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Purplle

Purplle is an Indian beauty and personal care e-commerce marketplace headquartered in Mumbai, founded in 2012 by Manish Taneja, Rahul Dash, Suyash Katyayani and Anurag Neema. The platform sells skincare, makeup, haircare, fragrance, bath and body, grooming, mom and baby and wellness products across India, carrying a catalogue of 60,000+ products from 1,000+ brands alongside its own homegrown labels — Good Vibes, DERMDOC, Alps Goodness, NY Bae, FACES CANADA, Carmesi, Salm Skin and Juicy Chemistry. Purplle became an Indian unicorn in 2022 and is backed by ADIA, Kedaara, Premji Invest, Peak XV Partners, Goldman Sachs, Verlinvest, JSW Ventures and Blume Ventures. It operates a consumer website and mobile app plus 100+ offline stores, and publishes editorial guidance through Purplle Magazine. Purplle is a direct-to-consumer retailer: as of this profile it publishes no public developer program, API documentation, or machine-readable API contract. It does publish an llms.txt at its web root describing its catalogue for AI agents.

agent aware

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.

Kin Score

API Evangelist profiles Purplle the way a machine reads it — 3 machine-readable artifacts, 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 — Purplle scores 5.7/100 (minimal), with a separate agent-readiness read of 5/100 (agent aware). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.

No API surface

Why this profile is thin

Purplle is a direct-to-consumer beauty marketplace whose only machine-readable publication is a consumer-catalogue llms.txt; api.purplle.com answers HTTP 502 on every path, developer.purplle.com and docs.purplle.com do not resolve, and no OpenAPI, GraphQL, MCP or agent-card probe returned a contract on any host.

This is an honest zero, not a gap in our research. Purplle does not appear to expose an API, so there is nothing here for us to index and nothing for them to fix.

What we probed
  • https://www.purplle.com/llms.txtHTTP 200
  • https://api.purplle.com/openapi.jsonHTTP 502
  • https://www.purplle.com/openapi.jsonHTTP 247
  • https://www.purplle.com/.well-known/agent-card.jsonHTTP 247
  • https://developer.purplle.com/openapi.jsonHTTP 0

Checked 2026-08-26. If this is out of date, tell us on the provider's repo and we will re-run the profile.

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. Every facet and dimension name is a link: it opens that measurement's page on APIs.io, where the rating runs across the whole catalog — the exact checks that feed it, how every profiled provider distributes on it, and who is at the top of it.

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scored 2026-09-01 · rubric v0.18.0
Purplle Kin Score — API readiness rating by API Evangelist

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How we profile Purplle

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Purplle. 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.

Pricing 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 things the Kin Score reads for access clarity — renamed from commercial clarity in rubric 0.12, because a free statutory interface has access terms and no commercial ones.

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Purplle Plans Pricing

0 plans

PLANS

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.

Purplle Rate Limits

0 limits

RATE LIMITS

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.

Purplle Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · DMARC

SECURITY

Resources

Every other property we hold for Purplle — 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.

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Company 3

The organization behind the API

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Where this information came from

This is an independent, third-party profile of Purplle, published by API Evangelist. We do not operate, host, resell, or support these APIs, and we are not affiliated with or endorsed by the company unless stated above. Everything here is built from publicly available information — the company's own site, developer portal, documentation, public repositories, and the specifications it publishes for public use. Nothing is obtained by breaching a system, defeating an access control, or using credentials.

The Kin Score and Agent Readiness rating are independently calculated assessments of a company's public API artifacts, scored against a published rubric. They are not certifications, endorsements, security assessments, or audits.

Corrections, re-scores, and removal are free — no partnership or purchase required, and you do not need to justify the request. A removed company is recorded as unrated, never scored zero for having asked. Acknowledgement within one business day; removal within two.

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