# Dacast

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/dacast/  
**Website:** https://www.dacast.com  
**APIs profiled:** 4

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.

## Kin Score — 37.0 / 100 (thin)

Scored 2026-08-24 under rubric 0.13.0. Trend: flat (-0.3 from 37.3).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 74.1 |
| Contract Quality | 53.1 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 31.6 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 21.4 |
| Commercial Clarity | 39.5 |
| Access Clarity | 39.5 |

## Agent readiness — 19.8 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | bearer |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |
| Delegated Identity | no |
| Protected Resource Metadata | no |
| Dynamic Client Registration | no |
| Agentic Commerce | no |

## Access

Paid · Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: paid, trial: no (confidence: high).

## APIs (4)

- **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.

## Agentic access (1)

- **Dacast Agentic Access** — 19 operations · 11 acting

## Security (2)

- **Dacast Authentication** — apiKey · 1 scheme
- **Dacast Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

## Plans (1)

- **Dacast Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Live Streaming, Video, VOD, OTT, Video Hosting, Media, Analytics

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