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The art market's intelligence layer, available as an API.

OpenAPI 3.1. 10M+ enriched auction records, per-artwork LAE™, momentum, repeat-sale CAR, and index time-series — under one REST surface, with the SLA terms underneath.

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10M+

Auction records · enriched per request

OpenAPI 3.1

Typed clients · 6 languages

99.5%

Monthly uptime SLA · contractual

48 hr

Data freshness · top 7 houses

QUICK START

From key to result in 30 seconds.

Sandbox keys are free. No CC required. Production keys provisioned within one business day of signing an agreement.

◇ REQUEST · curlCOPY
# Get an artwork with its LiveArt Estimate
curl "https://api.liveart.ai/v1/artworks?id__in=9012345" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $LA_KEY"
▲ RESPONSE · 200 OK · 142ms↓ JSON
{
  "items": [
    {
      "id": 9012345,
      "uid": "jmb-untitled-1982-skull",
      "currency": "USD",
      "current_estimated_price": 3_850_000,
      "current_estimated_price_min": 3_200_000,
      "current_estimated_price_max": 4_500_000,
      "price_momentum_12mo": 0.124,
      "last_lot_status": "upcoming"
    }
  ],
  "total_count": 1
}

OpenAPI 3.1 spec → typed clients in 6 languages · full reference in docs →

THE STACK

Five layers.
Plug in where you need to.

Most enterprise clients hit layers 1–4 and ship their own app surface (layer 5). Hit the layer that fits — pull raw records, financial metrics, AI valuations, or higher-order analytics. One auth, one rate-limit pool.

LAYER

5

Applications

AI AdvisorCataloguingDeal IntelligenceMyCollectionStreaming
LAYER

4

AI Analytics

Similarity vectorsArtist embeddingsMomentumMarket signalsRisk & liquidity
LAYER

3

AI Pricing

LiveArt Estimate™Confidence rangesPer-artwork valuations
LAYER

2

Financial Metrics

Market capCAGRSharpe ratiosRepeat salesEdition grouping
LAYER

1

Data

10M+ records1,400+ houses350K+ artists1986–today16 currencies

REST · OpenAPI 3.1 · Methodology published · read the methodology →

◆ WHAT TEAMS BUILD

Four shapes of integration.

◆ LENDING

Art-secured lending desks

Continuous LTV at origination and daily monitoring. Volatility, drawdown, and concentration alerts on every position.

PRIMARY ENDPOINTGET /v1/artworks/followed

WHO · Boutique credit funds · private banks · family offices

◆ MARKETPLACES

Online marketplaces & dealers

Embed LAE™ badges on every listing. AI-suggested ask price at upload. Similarity-vector search for buyers and inventory.

PRIMARY ENDPOINTGET /v1/artworks?id__in={ids}

WHO · 1stDibs · Saatchi · Artsy · gallery-network platforms

◆ RESEARCH

Research desks & quant teams

Artist-level return series, segment momentum, repeat-sale cohorts, currency-normalized prices — feed it into proprietary models, dashboards, or academic studies.

PRIMARY ENDPOINTGET /v1/artists/{artist_id}/chart

WHO · Quant funds · macro research · academic finance · prop desks

◆ CUSTOM

Build your own application

Use the same stack our own apps run on. Layer 1–4 access means you ship your UX on top of our intelligence layer.

PRIMARY ENDPOINTGET /v1/artists/{artist_id}

WHO · Anyone with a workflow we haven't built yet

SLA & SECURITY

Published commitments. Audited methodology.

Every number on this page traces back to a methodology document. Every SLA on this page is contractual. Read the full methodology →

99.5%

Monthly API uptime SLA

Excluding scheduled maintenance

4 hr

Critical issue response

Within business hours

48 hr

Data freshness · top houses

Christie's, Sotheby's, Phillips, Bonhams, Heritage, Poly, China Guardian

14 d

Data freshness · other houses

1,400+ regional and specialist houses
◇ SOC 2 (planned)◇ GDPR◇ AES-256◇ TLS◇ RBAC◇ SSO/SAML◇ Audit log◇ IP allowlist

Two ways to start. Pick whichever fits the work.

◇ READ THE REFERENCE

Full API documentation.

Every endpoint, every parameter, every shape. OpenAPI 3.1 spec with typed client examples in curl, Node, Python, and Go.

OPEN API REFERENCE →
● ENTERPRISE · TALK TO OUR TEAM

Book a workflow review.

30 minutes with a solutions engineer. We'll send back a written assessment with integration scope and SLA terms within 5 business days.

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