LiveAuctioneers

LiveAuctioneers is the world's largest online marketplace for fine art, antiques, jewelry, collectibles, and luxury goods, connecting bidders with thousands of vetted auction houses worldwide. Founded in 2002 and headquartered in New York, it is part of Auction Technology Group (ATG). The platform offers live and timed online bidding, absentee and proxy bids, an auction-results and price-research database, seller consignment services, and an auctioneer partner portal. It is included in the API Evangelist network as a consumer-marketplace company profile surfaced from the Bessemer Venture Partners portfolio; it does not currently publish a public developer API.

LiveAuctioneers is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Consumer, Marketplace, Auctions, and E-Commerce.

LiveAuctioneers’ developer surface includes getting-started guide, support, engineering blog, and 6 more developer resources.

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17.1/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5

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CompanyConsumerMarketplaceAuctionsE-CommerceCollectiblesArt

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Composite quality — 17.1/100 · emerging

Contract Quality 0.0 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 3.5 / 20

Commercial Clarity 6.8 / 20

Operational Transparency 0.0 / 13

Governance 0.0 / 12

Discoverability 6.8 / 10

Agent readiness — 0/100 · human only

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 15

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

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Get Started 2

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

GettingStarted

GettingStarted

Login

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

LLMsTxt

LLMsTxt

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support

Support

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

TermsOfService

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

Source (apis.yml)

aid: liveauctioneers
name: LiveAuctioneers
description: LiveAuctioneers is the world's largest online marketplace for fine art, antiques, jewelry, collectibles, and
  luxury goods, connecting bidders with thousands of vetted auction houses worldwide. Founded in 2002 and headquartered in
  New York, it is part of Auction Technology Group (ATG). The platform offers live and timed online bidding, absentee and
  proxy bids, an auction-results and price-research database, seller consignment services, and an auctioneer partner portal.
  It is included in the API Evangelist network as a consumer-marketplace company profile surfaced from the Bessemer Venture
  Partners portfolio; it does not currently publish a public developer API.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/liveauctioneers/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- bessemer-venture-partners
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
x-parent: auction-technology-group
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source: []
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/dist/images/logo_og.jpg
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-20'
tags:
- Company
- Consumer
- Marketplace
- Auctions
- E-Commerce
- Collectibles
- Art
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://www.liveauctioneers.com/
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://www.liveauctioneers.com/how-auctions-work
- type: Support
  url: https://help.liveauctioneers.com/
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.liveauctioneers.com/pages/resource-center/
- type: Login
  url: https://partners.liveauctioneers.com/login
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.liveauctioneers.com/termsandconditions
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.liveauctioneers.com/privacy
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/liveauctioneers-llms.txt
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/liveauctioneers-domain-security.yml
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-20'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 2
  pass: local-v1