Genius API vs Spotify API

Two free Music APIs compared on access, reliability and developer ratings, using data from our daily health checks.

The verdict

Choose Genius API if you want faster responses.
Choose Spotify API for its data: View Spotify music catalog, manage users' libraries, get recommendations and more.

	Genius API	Spotify API
What it does	Crowdsourced lyrics and music knowledge.	View Spotify music catalog, manage users' libraries, get recommendations and more.
Provider	Genius API	Spotify
API key	OAuth	OAuth
HTTPS	Yes	Yes
CORS (browser calls)	Unknown	Unknown
Status today	Online · 928 ms	Online · 1611 ms
Uptime (30 days)	Up	Up
Developer rating	Not rated yet	Not rated yet
Price	Free / free tier	Free / free tier

Crowdsourced lyrics and music knowledge.

Use our API and help build the world's greatest public knowledge project since Wikipedia

Strengths

View Spotify music catalog, manage users' libraries, get recommendations and more.

Retrieve metadata from Spotify content or control playback

Strengths

Prototyping or a tutorial? Pick the one that needs no API key (neither does, so compare their free tiers).
Calling from a web page? You need CORS. Otherwise route requests through your own server or a serverless function.
Going to production? Favour HTTPS, a strong uptime record and a provider with clear rate limits and terms. Check each API's docs before you commit.
Still unsure? Both are free to try: send one request to each and compare the data you get back.