# Epidemic Sound

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/epidemic-sound/  
**Website:** https://www.epidemicsound.com  
**APIs profiled:** 9

Epidemic Sound is a Stockholm-based royalty-free music and sound effects licensing platform for video creators, businesses, and platforms. The catalog includes 55,000+ tracks across 390 genres, 250,000+ sound effects, stems and instrumental versions, all under an all-inclusive license that covers mechanical, sync, and public performance rights globally. The Partner Content API ("Epidemic Sound Connect") exposes the full catalog and Epidemic Sound's AI-powered soundtracking tools — Soundmatch (video-to-music recommendation), semantic search, similar-track and similar-section lookup, image-based matching, beat detection, HLS streaming previews, AI voiceover generation, and the new track-versions endpoint that adapts a recording to a target duration while preserving musical structure. An official Model Context Protocol (MCP) server (beta) makes the same catalog and tools available to AI agents at https://www.epidemicsound.com/a/mcp-service/mcp. Access to the Partner API is gated behind a partnership agreement; once signed, partner engineers receive credentials via the Developer Portal and authenticate using API Key, Partner Token, or Epidemic Sound Connect (OAuth 2.0).

## Kin Score — 45.5 / 100 (developing)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 45.5).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 74.1 |
| Contract Quality | 58.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 23.7 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 52.4 |
| Commercial Clarity | 50.0 |
| Access Clarity | 50.0 |

## Agent readiness — 41.9 (agent-ready)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | verified |
| OpenAPI Examples | verified |
| 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 |

## Access

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

## APIs (9)

- **Epidemic Sound Assets API** — These endpoints allows your application to upload assets such as images or audio.
- **Epidemic Sound Authentication API** — Endpoints for user authentication.
- **Epidemic Sound Beta API** — These endpoints are in beta.
- **Epidemic Sound Browse & search API** — These endpoints will allow you to explore the Epidemic Sound library. You can display tracks grouped in curated playlists, moods or genres or use search to get tracks by any term.
- **Epidemic Sound Reporting API** — These endpoints will allow you to report how tracks are used in your application.
- **Epidemic Sound Safelisting API** — Endpoints for managing safelisting licenses. Allows partners to create, list, update, and delete licenses for channels and videos on behalf of their end users.
- **Epidemic Sound Sound effects API** — Endpoints to get sound effect specific information. These endpoints allow you to build a UI to browse and search for sound effects.
- **Epidemic Sound Tracks API** — Endpoints to get track specific information.
- **Epidemic Sound Users API** — These endpoints allows your application to get user specific information such as liked sounds.

## Agentic access (1)

- **Epidemic Sound Agentic Access** — 47 operations · 14 acting

## Security (2)

- **Epidemic Sound Authentication** — http/oauth2 · 3 schemes
- **Epidemic Sound Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

## Plans (1)

- **Epidemic Sound Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Music, Sound Effects, Royalty-Free Music, Audio, Audio Licensing, Soundtracking, Sync Licensing, Creators, Video, AI Voiceover, Semantic Search, MCP

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