Pexels

Give your users access to the entire Pexels photo and video library without leaving your app or website. The Pexels API is free and seamlessly integrates with just a few lines of code.

Pexels publishes 3 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network: Collections API, Photos API, and Videos API. Tagged areas include Photos, Stock Media, and Video.

Pexels’ developer surface includes authentication, developer portal, documentation, signup flow, and 10 more developer resources.

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36.1/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 23/100 agent aware saas Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-10-23 · rubric v0.25.0 · Show this score on your site →

AccessFreemiumSelf serve⚡ Free to try

1 published contract

Photos Stock Media Video

Kin Score

Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-10-23 · rubric v0.25.0

Composite quality — 36.1/100 · thin

Contract Quality 10.4 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 7.3 / 17

Access Clarity 7.2 / 17

Operational Transparency 1.2 / 11

Contract Governance 0.0 / 10

Discoverability 4.1 / 9

Regulatory Posture 2.9 / 15

Agent readiness — 23/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

Documented Reversibility 6 / 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 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 4 / 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

Regulatory Posture applies to this provider. Its tags matched the Horizontal (data, software, accessibility, platform) regime, so Regulatory Posture carries 15 points of the composite. If this regime is wrong for your business, say so on your provider repo — the applicability map is public and we will correct it.

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The six quality facets above are damped to 85 points between them, because the conditional facet above carries the other 15. That is why each facet's contribution is shown against a damped maximum: raising a quality facet moves the composite by 85% of its nominal weight, not 100%. The full arithmetic is at apis.io/rating/.

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Markets this provider is in provisional

The Kin Score Market layer reads a provider inside its market: its position, and how deep its integrations go. Depth is only comparable within a position. Provisional and unweighted: not part of the Kin Score or agent readiness.

Market	Position	Depth	Registered MCP server	Declares compatibility
Zoom App Marketplace and Partner Ecosystem (builders and partners on Zoom)	undeclared	-	-	-
Raycast Store Extensions (first-party publishers + community-wrapped products)	undeclared	-	-	-

Registered MCP server and declares compatibility are report only — not weighted. Undeclared means we found nothing we can read, so there is no number: we never infer integrations.

APIs 3

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

Pexels Collections API

Browse featured and user-owned collections.

Pexels Photos API

Search, browse, and retrieve photos.

Pexels Videos API

Search, browse, and retrieve videos.

Open Collections 4

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

Pexels Collections API

OPEN COLLECTION

Pexels Collections Photos API

OPEN COLLECTION

Pexels Collections Videos API

OPEN COLLECTION

Pexels API

OPEN COLLECTION

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Pexels Plans Pricing

3 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Pexels Rate Limits

5 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

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

Pexels Finops

FINOPS

Security Posture 2

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

Pexels Authentication

apiKey · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Pexels Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · DMARC

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Pexels Agentic Access

9 operations

9 operations · 0 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Get Started 2

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Portal

Portal

Signup

Signup

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

AgenticAccess

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Authentication

Authentication

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

RateLimits

RateLimits

Commercial 4

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Plans

FinOps

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

Company 2

The organization behind the API

LinkedIn

Website

Website

Source (apis.yml)

aid: pexels
name: Pexels
description: Give your users access to the entire Pexels photo and video library without leaving your app or website. The
  Pexels API is free and seamlessly integrates with just a few lines of code.
type: Index
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: true
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: high
  source:
  - openapi
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: freemium
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: true
  public: false
  label: Freemium · Self-serve signup
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  - security
  generated: '2026-09-03'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/pexels.png
tags:
- Photos
- Stock Media
- Video
tags_raw:
- Photos
- Stock Media
- Videos
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/pexels/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2026-03-16'
modified: '2026-05-19'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- aid: pexels:pexels-collections-api
  name: Pexels Collections API
  description: Browse featured and user-owned collections.
  humanURL: https://www.pexels.com/api/
  baseURL: https://api.pexels.com/v1
  tags:
  - Collection
  tags_raw:
  - Collections
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/pexels-collections-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.pexels.com/api/documentation/
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://www.pexels.com/api/
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://www.pexels.com/api/documentation/#authorization
- aid: pexels:pexels-photos-api
  name: Pexels Photos API
  description: Search, browse, and retrieve photos.
  humanURL: https://www.pexels.com/api/
  baseURL: https://api.pexels.com/v1
  tags:
  - Photos
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/pexels-photos-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.pexels.com/api/documentation/
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://www.pexels.com/api/
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://www.pexels.com/api/documentation/#authorization
- aid: pexels:pexels-videos-api
  name: Pexels Videos API
  description: Search, browse, and retrieve videos.
  humanURL: https://www.pexels.com/api/
  baseURL: https://api.pexels.com/v1
  tags:
  - Video
  tags_raw:
  - Videos
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/pexels-videos-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.pexels.com/api/documentation/
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://www.pexels.com/api/
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://www.pexels.com/api/documentation/#authorization
common:
- type: Plans
  url: plans/pexels-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/pexels-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/pexels-finops.yml
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/pexels-agentic-access.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/pexels-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/pexels-authentication.yml
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/pexels
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/pexels
- type: Portal
  url: https://www.pexels.com/api/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://www.pexels.com/api/documentation/
- type: Signup
  url: https://www.pexels.com/api/
- type: Website
  url: https://www.pexels.com/
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.pexels.com/terms-of-service/
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.pexels.com/privacy-policy/
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com

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