SoundCloud

SoundCloud is a music and audio streaming platform with a developer REST API for tracks, users, playlists, search, comments, likes, and uploads. Authentication is OAuth 2.1 with PKCE; access tokens expire approximately every hour.

SoundCloud publishes 6 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network, including Playlists API, Search API, Social API, and 3 more. Tagged areas include Music, Streaming, Audio, Authentication, and Tracks.

SoundCloud’s developer surface includes authentication, engineering blog, and 12 more developer resources.

🌐 Visit website 📡 Profile data on GitHub

28.0/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 25/100 agent aware Front door AI 1/6 silent saas Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-10-17 · rubric v0.24.0

AccessFreeSelf serve⚡ Free to try

1 published contract

Music Streaming Audio Authentication Tracks Playlists

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 Asset Management

BC-3710

Tracks

GET /tracks POST /tracks GET /tracks/{id} PUT /tracks/{id}

Kin Score

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scored 2026-10-17 · rubric v0.24.0

Composite quality — 28.0/100 · thin

Contract Quality 8.4 / 19

Developer Ergonomics 5.0 / 15

Access Clarity 0.8 / 15

Operational Transparency 1.0 / 10

Contract Governance 0.0 / 9

Discoverability 5.0 / 8

Regulatory Posture 4.1 / 15

Create-or-Update Ergonomics 0.0 / 10

Agent readiness — 25/100 · 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 6 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

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 applies to this provider. This API accepts writes, so it carries 10 points of the composite. It is scored from the published contracts themselves: whether a caller can create-or-update in one call, whether the write accepts a key the caller already holds, and whether the response says which branch ran. Without that, every write needs a search-and-branch in front of it, and the first time that check is skipped a duplicate record is created. Scored against the observed mean rather than raw — a provider at the catalog average is unchanged by this facet, not penalised by it.

The six quality facets above are damped to 75 points between them, because the conditional facet above carries the other 25. That is why each facet's contribution is shown against a damped maximum: raising a quality facet moves the composite by 75% of its nominal weight, not 100%. The full arithmetic is at apis.io/rating/.

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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
Music and Rights	standard	19.7 (thin)	-	-

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.

APIs 6

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

SoundCloud API

REST API for SoundCloud covering tracks (upload, metadata, stream), users (/me, profiles), playlists (CRUD), search (title/username/description), social (follow, like, comment),...

SoundCloud Playlists API

Playlist CRUD

SoundCloud Search API

Search and resolution

SoundCloud Social API

Follow and like actions

SoundCloud Tracks API

Track CRUD, streaming, and comments

SoundCloud Users API

Authenticated user and profile actions

Open Collections 7

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

API Collection

OPEN COLLECTION

SoundCloud Playlists API

OPEN COLLECTION

SoundCloud Playlists Search API

OPEN COLLECTION

SoundCloud Playlists Social API

OPEN COLLECTION

SoundCloud Playlists Tracks API

OPEN COLLECTION

SoundCloud Playlists Users API

OPEN COLLECTION

SoundCloud API

OPEN COLLECTION

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Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Soundcloud Plans Pricing

2 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Soundcloud Rate Limits

4 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

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

Soundcloud Finops

FINOPS

Security Posture 3

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

Soundcloud Authentication

oauth2 · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Soundcloud Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Soundcloud Vulnerability Disclosure

security.txt · contact published

SECURITY

Scopes 1

OAuth scopes governing access to this provider's APIs.

