The Token Company

The Token Company builds LLM input-compression middleware. A single API call runs a prompt, a full chat conversation, or web-search results through their bear compression models (bear-2 latest, plus bear-1.2/1.1/1) to strip low-signal tokens before the text reaches a language model, cutting cost and latency while preserving output quality. It ships drop-in Python and Node.js SDKs that wrap the OpenAI, Anthropic, Vercel AI SDK, and OpenRouter clients so existing apps compress automatically, plus content-protection (ttc_safe) tags, per-app usage tagging, and a zero-data-retention policy. A Y Combinator (W26) company based in San Francisco.

The Token Company publishes 2 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network: Compression API and Search API. Tagged areas include Company, LLM, Artificial Intelligence, Prompt Compression, and Tokens.

The The Token Company catalog on APIs.io includes 1 Spectral governance ruleset.

The Token Company’s developer surface includes documentation, API reference, getting-started guide, engineering blog, support, pricing, signup flow, and 23 more developer resources.

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43.6/100 developing ▬ flat Agent 21/100 agent aware Front door AI 6/6 dominant Heartbeat 100/100 alive saas Full breakdown ↓
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1 published contract 2 Agent Skills

Company LLM Artificial IntelligencePrompt CompressionTokens Cost Optimization Developer Tools Middleware

Kin Score

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Composite quality — 43.6/100 · developing

Contract Quality 0.0 / 19

Developer Ergonomics 9.9 / 15

Access Clarity 12.2 / 15

Operational Transparency 2.6 / 10

Contract Governance 1.6 / 9

Discoverability 5.5 / 8

Regulatory Posture 4.1 / 15

Create-or-Update Ergonomics 0.0 / 10

Agent readiness — 21/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 8 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 5 / 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

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

MCP Server +12 pts — deployment.mode + probe verdict on the mcp/ manifest, not the pointer; an unprobed slug falls back to authorship
Agentic Access Contract +10 pts — agentic_access artifact present (x-agentic-access), graded by author
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)
A2A Agent Card +8 pts — a2a/-a2a.yml manifest, graded on conformance.grade against A2A 1.0.0
Rate-Limit Signaling +7 pts — OpenAPI responses document X-RateLimit-* / RateLimit headers (verified), else a rate_limits artifact or RateLimits link (documented)
Request/Response Examples +7 pts — share of operations carrying request/response examples; else an Examples / Code Samples link

9 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

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

Contract Quality scores 0.0 — up to +25.0 composite points
Contract Governance scores 18.2 — up to +9.8 composite points
Operational Transparency scores 26.3 — up to +9.6 composite points

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Standards implemented 1

Standards this provider implements or carries. De facto ones are profiled and measured by the API Commons; formal ones come from the standards directory and are linked by the provider's own tags. The evidence column says how each claim was established — not that it was made.

OpenAPI

measured — observed by APIs.io (published)

APIs 2

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

The Token Company Compression API

Prompt and conversation compression

The Token Company Search API

Compressed web search

Open Collections 2

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

The Token Company Compression API

OPEN COLLECTION

The Token Company Compression Search API

OPEN COLLECTION

Agent Skills 2

Packaged agent skills for driving this provider's APIs from an AI assistant.

Compress a chat conversation in one request

AGENT SKILL

Compress a prompt before an LLM call

AGENT SKILL

The Token Company API pricing

Prices published by The Token Company, read 2026-10-07 from thetokencompany.com/pricing.

Plan	Price
Pro	Get a quote Includes: All compression models, Personalized compression models, Priority support, Dedicated Slack support
Enterprise	Talk to us Includes: Everything in Pro, plus forward deployed engineering support, data residency control, advanced secur

Plan details, limits and sources →

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

The Token Company Plans Pricing

2 plans

PLANS

Service Levels 1

Uptime the provider promises or reports, as SLA4OAI. Read from its own pages; APIs.io runs no monitors.

The Token Company

SLA

FinOps 1

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

The Token Company Finops

FINOPS

Spectral Rules 1

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

The Token Company API Rules

54 rules · 52 errors 1 warnings 1 info

SPECTRAL

OpenAPI Overlays 1

Overlays applied on top of this provider's contracts. Each card says who wrote it: a document the provider publishes, or one API Evangelist derived or generated.

