Affectiva
Affectiva is an Emotion AI company founded out of the MIT Media Lab and headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. Its AFFDEX science analyzes spontaneous facial expressions and speech to measure emotion, attention and cognitive state, trained on what the company describes as the world's largest emotion data set — 17.4M face videos and 8B facial frames gathered across 90 countries over 18 years. The technology is sold into media analytics (ad testing, entertainment content testing, qualitative research), in-cabin automotive sensing for driver and occupant monitoring, and academic behavioral research. Affectiva was acquired by Smart Eye AB in 2021 and its commercial product line has since been folded into the iMotions brand. Its developer surface is the Affectiva Facial Coding API — a cloud "EaaS" (Emotion as a Service) platform documented by thirteen Swagger 2.0 contracts at index.affectiva.com/swagger, plus the browser-side affdex.js Emotion SDK distributed from the company CDN and an Automotive SDK available on request.
Affectiva publishes 14 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network, including Annotations API, data collection projects API, Entries API, and 11 more. Tagged areas include Company, Emotion AI, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Computer Vision.
The Affectiva catalog on APIs.io includes 1 Spectral governance ruleset.
Affectiva’s developer surface includes authentication, API reference, documentation, support, engineering blog, and 31 more developer resources.
Kin Score
Markets this provider is in provisional
The Kin Score Market layer reads a provider inside its market: its position, and how deep its integrations go. Depth is only comparable within a position. Provisional and unweighted: not part of the Kin Score or agent readiness.
| Market | Position | Depth | Registered MCP server | Declares compatibility |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Surveys, Market Research and Experience Management | builds-on | 17.2 (thin) | - | - |
| ONVIF Video Analytics (video surveillance, edge cameras, computer vision) | builds-on | 17.2 (thin) | - | - |
Registered MCP server and declares compatibility are report only — not weighted. Undeclared means we found nothing we can read, so there is no number: we never infer integrations.
Standards implemented 1
Standards this provider implements or carries. De facto ones are profiled and measured by the API Commons; formal ones come from the standards directory and are linked by the provider's own tags. The evidence column says how each claim was established — not that it was made.
APIs 14
Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.
Affectiva Annotations API
The annotations API from Affectiva — 2 operation(s) for annotations.
Affectiva data collection projects API
The data collection projects API from Affectiva — 2 operation(s) for data collection projects.
Affectiva Entries API
The entries API from Affectiva — 3 operation(s) for entries.
Affectiva event configs API
The event configs API from Affectiva — 2 operation(s) for event configs.
Affectiva event instances API
The event instances API from Affectiva — 2 operation(s) for event instances.
Affectiva frame sampling jobs API
The frame sampling jobs API from Affectiva — 1 operation(s) for frame sampling jobs.
Affectiva Jobs API
Everything about your jobss
Affectiva Labeling Job Annotations API
The labeling_job_annotations API from Affectiva — 1 operation(s) for labeling_job_annotations.
Affectiva Labeling Jobs API
The labeling_jobs API from Affectiva — 2 operation(s) for labeling_jobs.
Affectiva Labeling Tasks API
The labeling_tasks API from Affectiva — 2 operation(s) for labeling_tasks.
Affectiva representation storages API
The representation storages API from Affectiva — 2 operation(s) for representation storages.
Affectiva Representations API
The representations API from Affectiva — 3 operation(s) for representations.
Affectiva Video Frames API
The video_frames API from Affectiva — 2 operation(s) for video_frames.
Affectiva Video Segments API
The video_segments API from Affectiva — 2 operation(s) for video_segments.
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Agent Skills 2
Packaged agent skills for driving this provider's APIs from an AI assistant.
affectiva-analyze-video
AGENT SKILLaffectiva-label-video-data
AGENT SKILLAffectiva API pricing
Pricing Plans 1
Published pricing tiers and plan structures.
Rate Limits 1
Documented rate limits and quota policies.
Affectiva Rate Limits
RATE LIMITSSpectral Rules 1
Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.
Affectiva API Rules
SPECTRALOpenAPI Overlays 13
Overlays applied on top of this provider's contracts. Each card says who wrote it: a document the provider publishes, or one API Evangelist derived or generated.
Affectiva Eaas Entries Overlay
DERIVEDAffectiva Eaas Jobs Overlay
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Security Posture 2
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.
Resources
Get Started 1
Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call
Documentation 2
Reference material describing how the API behaves
Agent Surfaces 3
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Design & Contract 5
Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events
Build 3
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
Access & Security 2
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Operate 2
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Commercial 3
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 2
The organization behind the API
Other 13
Properties that don't map to a standard resource type
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Source (apis.yml)
Affectiva API — frequently asked questions
Does Affectiva have an API?
Yes. APIs.io lists 14 APIs from Affectiva, including Affectiva Annotations API, Affectiva data collection projects API and Affectiva Entries API, and 11 more.
Is there an OpenAPI specification for the Affectiva API?
Yes. APIs.io indexes 14 OpenAPI specifications for Affectiva, each linked for download from this page.
How do I authenticate with the Affectiva API?
Affectiva uses bearer-token authentication (http · 1 scheme). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Affectiva Authentication.
Is the Affectiva API ready for AI agents?
Affectiva has a Kin Score of 35.0 out of 100 (thin) and an Agent Readiness score of 22.7 (agent-aware), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.
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