# Pixabay

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/pixabay/  
**Website:** https://pixabay.com/  
**APIs profiled:** 2

Pixabay is a free stock images, videos, illustrations, vectors, and music platform. The Pixabay API offers a public REST API for searching and retrieving free media assets. Authentication is via API key obtained on free signup.

## Kin Score — 12.4 / 100 (emerging)

Scored 2026-08-25 under rubric 0.14.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 12.4).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 68.5 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 7.9 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 9.5 |
| Commercial Clarity | 13.2 |
| Access Clarity | 13.2 |

## Agent readiness — 2.5 (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 | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |
| Delegated Identity | no |
| Protected Resource Metadata | no |
| Dynamic Client Registration | no |
| Agentic Commerce | no |

## Access

Free — onboarding: unknown, pricing: free, trial: no (confidence: medium).

## APIs (2)

- **Pixabay Image API** — Search and retrieve royalty-free images, illustrations, and vectors. Filter by category, image type, orientation, color, and more. Returns image URLs at multiple resolutions.
- **Pixabay Video API** — Search and retrieve royalty-free videos with multiple resolutions (large, medium, small, tiny) and dimensions metadata.

## Security (2)

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

## Plans (1)

- **Pixabay Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Stock Media, Image, Videos, Illustrations, Free, Search

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