Ready Player Me was a cross-game avatar platform: a hosted Avatar Creator plus REST APIs that produced interoperable 3D character avatars as binary glTF (.glb) and 2D PNG renders for Unity, Unreal, web, iOS and Android. The Avatars, Assets and Auth APIs covered draft/save avatar creation, template-based creation, wearable-asset equipping and discovery, colour palettes, render precompilation and anonymous/email-code user authentication, all scoped to a studio application via an X-APP-ID header. Netflix acquired the company in December 2025 and the public platform - Avatar Creator, PlayerZero and the developer APIs at api.readyplayer.me - was shut down on 31 January 2026. As of 26 August 2026 readyplayer.me publishes MX and TXT records but no A record, and api.readyplayer.me, docs.readyplayer.me and studio.readyplayer.me are NXDOMAIN, so every first-party developer surface is gone. Avatars already exported as .glb files still load in any glTF 2.0 engine; the readyplayerme GitHub organization and two npm packages remain public.
Ready Player Me publishes 3 APIs on the APIs.io network: Avatars API, Assets API, and Auth API. Tagged areas include Avatars, 3D, Gaming, VR, and AR.
The Ready Player Me catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context and 2 Spectral governance rulesets.
Ready Player Me’s developer surface includes authentication, YouTube channel, support, tooling, and 26 more developer resources.
Create-or-Update Ergonomics applies to this provider. This API accepts writes, so it
carries 10 points of the composite. It is scored from the published contracts
themselves: whether a caller can create-or-update in one call, whether the write accepts a key the caller already
holds, and whether the response says which branch ran. Without that, every write needs a search-and-branch in
front of it, and the first time that check is skipped a duplicate record is created.
Scored against the observed mean rather than raw — a provider at the catalog average is unchanged by this facet,
not penalised by it.
Create, retrieve, update, and delete Ready Player Me cross-platform avatars. Includes template-based creation, asset equipping, draft management, color palette discovery, and bi...
Discover and retrieve avatar wearable assets — hair, outfits, headwear, glasses, facewear, footwear, beards, costumes, and custom assets — scoped to an application and optionall...
Anonymous user creation, email-code login, token refresh, and avatar access tokens used by the Ready Player Me Avatar Creator and SDKs. Authentication runs through each applicat...
aid: ready-player-me
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/ready-player-me/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
deliveryModel:
model: saas
open_source: false
commercial: true
callable_host: false
label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
confidence: medium
source:
- openapi
- pricing
generated: '2026-08-28'
method: derived
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- aid: ready-player-me:ready-player-me-avatars-api
name: Ready Player Me Avatars API
tags:
- Avatars
- 3D
- GLB
- Gaming
humanURL: https://docs.readyplayer.me/ready-player-me/api-reference
baseURL: https://api.readyplayer.me/
properties:
- url: openapi/ready-player-me-avatars-api-openapi.yml
type: OpenAPI
- type: Overlay
url: overlays/ready-player-me-avatars-api-overlay.yaml
description: 'Create, retrieve, update, and delete Ready Player Me cross-platform avatars. Includes template-based creation,
asset equipping, draft management, color palette discovery, and binary glTF (.glb) plus 2D PNG renders used in Unity,
Unreal, web, iOS, and Android. Supports A/T-pose, mesh LODs, texture atlases, ARKit / Oculus morph targets, Draco and
Meshopt compression. RETIRED: the public platform was shut down on 2026-01-31 following Netflix''s December 2025 acquisition,
and api.readyplayer.me no longer resolves — this entry is a historical record of the contract, not a callable API.'
- aid: ready-player-me:ready-player-me-assets-api
name: Ready Player Me Assets API
tags:
- Assets
- Wearables
- 3D
- Gaming
humanURL: https://docs.readyplayer.me/ready-player-me/api-reference/rest-api/assets
baseURL: https://api.readyplayer.me/
properties:
- url: openapi/ready-player-me-assets-api-openapi.yml
type: OpenAPI
- type: Overlay
url: overlays/ready-player-me-assets-api-overlay.yaml
description: 'Discover and retrieve avatar wearable assets — hair, outfits, headwear, glasses, facewear, footwear, beards,
costumes, and custom assets — scoped to an application and optionally filtered to those viewable or usable by a specific
user. Powers the wardrobe surface of the Ready Player Me Avatar Creator. RETIRED: the public platform was shut down on
2026-01-31 following Netflix''s December 2025 acquisition, and api.readyplayer.me no longer resolves — this entry is a
historical record of the contract, not a callable API.'
- aid: ready-player-me:ready-player-me-auth-api
name: Ready Player Me Auth API
tags:
- Authentication
- Identity
- User
tags_raw:
- Authentication
- Identity
- Users
humanURL: https://docs.readyplayer.me/ready-player-me/api-reference/rest-api/users
baseURL: https://api.readyplayer.me/
properties:
- url: openapi/ready-player-me-auth-api-openapi.yml
type: OpenAPI
- type: Overlay
url: overlays/ready-player-me-auth-api-overlay.yaml
description: 'Anonymous user creation, email-code login, token refresh, and avatar access tokens used by the Ready Player
Me Avatar Creator and SDKs. Authentication runs through each application''s per-studio subdomain. RETIRED: the public
platform was shut down on 2026-01-31 following Netflix''s December 2025 acquisition, and api.readyplayer.me no longer
resolves — this entry is a historical record of the contract, not a callable API.'
name: Ready Player Me
tags:
- Avatars
- 3D
- Gaming
- VR
- AR
- Metaverse
- glTF
- Cross-Platform
- Unity
- Unreal
- Web
- Mobile
kind: contract
accessModel:
pricing: retired
onboarding: none
trial: false
try_now: false
public: false
label: Retired - public platform shut down 2026-01-31
confidence: high
source:
- lifecycle
- dns-probe
generated: '2026-08-26'
method: probed
note: 'Previously recorded as "Freemium / Self-serve signup" with try_now: true. Corrected 2026-08-26: sign-up, Studio console
and the APIs are all offline and their hosts do not resolve. See lifecycle/ready-player-me-lifecycle.yml.'
