99designs

99designs by Vista is a global creative marketplace connecting clients with a worldwide network of freelance designers for logos, brand identity, web and packaging design, illustration, and more, using both a design-contest model and one-to-one projects. Its partner API (base https://api.99designs.com/resources/v1) lets platforms embed a fully-managed creative marketplace: search and match designers, retrieve designer profiles, reviews and portfolios, collect design briefs, list the products a partner has available for sale, place orders against those product versions, and generate partner coupons. Authentication uses a pair of API key headers (Api-Key-Id and Api-Key-Secret) issued to partners on request — access is sales-gated rather than self-serve, and no API plans or pricing are published. Founded in 2008 as a SitePoint spin-off and acquired by Cimpress/Vista in 2020.

99designs publishes 5 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network, including Briefs API, Coupons API, Designers API, and 2 more. Tagged areas include Company, Media, Design, Marketplace, and Creative.

99designs’ developer surface includes engineering blog, authentication, documentation, API reference, getting-started guide, signup flow, pricing, and 28 more developer resources.

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55.5/100 strong ▲ 7.9 Agent 23/100 agent aware Front door AI 1/6 silent saas Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-10-31 · rubric v0.25.0 · Show this score on your site →

1 published contract 3 Agent Skills

Company Media Design Marketplace Creative Freelance Graphic Design Branding

What this lets a business do 1

Business capabilities this provider's published APIs can perform, derived from its own contracts. Browse all capabilities →

Pricing Management

BC-440

Coupons

POST /coupons

Kin Score

Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-10-31 · rubric v0.25.0

Composite quality — 55.5/100 · strong

Contract Quality 10.8 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 10.0 / 17

Access Clarity 14.3 / 17

Operational Transparency 4.1 / 11

Contract Governance 0.5 / 10

Discoverability 5.6 / 9

Regulatory Posture 4.6 / 15

Agent readiness — 23/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 8 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 5 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

Pagination 5 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

Regulatory Posture applies to this provider. Its tags matched the Horizontal (data, software, accessibility, platform) regime, so Regulatory Posture carries 15 points of the composite. If this regime is wrong for your business, say so on your provider repo — the applicability map is public and we will correct it.

Create-or-Update Ergonomics could not be measured. We hold no machine-readable contract for this provider to read, so there is nothing to measure a write surface against. Excluded rather than scored zero: never-measured and measured-empty are different facts. Publishing an OpenAPI is what makes this facet — and several others — scorable at all.

The six quality facets above are damped to 85 points between them, because the conditional facet above carries the other 15. That is why each facet's contribution is shown against a damped maximum: raising a quality facet moves the composite by 85% of its nominal weight, not 100%. The full arithmetic is at apis.io/rating/.

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Agent readiness — checks not met, largest first (exact, from this profile):

MCP Server +12 pts — deployment.mode + probe verdict on the mcp/ manifest, not the pointer; an unprobed slug falls back to authorship
Idempotency +9 pts — OpenAPI mutating operations declare an idempotency key — a header, a request-body property, or a named de-duplication token whose own description says so (verified); else common[].type matches /idempoten/i (documented)
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Request/Response Examples +7 pts — share of operations carrying request/response examples; else an Examples / Code Samples link
Delegated User Identity +6 pts — a served discovery document listing authorization_code in grant_types_supported (served), else an oauth2 authorizationCode flow or openIdConnect declared in an OpenAPI (documented)
Registration Without a Human +6 pts — a `registration_endpoint` in the served RFC 8414 / OIDC discovery document

7 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

Kin Score — facets with the most composite points still available (weight × headroom):

Contract Quality scores 50.6 — up to +12.4 composite points
Contract Governance scores 4.5 — up to +11.5 composite points
Operational Transparency scores 36.8 — up to +8.2 composite points

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Markets this provider is in provisional

The Kin Score Market layer reads a provider inside its market: its position, and how deep its integrations go. Depth is only comparable within a position. Provisional and unweighted: not part of the Kin Score or agent readiness.

Market	Position	Depth	Registered MCP server	Declares compatibility
Accelerator Portfolios (Y Combinator, 500 Global, Antler participation)	long-tail	2.5 (thin)	-	-

Registered MCP server and declares compatibility are report only — not weighted. Undeclared means we found nothing we can read, so there is no number: we never infer integrations.

