PCBWay API
PCBWay exposes a partner API for PCB quotation, but keys are arranged through a partner program rather than self-serve signup. Public documentation amounts to one example page with api-key auth, no SDKs, and no published pricing or versioning.
Frequently asked questions
PCBWay scores D on Supergood's API Report Card. PCBWay exposes a partner API for PCB quotation, but keys are arranged through a partner program rather than self-serve signup. Public documentation amounts to one example page with api-key auth, no SDKs, and no published pricing or versioning.
Without a usable official API, teams fall back on manual exports, file drops, or one-off vendor integrations. The other option is an unofficial API layer like Supergood that automates the authenticated web app directly. Site terms may apply to any integration approach, and how they apply is a determination each team makes for itself.
PCBWay is a Chinese contract manufacturer whose online platform handles PCB prototyping, small batch fabrication, PCB assembly, and CNC machining. Customers upload Gerber and BOM files, receive a quote after file review, pay online, and track order status through the web portal.
Manufacturing, specifically electronics hardware teams. Teams upload Gerber files and a BOM, configure layers, dimensions, finish, and assembly options, accept the quote once the files pass engineering review, then pay and track fabrication and shipping in the portal.
PCBWay publishes company figures of 2,800 plus staff, 256,000 plus customers, 170 plus countries and regions served, and a 200,000 square metre factory footprint, which establishes a broad hardware customer base even though no API specific customer counts are published.
Quotes and their board parameters, orders and order status, uploaded Gerber and BOM files, engineering review outcomes, assembly and component selections, logistics and tracking events, invoices and payment records, plus the customer account history that ties repeat builds together.
A third party provider profile records PCBWay as founded in 2014, and company blog material promoting the ordering portal dates back to 2013.
Common alternatives include JLCPCB, Xometry, Protolabs, Seeed Studio Fusion. Graded alternatives appear under "More from the report card" below.
Supergood's grades measure one thing: can a customer's engineering team get their own data out programmatically? Supergood checks six things (whether a real API exists, how access is gated, data coverage, auth quality, docs and developer experience, and stability) and rolls them into a letter grade. Supergood re-verifies grades, and they only move on evidence.
Not that we could find. There is no official PCBWay MCP server in any public registry, and no maintained community server we're aware of. We re-verify this periodically — report an inaccuracy below if we missed one.
Not natively. PCBWay doesn't publish an MCP server, so MCP clients like Claude, Cursor, and Codex have nothing to connect to out of the box. If that changes, this page will reflect it.