SoftwareSuggest

SoftwareSuggest is a business software discovery and recommendation platform that helps organizations find, compare, and select the right software solutions for their needs. Founded in 2014 by AppItSimple Infotek Pvt. Ltd. and headquartered in Ahmedabad, India, the platform covers over 800 software categories, lists more than 50,000 software products, and hosts over 40,000 verified user reviews. The platform serves both software buyers looking to evaluate and purchase solutions and software vendors seeking qualified leads and market visibility. SoftwareSuggest does not currently publish a public developer API but operates as a data provider via marketplaces such as Datarade for business data products.

SoftwareSuggest is listed with 2 APIs on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Software Discovery, Business Software, Software-as-a-Service, Software Reviews, and B2B.

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

SoftwareSuggest’s developer surface includes documentation, developer portal, engineering blog, and 18 more developer resources.

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22.6/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 1/100 human only Front door AI 6/6 dominant Heartbeat 100/100 alive saas Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-11-13 · rubric v0.28.0 · Show this score on your site →

AccessFreemium

2 APIs1 Not an API

Software Discovery Business Software Software-as-a-Service Software Reviews B2B

Kin Score

Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-11-13 · rubric v0.28.0

Composite quality — 22.6/100 · emerging

Contract Quality 2.3 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 3.6 / 17

Access Clarity 6.5 / 17

Operational Transparency 0.8 / 11

Contract Governance 1.0 / 10

Discoverability 5.3 / 9

Regulatory Posture 1.9 / 15

Agent readiness — 1/100 · 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 Well-Known Document 0 / 5

Pagination 5 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

MCP Tool Quality 6 / 6

Regulatory Posture applies to this provider. Its tags matched the Horizontal (data, software, accessibility, platform) regime, so Regulatory Posture carries 15 points of the composite. If this regime is wrong for your business, say so on your provider repo — the applicability map is public and we will correct it.

Create-or-Update Ergonomics could not be measured. We hold no machine-readable contract for this provider to read, so there is nothing to measure a write surface against. Excluded rather than scored zero: never-measured and measured-empty are different facts. Publishing an OpenAPI is what makes this facet — and several others — scorable at all.

The six quality facets above are damped to 85 points between them, because the conditional facet above carries the other 15. That is why each facet's contribution is shown against a damped maximum: raising a quality facet moves the composite by 85% of its nominal weight, not 100%. The full arithmetic is at apis.io/rating/.

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

Machine-Readable Contract +18 pts — api_specs includes an OpenAPI document Ask about this →
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 →
Agentic Access Contract +10 pts — agentic_access artifact present (x-agentic-access), graded by author Ask about this →
Machine-Readable Auth +10 pts — a served openid-configuration/oauth-authorization-server carrying `issuer` (served), else the securitySchemes class in the provider OpenAPIs — bound (mutualTLS, DPoP, Signature) > negotiable (oauth2 authorizationCode/clientCredentials, openIdConnect) > bearer (http bearer, apiKey) Ask about this →
Idempotency +9 pts — OpenAPI mutating operations declare an idempotency key — a header, a request-body property, or a named de-duplication token whose own description says so (verified); else common[].type matches /idempoten/i (documented) Ask about this →
Stable Error Semantics +8 pts — OpenAPI $refs a shared error schema across 4xx/5xx responses (verified), else common[].type includes ErrorCatalog / ErrorCodes / DeclineCodes Ask about this →

12 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

Kin Score — facets with the most composite points still available (weight × headroom):

Contract Quality scores 10.7 — up to +22.3 composite points Ask about this →
Developer Ergonomics scores 21.4 — up to +15.7 composite points Ask about this →
Access Clarity scores 38.3 — up to +12.3 composite points Ask about this →

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Markets this provider is in provisional

The Kin Score Market layer reads a provider inside its market: its position, and how deep its integrations go. Depth is only comparable within a position. Provisional and unweighted: not part of the Kin Score or agent readiness.

Market	Position	Depth	Registered MCP server	Declares compatibility
Reviews, Ratings and UGC (review platforms and who integrates with them)	undeclared	-	-	-

Registered MCP server and declares compatibility are report only — not weighted. Undeclared means we found nothing we can read, so there is no number: we never infer integrations.

APIs 3

Individual APIs this provider publishes. MODELED: a real API behind a partner or contract gate; there is no public reference, so API Evangelist drew its shape. NOT AN API: a product area with no API behind it, not counted.

SoftwareSuggest Software Catalog

The SoftwareSuggest software catalog is a browsable and searchable index of over 50,000 B2B software products across 800+ categories. Users can filter by category, features, pri...

