Shazam

Shazam is Apple's music recognition service that identifies songs from audio fingerprints. The Shazam API provides song recognition, music charts, and artist and track metadata retrieval. Originally launched in 2002 and acquired by Apple in 2018, Shazam processes over 1 billion song identifications per month. Official developer access is available via Apple's ShazamKit framework for iOS, macOS, tvOS, visionOS, watchOS, and Android. A third-party REST API is also available through RapidAPI for song detection, chart data, and artist lookups.

Shazam publishes 7 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network, including Albums API, Artists API, Charts API, and 4 more. Tagged areas include Music, Audio Recognition, Song Identification, Charts, and Artists.

The Shazam catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context and 1 Spectral governance ruleset.

Shazam’s developer surface includes authentication and 16 more developer resources.

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MusicAudio RecognitionSong IdentificationCharts Artists Tracks Fingerprinting Audio

What this lets a business do 1

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

Media, Creator & Social

AE-170

AlbumsArtistsChartsTracks

GET /services/amapi/v1/catalog/{endpoint_country}/artists/{artist_id} GET /services/amapi/v1/catalog/{endpoint_country}/artists/{artist_id}/albums GET /discovery/v5/{language}/{endpoint_country}/web/-/track/{track_id} GET /shazam/v3/{language}/{endpoint_country}/web/-/tracks/track-similarities-id-{track_id}

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Composite quality — 36.5/100 · thin

Contract Quality 10.0 / 19

Developer Ergonomics 5.7 / 15

Access Clarity 4.8 / 15

Operational Transparency 1.2 / 10

Contract Governance 0.9 / 9

Discoverability 5.0 / 8

Regulatory Posture 2.8 / 15

Create-or-Update Ergonomics 0.0 / 10

Agent readiness — 21/100 · 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 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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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 →
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Market	Position	Depth	Registered MCP server	Declares compatibility
Music and Rights	undeclared	-	-	-
Film & Media Identifiers (EIDR, ISAN, MovieLabs, DPP)	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 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 7

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

ShazamKit

ShazamKit is Apple's official framework for integrating Shazam music recognition into iOS, macOS, tvOS, visionOS, watchOS, and Android applications. It supports matching audio a...

Shazam Albums API

Album metadata

Shazam Artists API

Artist profiles and albums

Shazam Charts API

Music charts by country, city, and genre

Shazam Recognition API

Audio fingerprint recognition against the Shazam catalog

Shazam Search API

Full-text search across Shazam's track and artist catalog

Shazam Tracks API

Track metadata, related tracks, and listening counters

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Open Collections 6

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

Shazam REST Albums API

OPEN COLLECTION

Shazam REST Albums Artists API

OPEN COLLECTION

Shazam REST Albums Charts API

OPEN COLLECTION

Shazam REST Albums Recognition API

OPEN COLLECTION

Shazam REST Albums Search API

OPEN COLLECTION

Shazam REST Albums Tracks API

OPEN COLLECTION

Shazam API pricing

Not yet checked against Shazam's own pricing page. Compiled by API Evangelist on 2026-06-13 from developer.apple.com/shazamkit/; confirm before you rely on a figure. A free plan or tier is listed.

Plan	Price
ShazamKit (Apple Developer Program) subscription	$99 per apple Developer Program (Individual) · $299 per apple Developer Program (Organization)
Trial (RapidAPI) free	Free
Basic (RapidAPI) subscription	$24.99 per monthly Subscription · $0.0162435 per overage per request
Pro (RapidAPI) subscription	$49.99 per monthly Subscription · $0.0162435 per overage per request
Pro Plus (RapidAPI) subscription	$99.99 per monthly Subscription · $0.0162435 per overage per request
Premium (RapidAPI) subscription	$199.99 per monthly Subscription · $0.0162435 per overage per request
Enterprise (RapidAPI) custom	$10000 per annual Contract

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Rate limits

Basic plan — requests per minute: 60 per 1 minute requests
Pro plan — requests per minute: 60 per 1 minute requests
Pro Plus plan — requests per minute: 120 per 1 minute requests

Compiled by API Evangelist, not yet checked against Shazam's documentation. All 11 limits →

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Shazam Plans Pricing

7 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Shazam Rate Limits

11 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

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

Shazam Finops

FINOPS

Semantic Vocabularies 1

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

Shazam Context

16 classes · 9 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 1

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

Shazam — jsonschema rules

5 rules · 4 warn-severity 1 info-severity

SPECTRAL

OpenAPI Overlays 1

Overlays applied on top of this provider's contracts. Each card says who wrote it: a document the provider publishes, or one API Evangelist derived or generated.