APIs 5

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

99designs Briefs API

Collect design briefs.

99designs Coupons API

Generate partner coupon tokens.

99designs Designers API

Search and retrieve designers, reviews, and portfolios.

99designs Products API

List the 99designs products a partner has available for sale, with prices and the brief schema each product version requires.

99designs Orders API

Place orders against 99designs products.

Open Collections 5

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

99designs Briefs API

OPEN COLLECTION

99designs Coupons API

OPEN COLLECTION

99designs Briefs Designers API

OPEN COLLECTION

99designs Briefs Orders API

OPEN COLLECTION

99designs Products API

OPEN COLLECTION

Agent Skills 3

Packaged agent skills for driving this provider's APIs from an AI assistant.

Find and evaluate a 99designs designer

AGENT SKILL

List partner products and order the right one

AGENT SKILL

Submit a brief and place a 99designs order

AGENT SKILL

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

99Designs Plans Pricing

5 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

99Designs Rate Limits

1 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

99Designs Finops

FINOPS

OpenAPI Overlays 1

Overlays applied on top of this provider's contracts. Each card says who wrote it: a document the provider publishes, or one API Evangelist derived or generated.

99Designs Overlay

4 actions · update · 99designs-openapi.yml

DERIVED

Security Posture 3

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

99Designs Authentication

apiKey · 2 schemes

SECURITY

99Designs Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

99Designs Vulnerability Disclosure

security.txt · contact published

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

99Designs Agentic Access

8 operations · 3 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Get Started 3

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

DeveloperPortal

DeveloperPortal

GettingStarted

GettingStarted

SignUp

SignUp

Documentation 3

Reference material describing how the API behaves

OpenAPI

OpenAPI

Documentation

Documentation

APIReference

APIReference

Agent Surfaces 5

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

X-MCPServerCandidate

LLMsTxt

AgentSkill

AgenticAccess

WellKnown

Design & Contract 5

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Conventions

ErrorCatalog

DataModel

Conformance

Lifecycle

Build 2

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Packages

Packages

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

Access & Security 5

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Authentication

Authentication

SecurityTxt

SecurityTxt

VulnerabilityDisclosure

VulnerabilityDisclosure

Security

Security

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

RateLimits

RateLimits

Support

Support

Commercial 4

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Plans

Pricing

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

Company 4

The organization behind the API

Blog

BlogRSS

Blog

Website

Other 2

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

CapabilityMap

CapabilityMap

Overlay

Overlay

Source (apis.yml)

