Animoto

Animoto is a cloud-based video creation platform, founded in 2006 and headquartered in New York City, that lets anyone turn photos, video clips, 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, and personal celebration videos, and is sold as a subscription SaaS product across free and paid tiers. Surfaced as a portfolio company of kindred-ventures and added to the API Evangelist network; the company operates a consumer/SMB web application and does not currently publish a public developer API.

Animoto is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Consumer, Video, Video Creation, and Video Editing.

Animoto’s developer surface includes engineering blog, pricing, support, signup flow, and 5 more developer resources.

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17.7/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5

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CompanyConsumerVideoVideo CreationVideo EditingSlideshowMarketingSocial MediaContent CreationSaaS

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Composite quality — 17.7/100 · emerging

Contract Quality 0.0 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 1.3 / 20

Commercial Clarity 8.9 / 20

Operational Transparency 0.7 / 13

Governance 0.0 / 12

Discoverability 6.8 / 10

Agent readiness — 0/100 · human only

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 15

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

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Get Started 1

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

SignUp

SignUp

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support

Support

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Pricing

Pricing

TermsOfService

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

Source (apis.yml)

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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, 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, and personal celebration videos, and is sold as a subscription SaaS product across free and
  paid tiers. Surfaced as a portfolio company of kindred-ventures and added to the API Evangelist network; the company operates
  a consumer/SMB web application and does not currently publish a public developer API.
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tags:
- Company
- Consumer
- Video
- Video Creation
- Video Editing
- Slideshow
- Marketing
- Social Media
- Content Creation
- SaaS
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maintainers:
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- type: Blog
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  url: https://animoto.com/pricing
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  url: https://help.animoto.com/hc/en-us
- type: SignUp
  url: https://animoto.com/sign-up
- 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: DomainSecurity
  url: security/animoto-domain-security.yml
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  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence