Vimeo OTT

Vimeo OTT (formerly VHX) is a subscription video / over-the-top (OTT) platform for launching branded SVOD, TVOD, and live streaming services across web, mobile, and connected-TV apps. Its documented REST API at api.vhx.tv lets media companies programmatically manage customers, products (subscription, rental, and purchase access agreements), videos, and collections (categories, series, seasons, movies, playlists), plus watchlists, player authorizations, comments, live events, and analytics. The API is publicly documented at dev.vhx.tv and uses HTTP Basic authentication with an API key generated from the Vimeo OTT CMS; the platform itself is a paid product (Starter and Enterprise plans).

Vimeo OTT publishes 6 APIs on the APIs.io network, including Analytics API, Authorizations API, Collections API, and 3 more. Tagged areas include OTT, Video, SVOD, Streaming, and Media.

Vimeo OTT’s developer surface includes authentication, documentation, and 9 more developer resources.

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37.8/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 31/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-08-05 · rubric v0.9.1
AccessPaidSelf serveFree trial⚡ Free to try
6 APIs
OTTVideoSVODStreamingMediaSubscriptionsVHX

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Composite quality — 37.8/100 · thin
Contract Quality 15.9 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 3.9 / 20
Commercial Clarity 5.8 / 20
Operational Transparency 4.8 / 13
Governance 0.0 / 12
Discoverability 7.4 / 10
Agent readiness — 31/100 · agent aware
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10
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
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APIs 6

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

Vimeo OTT Analytics API

Performance reports for the OTT service.

Vimeo OTT Authorizations API

Short-lived tokens granting a customer access to the embeddable player.

Vimeo OTT Collections API

Categories, series, seasons, movies, and playlists, and their items.

Vimeo OTT Customers API

Subscribers, their product access, watchlists, and in-progress viewing.

Vimeo OTT Products API

Access agreements (subscription, rental, purchase) and their prices.

Vimeo OTT Videos API

Transcoded content items and their playable file URLs.

Open Collections 1

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

Vimeo OTT API

OPEN COLLECTION

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Vimeo Ott Plans Pricing

2 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Vimeo Ott Rate Limits

5 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

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

Vimeo Ott Finops

FINOPS

Security Posture 3

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

Vimeo Ott Authentication

http · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Vimeo Ott Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Vimeo Ott Vulnerability Disclosure

Hackerone · security.txt · contact published

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

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

Vimeo Ott Agentic Access

30 operations · 16 acting · 1 human-in-the-loop

30 operations · 16 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation
Documentation

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 3

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

VulnerabilityDisclosure
VulnerabilityDisclosure
 DomainSecurity
DomainSecurity
 Authentication
Authentication

