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 is listed with 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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16.9/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 10/100 agent aware Front door AI 6/6 dominant Heartbeat 100/100 alive saas Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0 · Show this score on your site →

3 APIs 1 MCP Servers

Biometrics Facial Recognition Identity Investigations Law Enforcement Surveillance

Kin Score

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scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0

Composite quality — 16.9/100 · emerging

Contract Quality 1.4 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 2.0 / 17

Access Clarity 3.6 / 17

Operational Transparency 0.0 / 11

Contract Governance 1.2 / 10

Discoverability 6.2 / 9

Regulatory Posture 2.7 / 15

Agent readiness — 10/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 12 / 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

Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

Pagination 5 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

MCP Tool Quality 6 / 6

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
Machine-Readable Auth +10 pts — a served openid-configuration/oauth-authorization-server carrying `issuer` (served), else the securitySchemes class in the provider OpenAPIs — bound (mutualTLS, DPoP, Signature) > negotiable (oauth2 authorizationCode/clientCredentials, openIdConnect) > bearer (http bearer, apiKey)
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)
Stable Error Semantics +8 pts — OpenAPI $refs a shared error schema across 4xx/5xx responses (verified), else common[].type includes ErrorCatalog / ErrorCodes / DeclineCodes
A2A Agent Card +8 pts — a2a/-a2a.yml manifest, graded on conformance.grade against A2A 1.0.0

12 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

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

Contract Quality scores 6.7 — up to +23.3 composite points
Developer Ergonomics scores 11.9 — up to +17.6 composite points
Access Clarity scores 21.1 — up to +15.8 composite points

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Markets this provider is in provisional

The Kin Score Market layer reads a provider inside its market: its position, and how deep its integrations go. Depth is only comparable within a position. Provisional and unweighted: not part of the Kin Score or agent readiness.

Market	Position	Depth	Registered MCP server	Declares compatibility
Biometrics Testing (biometric recognition vendors, identity verification depth)	regulated	38.8 (thin)	-	-
ONVIF Video Analytics (video surveillance, edge cameras, computer vision)	regulated	38.8 (thin)	-	-
TX-RAMP Certified Cloud Products (Texas DIR)	regulated	38.8 (thin)	-	-

Registered MCP server and declares compatibility are report only — not weighted. Undeclared means we found nothing we can read, so there is no number: we never infer integrations.

Standards implemented 2

Standards this provider implements or carries. De facto ones are profiled and measured by the API Commons; formal ones come from the standards directory and are linked by the provider's own tags. The evidence column says how each claim was established — not that it was made.

Model Context Protocol (MCP)

measured — observed by APIs.io (verified)

Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP)

measured — observed by APIs.io (wix)

APIs 3

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

Clearview AI Facial Recognition Platform

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 gov...

Clearview AI Investigation Tools

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. Workflo...

Clearview AI Financial Services

Clearview AI markets identity-verification capabilities to regulated financial-services customers for fraud prevention, KYC enrichment, and investigative review. Integration is ...

MCP Servers 1

Model Context Protocol servers that expose these APIs to AI agents.

Clearview AI MCP Server

Remote MCP server at www.clearview.ai over HTTP; 10 tools listed.

MCP SERVER

Semantic Vocabularies 1

JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.

Clearview Ai Context

0 classes · 4 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 1

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

Clearview AI API Rules

8 rules · 4 errors 4 warnings

SPECTRAL

Security Posture 1

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

Clearview Ai Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC

SECURITY

Resources

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
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: false
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source:
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-06'
  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: '0.23'
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
  tags_raw:
  - Financial Services
  - Identity Verification
  - KYC
  - Financial-Services
  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 API — frequently asked questions

Does Clearview AI have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 3 APIs from Clearview AI, including Clearview AI Facial Recognition Platform, Clearview AI Investigation Tools and Clearview AI Financial Services.

Does Clearview AI have an MCP server?

Yes. APIs.io lists 1 MCP server for Clearview AI: Remote MCP server at www.clearview.ai over HTTP; 10 tools listed.

Is the Clearview AI API ready for AI agents?

Clearview AI has a Kin Score of 16.9 out of 100 (emerging) and an Agent Readiness score of 10.3 (agent-aware), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.

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