Microsoft Bing
Microsoft Bing provides a comprehensive suite of search APIs that enable developers to integrate web, image, video, news, entity, and visual search capabilities into their applications. These APIs are part of Azure AI Services and provide intelligent search experiences powered by Bing's web-scale index.
Real signal across most facets with visible, nameable gaps — the contract exists but is thin, or the portal is good while governance and commercial terms are absent.
API Evangelist profiles Microsoft Bing the way a machine reads it — 25 machine-readable artifacts across 18 APIs, 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 — Microsoft Bing scores 49.7/100 (developing), with a separate agent-readiness read of 48/100 (agent ready). 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 Microsoft Bing
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Microsoft Bing. 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.
APIs 18
Each API is captured as its own OpenAPI definition — every operation, parameter, and response. This is the single most useful machine-readable description of what an API does, and it's what lets us score, lint, mock, and generate against it without asking the provider for anything.
Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.
Bing Image Search API
The Bing Image Search API enables developers to search for images across the web with advanced filtering options.
Bing Video Search API
The Bing Video Search API allows developers to search for videos across the web and retrieve video metadata.
Bing News Search API
The Bing News Search API returns relevant news articles from across the web for a given query.
Bing Entity Search API
The Bing Entity Search API returns structured information about people, places, organizations, and other entities.
Bing Autosuggest API
The Bing Autosuggest API provides intelligent search query suggestions as users type.
Bing Spell Check API
The Bing Spell Check API provides contextual spell checking using machine learning models.
Bing Visual Search API
The Bing Visual Search API enables image-based search by analyzing uploaded images or image URLs.
Bing Custom Search API
The Bing Custom Search API allows developers to create tailored search experiences by defining a custom view of the web.
Bing Local Business Search API
The Bing Local Business Search API returns information about local businesses based on search queries and location.
Microsoft Bing Autosuggest API
The Autosuggest API from Microsoft Bing — 1 operation(s) for autosuggest.
Microsoft Bing CustomSearch API
The CustomSearch API from Microsoft Bing — 1 operation(s) for customsearch.
Microsoft Bing EntitySearch API
The EntitySearch API from Microsoft Bing — 1 operation(s) for entitysearch.
Microsoft Bing ImageSearch API
The ImageSearch API from Microsoft Bing — 1 operation(s) for imagesearch.
Microsoft Bing NewsSearch API
The NewsSearch API from Microsoft Bing — 2 operation(s) for newssearch.
Microsoft Bing SpellCheck API
The SpellCheck API from Microsoft Bing — 1 operation(s) for spellcheck.
Microsoft Bing VideoSearch API
The VideoSearch API from Microsoft Bing — 1 operation(s) for videosearch.
Microsoft Bing VisualSearch API
The VisualSearch API from Microsoft Bing — 1 operation(s) for visualsearch.
Microsoft Bing WebSearch API
The WebSearch API from Microsoft Bing — 1 operation(s) for websearch.
Scroll within the panel for all 18 ·
Open Collections 1
Open, tool-agnostic collections carry the same runnable value as Postman without locking you to one client — the portable, forkable form of the same exercise.
Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).
Bing Search APIs
OPEN COLLECTIONPricing Plans 1
Pricing is part of the interface. Machine-readable plans tell you what a tier costs and includes before you commit — one of the six things the Kin Score reads for commercial clarity.
Published pricing tiers and plan structures.
Rate Limits 1
Rate limits are the difference between a demo that works and a production integration that doesn't fall over. Publishing them is an operational-transparency signal — and a hard requirement for any agent that plans its own throughput.
Documented rate limits and quota policies.
Microsoft Bing Rate Limits
RATE LIMITSFinOps 1
Cost, billing, and metering signals let a buyer model the financial operations of an API before it's live. We profile them for the same reason we profile pricing: the money is part of the contract.
Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.
Microsoft Bing Finops
FINOPSSecurity Posture 2
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.
Agentic Access 1
An x-agentic-access contract marks which operations are safe for an agent to run on its own and which need a human in the loop. It is the difference between an API an agent can use and one it can use safely.
Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.
Resources
Every other property we hold for Microsoft Bing — 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.
Get Started 2
Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call
Agent Surfaces 1
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Build 2
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
Access & Security 3
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Operate 1
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Commercial 3
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 1
The organization behind the API
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