NOT AN API

SoftwareSuggest Affiliate Program

The SoftwareSuggest affiliate program is a CPL (cost-per-lead) based partner program where affiliates earn commissions by driving verified leads to the platform. Affiliates plac...

SoftwareSuggest Data Products

SoftwareSuggest appears on the Datarade data marketplace as a business data provider offering software market intelligence, product reviews, and B2B software adoption data. Orga...

SoftwareSuggest API pricing

Not yet checked against SoftwareSuggest's own pricing page. Compiled by API Evangelist on 2026-05-04; confirm before you rely on a figure. A free plan or tier is listed.

Plan	Price
Free freemium	Free
Professional paid	Free
Enterprise enterprise	—

Plan details, limits and sources →

Rate limits

Free Tier Default: 10 requests per minute
Free Tier Monthly Quota: 1000 requests per month
Professional Tier Default: 100 requests per minute

Compiled by API Evangelist, not yet checked against SoftwareSuggest's documentation. All 5 limits →

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

SoftwareSuggest Plans Pricing

3 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

SoftwareSuggest Rate Limits

5 limits

RATE LIMITS

Terms of Service 1

What its API terms permit and prohibit, quoted from its own page.

SoftwareSuggest

8 quoted statements, read from SoftwareSuggest's own page on 2026-11-10.

TERMS

Privacy & Data 1

Its role, the data it processes, retention and transfers, quoted from its own privacy page.

SoftwareSuggest

16 quoted statements, read from SoftwareSuggest's own page on 2026-11-10.

PRIVACY

Eligibility 1

Who may sign up and where, quoted from its own terms.

SoftwareSuggest

4 quoted statements, read from SoftwareSuggest's own page on 2026-11-10.

ELIGIBILITY

AI Preferences 1

Its stance on AI training, inference and agents, quoted from its own pages.

SoftwareSuggest

1 quoted statement, read from SoftwareSuggest's own page on 2026-11-10.

AI PREFS

Data License 1

How its data and outputs may be reused, quoted from its own terms.

SoftwareSuggest

1 quoted statement, read from SoftwareSuggest's own page on 2026-11-10.

LICENSE

FinOps 1

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

SoftwareSuggest Finops

FINOPS

Semantic Vocabularies 1

JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.

Softwaresuggest Context

36 classes · 4 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 1

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

SoftwareSuggest — jsonschema rules

5 rules · 3 warn-severity 2 info-severity

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 2

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

Product Listing

17 properties

JSON SCHEMA

User Review

14 properties

JSON SCHEMA

JSON Structure 1

JSON Structure definitions describing this provider's data shapes.

SoftwareSuggest Product Listing Structure

0 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Examples 2

Example request and response payloads for these APIs.

SoftwareSuggest Product Listing Example

17 fields

EXAMPLE

SoftwareSuggest Review Example

14 fields

EXAMPLE

Security Posture 1

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

SoftwareSuggest Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · DNSSEC · DMARC

SECURITY

Resources

Get Started 1

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Portal

Portal

Documentation 4

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

Documentation

AIPreferences

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

RateLimits

RateLimits

Commercial 6

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Plans

FinOps

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

UsageTerms

DataLicense

Company 4

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

LinkedIn

Facebook

Facebook

Other 4

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Affiliate

Affiliate

DataProcessing

DataProcessing

Eligibility

Eligibility

Source (apis.yml)

aid: softwaresuggest
name: SoftwareSuggest
description: SoftwareSuggest is a business software discovery and recommendation platform that helps organizations find, compare,
  and select the right software solutions for their needs. Founded in 2014 by AppItSimple Infotek Pvt. Ltd. and headquartered
  in Ahmedabad, India, the platform covers over 800 software categories, lists more than 50,000 software products, and hosts
  over 40,000 verified user reviews. The platform serves both software buyers looking to evaluate and purchase solutions and
  software vendors seeking qualified leads and market visibility. SoftwareSuggest does not currently publish a public developer
  API but operates as a data provider via marketplaces such as Datarade for business data products.
type: Index
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
  gated_conflict: 'x-api-posture: private but 2 published API entries'
  label: Freemium
  confidence: low
  source:
  - plans
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-13'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/softwaresuggest.png
tags:
- Software Discovery
- Business Software
- Software-as-a-Service
- Software Reviews
- B2B
tags_raw:
- Software Discovery
- Business Software
- SaaS
- Software Reviews
- B2B
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/softwaresuggest/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-api-posture: no-product-api
x-api-posture-basis: observed
created: '2025-01-01'
modified: '2026-07-25'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- aid: softwaresuggest:software-catalog
  x-published: false
  name: SoftwareSuggest Software Catalog
  description: The SoftwareSuggest software catalog is a browsable and searchable index of over 50,000 B2B software products
    across 800+ categories. Users can filter by category, features, pricing model, deployment type, organization size, and
    rating to shortlist candidates for evaluation. No public API is currently available; discovery occurs through the web
    interface and comparison tools.
  humanURL: https://www.softwaresuggest.com/all-categories
  tags:
  - Software Catalog
  - Discovery
  - Comparison
  - B2B Software
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.softwaresuggest.com/all-categories
  - type: Website
    url: https://www.softwaresuggest.com/
- aid: softwaresuggest:affiliate-program
  name: SoftwareSuggest Affiliate Program
  description: The SoftwareSuggest affiliate program is a CPL (cost-per-lead) based partner program where affiliates earn
    commissions by driving verified leads to the platform. Affiliates place tracking links or banners and receive monthly
    payouts above a $100 minimum threshold.
  humanURL: https://www.softwaresuggest.com/affiliates
  tags:
  - Affiliate Marketing
  - Partner Programs
  - Lead Generation
  - CPL
  tags_raw:
  - Affiliate Marketing
  - Partner Program
  - Lead Generation
  - CPL
  properties:
  - type: Website
    url: https://www.softwaresuggest.com/affiliates
- aid: softwaresuggest:data-marketplace
  name: SoftwareSuggest Data Products
  description: SoftwareSuggest appears on the Datarade data marketplace as a business data provider offering software market
    intelligence, product reviews, and B2B software adoption data. Organizations can contact SoftwareSuggest directly for
    data licensing arrangements.
  humanURL: https://datarade.ai/data-providers/softwaresuggest/profile
  baseURL: https://datarade.ai
  tags:
  - Business Data
  - Market Intelligence
  - Software Adoption Data
  - Data Marketplace
  properties:
  - type: Website
    url: https://datarade.ai/data-providers/softwaresuggest/profile
common:
- type: Plans
  url: plans/softwaresuggest-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/softwaresuggest-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/softwaresuggest-finops.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/softwaresuggest-domain-security.yml
- url: https://www.softwaresuggest.com/
  name: SoftwareSuggest Website
  type: Website
- url: https://www.softwaresuggest.com/all-categories
  name: All Software Categories
  type: Documentation
- url: https://www.softwaresuggest.com/vendors
  name: Vendor Listing
  type: Documentation
- url: https://www.softwaresuggest.com/vendors/guidelines
  name: Vendor Guidelines
  type: Documentation
- url: https://www.softwaresuggest.com/vendorsportal/index.php?r=site/login
  name: Vendor Portal Login
  type: Portal
- url: https://www.softwaresuggest.com/affiliates
  name: Affiliate Program
  type: Affiliate
- url: https://www.softwaresuggest.com/blog/
  name: SoftwareSuggest Blog
  type: Blog
- url: https://www.softwaresuggest.com/tos
  name: Terms of Use
  type: TermsOfService
- url: https://www.softwaresuggest.com/privacy
  name: Privacy Policy
  type: PrivacyPolicy
- url: https://x.com/softwaresuggest
  name: SoftwareSuggest on X
  type: X
- url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/softwaresuggest
  name: SoftwareSuggest on LinkedIn
  type: LinkedIn
- url: https://www.facebook.com/SoftwareSuggest/
  name: SoftwareSuggest on Facebook
  type: Facebook
- type: DataProcessing
  url: privacy/softwaresuggest-privacy-policy.yml
- type: UsageTerms
  url: terms/softwaresuggest-terms-of-service.yml
- type: Eligibility
  url: eligibility/softwaresuggest-eligibility.yml
- type: AIPreferences
  url: ai-preferences/softwaresuggest-ai-preferences.yml
- type: DataLicense
  url: data-license/softwaresuggest-data-license.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com

SoftwareSuggest API — frequently asked questions

Does SoftwareSuggest have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 3 APIs from SoftwareSuggest, including SoftwareSuggest Software Catalog, SoftwareSuggest Affiliate Program and SoftwareSuggest Data Products.

How much does the SoftwareSuggest API cost?

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

Is the SoftwareSuggest API ready for AI agents?

SoftwareSuggest has a Kin Score of 22.6 out of 100 (emerging) and an Agent Readiness score of 0.6 (human-only), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-13.

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