Pixieset

Pixieset is an all-in-one photography business platform - client galleries, a store for print/digital sales, a website builder, a mobile gallery app, and Studio Manager (CRM, booking, invoicing, contracts, questionnaires) - used by hundreds of thousands of photographers. Pixieset does not publish a public or partner developer API, does not run a developer program, and has no self-serve API keys or OAuth signup; there is no official API reference, SDK, or webhook system for third parties. The product itself is powered internally by two session-cookie-authenticated web APIs (a Studio API at studio.pixieset.com/api/v1 for business management and a Gallery API at galleries.pixieset.com/api/v1 for gallery delivery and e-commerce) that Pixieset's own web app calls, and which an independent developer has reverse-engineered and published as unofficial, unaffiliated documentation (111+ endpoints). This entry documents that real access model honestly - no public API exists, and the endpoint shapes below are modeled from that third-party reverse-engineering effort, not from any Pixieset-published reference - treat them as unverified and subject to change or removal without notice.

Pixieset publishes 1 API contract indexed on the APIs.io network: Clients API, Collections API, and Contracts API. Tagged areas include Photography, Client Galleries, Studio Management, CRM, and Booking.

The Pixieset catalog on APIs.io includes 1 Spectral governance ruleset.

Pixieset’s developer surface includes authentication, documentation, and 7 more developer resources.

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22.0/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 20/100 agent aware Front door AI 1/6 silent Heartbeat 100/100 alive saas Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-11-13 · rubric v0.28.0 · Show this score on your site →

AccessFreemiumSelf serveNo public API

1 published contract5 Not an API

Photography Client Galleries Studio Management CRM Booking Invoicing Contracts

What this lets a business do 4

Business capabilities this provider's published APIs can perform, derived from its own contracts. Browse all capabilities →

Financial Management

BC-200

Invoices

GET /invoices/ GET /invoices/payments/list/

Media, Creator & Social

AE-170

Collections

GET /collections/{collection_id}

Legal Management

BC-150

Contracts

GET /contracts/ GET /templates/contracts

Customer Relationship Management

BC-420

Clients

GET /clients/ PUT /clients/{client_id}

Kin Score

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scored 2026-11-13 · rubric v0.28.0

Composite quality — 22.0/100 · emerging

Contract Quality 6.6 / 19

Developer Ergonomics 4.3 / 15

Access Clarity 1.0 / 15

Operational Transparency 0.0 / 10

Contract Governance 1.2 / 9

Discoverability 5.0 / 8

Regulatory Posture 0.9 / 15

Create-or-Update Ergonomics 0.0 / 10

Agent readiness — 20/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 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

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 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

MCP Tool Quality 6 / 6

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

MCP Server +12 pts — deployment.mode + probe verdict on the mcp/ manifest, not the pointer; an unprobed slug falls back to authorship Ask about this →
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) Ask about this →
Stable Error Semantics +8 pts — OpenAPI $refs a shared error schema across 4xx/5xx responses (verified), else common[].type includes ErrorCatalog / ErrorCodes / DeclineCodes Ask about this →
A2A Agent Card +8 pts — a2a/-a2a.yml manifest, graded on conformance.grade against A2A 1.0.0 Ask about this →
Rate-Limit Signaling +7 pts — OpenAPI responses document X-RateLimit-* / RateLimit headers (verified), else a rate_limits artifact or RateLimits link (documented) Ask about this →
Request/Response Examples +7 pts — share of operations carrying request/response examples; else an Examples / Code Samples link Ask about this →

10 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

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

Access Clarity scores 6.4 — up to +18.7 composite points Ask about this →
Contract Quality scores 35.3 — up to +16.2 composite points Ask about this →
Developer Ergonomics scores 28.6 — up to +14.3 composite points Ask about this →

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Markets this provider is in provisional

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Market	Position	Depth	Registered MCP server	Declares compatibility
Zoom App Marketplace and Partner Ecosystem (builders and partners on Zoom)	builds-on	19.7 (thin)	-	-

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.

Standards implemented 1

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.

OpenAPI

measured — observed by APIs.io (published)

APIs 5

Individual APIs this provider publishes. MODELED: a real API behind a partner or contract gate; there is no public reference, so API Evangelist drew its shape. NOT AN API: a product area with no API behind it, not counted.

Pixieset Clients API

Client and lead CRM records.

NOT AN API

Pixieset Collections API

Gallery collections, access, and downloads.

NOT AN API

Pixieset Contracts API

Contracts and contract templates.

NOT AN API

Pixieset Invoices API

Invoices and payments.

NOT AN API

Pixieset Sessions API

Bookable session types, scheduling, and availability.

NOT AN API

Open Collections 5

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

Pixieset Studio & Gallery API (Modeled, Unofficial) Clients API

OPEN COLLECTION

Pixieset Studio & Gallery API (Modeled, Unofficial) Clients Collections API

OPEN COLLECTION

Pixieset Studio & Gallery API (Modeled, Unofficial) Clients Contracts API

OPEN COLLECTION

Pixieset Studio & Gallery API (Modeled, Unofficial) Clients Invoices API

OPEN COLLECTION

Pixieset Studio & Gallery API (Modeled, Unofficial) Clients Sessions API

OPEN COLLECTION

Pixieset API pricing

Not yet checked against Pixieset's own pricing page. Compiled by API Evangelist on 2026-07-04 from pixieset.com/pricing-studio/; confirm before you rely on a figure. A free plan or tier is listed.

Plan	Price
Free free	—
Basic paid	$10.00 per monthly / month
Plus paid	$20.00 per monthly / month
Pro paid	—
Ultimate paid	$50.00 per monthly / month
Suite Starter paid	$28.00 per monthly / month
Suite Pro paid	$38.00 per monthly / month
Suite Ultimate paid	$55.00 per monthly / month

Plan details, limits and sources →

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Pixieset Plans Pricing

8 plans

PLANS

Spectral Rules 1

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs. Counts are the severity each rule declares, not results of running them.

Pixieset API Rules

59 rules · 54 error-severity 4 warn-severity 1 info-severity

SPECTRAL

Security Posture 2

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

Pixieset Authentication

apiKey · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Pixieset Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · DNSSEC · DMARC

SECURITY

Agentic Access (API Evangelist recommendations) 1

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

Pixieset Agentic Access

22 operations · 3 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

AgenticAccess

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Authentication

Authentication

Commercial 1

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Plans

Plans

Company 3

The organization behind the API

BlogRSS

BlogRSS

LinkedIn

Website

Website

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

CapabilityMap

CapabilityMap

Source (apis.yml)

