Cantina AI

Cantina is a social AI platform founded by Sean Parker (Cantina Labs, San Francisco) that lets people create AI-powered social characters that talk, perform, and interact, then turn them into short videos to share and go viral. The consumer product (cantina.com) centers on building characters with personality, chatting with friends and AI, and generating video in seconds across a public directory of trending bots and creators. Backed by a16z, Benchmark, Greycroft, and Salesforce Ventures. Cantina is a consumer social application and does not currently publish a public developer program, API, SDK, or documentation surface; this profile captures its real public identity and link properties while no external API is available to enrich.

Cantina AI is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Artificial Intelligence, Social, Consumer, and AI Characters.

Cantina AI’s developer surface includes signup flow, support, and 5 more developer resources.

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14.5/100 minimal ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5

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CompanyArtificial IntelligenceSocialConsumerAI CharactersVideo GenerationChatbotsGenerative AIMedia and Entertainment

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Composite quality — 14.5/100 · minimal

Contract Quality 0.0 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 0.9 / 20

Commercial Clarity 6.8 / 20

Operational Transparency 0.0 / 13

Governance 0.0 / 12

Discoverability 6.8 / 10

Agent readiness — 0/100 · human only

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 15

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

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Get Started 2

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

SignUp

SignUp

Login

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support

Support

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

TermsOfService

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

Company 1

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Source (apis.yml)

aid: cantina-ai
name: Cantina AI
description: Cantina is a social AI platform founded by Sean Parker (Cantina Labs, San Francisco) that lets people create
  AI-powered social characters that talk, perform, and interact, then turn them into short videos to share and go viral. The
  consumer product (cantina.com) centers on building characters with personality, chatting with friends and AI, and generating
  video in seconds across a public directory of trending bots and creators. Backed by a16z, Benchmark, Greycroft, and Salesforce
  Ventures. Cantina is a consumer social application and does not currently publish a public developer program, API, SDK,
  or documentation surface; this profile captures its real public identity and link properties while no external API is available
  to enrich.
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://cdn.prod.website-files.com/65bac531cc5ce2c855d4fafe/6634304f95457cb4fdbf4306_Cantina%20OG.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/cantina-ai/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- a16z
- Benchmark
- Greycroft
- Salesforce Ventures
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead-no-public-api
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-18'
tags:
- Company
- Artificial Intelligence
- Social
- Consumer
- AI Characters
- Video Generation
- Chatbots
- Generative AI
- Media and Entertainment
apis: []
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://cantina.com/
- type: SignUp
  url: https://cantina.com/signin
- type: Login
  url: https://cantina.com/signin
- type: Support
  url: https://support.cantina.com/hc
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://cantina.com/terms
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://cantina.com/privacy
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/cantina-ai-domain-security.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: backfilled
  pass: local-v1
  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence