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Dacast

Dacast is a unified live streaming and video hosting (OTT) platform that lets businesses broadcast live channels, host and monetize video on demand (VOD), organize content into playlists, and embed a white-label HTML5 player. Dacast exposes a RESTful JSON API (base https://developer.dacast.com/v2) for programmatically creating live channels, uploading and managing VOD, building playlists, and reading viewer analytics. API requests authenticate with an X-Api-Key header. API access is gated to Scale and Custom plans (trial accounts can request temporary access from sales), so the endpoints below are grounded in Dacast's public developer docs but several exact paths beyond the confirmed /v2/channel, /v2/vod, and /v2/playlist are honestly modeled.

Dacast publishes 4 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network, including Analytics API, Live Channels API, Playlists API, and 1 more. Tagged areas include Live Streaming, Video, VOD, OTT, and Video Hosting.

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

Dacast’s developer surface includes engineering blog, authentication, documentation, and 9 more developer resources.

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25.7/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 20/100 agent aware Front door AI 3/6 light Heartbeat 100/100 alive saas Full breakdown ↓
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AccessPaid
1 published contract
Live StreamingVideoVODOTTVideo HostingMediaAnalytics

What this lets a business do 3

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

Content Distribution & Delivery Management
BC-3740
Live Channels
POST /v2/channel PUT /v2/channel/{channelId}/ingest POST /v2/channel/{channelId}/simulcast
Audience Measurement & Insights Management
BC-3770
Analytics
GET /v2/analytics
Media Asset Management
BC-3710
VOD
POST /v2/vod DELETE /v2/vod/{videoId} DELETE /v2/vod/{videoId}/rendition/{renditionId} POST /v2/vod/upload/multipart

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scored 2026-11-13 · rubric v0.28.0
Composite quality — 25.7/100 · emerging
Contract Quality 8.4 / 19
Developer Ergonomics 4.7 / 15
Access Clarity 1.0 / 15
Operational Transparency 0.7 / 10
Contract Governance 1.2 / 9
Discoverability 5.0 / 8
Regulatory Posture 0.9 / 15
Create-or-Update Ergonomics 0.0 / 10
Agent readiness — 20/100 · agent aware
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10
Documented Reversibility 0 / 6
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
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
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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.

Dacast Analytics API

Viewer analytics and reporting.

Dacast Live Channels API

Live streaming channels and simulcast.

Dacast Playlists API

Ordered collections of VOD and live content.

Dacast VOD API

Video on demand upload and management.

Open Collections 4

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

Dacast Analytics API

OPEN COLLECTION

Dacast Analytics Live Channels API

OPEN COLLECTION

Dacast Analytics Playlists API

OPEN COLLECTION

Dacast Analytics VOD API

OPEN COLLECTION

Dacast API pricing

Not yet checked against Dacast's own pricing page. Compiled by API Evangelist on 2026-07-11 from www.dacast.com/live-streaming-pricing-plans/; confirm before you rely on a figure.

PlanPrice
Starter subscription —
Event subscription —
Scale subscription —
Custom enterprise —
Overages usage —

Plan details, limits and sources →

Rate limits

Compiled by API Evangelist, not yet checked against Dacast's documentation. Rate-limit details →

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Dacast Plans Pricing

5 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Dacast Rate Limits

3 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

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

Dacast Finops

FINOPS

Spectral Rules 1

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

Dacast API Rules

48 rules · 46 error-severity 1 warn-severity 1 info-severity

SPECTRAL

Security Posture 2

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

Dacast Authentication

apiKey · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Dacast Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Agentic Access (API Evangelist recommendations) 1

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

Dacast Agentic Access

19 operations · 11 acting

19 operations · 11 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

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 4

The organization behind the API

Blog
Blog
 BlogRSS
BlogRSS
 LinkedIn
LinkedIn
 Website
Website

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

CapabilityMap
CapabilityMap

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: dacast
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/dacast/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
name: Dacast
kind: company
description: Dacast is a unified live streaming and video hosting (OTT) platform that lets businesses broadcast live channels,
  host and monetize video on demand (VOD), organize content into playlists, and embed a white-label HTML5 player. Dacast exposes
  a RESTful JSON API (base https://developer.dacast.com/v2) for programmatically creating live channels, uploading and managing
  VOD, building playlists, and reading viewer analytics. API requests authenticate with an X-Api-Key header. API access is
  gated to Scale and Custom plans (trial accounts can request temporary access from sales), so the endpoints below are grounded
  in Dacast's public developer docs but several exact paths beyond the confirmed /v2/channel, /v2/vod, and /v2/playlist are
  honestly modeled.
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: paid
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Paid
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-13'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/dacast.png
x-docs-platform: readme
x-docs-platform-confidence: high
x-docs-platform-checked: 2026-09-25
tags:
- Live Streaming
- Video
- VOD
- OTT
- Video Hosting
- Media
- Analytics
created: '2026-07-11'
modified: '2026-10-06'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- aid: dacast:dacast-analytics-api
  name: Dacast Analytics API
  description: Viewer analytics and reporting.
  humanURL: https://docs.dacast.com/docs/vod-upload
  baseURL: https://developer.dacast.com/v2
  tags:
  - Analytics
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/dacast-analytics-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.dacast.com/docs/make-your-first-api-call
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.dacast.com/docs/vod-upload
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.dacast.com/docs/create-live-streams-channels
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.dacast.com/docs/playlists
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.dacast.com/support/knowledgebase/new-analytics-dashboard/
- aid: dacast:dacast-live-channels-api
  name: Dacast Live Channels API
  description: Live streaming channels and simulcast.
  humanURL: https://docs.dacast.com/docs/vod-upload
  baseURL: https://developer.dacast.com/v2
  tags:
  - Live Channels
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/dacast-live-channels-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.dacast.com/docs/make-your-first-api-call
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.dacast.com/docs/vod-upload
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.dacast.com/docs/create-live-streams-channels
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.dacast.com/docs/playlists
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.dacast.com/support/knowledgebase/new-analytics-dashboard/
- aid: dacast:dacast-playlists-api
  name: Dacast Playlists API
  description: Ordered collections of VOD and live content.
  humanURL: https://docs.dacast.com/docs/vod-upload
  baseURL: https://developer.dacast.com/v2
  tags:
  - Playlists
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/dacast-playlists-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.dacast.com/docs/make-your-first-api-call
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.dacast.com/docs/vod-upload
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.dacast.com/docs/create-live-streams-channels
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.dacast.com/docs/playlists
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.dacast.com/support/knowledgebase/new-analytics-dashboard/
- aid: dacast:dacast-vod-api
  name: Dacast VOD API
  description: Video on demand upload and management.
  humanURL: https://docs.dacast.com/docs/vod-upload
  baseURL: https://developer.dacast.com/v2
  tags:
  - VOD
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/dacast-vod-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.dacast.com/docs/make-your-first-api-call
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.dacast.com/docs/vod-upload
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.dacast.com/docs/create-live-streams-channels
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.dacast.com/docs/playlists
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.dacast.com/support/knowledgebase/new-analytics-dashboard/
common:
- url: https://www.dacast.com/category/blog/
  type: Blog
- url: https://www.dacast.com/feed/
  type: BlogRSS
- type: CapabilityMap
  url: capabilities/dacast-capability-edges.yml
  name: Dacast Business Capability Map
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/dacast-agentic-access.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/dacast-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/dacast-authentication.yml
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/dacast
- type: Website
  url: https://www.dacast.com
- type: Documentation
  url: https://docs.dacast.com
- type: Plans
  url: plans/dacast-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/dacast-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/dacast-finops.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com

Dacast API — frequently asked questions

Does Dacast have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 4 APIs from Dacast, including Dacast Analytics API, Dacast Live Channels API and Dacast Playlists API, and 1 more.

Is there an OpenAPI specification for the Dacast API?

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

How do I authenticate with the Dacast API?

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

How much does the Dacast API cost?

APIs.io lists 5 pricing plans for Dacast, with each plan's price, limits and inclusions under Pricing on this page.

Is the Dacast API ready for AI agents?

Dacast has a Kin Score of 25.7 out of 100 (emerging) and an Agent Readiness score of 19.6 (agent-aware), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-13.

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