aid: couchsurfing
name: Couchsurfing
description: Couchsurfing is a community-driven travel and hospitality-exchange platform that connects
  travelers with local hosts offering free accommodation, local meetups, and cultural exchange across
  more than 200,000 cities worldwide. Members build trust through verified profiles, references, and
  community events, and use the service to find places to stay, meet locals, and discover events while
  traveling. Couchsurfing publishes no official public developer API or developer portal; this API
  Evangelist profile tracks the company's public web, trust, and policy surface for discovery and
  monitoring, and was originally surfaced as a portfolio company of General Catalyst and Point Nine.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/couchsurfing/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- general-catalyst
- point-nine
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source: []
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-18'
image: https://www.couchsurfing.com/images/social-banner.png
tags:
- Company
- Travel
- Hospitality
- Community
- Social
- Accommodation
- Marketplace
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://www.couchsurfing.com
- type: Blog
  url: https://blog.couchsurfing.com
- type: Support
  url: https://support.couchsurfing.org/hc/en-us
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://support.couchsurfing.org/hc/en-us/articles/360003344313-Terms-of-Use
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://support.couchsurfing.org/hc/en-us/articles/360003320394-Privacy-Policy
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/couchsurfing-domain-security.yml
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: backfilled
  pass: local-v1
  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence