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Coconut

Coconut is a cloud video and audio encoding/transcoding service. The Coconut API v2 lets developers submit a single asynchronous job that transcodes source media into multiple formats, packages adaptive HLS/MPEG-DASH streams, and generates thumbnails and GIF animations, delivering results to cloud storage and reporting progress through webhooks.

Coconut publishes 2 APIs on the APIs.io network: Jobs API and Metadata API. Tagged areas include Video, Audio, Encoding, Transcoding, and Media.

Coconut’s developer surface includes authentication, documentation, engineering blog, and 8 more developer resources.

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36.8/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 31/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6
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2 APIs
VideoAudioEncodingTranscodingMedia

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scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6
Composite quality — 36.8/100 · thin
Contract Quality 15.1 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 4.3 / 20
Commercial Clarity 5.8 / 20
Operational Transparency 4.8 / 13
Governance 0.0 / 12
Discoverability 6.9 / 10
Agent readiness — 31/100 · agent aware
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3
A2A Agent Card 0 / 8
Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4
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APIs 2

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

Coconut Jobs API

Create and retrieve encoding jobs.

Coconut Metadata API

Retrieve technical metadata for input and output files.

Open Collections 1

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

Coconut API

OPEN COLLECTION

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Coconut Plans Pricing

2 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Coconut Rate Limits

3 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

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

Coconut Finops

FINOPS

Security Posture 2

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

Coconut Authentication

http · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Coconut Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

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

Coconut Agentic Access

4 operations · 1 acting

4 operations · 1 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation
Documentation

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess
AgenticAccess

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization
GitHubOrganization

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity
DomainSecurity
 Authentication
Authentication

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

RateLimits
RateLimits

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Plans
Plans
 FinOps
FinOps

Company 3

The organization behind the API

LinkedIn
LinkedIn
 Website
Website
 Blog
Blog

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: coconut
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/coconut/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
name: Coconut
kind: company
description: Coconut is a cloud video and audio encoding/transcoding service. The Coconut API v2 lets developers submit a
  single asynchronous job that transcodes source media into multiple formats, packages adaptive HLS/MPEG-DASH streams, and
  generates thumbnails and GIF animations, delivering results to cloud storage and reporting progress through webhooks.
accessModel:
  pricing: paid
  onboarding: open
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: true
  label: Paid · Open access
  confidence: high
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/coconut.png
tags:
- Video
- Audio
- Encoding
- Transcoding
- Media
created: '2026-06-20'
modified: '2026-06-20'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
- aid: coconut:coconut-jobs-api
  name: Coconut Jobs API
  description: Create and retrieve encoding jobs.
  humanURL: https://docs.coconut.co/jobs/api
  baseURL: https://api.coconut.co/v2
  tags:
  - Jobs
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/coconut-jobs-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.coconut.co/jobs/api
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.coconut.co/jobs/api
  - type: PostmanCollection
    url: collections/coconut.postman_collection.json
  - type: OpenCollection
    url: collections/coconut.opencollection.json
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.coconut.co/metadata/api
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.coconut.co/metadata/api
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.coconut.co/jobs/notification
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.coconut.co/jobs/notification
- aid: coconut:coconut-metadata-api
  name: Coconut Metadata API
  description: Retrieve technical metadata for input and output files.
  humanURL: https://docs.coconut.co/jobs/api
  baseURL: https://api.coconut.co/v2
  tags:
  - Metadata
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/coconut-metadata-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.coconut.co/jobs/api
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.coconut.co/jobs/api
  - type: PostmanCollection
    url: collections/coconut.postman_collection.json
  - type: OpenCollection
    url: collections/coconut.opencollection.json
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.coconut.co/metadata/api
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.coconut.co/metadata/api
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.coconut.co/jobs/notification
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.coconut.co/jobs/notification
common:
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/coconut-agentic-access.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/coconut-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/coconut-authentication.yml
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/opencoconut
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/coconut-co
- type: Website
  url: https://www.coconut.co
- type: Documentation
  url: https://docs.coconut.co
- type: Plans
  url: plans/coconut-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/coconut-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/coconut-finops.yml
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.coconut.co/articles
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com