ACRCloud

ACRCloud provides automatic content recognition (ACR) APIs for music and audio. The HMAC-signed Identification API recognizes music, custom audio, live channels, and humming from short audio samples or fingerprints, while the bearer-token Console and Metadata APIs manage buckets, file-scanning containers, broadcast-monitoring projects, and rich third-party music metadata.

ACRCloud publishes 6 APIs on the APIs.io network, including Audio Files API, Broadcast Monitoring API, Buckets API, and 3 more. Tagged areas include Audio, Music Recognition, Audio Fingerprinting, Broadcast Monitoring, and Metadata.

ACRCloud’s developer surface includes authentication, documentation, engineering blog, and 8 more developer resources.

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37.8/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 29/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-08-20 · rubric v0.12.0

AccessFreemiumSelf serveFree trial⚡ Free to try

6 APIs

AudioMusic RecognitionAudio FingerprintingBroadcast MonitoringMetadata

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scored 2026-08-20 · rubric v0.12.0

Composite quality — 37.8/100 · thin

Contract Quality 13.3 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 4.8 / 20

Access Clarity 7.9 / 20

Operational Transparency 4.4 / 13

Contract Governance 0.0 / 12

Discoverability 7.4 / 10

Agent readiness — 29/100 · 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 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

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APIs 6

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

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Acrcloud Rate Limits

5 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

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

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

AgenticAccess

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Authentication

Authentication

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

RateLimits

RateLimits

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Plans

Plans

FinOps

FinOps

Company 3

The organization behind the API

LinkedIn

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

Source (apis.yml)

