Flywheel

aid: flywheel
name: Flywheel
description: Flywheel is a medical imaging data management and AI development platform for biomedical research, clinical trials,
  and medical device R&D. It securely ingests, organizes, de-identifies, processes, and analyzes imaging data (DICOM, NIfTI,
  and more) in a strict container hierarchy (Group, Project, Subject, Session, Acquisition, File, Analysis) and automates
  workflows with reusable plug-in applications called Gears. Developers integrate through a per-instance REST API documented
  with Swagger, an official Python SDK, a command line interface, and an open-source Developer Toolkit (fw-client, fw-file,
  fw-gear, fw-curation, fw-classification). Flywheel is HIPAA, SOC 2/SOC 3, GDPR, and 21 CFR Part 11 compliant. Surfaced as
  an 8vc portfolio company and enriched by the API Evangelist pipeline.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/flywheel/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- 8vc
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-19'
tags:
- Company
- Medical Imaging
- Healthcare
- Data Management
- Machine Learning
- Research
- DICOM
- Life Sciences
apis:
- name: Flywheel Core API
  description: Full REST API for the Flywheel platform, covering the container hierarchy (groups, projects, subjects, sessions,
    acquisitions, files, analyses), gears and jobs, users and permissions, and search. Documented with Swagger and served
    per customer instance at <instance>/api (interactive docs at <instance>/api/docs). Consumed via the official Python SDK
    and CLI.
  humanURL: https://docs.flywheel.io/Developer_Guides/api_sdk/
  baseURL: https://api-docs.flywheel.io/latest/index.html
  x-baseurl-note: The live API base is per-instance (<instance>/api); the public reference is the generated SDK/API documentation
    host. No single public production base URL is published.
  tags:
  - Medical Imaging
  - REST
  properties:
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://api-docs.flywheel.io/latest/index.html
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.flywheel.io/Developer_Guides/
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://docs.flywheel.io/Developer_Guides/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://docs.flywheel.io/Developer_Guides/
- type: APIReference
  url: https://api-docs.flywheel.io/latest/index.html
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://api-docs.flywheel.io/latest/tags/16.19.2/python/getting_started_new.html
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/flywheel-authentication.yml
- type: Packages
  url: packages/flywheel-packages.yml
- type: SDKs
  url: packages/flywheel-packages.yml
- type: CLI
  url: cli/flywheel-cli.yml
- type: DataModel
  url: data-model/flywheel-data-model.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/flywheel-conventions.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/flywheel-lifecycle.yml
- type: Deprecation
  url: lifecycle/flywheel-lifecycle.yml
- type: ChangeLog
  url: changelog/flywheel-changelog.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/flywheel-conformance.yml
- type: Compliance
  url: https://flywheel.io/compliance/
- type: TrustCenter
  url: security/flywheel-trust-center.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/flywheel-domain-security.yml
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/flywheel-well-known.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/flywheel-llms.txt
- type: Support
  url: https://forum.flywheel.io
- type: Blog
  url: https://flywheel.io/insights/
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/flywheel-io
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://flywheel.io/privacy-policy/
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://flywheel.io/terms/
- type: Website
  url: https://flywheel.io
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: backfilled
  pass: local-v1
  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence