# Swiftype

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/swiftype/  
**Website:** https://swiftype.com/documentation  
**APIs profiled:** 1

Swiftype is a hosted site-search and app-search platform founded in 2012, backed by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) and DCVC, and acquired by Elastic in 2017 where it now operates as Elastic Site Search. Swiftype gives websites and applications relevance-tuned full-text search, autocomplete, a managed web crawler, document indexing, result ranking/weighting controls, synonyms, and query and click analytics. Developers integrate through the Site Search REST API at https://search-api.swiftype.com/api/v1/ using a private auth_token for full read/write access or a public engine_key for read-only client-side search, with official client libraries for PHP, Python, Node.js, and Ruby published under the Elastic GitHub organization.

## Kin Score — 20.3 / 100 (emerging)

Scored 2026-08-17 under rubric 0.11.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 20.3).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 75.9 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 3.1 |
| Operational Transparency | 21.1 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 47.8 |
| Commercial Clarity | 0.0 |

## Agent readiness — 14.9 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| MCP Server | derived |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| 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 |

## Access

Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: medium).

## APIs (1)

- **Swiftype Site Search API** — REST API for managing Swiftype search engines, indexing documents, controlling the web crawler and domains, running search and autocomplete queries, and retrieving query/click a...

## MCP servers (1)

- **swiftype-mcp.yml**

## Security (2)

- **Swiftype Authentication** — apiKey/http · 2 schemes
- **Swiftype Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

## Tags

Search, Site Search, App Search, Full Text Search, Autocomplete, Web Crawler, Analytics, Developer Tools, Elastic

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