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Absurd

Absurd is an AI video creation platform positioning itself as "the Creative OS for AI video." It uses autonomous AI agents to handle scripting, scene planning, and video generation, letting companies produce brand and performance advertisements at scale in roughly 72 hours instead of weeks. Based in Los Angeles and part of Y Combinator's Fall 2025 batch, Absurd works with brands such as Hims, Kalshi, Replit, Brex, Whop, and Reforge, with some of its generated videos reaching over a million organic views. The company runs a managed, sales-led production motion rather than a self-serve platform: its published sitemap declares exactly four routes (home, portfolio, careers, contact), and it ships no pricing page, no blog, no developer portal, no documentation, no SDKs, and no GitHub organization. Three Absurd-controlled hosts are live but none is a developer surface — app.absurd.com is the gated customer application, api.absurd.com is its private FastAPI backend with schema and docs routes disabled, and lp.absurd.com is a key-gated Supabase project serving the landing page. This entry was enriched from public web sources and live unauthenticated probes, and will be upgraded if a developer surface appears.

Absurd is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Artificial Intelligence, Generative AI, Video, and Advertising.

5.0/100 minimal ▬ flat Agent 3/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0
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CompanyArtificial IntelligenceGenerative AIVideoAdvertisingMarketingMediaCreative

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scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0
Create-or-Update Ergonomics could not be measured. We hold no machine-readable contract for this provider to read, so there is nothing to measure a write surface against. Excluded rather than scored zero: never-measured and measured-empty are different facts. Publishing an OpenAPI is what makes this facet — and several others — scorable at all.
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Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Absurd Plans Pricing

0 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

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Absurd Rate Limits

0 limits

RATE LIMITS

Security Posture 1

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Absurd Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Resources

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Access & Security 1

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Operate 1

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Company 3

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Other 2

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Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑
aid: absurd
name: Absurd
description: 'Absurd is an AI video creation platform positioning itself as "the Creative OS for AI video." It uses autonomous
  AI agents to handle scripting, scene planning, and video generation, letting companies produce brand and performance advertisements
  at scale in roughly 72 hours instead of weeks. Based in Los Angeles and part of Y Combinator''s Fall 2025 batch, Absurd
  works with brands such as Hims, Kalshi, Replit, Brex, Whop, and Reforge, with some of its generated videos reaching over
  a million organic views. The company runs a managed, sales-led production motion rather than a self-serve platform: its
  published sitemap declares exactly four routes (home, portfolio, careers, contact), and it ships no pricing page, no blog,
  no developer portal, no documentation, no SDKs, and no GitHub organization. Three Absurd-controlled hosts are live but none
  is a developer surface — app.absurd.com is the gated customer application, api.absurd.com is its private FastAPI backend
  with schema and docs routes disabled, and lp.absurd.com is a key-gated Supabase project serving the landing page. This entry
  was enriched from public web sources and live unauthenticated probes, and will be upgraded if a developer surface appears.'
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/absurd/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
deliveryModel:
  model: unknown
  open_source: false
  commercial: false
  callable_host: false
  label: Delivery model not determined — needs a product licence on record
  confidence: low
  source:
  - none
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source: []
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://absurd.com/logo.jpeg
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- y-combinator
x-yc-batch: Fall 2025
x-location: Los Angeles, CA
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-08-12'
tags:
- Company
- Artificial Intelligence
- Generative AI
- Video
- Advertising
- Marketing
- Media
- Creative
apis: []
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/absurd-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://absurd.com/
- type: Portfolio
  url: https://absurd.com/portfolio
- type: Careers
  url: https://absurd.com/careers
- type: Contact
  url: https://absurd.com/contact
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/absurd/
- type: X
  url: https://x.com/withabsurd
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/absurd-llms.txt
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-08-12'
  status: minimal
  artifacts_added: 5
  pass: local-v1
x-coverage:
  state: none
  reason: no-developer-program
  detail: 'Absurd sells managed AI ad production through a four-route marketing site and a contact form, so full STEP 0b contract
    discovery across all four of its live hosts found no machine-readable contract: api.absurd.com is a real FastAPI backend
    (/health returns {"status":"healthy"}) but its /openapi.json, /docs and /redoc routes are disabled and return JSON 404s,
    and absurd.com answers every /.well-known/* path with a soft-200 single-page-app shell rather than a document.'
  evidence:
  - url: https://api.absurd.com/health
    status: 200
  - url: https://api.absurd.com/openapi.json
    status: 404
  - url: https://api.absurd.com/docs
    status: 404
  - url: https://api.absurd.com/.well-known/agent-card.json
    status: 404
  - url: https://lp.absurd.com/rest/v1/
    status: 401
  - url: https://absurd.com/sitemap.xml
    status: 200
  checked: '2026-08-12'

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