SeatGeek

SeatGeek is a live event ticketing and discovery platform that aggregates ticket inventory from multiple sources and provides a transparent, data-driven ticket buying experience. The SeatGeek Platform API gives developers access to a canonical dataset of live events including concerts, sports, and theater performances, along with performer and venue information, seating maps, ticket pricing, and personalized event recommendations. The API uses HTTP Basic Auth or query parameter authentication with a client ID and supports RESTful access to events, performers, venues, and taxonomies.

SeatGeek publishes 5 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network, including Events API, Performers API, Recommendations API, and 2 more. Tagged areas include Event, Ticketing, Live Events, Concerts, and Sports.

The SeatGeek catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context and 2 Spectral governance rulesets.

SeatGeek’s developer surface includes authentication, developer portal, documentation, support, code examples, and 17 more developer resources.

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37.5/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 33/100 agent ready Heartbeat 100/100 alive saas Full breakdown ↓
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AccessFreemiumSelf serve⚡ Free to try

1 published contract 2 MCP Servers

Event Ticketing Live Events Concerts Sports Venues

Kin Score

Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-11-13 · rubric v0.28.0

Composite quality — 37.5/100 · thin

Contract Quality 12.0 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 7.5 / 17

Access Clarity 2.5 / 17

Operational Transparency 1.3 / 11

Contract Governance 2.8 / 10

Discoverability 5.8 / 9

Regulatory Posture 2.2 / 15

Agent readiness — 33/100 · agent ready

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

Documented Reversibility 6 / 6

MCP Server 12 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 9 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 7 / 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

MCP Tool Quality 6 / 6

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.

Create-or-Update Ergonomics does not apply to this provider. The published contracts declare no write operations, and a read-only API cannot create-or-update. The facet is excluded from this provider's denominator entirely — not scored zero. A reference or data API is not deficient for being unable to upsert.

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

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 →
Registration Without a Human +6 pts — a `registration_endpoint` in the served RFC 8414 / OIDC discovery document Ask about this →
Delegated User Identity +6 pts — a served discovery document listing authorization_code in grant_types_supported (served), else an oauth2 authorizationCode flow or openIdConnect declared in an OpenAPI (documented) Ask about this →
Typed Event Surface +6 pts — AsyncAPI document, OR webhooks/callbacks objects in the as-published OpenAPI, OR common[].type includes Webhooks Ask about this →
Agent Skills +5 pts — skills artifact present, graded by who authored it Ask about this →

4 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

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

Access Clarity scores 14.9 — up to +17.0 composite points Ask about this →
Operational Transparency scores 11.9 — up to +11.5 composite points Ask about this →
Developer Ergonomics scores 44.0 — up to +11.2 composite points Ask about this →

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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
Events and Ticketing Platforms	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.

Standards implemented 2

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.

Model Context Protocol (MCP)

OPEN COLLECTION

MCP Servers 2

Model Context Protocol servers that expose these APIs to AI agents.

MCP Server

MCP SERVER

SeatGeek MCP Server

Remote MCP server at api.seatgeek.com over HTTP; 3 tools listed.

MCP SERVER

SeatGeek API pricing

Not yet checked against SeatGeek's own pricing page. Compiled by API Evangelist on 2026-05-04; confirm before you rely on a figure. A free plan or tier is listed.

Plan	Price
Free freemium	Free
Professional paid	Free
Enterprise enterprise	—

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Rate limits

Free Tier Default: 10 requests per minute
Free Tier Monthly Quota: 1000 requests per month
Professional Tier Default: 100 requests per minute

Compiled by API Evangelist, not yet checked against SeatGeek's documentation. All 5 limits →

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

SeatGeek Plans Pricing

3 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

SeatGeek Rate Limits

5 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

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

SeatGeek Finops

FINOPS

Semantic Vocabularies 1

JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.

Seatgeek Context

27 classes · 4 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 2

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

SeatGeek — jsonschema rules

5 rules · 4 warn-severity 1 info-severity

SPECTRAL

SeatGeek API Rules

8 rules · 2 error-severity 4 warn-severity 2 info-severity

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 1

Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.

SeatGeek Event

14 properties

JSON SCHEMA

JSON Structure 1

JSON Structure definitions describing this provider's data shapes.

SeatGeek Event Structure

13 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Examples 1

Example request and response payloads for these APIs.

SeatGeek List Events Example

2 fields

EXAMPLE

Security Posture 2

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

SeatGeek Authentication

apiKey · 1 scheme

SECURITY

SeatGeek Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · DMARC

SECURITY

Agentic Access (API Evangelist recommendations) 1

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

SeatGeek Agentic Access

9 operations

9 operations · 0 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Get Started 1

