Vivid Seats vs Songkick API for AI agents
Vivid Seats offers an affiliate program with deep links to its ticket marketplace; it publishes no public developer API. Songkick API is Songkick's concerts and festivals API for live music events, artists, venues and metro areas.
The short answer
- Vivid Seats: Earning commission by linking people to resale tickets on Vivid Seats, not for querying event data.
- Songkick API: Live music listings for existing licensed partners; new developers cannot get a key today.
Side by side
| Vivid Seats | Songkick API | |
|---|---|---|
| Searches | – | Concerts and festivals by artist, date, venue and location; artists, venues and metro areas; past concert history for artists. |
| Before the first call | Sign up as a partner through Impact (the affiliate page links to app.impact.com). | An approved API key under a partnership agreement with a license fee; no student, educational or hobbyist projects. |
| Paid | – | A license fee is required; the amount is not published (details are in the application form). |
| Acting on a result | Affiliate link: ticket links that deep-link to any event, with 30-day cookies and commission on sales. | A link to songkick.com is required; Songkick data may not be used to build a ticketing service. |
| 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. |
| 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”
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.”