Beat API
Verified Oct 16, 2026 ActiveOne prepaid key for 70+ AI models, social-data endpoints and video workflows, callable over HTTP or MCP.
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Pricing
- Pricing model
- Freemium
- Paid options from
- $1/credit
- Billing
- Metered · per credit
No subscription: you top up a USD balance in any amount and one credit equals one dollar. A signup credit and seven models marked free for now allow one successful request per minute before a top-up; everything else is metered per token, per image (from $0.015) or per clip (a 10-second music video from $0.80 at 540p).
Use tool ↗About Beat API
Beat API has grown from a music-video endpoint into a pay-as-you-go gateway: one server-side key reaches text models, image and video generators, a realtime WebRTC session, scraped social data from TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, X and Reddit, and web tools such as search and page reading. Agents can list the catalog, inspect a capability's inputs and price, then run it, which is why it ships as an MCP-compatible server for Claude Code, Codex and Cursor as well as plain HTTP. The original music video workflow is still there: post audio, lyrics and references, poll a task id, get a hosted MP4 with an editable storyboard. Billing is a prepaid USD balance where one credit equals one dollar; reservations are held when a task is accepted and refunded on eligible failures. No company name or country appears on the legal pages.
- Platforms
- API
- API
- Yes
- Last verified
- Oct 16, 2026
Verified sources
- Homepage describes one API key for 70+ AI models, 1,000+ social data APIs and web tools, MCP-compatible, billed from a prepaid USD balance with one free request per minute before the first top-up (15 October 2026)beatapi.io ↗
- Pricing page: no monthly subscription, top up any amount; AI Music Video $0.80 per 10-second clip at 540p standard, $3.40 for Premium Sing; images from $0.015; Veo 3.1 Lite $0.15 per 8-second clip (15 October 2026)beatapi.io ↗
- Docs: 1 Credit = $1 USD, credits reserved at task creation and refunded on failure, music video accepts 10-180 seconds standard and up to 300 premium, workflow/video/image/effect/realtime endpoints under one Bearer key (15 October 2026)docs.beatapi.io ↗
- Terms last updated 6 October 2026 name no legal entity, address or governing law; purchased balance is not refundable after use; contact is a support address on the product domain (15 October 2026)beatapi.io ↗
Is Beat API legit?
We don’t label tools safe or unsafe. Below are the records we checked ourselves, each with the date we read it.
- TLS certificate
- Issued by Google Trust Services, valid until Dec 2, 2026Seen in our own connection to the site on Oct 16, 2026
- Last checked
- Oct 16, 2026The site answered
Pros & cons of Beat API
What used to be a music-video API is now a general gateway: one key and one prepaid balance for text, image and video models, social-media data scrapers and web tools, with an MCP server so an agent can discover and price a capability before calling it. The public rate card is now detailed down to the clip and the image, which fixes the old complaint about opaque costs. What has not changed is the anonymity: the terms and privacy pages name no legal entity, address or governing law, so this is a convenience layer to try with a small top-up, not a vendor to sign a procurement contract with.
Pros
- Published per-token, per-image and per-clip prices across 70+ models (15 October 2026)
- Pay-as-you-go balance with no subscription; reservations refunded on eligible failures
- MCP-compatible catalog lets agents inspect inputs and price before running a capability
- Music video, ecommerce video and video analysis workflows under the same key
Cons
- No legal entity, address or governing law on the terms or privacy pages
- Free models are explicitly 'for a limited time' and rate-limited to one request per minute
- Purchased balance is non-refundable after use and not transferable
- Social-data endpoints resell scraped platform data, which carries its own terms-of-service risk
Best for
- Agent builders who want one key and one balance across many model and data vendors
- Developers who still want the async music video or ecommerce video workflow with per-shot storyboards
- Teams prototyping across models through MCP from Claude Code, Codex or Cursor
Not for
- Buyers who need a named legal counterparty, data-processing terms or an SLA
- Anyone wanting a consumer app; everything here is an endpoint
Watch out: Charges are reserved the moment a task is accepted and the balance can go negative, so a retry loop in an agent can drain a top-up before any output lands; the terms also make used balance non-refundable.
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