Free food APIs for developers: the complete list
Every free food API worth knowing in 2026, with the real free limits, the license, and one request you can paste into a terminal.
Food tech
The wider food tech landscape: recipe, food and nutrition APIs compared, free datasets, alternatives to tools that shut down, and meal planning for everyday cooks. Honest, useful roundups, not sales pages.
Yummly is gone. Here's what to use instead
The Yummly API closed in 2019 and the app went offline in December 2024. Here are honest Yummly alternatives for cooks (Supercook, Samsung Food, Paprika, Plan to Eat) and for developers (Tiny Plates, Spoonacular, Edamam, TheMealDB).
Spoonacular alternatives: what to use instead, and what it costs
Points, a small free plan and a one-hour caching rule send a lot of developers looking. Here's what Spoonacular does well, the alternatives worth a look, and a field-by-field migration guide.
The best recipe APIs in 2026, free and paid, compared
An honest look at the recipe APIs still around in 2026: free tiers, prices, caching rules and data quality. Plus which one to pick for a hobby project, a production app or an AI agent.