Care.com
Care.com is a two-sided online marketplace that connects families with caregivers across childcare, senior care, pet care, housekeeping, tutoring, and special-needs care, plus a "Care for Business" employer benefit used by companies such as Google, Starbucks, and Best Buy. Founded in 2007 by Sheila Lirio Marcelo, the company went public on the NYSE (CRCM) in 2014 and was acquired by IAC (IAC Inc.) in February 2020 for approximately $500 million, taking it private. Care.com is consumer- and enterprise-facing and does NOT publish a documented public developer API - there is no developer portal, no public API reference, and no self-service API keys. Its GitHub organization (github.com/caredotcom) contains only internal DevOps/infra tooling, not customer-facing API libraries. The only partner-facing programmatic surface is a private job-import integration inside Care.com Recruiting Solutions / Care for Business, used to sync job postings from an employer ATS; it is provisioned through a partnership agreement rather than openly documented. Note - Care.com is frequently confused with Caring.com (a separate senior-care directory owned by Caring, Inc. that DOES publish a JSON API at docs.caring.com); this entry is about care.com only. Access to the marketplace itself is via paid Basic and Premium memberships; there is no published API pricing.
Index entry only — little beyond a description and a link, and nothing machine-readable enough for an agent to act on without a human reading the site first.
API Evangelist profiles Care.com the way a machine reads it — 1 machine-readable artifact, pulled from the provider's own public surface and indexed so a developer, an analyst, or an AI agent can evaluate it against every other provider on the network.
Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — Care.com scores 8.3/100 (minimal), with a separate agent-readiness read of 0/100 (human only). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.
Kin Score
This is the API Evangelist rating — a single, repeatable read computed from the artifacts on this page. Green fill is points earned; the red track is points possible, so every bar shows earned-versus-possible at a glance.
Kin Score
How this is scored →scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
How we profile Care.com
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Care.com. For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.
Security Posture 1
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.
Resources
Every other property we hold for Care.com — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.
Build 1
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
Access & Security 1
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Operate 1
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Commercial 1
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 3
The organization behind the API
Other 1
Properties that don't map to a standard resource type
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