# Sovrn

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/sovrn/  
**Website:** https://www.sovrn.com  
**APIs profiled:** 10

Sovrn is an advertising technology and content monetization company that helps online publishers, advertisers, and creators earn revenue from their websites and audiences. Its platform spans Ad Exchange (an omnichannel programmatic demand pipeline connecting publisher inventory to buyers and DSPs), Signal (ad-inventory and yield optimization), Commerce (affiliate and commerce-content monetization, formerly VigLink, with access to tens of thousands of merchants), and Data solutions for first-party data activation. Sovrn publishes a ReadMe-hosted developer center at developer.sovrn.com carrying eight OpenAPI definitions across seventeen operations — affiliate link checking, real-time bid pricing on clicks, campaign management, real-time commission reporting, merchant rate summaries, product recommendations, price comparisons, promo codes, and Ad Exchange performance reporting — plus a beta hosted Commerce MCP server at mcp.sovrn.com/commerce, an Agent Skills discovery document, and llms.txt files on three hosts. Sovrn is headquartered in Boulder, Colorado.

## Kin Score — 53.3 / 100 (developing)

Scored 2026-08-17 under rubric 0.11.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 53.3).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 92.6 |
| Contract Quality | 52.6 |
| Governance | 20.8 |
| Operational Transparency | 63.2 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 58.7 |
| Commercial Clarity | 42.1 |

## Agent readiness — 49.1 (agent-ready)

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

## Access

Free with account — onboarding: unknown, pricing: free, trial: no (confidence: medium).

## APIs (10)

- **Sovrn Commerce Link Check API** — Check whether a destination URL can be monetized by Sovrn Commerce, get its estimated earnings per click, and receive the optimized affiliate URL to use in its place. Supports a...
- **Sovrn Commerce Bid Check API** — Real-time bid on a single click. Returns either a bid win (pricing model CPC or CPA, expected earnings per click net of revenue share, the Sovrn redirect URL and a millisecond e...
- **Sovrn Commerce Campaigns API** — List the campaigns (sites) on a Sovrn Commerce account or search them by name or campaignId, returning each campaign's id, public API key, approval status, category, platform an...
- **Sovrn Commerce Real-Time Reports API** — Eight endpoints returning affiliate commission performance in real time, each aggregating the same event set on a different dimension — individual transactions, merchants, merch...
- **Sovrn Commerce Merchant Group Summaries API** — Retrieve the merchants a Commerce account is approved to work with, including geo-specific commission rates, rate formats, average EPC and order value, preferred-status flags an...
- **Sovrn Commerce Product Recommendation API** — Returns products tailored to a piece of content. Callers pass their content plus optional filters such as price range or preferred merchants and receive a curated product list w...
- **Sovrn Commerce Price Comparisons (Product Affiliate) API** — Compare prices for the same product across merchants in a given market, ranked by match accuracy, returning merchant identity and logo, deep link, images, sale and retail price,...
- **Sovrn Commerce Product Promo Codes API** — Retrieve ranked, product-specific promo codes with verification status — code, affiliated URL, original price, price with the code applied, currency, verified flag and timestamp...
- **Sovrn Advertising Performance Reporting API** — Custom reporting over Sovrn Ad Exchange performance across web, connected TV and mobile app inventory. Requires start, end, metrics, dimensions and granularity on every request,...
- **Sovrn Commerce MCP Server** — Hosted, beta Model Context Protocol server exposing Sovrn Commerce affiliate data, campaigns and products to AI clients — twelve tools covering price search, link checking, prod...

## MCP servers (2)

- **sovrn-mcp.yml**
- **commerce**

## Security (3)

- **Sovrn Authentication** — apiKey · 5 schemes
- **Sovrn Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC
- **Sovrn Vulnerability Disclosure** — security.txt · contact published

## Plans (1)

- **Sovrn Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Company, Adtech, Advertising, Monetization, Affiliate Marketing, Programmatic, Publishers, Commerce, Data, Reporting, Product Data, Agent Native

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