# ByteDance

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/bytedance/  
**Website:** https://www.bytedance.com  
**APIs profiled:** 0

ByteDance is a global technology company founded in 2012 and headquartered in Beijing, operating across roughly 120 cities with more than 150,000 employees. It builds content, creativity, and productivity platforms powered by machine learning, including TikTok and Douyin (short-form video), Toutiao (news aggregation), CapCut (video editing), Lark/Feishu (enterprise collaboration), Pico (virtual reality), and the Volcano Engine cloud and AI platform. ByteDance maintains an active open source presence on GitHub with 400+ public repositories spanning AI agent frameworks, infrastructure, and media tooling. It was surfaced in the API Evangelist network as a portfolio company of altimeter-capital, coatue, ggv-capital, hongshan, idg-capital, softbank-vision-fund, and tiger-global.

## Kin Score — 5.3 / 100 (minimal)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 5.3).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 50.0 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 2.6 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 0.0 |
| Commercial Clarity | 0.0 |
| Access Clarity | 0.0 |

## Agent readiness — 0.0 (human-only)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | no |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Unknown — onboarding: unknown, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: low).

## Security (1)

- **Bytedance Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

## Tags

Company, Consumer Internet, Social-Media, Video, Artificial Intelligence, Content Platforms, Cloud, Open-Source

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