# Zype

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/zype/  
**Website:** https://www.zype.com/  
**APIs profiled:** 15

Zype is an API-first video content management and streaming platform used by enterprises and media companies to run OTT apps, FAST and linear channels, and global video distribution. The platform spans a video CMS and CRM, cloud encoding, multi-CDN delivery, AI-assisted metadata, transcription and translation, SSAI advertising and DRM, subscription and transactional monetization, consumer entitlements, TV Everywhere authentication, cloud playout scheduling with XMLTV and platform EPG export, and a no-code app builder for web, mobile and connected TV. Zype publishes fifteen OpenAPI 3.0.1 definitions covering 317 operations, an RFC 8414 OAuth authorization server advertising 148 scopes, and a first-party MCP server. Zype is a Backlight business.

## Kin Score — 53.4 / 100 (developing)

Scored 2026-08-30 under rubric 0.17.2. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 53.4).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 81.5 |
| Contract Quality | 45.9 |
| Governance | 18.2 |
| Contract Governance | 18.2 |
| Operational Transparency | 28.9 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 63.1 |
| Commercial Clarity | 76.3 |
| Access Clarity | 76.3 |

## Agent readiness — 33.3 (agent-ready)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | documented |
| Auth Clarity | bearer |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | verified |
| OpenAPI Examples | partial |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | yes |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |
| Delegated Identity | no |
| Protected Resource Metadata | no |
| Dynamic Client Registration | no |
| Agentic Commerce | no |

## Access

Paid, sales-led — onboarding: unknown, pricing: paid, trial: no (confidence: high).

## APIs (15)

- **Zype Platform API** — The core Zype content API: videos, playlists, categories, subtitles and subtitle playlists, transcriptions and translations, AI metadata suggestions, segments, program guides, v...
- **Zype Playout Scheduler API** — Cloud playout for FAST and linear channels: channels, HLS/UDP/RTMP delivery profiles, destinations and connectors, draft and published schedule versions, revertible timeline ope...
- **Zype Monetization API** — Subscriptions with a reversible cancel/reactivate pair, plans and tiered plan-to-playlist binding, transactions carrying Stripe/Braintree/Recurly references, redemption codes wi...
- **Zype Consumers API** — The end-viewer surface: consumer records, password reset flows, parental access codes, device pin linking, and video, playlist and subscription entitlements. 24 operations.
- **Zype Live API (V3)** — Live streaming V3: encoder lifecycle including start, stop and sync, and live events with start, stop and archive. 16 operations. Supersedes the legacy /live/encoders surface st...
- **Zype Zobjects API** — Zype's custom-metadata model: Zobject Types define a schema (actor, director, team, season) and Zobjects are instances, attachable to videos and playlists in both directions. 16...
- **Zype Analytics API (V3)** — Current analytics surface across three families: engagement (plays, viewers, hours watched, view time), revenue (new subscriptions, subscription events, subscription revenue, ne...
- **Zype Analytics API (V2)** — Legacy V2 analytics surface — stream hours, player requests, engagement, site counts, consumers, subscriptions, subscription events, subscription revenue and transactions. 9 ope...
- **Zype Custom Regions API** — Site-scoped custom regions and global content regions, the geographic building blocks used by content rules. 7 operations.
- **Zype Content Rule Groups API** — Site-scoped and global content rule groups — reusable bundles of rules applied to content availability. 7 operations.
- **Zype Content Rule Profiles API** — Content rule profiles plus the country/state/city lookups they are built from — geo-blocking and availability windows. 7 operations.
- **Zype TVE API** — TV Everywhere / MVPD authentication implemented against the Adobe Primetime device-session flow: register a device session, create a Zype consumer, validate a session token, ret...
- **Zype Consumer Authentication API** — Consumer-facing OAuth 2.0: retrieve an access token, read token status and revoke a token. 3 operations. login.zype.com serves its own RFC 8414 authorization server metadata doc...
- **Zype Player API** — Retrieves the embeddable player for a video in html, js or json form — the json form returns metadata plus the Widevine, FairPlay and PlayReady DRM objects and m3u8 references —...
- **Zype Uploads API** — Creates an upload for direct ingest of a source file into the Zype library. 1 operation.

## MCP servers (1)

- **Zype MCP Client** — First-party Model Context Protocol server that exposes the Zype video platform (videos, transcriptions, playlists, categories, subtitles, analytics, monetization, zobjects and t...

## Security (4)

- **Zype Authentication** — apiKey/http · 3 schemes
- **Zype Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC
- **Zype Vulnerability Disclosure** — Hackerone
- **Zype Trust Center** — trust center published

## Plans (1)

- **Zype Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Video, Streaming, OTT, Video CMS, FAST, Linear TV, Playout, Monetization, Live Streaming, Analytics, Media and Entertainment, DRM, Advertising, Encoding, EPG

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