Kive

Kive is an AI product photography and campaign content platform for e-commerce brands, built by TO LABS AB and used by more than 10,000 brands. It generates accurate product shots, lifestyle scenes, campaign imagery and product videos from a brand's own assets, using a large catalogue of professionally curated visual presets ("studios") tuned to categories such as fashion, cosmetics, skincare, jewellery and footwear. The platform pairs generation with a creative asset library, AI-powered search, boards, custom-trained subject models, bulk catalogue generation and editing tools (background removal and replacement, canvas extension, upscaling). Kive publishes no public REST API; its programmable surface is an OAuth-protected Model Context Protocol server at mcp.kive.ai that lets agents browse workspaces and products and create images and videos on the user's credits.

Kive is listed with 1 API on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Software-as-a-Service, Artificial Intelligence, Generative AI, and Creative.

Kive’s developer surface includes documentation, getting-started guide, support, engineering blog, changelog, pricing, signup flow, and 27 more developer resources.

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49.5/100 developing ▲ 5.3 Agent 26/100 agent aware Front door AI 3/6 light Heartbeat 66/100 slowing saas Full breakdown ↓
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1 API 1 MCP Servers

Company Software-as-a-Service Artificial Intelligence Generative AI Creative Product Photography Digital Asset Management E-Commerce Image Video MCP

Kin Score

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scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0

Composite quality — 49.5/100 · developing

Contract Quality 0.0 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 8.5 / 17

Access Clarity 15.9 / 17

Operational Transparency 6.4 / 11

Contract Governance 1.9 / 10

Discoverability 6.4 / 9

Regulatory Posture 6.3 / 15

Agent readiness — 26/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 12 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 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 6 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 5 / 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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Create-or-Update Ergonomics could not be measured. We hold no machine-readable contract for this provider to read, so there is nothing to measure a write surface against. Excluded rather than scored zero: never-measured and measured-empty are different facts. Publishing an OpenAPI is what makes this facet — and several others — scorable at all.

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Agent readiness — checks not met, largest first (exact, from this profile):

Machine-Readable Contract +18 pts — api_specs includes an OpenAPI document
Agentic Access Contract +10 pts — agentic_access artifact present (x-agentic-access), graded by author
Idempotency +9 pts — OpenAPI mutating operations declare an idempotency key — a header, a request-body property, or a named de-duplication token whose own description says so (verified); else common[].type matches /idempoten/i (documented)
Stable Error Semantics +8 pts — OpenAPI $refs a shared error schema across 4xx/5xx responses (verified), else common[].type includes ErrorCatalog / ErrorCodes / DeclineCodes
A2A Agent Card +8 pts — a2a/-a2a.yml manifest, graded on conformance.grade against A2A 1.0.0
Request/Response Examples +7 pts — share of operations carrying request/response examples; else an Examples / Code Samples link

8 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

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

Contract Quality scores 0.0 — up to +25.0 composite points
Developer Ergonomics scores 50.0 — up to +10.0 composite points
Contract Governance scores 18.2 — up to +9.8 composite points

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Markets this provider is in provisional

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Market	Position	Depth	Registered MCP server	Declares compatibility
Commerce Platform Ecosystems (Shopify, WooCommerce, Stripe Apps)	builds-on	17.2 (thin)	1	-

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Standards implemented 2

Standards this provider implements or carries. De facto ones are profiled and measured by the API Commons; formal ones come from the standards directory and are linked by the provider's own tags. The evidence column says how each claim was established — not that it was made.

Model Context Protocol (MCP)

measured — observed by APIs.io (verified)

OAuth 2.0 Protected Resource Metadata

measured — observed by APIs.io (verified)

APIs 1

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

Kive MCP Server

The Kive MCP server is Kive's programmable interface: an OAuth 2.1 protected Model Context Protocol endpoint that lets an authorized agent browse Kive workspaces, saved products...