aid: acrcloud
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/acrcloud/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
name: ACRCloud
kind: company
description: ACRCloud provides automatic content recognition (ACR) APIs for music and audio. The HMAC-signed Identification
  API recognizes music, custom audio, live channels, and humming from short audio samples or fingerprints, while the bearer-token
  Console and Metadata APIs manage buckets, file-scanning containers, broadcast-monitoring projects, and rich third-party
  music metadata.
accessModel:
  pricing: freemium
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: true
  try_now: true
  public: false
  label: Freemium (free trial) · Self-serve signup
  confidence: high
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/acrcloud.png
tags:
- Audio
- Music Recognition
- Audio Fingerprinting
- Broadcast Monitoring
- Metadata
created: '2026-06-21'
modified: '2026-06-21'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- aid: acrcloud:acrcloud-audio-files-api
  name: ACRCloud Audio Files API
  description: Upload and manage audio files and fingerprints within a bucket.
  humanURL: https://docs.acrcloud.com/reference/identification-api
  baseURL: https://identify-eu-west-1.acrcloud.com/v1
  tags:
  - Audio Files
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/acrcloud-audio-files-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.acrcloud.com/reference/identification-api
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.acrcloud.com/reference/identification-api/identification-api
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.acrcloud.com/reference/console-api/file-scanning
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.acrcloud.com/reference/console-api/bm-projects/broadcast-database-projects
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.acrcloud.com/reference/console-api/buckets
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.acrcloud.com/reference/metadata-api
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.acrcloud.com/reference/console-api
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.acrcloud.com/reference/console-api/accesstoken
- aid: acrcloud:acrcloud-broadcast-monitoring-api
  name: ACRCloud Broadcast Monitoring API
  description: Manage broadcast-database monitoring projects and result callbacks.
  humanURL: https://docs.acrcloud.com/reference/identification-api
  baseURL: https://identify-eu-west-1.acrcloud.com/v1
  tags:
  - Broadcast Monitoring
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/acrcloud-broadcast-monitoring-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.acrcloud.com/reference/identification-api
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.acrcloud.com/reference/identification-api/identification-api
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.acrcloud.com/reference/console-api/file-scanning
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.acrcloud.com/reference/console-api/bm-projects/broadcast-database-projects
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.acrcloud.com/reference/console-api/buckets
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.acrcloud.com/reference/metadata-api
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.acrcloud.com/reference/console-api
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.acrcloud.com/reference/console-api/accesstoken
- aid: acrcloud:acrcloud-buckets-api
  name: ACRCloud Buckets API
  description: Manage custom recognition buckets.
  humanURL: https://docs.acrcloud.com/reference/identification-api
  baseURL: https://identify-eu-west-1.acrcloud.com/v1
  tags:
  - Buckets
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/acrcloud-buckets-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.acrcloud.com/reference/identification-api
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.acrcloud.com/reference/identification-api/identification-api
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.acrcloud.com/reference/console-api/file-scanning
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.acrcloud.com/reference/console-api/bm-projects/broadcast-database-projects
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.acrcloud.com/reference/console-api/buckets
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.acrcloud.com/reference/metadata-api
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.acrcloud.com/reference/console-api
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.acrcloud.com/reference/console-api/accesstoken
- aid: acrcloud:acrcloud-file-scanning-api
  name: ACRCloud File Scanning API
  description: Manage file-scanning containers that detect content from buckets.
  humanURL: https://docs.acrcloud.com/reference/identification-api
  baseURL: https://identify-eu-west-1.acrcloud.com/v1
  tags:
  - File Scanning
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/acrcloud-file-scanning-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.acrcloud.com/reference/identification-api
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.acrcloud.com/reference/identification-api/identification-api
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.acrcloud.com/reference/console-api/file-scanning
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.acrcloud.com/reference/console-api/bm-projects/broadcast-database-projects
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.acrcloud.com/reference/console-api/buckets
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.acrcloud.com/reference/metadata-api
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.acrcloud.com/reference/console-api
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.acrcloud.com/reference/console-api/accesstoken
- aid: acrcloud:acrcloud-identification-api
  name: ACRCloud Identification API
  description: Recognize music, custom audio, and humming from a sample or fingerprint.
  humanURL: https://docs.acrcloud.com/reference/identification-api
  baseURL: https://identify-eu-west-1.acrcloud.com/v1
  tags:
  - Identification
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/acrcloud-identification-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.acrcloud.com/reference/identification-api
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.acrcloud.com/reference/identification-api/identification-api
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.acrcloud.com/reference/console-api/file-scanning
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.acrcloud.com/reference/console-api/bm-projects/broadcast-database-projects
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.acrcloud.com/reference/console-api/buckets
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.acrcloud.com/reference/metadata-api
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.acrcloud.com/reference/console-api
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.acrcloud.com/reference/console-api/accesstoken
- aid: acrcloud:acrcloud-metadata-api
  name: ACRCloud Metadata API
  description: Look up enriched third-party music metadata.
  humanURL: https://docs.acrcloud.com/reference/identification-api
  baseURL: https://identify-eu-west-1.acrcloud.com/v1
  tags:
  - Metadata
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/acrcloud-metadata-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.acrcloud.com/reference/identification-api
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.acrcloud.com/reference/identification-api/identification-api
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.acrcloud.com/reference/console-api/file-scanning
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.acrcloud.com/reference/console-api/bm-projects/broadcast-database-projects
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.acrcloud.com/reference/console-api/buckets
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.acrcloud.com/reference/metadata-api
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.acrcloud.com/reference/console-api
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.acrcloud.com/reference/console-api/accesstoken
common:
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/acrcloud-agentic-access.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/acrcloud-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/acrcloud-authentication.yml
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/acrcloud
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/acrcloud
- type: Website
  url: https://www.acrcloud.com
- type: Documentation
  url: https://docs.acrcloud.com
- type: Plans
  url: plans/acrcloud-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/acrcloud-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/acrcloud-finops.yml
- type: Blog
  url: https://acrcloud.com/blog
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com

ACRCloud

Kin Score

APIs 6

ACRCloud Audio Files API

ACRCloud Broadcast Monitoring API

ACRCloud Buckets API

ACRCloud File Scanning API

ACRCloud Identification API

ACRCloud Metadata API

Open Collections 8

API Collection

ACRCloud Audio Files API

ACRCloud Audio Files Broadcast Monitoring API

ACRCloud Audio Files Buckets API

ACRCloud Audio Files File Scanning API

ACRCloud Audio Files Identification API

ACRCloud Audio Files Metadata API

ACRCloud API

Pricing Plans 1

Acrcloud Plans Pricing

Rate Limits 1

Acrcloud Rate Limits

FinOps 1

Acrcloud Finops

Security Posture 2

Acrcloud Authentication

Acrcloud Domain Security

Agentic Access 1

Acrcloud Agentic Access

Resources