Artlist

Artlist is a creative-assets platform for video creators, marketers and brands, licensing royalty-free music, sound effects, stock footage, video templates, LUTs and editing plugins alongside a generative AI toolkit. The Artlist Enterprise API, published at developer.artlist.io, opens the company's music catalog to partner platforms: a Search API for songs, artists and albums with mood/genre/instrument category filters plus BPM, duration, vocal-type and free-text facets, and a Download API that mints signed MP3/WAV asset URLs for licensed assets. Access is OAuth 2.0 client-credentials against an Amazon Cognito authorization server with credentials issued by an account manager, and the developer portal publishes OpenAPI 3.1 definitions, an llms.txt index, an RFC 9727 /.well-known/api-catalog linkset and a hosted MCP server for documentation search.

Artlist publishes 5 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network, including Album API, Artist API, Downloadable API, and 2 more. Tagged areas include Company, Music, Audio, Media, and Stock Media.

The Artlist catalog on APIs.io includes 1 Spectral governance ruleset.

Artlist’s developer surface includes documentation, API reference, developer console, getting-started guide, support, engineering blog, pricing, and 33 more developer resources.

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49.3/100 developing ▬ flat Agent 35/100 agent ready Heartbeat 100/100 alive saas Full breakdown ↓
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AccessSelf serve

2 published contracts 1 MCP Servers 3 Agent Skills

Company Music Audio Media Stock Media Content Licensing Creative Tools Search Generative AI Video

What this lets a business do 1

Business capabilities this provider's published APIs can perform, derived from its own contracts. Browse all capabilities →

Media, Creator & Social

AE-170

AlbumArtistSong

GET /https://business.artlist.io/search/v1/song GET /https://business.artlist.io/search/v1/album/{id} GET /https://business.artlist.io/search/v1/artist/{id}

Kin Score

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scored 2026-11-13 · rubric v0.28.0

Composite quality — 49.3/100 · developing

Contract Quality 9.2 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 10.8 / 17

Access Clarity 7.2 / 17

Operational Transparency 3.7 / 11

Contract Governance 3.2 / 10

Discoverability 7.2 / 9

Regulatory Posture 3.3 / 15

Agent readiness — 35/100 · agent ready

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

Documented Reversibility 6 / 6

MCP Server 12 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 9 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 8 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 5 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 4 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 4 / 4

Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

Pagination 5 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

MCP Tool Quality 6 / 6

Regulatory Posture applies to this provider. Its tags matched the AI & Biometrics regime, so Regulatory Posture carries 15 points of the composite. If this regime is wrong for your business, say so on your provider repo — the applicability map is public and we will correct it.

Create-or-Update Ergonomics does not apply to this provider. The published contracts declare no write operations, and a read-only API cannot create-or-update. The facet is excluded from this provider's denominator entirely — not scored zero. A reference or data API is not deficient for being unable to upsert.

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A2A Agent Card +8 pts — a2a/-a2a.yml manifest, graded on conformance.grade against A2A 1.0.0 Ask about this →
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Protected Resource Metadata +5 pts — a served /.well-known/oauth-protected-resource carrying `resource` (documented), and naming its authorization_servers (verified) Ask about this →

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Markets this provider is in provisional

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Market	Position	Depth	Registered MCP server	Declares compatibility
Music and Rights	undeclared	-	-	-

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Standards implemented 3

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.

Model Context Protocol (MCP)

measured — observed by APIs.io (platform)

OpenAPI

measured — observed by APIs.io (published)

OAuth 2.0

measured — observed by APIs.io (declared)

APIs 5

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Artlist Developer Docs MCP Server

Hosted Model Context Protocol server for the Artlist Enterprise API documentation. Exposes a single anonymous read-only tool, searchDocs, that searches developer.artlist.io and ...

Artlist Album API

The album API from Artlist — 1 operation(s) for album.

Artlist Artist API

The artist API from Artlist — 1 operation(s) for artist.

Artlist Downloadable API

The downloadable API from Artlist — 1 operation(s) for downloadable.

Artlist Song API

The song API from Artlist — 2 operation(s) for song.

Open Collections 4

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

Search Album API

OPEN COLLECTION

Search Artist API

OPEN COLLECTION

Download Downloadable API

OPEN COLLECTION

Search Song API

OPEN COLLECTION

MCP Servers 1

Model Context Protocol servers that expose these APIs to AI agents.

Artlist MCP Server

Artlist publishes a hosted, anonymous MCP server for its developer documentation. It is a docs-search server, not a wrapper over the Enterprise API itself: the single tool searc...

MCP SERVER

Agent Skills 3

Packaged agent skills for driving this provider's APIs from an AI assistant.

Find and download an Artlist track

AGENT SKILL

Resolve Artlist artist and album credits

AGENT SKILL

Score generated media with Artlist music

AGENT SKILL

Artlist API pricing

Rate limits

Standard request quota: 100 requests per minute
Search endpoints: 50 requests per minute
Download endpoints: 20 requests per minute

Rate-limit details →

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Artlist Rate Limits

3 limits

RATE LIMITS

Terms of Service 1

What its API terms permit and prohibit, quoted from its own page.

Artlist

13 quoted statements, read from Artlist's own page on 2026-11-09.

TERMS

Privacy & Data 1

Its role, the data it processes, retention and transfers, quoted from its own privacy page.

Artlist

21 quoted statements, read from Artlist's own page on 2026-11-09.

PRIVACY

Compliance 1

Attestations the provider states (SOC 2, ISO 27001 and others), quoted from its own trust page. APIs.io verifies none of them.

Artlist

2 quoted statements, read from Artlist's own page on 2026-11-09.

COMPLIANCE

Eligibility 1

Who may sign up and where, quoted from its own terms.

Artlist

5 quoted statements, read from Artlist's own page on 2026-11-09.

ELIGIBILITY

AI Preferences 1

Its stance on AI training, inference and agents, quoted from its own pages.

Artlist

4 quoted statements, read from Artlist's own page on 2026-11-09.

AI PREFS

Data License 1

How its data and outputs may be reused, quoted from its own terms.

Artlist

1 quoted statement, read from Artlist's own page on 2026-11-09.

LICENSE

Spectral Rules 1

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs. Counts are the severity each rule declares, not results of running them.

Artlist API Rules

41 rules · 39 error-severity 1 warn-severity 1 info-severity

SPECTRAL

OpenAPI Overlays 2

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.

Artlist Download Overlay

6 actions · documentation · artlist-download-openapi-original.yml

DERIVED

Artlist Search Overlay

15 actions · documentation · artlist-search-openapi-original.yml

DERIVED

Security Posture 2

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Artlist Authentication

oauth2 · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Artlist Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Agentic Access (API Evangelist recommendations) 1

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Artlist Agentic Access

5 operations

5 operations · 0 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Get Started 5

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

DeveloperPortal

Console

GettingStarted

SignUp

Login

Documentation 3

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

APIReference

APIReference

AIPreferences

AIPreferences

Agent Surfaces 5

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

WellKnown

LLMsTxt

AgenticAccess

AgentSkill

MCPServer

Design & Contract 5

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Conventions

ErrorCatalog

Lifecycle

Conformance

DataModel

Build 3

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

Packages

Packages

ToolCrosswalk

ToolCrosswalk

Access & Security 3

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Compliance

Compliance

Authentication

Authentication

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support

Support

RateLimits

RateLimits

Commercial 5

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Pricing

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

UsageTerms

DataLicense

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

Other 7

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

CapabilityMap

Overlay

Enterprise

APICatalog

DataProcessing

Attestations

Eligibility

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Source (apis.yml)

aid: artlist
name: Artlist
description: 'Artlist is a creative-assets platform for video creators, marketers and brands, licensing royalty-free music,
  sound effects, stock footage, video templates, LUTs and editing plugins alongside a generative AI toolkit. The Artlist Enterprise
  API, published at developer.artlist.io, opens the company''s music catalog to partner platforms: a Search API for songs,
  artists and albums with mood/genre/instrument category filters plus BPM, duration, vocal-type and free-text facets, and
  a Download API that mints signed MP3/WAV asset URLs for licensed assets. Access is OAuth 2.0 client-credentials against
  an Amazon Cognito authorization server with credentials issued by an account manager, and the developer portal publishes
  OpenAPI 3.1 definitions, an llms.txt index, an RFC 9727 /.well-known/api-catalog linkset and a hosted MCP server for documentation
  search.'
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: true
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: high
  source:
  - openapi
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  gated: none
  gated_source:
  - onboarding
  label: Self-serve signup
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - authentication
  - rate-limits
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-13'
  method: derived
image: https://fdr-prod-docs-files-public.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/artlist.docs.buildwithfern.com/55c8148c837879232b42a92524952487559fe4e81d1d81b61c162440bdbaf680/docs/assets/artlist-light.svg
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/artlist/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: harvest:secondary-market
x-tier: profiled
x-tier-reason: enrichment
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-08-02'
modified: '2026-08-02'
x-docs-platform: fern
x-docs-platform-confidence: medium
x-docs-platform-checked: 2026-09-19
x-docs-hosting: vercel
tags:
- Company
- Music
- Audio
- Media
- Stock Media
- Content Licensing
- Creative Tools
- Search
- Generative AI
- Video
apis:
- aid: artlist:docs-mcp
  name: Artlist Developer Docs MCP Server
  description: Hosted Model Context Protocol server for the Artlist Enterprise API documentation. Exposes a single anonymous
    read-only tool, searchDocs, that searches developer.artlist.io and returns documentation passages with source URLs. Intended
    for AI clients such as Claude Code and Cursor.
  humanURL: https://developer.artlist.io/welcome
  baseURL: https://developer.artlist.io/_mcp/server
  tags:
  - MCP
  - Documentation
  - Artificial Intelligence
  tags_raw:
  - MCP
  - Documentation
  - AI
  properties:
  - type: MCPServer
    url: mcp/artlist-mcp.yml
  - type: ToolCrosswalk
    url: mcp/artlist-tool-crosswalk.yml
- aid: artlist:artlist-album-api
  name: Artlist Album API
  description: The album API from Artlist — 1 operation(s) for album.
  humanURL: https://developer.artlist.io/search/song/song-controller-get-songs
  baseURL: https://business.artlist.io/search/v1
  tags:
  - Album
  tags_raw:
  - album
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/artlist-album-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.artlist.io/search/song/song-controller-get-songs
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.artlist.io/download/downloadable/downloadable-controller-get-downloadable-url
- aid: artlist:artlist-artist-api
  name: Artlist Artist API
  description: The artist API from Artlist — 1 operation(s) for artist.
  humanURL: https://developer.artlist.io/search/song/song-controller-get-songs
  baseURL: https://business.artlist.io/search/v1
  tags:
  - Artists
  tags_raw:
  - artist
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/artlist-artist-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.artlist.io/search/song/song-controller-get-songs
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.artlist.io/download/downloadable/downloadable-controller-get-downloadable-url
- aid: artlist:artlist-downloadable-api
  name: Artlist Downloadable API
  description: The downloadable API from Artlist — 1 operation(s) for downloadable.
  humanURL: https://developer.artlist.io/search/song/song-controller-get-songs
  baseURL: https://business.artlist.io/search/v1
  tags:
  - downloadable
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/artlist-downloadable-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.artlist.io/search/song/song-controller-get-songs
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.artlist.io/download/downloadable/downloadable-controller-get-downloadable-url
- aid: artlist:artlist-song-api
  name: Artlist Song API
  description: The song API from Artlist — 2 operation(s) for song.
  humanURL: https://developer.artlist.io/search/song/song-controller-get-songs
  baseURL: https://business.artlist.io/search/v1
  tags:
  - Song
  tags_raw:
  - song
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/artlist-song-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.artlist.io/search/song/song-controller-get-songs
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.artlist.io/download/downloadable/downloadable-controller-get-downloadable-url
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: CapabilityMap
  url: capabilities/artlist-capability-edges.yml
  name: Artlist Business Capability Map
- type: Overlay
  url: overlays/artlist-download-overlay.yaml
- type: Website
  url: https://artlist.io/
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://developer.artlist.io/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://developer.artlist.io/welcome
- type: APIReference
  url: https://developer.artlist.io/search/song/song-controller-get-songs
- type: Console
  url: https://developer.artlist.io/search/song/song-controller-get-songs
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://developer.artlist.io/welcome
- type: Support
  url: https://help.artlist.io/hc/en-us
- type: Blog
  url: https://artlist.io/blog/
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/Artlist-LTD
- type: Pricing
  url: https://artlist.io/pricing
- type: SignUp
  url: https://artlist.io/start-now
- type: Login
  url: https://artlist.io/sign-in
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://artlist.io/help-center/privacy-terms/terms-of-use/
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://artlist.io/help-center/privacy-terms/privacy-policy/
- type: Compliance
  url: https://help.artlist.io/hc/en-us/articles/29556821619101-Privacy-at-Artlist
- type: Enterprise
  url: https://artlist.io/enterprise
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/artlist-authentication.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/artlist-conventions.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/artlist-rate-limits.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/artlist-problem-types.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/artlist-lifecycle.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/artlist-conformance.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/artlist-domain-security.yml
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/artlist-well-known.yml
- type: APICatalog
  url: well-known/artlist-api-catalog.json
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/artlist-llms.txt
- type: DataModel
  url: data-model/artlist-data-model.yml
- type: Packages
  url: packages/artlist-packages.yml
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/artlist-agentic-access.yml
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/_index.yml
- type: MCPServer
  url: mcp/artlist-mcp.yml
- type: ToolCrosswalk
  url: mcp/artlist-tool-crosswalk.yml
- type: UsageTerms
  url: terms/artlist-terms-of-service.yml
- type: DataProcessing
  url: privacy/artlist-privacy-policy.yml
- type: Attestations
  url: compliance/artlist-compliance.yml
- type: Eligibility
  url: eligibility/artlist-eligibility.yml
- type: AIPreferences
  url: ai-preferences/artlist-ai-preferences.yml
- type: DataLicense
  url: data-license/artlist-data-license.yml
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-08-02'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 23
  pass: local-v1

Artlist API — frequently asked questions

Does Artlist have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 5 APIs from Artlist, including Artlist Developer Docs MCP Server, Artlist Album API and Artlist Artist API, and 2 more.

Is there an OpenAPI specification for the Artlist API?

Yes. APIs.io indexes 4 OpenAPI specifications for Artlist, each linked for download from this page.

How do I authenticate with the Artlist API?

Artlist uses bearer-token authentication (oauth2 · 1 scheme). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Artlist Authentication.

Does Artlist have an MCP server?

Yes. APIs.io lists 1 MCP server for Artlist: Artlist publishes a hosted, anonymous MCP server for its developer documentation. It is a docs-search server, not a wrapper over the Enterprise API itself: the single tool searches developer.artlist.i

Is the Artlist API ready for AI agents?

Artlist has a Kin Score of 49.3 out of 100 (developing) and an Agent Readiness score of 34.8 (agent-ready), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-13.

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