# ACRCloud

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/acrcloud/  
**Website:** https://www.acrcloud.com  
**APIs profiled:** 6

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.

## Kin Score — 37.8 / 100 (thin)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 37.8).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 74.1 |
| Contract Quality | 53.1 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 34.2 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 23.8 |
| Commercial Clarity | 39.5 |
| Access Clarity | 39.5 |

## Agent readiness — 29.1 (agent-aware)

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

## Access

Freemium (free trial) · Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: freemium, trial: yes (confidence: high).

## APIs (6)

- **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.

## Agentic access (1)

- **Acrcloud Agentic Access** — 21 operations · 13 acting

## Security (2)

- **Acrcloud Authentication** — apiKey/http · 2 schemes
- **Acrcloud Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

## Plans (1)

- **Acrcloud Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Audio, Music Recognition, Audio Fingerprinting, Broadcast Monitoring, Metadata

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