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◆ LiveArt API

Building something with art-market data?

Financial intelligence
for the art market.

Built for the family offices, lenders, advisors, and collectors who manage art portfolios. Live valuations, lendable value, and a Hold / Sell / Accumulate signal on every work. Re-priced instantly with every comparable sale worldwide, keeping every collection current between appraisals.

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No credit card · artists, artworks, lots & indices · free to start

10M+

Auction records · 1986–today

350K+

Artists with full financial metrics

1,400+

Auction houses covered

99.5%

Monthly API uptime SLA

No featured lot available

TRACKED IN REAL TIME

Re-priced as each sale settles — estimates and indices recompute the moment an auction closes anywhere in the world, often within minutes (24-hour SLA)

350K+ artist indices — one for every artist we track, plus thematic & market benchmarks

Live results — hammer against our estimate the moment a lot closes

TRUSTED ACROSS THE ART MARKET

320+

Galleries & dealers

14

Auction houses

80+

Family offices

1986

Coverage to present day

Published, auditable methodologyRe-priced as auctions settle99.5% API uptime SLA7 languages · 5 currencies

DATABASE vs. DECISION ENGINE

They tell you what sold.
We tell you what to do next.

Legacy art databases stop at the auction record. LiveArt adds the financial layer the art market has been missing — a live valuation, a risk profile, and a recommendation on every object.

READ THE METHODOLOGY →
Legacy art databaseLiveArt
Auction records & comparables
The LiveArt Estimate™ on every artwork, with confidence band
Re-priced as each sale settles worldwide
Hold / Sell / Accumulate signal
Artist screener — momentum, Sharpe, similarity
Self-serve API — integrate today, no sales call
Built for global markets — 7 languages, 5 currencies
Methodology you can read and auditBlack box

Comparison reflects publicly described capabilities of conventional art-data platforms. We don't name competitors — we out-build them.

The market, as an asset class

The LiveArt 100, recomputed daily from the LiveArt Estimate™ of every constituent work — benchmarked against the S&P 500, gold, and Bitcoin.

Every artist, ranked like a security

TOP 100 ARTISTS

by market capitalisation
350,000+ artists tracked · 1986 – presentSEE ALL ARTISTS →

THE LIVEART DIFFERENCE

Continuous valuation,
not just sale snapshots.

Every other art index can only update when a specific work sells at auction — which might happen once every 5–15 years for a given artwork. LiveArt Estimate™ re-values every work every day, making our indices the only ones that can track the market as it actually moves.

Artprice100

Market-cap weighted, rebalanced annually

Mei Moses

Repeat-sales only, episodic

Artnet

Sale-event only, 7 standard indices

TRADITIONAL INDEX

Updates only on sale events

LIVEART INDEX

Updates daily via LAE

Methodology published

The LAE model is documented and peer-grade. Your analysts can read it, scrutinise it, and defend it.

Daily marks, every artwork

LAE re-values every work every day — not only when a piece happens to come to auction. No other index provider can say this.

Deepest dataset in the market

10M+ records across 1,400+ auction houses, 350K+ artists, coverage since 1986.

Institutional infrastructure

99.95% API SLA · 4-hour critical response. Enterprise security controls. EU and US data residency.

SOLUTIONS

Built for every level
of the market.

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ENTERPRISE API & DATA

The data infrastructure
your applications build on.

Other art data APIs give you raw auction records. LiveArt gives you records plus model-driven valuations, price momentum, similarity vectors, and artist embeddings — on every record, in every response.

LiveArt Estimate™ on every artwork — min/mid/max with confidence intervals

Price momentum & similarity vectors — analytical endpoints no other API offers

Institutional SLA — 99.95% uptime, 4-hour critical response, published data freshness

Redistribution rights — license data onward to your clients and products

EXPLORE THE API →
GET /v1/lots/basquiat-untitled-1982/estimate
{
  "artist": "Jean-Michel Basquiat",
  "title": "Untitled, 1982",
  "medium": "acrylic and oilstick",

  "current_estimated_price": 3850000,
  "current_estimated_price_min": 3200000,
  "current_estimated_price_max": 4500000,

  "price_momentum_12mo": -0.052,
  "similarity_vector": "[…1024 dims]",
  "confidence": "high",
  "comparables_n": 42,

  "artist_market_cap": 7600000000,
  "artist_sharpe_7y": 1.15
}

Every response includes valuations and analytics — not just raw auction records. The methodology is published. The data freshness is guaranteed in the SLA. Read the methodology →

TRUSTED BY THE INDUSTRY

AUCTION HOUSE

Head of Modern & Contemporary · top-5 international auction house

The specialist team is doing fewer comps and more consignments. The catalogue work that used to eat a week of pre-sale prep happens in a single sitting.

ADVISORY

Managing Partner · single-family-office advisory practice

Our average client used to call once a year for the appraisal. They now log into the dashboard 18 times a quarter. The retention conversation is over.

LENDING DESK

Head of Art-Secured Lending · boutique credit fund

We replaced a 90-day appraisal cycle with a daily mark on the API. The risk committee actually trusts the LTV now, because they can see what changed and when.

BEGIN

Talk through your workflow.
Or take the keys to the API.

License the API or walk a workflow through with our solutions engineers. Institutional SLA, published methodology, enterprise agreements with onboarding and dedicated support.

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Enterprise agreements include onboarding · dedicated support · quarterly business reviews