ReccoBeats

ReccoBeats is a free music recommendation and database API service. It exposes a REST API over a database of millions of tracks, artists, and albums, and a machine-learning recommendation engine that suggests tracks from seed tracks, artists, or albums. ReccoBeats also extracts Spotify-style audio features - acousticness, danceability, energy, instrumentalness, liveness, loudness, speechiness, tempo, and valence - either for a catalog track by ID or directly from an uploaded audio file. Resources can be addressed by ReccoBeats UUID or by Spotify ID, and the API requires no API key or authentication.

ReccoBeats publishes 6 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network, including Album API, Artist API, Audio Analysis API, and 3 more. Tagged areas include Music, Recommendations, Audio Features, Audio Analysis, and Music Database.

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

ReccoBeats’ developer surface includes engineering blog, documentation, and 7 more developer resources.

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22.6/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 18/100 agent aware Front door AI 2/6 trace Heartbeat 0/100 dormant saas Full breakdown ↓
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1 published contract

Music Recommendations Audio Features Audio AnalysisMusic DatabaseSpotify Alternative

What this lets a business do 1

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Audience Measurement & Insights Management

BC-3770

Recommendation

GET /track/recommendation

Kin Score

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scored 2026-11-13 · rubric v0.28.0

Composite quality — 22.6/100 · emerging

Contract Quality 8.6 / 19

Developer Ergonomics 3.0 / 15

Access Clarity 0.6 / 15

Operational Transparency 0.7 / 10

Contract Governance 1.2 / 9

Discoverability 5.0 / 8

Regulatory Posture 0.0 / 15

Create-or-Update Ergonomics 0.0 / 10

Agent readiness — 18/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

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 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 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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OpenAPI

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APIs 6

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

ReccoBeats Album API

Album metadata and tracklists.

ReccoBeats Artist API

Artist metadata and discography.

ReccoBeats Audio Analysis API

Extract audio features directly from an uploaded audio file.

ReccoBeats Audio Features API

Spotify-style audio features for a catalog track.

ReccoBeats Recommendation API

Track recommendations generated from seeds.

ReccoBeats Track API

Track metadata lookup by ReccoBeats or Spotify ID.

Open Collections 7

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

ReccoBeats Album API

OPEN COLLECTION

ReccoBeats Album Artist API

OPEN COLLECTION

ReccoBeats Album Audio Analysis API

OPEN COLLECTION

ReccoBeats Album Audio Features API

OPEN COLLECTION

ReccoBeats Album Recommendation API

OPEN COLLECTION

ReccoBeats Album Track API

OPEN COLLECTION

ReccoBeats API

OPEN COLLECTION

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ReccoBeats API pricing

Not yet checked against ReccoBeats's own pricing page. Compiled by API Evangelist on 2026-07-03 from reccobeats.com/; confirm before you rely on a figure. A free plan or tier is listed.

Plan	Price
Free free	—

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Rate limits

API Requests: not published requests
Audio Upload Size: 5242880 bytes
Audio Analysis Duration: 30 seconds

Compiled by API Evangelist, not yet checked against ReccoBeats's documentation. Rate-limit details →

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

ReccoBeats Plans Pricing

1 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

ReccoBeats Rate Limits

3 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

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

ReccoBeats Finops

FINOPS

Spectral Rules 1

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

ReccoBeats API Rules

61 rules · 59 error-severity 1 warn-severity 1 info-severity

SPECTRAL

Security Posture 1

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

ReccoBeats Domain Security

TLSv1.3

SECURITY

Agentic Access (API Evangelist recommendations) 1

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

ReccoBeats Agentic Access

14 operations · 1 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 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