The Token Company Overlay

3 actions · update · the-token-company-openapi.yml

DERIVED

Security Posture 3

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

The Token Company Authentication

http · 1 scheme

SECURITY

The Token Company Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

The Token Company Trust Center

HIPAA

SECURITY

Resources

Get Started 3

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

DeveloperPortal

DeveloperPortal

GettingStarted

GettingStarted

SignUp

SignUp

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

APIReference

APIReference

Agent Surfaces 3

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

X-MCPServerCandidate

X-MCPServerCandidate

LLMsTxt

LLMsTxt

AgentSkill

AgentSkill

Design & Contract 5

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

ErrorCatalog

Conventions

Lifecycle

Conformance

DataModel

Build 3

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

Packages

Packages

SDKs

SDKs

Access & Security 4

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

TrustCenter

Compliance

Authentication

Operate 3

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support

Support

StatusPage

StatusPage

ChangeLog

ChangeLog

Commercial 4

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Plans

Pricing

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Overlay

Overlay

Source (apis.yml)

aid: the-token-company
name: The Token Company
description: The Token Company builds LLM input-compression middleware. A single API call runs a prompt, a full chat conversation,
  or web-search results through their bear compression models (bear-2 latest, plus bear-1.2/1.1/1) to strip low-signal tokens
  before the text reaches a language model, cutting cost and latency while preserving output quality. It ships drop-in Python
  and Node.js SDKs that wrap the OpenAI, Anthropic, Vercel AI SDK, and OpenRouter clients so existing apps compress automatically,
  plus content-protection (ttc_safe) tags, per-app usage tagging, and a zero-data-retention policy. A Y Combinator (W26) company
  based in San Francisco.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/the-token-company/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- y-combinator
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-21'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 18
  pass: local-v1
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: true
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: high
  source:
  - openapi
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: paid
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Paid
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-06'
  method: derived
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-21'
image: https://thetokencompany.com/favicon.ico
tags:
- Company
- LLM
- Artificial Intelligence
- Prompt Compression
- Tokens
- Cost Optimization
- Developer Tools
- Middleware
tags_raw:
- Company
- LLM
- Artificial Intelligence
- Prompt Compression
- Tokens
- Cost Optimization
- Developer Tools
- Middleware
- API
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
apis:
- aid: the-token-company:the-token-company-compression-api
  name: The Token Company Compression API
  description: Prompt and conversation compression
  humanURL: https://thetokencompany.com/docs
  baseURL: https://api.thetokencompany.com
  tags:
  - Compression
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/the-token-company-compression-api-openapi.yml
- aid: the-token-company:the-token-company-search-api
  name: The Token Company Search API
  description: Compressed web search
  humanURL: https://thetokencompany.com/docs
  baseURL: https://api.thetokencompany.com
  tags:
  - Search
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/the-token-company-search-api-openapi.yml
common:
- type: Plans
  url: plans/the-token-company-plans-pricing.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.thetokencompany.com/
- type: Overlay
  url: overlays/the-token-company-overlay.yaml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/the-token-company-domain-security.yml
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://thetokencompany.com/docs
- type: Documentation
  url: https://thetokencompany.com/docs
- type: APIReference
  url: https://thetokencompany.com/docs
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://thetokencompany.com/docs/quickstart
- type: Blog
  url: https://thetokencompany.com/blog
- type: Support
  url: https://thetokencompany.com/contact
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/TheTokenCompany
- type: Pricing
  url: https://thetokencompany.com/pricing
- type: SignUp
  url: https://app.thetokencompany.com
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://thetokencompany.com/terms-and-conditions
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://thetokencompany.com/privacy
- type: StatusPage
  url: https://status.thetokencompany.com/
- type: TrustCenter
  url: https://trust.thetokencompany.com
- type: Compliance
  url: https://trust.thetokencompany.com
- type: Packages
  url: packages/the-token-company-packages.yml
- type: SDKs
  url: packages/the-token-company-packages.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/the-token-company-authentication.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/the-token-company-problem-types.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/the-token-company-conventions.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/the-token-company-lifecycle.yml
- type: ChangeLog
  url: changelog/the-token-company-changelog.yml
- type: X-MCPServerCandidate
  url: mcp/the-token-company-mcp.yml
  note: 'Renamed from MCPServer 2026-09-03 (roadmap#247): the manifest self-describes as status: candidate — a tool list derived
    from the published API contracts, not an existing server. The scorer already read the manifest and reported mcp_server
    correctly; the MCPServer type was crediting the artifact-type surfaces with a server that does not exist.'
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/the-token-company-llms.txt
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/the-token-company-conformance.yml
- type: DataModel
  url: data-model/the-token-company-data-model.yml
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/_index.yml

The Token Company API — frequently asked questions

Does The Token Company have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 2 APIs from The Token Company, including The Token Company Compression API and The Token Company Search API.

Is there an OpenAPI specification for the The Token Company API?

Yes. APIs.io indexes 2 OpenAPI specifications for The Token Company, each linked for download from this page.

How do I authenticate with the The Token Company API?

The Token Company uses bearer-token authentication (http · 1 scheme). The details are profiled on APIs.io as The Token Company Authentication.

How much does the The Token Company API cost?

The Token Company publishes its prices; its Pro plan is Get a quote as of 2026-10-07. APIs.io lists 2 pricing plans for The Token Company, with each plan's price, limits and inclusions under Pricing on this page.

Is the The Token Company API ready for AI agents?

The Token Company has a Kin Score of 43.6 out of 100 (developing) and an Agent Readiness score of 21.0 (agent-aware), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.

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