Epidemic Sound
Epidemic Sound is a Stockholm-based royalty-free music and sound effects licensing platform for video creators, businesses, and platforms. The catalog includes 55,000+ tracks across 390 genres, 250,000+ sound effects, stems and instrumental versions, all under an all-inclusive license that covers mechanical, sync, and public performance rights globally. The Partner Content API ("Epidemic Sound Connect") exposes the full catalog and Epidemic Sound's AI-powered soundtracking tools — Soundmatch (video-to-music recommendation), semantic search, similar-track and similar-section lookup, image-based matching, beat detection, HLS streaming previews, AI voiceover generation, and the new track-versions endpoint that adapts a recording to a target duration while preserving musical structure. An official Model Context Protocol (MCP) server (beta) makes the same catalog and tools available to AI agents at https://www.epidemicsound.com/a/mcp-service/mcp. Access to the Partner API is gated behind a partnership agreement; once signed, partner engineers receive credentials via the Developer Portal and authenticate using API Key, Partner Token, or Epidemic Sound Connect (OAuth 2.0).
Real signal across most facets with visible, nameable gaps — the contract exists but is thin, or the portal is good while governance and commercial terms are absent.
API Evangelist profiles Epidemic Sound the way a machine reads it — 38 machine-readable artifacts across 9 APIs, 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 — Epidemic Sound scores 51.7/100 (developing), with a separate agent-readiness read of 48/100 (agent ready). 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
How this is scored →scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
How we profile Epidemic Sound
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Epidemic Sound. 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 9
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.
Epidemic Sound Assets API
These endpoints allows your application to upload assets such as images or audio.
Epidemic Sound Authentication API
Endpoints for user authentication.
Epidemic Sound Beta API
These endpoints are in beta.
Epidemic Sound Browse & search API
These endpoints will allow you to explore the Epidemic Sound library. You can display tracks grouped in curated playlists, moods or genres or use search to get tracks by any term.
Epidemic Sound Reporting API
These endpoints will allow you to report how tracks are used in your application.
Epidemic Sound Safelisting API
Endpoints for managing safelisting licenses. Allows partners to create, list, update, and delete licenses for channels and videos on behalf of their end users.
Epidemic Sound Sound effects API
Endpoints to get sound effect specific information. These endpoints allow you to build a UI to browse and search for sound effects.
Epidemic Sound Tracks API
Endpoints to get track specific information.
Epidemic Sound Users API
These endpoints allows your application to get user specific information such as liked sounds.
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Open Collections 1
Open, tool-agnostic collections carry the same runnable value as Postman without locking you to one client — the portable, forkable form of the same exercise.
Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).
Partner Content API
OPEN COLLECTIONPricing 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.
Rate 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.
Epidemic Sound 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.
Epidemic Sound Finops
FINOPSFeatures 21
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.
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Security Posture 2
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.
Scopes 1
OAuth scopes are the vocabulary of least-privilege access. Profiling them shows exactly what an integration — or an agent acting on a user's behalf — is allowed to do.
OAuth scopes governing access to this provider's APIs.
Agentic Access 1
An x-agentic-access contract marks which operations are safe for an agent to run on its own and which need a human in the loop. It is the difference between an API an agent can use and one it can use safely.
Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.
Resources
Every other property we hold for Epidemic Sound — 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 5
Reference material describing how the API behaves
Agent Surfaces 2
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Build 3
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
Access & Security 4
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Learn 1
Tutorials, courses, talks, and written guidance
Operate 2
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Commercial 5
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 10
The organization behind the API
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Other 2
Properties that don't map to a standard resource type
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