API overview

Preview — documented before it ships

This is the API’s spec, written as if it works. Endpoints return the shapes documented here. If you’re an early integrator and a response differs from a page, that’s drift — tell us. The consumer site is live; the API is Preview.

The surface for software. AI assistants, IDE plugins, and IT tools ask DoesItARM for a current, machine-readable verdict — native, Rosetta 2, a translation layer, or unsupported — instead of scraping a web page. No commercial API sells “is X native on Apple Silicon” today. This is the gap DoesItARM fills.

Read-only by design

Every operation is a query. Nothing writes, buys, emails, or changes state. That’s deliberate: a read-only tool can’t be hijacked into a harmful action, which dodges the MCP prompt-injection risk and makes the tool safe to drop into an autonomous agent’s toolset. Trust is the product.

Free data, paid capability

The verdict facts are free and published under CC BY 4.0 — look one up, cite it, build on it. You pay only for capability that the free single lookup can’t give you: bulk access, the change feed, a freshness guarantee, a redistribution license, or enterprise reports. We never meter the volume of the single lookup itself.

Capability	Tool	Tier
Look up one current verdict	lookup_verdict · GET /verdicts/{identifier}	Free
Search / disambiguate a title	search_titles · GET /titles	Free
Browse a category	list_by_category · GET /categories/{category}/verdicts	Free
The change feed (monitoring)	whats_changed_since · GET /changes	Paid
Bulk / export · SLA · license · enterprise reports	—	Paid

See Pricing for the plans and the machine-readable block agents read.

Pick your path

Quickstart One unauthenticated request returns a real verdict — no key, 60 seconds.

The Verdict object The one shape every endpoint returns, with the honesty fields explained.

MCP server The same four tools, callable directly by an AI agent.

API Reference Generated from the OpenAPI spec — every operation and schema.

Get access

Three doors. Each row states its cost — the word “free” never sits next to a door that takes a card.

Door	Who it’s for	Cost
Free signup	Devs who want a key with higher limits than anonymous	Free — no card
Early Access	Devs who want the paid capability axes now	Paid pre-sale — card pre-authorized, charged only on delivery
Apply — Enterprise	IT teams scanning a fleet against the Rosetta 2 deadline	Free to qualify → priced pilot

You don’t need any of them to start: the Quickstart works anonymously. Cross-link, never guess — the narrative “why” lives in How verdicts work; this section is the callable contract.