Food & Nutrition Database API

High-quality data on over 875,000 grocery products, branded foods, and raw ingredients in the United States, and all around the world.

Get started quickly by using one of our GitHub SDKs.

	Limited	Standard Most Popular	Premium
Base Price	$0/mo.	$25/mo.	$299/mo.
Free Trial Cancel any time	-	5 days	5 days
Technical Details	Get Started	Start Free Trial	Start Free Trial
Per Request Fee	$0.01	$0.001	-
Requests	30 per minute	100 per minute	Unlimited
Per Monthly Active User	-	-
Data Overview	Limited	Standard	Premium
800,000+ Branded and Grocery Foods
700,000+ Unique Barcodes/UPCs
34,000+ Generic Foods
30,000+ Ingredient Foods
Diet Labels
API Endpoints	Limited	Standard	Premium
Barcode/UPC Lookup
Name Search		10-second rate limit
Ingredient Search		10-second rate limit
Custom Search		10-second rate limit
API Guidelines	Limited	Standard	Premium
Data Caching & Storage
Commercial Use
Attribution	Required	Required	Contact Us
Support	Tickets	Tickets	Priority Tickets + Email
Contract	Month to Month	Month to Month	Month to Month
Cancellation	Any time	Any time	Any time
Refund	Prorated	Prorated	Prorated
Base Price	$0/mo.	$25/mo.	$299/mo.
	Get Started	Start Free Trial	Start Free Trial

Data We Provide

We take pride in being recognized as one of the industry leaders for grocery, branded, and raw food data. Our data is updated on a regular basis and is continually audited to ensure accuracy.

Example API Response Food Data Licensing

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Branded Foods, Generic Foods, Raw Ingredients, Nutrition, Diet Labels, Barcodes, Ingredients...

Grocery Foods

Grocery Food Photos

Allergens

Food Specific Measurements

Brands

Components

Portions

Trace Ingredients

Countries

Tools & Resources

Our API was built by developers, for developers, and follows OpenAPI specifications. We are committed to providing resources, so you get the most out of our database.

Awards & Accolades

We are extremely proud to be recognized as one of the industry leaders for high-quality food data.

Featured on Product Hunt on February 2, 2020 as the #3 Product of the Day.

API World, a tech conference in Silicon Valley, recognized us as being one of the Top 300 API Industry Innovations.

Programmable Web recognizes us as one of the Top 7 Nutrition APIs, one of the Top 10 Most Popular Food APIs, and one of the Top 10 Barcode APIs.

Our API has been used by students from the above universities for research projects.

A Monthly Active User (MAU) only applies to Premium subscriptions and is defined as a unique user on your platform that accessed data from our API since the start of the current billing period.

Let's say you have a barcode scanner in your app, and it is set up to hit our API every time it gets used. Every time a user scans a barcode you must include a user ID with your API call. This can be any string of letters or numbers and doesn't have to relate back to your own database. If you have 1,000 users but only 10 of them scan a barcode you have 10 Monthly Active Users.

When the time comes to pay your bill we count how many of your users have accessed our API since the start of the current billing period.

Tier	Monthly Active Users	Price
Tier 1	<=2,500,000	$0.001 each
Tier 2	2,500,001 - 15,000,000	$0.0001 each
Tier 3	>15,000,000	$0.00001 each

Examples

Let's say you have 20,000,000 Monthly Active Users accessing our API. The amount you would be paid would be calculated by going from tier to tier. You would get charged $0.001 for 2,500,000 of them, $0.0001 for 15,000,000 of them, and $0.00001 for the remaining that spill over into the third tier.

The bill for the example above would be $4,324 ($299 base price + $4,025 MAU). This is an extreme example, but it is good to acknowledge how our billing scales as your platform grows.

Now let's say that your platform has 2,500 Monthly Active Users as defined above. Your bill would be $301.50 ($299 base price + (2,500 * $0.001)) for 2,500 MAU.

Use our interactive Cost Calculator to estimate your bill.

All of this only applies to subscribers of the Premium plan.

More about Monthly Active Users

Premium subscribers must pass a user_id URL parameter with each call made to any of our API endpoints. The ID you provide can be an arbitrary string of letters or numbers you assign to a user when they access our API and is only used for billing purposes. When a user on your platform triggers a call to our API the ID you assign them must be passed to our endpoint.

An example API call would look something like this:

[ENDPOINT].php?api_key=[YOUR API KEY]&code=[BARCODE]&user_id=[USER ID]

Knowledge Base	Documentation	Food Database API	Account
Attribution	Cost Calculator	Food Data Licensing	Support
Terms & License	Database Search	API Status	Recently Updated
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