DistroKid

DistroKid is a Brooklyn, New York based digital music distribution service founded in 2013 by Philip Kaplan that lets independent musicians and labels upload an unlimited number of songs and albums to Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music, YouTube Music, TikTok, Instagram, Pandora, Tidal, Deezer, and dozens of other streaming and download stores for a flat annual subscription fee while keeping 100% of their royalties. By 2020 the platform was distributing roughly a third of all new music released worldwide and serving more than two million artists; Spotify and Insight Partners both hold equity stakes following a 2021 valuation around $1.3B. Around the core distribution product DistroKid has built out a suite of artist services including Teams for automated royalty splits, cover-song mechanical licensing, YouTube Content ID monetization, DistroVid music-video distribution, Upstream label matching, Mixea AI mastering, and DistroKid Direct for fan merchandising and pre-orders. The company has historically operated without a public developer API — integrations with stores, DSPs, rights organizations, and partners are handled through private B2B arrangements, and the only public web endpoints exposed under distrokid.com/api are unauthenticated pre-save widgets used to drive Spotify follow/save campaigns. DistroKid is actively hiring API engineers to scale partner and AI-facing integrations, suggesting a more formal developer surface may emerge, but as of 2026 there is no published OpenAPI specification, SDK, CLI, sandbox, or developer portal. Third-party reverse-engineered wrappers such as the unofficial Golang `distrogo` library exist but are not endorsed.

DistroKid is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Music, Music Distribution, Digital Music, Streaming, and Independent Artists.

DistroKid’s developer surface includes pricing, signup flow, engineering blog, YouTube channel, GitHub presence, and 19 more developer resources.

🌐 Visit website 📡 Source on GitHub

10.3/100 minimal ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only saas Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0

0 APIs

Music Music DistributionDigital MusicStreaming Independent Artists Royalties Rights ManagementContent IDMusic MasteringMusic VideosMerchandise Subscription Creator Economy

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scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0

Composite quality — 10.3/100 · minimal

Contract Quality 0.0 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 1.2 / 20

Access Clarity 3.4 / 20

Operational Transparency 0.7 / 13

Contract Governance 0.0 / 12

Discoverability 5.0 / 10

Agent readiness — 0/100 · human only

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 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

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Security Posture 2

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

Distrokid Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · DMARC

SECURITY

Distrokid Vulnerability Disclosure

security.txt · contact published

SECURITY

Resources

Get Started 2

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Signup

Signup

Login

Build 1

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GitHub

GitHub

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VulnerabilityDisclosure

VulnerabilityDisclosure

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Learn 1

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YouTube

YouTube

Operate 2

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HelpCenter

HelpCenter

Contact

Contact

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Pricing

Pricing

Company 7

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Twitter

Instagram

Facebook

LinkedIn

Careers

Careers

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Other 8

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Stores

HyperFollow

DistroVid

Mixea

Upstream

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Source (apis.yml)

aid: distrokid
name: DistroKid
description: DistroKid is a Brooklyn, New York based digital music distribution service founded in 2013 by Philip Kaplan that
  lets independent musicians and labels upload an unlimited number of songs and albums to Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music,
  YouTube Music, TikTok, Instagram, Pandora, Tidal, Deezer, and dozens of other streaming and download stores for a flat annual
  subscription fee while keeping 100% of their royalties. By 2020 the platform was distributing roughly a third of all new
  music released worldwide and serving more than two million artists; Spotify and Insight Partners both hold equity stakes
  following a 2021 valuation around $1.3B. Around the core distribution product DistroKid has built out a suite of artist
  services including Teams for automated royalty splits, cover-song mechanical licensing, YouTube Content ID monetization,
  DistroVid music-video distribution, Upstream label matching, Mixea AI mastering, and DistroKid Direct for fan merchandising
  and pre-orders. The company has historically operated without a public developer API — integrations with stores, DSPs, rights
  organizations, and partners are handled through private B2B arrangements, and the only public web endpoints exposed under
  distrokid.com/api are unauthenticated pre-save widgets used to drive Spotify follow/save campaigns. DistroKid is actively
  hiring API engineers to scale partner and AI-facing integrations, suggesting a more formal developer surface may emerge,
  but as of 2026 there is no published OpenAPI specification, SDK, CLI, sandbox, or developer portal. Third-party reverse-engineered
  wrappers such as the unofficial Golang `distrogo` library exist but are not endorsed.
type: Index
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: false
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source: []
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
position: Producing
access: 3rd-Party
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/distrokid.png
tags:
- Music
- Music Distribution
- Digital Music
- Streaming
- Independent Artists
- Royalties
- Rights Management
- Content ID
- Music Mastering
- Music Videos
- Merchandise
- Subscription
- Creator Economy
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/distrokid/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2026-05-25'
modified: '2026-05-25'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis: []
common:
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/distrokid-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/distrokid-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://distrokid.com
- type: Pricing
  url: https://distrokid.com/pricing/
- type: Signup
  url: https://distrokid.com/signup/
- type: Login
  url: https://distrokid.com/signin/
- type: HelpCenter
  url: https://distrokid.zendesk.com/hc/en-us
- type: Stores
  url: https://distrokid.com/stores/
- type: HyperFollow
  url: https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/
- type: DistroVid
  url: https://distrokid.com/distrovid/
- type: Mixea
  url: https://mixea.com
- type: Upstream
  url: https://distrokid.com/upstream/
- type: Direct
  url: https://distrokid.com/direct/
- type: Teams
  url: https://distrokid.com/teams/
- type: Blog
  url: https://blog.distrokid.com
- type: Twitter
  url: https://twitter.com/distrokid
- type: Instagram
  url: https://instagram.com/distrokid
- type: YouTube
  url: https://www.youtube.com/distrokid
- type: Facebook
  url: https://facebook.com/distrokid
- type: TikTok
  url: https://www.tiktok.com/@distrokid
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/distrokid
- type: GitHub
  url: https://github.com/Distrokid
- type: Careers
  url: https://jobs.insightpartners.com/companies/distrokid
- type: Contact
  url: https://distrokid.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/requests/new
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com

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