Compare Music APIs
Deep dive into the technical specifications of 33 Music APIs. Use this side-by-side comparison to evaluate which service best fits your architectural requirements.
| API Identity | Score | Authentication | HTTPS | CORS | Speed | Difficulty | Brief |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7digital | 68 C | OAuth | ? | - | Advanced | 7digital is a music platform API that lets you search a large catalog of licensed tracks, albums, an... | |
| AI Mastering | 87 A | API Key | Yes | - | Intermediate | AI Mastering is an API that automatically applies professional audio mastering to your music files u... | |
| Audiomack | 68 C | OAuth | ? | - | Advanced | Audiomack is a music streaming platform API that lets you access tracks, albums, playlists, and arti... | |
| Bandcamp | 68 C | OAuth | ? | - | Advanced | Bandcamp is an independent music marketplace API that lets you access artist and fan data, sales inf... | |
| Bandsintown | 0 F | No Auth | ? | 215ms | Beginner | Bandsintown provides programmatic access to music events via REST API. This Music API enables develo... | |
| Deezer | 73 B | OAuth | ? | - | Advanced | Deezer is a global music streaming API that gives you access to a catalog of over 90 million tracks,... | |
| Discogs | 33 F | OAuth | ? | - | Advanced | Discogs is the world's largest music database and marketplace API, covering vinyl records, CDs, and ... | |
| Freesound | 72 B | API Key | ? | - | Intermediate | Freesound is a collaborative database of Creative Commons licensed audio samples and field recording... | |
| Gaana | 87 A | No Auth | ? | 85ms | Beginner | Gaana is an unofficial API wrapper for the popular Indian music streaming platform Gaana. It lets yo... | |
| Genius | 63 C | OAuth | ? | - | Advanced | Genius is a lyrics and music knowledge platform with one of the largest song annotation databases on... | |
| Genrenator | 82 A | No Auth | ? | 244ms | Beginner | Genrenator is a fun, no-auth API that generates random music genre names on demand. It is perfect fo... | |
| iTunes Search | 0 F | No Auth | ? | 102ms | Beginner | iTunes Search provides programmatic access to software products via REST API. This Music API enables... | |
| Jamendo | 68 C | OAuth | ? | - | Advanced | Jamendo is a music platform hosting over 600,000 Creative Commons licensed tracks from independent a... | |
| JioSaavn | 87 A | No Auth | ? | 62ms | Beginner | JioSaavn is an unofficial API wrapper for the popular Indian music streaming service JioSaavn. It pr... | |
| KKBOX | 73 B | OAuth | ? | - | Advanced | KKBOX is a leading music streaming platform in Asia offering a vast catalog of Chinese, Japanese, an... | |
| KSoft.Si Lyrics | 77 B | API Key | ? | - | Intermediate | KSoft.Si Lyrics API provides instant lyrics lookup for songs by title and artist name. A single API ... | |
| LastFm | 77 B | API Key | ? | - | Intermediate | Last.fm is a music discovery and social listening platform with over 15 years of scrobbling data. Th... | |
| Lyrics.ovh | 39 F | No Auth | ? | 9540ms | Beginner | Lyrics.ovh is a simple, no-authentication API that returns song lyrics given an artist name and song... | |
| Mixcloud | 78 B | OAuth | Yes | - | Advanced | The Mixcloud API lets you access DJ mixes, radio shows, and podcast data from Mixcloud's platform. Y... | |
| MusicBrainz | 52 D | No Auth | ? | 411ms | Beginner | MusicBrainz is a free, open music encyclopedia that provides detailed metadata about artists, releas... | |
| Musixmatch | 72 B | API Key | ? | - | Intermediate | Musixmatch provides access to one of the largest lyrics databases in the world, covering millions of... | |
| Napster | 0 F | API Key | Yes | - | Intermediate | Napster provides programmatic access to music via REST API. This Music API enables developers to int... | |
| Openwhyd | 92 A+ | No Auth | No | 41ms | Beginner | Openwhyd is an open-source music curation platform that lets users bookmark and share streaming trac... | |
| Phishin | 74 B | API Key | No | - | Intermediate | Phish.in is a community-maintained archive of live recordings from the band Phish, spanning decades ... | |
| Radio Browser | 92 A+ | No Auth | Yes | 112ms | Beginner | Radio Browser is a free, community-driven database of internet radio stations from around the world.... | |
| Songkick | 77 B | API Key | ? | - | Intermediate | Songkick provides concert and live music event data including tour dates, venues, and artist lineups... | |
| Songlink / Odesli | 82 A | API Key | Yes | - | Intermediate | Songlink (also known as Odesli) converts a music link from one streaming platform into links for all... | |
| Songsterr | 0 F | No Auth | ? | 225ms | Beginner | Songsterr provides programmatic access to provides guitar, bass and drums tabs and chords via REST A... | |
| SoundCloud | 63 C | OAuth | ? | - | Advanced | The SoundCloud API gives you access to tracks, playlists, and user data from the SoundCloud platform... | |
| Spotify | 78 B | OAuth | ? | - | Intermediate | The Spotify Web API is one of the most popular music APIs, giving you access to Spotify's full catal... | |
| TasteDive | 77 B | API Key | ? | - | Intermediate | TasteDive is a recommendation API that suggests similar artists, movies, TV shows, books, and games ... | |
| TheAudioDB | 0 F | API Key | ? | - | Intermediate | TheAudioDB provides programmatic access to music via REST API. This Music API enables developers to ... | |
| Vagalume | 0 F | API Key | ? | - | Intermediate | Vagalume provides programmatic access to crowdsourced lyrics and music knowledge via REST API. This ... |