# Animoto

> Animoto is a cloud-based video creation platform, founded in 2006 and headquartered in New York City, that turns photos, video clips, screen recordings and music into professional-looking videos through a drag-and-drop web editor and a large template library. It is sold as subscription SaaS across free and paid tiers to marketers, small businesses, educators, real-estate agents and consumers. Animoto is part of the Redbrick family of brands.

This file was GENERATED by API Evangelist from the catalog profile and the artifacts in this repository on 2026-08-13. Animoto does not serve an llms.txt of its own — https://animoto.com/llms.txt returns HTTP 404.

## API status

Animoto once operated a partner-facing REST API (the "Animoto API") for programmatic directing and rendering of videos. As of 2026-08-13:

- The API host **https://api.animoto.com** is still live. It terminates TLS, sets HSTS, and answers every path with `HTTP 401` and `WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm="Application"`. It is a running service, not a decommissioned one.
- There is **no public developer documentation**. `https://animoto.com/developer` returns HTTP 200 but serves the marketing homepage byte-for-byte. `developer.animoto.com` does not resolve. The "Developer Resources" section of the Animoto help center still exists but contains zero published articles.
- The partner sandbox hosts named in Animoto's own sample application — `platform-sandbox.animoto.com` and `widget-service-sandbox.animoto.com` — no longer resolve.
- The official Animoto API Ruby client was last released on **2013-07-24**.
- There is **no machine-readable contract**: no OpenAPI, Swagger, GraphQL SDL, AsyncAPI, MCP server or A2A agent card was found on any Animoto host.

Access to the API is therefore effectively closed to new developers: credentials exist (an Animoto platform key and secret used as HTTP Basic username/password) but there is no published route to request them.

## Authentication

- HTTP Basic over TLS, realm `Application` — observed directly on https://api.animoto.com/jobs/
- Credentials are an Animoto platform key + secret, per Animoto's first-party Ruby client and sample app
- No OAuth 2.0, no OpenID Connect, no scopes, no API-key header

## Product

- Website: https://animoto.com/
- Pricing: https://animoto.com/pricing
- Enterprise: https://animoto.com/enterprise
- Help Center: https://help.animoto.com/hc/en-us
- Blog: https://animoto.com/blog
- Sign up: https://animoto.com/sign-up
- Log in: https://animoto.com/log_in

## Plans

Four self-service subscription tiers — Free, Basic, Professional, Professional Plus — billed monthly or annually. Price figures are rendered client-side and are not present in the served HTML. See `plans/animoto-plans-pricing.yml`.

## Legal and privacy

- Terms of Service: https://animoto.com/legal/terms
- Upload Terms: https://animoto.com/legal/upload-terms
- Privacy Policy: https://animoto.com/legal/privacy-policy
- GDPR: https://help.animoto.com/hc/en-us/articles/360004421634-General-Data-Protection-Regulation-GDPR-and-Animoto
- How Animoto protects your data: https://help.animoto.com/hc/en-us/articles/30294070375827-How-Animoto-Protects-Your-Data-Privacy
- Data deletion request: https://help.animoto.com/hc/en-us/articles/30084701038867-Animoto-Data-Deletion-Request-Form
- 2018 security incident notice: https://help.animoto.com/hc/en-us/articles/360008114514-Important-Security-Announcement

No named third-party certification (SOC 2, ISO 27001, PCI DSS, HIPAA, FedRAMP) is published, and there is no trust center or vulnerability-disclosure program.

## Code

- Official Ruby client (abandoned): https://rubygems.org/gems/animoto — v1.5.6, 2013-07-24
- First-party sample app: https://github.com/animoto/animoto_api_sample_app_ruby
- GitHub organization: https://github.com/animoto

## Release notes

Dated product release notes are published in the help center: https://help.animoto.com/hc/en-us/sections/30476284500243-Release-Notes — nine entries, most recent 2024-08-20.

## API Evangelist artifacts

- Profile: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/animoto/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
- Authentication: authentication/animoto-authentication.yml
- Lifecycle (developer-program retirement evidence): lifecycle/animoto-lifecycle.yml
- Packages: packages/animoto-packages.yml
- Plans: plans/animoto-plans-pricing.yml
- Rate limits: rate-limits/animoto-rate-limits.yml
- Conformance: conformance/animoto-conformance.yml
- Changelog: changelog/animoto-changelog.yml
- Well-known probe: well-known/animoto-well-known.yml
- MCP probe: mcp/animoto-mcp.yml
- Domain security: security/animoto-domain-security.yml