Open Brewery DB vs Spoonacular

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.

Spoonacular is a broad food platform covering recipe search, ingredient parsing, meal planning, grocery product data, and wine pairing, backed by a database of hundreds of thousands of recipes, with a limited daily point allowance on its free tier before usage-based paid plans apply. A live GET against the real gateway, api.spoonacular.com, returned a genuine 401 'not authorized' JSON error while carrying an echoed Access-Control-Allow-Origin header, resolving cors unknown -> yes and reconfirming API Key auth in the same probe.