Cision

Cision is an AI-powered PR and earned media software platform offering REST APIs for media database access, press release distribution, media monitoring, analytics, and influencer identification. CisionOne provides a REST API that connects media monitoring data with internal tools, BI platforms, and reporting systems.

Cision publishes 4 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network, including Mentions API, Stream API, and 2 more. Tagged areas include PR Software, Public Relations, Earned Media, Media Monitoring, and Press Release Distribution.

The Cision catalog on APIs.io includes 1 event-driven AsyncAPI specification, 1 JSON-LD context, and 1 Spectral governance ruleset.

Cision’s developer surface includes authentication, documentation, engineering blog, pricing, product news, API reference, getting-started guide, and 28 more developer resources.

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51.5/100 developing ▬ flat Agent 34/100 agent ready Front door AI 4/6 moderate Heartbeat 0/100 dormant saas Full breakdown ↓
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AccessEnterprise

2 published contracts 3 Agent Skills

PR SoftwarePublic Relations Earned Media Media MonitoringPress Release DistributionMedia DatabaseInfluencer IdentificationAnalytics

Kin Score

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scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0

Composite quality — 51.5/100 · developing

Contract Quality 11.5 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 8.4 / 17

Access Clarity 7.8 / 17

Operational Transparency 5.2 / 11

Contract Governance 3.2 / 10

Discoverability 5.7 / 9

Regulatory Posture 4.4 / 15

Agent readiness — 34/100 · agent ready

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 6 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 9 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 8 / 8

Request/Response Examples 7 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7

Typed Event Surface 6 / 6

Agent Skills 5 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 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 0 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

MCP Tool Quality 6 / 6

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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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Agent readiness — checks not met, largest first (exact, from this profile):

MCP Server +12 pts — deployment.mode + probe verdict on the mcp/ manifest, not the pointer; an unprobed slug falls back to authorship
Agentic Access Contract +10 pts — agentic_access artifact present (x-agentic-access), graded by author
A2A Agent Card +8 pts — a2a/-a2a.yml manifest, graded on conformance.grade against A2A 1.0.0
Registration Without a Human +6 pts — a `registration_endpoint` in the served RFC 8414 / OIDC discovery document
Delegated User Identity +6 pts — a served discovery document listing authorization_code in grant_types_supported (served), else an oauth2 authorizationCode flow or openIdConnect declared in an OpenAPI (documented)
Pagination +5 pts — share of collection GETs (an array, or one wrapped in data/items/results ...) that declare a page/limit/offset/cursor parameter, a Link header or a next/cursor field; na with no collection GETs

4 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

Kin Score — facets with the most composite points still available (weight × headroom):

Contract Quality scores 54.3 — up to +11.4 composite points
Access Clarity scores 46.1 — up to +10.8 composite points
Developer Ergonomics scores 49.4 — up to +10.1 composite points

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Markets this provider is in provisional

The Kin Score Market layer reads a provider inside its market: its position, and how deep its integrations go. Depth is only comparable within a position. Provisional and unweighted: not part of the Kin Score or agent readiness.

Market	Position	Depth	Registered MCP server	Declares compatibility
UK G-Cloud Suppliers (UK public-sector cloud procurement)	builds-on	36.4	-	-

Registered MCP server and declares compatibility are report only — not weighted. Undeclared means we found nothing we can read, so there is no number: we never infer integrations.

Standards implemented 1

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.

OpenAPI

measured — observed by APIs.io (published)

APIs 4

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

Next Generation Cision Communications Cloud API

REST API for the Next Generation Cision Communications Cloud, Cision's earned media monitoring and analytics platform. Runs off searches already created in the platform and retu...

Cision Web Solutions Public API

Public data API behind Cision Web Solutions, Cision's embeddable investor relations and online newsroom module library. Serves press release feeds and media feeds (JSON, XML and...

Cision Mentions API

The mentions API from Cision — 1 operation(s) for mentions.

Cision Stream API

The stream API from Cision — 2 operation(s) for stream.

