# 99designs

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/99designs/  
**Website:** https://www.99designs.com  
**APIs profiled:** 1

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.

## Kin Score — 46.7 / 100 (developing)

Scored 2026-08-30 under rubric 0.17.2. Trend: flat (-0.5 from 47.2).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 75.9 |
| Contract Quality | 56.2 |
| Governance | 4.5 |
| Contract Governance | 4.5 |
| Operational Transparency | 28.9 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 58.9 |
| Commercial Clarity | 44.7 |
| Access Clarity | 44.7 |

## Agent readiness — 23.6 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | bearer |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | documented |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | derived |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |
| Delegated Identity | no |
| Protected Resource Metadata | no |
| Dynamic Client Registration | no |
| Agentic Commerce | no |

## Access

Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: medium).

## APIs (5)

- **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.

## MCP servers (1)

- **99designs MCP Server**

## Agentic access (1)

- **99Designs Agentic Access** — 8 operations · 4 acting

## Security (3)

- **99Designs Authentication** — apiKey · 2 schemes
- **99Designs Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC
- **99Designs Vulnerability Disclosure** — security.txt · contact published

## Plans (1)

- **99Designs Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Company, Media, Design, Marketplace, Creative, Freelance, Graphic Design, Branding

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/99designs/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.