# Instance

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/instance/  
**Website:** https://www.instancelabs.ai/  
**APIs profiled:** 28

Instance (Instance Labs) is a Y Combinator-backed (Summer 2026) company building a verification layer for robot learning. Their platform ingests raw robot rollouts and episode footage from any robot or camera angle and automatically judges whether a task was completed successfully, returning a verdict with supporting evidence and a detailed subtask breakdown. The company positions itself as the ground-truth / success-detection layer that lets robotics teams trust their training data and train policies faster, and reports its verifier reaching higher accuracy than frontier vision-language models at a fraction of the latency across 10,000+ human-labeled episodes on 7 robot platforms. Founded by MIT computer scientists with backgrounds at SpaceX, AWS, and NASA JPL. Today the product is exposed as a hosted demo (submit videos or capture a live rollout for verification); there is no publicly documented developer API, SDK, or OpenAPI at this time.

## Kin Score — 22.3 / 100 (emerging)

Scored 2026-08-19 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (-0.5 from 22.8).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 81.5 |
| Contract Quality | 43.5 |
| Governance | 16.7 |
| Contract Governance | 16.7 |
| Operational Transparency | 0.0 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 6.5 |
| Commercial Clarity | 0.0 |
| Access Clarity | 0.0 |

## Agent readiness — 25.4 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | verified |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | no |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | derived |
| 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 (28)

- **Instance Archive API** — The Archive API from Instance — 1 operation(s) for archive.
- **Instance Audit API** — The Audit API from Instance — 3 operation(s) for audit.
- **Instance Batch API** — The Batch API from Instance — 2 operation(s) for batch.
- **Instance Captions API** — The Captions API from Instance — 1 operation(s) for captions.
- **Instance Clip API** — The Clip API from Instance — 1 operation(s) for clip.
- **Instance Download API** — The Download API from Instance — 1 operation(s) for download.
- **Instance Example API** — The Example API from Instance — 1 operation(s) for example.
- **Instance Examples API** — The Examples API from Instance — 1 operation(s) for examples.
- **Instance Fast API** — The Fast API from Instance — 1 operation(s) for fast.
- **Instance Feed API** — The Feed API from Instance — 2 operation(s) for feed.
- **Instance H1 API** — The H1 API from Instance — 1 operation(s) for h1.
- **Instance Health API** — The Health API from Instance — 1 operation(s) for health.
- **Instance Ingest API** — The Ingest API from Instance — 1 operation(s) for ingest.
- **Instance Job API** — The Job API from Instance — 1 operation(s) for job.
- **Instance Live Example API** — The Live Example API from Instance — 1 operation(s) for live example.
- **Instance Live Example Video API** — The Live Example Video API from Instance — 1 operation(s) for live example video.
- **Instance Live State API** — The Live State API from Instance — 1 operation(s) for live state.
- **Instance Opus API** — The Opus API from Instance — 1 operation(s) for opus.
- **Instance Qr API** — The Qr API from Instance — 1 operation(s) for qr.
- **Instance Record API** — The Record API from Instance — 1 operation(s) for record.
- **Instance Robot Rollout Verifier API** — The Robot Rollout Verifier API from Instance — 1 operation(s) for robot rollout verifier.
- **Instance Segment API** — The Segment API from Instance — 1 operation(s) for segment.
- **Instance Subtasks API** — The Subtasks API from Instance — 1 operation(s) for subtasks.
- **Instance Subtasks Trace API** — The Subtasks Trace API from Instance — 1 operation(s) for subtasks trace.
- **Instance Upload API** — The Upload API from Instance — 2 operation(s) for upload.
- **Instance Usage API** — The Usage API from Instance — 2 operation(s) for usage.
- **Instance Verify API** — The Verify API from Instance — 3 operation(s) for verify.
- **Instance Verify Frames API** — The Verify Frames API from Instance — 1 operation(s) for verify frames.

## MCP servers (1)

- **instance-mcp.yml**

## Agentic access (1)

- **Instance Agentic Access** — 37 operations · 15 acting

## Security (1)

- **Instance Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS

## Tags

Company, Robotics, Machine Learning, Verification, Evaluation, Data Quality, Artificial Intelligence, Y Combinator

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