Soundcloud Scopes

1 scope · authorizationCode/clientCredentials

1 scopes

SCOPES

Agentic Access 1

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

Soundcloud Agentic Access

19 operations · 12 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Get Started 1

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

DeveloperPortal

DeveloperPortal

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 4

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

VulnerabilityDisclosure

VulnerabilityDisclosure

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Authentication

Authentication

OAuthScopes

OAuthScopes

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 3

The organization behind the API

LinkedIn

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

CapabilityMap

CapabilityMap

Source (apis.yml)

aid: soundcloud
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/soundcloud/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
name: SoundCloud
kind: company
description: SoundCloud is a music and audio streaming platform with a developer REST API for tracks, users, playlists, search,
  comments, likes, and uploads. Authentication is OAuth 2.1 with PKCE; access tokens expire approximately every hour.
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: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: true
  public: false
  label: Free · Self-serve signup
  confidence: high
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/soundcloud.png
tags:
- Music
- Streaming
- Audio
- Authentication
- Tracks
- Playlists
tags_raw:
- Music
- Streaming
- Audio
- OAuth
- Tracks
- Playlists
created: '2026-05-08'
modified: '2026-05-30'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- aid: soundcloud:platform
  name: SoundCloud API
  description: REST API for SoundCloud covering tracks (upload, metadata, stream), users (/me, profiles), playlists (CRUD),
    search (title/username/description), social (follow, like, comment), and audio playback. OAuth 2.1 with PKCE; supports
    Authorization Code and Client Credentials flows.
  humanURL: https://developers.soundcloud.com/docs/api/guide
  baseURL: https://api.soundcloud.com
  tags:
  - Tracks
  - User
  - Playlists
  - Search
  - Social
  tags_raw:
  - Tracks
  - Users
  - Playlists
  - Search
  - Social
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developers.soundcloud.com/docs/api/guide
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://developers.soundcloud.com/docs/api/guide#authentication
  - type: RateLimits
    url: https://developers.soundcloud.com/docs/api/rate-limits
- aid: soundcloud:soundcloud-playlists-api
  name: SoundCloud Playlists API
  description: Playlist CRUD
  humanURL: https://developers.soundcloud.com/docs/api/guide
  baseURL: https://api.soundcloud.com
  tags:
  - Playlists
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/soundcloud-playlists-api-openapi.yml
- aid: soundcloud:soundcloud-search-api
  name: SoundCloud Search API
  description: Search and resolution
  humanURL: https://developers.soundcloud.com/docs/api/guide
  baseURL: https://api.soundcloud.com
  tags:
  - Search
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/soundcloud-search-api-openapi.yml
- aid: soundcloud:soundcloud-social-api
  name: SoundCloud Social API
  description: Follow and like actions
  humanURL: https://developers.soundcloud.com/docs/api/guide
  baseURL: https://api.soundcloud.com
  tags:
  - Social
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/soundcloud-social-api-openapi.yml
- aid: soundcloud:soundcloud-tracks-api
  name: SoundCloud Tracks API
  description: Track CRUD, streaming, and comments
  humanURL: https://developers.soundcloud.com/docs/api/guide
  baseURL: https://api.soundcloud.com
  tags:
  - Tracks
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/soundcloud-tracks-api-openapi.yml
- aid: soundcloud:soundcloud-users-api
  name: SoundCloud Users API
  description: Authenticated user and profile actions
  humanURL: https://developers.soundcloud.com/docs/api/guide
  baseURL: https://api.soundcloud.com
  tags:
  - User
  tags_raw:
  - Users
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/soundcloud-users-api-openapi.yml
common:
- type: CapabilityMap
  url: capabilities/soundcloud-capability-edges.yml
  name: SoundCloud Business Capability Map
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/soundcloud-agentic-access.yml
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/soundcloud-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/soundcloud-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/soundcloud-authentication.yml
- type: OAuthScopes
  url: scopes/soundcloud-scopes.yml
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/soundcloud
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/soundcloud
- type: Website
  url: https://soundcloud.com/
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://developers.soundcloud.com/
- type: Plans
  url: plans/soundcloud-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/soundcloud-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/soundcloud-finops.yml
- type: Integrations
  url: https://soundcloud.com/marketplace
- url: https://developers.soundcloud.com/blog/blog.rss
  type: Blog
integrations:
- name: MP Tech outtake - counterpart
- name: Finding your dream career
- name: Marketplace's likes
- name: Marketplace's playlists
- name: Marketplace's tracks
- name: Marketplace's comments
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com

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