Defined.ai (formerly DefinedCrowd) is an AI training data platform and marketplace founded in 2015 by Daniela Braga, headquartered in Seattle with offices in Lisbon, Porto, and Tokyo. It provides ready-to-use datasets across speech, text, image, video, and multimodal, plus custom data collection, annotation, machine translation, conversational AI, LLM fine-tuning, and data and model evaluation services sourced from a global community of 1.6M+ vetted contributors across 150+ markets and 500+ languages, dialects, and locales. The Defined.ai Public API (v2.0) lets enterprise customers manage projects programmatically — create Mean Opinion Score and Pronunciation Validation projects, upload input units, configure supported languages, track project status and errors, manage jobs, retrieve deliverables, and subscribe to notifications. Data provenance and compliance are backed by ISO 27001, ISO 27701, ISO 42001, GDPR, and HIPAA.
Defined.ai (DefinedCrowd) publishes 8 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network, including Deliverables API, Input Units API, Jobs API, and 5 more. Tagged areas include Company, AI Training Data, Data Marketplace, Machine Learning, and Data Annotation.
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The result file is created after the project is completed and is referred to as deliverables. The file contains contributor metadata for completed input units.
Each input unit is a single component of work done by the contributors. There are several types of units – audio, text, and image. In a given project, all units should have the ...
Jobs are how your data (input units) connects the project with our contributors. Each job has data, instructions, and customizable parameters, which then convert inputs to outpu...
Informally, projects can be viewed as configurable packages that process sets of Input Units. The project’s template determines how the Input Units are processed. Projects can b...
Subscribe to automatic notifications for specific email addresses. Email notifications are sent for events that happen during the life cycle of the project. By using this servi...
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name: Defined.ai (DefinedCrowd)
description: Defined.ai (formerly DefinedCrowd) is an AI training data platform and marketplace founded in 2015 by Daniela
Braga, headquartered in Seattle with offices in Lisbon, Porto, and Tokyo. It provides ready-to-use datasets across speech,
text, image, video, and multimodal, plus custom data collection, annotation, machine translation, conversational AI, LLM
fine-tuning, and data and model evaluation services sourced from a global community of 1.6M+ vetted contributors across
150+ markets and 500+ languages, dialects, and locales. The Defined.ai Public API (v2.0) lets enterprise customers manage
projects programmatically — create Mean Opinion Score and Pronunciation Validation projects, upload input units, configure
supported languages, track project status and errors, manage jobs, retrieve deliverables, and subscribe to notifications.
Data provenance and compliance are backed by ISO 27001, ISO 27701, ISO 42001, GDPR, and HIPAA.
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description: Jobs are how your data (input units) connects the project with our contributors. Each job has data, instructions,
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description: 'Informally, projects can be viewed as configurable packages that process sets of Input Units. The project’s
template determines how the Input Units are processed. Projects can be retrieved and managed as needed through the following
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name: Defined.ai (DefinedCrowd) Pronunciation Validation API
description: Confirm audio meets pronunciation standards.
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\ processing of personal data will be carried out according to the terms of Defined.ai's <a href=\"https://www.defined.ai/privacy-policy/\"\
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\ receiving service notifications in context of Defined.ai provided services, in compliance with all applicable data protection\
\ laws, including the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). The\
\ user also acknowledges that it is fully responsible for unsubscribing such emails once no longer necessary for these\
\ purposes or in case the data subject has removed its consent.\n\n Defined.ai reserves the right to proceed with the\
\ immediate service suspension without any prior\nnotice, if it detects service abuse, non-compliance with the above obligations\
\ or in case it receives complaints from data subjects that have not provided their consent for the subscription of their\
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country. The REST API provides a method called “Get Supported Languages” that returns the set of languages, language features
and associated language codes that are used by our APIs and supported by the Defined.ai platform.
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email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
email: info@apis.io
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note: 'Renamed from MCPServer 2026-09-03 (roadmap#247): the manifest self-describes as status: candidate — a tool list derived
from the published API contracts, not an existing server. The scorer already read the manifest and reported mcp_server
correctly; the MCPServer type was crediting the artifact-type surfaces with a server that does not exist.'
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Defined.ai (DefinedCrowd) API — frequently asked questions
Does Defined.ai (DefinedCrowd) have an API?
Yes. APIs.io lists 8 APIs from Defined.ai (DefinedCrowd), including Defined.ai (DefinedCrowd) Deliverables API, Defined.ai (DefinedCrowd) Input Units API and Defined.ai (DefinedCrowd) Jobs API, and 5 more.
Is there an OpenAPI specification for the Defined.ai (DefinedCrowd) API?
Yes. APIs.io indexes 8 OpenAPI specifications for Defined.ai (DefinedCrowd), each linked for download from this page.
How do I authenticate with the Defined.ai (DefinedCrowd) API?
Defined.ai (DefinedCrowd) uses bearer-token authentication (apiKey · 1 scheme). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Definedcrowd Authentication.
Is the Defined.ai (DefinedCrowd) API ready for AI agents?
Defined.ai (DefinedCrowd) has a Kin Score of 40.2 out of 100 (developing) and an Agent Readiness score of 23.1 (agent-aware), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-10-31.
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