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Authentication

Authorization: Bearer vai_live_<your_key>

Requests without a key still work (for existing AI-agent/crawler access) but are limited to 500/day per IP, and only return public discovery fields - name, category, city, score, services, schema.org data.

A valid key raises your limit to 10,000/month. Full data for a specific business - contact details, registration IDs (GST/CIN), and claims-history mode - is only included when you have a proven relationship to it: it's your own business's key, or an agency key and that business is one of your added clients. A key alone doesn't unlock the whole directory - see the partner feed on the Endpoints page for bulk access.

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