Artsy
Artsy is the world's largest online art marketplace, connecting collectors with artists and galleries worldwide. The platform features over 1 million artworks from 100,000+ artists and provides access to galleries, art fairs, and auction houses globally. Artsy offers a Public API providing access to images of historic artwork and related information for educational and non-commercial purposes, with access limited to public domain works. The API provides resources for artists, artworks, galleries, shows, sales, and gene (classification) data. Note that the public API may be retired; partner integrations are handled through a separate partner API program.
More than an index entry, but the surface is still mostly links rather than artifacts — the cohort most likely to move a full band from modest, well-targeted work.
API Evangelist profiles Artsy the way a machine reads it — 15 machine-readable artifacts across 1 API, pulled from the provider's own public surface and indexed so a developer, an analyst, or an AI agent can evaluate it against every other provider on the network.
Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — Artsy scores 18.3/100 (emerging), with a separate agent-readiness read of 3/100 (human only). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.
Kin Score
This is the API Evangelist rating — a single, repeatable read computed from the artifacts on this page. Green fill is points earned; the red track is points possible, so every bar shows earned-versus-possible at a glance.
Kin Score
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How we profile Artsy
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Artsy. For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.
APIs 1
Each API is captured as its own OpenAPI definition — every operation, parameter, and response. This is the single most useful machine-readable description of what an API does, and it's what lets us score, lint, mock, and generate against it without asking the provider for anything.
Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.
Artsy Public API
The Artsy Public API provides access to images of historic artwork and related information on artsy.net for educational and non-commercial purposes. Resources include artists, a...
Pricing Plans 1
Pricing is part of the interface. Machine-readable plans tell you what a tier costs and includes before you commit — one of the six things the Kin Score reads for commercial clarity.
Published pricing tiers and plan structures.
Artsy Plans Pricing
PLANSRate Limits 1
Rate limits are the difference between a demo that works and a production integration that doesn't fall over. Publishing them is an operational-transparency signal — and a hard requirement for any agent that plans its own throughput.
Documented rate limits and quota policies.
Artsy Rate Limits
RATE LIMITSFinOps 1
Cost, billing, and metering signals let a buyer model the financial operations of an API before it's live. We profile them for the same reason we profile pricing: the money is part of the contract.
Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.
Artsy Finops
FINOPSFeatures 5
The notable capabilities this provider advertises, captured as structured features so they can be searched and compared instead of read one landing page at a time.
Notable capabilities this provider offers.
Artist and Artwork Data
Comprehensive database of artist biographies, artwork metadata, images, dimensions, medium, and provenance for over 1 million artworks.
Gallery and Show Data
Access to gallery profiles, exhibition shows, art fairs, and partner information from Artsy's global gallery network.
Art Classification Genes
Artsy's proprietary gene taxonomy for classifying artworks by style, period, subject matter, and medium, enabling sophisticated art discovery and recommendation.
Auction and Sales Data
Sale, bidder, and bid information for auction and buy-now listings on the Artsy platform.
Full-Text Search
Search across artists, artworks, galleries, and other art world entities with faceted filtering and relevance ranking.
Security Posture 1
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.
Use Cases 4
What developers actually build with this provider — captured so the catalogue answers 'what is this for', not just 'what does this expose'.
What developers build with this provider.
Art Education Applications
Educational platforms use the Artsy API to access public domain artwork images and artist information for art history curriculum and museum education tools.
Gallery Integration
Partner galleries integrate with the Artsy Partner API to manage artwork listings, track collector inquiries, and access sales analytics.
Art Discovery Tools
Developers build art recommendation and discovery applications using Artsy's gene taxonomy and artist relationship data.
Research and Analysis
Art market researchers access Artsy data to analyze trends, auction results, and artist career trajectories.
Integrations 1
Pre-built integrations with other platforms tell you where this provider already fits in a stack.
Pre-built integrations with other platforms and tools.
Artsy Partner Program
Gallery and auction house partners integrate directly with Artsy through the Partner API for full marketplace integration including artwork listings and collector communications.
Resources
Every other property we hold for Artsy — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.
Get Started 3
Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call
Documentation 1
Reference material describing how the API behaves
Build 1
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
Access & Security 1
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Company 2
The organization behind the API
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