We looked through thousands of Music APIs and put together a list of the most popular & cheapest ones available.

Based on simple REST principles, the Spotify Web API endpoints return JSON metadata about music artists, albums, and tracks, directly from the Spotify Data Catalogue.

Web API also provides access to user related data, like playlists and music that the user saves in the Your Music library. Such access is enabled through selective authorization, by the user.

The base address of Web API is https://api.spotify.com. The API provides a set of endpoints, each with its own unique path. To access private data through the Web API, such as user profiles and playlists, an application must get the user’s permission to access the data. Authorization is via the Spotify Accounts service.

Spotify Web Api

Use AudD Music Recognition API to detect and identify songs in any content.

AudD offers Music Recognition API. We recognize music with our own audio fingerprinting technology based on neural networks.

**USE AUDD FOR:**

- **CONTENT ANALYSIS**
Use our Music Recognition API to detect and identify songs in any content.
Create upload filters for UGC when the law requires. Find out what songs are playing in any content on the internet or your servers, including short audios, videos, and hours-long DJ mixes. You can analyze the trends and find emerging artists, create recommendation systems, automatically report what music you use, or display the recognition results to your users.

- **IN-APP MUSIC RECOGNITION**
Make your own music recognition application using AudD Music Recognition API. Detect and recognize music. Identify the songs your users are listening to and display the lyrics of the recognized songs. Or just let your users search lyrics by text.
Music recognition API for both content analysis and in-app music recognition costs from $2 to $5 per 1000 requests. First 300 requests for free.

- **AUDIO STREAMS**
Use AudD real-time music recognition service for audio streams to identify the songs playing on radio stations (or any other streams).
Monitor radio airplay, report played songs, create radio songs charts. Get real-time insights. Show the now playing song using our open-source widget. If you have your own content DB, we can recognize songs that you upload (it's cheaper).
Music recognition API for audio streams costs $45 per stream per month with our music DB or $25 with your songs.

 AudD Music Recognition API

API to generate guitar chord diagrams in SVG format.

### SVGuitar - JavaScript Guitar Chord Renderer

JavaScript and TypeScript library to create beautiful SVG guitar chord charts directly in the browser.

This Guitar Chord SVG API generates guitar chord diagrams in SVG format. Interval names are shown inside the dotted positions.

The SVG charts are highly customizable. Chart configuration is completely optional, you don't have to pass any configuration or you can only override specific settings.

The Top 5 Music Apis for Developers