# The Hog

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/the-hog/  
**Website:** https://platform.thehog.ai/  
**APIs profiled:** 8

The Hog is a real-time web intelligence API for AI agents and go-to-market teams, founded in 2025 (Y Combinator F25) by Hudson Liao and Paulo Nascimento in San Francisco. One credit-based REST API unifies company and people search, contact enrichment, LLM-powered deep research, multi-platform web and social scraping (LinkedIn, X, Reddit, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, Facebook), SEO intelligence, and recurring signal monitors. Fast calls return synchronously; long-running jobs run asynchronously with polling, organization-scoped idempotency keys, cursor pagination, request-id tracing, and a consistent JSON error envelope. A hosted OAuth MCP server and a local stdio MCP package expose the same capabilities to agents.

## Kin Score — 56.8 / 100 (strong)

Scored 2026-08-17 under rubric 0.11.0. Trend: rising (+6.9 from 49.9).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 92.6 |
| Contract Quality | 61.2 |
| Governance | 11.5 |
| Operational Transparency | 26.3 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 71.2 |
| Commercial Clarity | 65.8 |

## Agent readiness — 67.8 (agent-native)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| MCP Server | yes |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| Idempotency | verified |
| Error Semantics | verified |
| OpenAPI Examples | verified |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | derived |
| Well Known Catalog | yes |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Waitlist (beta launch full) — onboarding: unknown, pricing: unknown, trial: yes (confidence: high).

## APIs (8)

- **The Hog Company Search API** — The Company Search API from The Hog — 1 operation(s) for company search.
- **The Hog Deep Research API** — The Deep Research API from The Hog — 1 operation(s) for deep research.
- **The Hog Enrichments API** — The Enrichments API from The Hog — 2 operation(s) for enrichments.
- **The Hog Monitors API** — The Monitors API from The Hog — 4 operation(s) for monitors.
- **The Hog Operations API** — The Operations API from The Hog — 2 operation(s) for operations.
- **The Hog People Search API** — The People Search API from The Hog — 2 operation(s) for people search.
- **The Hog Scrapers API** — The Scrapers API from The Hog — 34 operation(s) for scrapers.
- **The Hog Search API** — The Search API from The Hog — 2 operation(s) for search.

## MCP servers (1)

- **the-hog-mcp.yml**

## Agentic access (1)

- **The Hog Agentic Access** — 52 operations · 44 acting

## Security (2)

- **The Hog Authentication** — apiKey · 2 schemes
- **The Hog Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · DMARC

## Plans (1)

- **The Hog Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Company, GTM Intelligence, Sales Intelligence, Data Enrichment, Web Scraping, People Data, Company Data, Deep Research, Social Monitoring, MCP, AI Agents, Y Combinator

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