# CVAT

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/cvat/  
**Website:** https://www.cvat.ai  
**APIs profiled:** 8

CVAT (Computer Vision Annotation Tool) is an open-source platform for annotating images, video, and 3D point clouds for vision AI. The CVAT REST API exposes projects, tasks, jobs, annotations, labels, organizations, memberships, and cloud storage integrations, available both self-hosted (MIT-licensed) and as the hosted CVAT Online service at app.cvat.ai.

## Kin Score — 37.8 / 100 (thin)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 37.8).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 74.1 |
| Contract Quality | 53.1 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 34.2 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 23.8 |
| Commercial Clarity | 39.5 |
| Access Clarity | 39.5 |

## Agent readiness — 29.1 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Freemium · Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: freemium, trial: no (confidence: high).

## APIs (8)

- **CVAT annotations API** — Shapes, tracks, and tags attached to tasks and jobs.
- **CVAT cloudstorages API** — External object-storage connections used as data sources.
- **CVAT jobs API** — Assignable annotation units that subdivide a task.
- **CVAT labels API** — Label taxonomy shared across projects, tasks, and jobs.
- **CVAT memberships API** — Membership of users within organizations.
- **CVAT organizations API** — Organizations scoping resources for teams.
- **CVAT projects API** — Annotation projects that group tasks and share a label set.
- **CVAT tasks API** — Annotation tasks holding media data and annotations.

## Agentic access (1)

- **Cvat Agentic Access** — 36 operations · 20 acting

## Security (2)

- **Cvat Authentication** — apiKey/http · 2 schemes
- **Cvat Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

## Plans (1)

- **Cvat Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Computer-Vision, Data Annotation, Labeling, Datasets, Open-Source

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