Vivid Seats vs Bandsintown API for AI agents
Vivid Seats offers an affiliate program with deep links to its ticket marketplace; it publishes no public developer API. 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
- Vivid Seats: Earning commission by linking people to resale tickets on Vivid Seats, not for querying event data.
- Bandsintown API: An artist's own website showing that artist's tour dates with ticket links.
Side by side
| Vivid Seats | Bandsintown API | |
|---|---|---|
| Searches | – | 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 | Sign up as a partner through Impact (the affiliate page links to app.impact.com). | An API key (app_id) from Bandsintown for Artists, linked to a single artist; other uses need Bandsintown's approval or a partnership. |
| Acting on a result | Affiliate link: ticket links that deep-link to any event, with 30-day cookies and commission on sales. | 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 | – | Session-based caching is allowed if you notify Bandsintown; content must be attributed to Bandsintown. |
| Coverage | Events in the U.S., Canada and abroad, per the affiliate page. | – |
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.
Vivid Seats, read on October 15, 2026:
- vividseats.com/affiliates: “ticket links that can deep-link to any event on our marketplace”
- vividseats.com/affiliates: “30-day traffic cookies, so you can capture sales even if users don't convert the first time”
- vividseats.com/affiliates: “Commission earned with every successful sale and distributed in monthly payments”
- vividseats.com/affiliates: “You'll have access to Vivid Seats' entire inventory”
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)”