Shazam Charts Api Certification Overlay

1 action · security · shazam-charts-api-openapi.yml

DERIVED

JSON Schema 2

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

Shazam Recognize Request

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Shazam Track

10 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Examples 2

Example request and response payloads for these APIs.

Recognize Response

6 fields

EXAMPLE

Track Search Response

2 fields

EXAMPLE

Security Posture 2

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

Shazam Authentication

apiKey · 2 schemes

SECURITY

Shazam Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Agentic Access (API Evangelist recommendations) 1

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

Shazam Agentic Access

12 operations · 1 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

AgenticAccess

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

Access & Security 3

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Authentication

Authentication

Authentication

Authentication

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

RateLimits

RateLimits

Forums

Forums

Commercial 4

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Plans

FinOps

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

Company 3

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

LinkedIn

Twitter

Twitter

Other 3

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

CapabilityMap

CapabilityMap

ParentCompany

ParentCompany

Developer

Developer

Source (apis.yml)

aid: shazam
name: Shazam
description: Shazam is Apple's music recognition service that identifies songs from audio fingerprints. The Shazam API provides
  song recognition, music charts, and artist and track metadata retrieval. Originally launched in 2002 and acquired by Apple
  in 2018, Shazam processes over 1 billion song identifications per month. Official developer access is available via Apple's
  ShazamKit framework for iOS, macOS, tvOS, visionOS, watchOS, and Android. A third-party REST API is also available through
  RapidAPI for song detection, chart data, and artist lookups.
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: true
  try_now: true
  public: false
  gated: none
  gated_source:
  - onboarding
  label: Freemium (free trial) · Self-serve signup
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-13'
  method: derived
position: Consuming
access: 3rd-Party
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/shazam.png
tags:
- Music
- Audio Recognition
- Song Identification
- Charts
- Artists
- Tracks
- Fingerprinting
- Audio
created: '2024-01-01'
modified: '2026-06-13'
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/shazam/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- aid: shazam:shazamkit
  name: ShazamKit
  description: ShazamKit is Apple's official framework for integrating Shazam music recognition into iOS, macOS, tvOS, visionOS,
    watchOS, and Android applications. It supports matching audio against Shazam's global music catalog or custom audio catalogs
    built from prerecorded content. Authentication uses a JWT developer token signed with a Media Services private key created
    in the Apple Developer account. Audio signatures are generated client-side and never shared with Apple, preserving user
    privacy.
  humanURL: https://developer.apple.com/shazamkit/
  baseURL: https://developer.apple.com/shazamkit/
  tags:
  - Music Recognition
  - Audio Fingerprinting
  - iOS SDK
  - Android SDK
  - Custom Catalogs
  - Media Library
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.apple.com/shazamkit/
  - type: SDKDocumentation
    url: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/shazamkit/
  - type: AndroidSDK
    url: https://developer.apple.com/download/all/?q=Android%20ShazamKit
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://developer.apple.com/help/account/capabilities/create-a-media-identifier-and-private-key/
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://developer.apple.com/help/account/services/shazamkit/
  - type: DesignGuidelines
    url: https://developer.apple.com/design/human-interface-guidelines/shazamkit
  features:
  - type: MusicRecognition
    description: Identify songs from audio samples against Shazam's global catalog of over 1 billion tracks
  - type: CustomCatalogs
    description: Build recognition catalogs from prerecorded audio for podcasts, videos, and custom content
  - type: AudioSync
    description: Determine match position within a song for synchronized second-screen experiences
  - type: MediaLibrary
    description: Maintain a persistent library of user's Shazam discoveries within the app
  - type: CrossPlatform
    description: Native SDKs for all Apple platforms (iOS, macOS, tvOS, visionOS, watchOS) and Android
  useCases:
  - type: SongIdentification
    description: Identify currently playing music in a listening environment
  - type: SecondScreen
    description: Sync app content with broadcast audio or prerecorded media
  - type: PodcastEnhancement
    description: Add interactive overlays timed to podcast audio segments
  - type: MusicDiscovery
    description: Surface song metadata and streaming links upon recognition
- aid: shazam:shazam-albums-api
  name: Shazam Albums API
  description: Album metadata
  humanURL: https://developer.apple.com/shazamkit/
  baseURL: https://developer.apple.com/shazamkit/
  tags:
  - Albums
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/shazam-albums-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://rapidapi.com/apidojo/api/shazam
  - type: Pricing
    url: https://rapidapi.com/apidojo/api/shazam/pricing
  - type: Plans
    url: plans/shazam-plans-pricing.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: rate-limits/shazam-rate-limits.yml
