The Lens API
lens.org
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Overview
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The Lens offers Scholarly and Patent APIs with search, aggregation and schema endpoints, Swagger UI and a GitHub issue tracker. Access is requested and reviewed manually; trial access is non-commercial and custom plans are priced by use case, attribution and volume. Tokens via Authorization Bearer header or token parameter; rate-limit headers on every response.
Company
Verified- Legal name
- Not confirmed
- Headquarters
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- Founded
- Not confirmed
- Employees
- Not confirmed
- Ownership
- Not confirmed
- Status
- active
- Kind
- Data provider
- Website
- lens.org
- Support
- docs
API
Verified- Access
- Partner or approval only
- Style
- REST
- Auth
- Bearer token, API key (query)
- Base URL
https://api.lens.org- Features
- Bulk —Async —Webhooks —MCP —Sandbox —
- Rate limit
- Per-minute and per-month limits reported in x-rate-limit-* response headers
Pricing
Verified- Model
- Not confirmed
- List prices
- Contact sales
- Free tier
- Trial access for evaluation, non-commercial use only
- Checked
- Sep 29, 2026
Compliance
- SOC 2
- Not confirmed
- GDPR
- Not confirmed
- CCPA
- Not confirmed
- DPA
- Not confirmed
- Resale / storage
- Unknown until a written agreement says otherwise
Relationships
- Integrations
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- Alternatives
- None named by the vendor
Sources (3)
- Lens API access planschecked Sep 29, 2026
- Lens API documentationchecked Sep 29, 2026
- Lens API getting startedchecked Sep 29, 2026
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| Registries & Public Records | Not yet rated | – | – | 0 | View Grid |
API
The vendor's OpenAPI document as stored in the catalog, its operations, and the rate limits it publishes.
Rebuilt from the vendor's public docs, only what the pages show. Each operation links the page it came from; response shapes the docs don't spell out are left empty rather than guessed.
| Method | Path | Summary | Params | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| POST | /patent/search | Patent search | 0 | Docs |
| POST | /scholarly/search | Scholarly search | 0 | Docs |
Rate limits
Per-minute and per-month limits reported in x-rate-limit-* response headers Without a published limit GridRouter paces conservatively (1 request per second).