Lightly

Lightly is a data-curation and active-learning platform for computer vision. The LightlyOne platform exposes a REST API at https://api.lightly.ai for managing datasets, samples, embeddings, cloud datasources, selection / active-learning runs (the LightlyOne Worker), tags, and jobs. Lightly also maintains the open-source lightly self-supervised learning SDK, plus LightlyTrain and LightlyEdge products.

Lightly publishes 7 APIs on the APIs.io network, including Datasets API, Datasources API, Embeddings API, and 4 more. Tagged areas include Artificial Intelligence, Computer-Vision, Data Curation, Active Learning, and Embeddings.

Lightly’s developer surface includes authentication, documentation, engineering blog, and 8 more developer resources.

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8 APIs

Artificial Intelligence Computer-Vision Data CurationActive LearningEmbeddings

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Contract Quality 12.7 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 4.8 / 20

Access Clarity 7.9 / 20

Operational Transparency 4.4 / 13

Contract Governance 0.0 / 12

Discoverability 7.4 / 10

Agent readiness — 20/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Surface 0 / 5

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APIs 8

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

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FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Documentation 1

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Documentation

Documentation

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AgenticAccess

AgenticAccess

Build 1

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GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Authentication

Authentication

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

RateLimits

RateLimits

Commercial 2

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Plans

Plans

FinOps

FinOps

Company 3

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LinkedIn

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

Source (apis.yml)