RateLimits

RateLimits

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Plans

Plans

FinOps

FinOps

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Blog

Blog

Website

Website

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

CapabilityMap

CapabilityMap

Source (apis.yml)

aid: reccobeats
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name: ReccoBeats
kind: company
description: ReccoBeats is a free music recommendation and database API service. It exposes a REST API over a database of
  millions of tracks, artists, and albums, and a machine-learning recommendation engine that suggests tracks from seed tracks,
  artists, or albums. ReccoBeats also extracts Spotify-style audio features - acousticness, danceability, energy, instrumentalness,
  liveness, loudness, speechiness, tempo, and valence - either for a catalog track by ID or directly from an uploaded audio
  file. Resources can be addressed by ReccoBeats UUID or by Spotify ID, and the API requires no API key or authentication.
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: free
  onboarding: open
  trial: false
  try_now: true
  public: true
  gated: none
  gated_source:
  - onboarding
  label: Free · Open access
  confidence: low
  source:
  - plans
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-13'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/reccobeats.png
x-docs-platform: docusaurus
x-docs-platform-confidence: medium
x-docs-platform-checked: 2026-10-04
tags:
- Music
- Recommendations
- Audio Features
- Audio Analysis
- Music Database
- Spotify Alternative
created: '2026-07-03'
modified: '2026-07-03'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- aid: reccobeats:reccobeats-album-api
  name: ReccoBeats Album API
  description: Album metadata and tracklists.
  humanURL: https://reccobeats.com/docs/apis/get-track-by-id
  baseURL: https://api.reccobeats.com/v1
  tags:
  - Album
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/reccobeats-album-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://reccobeats.com/docs/documentation/introduction
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://reccobeats.com/docs/apis/get-track-by-id
  - type: PostmanCollection
    url: collections/reccobeats.postman_collection.json
  - type: OpenCollection
    url: collections/reccobeats.opencollection.json
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://reccobeats.com/docs/apis/get-track-audio-features
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://reccobeats.com/docs/documentation/Analysis/audio-features-extraction
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://reccobeats.com/docs/apis/extract-audio-features
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://reccobeats.com/docs/apis/get-recommendation
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://reccobeats.com/docs/apis/get-artist-by-id
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://reccobeats.com/docs/apis/get-albums
- aid: reccobeats:reccobeats-artist-api
  name: ReccoBeats Artist API
  description: Artist metadata and discography.
  humanURL: https://reccobeats.com/docs/apis/get-track-by-id
  baseURL: https://api.reccobeats.com/v1
  tags:
  - Artists
  tags_raw:
  - Artist
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/reccobeats-artist-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://reccobeats.com/docs/documentation/introduction
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://reccobeats.com/docs/apis/get-track-by-id
  - type: PostmanCollection
    url: collections/reccobeats.postman_collection.json
  - type: OpenCollection
    url: collections/reccobeats.opencollection.json
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://reccobeats.com/docs/apis/get-track-audio-features
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://reccobeats.com/docs/documentation/Analysis/audio-features-extraction
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://reccobeats.com/docs/apis/extract-audio-features
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://reccobeats.com/docs/apis/get-recommendation
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://reccobeats.com/docs/apis/get-artist-by-id
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://reccobeats.com/docs/apis/get-albums
- aid: reccobeats:reccobeats-audio-analysis-api
  name: ReccoBeats Audio Analysis API
  description: Extract audio features directly from an uploaded audio file.
  humanURL: https://reccobeats.com/docs/apis/get-track-by-id
  baseURL: https://api.reccobeats.com/v1
  tags:
  - Audio Analysis
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/reccobeats-audio-analysis-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://reccobeats.com/docs/documentation/introduction
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://reccobeats.com/docs/apis/get-track-by-id
  - type: PostmanCollection
    url: collections/reccobeats.postman_collection.json
  - type: OpenCollection
    url: collections/reccobeats.opencollection.json
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://reccobeats.com/docs/apis/get-track-audio-features
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://reccobeats.com/docs/documentation/Analysis/audio-features-extraction
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://reccobeats.com/docs/apis/extract-audio-features
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://reccobeats.com/docs/apis/get-recommendation
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://reccobeats.com/docs/apis/get-artist-by-id
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://reccobeats.com/docs/apis/get-albums