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 2

The organization behind the API

LinkedIn
LinkedIn
 Website
Website

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: vimeo-ott
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/vimeo-ott/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
name: Vimeo OTT
kind: company
description: Vimeo OTT (formerly VHX) is a subscription video / over-the-top (OTT) platform for launching branded SVOD, TVOD,
  and live streaming services across web, mobile, and connected-TV apps. Its documented REST API at api.vhx.tv lets media
  companies programmatically manage customers, products (subscription, rental, and purchase access agreements), videos, and
  collections (categories, series, seasons, movies, playlists), plus watchlists, player authorizations, comments, live events,
  and analytics. The API is publicly documented at dev.vhx.tv and uses HTTP Basic authentication with an API key generated
  from the Vimeo OTT CMS; the platform itself is a paid product (Starter and Enterprise plans).
accessModel:
  pricing: paid
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: true
  try_now: true
  public: false
  label: Paid (free trial) · 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/vimeo-ott.png
tags:
- OTT
- Video
- SVOD
- Streaming
- Media
- Subscriptions
- VHX
created: '2026-07-11'
modified: '2026-07-11'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
- aid: vimeo-ott:vimeo-ott-analytics-api
  name: Vimeo OTT Analytics API
  description: Performance reports for the OTT service.
  humanURL: https://dev.vhx.tv/docs/api/
  baseURL: https://api.vhx.tv
  tags:
  - Analytics
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/vimeo-ott-analytics-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://dev.vhx.tv/docs/api/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://dev.vhx.tv/docs/api/
  - type: PostmanCollection
    url: collections/vimeo-ott.postman_collection.json
  - type: OpenCollection
    url: collections/vimeo-ott.opencollection.json
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://dev.vhx.tv/player/
- aid: vimeo-ott:vimeo-ott-authorizations-api
  name: Vimeo OTT Authorizations API
  description: Short-lived tokens granting a customer access to the embeddable player.
  humanURL: https://dev.vhx.tv/docs/api/
  baseURL: https://api.vhx.tv
  tags:
  - Authorizations
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/vimeo-ott-authorizations-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://dev.vhx.tv/docs/api/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://dev.vhx.tv/docs/api/
  - type: PostmanCollection
    url: collections/vimeo-ott.postman_collection.json
  - type: OpenCollection
    url: collections/vimeo-ott.opencollection.json
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://dev.vhx.tv/player/
- aid: vimeo-ott:vimeo-ott-collections-api
  name: Vimeo OTT Collections API
  description: Categories, series, seasons, movies, and playlists, and their items.
  humanURL: https://dev.vhx.tv/docs/api/
  baseURL: https://api.vhx.tv
  tags:
  - Collections
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/vimeo-ott-collections-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://dev.vhx.tv/docs/api/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://dev.vhx.tv/docs/api/
  - type: PostmanCollection
    url: collections/vimeo-ott.postman_collection.json
  - type: OpenCollection
    url: collections/vimeo-ott.opencollection.json
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://dev.vhx.tv/player/
- aid: vimeo-ott:vimeo-ott-customers-api
  name: Vimeo OTT Customers API
  description: Subscribers, their product access, watchlists, and in-progress viewing.
  humanURL: https://dev.vhx.tv/docs/api/
  baseURL: https://api.vhx.tv
  tags:
  - Customers
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/vimeo-ott-customers-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://dev.vhx.tv/docs/api/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://dev.vhx.tv/docs/api/
  - type: PostmanCollection
    url: collections/vimeo-ott.postman_collection.json
  - type: OpenCollection
    url: collections/vimeo-ott.opencollection.json
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://dev.vhx.tv/player/
- aid: vimeo-ott:vimeo-ott-products-api
  name: Vimeo OTT Products API
  description: Access agreements (subscription, rental, purchase) and their prices.
  humanURL: https://dev.vhx.tv/docs/api/
  baseURL: https://api.vhx.tv
  tags:
  - Products
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/vimeo-ott-products-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://dev.vhx.tv/docs/api/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://dev.vhx.tv/docs/api/
  - type: PostmanCollection
    url: collections/vimeo-ott.postman_collection.json
  - type: OpenCollection
    url: collections/vimeo-ott.opencollection.json
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://dev.vhx.tv/player/
- aid: vimeo-ott:vimeo-ott-videos-api
  name: Vimeo OTT Videos API
  description: Transcoded content items and their playable file URLs.
  humanURL: https://dev.vhx.tv/docs/api/
  baseURL: https://api.vhx.tv
  tags:
  - Videos
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/vimeo-ott-videos-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://dev.vhx.tv/docs/api/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://dev.vhx.tv/docs/api/
  - type: PostmanCollection
    url: collections/vimeo-ott.postman_collection.json
  - type: OpenCollection
    url: collections/vimeo-ott.opencollection.json
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://dev.vhx.tv/player/
common:
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/vimeo-ott-agentic-access.yml
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/vimeo-ott-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/vimeo-ott-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/vimeo-ott-authentication.yml
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/vimeo
- type: Website
  url: https://vimeo.com/ott
- type: Documentation
  url: https://dev.vhx.tv/docs/api/
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/vhx
- type: Plans
  url: plans/vimeo-ott-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/vimeo-ott-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/vimeo-ott-finops.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com