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/ready-player-me.png
access: 3rd-Party
common:
- type: AgenticAccess
url: agentic-access/ready-player-me-agentic-access.yml
- type: Authentication
url: authentication/ready-player-me-authentication.yml
- url: https://github.com/readyplayerme
name: Ready Player Me GitHub
type: GitHubOrganization
- url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/ready-player-me/
name: Ready Player Me LinkedIn
type: LinkedIn
- url: https://twitter.com/readyplayerme
name: Ready Player Me Twitter
type: Twitter
- url: https://www.youtube.com/@readyplayerme
name: Ready Player Me YouTube
type: YouTube
- url: https://discord.com/invite/readyplayerme
name: Ready Player Me Discord
type: Discord
- url: mailto:support@readyplayer.me
name: Ready Player Me Support
type: Support
- type: SDKs
url: https://github.com/readyplayerme/rpm-unity-sdk-core
name: Unity SDK Core
- type: SDKs
url: https://github.com/readyplayerme/rpm-unreal-sdk
name: Unreal SDK
- type: SDKs
url: https://github.com/readyplayerme/visage
name: Visage Web SDK
- type: SDKs
url: https://github.com/readyplayerme/rpm-react-avatar-creator
name: React Avatar Creator
- type: SDKs
url: https://github.com/readyplayerme/Example-iOS-Swift
name: iOS Swift Example
- type: SDKs
url: https://github.com/readyplayerme/Example-Android-Kotlin
name: Android Kotlin Example
- type: SDKs
url: https://github.com/readyplayerme/Example-React-Native
name: React Native Example
- type: JSONSchema
url: https://github.com/readyplayerme/content-validation-schemas
name: Content Validation Schemas
- type: Tools
url: https://github.com/readyplayerme/animation-library
name: Animation Library
- type: Plans
url: plans/ready-player-me-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
url: rate-limits/ready-player-me-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
url: finops/ready-player-me-finops.yml
- type: Vocabulary
url: vocabulary/ready-player-me-vocabulary.yml
- type: JSONLD
url: json-ld/ready-player-me-context.jsonld
- type: Packages
url: packages/ready-player-me-packages.yml
name: Ready Player Me Packages + SDK currency
- type: SDKs
url: packages/ready-player-me-packages.yml
name: Ready Player Me SDK inventory
- type: Components
url: components/ready-player-me-components.yml
name: Embeddable Avatar Creator + web renderer
- type: Lifecycle
url: lifecycle/ready-player-me-lifecycle.yml
name: Platform retirement, acquisition + versioning
- type: Conventions
url: conventions/ready-player-me-conventions.yml
name: Runtime semantics + reversibility
- type: DataModel
url: data-model/ready-player-me-data-model.yml
name: Entity graph
- type: Conformance
url: conformance/ready-player-me-conformance.yml
name: Standards conformance incl. glTF 2.0
- type: LLMsTxt
url: llms/ready-player-me-llms.txt
name: Generated llms.txt
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
email: info@apievangelist.com
url: http://apievangelist.com
description: 'Ready Player Me was a cross-game avatar platform: a hosted Avatar Creator plus REST APIs that produced interoperable
3D character avatars as binary glTF (.glb) and 2D PNG renders for Unity, Unreal, web, iOS and Android. The Avatars, Assets
and Auth APIs covered draft/save avatar creation, template-based creation, wearable-asset equipping and discovery, colour
palettes, render precompilation and anonymous/email-code user authentication, all scoped to a studio application via an
X-APP-ID header. Netflix acquired the company in December 2025 and the public platform - Avatar Creator, PlayerZero and
the developer APIs at api.readyplayer.me - was shut down on 31 January 2026. As of 26 August 2026 readyplayer.me publishes
MX and TXT records but no A record, and api.readyplayer.me, docs.readyplayer.me and studio.readyplayer.me are NXDOMAIN,
so every first-party developer surface is gone. Avatars already exported as .glb files still load in any glTF 2.0 engine;
the readyplayerme GitHub organization and two npm packages remain public.'
created: '2026-05-25'
modified: '2026-08-26'
x-enrichment:
date: '2026-08-26'
status: minimal
artifacts_added: 11
pass: local-v1
x-coverage:
state: none
reason: defunct
detail: Netflix acquired Ready Player Me in December 2025 and shut the public platform down on 2026-01-31; the retirement
is now complete at the DNS layer, so readyplayer.me, api.readyplayer.me, docs.readyplayer.me and studio.readyplayer.me
all fail to resolve and there is no first-party surface left to read.
evidence:
- url: https://api.readyplayer.me/openapi.json
status: 0
- url: https://docs.readyplayer.me/
status: 0
- url: https://readyplayer.me/developers
status: 0
- url: https://api.readyplayer.me/.well-known/agent-card.json
status: 0
- url: https://api.github.com/orgs/readyplayerme
status: 200
checked: '2026-08-26'
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