# Lightly

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

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.

## Kin Score — 37.2 / 100 (thin)

Scored 2026-08-25 under rubric 0.14.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 37.2).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 74.1 |
| Contract Quality | 50.9 |
| 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 — 19.8 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | bearer |
| 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 |
| Delegated Identity | no |
| Protected Resource Metadata | no |
| Dynamic Client Registration | no |
| Agentic Commerce | no |

## Access

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

## APIs (8)

- **Lightly Self-Supervised Learning SDK (OSS)** — 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 S...
- **Lightly Datasets API** — Create and manage LightlyOne datasets.
- **Lightly Datasources API** — Configure and inspect the cloud datasource backing a dataset.
- **Lightly Embeddings API** — Manage dataset embeddings and trigger 2D projection jobs.
- **Lightly Jobs API** — Poll asynchronous platform jobs.
- **Lightly Samples API** — Manage samples and their signed read / write URLs within a dataset.
- **Lightly Selection API** — Register LightlyOne Workers and schedule selection / active-learning runs.
- **Lightly Tags API** — Manage and export dataset tags.

## Agentic access (1)

- **Lightly Ai Agentic Access** — 31 operations · 11 acting

## Security (2)

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

## Plans (1)

- **Lightly Ai Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Artificial Intelligence, Computer-Vision, Data Curation, Active Learning, Embeddings

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