# Clearview AI

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/clearview-ai/  
**Website:** https://www.clearview.ai/  
**APIs profiled:** 3

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.

## Kin Score — 19.1 / 100 (emerging)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 19.1).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 72.2 |
| Contract Quality | 7.0 |
| Governance | 45.5 |
| Contract Governance | 45.5 |
| Operational Transparency | 0.0 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 2.4 |
| Commercial Clarity | 21.1 |
| Access Clarity | 21.1 |

## 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 |

## Access

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

## APIs (3)

- **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 ...

## Security (1)

- **Clearview Ai Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC

## Tags

Biometrics, Facial Recognition, Identity, Investigations, Law Enforcement, Surveillance

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