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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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39.8/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 48/100 agent ready Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
AccessFreemiumSelf serveFree trial⚡ Free to try
6 APIs
AudioMusic RecognitionAudio FingerprintingBroadcast MonitoringMetadata

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scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
Composite quality — 39.8/100 · thin
Contract Quality 12.8 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 4.3 / 20
Commercial Clarity 7.9 / 20
Operational Transparency 4.8 / 13
Governance 0.0 / 12
Discoverability 10.0 / 10
Agent readiness — 48/100 · agent ready
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 15 / 15
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
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APIs 6

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

ACRCloud Audio Files API

Upload and manage audio files and fingerprints within a bucket.

ACRCloud Broadcast Monitoring API

Manage broadcast-database monitoring projects and result callbacks.

ACRCloud Buckets API

Manage custom recognition buckets.

ACRCloud File Scanning API

Manage file-scanning containers that detect content from buckets.

ACRCloud Identification API

Recognize music, custom audio, and humming from a sample or fingerprint.

ACRCloud Metadata API

Look up enriched third-party music metadata.

Open Collections 1

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

ACRCloud API

OPEN COLLECTION

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Acrcloud Plans Pricing

5 plans

PLANS

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.

Acrcloud Finops

FINOPS

Security Posture 2

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

Acrcloud Authentication

apiKey/http · 2 schemes

SECURITY

Acrcloud Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

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

Acrcloud Agentic Access

21 operations · 13 acting

21 operations · 13 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

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
LinkedIn
 Website
Website
 Blog
Blog

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
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: '0.19'
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