Songkick API vs Bandsintown API for AI agents
Songkick API is Songkick's concerts and festivals API for live music events, artists, venues and metro areas. 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
- Songkick API: Live music listings for existing licensed partners; new developers cannot get a key today.
- Bandsintown API: An artist's own website showing that artist's tour dates with ticket links.
Side by side
| Songkick API | Bandsintown API | |
|---|---|---|
| Searches | Concerts and festivals by artist, date, venue and location; artists, venues and metro areas; past concert history for artists. | Upcoming and past events for one artist, looked up by artist name or ID; there is no open search across all events. |
| Returns | – | Event date and time, venue name and location, lineup, description, ticket links (offers) and the Bandsintown event link. |
| Before the first call | An approved API key under a partnership agreement with a license fee; no student, educational or hobbyist projects. | An API key (app_id) from Bandsintown for Artists, linked to a single artist; other uses need Bandsintown's approval or a partnership. |
| Paid | A license fee is required; the amount is not published (details are in the application form). | – |
| Acting on a result | A link to songkick.com is required; Songkick data may not be used to build a ticketing service. | 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 | Cached data may be kept for at most 24 hours, and no copies of Songkick data may be retained; attribution is required wherever Songkick data is shown. | Session-based caching is allowed if you notify Bandsintown; content must be attributed to Bandsintown. |
Where Openpath fits
Openpath has no event listings yet. Events are on its roadmap, from organizers who list them themselves. Get listed.
Sources
Every line about another company comes from its own pages. Prices and terms change, so check the source before you rely on one.
Songkick API, read on October 15, 2026:
- songkick.com/api_key_requests/new: “we are unable to process new applications for API keys.”
- songkick.com/developer: “Search for events by artist, date, venue, and location.”
- songkick.com/developer: “Search for artists, venues, and metro areas.”
- songkick.com/developer: “Use of the Songkick API will be subject to the standard terms of our partnership agreement and a license fee.”
- songkick.com/developer: “pay the standard license fee (details in form)”
- songkick.com/developer: “We are currently not approving API requests for student projects, educational purposes or hobbyist purposes.”
- songkick.com/developer/api-terms-of-use: “retaining cached information for a maximum of 24 hours.”
- songkick.com/developer/api-terms-of-use: “You may not retain any copies of the Songkick Data”
- songkick.com/developer/api-terms-of-use: “You agree to clearly display attribution on your website or application wherever Songkick Data is used.”
- songkick.com/developer/api-terms-of-use: “you must provide a link to songkick.com using the standard linking format”
- songkick.com/developer/api-terms-of-use: “agree not to use Songkick Data to create either a primary or secondary ticketing service.”
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)”