Overshoot

Overshoot is a real-time video understanding API. Developers create a live video stream, publish frames over WebRTC (LiveKit), then query what the camera sees with vision-language models through an OpenAI-compatible chat completions endpoint — sub-200ms inference against a large catalog of VLMs. Overshoot (YC W2026) targets physical security, safety, gaming, robotics, and consumer products, exposing stream lifecycle management, model listing, prepaid-credit billing, and per-model pricing over a single REST host at api.overshoot.ai.

Overshoot publishes 8 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network, including Billing API, Healthz API, Metrics API, and 5 more. Tagged areas include Company, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision, Video, and Video Understanding.

The Overshoot catalog on APIs.io includes 1 Spectral governance ruleset.

Overshoot’s developer surface includes documentation, API reference, getting-started guide, engineering blog, support, signup flow, authentication, and 18 more developer resources.

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36.4/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 23/100 agent aware saas Full breakdown ↓
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2 published contracts 1 Agent Skills

Company Artificial Intelligence Computer Vision Video Video UnderstandingVision Language ModelsReal-Time Streaming WebRTC Inference Multi-Modal Machine Learning

What this lets a business do 1

Business capabilities this provider's published APIs can perform, derived from its own contracts. Browse all capabilities →

Subscription Billing & Revenue Management

BC-4250

Billing

GET /billing/accounts/me/balance POST /billing/checkout

Kin Score

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scored 2026-11-02 · rubric v0.26.0

Composite quality — 36.4/100 · thin

Contract Quality 8.2 / 19

Developer Ergonomics 8.5 / 15

Access Clarity 1.6 / 15

Operational Transparency 2.3 / 10

Contract Governance 1.6 / 9

Discoverability 5.5 / 8

Regulatory Posture 2.9 / 15

Create-or-Update Ergonomics 0.0 / 10

Agent readiness — 23/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 8 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 5 / 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 Well-Known Document 0 / 5

Pagination 0 / 5

Distinct Operations 0 / 3

MCP Tool Quality 6 / 6

Regulatory Posture applies to this provider. Its tags matched the AI & Biometrics regime, so Regulatory Posture carries 15 points of the composite. If this regime is wrong for your business, say so on your provider repo — the applicability map is public and we will correct it.

Create-or-Update Ergonomics applies to this provider. This API accepts writes, so it carries 10 points of the composite. It is scored from the published contracts themselves: whether a caller can create-or-update in one call, whether the write accepts a key the caller already holds, and whether the response says which branch ran. Without that, every write needs a search-and-branch in front of it, and the first time that check is skipped a duplicate record is created. Scored against the observed mean rather than raw — a provider at the catalog average is unchanged by this facet, not penalised by it.

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Agent readiness — checks not met, largest first (exact, from this profile):

MCP Server +12 pts — deployment.mode + probe verdict on the mcp/ manifest, not the pointer; an unprobed slug falls back to authorship
Agentic Access Contract +10 pts — agentic_access artifact present (x-agentic-access), graded by author
Idempotency +9 pts — OpenAPI mutating operations declare an idempotency key — a header, a request-body property, or a named de-duplication token whose own description says so (verified); else common[].type matches /idempoten/i (documented)
A2A Agent Card +8 pts — a2a/-a2a.yml manifest, graded on conformance.grade against A2A 1.0.0
Request/Response Examples +7 pts — share of operations carrying request/response examples; else an Examples / Code Samples link
Registration Without a Human +6 pts — a `registration_endpoint` in the served RFC 8414 / OIDC discovery document

10 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

Kin Score — facets with the most composite points still available (weight × headroom):

Access Clarity scores 10.5 — up to +17.9 composite points
Contract Quality scores 43.6 — up to +14.1 composite points
Operational Transparency scores 23.7 — up to +9.9 composite points

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Markets this provider is in provisional

The Kin Score Market layer reads a provider inside its market: its position, and how deep its integrations go. Depth is only comparable within a position. Provisional and unweighted: not part of the Kin Score or agent readiness.

Market	Position	Depth	Registered MCP server	Declares compatibility
ONVIF Video Analytics (video surveillance, edge cameras, computer vision)	distribution	9.6 (thin)	-	2

Registered MCP server and declares compatibility are report only — not weighted. Undeclared means we found nothing we can read, so there is no number: we never infer integrations.

Standards implemented 1

Standards this provider implements or carries. De facto ones are profiled and measured by the API Commons; formal ones come from the standards directory and are linked by the provider's own tags. The evidence column says how each claim was established — not that it was made.

OpenAPI

measured — observed by APIs.io (published)

APIs 8

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

Overshoot Billing API

Pricing, prepaid balance, and checkout.

