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Coffee vs Open Brewery DB

Coffee

Coffee returns a fresh random coffee-photo URL as JSON on every request from a hand-curated image set, with no signup needed — a lightweight novelty API for placeholder or demo imagery. A live GET against the real host, coffee.alexflipnote.dev, returned genuine JSON with no Access-Control-Allow-Origin header, resolving cors unknown -> no; auth None was reconfirmed by the same keyless 200.

Open Brewery DB

Open Brewery DB is an open, keyless directory of breweries, cideries, and bottle shops across the US and several other countries, searchable by name, city, state, or brewery type. A live GET against the real gateway, api.openbrewerydb.org, returned genuine JSON while carrying an echoed Access-Control-Allow-Origin header, reconfirming both cors yes and auth None in the same probe.

CoffeeOpen Brewery DB
AuthenticationNoneNone
Pricingfreefree
FormatsJSONJSON
CORSnoyes
HTTPSYesYes

Open Brewery DB supports CORS, while Coffee doesn't — pick Open Brewery DB for direct browser calls.

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