Agent Skills 3

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

Authenticate and export from the Cision Communications Cloud API

AGENT SKILL

Pull media coverage from a CisionOne Mention Stream

AGENT SKILL

Report earned media metrics for a CisionOne stream

AGENT SKILL

Cision API pricing

Rate limits

CisionOne API request rate: 10 minute
Cision Communications Cloud API request rate: 10 minute

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Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Cision Plans Pricing

0 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Cision Rate Limits

2 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Cision Finops

FINOPS

Event Specifications 1

AsyncAPI definitions for this provider's event-driven and streaming APIs.

Cision Webhooks

ASYNCAPI

Semantic Vocabularies 1

JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.

Cision Context

0 classes · 5 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 1

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

Cision API Rules

42 rules · 40 errors 1 warnings 1 info

SPECTRAL

OpenAPI Overlays 1

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.

Cision Cisionone Overlay

3 actions · servers · cision-cisionone-openapi.json

DERIVED

Security Posture 2

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

Cision Authentication

apiKey · 2 schemes

SECURITY

Cision Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Resources

Get Started 2

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

GettingStarted

GettingStarted

Login

Documentation 3

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

APIReference

APIReference

OpenAPI

OpenAPI

Agent Surfaces 2

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgentSkill

AgentSkill

LLMsTxt

LLMsTxt

Design & Contract 7

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Conventions

ErrorCatalog

DataModel

Lifecycle

Conformance

Components

Webhooks

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Build 2

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

Packages

Packages

Access & Security 3

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Authentication

Authentication

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Compliance

Compliance

Operate 5

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

StatusPage

RateLimits

HelpCenter

Support

ChangeLog

Commercial 5

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Pricing

Plans

FinOps

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

Company 4

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

LinkedIn

Blog

Blog

News

News

Other 2

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Overlay

Overlay

Source (apis.yml)

