# Shutterstock

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/shutterstock/  
**APIs profiled:** 10

Shutterstock is a leading global technology company providing high-quality images, videos, audio tracks, sound effects, and editorial content to businesses, individuals, and organizations worldwide. With a library of over 350 million assets, Shutterstock offers royalty-free creative content for marketing campaigns, website designs, social media, and more. The Shutterstock API provides programmatic access to search, browse, license, and download media assets, manage collections, access computer vision features, and handle OAuth 2.0 authentication. It also includes contributor profile management and user account operations.

## Kin Score — 35.0 / 100 (thin)

Scored 2026-08-21 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.4 from 34.6).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 74.1 |
| Contract Quality | 77.7 |
| Governance | 13.6 |
| Contract Governance | 13.6 |
| Operational Transparency | 7.9 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 11.9 |
| Commercial Clarity | 15.8 |
| Access Clarity | 15.8 |

## Agent readiness — 35.0 (agent-ready)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | verified |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Freemium · Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: freemium, trial: no (confidence: high).

## APIs (10)

- **Shutterstock audio API** — The audio API from Shutterstock — 11 operation(s) for audio.
- **Shutterstock computer_vision API** — The computer_vision API from Shutterstock — 5 operation(s) for computer_vision.
- **Shutterstock contributors API** — The contributors API from Shutterstock — 5 operation(s) for contributors.
- **Shutterstock editorial_images API** — The editorial_images API from Shutterstock — 15 operation(s) for editorial_images.
- **Shutterstock editorial_video API** — The editorial_video API from Shutterstock — 4 operation(s) for editorial_video.
- **Shutterstock images API** — The images API from Shutterstock — 16 operation(s) for images.
- **Shutterstock oauth API** — The oauth API from Shutterstock — 2 operation(s) for oauth.
- **Shutterstock test API** — The test API from Shutterstock — 2 operation(s) for test.
- **Shutterstock users API** — The users API from Shutterstock — 3 operation(s) for users.
- **Shutterstock videos API** — The videos API from Shutterstock — 12 operation(s) for videos.

## Agentic access (1)

- **Shutterstock Agentic Access** — 95 operations · 28 acting

## Security (3)

- **Shutterstock Authentication** — http/oauth2 · 2 schemes
- **Shutterstock Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · DMARC
- **Shutterstock Vulnerability Disclosure** — security.txt · contact published

## Plans (1)

- **Shutterstock Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Image, Media, Photos, Stock Images, Videos, Audio, Licensing, Creative Content

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/shutterstock/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.