Quotable Quotes vs Stoicism Quote

Quotable is a free, open-source REST API serving a large curated database of quotations, authors, and tags, documented as running at api.quotable.io. A live GET against that real gateway returned a genuine random quote while carrying Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *, resolving cors unknown -> yes and reconfirming auth None in the same probe — but the host's TLS certificate expired in September 2024 (nearly two years ago), so standard certificate-verifying HTTP clients will reject the connection even though the backend itself still serves live, correctly-shaped data once verification is bypassed. Free and open source with no paid tier — pricingModel free.

Stoicism Quote is a small serverless API (AWS Lambda + API Gateway) returning a single random Stoic quote and author as JSON, documented in its GitHub repo as running at the live host stoic.tekloon.net. A live GET against that real gateway, stoic.tekloon.net/stoic-quote, returned a genuine quote with no Access-Control-Allow-Origin header, resolving cors unknown -> no; no key was required, reconfirming auth None. A fully free, keyless hobby API — pricingModel free.