MCP Servers 1

Model Context Protocol servers that expose these APIs to AI agents.

Kive MCP Server

Remote MCP server at mcp.kive.ai over HTTP.

MCP SERVER

Kive API pricing

Prices published by Kive, read 2026-10-28 from kive.ai/pricing.

Plan	Price
Free	Start free Includes: 40 AI credits when you verify your email, plus inspiration browsing and up to 5 boards
Basic	$40 Includes: 2,000 credits · 200 images or 20 videos; up to 2 users
Basic (yearly)	now $30/ month, billed yearly Includes: 2,000 credits a month
Pro 5,000 credits	$100 Includes: 5,000 credits · Premium · 500 images or 50 videos; up to 10 users
Pro 5,000 credits (yearly)	now $67/ month, billed yearly · first year Includes: 5,000 credits a month
Pro 10,000 credits	$200 Includes: 10,000 credits · Premium · 1,000 images or 100 videos
Pro 10,000 credits (yearly)	now $134/ month, billed yearly · first year Includes: 10,000 credits a month
Pro 20,000 credits	$400 Includes: 20,000 credits · Premium · 2,000 images or 200 videos

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Pricing Plans 2

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Kive Plans

14 plans

PLANS

Kive Price Estimates

0 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Kive Rate Limits

3 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Kive Finops

FINOPS

Security Posture 4

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

Kive Authentication

oauth2 · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Kive Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Kive Vulnerability Disclosure

Hackerone · security.txt · contact published

SECURITY

Kive Trust Center

ISO/IEC 27001:2022

SECURITY

Scopes 1

OAuth scopes governing access to this provider's APIs.

Kive Scopes

2 scopes · authorizationCode

2 scopes

SCOPES

Resources

Get Started 4

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

DeveloperPortal

DeveloperPortal

GettingStarted

GettingStarted

SignUp

SignUp

Login

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

Agent Surfaces 3

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

MCPServer

MCPServer

LLMsTxt

LLMsTxt

WellKnown

WellKnown

Design & Contract 2

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Conventions

Conventions

Conformance

Conformance

Access & Security 8

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Authentication

OAuthScopes

Compliance

TrustCenter

Trust

VulnerabilityDisclosure

VulnerabilityDisclosure

Security

Security

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

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Learn 1

Tutorials, courses, talks, and written guidance

YouTube

YouTube

Operate 3

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support

Support

ChangeLog

ChangeLog

RateLimits

RateLimits

Commercial 4

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Pricing

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

Plans

Company 6

The organization behind the API

Website

Blog

Careers

Twitter

Instagram

Facebook

Other 2

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Enterprise

Enterprise

Customers

Customers

Source (apis.yml)