  - type: FinOps
    url: finops/shazam-finops.yml
- aid: shazam:shazam-artists-api
  name: Shazam Artists API
  description: Artist profiles and albums
  humanURL: https://developer.apple.com/shazamkit/
  baseURL: https://developer.apple.com/shazamkit/
  tags:
  - Artists
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/shazam-artists-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://rapidapi.com/apidojo/api/shazam
  - type: Pricing
    url: https://rapidapi.com/apidojo/api/shazam/pricing
  - type: Plans
    url: plans/shazam-plans-pricing.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: rate-limits/shazam-rate-limits.yml
  - type: FinOps
    url: finops/shazam-finops.yml
- aid: shazam:shazam-charts-api
  name: Shazam Charts API
  description: Music charts by country, city, and genre
  humanURL: https://developer.apple.com/shazamkit/
  baseURL: https://developer.apple.com/shazamkit/
  tags:
  - Charts
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/shazam-charts-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://rapidapi.com/apidojo/api/shazam
  - type: Pricing
    url: https://rapidapi.com/apidojo/api/shazam/pricing
  - type: Plans
    url: plans/shazam-plans-pricing.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: rate-limits/shazam-rate-limits.yml
  - type: FinOps
    url: finops/shazam-finops.yml
- aid: shazam:shazam-recognition-api
  name: Shazam Recognition API
  description: Audio fingerprint recognition against the Shazam catalog
  humanURL: https://developer.apple.com/shazamkit/
  baseURL: https://developer.apple.com/shazamkit/
  tags:
  - Recognition
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/shazam-recognition-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://rapidapi.com/apidojo/api/shazam
  - type: Pricing
    url: https://rapidapi.com/apidojo/api/shazam/pricing
  - type: Plans
    url: plans/shazam-plans-pricing.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: rate-limits/shazam-rate-limits.yml
  - type: FinOps
    url: finops/shazam-finops.yml
- aid: shazam:shazam-search-api
  name: Shazam Search API
  description: Full-text search across Shazam's track and artist catalog
  humanURL: https://developer.apple.com/shazamkit/
  baseURL: https://developer.apple.com/shazamkit/
  tags:
  - Search
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/shazam-search-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://rapidapi.com/apidojo/api/shazam
  - type: Pricing
    url: https://rapidapi.com/apidojo/api/shazam/pricing
  - type: Plans
    url: plans/shazam-plans-pricing.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: rate-limits/shazam-rate-limits.yml
  - type: FinOps
    url: finops/shazam-finops.yml
- aid: shazam:shazam-tracks-api
  name: Shazam Tracks API
  description: Track metadata, related tracks, and listening counters
  humanURL: https://developer.apple.com/shazamkit/
  baseURL: https://developer.apple.com/shazamkit/
  tags:
  - Tracks
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/shazam-tracks-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://rapidapi.com/apidojo/api/shazam
  - type: Pricing
    url: https://rapidapi.com/apidojo/api/shazam/pricing
  - type: Plans
    url: plans/shazam-plans-pricing.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: rate-limits/shazam-rate-limits.yml
  - type: FinOps
    url: finops/shazam-finops.yml
common:
- type: CapabilityMap
  url: capabilities/shazam-capability-edges.yml
  name: Shazam Business Capability Map
- type: Plans
  url: plans/shazam-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/shazam-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/shazam-finops.yml
- type: ParentCompany
  url: https://apis.io/providers/apple/
  name: Apple
  x-relationship: acquired
  x-evidence: Originally launched in 2002 and acquired by Apple in 2018, Shazam processes over 1 billion song identifications
    per month.
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/shazam-agentic-access.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/shazam-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/shazam-authentication.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.shazam.com
- type: Developer
  url: https://developer.apple.com/shazamkit/
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/shazamio
- type: Authentication
  url: https://developer.apple.com/help/account/capabilities/create-a-media-identifier-and-private-key/
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/terms/site.html
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.apple.com/legal/privacy/
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/shazam
- type: Twitter
  url: https://twitter.com/Shazam
- type: Forums
  url: https://developer.apple.com/forums/tags/shazamkit
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com

Shazam API — frequently asked questions

Does Shazam have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 7 APIs from Shazam, including ShazamKit, Shazam Albums API and Shazam Artists API, and 4 more.

Is there an OpenAPI specification for the Shazam API?

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

How do I authenticate with the Shazam API?

Shazam uses bearer-token authentication (apiKey · 2 schemes). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Shazam Authentication.

How much does the Shazam API cost?

APIs.io lists 7 pricing plans for Shazam, with each plan's price, limits and inclusions under Pricing on this page.

Is the Shazam API ready for AI agents?

Shazam has a Kin Score of 36.5 out of 100 (thin) and an Agent Readiness score of 20.7 (agent-aware), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-13.

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