diff --git a/app/lib/frontend/handlers/custom_api.dart b/app/lib/frontend/handlers/custom_api.dart
index 4e3d75347c..0141b18217 100644
--- a/app/lib/frontend/handlers/custom_api.dart
+++ b/app/lib/frontend/handlers/custom_api.dart
@@ -21,7 +21,6 @@ import '../../scorecard/backend.dart';
 import '../../search/backend.dart';
 import '../../search/search_client.dart';
 import '../../search/search_service.dart';
-import '../../service/download_counts/backend.dart';
 import '../../service/topics/count_topics.dart';
 import '../../shared/configuration.dart';
 import '../../shared/exceptions.dart';
@@ -218,38 +217,7 @@ Future<VersionScore> packageVersionScoreHandler(
     {String? version}) async {
   checkPackageVersionParams(package, version);
   return (await cache.versionScore(package, version).get(() async {
-    final pkg = await packageBackend.lookupPackage(package);
-    if (pkg == null) {
-      throw NotFoundException.resource('package "$package"');
-    }
-    final v =
-        (version == null || version == 'latest') ? pkg.latestVersion! : version;
-    final pv = await packageBackend.lookupPackageVersion(package, v);
-    if (pv == null) {
-      throw NotFoundException.resource('package "$package" version "$version"');
-    }
-
-    var updated = pkg.updated;
-    final card = await scoreCardBackend.getScoreCardData(package, v);
-    if (updated == null || card.updated?.isAfter(updated) == true) {
-      updated = card.updated;
-    }
-
-    final tags = <String>{
-      ...pkg.getTags(),
-      ...pv.getTags(),
-      ...?card.derivedTags,
-    };
-
-    return VersionScore(
-      grantedPoints: card.grantedPubPoints,
-      maxPoints: card.maxPubPoints,
-      likeCount: pkg.likes,
-      downloadCount30Days:
-          downloadCountsBackend.lookup30DaysTotalCounts(package),
-      tags: tags.toList(),
-      lastUpdated: updated,
-    );
+    return await scoreCardBackend.getVersionScore(package, version: version);
   }))!;
 }
 
@@ -475,15 +443,7 @@ Future<PkgOptions> getPackageOptionsHandler(
   shelf.Request request,
   String package,
 ) async {
-  checkPackageVersionParams(package);
-  final p = await packageBackend.lookupPackage(package);
-  if (p == null) {
-    throw NotFoundException.resource(package);
-  }
-  return PkgOptions(
-    isDiscontinued: p.isDiscontinued,
-    isUnlisted: p.isUnlisted,
-  );
+  return await packageBackend.getPackageOptions(package);
 }
 
 /// Handles `PUT /api/packages/<package>/options`.
diff --git a/app/lib/package/backend.dart b/app/lib/package/backend.dart
index 21eec1d718..cbf918602f 100644
--- a/app/lib/package/backend.dart
+++ b/app/lib/package/backend.dart
@@ -419,6 +419,20 @@ class PackageBackend {
     return count;
   }
 
+  /// Returns the package options.
+  Future<api.PkgOptions> getPackageOptions(String package) async {
+    checkPackageVersionParams(package);
+    final p = await packageBackend.lookupPackage(package);
+    if (p == null) {
+      throw NotFoundException.resource(package);
+    }
+    return api.PkgOptions(
+      isDiscontinued: p.isDiscontinued,
+      replacedBy: p.replacedBy,
+      isUnlisted: p.isUnlisted,
+    );
+  }
+
   /// Updates [options] on [package].
   Future<void> updateOptions(String package, api.PkgOptions options) async {
     final authenticatedUser = await requireAuthenticatedWebUser();
diff --git a/app/lib/scorecard/backend.dart b/app/lib/scorecard/backend.dart
index e7e03c00c7..2dace75a88 100644
--- a/app/lib/scorecard/backend.dart
+++ b/app/lib/scorecard/backend.dart
@@ -4,11 +4,13 @@
 
 import 'dart:async';
 
+import 'package:_pub_shared/data/package_api.dart';
 import 'package:clock/clock.dart';
 import 'package:gcloud/service_scope.dart' as ss;
 import 'package:logging/logging.dart';
 import 'package:meta/meta.dart';
 import 'package:pool/pool.dart';
+import 'package:pub_dev/service/download_counts/backend.dart';
 import 'package:pub_dev/service/download_counts/computations.dart';
 import 'package:pub_dev/shared/exceptions.dart';
 import 'package:pub_dev/task/backend.dart';
@@ -186,6 +188,43 @@ class ScoreCardBackend {
     final pv = list[1] as PackageVersion?;
     return PackageStatus.fromModels(p, pv);
   }
+
+  /// Return the version score object served in the API.
+  Future<VersionScore> getVersionScore(String package,
+      {String? version}) async {
+    final pkg = await packageBackend.lookupPackage(package);
+    if (pkg == null) {
+      throw NotFoundException.resource('package "$package"');
+    }
+    final v =
+        (version == null || version == 'latest') ? pkg.latestVersion! : version;
+    final pv = await packageBackend.lookupPackageVersion(package, v);
+    if (pv == null) {
+      throw NotFoundException.resource('package "$package" version "$version"');
+    }
+
+    var updated = pkg.updated;
+    final card = await scoreCardBackend.getScoreCardData(package, v);
+    if (updated == null || card.updated?.isAfter(updated) == true) {
+      updated = card.updated;
+    }
+
+    final tags = <String>{
+      ...pkg.getTags(),
+      ...pv.getTags(),
+      ...?card.derivedTags,
+    };
+
+    return VersionScore(
+      grantedPoints: card.grantedPubPoints,
+      maxPoints: card.maxPubPoints,
+      likeCount: pkg.likes,
+      downloadCount30Days:
+          downloadCountsBackend.lookup30DaysTotalCounts(package),
+      tags: tags.toList(),
+      lastUpdated: updated,
+    );
+  }
 }
 
 Future<void> purgeScorecardData(