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title: "Tiny Plates facts"
description: "Tiny Plates in plain facts: what the recipe API serves, what it costs, its limits, how to sign in, how the recipes may be used and how to reach us."
url: "https://www.tinyplates.dev/facts"
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Tiny Plates / Facts

# Facts

Everything worth knowing about the recipe API, one line each.

## At a glance

* **What it is:** A recipe API and MCP server for apps and AI agents.
* **Price:** A free plan with no credit card. Personal is $5 a month and Business $20, with extra requests at $1 per 1,000.
* **Limits:** Free: 50 requests a day and 300 a week. Personal includes 5,000 requests a month and Business 20,000\. Enterprise on request.
* **Recipes:** Thousands, gathered from public recipe pages.
* **Languages:** Recipes in English, Spanish and Swedish.
* **Ingredients:** Quantity, unit, name and preparation in separate fields, with canonical ingredient ids shared across languages.
* **Steps:** Numbered steps in the response.
* **Allergens:** True or false for each of the EU’s 14 regulated allergens, plus the US definitions of wheat and tree nuts. Informational only.
* **Search:** By meaning as well as wording.
* **Beyond recipes:** Pantry matching, shopping lists grouped by aisle, serving scaling, metric and imperial conversion, and substitutions.
* **Attribution:** Credit the source and link to the recipe’s source URL.
* **Caching:** Cache the recipes your users ask for. Copying the index in bulk is not allowed.
* **AI use:** Agents and LLM apps may call the API at run time. Training a model on the recipes, or bulk access, needs our permission first.
* **Uptime:** No uptime promise.

## Connecting

* REST API: `https://api.tinyplates.dev`, with the key sent as a bearer token.
* OpenAPI 3.1: [openapi.json](https://api.tinyplates.dev/openapi.json)
* MCP server: `https://api.tinyplates.dev/mcp`, signed in to with your account or an API key. See [connecting an agent](https://www.tinyplates.dev/docs/mcp).
* Keys: free from [sign-up](https://www.tinyplates.dev/sign-up).

## For agents

[/llms.txt](https://www.tinyplates.dev/llms.txt) lists every page worth reading, and [/llms-full.txt](https://www.tinyplates.dev/llms-full.txt) has the documentation in one file. Every page also has a Markdown copy at its address plus `.md`.

## Contact

Tiny Plates is a small, independent service. Write to [chris@pullpanda.io](mailto:chris@pullpanda.io) about anything: higher limits, bulk access, a takedown or a bug. The [changelog](https://www.tinyplates.dev/changelog) lists what has changed and the [status page](https://www.tinyplates.dev/status) shows whether the API is up.