# Songtrust

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/songtrust/  
**Website:** https://www.songtrust.com  
**APIs profiled:** 0

Songtrust is a New York City-based music publishing administration platform and a Downtown Music company. The service helps songwriters, producers, composers, and independent publishers register their compositions and collect global publishing royalties — including performance, mechanical, digital, micro-sync, and neighboring rights — through a network of 65+ collection societies and pay sources across 240 countries and territories. Songtrust's web-based dashboard provides song registration, catalog management, writer and publisher splits, royalty statement matching, metadata enrichment, weekly song monitoring, and quarterly payouts, while letting clients retain 100% ownership of their copyrights. The commercial model is a one-time $100 sign-up fee per songwriter plus 15% of collected performance royalties and 20% of non-performance royalties — positioned as a transparent flat-rate alternative to traditional publisher deals. As of this profile, Songtrust does not expose a public developer API, OpenAPI specification, SDK, or partner integration portal; the platform is consumed exclusively through the Songtrust client dashboard at app.songtrust.com. Integrations and data exchange with PROs, mechanical rights societies, DSPs, and Downtown sister companies are operated internally rather than through a documented public surface.

## Kin Score — 12.6 / 100 (emerging)

Scored 2026-08-21 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 12.6).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 50.0 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 5.3 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 7.1 |
| Commercial Clarity | 27.6 |
| Access Clarity | 27.6 |

## Agent readiness — 0.0 (human-only)

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

## Access

Unknown — onboarding: unknown, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: low).

## Security (1)

- **Songtrust Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

## Tags

Music Publishing, Publishing Administration, Royalty Collection, Performance Royalties, Mechanical Royalties, Songwriters, Composers, Music Rights, Copyright, PRO, Collection Societies, Music Metadata, Catalog Management, Downtown Music, Entertainment

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