17 October 2026: Paid plans
- Personal at $5 a month and Business at $20, each with a block of requests included and extra requests at $1 per 1,000. The free plan stays. The pricing page has a calculator.
- Upgrade, change plan or cancel from the billing page in the dashboard.
- Listing the whole database comes with Business.
15 October 2026: Meal Planner and glossary recipes
- A Meal Planner example plans a week of lunches and dinners.
- Each glossary term lists recipes from the API that use it.
14 October 2026: Kitchen glossary and Fridge Roulette
- A kitchen glossary explains cooking terms, techniques and equipment.
- Fridge Roulette, an example app that finds a recipe from what is in your fridge, can be tried on its own page and inside blog posts.
12 October 2026: Blog
- The Tiny Plates blog has guides to building with recipe data.
30 September 2026: Recipe API comparisons
- New pages compare Tiny Plates with other recipe APIs on price, limits, data and terms.
28 September 2026: Recipe sections
- Recipes keep their ingredient and step groups, such as "For the sauce".
27 September 2026: A new dashboard
- The dashboard has a home page, and the key and usage tables are easier to read.
21 September 2026: Data quality fixes and diets
- Unit conversion, rounding, nutrition totals, search and pantry matching were fixed after a data-quality audit.
- Diets are worked out from the ingredients, and a garnish no longer marks a recipe as containing an allergen.
19 September 2026: API keys on every request
- Every data endpoint needs an API key. Keys are free from the dashboard.
- Each account gets 50 requests a day and 300 a week.
17 September 2026: Allergen flags
- Every recipe says whether it contains each of the EU's 14 regulated allergens, plus the US definitions of wheat and tree nuts, with the ingredients behind each flag.
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16 September 2026: MCP guides and the shopping list example
- The docs explain how to connect Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, VS Code and other agents to the MCP server, and long tool results come in pages.
- A shopping list builder example shows recipes merging into one list grouped by aisle.
15 September 2026: MCP server
- The API is available as an MCP server, so AI agents can search and read recipes. Agents sign in with your Tiny Plates account.
14 September 2026: Spanish and Swedish
- The site has Spanish and Swedish versions, for builders working with recipes in those languages.
7 September 2026: Pantry search, scaling and shopping lists
- Pantry search finds recipes you can cook with what you have, and can filter by how many ingredients are missing.
- Scale a recipe to a different number of servings.
- Convert a recipe between metric and imperial units.
- Build one shopping list from several recipes.
- Nutrition per serving and for the whole recipe, with filters by calories, protein and nutrition presets.
- Ingredient substitutions.
- API keys are sent as bearer tokens.
6 September 2026: API reference and recipe search filters
- The developer portal has a full API reference, and every endpoint can be tried from the docs.
- Search recipes by total time, by the ingredients they use and by the ingredients they leave out.
- Filter recipes by the equipment they need.