aid: pixieset
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/pixieset/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-api-posture: no-product-api
x-api-posture-basis: observed
x-api-posture-note: This entry documents that real access model honestly - no public API exists, and the endpoint shapes below
  are modeled from that third-party reverse-engineering effort, not from any Pixieset-published
name: Pixieset
kind: company
description: Pixieset is an all-in-one photography business platform - client galleries, a store for print/digital sales,
  a website builder, a mobile gallery app, and Studio Manager (CRM, booking, invoicing, contracts, questionnaires) - used
  by hundreds of thousands of photographers. Pixieset does not publish a public or partner developer API, does not run a developer
  program, and has no self-serve API keys or OAuth signup; there is no official API reference, SDK, or webhook system for
  third parties. The product itself is powered internally by two session-cookie-authenticated web APIs (a Studio API at studio.pixieset.com/api/v1
  for business management and a Gallery API at galleries.pixieset.com/api/v1 for gallery delivery and e-commerce) that Pixieset's
  own web app calls, and which an independent developer has reverse-engineered and published as unofficial, unaffiliated documentation
  (111+ endpoints). This entry documents that real access model honestly - no public API exists, and the endpoint shapes below
  are modeled from that third-party reverse-engineering effort, not from any Pixieset-published reference - treat them as
  unverified and subject to change or removal without notice.
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: false
  public: false
  gated: private
  gated_source:
  - tag:No Public API
  label: Freemium · Self-serve signup
  confidence: medium
  try_now_blocked_by: 'gated: private'
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-13'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/pixieset.png
tags:
- Photography
- Client Galleries
- Studio Management
- CRM
- Booking
- Invoicing
- Contracts
created: '2026-07-04'
modified: '2026-10-06'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- aid: pixieset:pixieset-clients-api
  x-published: false
  name: Pixieset Clients API
  description: Client and lead CRM records.
  humanURL: https://trozz.github.io/pixieset-api-docs/docs/studio-api/clients
  baseURL: https://studio.pixieset.com/api/v1
  tags:
  - Clients
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/pixieset-clients-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://trozz.github.io/pixieset-api-docs/docs/studio-api/overview
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://trozz.github.io/pixieset-api-docs/docs/studio-api/clients
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://trozz.github.io/pixieset-api-docs/docs/studio-api/sessions
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://trozz.github.io/pixieset-api-docs/docs/studio-api/invoices
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://trozz.github.io/pixieset-api-docs/docs/studio-api/contracts
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://trozz.github.io/pixieset-api-docs/docs/gallery-api/overview
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://trozz.github.io/pixieset-api-docs/docs/gallery-api/collections
- aid: pixieset:pixieset-collections-api
  x-published: false
  name: Pixieset Collections API
  description: Gallery collections, access, and downloads.
  humanURL: https://trozz.github.io/pixieset-api-docs/docs/studio-api/clients
  baseURL: https://studio.pixieset.com/api/v1
  tags:
  - Collection
  tags_raw:
  - Collections
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/pixieset-collections-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://trozz.github.io/pixieset-api-docs/docs/studio-api/overview
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://trozz.github.io/pixieset-api-docs/docs/studio-api/clients
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://trozz.github.io/pixieset-api-docs/docs/studio-api/sessions
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://trozz.github.io/pixieset-api-docs/docs/studio-api/invoices
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://trozz.github.io/pixieset-api-docs/docs/studio-api/contracts
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://trozz.github.io/pixieset-api-docs/docs/gallery-api/overview
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://trozz.github.io/pixieset-api-docs/docs/gallery-api/collections
- aid: pixieset:pixieset-contracts-api
  x-published: false
  name: Pixieset Contracts API
  description: Contracts and contract templates.
  humanURL: https://trozz.github.io/pixieset-api-docs/docs/studio-api/clients
  baseURL: https://studio.pixieset.com/api/v1
  tags:
  - Contracts
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/pixieset-contracts-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://trozz.github.io/pixieset-api-docs/docs/studio-api/overview
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://trozz.github.io/pixieset-api-docs/docs/studio-api/clients
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://trozz.github.io/pixieset-api-docs/docs/studio-api/sessions
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://trozz.github.io/pixieset-api-docs/docs/studio-api/invoices
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://trozz.github.io/pixieset-api-docs/docs/studio-api/contracts
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://trozz.github.io/pixieset-api-docs/docs/gallery-api/overview
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://trozz.github.io/pixieset-api-docs/docs/gallery-api/collections
- aid: pixieset:pixieset-invoices-api
  x-published: false
  name: Pixieset Invoices API
  description: Invoices and payments.
  humanURL: https://trozz.github.io/pixieset-api-docs/docs/studio-api/clients
  baseURL: https://studio.pixieset.com/api/v1
  tags:
  - Invoices
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/pixieset-invoices-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://trozz.github.io/pixieset-api-docs/docs/studio-api/overview
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://trozz.github.io/pixieset-api-docs/docs/studio-api/clients
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://trozz.github.io/pixieset-api-docs/docs/studio-api/sessions
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://trozz.github.io/pixieset-api-docs/docs/studio-api/invoices
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://trozz.github.io/pixieset-api-docs/docs/studio-api/contracts
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://trozz.github.io/pixieset-api-docs/docs/gallery-api/overview
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://trozz.github.io/pixieset-api-docs/docs/gallery-api/collections
- aid: pixieset:pixieset-sessions-api
  x-published: false
  name: Pixieset Sessions API
  description: Bookable session types, scheduling, and availability.
  humanURL: https://trozz.github.io/pixieset-api-docs/docs/studio-api/clients
  baseURL: https://studio.pixieset.com/api/v1
  tags:
  - Sessions
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/pixieset-sessions-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://trozz.github.io/pixieset-api-docs/docs/studio-api/overview
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://trozz.github.io/pixieset-api-docs/docs/studio-api/clients
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://trozz.github.io/pixieset-api-docs/docs/studio-api/sessions
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://trozz.github.io/pixieset-api-docs/docs/studio-api/invoices
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://trozz.github.io/pixieset-api-docs/docs/studio-api/contracts
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://trozz.github.io/pixieset-api-docs/docs/gallery-api/overview
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://trozz.github.io/pixieset-api-docs/docs/gallery-api/collections
common:
- url: https://blog.pixieset.com/feed/
  type: BlogRSS
- type: CapabilityMap
  url: capabilities/pixieset-capability-edges.yml
  name: Pixieset Business Capability Map
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/pixieset-agentic-access.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/pixieset-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/pixieset-authentication.yml
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/pixieset
- type: Website
  url: https://pixieset.com
- type: Documentation
  url: https://help.pixieset.com/hc/en-us
- type: Plans
  url: plans/pixieset-plans-pricing.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
x-tags-removed:
- No Public API

Pixieset API — frequently asked questions

Does Pixieset have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 5 APIs from Pixieset, including Pixieset Clients API, Pixieset Collections API and Pixieset Contracts API, and 2 more.

Is there an OpenAPI specification for the Pixieset API?

Yes. APIs.io indexes 5 OpenAPI specifications for Pixieset, each linked for download from this page.

How do I authenticate with the Pixieset API?

Pixieset uses bearer-token authentication (apiKey · 1 scheme). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Pixieset Authentication.

How much does the Pixieset API cost?

APIs.io lists 8 pricing plans for Pixieset, with each plan's price, limits and inclusions under Pricing on this page.

Is the Pixieset API ready for AI agents?

Pixieset has a Kin Score of 22.0 out of 100 (emerging) and an Agent Readiness score of 20.1 (agent-aware), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-13.

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