aid: kive
name: Kive
description: Kive is an AI product photography and campaign content platform for e-commerce brands, built by TO LABS AB and
  used by more than 10,000 brands. It generates accurate product shots, lifestyle scenes, campaign imagery and product videos
  from a brand's own assets, using a large catalogue of professionally curated visual presets ("studios") tuned to categories
  such as fashion, cosmetics, skincare, jewellery and footwear. The platform pairs generation with a creative asset library,
  AI-powered search, boards, custom-trained subject models, bulk catalogue generation and editing tools (background removal
  and replacement, canvas extension, upscaling). Kive publishes no public REST API; its programmable surface is an OAuth-protected
  Model Context Protocol server at mcp.kive.ai that lets agents browse workspaces and products and create images and videos
  on the user's credits.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/kive/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
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: freemium
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: true
  public: false
  gated: none
  gated_source:
  - onboarding
  label: Freemium · Self-serve signup
  confidence: high
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  - scopes
  - rate-limits
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-06'
  method: derived
image: https://mcp.kive.ai/kive_logo_192.png
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- creandum
- eqt-ventures
x-legal-entity: TO LABS AB
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-19'
tags:
- Company
- Software-as-a-Service
- Artificial Intelligence
- Generative AI
- Creative
- Product Photography
- Digital Asset Management
- E-Commerce
- Image
- Video
- MCP
tags_raw:
- Company
- SaaS
- Artificial Intelligence
- Generative AI
- Creative
- Product Photography
- Digital Asset Management
- E-Commerce
- Images
- Video
- MCP
apis:
- aid: kive:mcp
  name: Kive MCP Server
  description: 'The Kive MCP server is Kive''s programmable interface: an OAuth 2.1 protected Model Context Protocol endpoint
    that lets an authorized agent browse Kive workspaces, saved products, trained models, studios and video presets, create
    saved products from a product page or image URL, generate product images and videos, edit existing images and poll generation
    status. Actions run under the authorizing user''s workspace permissions and spend that workspace''s credits.'
  humanURL: https://kive.ai/mcp
  baseURL: https://mcp.kive.ai/mcp
  tags:
  - MCP
  - Generative AI
  - Image
  - Video
  tags_raw:
  - MCP
  - Generative AI
  - Images
  - Video
  properties:
  - type: MCPServer
    url: mcp/kive-mcp.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://kive.ai/docs/mcp/overview.md
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://kive.ai/docs/mcp/connect-any-client.md
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/kive-authentication.yml
  - type: OAuthScopes
    url: scopes/kive-scopes.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://www.kive.ai/
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://kive.ai/mcp
- type: Documentation
  url: https://kive.ai/docs
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://kive.ai/docs/introduction-getting-started/start-here.md
- type: Support
  url: https://kive.ai/docs/troubleshooting-faqs/contact-support.md
- type: Blog
  url: https://kive.ai/news
- type: ChangeLog
  url: changelog/kive-changelog.yml
- type: Pricing
  url: https://kive.ai/pricing
- type: SignUp
  url: https://kive.ai/signup
- type: Login
  url: https://kive.ai/login
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://kive.ai/terms
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://kive.ai/privacy
- type: MCPServer
  url: mcp/kive-mcp.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/kive-authentication.yml
- type: OAuthScopes
  url: scopes/kive-scopes.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/kive-llms.txt
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/kive-well-known.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/kive-conventions.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/kive-conformance.yml
- type: Compliance
  url: https://trust.kive.ai/
- type: TrustCenter
  url: security/kive-trust-center.yml
- type: Trust
  url: https://trust.kive.ai/
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/kive-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: Security
  url: https://trust.kive.ai/
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/kive-domain-security.yml
- type: Plans
  url: plans/kive-plans.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/kive-rate-limits.yml
- type: Enterprise
  url: https://kive.ai/enterprise
- type: Customers
  url: https://kive.ai/customers
- type: Careers
  url: https://kiveai.notion.site/Work-at-Kive-304f5135e42c8078ac44df36a1ba72b8
- type: Twitter
  url: https://twitter.com/getkive
- type: YouTube
  url: https://www.youtube.com/@kiveai
- type: Instagram
  url: https://instagram.com/kive.ai
- type: Facebook
  url: https://facebook.com/kiveai
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: backfilled
  pass: local-v1
  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence

Kive API — frequently asked questions

Does Kive have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 1 API from Kive, including Kive MCP Server.

How do I authenticate with the Kive API?

Kive documents its authentication (oauth2 · 1 scheme). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Kive Authentication.

How much does the Kive API cost?

Kive publishes its prices; its Free plan is Start free as of 2026-10-28. APIs.io lists 14 pricing plans for Kive, with each plan's price, limits and inclusions under Pricing on this page.

Does Kive have an MCP server?

Yes. APIs.io lists 1 MCP server for Kive: Remote MCP server at mcp.kive.ai over HTTP.

Is the Kive API ready for AI agents?

Kive has a Kin Score of 49.5 out of 100 (developing) and an Agent Readiness score of 25.5 (agent-aware), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.

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