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Portal

Portal

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

JSONSchema

JSONSchema

Agent Surfaces 2

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

AgenticAccess

MCPServer

MCPServer

Design & Contract 4

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

JSONStructure

JSONLDContext

SpectralRuleset

Vocabulary

Build 4

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

PostmanWorkspace

PostmanWorkspace

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

SDKs

SDKs

Examples

Examples

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Authentication

Authentication

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

RateLimits

RateLimits

Support

Support

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Plans

Plans

FinOps

FinOps

TermsOfService

TermsOfService

Company 2

The organization behind the API

LinkedIn

Website

Website

Source (apis.yml)

aid: seatgeek
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/seatgeek/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
apis:
- aid: seatgeek:seatgeek-events-api
  name: SeatGeek Events API
  description: The Events API from SeatGeek — 2 operation(s) for events.
  humanURL: https://seatgeek.com/build
  baseURL: https://api.seatgeek.com/2
  tags:
  - Event
  tags_raw:
  - Events
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/seatgeek-events-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://seatgeek.github.io/
  - type: Portal
    url: https://seatgeek.com/build
- aid: seatgeek:seatgeek-performers-api
  name: SeatGeek Performers API
  description: The Performers API from SeatGeek — 2 operation(s) for performers.
  humanURL: https://seatgeek.com/build
  baseURL: https://api.seatgeek.com/2
  tags:
  - Performers
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/seatgeek-performers-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://seatgeek.github.io/
  - type: Portal
    url: https://seatgeek.com/build
- aid: seatgeek:seatgeek-recommendations-api
  name: SeatGeek Recommendations API
  description: The Recommendations API from SeatGeek — 2 operation(s) for recommendations.
  humanURL: https://seatgeek.com/build
  baseURL: https://api.seatgeek.com/2
  tags:
  - Recommendations
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/seatgeek-recommendations-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://seatgeek.github.io/
  - type: Portal
    url: https://seatgeek.com/build
- aid: seatgeek:seatgeek-taxonomies-api
  name: SeatGeek Taxonomies API
  description: The Taxonomies API from SeatGeek — 1 operation(s) for taxonomies.
  humanURL: https://seatgeek.com/build
  baseURL: https://api.seatgeek.com/2
  tags:
  - taxonomies
  tags_raw:
  - Taxonomies
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/seatgeek-taxonomies-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://seatgeek.github.io/
  - type: Portal
    url: https://seatgeek.com/build
- aid: seatgeek:seatgeek-venues-api
  name: SeatGeek Venues API
  description: The Venues API from SeatGeek — 2 operation(s) for venues.
  humanURL: https://seatgeek.com/build
  baseURL: https://api.seatgeek.com/2
  tags:
  - Venues
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/seatgeek-venues-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://seatgeek.github.io/
  - type: Portal
    url: https://seatgeek.com/build
name: SeatGeek
tags:
- Event
- Ticketing
- Live Events
- Concerts
- Sports
- Venues
tags_raw:
- Events
- Tickets
- Live Events
- Concerts
- Sports
- Venues
- Ticketing
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
  gated: none
  gated_source:
  - onboarding
  label: Freemium · Self-serve signup
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-13'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/seatgeek.png
access: 3rd-Party
created: '2026-05-02'
modified: '2026-05-19'
position: Consuming
description: SeatGeek is a live event ticketing and discovery platform that aggregates ticket inventory from multiple sources
  and provides a transparent, data-driven ticket buying experience. The SeatGeek Platform API gives developers access to a
  canonical dataset of live events including concerts, sports, and theater performances, along with performer and venue information,
  seating maps, ticket pricing, and personalized event recommendations. The API uses HTTP Basic Auth or query parameter authentication
  with a client ID and supports RESTful access to events, performers, venues, and taxonomies.
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
specificationVersion: '0.23'
common:
- type: Plans
  url: plans/seatgeek-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/seatgeek-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/seatgeek-finops.yml
- type: PostmanWorkspace
  url: https://www.postman.com/kinlaneapi/seatgeek/overview
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/seatgeek-agentic-access.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/seatgeek-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/seatgeek-authentication.yml
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/seatgeek
- name: Website
  url: https://seatgeek.com
  type: Website
- name: Developer Portal
  url: https://seatgeek.com/build
  type: Portal
- name: API Documentation
  url: https://seatgeek.github.io/
  type: Documentation
- name: GitHub Organization
  url: https://github.com/seatgeek
  type: GitHubOrganization
- name: iOS SDK
  url: https://github.com/seatgeek/SGAPI
  type: SDKs
- name: API Support
  url: https://github.com/seatgeek/api-support
  type: Support
- name: API Terms
  url: https://seatgeek.com/api-terms
  type: TermsOfService
- url: json-schema/seatgeek-event-schema.json
  type: JSONSchema
- url: json-structure/seatgeek-event-structure.json
  type: JSONStructure
- url: json-ld/seatgeek-context.jsonld
  type: JSONLDContext
- url: examples/seatgeek-list-events-example.json
  type: Examples
- url: rules/seatgeek-rules.yml
  type: SpectralRuleset
- url: vocabulary/seatgeek-vocabulary.yml
  type: Vocabulary
- name: MCP Server
  url: https://github.com/seatgeek/mcp-pdb
  type: MCPServer

SeatGeek API — frequently asked questions

Does SeatGeek have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 5 APIs from SeatGeek, including SeatGeek Events API, SeatGeek Performers API and SeatGeek Recommendations API, and 2 more.

Is there an OpenAPI specification for the SeatGeek API?

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

How do I authenticate with the SeatGeek API?

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

How much does the SeatGeek API cost?

APIs.io lists 3 pricing plans for SeatGeek, with each plan's price, limits and inclusions under Pricing on this page.

Does SeatGeek have an MCP server?

Yes. APIs.io lists 2 MCP servers for SeatGeek: Remote MCP server at api.seatgeek.com over HTTP; 3 tools listed.

Is the SeatGeek API ready for AI agents?

SeatGeek has a Kin Score of 37.5 out of 100 (thin) and an Agent Readiness score of 33.4 (agent-ready), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-13.

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