aid: lightly-ai
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/lightly-ai/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
name: Lightly
kind: company
description: Lightly is a data-curation and active-learning platform for computer vision. The LightlyOne platform exposes
  a REST API at https://api.lightly.ai for managing datasets, samples, embeddings, cloud datasources, selection / active-learning
  runs (the LightlyOne Worker), tags, and jobs. Lightly also maintains the open-source lightly self-supervised learning SDK,
  plus LightlyTrain and LightlyEdge products.
accessModel:
  pricing: freemium
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: true
  public: false
  label: Freemium · Self-serve signup
  confidence: high
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/lightly-ai.png
tags:
- Artificial Intelligence
- Computer-Vision
- Data Curation
- Active Learning
- Embeddings
tags_raw:
- AI
- Computer Vision
- Data Curation
- Active Learning
- Embeddings
created: '2026-06-21'
modified: '2026-06-21'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- aid: lightly-ai:lightly-oss-sdk
  name: Lightly Self-Supervised Learning SDK (OSS)
  tags:
  - SDK
  - Open-Source
  - Self-Supervised Learning
  tags_raw:
  - SDK
  - Open Source
  - Self-Supervised Learning
  image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
  humanURL: https://docs.lightly.ai/self-supervised-learning/
  baseURL: https://github.com/lightly-ai/lightly
  properties:
  - url: https://docs.lightly.ai/self-supervised-learning/
    type: Documentation
  - url: https://github.com/lightly-ai/lightly
    type: GitHub
  description: The open-source (Apache-2.0) lightly Python library for self-supervised representation learning on images (SimCLR,
    MoCo, DINO, BYOL, and more). It is a pip-installable PyTorch SDK and is distinct from the hosted LightlyOne platform REST
    API; the same package also ships the ApiWorkflowClient used to call the platform.
- aid: lightly-ai:lightly-ai-datasets-api
  name: Lightly Datasets API
  description: Create and manage LightlyOne datasets.
  humanURL: https://docs.lightly.ai/docs
  baseURL: https://api.lightly.ai/v1
  tags:
  - Datasets
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/lightly-ai-datasets-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.lightly.ai/docs
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.lightly.ai/lightly.api.html
  - type: Postman
    url: collections/lightly-ai.postman_collection.json
  - type: GitHub
    url: https://github.com/lightly-ai/lightly
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.lightly.ai/docs/embeddings
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.lightly.ai/docs/set-up-your-first-dataset
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.lightly.ai/docs/customize-a-selection
- aid: lightly-ai:lightly-ai-datasources-api
  name: Lightly Datasources API
  description: Configure and inspect the cloud datasource backing a dataset.
  humanURL: https://docs.lightly.ai/docs
  baseURL: https://api.lightly.ai/v1
  tags:
  - Data Sources
  tags_raw:
  - Datasources
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/lightly-ai-datasources-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.lightly.ai/docs
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.lightly.ai/lightly.api.html
  - type: Postman
    url: collections/lightly-ai.postman_collection.json
  - type: GitHub
    url: https://github.com/lightly-ai/lightly
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.lightly.ai/docs/embeddings
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.lightly.ai/docs/set-up-your-first-dataset
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.lightly.ai/docs/customize-a-selection
- aid: lightly-ai:lightly-ai-embeddings-api
  name: Lightly Embeddings API
  description: Manage dataset embeddings and trigger 2D projection jobs.
  humanURL: https://docs.lightly.ai/docs
  baseURL: https://api.lightly.ai/v1
  tags:
  - Embeddings
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/lightly-ai-embeddings-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.lightly.ai/docs
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.lightly.ai/lightly.api.html
  - type: Postman
    url: collections/lightly-ai.postman_collection.json
  - type: GitHub
    url: https://github.com/lightly-ai/lightly
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.lightly.ai/docs/embeddings
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.lightly.ai/docs/set-up-your-first-dataset
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.lightly.ai/docs/customize-a-selection
- aid: lightly-ai:lightly-ai-jobs-api
  name: Lightly Jobs API
  description: Poll asynchronous platform jobs.
  humanURL: https://docs.lightly.ai/docs
  baseURL: https://api.lightly.ai/v1
  tags:
  - Job
  tags_raw:
  - Jobs
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/lightly-ai-jobs-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.lightly.ai/docs
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.lightly.ai/lightly.api.html
  - type: Postman
    url: collections/lightly-ai.postman_collection.json
  - type: GitHub
    url: https://github.com/lightly-ai/lightly
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.lightly.ai/docs/embeddings
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.lightly.ai/docs/set-up-your-first-dataset
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.lightly.ai/docs/customize-a-selection
- aid: lightly-ai:lightly-ai-samples-api
  name: Lightly Samples API
  description: Manage samples and their signed read / write URLs within a dataset.
  humanURL: https://docs.lightly.ai/docs
  baseURL: https://api.lightly.ai/v1
  tags:
  - Samples
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/lightly-ai-samples-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.lightly.ai/docs
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.lightly.ai/lightly.api.html
  - type: Postman
    url: collections/lightly-ai.postman_collection.json
  - type: GitHub
    url: https://github.com/lightly-ai/lightly
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.lightly.ai/docs/embeddings
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.lightly.ai/docs/set-up-your-first-dataset
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.lightly.ai/docs/customize-a-selection
- aid: lightly-ai:lightly-ai-selection-api
  name: Lightly Selection API
  description: Register LightlyOne Workers and schedule selection / active-learning runs.
  humanURL: https://docs.lightly.ai/docs
  baseURL: https://api.lightly.ai/v1
  tags:
  - Selection
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/lightly-ai-selection-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.lightly.ai/docs
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.lightly.ai/lightly.api.html
  - type: Postman
    url: collections/lightly-ai.postman_collection.json
  - type: GitHub
    url: https://github.com/lightly-ai/lightly
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.lightly.ai/docs/embeddings
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.lightly.ai/docs/set-up-your-first-dataset
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.lightly.ai/docs/customize-a-selection
- aid: lightly-ai:lightly-ai-tags-api
  name: Lightly Tags API
  description: Manage and export dataset tags.
  humanURL: https://docs.lightly.ai/docs
  baseURL: https://api.lightly.ai/v1
  tags:
  - Tags
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/lightly-ai-tags-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.lightly.ai/docs
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.lightly.ai/lightly.api.html
  - type: Postman
    url: collections/lightly-ai.postman_collection.json
  - type: GitHub
    url: https://github.com/lightly-ai/lightly
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.lightly.ai/docs/embeddings
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.lightly.ai/docs/set-up-your-first-dataset
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.lightly.ai/docs/customize-a-selection
common:
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/lightly-ai-agentic-access.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/lightly-ai-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/lightly-ai-authentication.yml
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/lightly-ai
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/lightly-tech
- type: Website
  url: https://www.lightly.ai
- type: Documentation
  url: https://docs.lightly.ai/
- type: Plans
  url: plans/lightly-ai-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/lightly-ai-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/lightly-ai-finops.yml
- url: https://www.lightly.ai/blog
  type: Blog
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com

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