Essentia API




Analyze your music audio collections with the state-of-the-art machine intelligence tools made at the Music Technology Group


Automate music audio description of your audio collections at any scale

Extensive collection of analysis algorithms

State-of-the-art algorithms for music description with extensive industrial use available as a web API instantly accessible for any developer. Musical key, tempo (BPM), loudness, genre, mood, instrumentation, danceability, arousal, valence, approachability, engagement, and many more. 🔊🤖

Focus on building, and iterate in no time

Focus on building applications and let us do audio processing, machine learning and infrastructure.

Transparency and open innovation

Our API is based on Essentia, an open-source library and AI models for audio and music analysis under the non-commercial CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 license. It is built upon 15 years of R&D experience at Music Technology Group, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, a renown research institution in music informatics.

Try for free, pay as you go

Run analysis on your music collections, from few tracks to large scale. Pay per API request with a flexible pricing plan. Sign up for our free tokens.

Optimized inference

Our machine learning models are optimized for the best computational performance with minimal resources.

Data protection

We never store your audio.

Custom solutions

Need a specific type of analysis of your audio? Contact us to find the best solution that can fit your use case.

About us



We are a group of music tech ML researchers and software engineers including current and former members of the Music Technology Group.

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