aid: 99designs
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: true
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: high
  source:
  - openapi
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source:
  - authentication
  - rate-limits
  - security
  generated: '2026-09-03'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/99designs.png
name: 99designs
description: '99designs by Vista is a global creative marketplace connecting clients with a worldwide network of freelance
  designers for logos, brand identity, web and packaging design, illustration, and more, using both a design-contest model
  and one-to-one projects. Its partner API (base https://api.99designs.com/resources/v1) lets platforms embed a fully-managed
  creative marketplace: search and match designers, retrieve designer profiles, reviews and portfolios, collect design briefs,
  list the products a partner has available for sale, place orders against those product versions, and generate partner coupons.
  Authentication uses a pair of API key headers (Api-Key-Id and Api-Key-Secret) issued to partners on request — access is
  sales-gated rather than self-serve, and no API plans or pricing are published. Founded in 2008 as a SitePoint spin-off and
  acquired by Cimpress/Vista in 2020.'
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/99designs/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: accel-portfolio
x-tier: enriched
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-10-06'
tags:
- Company
- Media
- Design
- Marketplace
- Creative
- Freelance
- Graphic Design
- Branding
apis:
- aid: 99designs:99designs-briefs-api
  name: 99designs Briefs API
  description: Collect design briefs.
  humanURL: https://api.99designs.com/resources/docs/
  baseURL: https://api.99designs.com/resources/v1
  tags:
  - Briefs
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/99designs-briefs-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://api.99designs.com/resources/docs/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://api.99designs.com/resources/docs/
- aid: 99designs:99designs-coupons-api
  name: 99designs Coupons API
  description: Generate partner coupon tokens.
  humanURL: https://api.99designs.com/resources/docs/
  baseURL: https://api.99designs.com/resources/v1
  tags:
  - Coupons
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/99designs-coupons-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://api.99designs.com/resources/docs/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://api.99designs.com/resources/docs/
- aid: 99designs:99designs-designers-api
  name: 99designs Designers API
  description: Search and retrieve designers, reviews, and portfolios.
  humanURL: https://api.99designs.com/resources/docs/
  baseURL: https://api.99designs.com/resources/v1
  tags:
  - Designers
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/99designs-designers-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://api.99designs.com/resources/docs/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://api.99designs.com/resources/docs/
- aid: 99designs:99designs-products-api
  name: 99designs Products API
  description: List the 99designs products a partner has available for sale, with prices and the brief schema each product
    version requires.
  humanURL: https://api.99designs.com/resources/docs/products/
  baseURL: https://api.99designs.com/resources/v1
  tags:
  - Product
  tags_raw:
  - Products
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/99designs-products-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://api.99designs.com/resources/docs/products/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://api.99designs.com/resources/docs/products/
- aid: 99designs:99designs-orders-api
  name: 99designs Orders API
  description: Place orders against 99designs products.
  humanURL: https://api.99designs.com/resources/docs/
  baseURL: https://api.99designs.com/resources/v1
  tags:
  - Order
  tags_raw:
  - Orders
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/99designs-orders-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://api.99designs.com/resources/docs/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://api.99designs.com/resources/docs/
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- url: https://99designs.com/blog/
  type: Blog
- url: https://99designs.com/blog/feed/
  type: BlogRSS
- type: CapabilityMap
  url: capabilities/99designs-capability-edges.yml
  name: 99designs Business Capability Map
- type: OpenAPI
  url: openapi/_original/99designs-openapi.yml
- type: Overlay
  url: overlays/99designs-overlay.yaml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/99designs-authentication.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/99designs-conventions.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/99designs-problem-types.yml
- type: DataModel
  url: data-model/99designs-data-model.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/99designs-conformance.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/99designs-lifecycle.yml
- type: X-MCPServerCandidate
  url: mcp/99designs-mcp.yml
  note: 'Renamed from MCPServer 2026-09-03 (roadmap#247): the manifest self-describes as status: candidate — a tool list derived
    from the published API contracts, not an existing server. The scorer already read the manifest and reported mcp_server
    correctly; the MCPServer type was crediting the artifact-type surfaces with a server that does not exist.'
- type: Packages
  url: packages/99designs-packages.yml
- type: Plans
  url: plans/99designs-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/99designs-rate-limits.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/99designs-llms.txt
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/_index.yml
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/99designs-agentic-access.yml
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/99designs-well-known.yml
- type: SecurityTxt
  url: well-known/99designs-security.txt
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/99designs-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: Security
  url: https://99designs.com/.well-known/security.txt
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/99designs-domain-security.yml
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://99designs.com/api
- type: Documentation
  url: https://api.99designs.com/resources/docs/
- type: APIReference
  url: https://api.99designs.com/resources/docs/
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://api.99designs.com/resources/docs/#getting-started
- type: SignUp
  url: https://99designs.com/api
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/99designs
- type: Pricing
  url: https://99designs.com/pricing
- type: Blog
  url: https://99designs.com/blog
- type: Support
  url: https://support.99designs.com
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://99designs.com/legal/terms-and-conditions
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://99designs.com/legal/privacy
- type: Website
  url: https://www.99designs.com
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-08-13'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 5
  pass: local-v1

99designs API — frequently asked questions

Does 99designs have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 5 APIs from 99designs, including 99designs Briefs API, 99designs Coupons API and 99designs Designers API, and 2 more.

Is there an OpenAPI specification for the 99designs API?

Yes. APIs.io indexes 5 OpenAPI specifications for 99designs, each linked for download from this page.

How do I authenticate with the 99designs API?

99designs uses bearer-token authentication (apiKey · 2 schemes). The details are profiled on APIs.io as 99Designs Authentication.

How much does the 99designs API cost?

APIs.io lists 5 pricing plans for 99designs, with each plan's price, limits and inclusions under Pricing Plans on this page.

Is the 99designs API ready for AI agents?

99designs has a Kin Score of 55.5 out of 100 (strong) and an Agent Readiness score of 23.1 (agent-aware), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-10-31.

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