Pl@ntNet

API

Plant identification API that names the species from up to 5 photos of a plant

Price: Free 500 IDs a day; Pro plan paid
Access: API key (api-key query parameter)

About

Pl@ntNet's API returns the most likely plant species with confidence scores from 1 to 5 photos of one plant, across 50,000+ species, and has a separate plant disease endpoint. Plants only. Free for 500 identifications a day; run by a non-profit and hosted in Europe.

What you can do with it

Identify a plant's species from a photo of its leaf, flower, fruit or bark
Add plant identification with confidence scores to a gardening or nature app
Limit results to a regional flora for more accurate identifications

Get started

Create a free account and generate an API key
POST 1 to 5 photos of one plant to /v2/identify/all

Example

curl -X POST "https://my-api.plantnet.org/v2/identify/all?api-key=$PLANTNET_API_KEY" \
  -F "images=@/path/to/leaf.jpg" \
  -F "organs=leaf"

Details

Hosting: Hosted service
Available in: Worldwide
MCP server: None