Combined fuzzy comparison

Code snippets

curl "https://api.oanor.com/soundex-api/v1/compare" \
  -H "x-oanor-key: oanor_test_..."

await fetch("https://api.oanor.com/soundex-api/v1/compare", {
  headers: { "x-oanor-key": "oanor_test_..." }
});

$ch = curl_init("https://api.oanor.com/soundex-api/v1/compare");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, ["x-oanor-key: oanor_test_..."]);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
$out = curl_exec($ch);

import requests
requests.get(
    "https://api.oanor.com/soundex-api/v1/compare",
    headers={"x-oanor-key": "oanor_test_..."}
)

Example response

A real response from this endpoint, captured by the latest health check.

{
    "data": {
        "note": "Combines Soundex (sounds alike) and Levenshtein (spelled alike). likely_match is true if the Soundex codes agree or the similarity is at least 0.8.",
        "inputs": {
            "a": "Robert",
            "b": "Rupert"
        },
        "soundex_a": "R163",
        "soundex_b": "R163",
        "similarity": 0.666667,
        "likely_match": true,
        "soundex_match": true,
        "similarity_percent": 66.6667,
        "levenshtein_distance": 2
    },
    "meta": {
        "timestamp": "2026-06-05T19:50:12.398Z",
        "request_id": "125a7115-9b95-4aac-a588-e1de777f9e47"
    },
    "status": "ok",
    "message": "Fuzzy compare",
    "success": true
}