Compare Dictionaries APIs
Deep dive into the technical specifications of 13 Dictionaries APIs. Use this side-by-side comparison to evaluate which service best fits your architectural requirements.
| API Identity | Score | Authentication | HTTPS | CORS | Speed | Difficulty | Brief |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chinese Character Web | 69 C Est. | No Auth | No | 165ms | Beginner | Chinese Character Web is a free API providing definitions, stroke counts, and pronunciations for Chi... | |
| Chinese Text Project | 72 B Est. | No Auth | ? | 1218ms | Beginner | Chinese Text Project offers a free API to access a massive digital library of pre-modern Chinese tex... | |
| Collins | 42 D Est. | API Key | ? | - | Intermediate | Collins Dictionary API gives developers access to comprehensive bilingual dictionary and thesaurus d... | |
| Free Dictionary | 87 A Est. | No Auth | ? | 35ms | Beginner | Free Dictionary provides programmatic access to definitions, phonetics, pronounciations, parts of sp... | |
| Indonesia Dictionary | 0 F Est. | No Auth | ? | 1ms | Beginner | Indonesia Dictionary provides programmatic access to indonesia dictionary many words via REST API. T... | |
| Lingua Robot | 77 B Est. | API Key | Yes | - | Intermediate | Lingua Robot is a dictionary API that provides word definitions, pronunciations, synonyms, antonyms,... | |
| Merriam-Webster | 72 B Est. | API Key | ? | - | Intermediate | Merriam-Webster's Dictionary API provides authoritative English dictionary and thesaurus data from o... | |
| OwlBot | 0 F Est. | API Key | Yes | - | Intermediate | OwlBot provides programmatic access to definitions with example sentence and photo if available via ... | |
| Oxford | 69 C Est. | API Key | No | - | Intermediate | The Oxford Dictionaries API provides access to the Oxford English Dictionary's extensive lexical dat... | |
| Synonyms | 72 B Est. | API Key | ? | - | Intermediate | Synonyms.com API provides synonym, antonym, and thesaurus data for English words, making it useful f... | |
| Wiktionary | 74 B Measured | No Auth | Yes | 4193ms | Beginner | Wiktionary's API gives free access to the entire collaboratively-edited dictionary, covering definit... | |
| Wordnik | 72 B Est. | API Key | ? | - | Intermediate | Wordnik is a comprehensive English dictionary API offering definitions, pronunciations, example sent... | |
| Words | 77 B Est. | API Key | ? | - | Intermediate | Words API gives you instant access to definitions, synonyms, antonyms, examples, and more for over 1... |