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 APIs 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 authentication, documentation, API reference, getting-started guide, signup flow, pricing, engineering blog, and 26 more developer resources.

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46.7/100 developing ▬ flat Agent 24/100 agent aware saas Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-08-30 · rubric v0.17.2

AccessSelf serve

1 APIs 1 MCP Servers

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 2026-08-30 · rubric v0.17.2

Composite quality — 46.7/100 · developing

Contract Quality 14.1 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 11.8 / 20

Access Clarity 8.9 / 20

Operational Transparency 3.8 / 13

Contract Governance 0.5 / 12

Discoverability 7.6 / 10

Agent readiness — 24/100 · 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 Surface 0 / 5

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APIs 5

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

MCP Servers 1

Model Context Protocol servers that expose these APIs to AI agents.

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

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

MCPServer

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 2

The organization behind the API

Blog

Blog

Website

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: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Self-serve signup
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - authentication
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  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: '2026-08-13'
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:
- 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: MCPServer
  url: mcp/99designs-mcp.yml
- 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

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