- aid: reccobeats:reccobeats-audio-features-api
  name: ReccoBeats Audio Features API
  description: Spotify-style audio features for a catalog track.
  humanURL: https://reccobeats.com/docs/apis/get-track-by-id
  baseURL: https://api.reccobeats.com/v1
  tags:
  - Audio Features
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/reccobeats-audio-features-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://reccobeats.com/docs/documentation/introduction
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://reccobeats.com/docs/apis/get-track-by-id
  - type: PostmanCollection
    url: collections/reccobeats.postman_collection.json
  - type: OpenCollection
    url: collections/reccobeats.opencollection.json
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://reccobeats.com/docs/apis/get-track-audio-features
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://reccobeats.com/docs/documentation/Analysis/audio-features-extraction
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://reccobeats.com/docs/apis/extract-audio-features
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://reccobeats.com/docs/apis/get-recommendation
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://reccobeats.com/docs/apis/get-artist-by-id
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://reccobeats.com/docs/apis/get-albums
- aid: reccobeats:reccobeats-recommendation-api
  name: ReccoBeats Recommendation API
  description: Track recommendations generated from seeds.
  humanURL: https://reccobeats.com/docs/apis/get-track-by-id
  baseURL: https://api.reccobeats.com/v1
  tags:
  - Recommendations
  tags_raw:
  - Recommendation
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/reccobeats-recommendation-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://reccobeats.com/docs/documentation/introduction
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://reccobeats.com/docs/apis/get-track-by-id
  - type: PostmanCollection
    url: collections/reccobeats.postman_collection.json
  - type: OpenCollection
    url: collections/reccobeats.opencollection.json
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://reccobeats.com/docs/apis/get-track-audio-features
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://reccobeats.com/docs/documentation/Analysis/audio-features-extraction
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://reccobeats.com/docs/apis/extract-audio-features
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://reccobeats.com/docs/apis/get-recommendation
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://reccobeats.com/docs/apis/get-artist-by-id
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://reccobeats.com/docs/apis/get-albums
- aid: reccobeats:reccobeats-track-api
  name: ReccoBeats Track API
  description: Track metadata lookup by ReccoBeats or Spotify ID.
  humanURL: https://reccobeats.com/docs/apis/get-track-by-id
  baseURL: https://api.reccobeats.com/v1
  tags:
  - Track
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/reccobeats-track-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://reccobeats.com/docs/documentation/introduction
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://reccobeats.com/docs/apis/get-track-by-id
  - type: PostmanCollection
    url: collections/reccobeats.postman_collection.json
  - type: OpenCollection
    url: collections/reccobeats.opencollection.json
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://reccobeats.com/docs/apis/get-track-audio-features
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://reccobeats.com/docs/documentation/Analysis/audio-features-extraction
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://reccobeats.com/docs/apis/extract-audio-features
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://reccobeats.com/docs/apis/get-recommendation
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://reccobeats.com/docs/apis/get-artist-by-id
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://reccobeats.com/docs/apis/get-albums
common:
- type: CapabilityMap
  url: capabilities/reccobeats-capability-edges.yml
  name: ReccoBeats Business Capability Map
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/reccobeats-agentic-access.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/reccobeats-domain-security.yml
- url: https://reccobeats.com/blog/rss.xml
  type: Blog
- type: Website
  url: https://reccobeats.com
- type: Documentation
  url: https://reccobeats.com/docs/documentation/introduction
- type: Plans
  url: plans/reccobeats-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/reccobeats-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/reccobeats-finops.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com

ReccoBeats API — frequently asked questions

Does ReccoBeats have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 6 APIs from ReccoBeats, including ReccoBeats Album API, ReccoBeats Artist API and ReccoBeats Audio Analysis API, and 3 more.

Is there an OpenAPI specification for the ReccoBeats API?

Yes. APIs.io indexes 6 OpenAPI specifications for ReccoBeats, each linked for download from this page.

How much does the ReccoBeats API cost?

APIs.io lists 1 pricing plan for ReccoBeats, with each plan's price, limits and inclusions under Pricing on this page.

Is the ReccoBeats API ready for AI agents?

ReccoBeats has a Kin Score of 22.6 out of 100 (emerging) and an Agent Readiness score of 18.3 (agent-aware), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-13.

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