Service

Whether the routing engine is ready to serve. No key required, never metered — a monitor must be able to tell "the service is down" from "my key is wrong".

Identical to GET /v2/health without a body. Declared explicitly because uptime monitors commonly default to HEAD, and a monitor that gets a 404 reports an outage that is not happening — which is worse than no monitoring, because people stop believing it.

The engine version, the graph build date, and the date of the OpenStreetMap extract the graph was built from.

This endpoint is additive — hosted openrouteservice does not expose it publicly. It exists here because the data behind it is a licence matter as much as an operational one: the Open Database Licence's share-alike provision is answered by publishing how the database was derived, and this is the machine-readable half of that answer.

Read services as the engine's list, not ours. It is passed through unchanged, and it is wider than what this API serves: snap, export and match appear in it and are not routed here — they answer 404. export in particular is deliberately never exposed, because it would serve chunks of the derivative database, which is a licence question rather than a capacity one. Use profiles and this API's own reference for what you can actually call.

Identical to GET /v2/status without a body.