etchv

Etchv provides an invisible forensic watermarking API that embeds unique, traceable watermarks into images, PDFs, and video files. The service offers real-time API calls without signup, supporting formats like MP4 and MOV, and includes SDKs for multiple languages. It targets developers needing content security, provenance, and anti-piracy solutions, with detailed documentation, quickstart guides, and pricing information publicly available.

etchv is listed with 1 API on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Watermarking, Media, Security, and Developer Tools.

The etchv catalog on APIs.io includes 1 event-driven AsyncAPI specification.

etchv’s developer surface includes authentication, pricing, engineering blog, getting-started guide, documentation, and 24 more developer resources.

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48.2/100 developing ▲ 9.9 Agent 23/100 agent aware Heartbeat 100/100 alive Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-11-13 · rubric v0.28.0 · Show this score on your site →

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Company Watermarking Media Security Developer Tools

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scored 2026-11-13 · rubric v0.28.0

Composite quality — 48.2/100 · developing

Contract Quality 8.3 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 7.3 / 17

Access Clarity 13.0 / 17

Operational Transparency 3.4 / 11

Contract Governance 0.5 / 10

Discoverability 6.5 / 9

Regulatory Posture 4.6 / 15

Agent readiness — 23/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 9 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7

Typed Event Surface 6 / 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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Agent readiness — checks not met, largest first (exact, from this profile):

MCP Server +12 pts — deployment.mode + probe verdict on the mcp/ manifest, not the pointer; an unprobed slug falls back to authorship Ask about this →
Agentic Access Contract +10 pts — agentic_access artifact present (x-agentic-access), graded by author Ask about this →
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Request/Response Examples +7 pts — share of operations carrying request/response examples; else an Examples / Code Samples link Ask about this →

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Kin Score — facets with the most composite points still available (weight × headroom):

Contract Quality scores 39.0 — up to +15.3 composite points Ask about this →
Contract Governance scores 4.5 — up to +11.5 composite points Ask about this →
Developer Ergonomics scores 42.9 — up to +11.4 composite points Ask about this →

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APIs 1

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Etchv API

Watermark and detect images, PDFs and videos synchronously or asynchronously.

etchv API pricing

Prices published by etchv, read 2026-10-20 from etchv.com/pricing.

Plan	Price
Launch	$19/ month
Growth	$49/ month
Scale	$99/ month
Business	$499/ month

Plan details, limits and sources →

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

etchv Plans Pricing

4 plans

PLANS

Terms of Service 1

What its API terms permit and prohibit, quoted from its own page.

etchv

11 quoted statements, read from etchv's own page on 2026-11-09.

TERMS

Privacy & Data 1

Its role, the data it processes, retention and transfers, quoted from its own privacy page.

etchv

25 quoted statements, read from etchv's own page on 2026-11-09.

PRIVACY

Eligibility 1

Who may sign up and where, quoted from its own terms.

etchv

4 quoted statements, read from etchv's own page on 2026-11-09.

ELIGIBILITY

AI Preferences 1

Its stance on AI training, inference and agents, quoted from its own pages.

etchv

2 quoted statements, read from etchv's own page on 2026-11-09.

AI PREFS

Data License 1

How its data and outputs may be reused, quoted from its own terms.

etchv

2 quoted statements, read from etchv's own page on 2026-11-09.

LICENSE

Event Specifications 1

AsyncAPI definitions for this provider's event-driven and streaming APIs.

