Ticketmaster Discovery API vs Songkick API for AI agents
Ticketmaster Discovery API is a REST API from Ticketmaster for searching events, attractions and venues sold on Ticketmaster and its related ticketing platforms. Songkick API is Songkick's concerts and festivals API for live music events, artists, venues and metro areas.
The short answer
- Ticketmaster Discovery API: Finding concerts, sports and theater events sold through Ticketmaster in North America and Europe, with a direct link to buy.
- Songkick API: Live music listings for existing licensed partners; new developers cannot get a key today.
Side by side
| Ticketmaster Discovery API | Songkick API | |
|---|---|---|
| Searches | Events, attractions (performers, teams) and venues across Ticketmaster, TicketWeb, Universe, FrontGate, Ticketmaster Resale and other Ticketmaster platforms; paging stops at the 1,000th item. | Concerts and festivals by artist, date, venue and location; artists, venues and metro areas; past concert history for artists. |
| Returns | Event name, dates, venue and location, attractions, price ranges, images and the Ticketmaster website URL for the event. | – |
| Before the first call | A Ticketmaster developer account and API key; access to the public APIs is instant after registration. Default quota is 5,000 calls a day (the getting-started page says 5 requests a second, the FAQ says 2). The bulk Discovery Feed and the Partner Commerce API need approval. | An approved API key under a partnership agreement with a license fee; no student, educational or hobbyist projects. |
| Paid | Not stated on its pages | A license fee is required; the amount is not published (details are in the application form). |
| Acting on a result | Ticket link: each event carries its Ticketmaster website URL. Approved affiliates (via Impact) get their tracking added to event links automatically; buying inside your own app needs the restricted Partner Commerce API. | A link to songkick.com is required; Songkick data may not be used to build a ticketing service. |
| Limits on keeping or showing results | Event content may be cached or stored only for reasonable periods needed to provide your service, and content must be removed within 24 hours if its owner asks. | 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. |
| Coverage | Global; the docs list the United States, Canada, Mexico, Australia, New Zealand, the UK, Ireland and other European countries. | – |
| MCP server | No official server listed | – |
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 Ticketmaster Discovery API?
A Ticketmaster developer account and API key; access to the public APIs is instant after registration. Default quota is 5,000 calls a day (the getting-started page says 5 requests a second, the FAQ says 2). The bulk Discovery Feed and the Partner Commerce API need approval.
Is Ticketmaster Discovery API free?
Its pages listed no free use when we read them on October 15, 2026.
Sources
Every line about another company comes from its own pages. Prices and terms change, so check the source before you rely on one.
Ticketmaster Discovery API, read on October 15, 2026:
- developer.ticketmaster.com/products-and-docs/apis/discovery-api/v2: “The Ticketmaster Discovery API allows you to search for events, attractions, or venues.”
- developer.ticketmaster.com/products-and-docs/apis/discovery-api/v2: “This includes the venue and location, the attraction(s), and the Ticketmaster Website URL”
- developer.ticketmaster.com/products-and-docs/apis/discovery-api/v2: “Deep Paging: we only support retrieving the 1000th item.”
- developer.ticketmaster.com/products-and-docs/apis/discovery-api/v2: “United States, Canada, Mexico, Australia, New Zealand, United Kingdom, Ireland, other European countries, and more.”
- developer.ticketmaster.com/products-and-docs/apis/getting-started: “Event coverage is global.”
- developer.ticketmaster.com/products-and-docs/apis/getting-started: “Our APIs work against many platforms including Ticketmaster, TicketWeb, Universe, FrontGate, Ticketmaster Resale (TMR) and many more.”
- developer.ticketmaster.com/products-and-docs/apis/getting-started: “All API keys are issued with a default quota of 5000 API calls per day and rate limitation of 5 requests per second.”
- developer.ticketmaster.com/products-and-docs/apis/getting-started: “Upon registration and obtaining your API key, you will be able to access our Discovery and Commerce APIs instantly.”
- developer.ticketmaster.com/support/faq: “which come with a quota of 2 requests per second and 5000 requests per day.”
- developer.ticketmaster.com/support/faq: “Access to our Partner Commerce API is typically restricted to a select few business partners.”
- developer.ticketmaster.com/support/faq: “ensuring that your Impact tracking is automatically added to event links within the Discovery API/Feed.”
- developer.ticketmaster.com/support/terms-of-use: “Cache or store any Event Content other than for reasonable periods in order to provide the service you are providing.”
- developer.ticketmaster.com/support/terms-of-use: “Remove from your application within 24 hours any Event Content or other information or tickets that the owner asks you to”
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.”