ExerciseDB (AscendAPI)

Directory entry · facts from Exercise Database API Pricing: What Does It Cost?, last verified October 22, 2026

Hosted API, now sold by AscendAPI (formerly exercisedb.dev). Two free entry points as of 2026-10-22: ExerciseDB V1 serves 1,500 exercises with 180p GIFs with no API key, and ExerciseDB V2's Basic plan on RapidAPI gives 2,000 requests a month and 200 exercises with watermarked video. Full catalogs, higher resolutions and clean media are on paid RapidAPI plans whose prices, like the terms of use, we could not read. Not self-hostable. No approval gate is documented in the sources we checked, which is not the same as there being none.

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What developers search for about ExerciseDB

In the 28 days to October 19, 2026, searches naming ExerciseDB showed pages from this site at least 36 times on Google and 36 times on Bing. These are the pages they surfaced, each with some of the searches that reached it.

The Best ExerciseDB Alternatives (2026)“exercisedb” (Google), “is exercisedb io same as rapiapi exercisedb” (Bing), “exercisedb (rapidapi)” (Google)
Exercise Database API Pricing: What Does It Cost?“exercisedb free” (Google)

From Google Search Console and Bing Webmaster Tools for that window. Both engines report only the searches they disclose, so the counts are floors, and the two are never added together. Searches containing a URL, an identifier or a code fragment are left out.

Depending on ExerciseDB?

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What we have verified

Category: Exercise content
How it bills developers: Free tier
What each end user needs: None documented.
What gates your launch: None documented.
Integration effort: Low — days(our rough judgement, not a vendor fact)

Sourced from the page carrying the verified claims, and published as open data in the State of Fitness APIs 2026 dataset (CC BY 4.0). No prices appear here by design — vendor figures move within quarters and most serious tiers are quoted privately.

Tracked changes affecting ExerciseDB

2026 · confirmedExerciseDB becomes AscendAPI, with free V1 and V2 tiersThe exercisedb.dev home page now reads "Previously ExerciseDB" above the name AscendAPI, and AscendAPI's documentation (pages last modified in March 2026) describes two products. ExerciseDB V1 has a free hosted tier of "1,500 exercises with 180p GIFs. No authentication required" at oss.exercisedb.dev, plus a paid RapidAPI tier; ExerciseDB V2, on RapidAPI only, gives each exercise an MP4 video and has a free Basic plan of 2,000 requests a month and 200 exercises, on which "free tier media is watermarked". This site first saw the AscendAPI name on 2026-10-22; neither the rename's date nor the paid prices are published on the pages we could read.

Everything on this site about ExerciseDB

11 pages, grouped by section. A page qualifies when the product is in its title or the question it answers, or it comes up in the body more than once — a single mention in a list is not coverage.

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How to Integrate the ExerciseDB API (2026)

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