# Caper

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/caper/  
**Website:** https://www.caper.ai/  
**APIs profiled:** 0

Caper (caper.ai) is a New York-founded computer-vision company that builds AI-powered smart shopping carts and cashierless checkout technology for grocery and retail. Its Caper Cart uses a set of onboard cameras and deep-learning object recognition, running on NVIDIA Jetson edge AI, to auto-detect items as shoppers add them and let customers skip the checkout line. Founded in 2016 (Y Combinator) by Lindon Gao and team, Caper was acquired by Instacart in 2021 for roughly $350M and now operates as part of the Instacart Enterprise Platform (Connected Stores), deployed with retailers including ALDI and Coles. Caper ships retail hardware and an internal edge/vision platform; it does not publish a public developer API, OpenAPI, SDKs, or a developer portal.

## Kin Score — 0.9 / 100 (minimal)

Scored 2026-08-25 under rubric 0.14.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 0.9).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 50.0 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 2.6 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 2.4 |
| Commercial Clarity | 0.0 |
| Access Clarity | 0.0 |

Regulatory layer — **Payments**: 0.0 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 0.0 (human-only)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | no |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |
| Delegated Identity | no |
| Protected Resource Metadata | no |
| Dynamic Client Registration | no |
| Agentic Commerce | no |

## Access

Unknown — onboarding: unknown, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: low).

## Tags

Company, Retail, Grocery, Computer-Vision, Smart Cart, Cashierless Checkout, Edge AI, Instacart

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/caper/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.