Cardboard

Cardboard AI provides a cloud‑based video editing platform that leverages AI to automate cutting, captioning, and effects for creators and marketers. Users can upload raw footage, select style presets, and let the system generate polished clips ready for social media, webinars, or internal communications. The service includes collaborative tools, brand‑consistent templates, and integrations with popular storage and publishing platforms. Backed by Y‑Combinator, Cardboard AI aims to democratize high‑quality video production for teams of any size.

Cardboard is listed with 1 API on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Video Editing, AI Generation, Browser App, Mac App, and Generative AI.

Cardboard’s developer surface includes changelog, support, pricing, engineering blog, documentation, and 19 more developer resources.

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31.3/100 thin Agent 13/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-10-31 · rubric v0.25.0 · Show this score on your site →

1 API

Video Editing AI GenerationBrowser AppMac AppGenerative AI

Kin Score

Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-10-31 · rubric v0.25.0

Composite quality — 31.3/100 · thin

Contract Quality 0.0 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 2.8 / 17

Access Clarity 13.0 / 17

Operational Transparency 4.7 / 11

Contract Governance 0.0 / 10

Discoverability 4.9 / 9

Regulatory Posture 4.2 / 15

Agent readiness — 13/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 12 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 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

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 5 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

Pagination 5 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

Regulatory Posture applies to this provider. Its tags matched the AI & Biometrics regime, so Regulatory Posture carries 15 points of the composite. If this regime is wrong for your business, say so on your provider repo — the applicability map is public and we will correct it.

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.

The six quality facets above are damped to 85 points between them, because the conditional facet above carries the other 15. That is why each facet's contribution is shown against a damped maximum: raising a quality facet moves the composite by 85% of its nominal weight, not 100%. The full arithmetic is at apis.io/rating/.

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Agent readiness — checks not met, largest first (exact, from this profile):

Machine-Readable Contract +18 pts — api_specs includes an OpenAPI document
Agentic Access Contract +10 pts — agentic_access artifact present (x-agentic-access), graded by author
Idempotency +9 pts — OpenAPI mutating operations declare an idempotency key — a header, a request-body property, or a named de-duplication token whose own description says so (verified); else common[].type matches /idempoten/i (documented)
A2A Agent Card +8 pts — a2a/-a2a.yml manifest, graded on conformance.grade against A2A 1.0.0
Stable Error Semantics +8 pts — OpenAPI $refs a shared error schema across 4xx/5xx responses (verified), else common[].type includes ErrorCatalog / ErrorCodes / DeclineCodes
Rate-Limit Signaling +7 pts — OpenAPI responses document X-RateLimit-* / RateLimit headers (verified), else a rate_limits artifact or RateLimits link (documented)

10 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

Kin Score — facets with the most composite points still available (weight × headroom):

Contract Quality scores 0.0 — up to +25.0 composite points
Developer Ergonomics scores 16.7 — up to +16.7 composite points
Contract Governance scores 0.0 — up to +12.0 composite points

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APIs 1

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Cardboard AI API

API documented at Cardboard AI MCP docs, providing video editing operations. No machine‑readable contract was found; the docs are HTML pages without OpenAPI/GraphQL/etc.

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Cardboard Ai Plans Pricing

4 plans

PLANS

Security Posture 2

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Cardboard Ai Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Cardboard Ai Vulnerability Disclosure

security.txt · contact published

SECURITY

Resources

Get Started 1

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Login

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

Agent Surfaces 2

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

LLMsTxt

LLMsTxt

WellKnown

WellKnown

Design & Contract 1

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Conformance

Conformance

Access & Security 7

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

SecurityTxt

Security

SecurityTxt

SecurityTxt

SecurityTxt

VulnerabilityDisclosure

VulnerabilityDisclosure

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

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Operate 4

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

ChangeLog

Support

StatusPage

ChangeLog

Commercial 4

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Plans

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

Pricing

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Blog

Blog

Website

Website

Other 2

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Hosts

Hosts

Vendors

Vendors

Source (apis.yml)

aid: cardboard-ai
name: Cardboard
image: https://www.cardboard.ai/images/marketing/og-make-a-video-about-anything.jpg
description: Cardboard AI provides a cloud‑based video editing platform that leverages AI to automate cutting, captioning,
  and effects for creators and marketers. Users can upload raw footage, select style presets, and let the system generate
  polished clips ready for social media, webinars, or internal communications. The service includes collaborative tools, brand‑consistent
  templates, and integrations with popular storage and publishing platforms. Backed by Y‑Combinator, Cardboard AI aims to
  democratize high‑quality video production for teams of any size.
url: https://artifacts.apis.io/cardboard-ai/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: harvest:vc-portfolio
x-tier: profiled
x-tier-reason: enrichment pass 2026-10-29 (modular-v1; was harvest)
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-10-29'
modified: '2026-10-29'
tags:
- Video Editing
- AI Generation
- Browser App
- Mac App
- Generative AI
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: SecurityTxt
  url: well-known/cardboard-ai-cardboard-security.txt
- type: Plans
  url: plans/cardboard-ai-plans-pricing.yml
- type: ChangeLog
  url: changelog/cardboard-ai-changelog.yml
- type: Security
  url: security/cardboard-ai-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/cardboard-ai-conformance.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/cardboard-ai-llms.txt
- type: SecurityTxt
  url: well-known/cardboard-ai-www-security.txt
- type: SecurityTxt
  url: well-known/cardboard-ai-status-security.txt
- type: SecurityTxt
  url: well-known/cardboard-ai-security.txt
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/cardboard-ai-well-known.yml
- type: Hosts
  url: hosts/cardboard-ai-hosts.yml
- type: Vendors
  url: vendors/cardboard-ai-vendors.yml
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.cardboard.ai/terms
- type: Support
  url: https://www.cardboard.ai/support
- type: StatusPage
  url: https://status.cardboard.ai
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.cardboard.ai/privacy
- type: Pricing
  url: https://www.cardboard.ai/pricing
- type: Login
  url: https://www.cardboard.ai/login
- type: ChangeLog
  url: https://www.cardboard.ai/changelog
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.cardboard.ai/blog
- type: Documentation
  url: https://docs.cardboard.ai/
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/cardboard-ai-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/cardboard-ai-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://cardboard.ai
apis:
- name: Cardboard AI API
  description: API documented at Cardboard AI MCP docs, providing video editing operations. No machine‑readable contract was
    found; the docs are HTML pages without OpenAPI/GraphQL/etc.
  humanURL: https://docs.cardboard.ai/mcp
  baseURL: null
  aid: cardboard-ai:cardboard-ai-api
x-backed-by:
- y-combinator
x-coverage:
  state: unreadable
  reason: js-rendered-docs
  detail: Docs are served as HTML pages without a machine‑readable OpenAPI spec; attempts to fetch common spec URLs returned
    404 or HTML shells.
  evidence:
  - url: https://docs.cardboard.ai/mcp
    status: 200
  checked: '2026-10-29'
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-10-29'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 22
  pass: modular-v1
  engine: identity=local,contract=local,surfaces=local,docs=local,regulatory=local

Cardboard API — frequently asked questions

Does Cardboard have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 1 API from Cardboard, including Cardboard AI API.

How much does the Cardboard API cost?

APIs.io lists 4 pricing plans for Cardboard, with each plan's price, limits and inclusions under Pricing Plans on this page.

Is the Cardboard API ready for AI agents?

Cardboard has a Kin Score of 31.3 out of 100 (thin) and an Agent Readiness score of 13.2 (agent-aware), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-10-31.

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