# Kobalt

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/kobalt/  
**Website:** https://www.kobaltmusic.com  
**APIs profiled:** 0

Kobalt Music Group is an independent music rights management and administrative publishing company founded in 2000 by Willard Ahdritz, operating from New York and London. Unlike traditional publishers it administers copyrights rather than owning them, running Kobalt Music Publishing, a neighbouring rights division, and AMRA, the digital-first collection society it acquired in 2014. Royalty and rights processing runs on KTech, the rights and content management platform built to independently serve both Kobalt Music Publishing and AMRA at the scale of billions of music micro-transactions, with songwriters and rightsholders viewing statements and analytics through the authenticated Kobalt Portal. Kobalt publishes no public developer program: a 2026-07-19 probe found no developer portal, no API documentation, no OpenAPI or AsyncAPI description, and no API discovery documents under /.well-known/. Integration is arranged commercially through Kobalt or KTech rather than through a self-service API.

## Kin Score — 8.9 / 100 (minimal)

Scored 2026-08-21 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 8.9).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 68.5 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 5.3 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 0.0 |
| Commercial Clarity | 6.6 |
| Access Clarity | 6.6 |

## Agent readiness — 2.6 (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 | yes |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

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

## Security (2)

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

## Tags

Company, Music, Music Publishing, Rights Management, Royalties, Copyright, Media and Entertainment, Enterprise

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