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

The Vimeo OTT catalog on APIs.io includes 1 Spectral governance ruleset.

Vimeo OTT’s developer surface includes engineering blog, authentication, documentation, and 11 more developer resources.

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31.5/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 20/100 agent aware Heartbeat 0/100 dormant saas Full breakdown ↓
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1 published contract

OTT VideoSVODStreaming Media SubscriptionVHX

What this lets a business do 1

Business capabilities this provider's published APIs can perform, derived from its own contracts. Browse all capabilities →

Customer Relationship Management

BC-420

Customers

Kin Score

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scored 2026-11-13 · rubric v0.28.0

Composite quality — 31.5/100 · thin

Contract Quality 10.1 / 19

Developer Ergonomics 4.8 / 15

Access Clarity 0.6 / 15

Operational Transparency 2.1 / 10

Contract Governance 1.2 / 9

Discoverability 5.0 / 8

Regulatory Posture 2.6 / 15

Create-or-Update Ergonomics 0.0 / 10

Agent readiness — 20/100 · 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 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

Pagination 5 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

MCP Tool Quality 6 / 6

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MCP Server +12 pts — deployment.mode + probe verdict on the mcp/ manifest, not the pointer; an unprobed slug falls back to authorship Ask about this →
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Standards implemented 1

Standards this provider implements or carries. De facto ones are profiled and measured by the API Commons; formal ones come from the standards directory and are linked by the provider's own tags. The evidence column says how each claim was established — not that it was made.

OpenAPI

measured — observed by APIs.io (published)

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 7

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

Vimeo OTT Analytics API

OPEN COLLECTION

Vimeo OTT Analytics Authorizations API

OPEN COLLECTION

Vimeo OTT Analytics Collections API

OPEN COLLECTION

Vimeo OTT Analytics Customers API

OPEN COLLECTION

Vimeo OTT Analytics Products API

OPEN COLLECTION

Vimeo OTT Analytics Videos API

OPEN COLLECTION

Vimeo OTT API

OPEN COLLECTION

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Vimeo OTT API pricing

Not yet checked against Vimeo OTT's own pricing page. Compiled by API Evangelist on 2026-07-11 from vimeo.com/ott; confirm before you rely on a figure.

Plan	Price
Starter usage	—
Enterprise enterprise	—

Plan details, limits and sources →

Rate limits

Customer Creation: ~5 requests/second requests
General API Requests: not published requests
Pagination Page Size: 50 default items

Compiled by API Evangelist, not yet checked against Vimeo OTT's documentation. All 5 limits →

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

Spectral Rules 1

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs. Counts are the severity each rule declares, not results of running them.

Vimeo OTT API Rules

63 rules · 59 error-severity 2 warn-severity 2 info-severity

SPECTRAL

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 (API Evangelist recommendations) 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 4

The organization behind the API

Blog

Blog

BlogRSS

BlogRSS

LinkedIn

Website

Website

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

CapabilityMap

CapabilityMap

Source (apis.yml)

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).
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: paid
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: true
  try_now: true
  public: false
  gated: none
  gated_source:
  - onboarding
  label: Paid (free trial) · Self-serve signup
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-13'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/vimeo-ott.png
tags:
- OTT
- Video
- SVOD
- Streaming
- Media
- Subscription
- VHX
tags_raw:
- OTT
- Video
- SVOD
- Streaming
- Media
- Subscriptions
- VHX
created: '2026-07-11'
modified: '2026-10-06'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
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:
  - Authorization
  tags_raw:
  - 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:
  - Collection
  tags_raw:
  - 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:
  - Product
  tags_raw:
  - 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:
  - Video
  tags_raw:
  - 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:
- url: https://vimeo.com/blog
  type: Blog
- url: https://vimeo.com/blog/feed.xml
  type: BlogRSS
- type: CapabilityMap
  url: capabilities/vimeo-ott-capability-edges.yml
  name: Vimeo OTT Business Capability Map
- 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
x-parent: vimeo
x-relationship: product

Vimeo OTT API — frequently asked questions

Does Vimeo OTT have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 6 APIs from Vimeo OTT, including Vimeo OTT Analytics API, Vimeo OTT Authorizations API and Vimeo OTT Collections API, and 3 more.

Is there an OpenAPI specification for the Vimeo OTT API?

Yes. APIs.io indexes 6 OpenAPI specifications for Vimeo OTT, each linked for download from this page.

How do I authenticate with the Vimeo OTT API?

Vimeo OTT uses bearer-token authentication (http · 1 scheme). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Vimeo OTT Authentication.

How much does the Vimeo OTT API cost?

APIs.io lists 2 pricing plans for Vimeo OTT, with each plan's price, limits and inclusions under Pricing on this page.

Is the Vimeo OTT API ready for AI agents?

Vimeo OTT has a Kin Score of 31.5 out of 100 (thin) and an Agent Readiness score of 19.6 (agent-aware), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-13.

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