PredictHQ vs Bandsintown API for AI agents
PredictHQ is a paid event-intelligence API that returns deduplicated real-world events with impact scores, used mainly for demand forecasting. Bandsintown API is an API for artists and their teams to show their own Bandsintown tour dates on their websites and apps.
The short answer
- PredictHQ: Forecasting demand around events with attendance and impact estimates, rather than sending people to buy tickets.
- Bandsintown API: An artist's own website showing that artist's tour dates with ticket links.
Side by side
| PredictHQ | Bandsintown API | |
|---|---|---|
| Searches | Events in 19 categories, from concerts, sports, festivals and conferences to public holidays, severe weather and airport delays. | Upcoming and past events for one artist, looked up by artist name or ID; there is no open search across all events. |
| Returns | Title, category, start date, location (geometry, address), a 0-100 rank, predicted attendance, predicted event spend in USD and linked entities such as the venue. | Event date and time, venue name and location, lineup, description, ticket links (offers) and the Bandsintown event link. |
| Before the first call | A PredictHQ account (sign up for free) and an API token created in the web app. What you can query depends on your subscription. | An API key (app_id) from Bandsintown for Artists, linked to a single artist; other uses need Bandsintown's approval or a partnership. |
| Free | A free trial with no credit card needed; the trial length is not stated. | – |
| Acting on a result | Nothing: the event schema has no ticket or booking link. | Ticket link: events include ticket offers, and the terms may require using Bandsintown's ticket links as the primary ones. |
| Limits on keeping or showing results | Caching, storing or keeping copies of PredictHQ data is prohibited unless you buy the Storage extension or agree otherwise in writing; displaying data requires attribution. | Session-based caching is allowed if you notify Bandsintown; content must be attributed to Bandsintown. |
| AI in its terms | Training or fine-tuning any AI tool, including LLMs, on PredictHQ data, or creating embeddings from it, is prohibited without written authorisation in an Order Form. | – |
| Coverage | Global. | – |
| MCP server | Official hosted MCP server at https://mcp.predicthq.com/v1/mcp (OAuth or API key). | – |
Where Openpath fits
Openpath has no event listings yet. Events are on its roadmap, from organizers who list them themselves. Get listed.
Questions people ask
What do I need before I can use PredictHQ?
A PredictHQ account (sign up for free) and an API token created in the web app. What you can query depends on your subscription.
Is PredictHQ free?
A free trial with no credit card needed; the trial length is not stated.
Sources
Every line about another company comes from its own pages. Prices and terms change, so check the source before you rely on one.
PredictHQ, read on October 15, 2026:
- predicthq.com/pricing: “Free Trial - No Credit Card Needed”
- predicthq.com/pricing: “Comprehensive high-quality global coverage of events across 19 different categories”
- docs.predicthq.com/api/events/search-events.md: “A log scale numerical value between 0 and 100 with a five-level hierarchical impact schema.”
- docs.predicthq.com/api/events/search-events.md: “A numerical value that reflects the predicted attendance for supported attendance-based categories.”
- docs.predicthq.com/api/events/search-events.md: “you don't receive an error when requesting a date range or location”
- docs.predicthq.com/getting-started/api-quickstart.md: “Store the token somewhere safe. The WebApp doesn't show it again.”
- docs.predicthq.com: “Structured, deduplicated real-world events for discovery, explainability, and building trust in AI-driven decisions.”
- predicthq.com/legal/terms: “cache, store, download, scrape, or retain a copy of”
- predicthq.com/legal/terms: “whenever Customer displays PredictHQ Data on its website or within its app”
- predicthq.com/legal/terms: “use PredictHQ Data to train or fine tune any AI Tool”
- predicthq.com/legal/terms: “use any AI Tool to create embeddings from PredictHQ Data”
- predicthq.com/legal/terms: “unless explicit prior written authorisation is given by PredictHQ in an Order Form.”
- docs.predicthq.com/ai/mcp.md: “The PredictHQ MCP server connects AI assistants and agent-based systems directly to PredictHQ's APIs.”
- docs.predicthq.com/ai/mcp.md: “https://mcp.predicthq.com/v1/mcp”
Bandsintown API, read on October 15, 2026:
- help.artists.bandsintown.com/en/articles/7053475-what-is-the-bandsintown-api: “designed for artists looking to promote their shows on their websites”
- help.artists.bandsintown.com/en/articles/7053475-what-is-the-bandsintown-api: “Each API Key is linked to a single artist unless authorized otherwise by Bandsintown.”
- help.artists.bandsintown.com/en/articles/9186477-api-documentation: “returns the list of events including their date and time, venue name and location, ticket links”
- help.artists.bandsintown.com/en/articles/9186477-api-documentation: “If there are no tickets or live shows in an event, the "offers" array will be empty.”
- corp.bandsintown.com/data-applications-terms: “meant to be used solely by artists, or people working in connection with or on behalf of artists”
- corp.bandsintown.com/data-applications-terms: “cannot be used under any other circumstances unless specifically approved by Bandsintown”
- corp.bandsintown.com/data-applications-terms: “You may employ session-based caching of Bandsintown API results, provided that you notify us of such caching”
- corp.bandsintown.com/data-applications-terms: “fails to attribute the Bandsintown Content appropriately to Bandsintown is expressly prohibited”
- corp.bandsintown.com/data-applications-terms: “the ticket link(s) provided to you by the Bandsintown Data Applications as the primary ticket link(s)”