Animoto

aid: animoto
accessModel:
  pricing: public
  onboarding: self-service
  trial: true
  try_now: true
  public: true
  label: Public self-service product; API access closed
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - https://animoto.com/pricing
  - https://animoto.com/sign-up
  - https://api.animoto.com/jobs/
  generated: '2026-08-13'
  method: probed
  note: 'The product is public and self-service (four published tiers, free plan, trial checkout routes). The API is not:
    api.animoto.com answers every path with an HTTP Basic challenge and Animoto publishes no route to obtain credentials.'
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/animoto.png
name: Animoto
description: 'Animoto is a cloud-based video creation platform, founded in 2006 and headquartered in New York City, that lets
  anyone turn photos, video clips, screen recordings and music into professional-looking videos through a drag-and-drop web
  editor and a large library of customizable templates. It is widely used for marketing and social-media videos, e-commerce
  and product promos, slideshows, real-estate tours, training and internal communications, and personal celebration videos,
  and is sold as subscription SaaS across free, Basic, Professional and Professional Plus tiers. Animoto is part of the Redbrick
  family of brands. It was surfaced as a portfolio company of kindred-ventures. Animoto formerly ran a partner-facing REST
  API for programmatic video directing and rendering: the API host api.animoto.com is still live and answers every request
  with an HTTP Basic challenge, but the developer program around it has been retired — animoto.com/developer now serves the
  marketing homepage, developer.animoto.com and the documented partner sandbox hosts no longer resolve, the help center Developer
  Resources section is empty, and the official Animoto API Ruby client has not been released since 2013.'
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/animoto/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- kindred-ventures
x-parent-brand: Redbrick
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-08-13'
tags:
- Company
- Consumer
- Video
- Video Creation
- Video Editing
- Slideshow
- Marketing
- Social Media
- Content Creation
- SaaS
apis:
- aid: animoto:api
  name: Animoto API
  description: The Animoto API is a partner-facing RESTful web service for programmatically directing and rendering videos
    from images, video clips, music and text. The host is live and authenticating (HTTP Basic, realm "Application", observed
    2026-08-13) but Animoto publishes no reference documentation, no machine-readable contract, and no route to request credentials;
    the developer program that supported it has been retired. Recorded here because the service is real and running, not to
    assert that it is publicly available.
  baseURL: https://api.animoto.com
  tags:
  - Video
  - Video Rendering
  - Media Processing
  properties:
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/animoto-authentication.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: rate-limits/animoto-rate-limits.yml
  - type: Lifecycle
    url: lifecycle/animoto-lifecycle.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://animoto.com/
- type: Blog
  url: https://animoto.com/blog
- type: Pricing
  url: https://animoto.com/pricing
- type: Support
  url: https://help.animoto.com/hc/en-us
- type: SignUp
  url: https://animoto.com/sign-up
- type: Login
  url: https://animoto.com/log_in
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://animoto.com/legal/terms
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://animoto.com/legal/privacy-policy
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/animoto
- type: Compliance
  url: https://help.animoto.com/hc/en-us/articles/360004421634-General-Data-Protection-Regulation-GDPR-and-Animoto
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/animoto-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/animoto-authentication.yml
- type: Packages
  url: packages/animoto-packages.yml
- type: SDKs
  url: packages/animoto-packages.yml
- type: Plans
  url: plans/animoto-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/animoto-rate-limits.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/animoto-lifecycle.yml
- type: ChangeLog
  url: changelog/animoto-changelog.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/animoto-conformance.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/animoto-llms.txt
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-08-13'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 10
  pass: local-v1
x-coverage:
  state: gated
  reason: customer-only-docs
  detail: 'Animoto''s API host api.animoto.com is live and answers every path with HTTP 401 and WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm="Application",
    while the public developer surface has been withdrawn — animoto.com/developer returns 200 but serves the marketing homepage
    byte-for-byte and the help center''s "Developer Resources" section (id 200768337) contains zero published articles.'
  evidence:
  - url: https://api.animoto.com/jobs/
    status: 401
  - url: https://animoto.com/developer
    status: 200
  - url: https://developer.animoto.com/
    status: 0
  - url: https://animoto.com/.well-known/agent-card.json
    status: 404
  - url: https://rubygems.org/api/v1/gems/animoto.json
    status: 200
  checked: '2026-08-13'