Discover insect.id
Integrate AI-based insect identification API and identify insects and other terrestrial invertebrates from images in bulk.
Your comprehensive guide to the insect kingdom
Insect.ID API provides extensive insect data, advanced identification tools, and multilingual capabilities for developers and R&D teams to create innovative, user-centric experiences.
more than 14,000 classes of insects, spiders and snails
Representative images
Danger, role and conservation status
Wikipedia link
Multilingual species description and common names
Unparalleled insect data & precision at your fingertips
With a wide-ranging species database and impressive accuracy, your users will enjoy exploring and understanding the realm of insects like never before.
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Pioneering a brighter tomorrow
Our commitment to excellence drives us to continuously refine and enhance the insect.id API. In 2024, we have an exciting lineup of improvements designed to enrich your experience:
Production release (September 2024): You will meet the new insect.id with the following improvements:
- Richer insights: Expanding our database to include valuable information like toxicity and pest risk.
- Accuracy upgrades: Boosting performance through new training data and optimized model architecture.
- More species: Including additional species so even more people can benefit from the service.
Kindwise meets LLMs (winter 2024): We will launch a beta version of Insect.id that integrates large language models (LLMs), for example, to provide the option to ask questions to refine identification results.
Elevate your products with insect.id
It's time to supercharge your applications with our groundbreaking insect classification technology. Captivate your end-users and redefine their experience in the enthralling world of insects. Your journey starts here.
FAQs
Find answers to common questions about insect.id API here. If you need further information, feel free to reach out.
We can currently identify more than 14,000 classes of terrestrial invertebrates including:
- Butterflies and moths
- Spiders
- Centipedes and multipedes
- Ants, bees and wasps
- Beetles and weevils
- Termites
- Dragonflies
- Slugs and snails
- Earthworms and leeches
See available insect details you can get in the API response in the documentation.The following table shows the content coverage for insects in our database.
Some information (description, common name, and URL) is language-dependent. You can set the preferred language in your request (English is the default). The chart below shows the percent coverage of the top 14 languages (see this sheet for all languages).
