Clearview AI

Clearview AI is a U.S.-based facial recognition company providing identity verification, investigative search, and biometric matching services primarily to law enforcement, government agencies, and approved financial sector customers. The platform indexes publicly available images and exposes proprietary facial recognition technology through a controlled, customer-vetted developer surface. Public technical documentation of the API is intentionally limited; access is gated, and integrations are scoped through customer agreements with strict use-case, audit, and transparency requirements.

Clearview AI publishes 3 APIs on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Biometrics, Facial Recognition, Identity, Investigations, and Law Enforcement.

The Clearview AI catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context and 1 Spectral governance ruleset.

Clearview AI’s developer surface includes product news, engineering blog, and 11 more developer resources.

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15.7/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6

3 APIs

BiometricsFacial RecognitionIdentityInvestigationsLaw EnforcementSurveillance

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scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6

Composite quality — 15.7/100 · emerging

Contract Quality 2.0 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 0.4 / 20

Commercial Clarity 4.2 / 20

Operational Transparency 0.0 / 13

Governance 2.5 / 12

Discoverability 6.5 / 10

Agent readiness — 0/100 · human only

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

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

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

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APIs 3

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

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

LlmsText

LlmsText

Design & Contract 2

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

JSONLD

JSONLD

Spectral

Spectral

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Contact

Contact

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

TermsOfService

TermsOfService

Company 5

The organization behind the API

LinkedIn

Website

About

News

Blog

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Transparency

Transparency

Source (apis.yml)

aid: clearview-ai
name: Clearview AI
description: Clearview AI is a U.S.-based facial recognition company providing identity verification, investigative search,
  and biometric matching services primarily to law enforcement, government agencies, and approved financial sector customers.
  The platform indexes publicly available images and exposes proprietary facial recognition technology through a controlled,
  customer-vetted developer surface. Public technical documentation of the API is intentionally limited; access is gated,
  and integrations are scoped through customer agreements with strict use-case, audit, and transparency requirements.
type: Index
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://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/clearview-ai.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/clearview-ai/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2024-01-01'
modified: '2026-04-23'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
kind: company
tags:
- Biometrics
- Facial Recognition
- Identity
- Investigations
- Law Enforcement
- Surveillance
apis:
- aid: clearview-ai:facial-recognition
  name: Clearview AI Facial Recognition Platform
  tags:
  - Biometrics
  - Facial Recognition
  - Identity Verification
  image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
  humanURL: https://www.clearview.ai/
  properties:
  - url: https://www.clearview.ai/
    type: Website
  - url: https://www.clearview.ai/post/transparency-report
    type: Transparency
  description: The Clearview AI facial recognition platform provides image-based identity matching backed by an indexed corpus
    of publicly available imagery. Access is restricted to vetted government, law enforcement, and financial-services customers
    under contractual use-case constraints. Technical integration details are not publicly documented; customers receive credentials,
    endpoints, and reference material directly from Clearview AI after onboarding.
- aid: clearview-ai:investigation-tools
  name: Clearview AI Investigation Tools
  tags:
  - Investigations
  - Law Enforcement
  - Search
  image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
  humanURL: https://www.clearview.ai/law-enforcement
  properties:
  - url: https://www.clearview.ai/law-enforcement
    type: Documentation
  description: Clearview AI offers investigation tooling for vetted law enforcement and public-safety users that surfaces
    matching imagery and source links for an uploaded probe image. Workflow tooling is delivered through a hosted user interface;
    programmatic access, when granted, is governed by separate customer agreements.
- aid: clearview-ai:financial-services
  name: Clearview AI Financial Services
  tags:
  - Financial Services
  - Identity Verification
  - KYC
  image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
  humanURL: https://www.clearview.ai/
  properties:
  - url: https://www.clearview.ai/
    type: Documentation
  description: Clearview AI markets identity-verification capabilities to regulated financial-services customers for fraud
    prevention, KYC enrichment, and investigative review. Integration is delivered as a vendor-managed service with contractual
    controls; public API documentation is not provided.
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/clearview-ai-domain-security.yml
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/clearviewai
- type: Website
  url: https://www.clearview.ai/
- type: About
  url: https://www.clearview.ai/about-us
- type: Transparency
  url: https://www.clearview.ai/post/transparency-report
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.clearview.ai/privacy-policy
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.clearview.ai/terms-of-service
- type: Contact
  url: https://www.clearview.ai/contact
- type: News
  url: https://www.clearview.ai/news
- type: JSONLD
  url: json-ld/clearview-ai-context.jsonld
- type: Spectral
  url: rules/clearview-ai-rules.yml
- type: LlmsText
  url: https://clearview.ai/llms.txt
- url: https://www.clearview.ai/blog-feed.xml
  type: Blog
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kinlane@gmail.com

Clearview AI

Kin Score

APIs 3

Clearview AI Facial Recognition Platform

Clearview AI Investigation Tools

Clearview AI Financial Services

Semantic Vocabularies 1

Clearview Ai Context

Spectral Rules 1

Clearview AI API Rules

Security Posture 1

Clearview Ai Domain Security

Resources