Etchv Webhooks

ASYNCAPI

Security Posture 3

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

etchv Authentication

1 scheme

SECURITY

etchv Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

etchv Vulnerability Disclosure

security.txt · contact published

SECURITY

Resources

Get Started 2

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Login

GettingStarted

GettingStarted

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

AIPreferences

AIPreferences

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

WellKnown

WellKnown

Design & Contract 4

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Webhooks

Idempotency

Conventions

Conformance

Build 2

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

SDKs

SDKs

Packages

Packages

Access & Security 5

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Authentication

Authentication

SecurityTxt

SecurityTxt

Security

Security

VulnerabilityDisclosure

VulnerabilityDisclosure

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

StatusPage

StatusPage

Commercial 6

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Plans

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

Pricing

UsageTerms

DataLicense

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Blog

Blog

Website

Website

Other 4

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Hosts

Vendors

DataProcessing

Eligibility

Source (apis.yml)

aid: etchv
name: etchv
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://etchv.com/opengraph-image?3957397a121aa923
description: Etchv provides an invisible forensic watermarking API that embeds unique, traceable watermarks into images, PDFs,
  and video files. The service offers real-time API calls without signup, supporting formats like MP4 and MOV, and includes
  SDKs for multiple languages. It targets developers needing content security, provenance, and anti-piracy solutions, with
  detailed documentation, quickstart guides, and pricing information publicly available.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/etchv/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: harvest:new-submission
x-tier: profiled
x-tier-reason: enrichment pass 2026-10-20 (modular-v1; was harvest)
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-10-20'
modified: '2026-10-20'
tags:
- Company
- Watermarking
- Media
- Security
- Developer Tools
tags_raw:
- Company
- Watermarking
- Media
- API
- Security
- DeveloperTools
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: Plans
  url: plans/etchv-plans-pricing.yml
- type: Webhooks
  url: asyncapi/etchv-webhooks.yml
- type: Idempotency
  url: conventions/etchv-conventions.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/etchv-conventions.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/etchv-authentication.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/etchv-conformance.yml
- type: SecurityTxt
  url: well-known/etchv-security.txt
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/etchv-well-known.yml
- type: Hosts
  url: hosts/etchv-hosts.yml
- type: Vendors
  url: vendors/etchv-vendors.yml
- type: SDKs
  url: packages/etchv-packages.yml
- type: Packages
  url: packages/etchv-packages.yml
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://etchv.com/terms
- type: StatusPage
  url: https://status.etchv.com/
- type: Security
  url: https://etchv.com/security
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://etchv.com/privacy
- type: Pricing
  url: https://etchv.com/pricing
- type: Login
  url: https://etchv.com/login
- type: Blog
  url: https://etchv.com/blog
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://etchv.com/docs/quickstart
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/etchv-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/etchv-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://etchv.com
- type: Documentation
  url: https://etchv.com/docs
- type: UsageTerms
  url: terms/etchv-terms-of-service.yml
- type: DataProcessing
  url: privacy/etchv-privacy-policy.yml
- type: Eligibility
  url: eligibility/etchv-eligibility.yml
- type: AIPreferences
  url: ai-preferences/etchv-ai-preferences.yml
- type: DataLicense
  url: data-license/etchv-data-license.yml
apis:
- name: Etchv API
  description: Watermark and detect images, PDFs and videos synchronously or asynchronously.
  humanURL: https://etchv.com/docs/api
  baseURL: https://api.etchv.com
  aid: etchv:etchv-api
x-submission-notes: Invisible forensic watermarking API for images, PDFs, video; MCP docs at /docs/mcp; opted into Demand
  Report
x-submission-probe: root 200; /docs 200; /docs/mcp 200; docs name https://api.etchv.com, HTTP API (embed/documents/videos),
  Node SDK, github.com/etchv-labs/docs; no llms.txt/openapi.json at root (404); soft-404 clean
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-10-20'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 15
  pass: modular-v1
  engine: identity=local,contract=local,surfaces=local,docs=local,regulatory=local

etchv API — frequently asked questions

Does etchv have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 1 API from etchv, including Etchv API.

How do I authenticate with the etchv API?

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

How much does the etchv API cost?

etchv publishes its prices; its Launch plan is $19/ month as of 2026-10-20. APIs.io lists 4 pricing plans for etchv, with each plan's price, limits and inclusions under Pricing on this page.

Is the etchv API ready for AI agents?

etchv has a Kin Score of 48.2 out of 100 (developing) and an Agent Readiness score of 23.0 (agent-aware), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-13.

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