# DistroKid

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/distrokid/  
**Website:** https://distrokid.com  
**APIs profiled:** 0

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.

## Kin Score — 10.3 / 100 (minimal)

Scored 2026-08-21 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 10.3).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 50.0 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 5.3 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 6.0 |
| Commercial Clarity | 17.1 |
| Access Clarity | 17.1 |

## Agent readiness — 0.0 (human-only)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | no |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Unknown — onboarding: unknown, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: low).

## Security (2)

- **Distrokid Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · DMARC
- **Distrokid Vulnerability Disclosure** — security.txt · contact published

## Tags

Music, Music Distribution, Digital Music, Streaming, Independent Artists, Royalties, Rights Management, Content ID, Music Mastering, Music Videos, Merchandise, Subscription, Creator Economy

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