure** — security.txt · contact published

## Plans (1)

- **Software Advice Plans Pricing**

## Tags

B2B, Software Recommendations, Software Reviews, Analytics, Gartner

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