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Searchable API

Yes. Yes. Searchable's REST API lives at app.searchable.com with sea_-prefixed Bearer keys, read, write and admin scopes, optional project binding, and an interactive playground in the docs. See docs.searchable.com/advanced/api-usage for pricing details.

Auth: OAuth 2.1 (PKCE + Dynamic Client Registration)MCP also availableLLMs: Claude (Desktop/Web), Claude Code, ChatGPT, Cursor, Windsurf
Open API docsTry Searchable
Public REST API documentedAgent-readiness 8/10
Facts verified 2026-07-30

What is the Searchable API?

Searchable exposes three programmatic surfaces and is unusually clear about which does what: MCP for AI assistants, a REST API for your own code, and a separate ingest API for pushing AI-bot traffic events in from your edge.

The REST API is base-URL app.searchable.com with keys created in Settings, Workspace, Integrations. Keys are prefixed sea_, shown once, and sent as Authorization: Bearer. Each key carries scopes (read for audits, issues and visibility data, write to add report generation, admin for everything) and can be bound to a single project, so a client-specific key cannot read the rest of your workspace.

Coverage runs from audits and issues (GET /api/v1/projects/{projectId}/audits with optional issue detail) through share of voice and competitors, visibility, sources and sentiment, prompt catalogues and raw prompt answers, articles, AI traffic, shopping visibility and AI ads, plus shareable report generation. The docs include an interactive reference with a playground, documented rate limiting, idempotency support and an error reference, which is more operational detail than this category usually bothers with.

For the broader picture: Searchable review, full pricing breakdown, .

HOOK IT TO YOUR STACK

Real Searchable API calls you'll write

searchable-apirest
#Get the top organic keywords for a domain
GET/v3/site-explorer/organic-keywords?target=mysite.com&limit=10
200 OK · 10 results
marketing automationpos 4 · vol 12.4k
email marketing softwarepos 6 · vol 8.9k
seo tools 2026pos 8 · vol 6.3k
best crm small businesspos 12 · vol 4.6k
Cron daily to track ranking shifts.
searchable-apirest
#Pull a competitor's backlink profile
GET/v3/site-explorer/backlinks?target=rival.com&limit=100
200 OK · 100 backlinks
Referring domains1,847
Domain Rating78
New backlinks (30d)+142
Lost backlinks (30d)-38
Pipe into a weekly Slack report.
searchable-apirest
#Trigger a fresh site audit
POST/v3/site-audit/scan
202 Accepted · scan_id: 7f2a
Statusqueued
Estimated finish~4 min
Webhook callbackconfigured
Last scan issues47 (12 critical)
TMB SCORE FOR SearchableAgent fit: 8/10
Read review →

Endpoints illustrative. Confirm exact paths against the live API docs before integrating.

Pricing, limits, and integration

The API is not priced separately, it comes with the subscription, and access is on every paid tier: $125/mo Pro, $400/mo Scale and $999/mo Enterprise, each about 20% cheaper billed annually ($100, $320 and $799 a month). Agencies have their own ladder from $250/mo. There is no free plan, and API keys cannot be created on the free tier, so the 14-day trial on Pro or Scale is the only way to exercise the API before paying.

The practical ceiling is not the API, it is your plan's data. Tracked prompts (100 on Pro, 500 on Scale, 1,250 on Enterprise), AI answers analysed a month (9,000, 45,000 and 112,500) and audits (200, 1,000 and 3,000) determine how much there is to read. Data retention matters too, 12 months on Pro against unlimited on Scale and above, so a scripted archive is worth building if you are on the entry plan. Rate limiting, idempotency and error handling are all documented, and the ingest API for AI-bot traffic is separate from the read API, with edge recipes for Vercel, Cloudflare, Netlify, Fastly, Akamai, CloudFront and Google Cloud, plus a Node middleware package.

How much does the Searchable API actually cost?

Verify on docs

Searchable publishes an API, but per-tier gating wasn't extracted automatically.

  • Most likely scenario: API access is either included in all paid plans, or it's gated to higher tiers and we need to verify on the live docs page.
  • Until verified, treat the question "which plan unlocks the API" as open. Don't budget on the assumption it's free with the cheapest paid plan.

API at a glance

API docs
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Auth method
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SDK languages
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OpenAPI spec
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Webhooks
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Structured outputs
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Which AI clients can read Searchable data?

Not every AI assistant supports MCP natively. Here's the per-client picture for Searchable specifically.

ClientSupportNotes
Claude (Desktop/Web)Via connectorsAdded as a connector on Claude.ai (web and mobile) and Claude Desktop; OAuth sign-in, no key pasting.
Claude CodeNative MCPDocumented client for the mcp.searchable.com/mcp streamable HTTP server.
ChatGPTVia connectorsSupported through ChatGPT developer-mode connectors.
CursorNative MCPStandard MCP config against the same server URL.
WindsurfNative MCPListed as supported alongside any other MCP-compatible client.

Searchable also has an MCP server

If you're wiring Searchable into Claude / Cursor / Codex, the MCP server is usually less code than the REST API.

See Searchable MCP page

What you can build with the Searchable API

Three personas, three different shapes of build. Pick the row that matches how you actually ship.

SOLO DEV / FOUNDER

Glue Searchable into your daily workflow

  • Pull a digest of ranking changes into your morning Slack
  • Trigger a one-off backfill when something looks off
  • Pipe data into your own SQLite for ad-hoc queries
Effort: A weekend, one Node or Python script
AGENCY / CONSULTANT

Sell Searchable reporting at scale

  • White-label Searchable data into client-branded dashboards
  • Run scheduled multi-account reports without logging into the Searchable UI
  • Cross-reference with the rest of the client's stack (CRM, analytics, ad spend)
Effort: 1-2 weeks, hits multi-tenant auth quickly
IN-HOUSE ENGINEER

Production pipelines for Searchable

  • Real-time sync into your warehouse on a cron
  • Custom alerts the dashboard's built-in alerting can't express
  • Backfill + idempotency handling for Searchable data older than the dashboard exposes
Effort: Multi-week project, expect rate-limit tuning

Limits and gotchas

  • No OpenAPI spec — you write typed clients by hand or use a third-party generator on the docs HTML.
  • No official SDK detected. Plan on hitting the API directly with your HTTP client of choice.
  • Rate limits: always read the docs page before scaling — the published limit is usually lower than the practical one and overages can be expensive.
8/10

Agent-readiness verdict

An 8: scoped keys, project binding, idempotency, a documented error reference and a playground add up to an API built by people who expected it to be used in production. The gaps are specific rather than structural. There is no first-party API client SDK (the one Node package is middleware for the traffic ingest pipeline, not an API client), no webhooks, so anything event-driven is a polling loop you own, and API keys need a paid plan, so there is no free tier to prototype against.

Searchable API FAQ

Should I use the API or the MCP server for Claude / Cursor / Codex?+
Prefer the MCP server for agent workflows — it's less code and pre-handles auth flows. Use the REST API for scheduled jobs, dashboards, and anything outside an LLM-driven flow.
Does Searchable have a public API?+
Not documented publicly as of the last check. Some tools expose private/partner APIs — contact sales if you need programmatic access.

Sources

Joonas Rotko
Joonas RotkoAuthor & Founder of That Marketing Buddy

10+ years in digital marketing. I review marketing software for AI-stack fit: real pricing, MCP and API support, and how cleanly each tool drops into an AI agent workflow, cross-checked against verified data and real user feedback.

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