aid: cision
name: Cision
description: Cision is an AI-powered PR and earned media software platform offering REST APIs for media database access, press
  release distribution, media monitoring, analytics, and influencer identification. CisionOne provides a REST API that connects
  media monitoring data with internal tools, BI platforms, and reporting systems.
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  license_evidence:
    not_product:
    - cision/websolutions
  open_source: unknown
  commercial: true
  callable_host: false
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: low
  source:
  - openapi
  - pricing
  - repository-not-product
  generated: '2026-09-25'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: enterprise
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Enterprise
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - authentication
  - rate-limits
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-06'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/cision.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/cision/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2026-06-13'
modified: '2026-09-16'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
tags:
- PR Software
- Public Relations
- Earned Media
- Media Monitoring
- Press Release Distribution
- Media Database
- Influencer Identification
- Analytics
apis:
- aid: cision:cision-communications-cloud-api
  name: Next Generation Cision Communications Cloud API
  description: REST API for the Next Generation Cision Communications Cloud, Cision's earned media monitoring and analytics
    platform. Runs off searches already created in the platform and returns either a list of articles and their metadata,
    or aggregate statistics for the matching set (total mentions, ad equivalency, readership, social shares), in JSON or CSV.
    Served on api.trendkite.com, the host Cision inherited with its 2019 acquisition of TrendKite. Token authentication via
    POST /api/login, then an X-Auth-Token header. Readership for online content is zeroed in the response body under Cision's
    data licensing terms and delivered instead as a five-minute presigned CSV URL in the x-additional-info response header.
    Cision publishes no OpenAPI for this surface.
  image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
  humanURL: https://cision.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/CSM/pages/25765216446/Next+Generation+Cision+Communications+Cloud
  baseURL: https://api.trendkite.com
  tags:
  - Media Monitoring
  - Earned Media
  - Analytics
  - Public Relations
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://cision.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/CSM/pages/25764989843/Settings+-+Cision+API
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/cision-authentication.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: rate-limits/cision-rate-limits.yml
- aid: cision:cision-web-solutions-api
  name: Cision Web Solutions Public API
  description: Public data API behind Cision Web Solutions, Cision's embeddable investor relations and online newsroom module
    library. Serves press release feeds and media feeds (JSON, XML and RSS), share price history, ticker and total return
    data, shareholder ownership breakdowns sourced from Euroclear, analyst estimates from SME Direkt, insider transactions
    from the Swedish FSA, financial calendar events and printed material ordering. Authenticated by a per-customer, per-module
    access key carried in the URL path. Cision publishes no OpenAPI or written endpoint reference for this API; the operation
    surface is documented only through Cision's own open-source client library and per-module technical white papers on the
    demo site.
  image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
  humanURL: https://websolutions.ne.cision.com/
  baseURL: https://publish.ne.cision.com/papi/
  tags:
  - Investor Relations
  - Press Releases
  - Newsroom
  - Market Data
  - Embeddable Components
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://github.com/cision/websolutions
  - type: SourceCode
    url: https://github.com/cision/websolutions
  - type: Components
    url: components/cision-components.yml
  - type: Webhooks
    url: asyncapi/cision-webhooks.yml
- aid: cision:cision-mentions-api
  name: Cision Mentions API
  description: The mentions API from Cision — 1 operation(s) for mentions.
  humanURL: https://www.cision.com/cisionone/
  baseURL: https://api.cision.one
  tags:
  - Mentions
  tags_raw:
  - mentions
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/cision-mentions-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://cision.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/CSM/pages/26385776684/CisionOne+-+API
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://developers.cision.one/docs/api/v2
- aid: cision:cision-stream-api
  name: Cision Stream API
  description: The stream API from Cision — 2 operation(s) for stream.
  humanURL: https://www.cision.com/cisionone/
  baseURL: https://api.cision.one
  tags:
  - Stream
  tags_raw:
  - stream
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/cision-stream-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://cision.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/CSM/pages/26385776684/CisionOne+-+API
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://developers.cision.one/docs/api/v2
common:
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/cision-authentication.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/cision-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.cision.com/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://cision.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/CSM/pages/26385776684/CisionOne+-+API
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/cision
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/cision
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.cision.com/us/blog/
- type: Pricing
  url: https://www.cision.com/pricing/
- type: StatusPage
  url: https://oneuptime.cision.com/
- type: X
  url: https://x.com/cision
- type: Plans
  url: plans/cision-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/cision-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/cision-finops.yml
- type: News
  url: https://www.cision.com/pr-distribution-and-placement/prnewswire/
- type: APIReference
  url: https://developers.cision.one/docs/api/v2
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://cision.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/CSM/pages/25764989843/Settings+-+Cision+API
- type: HelpCenter
  url: https://cision.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/CSM/overview
- type: Support
  url: https://www.cision.com/contact-us/
- type: Login
  url: https://app.cision.one/
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.cision.com/legal/msa/
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.cision.com/legal/privacy-policy/
- type: Compliance
  url: https://www.cision.com/legal/security-statement/
- type: OpenAPI
  url: openapi/_original/cision-cisionone-openapi.yml
- type: Overlay
  url: overlays/cision-cisionone-overlay.yaml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/cision-conventions.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/cision-problem-types.yml
- type: DataModel
  url: data-model/cision-data-model.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/cision-lifecycle.yml
- type: ChangeLog
  url: changelog/cision-changelog.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/cision-conformance.yml
- type: Packages
  url: packages/cision-packages.yml
- type: Components
  url: components/cision-components.yml
- type: Webhooks
  url: asyncapi/cision-webhooks.yml
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/_index.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/cision-llms.txt
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-08-13'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 20
  pass: local-v1

Cision API — frequently asked questions

Does Cision have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 4 APIs from Cision, including Next Generation Cision Communications Cloud API, Cision Web Solutions Public API and Cision Mentions API, and 1 more.

Is there an OpenAPI specification for the Cision API?

Yes. APIs.io indexes 2 OpenAPI specifications for Cision, each linked for download from this page.

How do I authenticate with the Cision API?

Cision uses bearer-token authentication (apiKey · 2 schemes). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Cision Authentication.

Is the Cision API ready for AI agents?

Cision has a Kin Score of 51.5 out of 100 (developing) and an Agent Readiness score of 33.8 (agent-ready), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.

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