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Pricing
The base price is 5 eurocents per request.
It gets cheaper for high volumes of identification. Tell us what you need.
API Reference overview
The API is documented on plantid.docs.apiary.io; and there are three endpoints
- api.plant.id/identify – sends plant photos to our backend, queue the request and returns it’s identificator
- api.plant.id/check-identifications – checks if identification has been already proceed and eventually returns the result of the identification
- api.plant.id/confirm-suggestion – allows a client to confirm our suggestions (this gives us feedback)
- api.plant.id/usage_info – returns statistics about API limits and usage (how many prepaid identifications left)
Result of the identification is a list of records showing possible plant species (taxons). Each records contains:
- scientific name of the plant
- probability (certainty level)
- representative images of the suggested taxon (check “adaptive representative image” in FAQ)
- common name (not always present)
- url — link to the plant description, usually Wikipedia
Example code in Python and Java
Naive implementation is available on Github. All requests require an access key, ask for it here.
API for (human) expert based plant identification
We offer also (different) API for identifications made by human experts. Basically this is the access to FlowerChecker’s backend. The identification takes up to 24 hours and the price is 0.6 USD per request. If you are interested, ping us on business@flowerchecker.com