How to choose a Vedic astrology API

The ten checks

1. 1. Coverage for your app

   Ask: Does it do every job your app needs? Write the list first. A Vedic app may need birth charts and kundli matching (comparing two charts for marriage). It may need dashas (planet periods) and transits (where the planets are now). It may also need the daily panchang (the Hindu calendar) and festivals. Readings in your users' languages and a drawn chart may matter too.

   Test: Find each job in the provider's feature list before you test anything else. A missing job means a second provider, or code your team must write and keep up to date.

2. 2. Accuracy you can check

   Ask: Does the provider publish how it tests its numbers, and against what?

   Test: Send one birth chart and compare the planet degrees with Swiss Ephemeris or the software your astrologers trust.

3. 3. The zodiac, ayanamsa and houses

   Ask: Is it the sidereal (Vedic) zodiac? Which ayanamsa (the zodiac offset) is the default, and can you change it? Which house system (the way the chart is split into 12 houses) does it use?

   Test: Check the Moon sign of a known chart. A wrong zodiac or ayanamsa often moves it to the next sign. For John Doe, a Western (tropical) chart puts the Moon in Gemini. The Vedic chart puts it in Taurus.

4. 4. Readings, not only numbers

   Ask: Does it return text your users can read? Is that text written by fixed rules or made up by an AI model each time?

   Test: Call the same chart twice. Fixed rules give the same words both times, and you can trace each line to a rule.

   See a full sample report from our API

5. 5. Your users' languages

   Ask: Are names and reading text available in the languages your users read, such as Hindi?

   Test: Ask for the same reading in each language you need and have a native speaker read it.

6. 6. A free way to test

   Ask: Can your team build and test without a card, and does test traffic count against your paid limits?

   Test: Sign up and make your first call. It should take minutes, not a sales call.

   Try our free kundli tool in your browser

7. 7. Pricing you can predict

   Ask: What does one call cost, and does a long reading cost more than a calculation? What happens when you run out?

   Test: Price your expected month: how many charts, how many readings, how many users at once.

8. 8. Docs your team can use

   Ask: Is there an OpenAPI file and a Postman collection? Do the docs show real requests and answers, and explain every error?

   Test: Import the collection and send three calls without reading anything else.

9. 9. Privacy and data

   Ask: Does the provider store the birth details you send? Where do they go?

   Test: Read the security page and the privacy policy before you send real users' data.

10. 10. Birth times on a clock change

    Ask: What happens when a birth time happens twice or never? When clocks go back, one hour happens twice. When they go forward, one hour is skipped.

    Test: Send a birth at 1:30 AM on Nov 2, 2025, in New York. That time happened twice. A careful API asks which one you mean instead of guessing.

Test any API in one afternoon

1. Pick one test chart and use it everywhere. Our docs use John Doe, born Aug 15, 1990, at 10:30 AM in New York.
2. Compare the planets, the rising sign and the Moon's nakshatra (birth star) with a reference you trust.
3. Ask for one written reading in each language you need, and read it as your users would.
4. Send calls quickly until you get a 429 (too many requests), and check that the error says what to do.
5. Price one real month of your traffic on each provider's pricing page.

How API for Astrology answers each check

What it does not do

• Western (tropical) astrology. It is Vedic only.
• PDF files. A full report comes as one printable HTML page, which any browser saves as a PDF.
• SDKs to install. Any language that can make an HTTPS call and read JSON works.

Choosing a numerology API as well? The numerology buyer’s guide has its own checks.