# Affectiva

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/affectiva/  
**Website:** https://www.affectiva.com/  
**APIs profiled:** 13

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.

## Kin Score — 33.8 / 100 (thin)

Scored 2026-09-25 under rubric 0.23.0. Trend: flat (-0.3 from 34.1).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 71.4 |
| Contract Quality | 43.9 |
| Contract Governance | 4.5 |
| Operational Transparency | 2.6 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 44.6 |
| Access Clarity | 27.6 |

Regulatory layer — **Horizontal (data, software, accessibility, platform)**: 22.7 (matched via fallback).

## Agent readiness — 22.1 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | bearer |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | derived |
| OpenAPI Examples | partial |
| 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 |

## APIs (14)

- **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.

## Security (2)

- **Affectiva Authentication** — http · 1 scheme
- **Affectiva Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

## Plans (1)

- **Affectiva Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Company, Emotion AI, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Computer Vision, Facial Coding, Facial Expression Analysis, Media Analytics, Market Research, Automotive, Driver Monitoring, Video Analysis, Affective Computing

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