Spotter

Spotter is a creator-economy platform that invests in YouTube creators through capital, catalog licensing, and brand partnerships, and connects brands with top long-form YouTube creators for marketing and content opportunities. Its Spotter Studio product provides AI-assisted tooling that helps creators plan, ideate, and optimize their content and titles. The company reports more than $1 billion invested in creators and over 43 billion monthly views across a network that includes creators such as MrBeast, Critical Role, and Sam and Colby. Spotter is backed by SoftBank Vision Fund. Spotter publishes no public developer API: contract discovery on 2026-08-13 found no OpenAPI, GraphQL SDL, AsyncAPI, MCP server or A2A agent card on any Spotter host, and the Spotter Studio application backends return 503 to anonymous callers. Spotter Studio is a consumer of the YouTube Data and Analytics APIs via Google OAuth, not a provider of one.

Spotter is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Consumer, Creator Economy, Media, and YouTube.

Spotter’s developer surface includes engineering blog, support, signup flow, and 10 more developer resources.

15.7/100 emerging ▲ 6.5 Agent 7/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-08-17 · rubric v0.11.0
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scored 2026-08-17 · rubric v0.11.0
Composite quality — 15.7/100 · emerging
Contract Quality 0.0 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 1.3 / 20
Commercial Clarity 6.8 / 20
Operational Transparency 0.7 / 13
Governance 0.0 / 12
Discoverability 6.9 / 10
Agent readiness — 7/100 · agent aware
Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 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 4 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3
A2A Agent Card 0 / 8
Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4
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Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Spotter Plans Pricing

0 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Spotter Rate Limits

0 limits

RATE LIMITS

Security Posture 1

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

Spotter Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Resources

Get Started 2

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Other 1

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Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑
aid: spotter
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
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  label: Unknown
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  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/spotter.png
name: Spotter
description: 'Spotter is a creator-economy platform that invests in YouTube creators through capital, catalog licensing, and
  brand partnerships, and connects brands with top long-form YouTube creators for marketing and content opportunities. Its
  Spotter Studio product provides AI-assisted tooling that helps creators plan, ideate, and optimize their content and titles.
  The company reports more than $1 billion invested in creators and over 43 billion monthly views across a network that includes
  creators such as MrBeast, Critical Role, and Sam and Colby. Spotter is backed by SoftBank Vision Fund. Spotter publishes
  no public developer API: contract discovery on 2026-08-13 found no OpenAPI, GraphQL SDL, AsyncAPI, MCP server or A2A agent
  card on any Spotter host, and the Spotter Studio application backends return 503 to anonymous callers. Spotter Studio is
  a consumer of the YouTube Data and Analytics APIs via Google OAuth, not a provider of one.'
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/spotter/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- softbank-vision-fund
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-08-13'
tags:
- Company
- Consumer
- Creator Economy
- Media
- YouTube
- Video
- Marketing
- Content
- Creators
- AI
apis: []
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/spotter-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.spotter.com/
- type: Product
  name: Spotter Studio
  url: https://www.spotterstudio.com/
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.spotter.com/terms-of-service
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.spotter.com/privacy-policy
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.spotterstudio.com/blog
- type: Support
  name: Spotter Studio Help Center
  url: https://help.spotterstudio.com/
- type: SignUp
  url: https://app.spotterstudio.com/signup
- type: Login
  url: https://app.spotterstudio.com/login
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/spotter-dev
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/spotter-llms.txt
- type: Plans
  url: plans/spotter-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/spotter-rate-limits.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-08-13'
  status: minimal
  artifacts_added: 4
  pass: local-v1
x-coverage:
  state: none
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  detail: Spotter ships Spotter Studio only as an end-user web app — the app's own backends (bowser/birdo/kirby.api.spotterstudio.com,
    read out of the SPA bundle) answer HTTP 503 to every anonymous request and publish no contract, and there is no developer
    portal, API reference, SDK, webhook surface or /llms.txt on any Spotter host.
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  - url: https://data-api.api.spotterstudio.com/openapi.json
    status: 404
  - url: https://www.spotter.com/developers
    status: 404
  - url: https://www.spotterstudio.com/llms.txt
    status: 404
  - url: https://www.spotterstudio.com/.well-known/agent-card.json
    status: 404
  - url: https://www.spotterstudio.com/pricing
    status: 401
  checked: '2026-08-13'