Games & Comics · head-to-head
Dungeons and Dragons (Alternate) vs TCGdex
Open5e is a community-run, keyless REST API for the 5e SRD — monsters, spells, classes, races, magic items, and more — with Django REST Framework-style search, filtering, field selection, and pagination built in. Its old v1 endpoints are now deprecated in favor of a v2 default, and the actual API is served from a separate `api.open5e.com` host distinct from the Next.js marketing/search site at `open5e.com`.
TCGdex is a keyless, multilingual Pokémon TCG database exposing card, set, and series data via both REST and GraphQL over eight-plus languages. The old `tcgdex.net/docs` link stopped working after that domain was rebuilt as a separate consumer collection-manager app; the API's own docs and reference now live at `tcgdex.dev`.
| Dungeons and Dragons (Alternate) | TCGdex | |
|---|---|---|
| Authentication | None | None |
| Pricing | free | free |
| Formats | JSON | JSON, GraphQL |
| CORS | yes | yes |
| HTTPS | Yes | Yes |
TCGdex supports 2 response formats, while Dungeons and Dragons (Alternate) offers fewer — pick TCGdex for more integration flexibility.