Overshoot Healthz API

The Healthz API from Overshoot — 1 operation(s) for healthz.

Overshoot Metrics API

The Metrics API from Overshoot — 1 operation(s) for metrics.

Overshoot Models API

The Models API from Overshoot — 2 operation(s) for models.

Overshoot Readyz API

The Readyz API from Overshoot — 1 operation(s) for readyz.

Overshoot Streams API

Create, inspect, keep alive, and delete live video streams.

Overshoot V1beta API

The V1beta API from Overshoot — 1 operation(s) for v1beta.

Overshoot Chat Completions API

The Chat Completions API from Overshoot — 1 operation(s) for chat completions.

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Open Collections 8

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

Inference Service Billing API

OPEN COLLECTION

Inference Service Billing Chat API

OPEN COLLECTION

Inference Service Billing Healthz API

OPEN COLLECTION

Inference Service Billing Metrics API

OPEN COLLECTION

Inference Service Billing Models API

OPEN COLLECTION

Inference Service Billing Readyz API

OPEN COLLECTION

Inference Service Billing Streams API

OPEN COLLECTION

Inference Service Billing V1beta API

OPEN COLLECTION

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Agent Skills 1

Packaged agent skills for driving this provider's APIs from an AI assistant.

overshoot-live-video-qa

AGENT SKILL

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Overshoot Rate Limits

2 limits

RATE LIMITS

Spectral Rules 1

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

Overshoot API Rules

44 rules · 41 errors 2 warnings 1 info

SPECTRAL

OpenAPI Overlays 1

Overlays applied on top of this provider's contracts. Each card says who wrote it: a document the provider publishes, or one API Evangelist derived or generated.

Overshoot Openapi Overlay

5 actions · update · overshoot-openapi.yaml

GENERATED

Security Posture 2

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Overshoot Authentication

http · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Overshoot Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Resources

Get Started 3

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

DeveloperPortal

DeveloperPortal

GettingStarted

GettingStarted

SignUp

SignUp

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

APIReference

APIReference

Agent Surfaces 3

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

LLMsTxt

LLMsTxt

X-MCPServerCandidate

X-MCPServerCandidate

AgentSkill

AgentSkill

Design & Contract 5

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

ErrorCatalog

Lifecycle

Conventions

Conformance

DataModel

Build 3

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

Packages

Packages

SDKs

SDKs

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Authentication

Authentication

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support

Support

RateLimits

RateLimits

Commercial 1

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

Other 2

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

CapabilityMap

CapabilityMap

Overlay

Overlay

Source (apis.yml)

aid: overshoot
name: Overshoot
description: Overshoot is a real-time video understanding API. Developers create a live video stream, publish frames over
  WebRTC (LiveKit), then query what the camera sees with vision-language models through an OpenAI-compatible chat completions
  endpoint — sub-200ms inference against a large catalog of VLMs. Overshoot (YC W2026) targets physical security, safety,
  gaming, robotics, and consumer products, exposing stream lifecycle management, model listing, prepaid-credit billing, and
  per-model pricing over a single REST host at api.overshoot.ai.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/overshoot/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: true
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: high
  source:
  - openapi
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source:
  - authentication
  - rate-limits
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-02'
  method: derived
image: https://platform.overshoot.ai/favicon.png
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- y-combinator
x-tier: enriched
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-20'
x-docs-platform: mintlify
x-docs-platform-confidence: medium
x-docs-platform-checked: 2026-10-04
tags:
- Company
- Artificial Intelligence
- Computer Vision
- Video
- Video Understanding
- Vision Language Models
- Real-Time
- Streaming
- WebRTC
- Inference
- Multi-Modal
- Machine Learning
tags_raw:
- Company
- Artificial Intelligence
- Computer Vision
- Video
- Video Understanding
- Vision Language Models
- Real Time
- Streaming
- WebRTC
- Inference
- Multimodal
- Machine Learning
- Computer-Vision
- Machine-Learning
apis:
- aid: overshoot:overshoot-billing-api
  name: Overshoot Billing API
  description: Pricing, prepaid balance, and checkout.
  humanURL: https://docs.overshoot.ai
  baseURL: https://api.overshoot.ai/v1beta
  tags:
  - Billing
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/overshoot-billing-api-openapi.yml
- aid: overshoot:overshoot-healthz-api
  name: Overshoot Healthz API
  description: The Healthz API from Overshoot — 1 operation(s) for healthz.
  humanURL: https://docs.overshoot.ai
  baseURL: https://api.overshoot.ai/v1beta
  tags:
  - Healthz
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/overshoot-healthz-api-openapi.yml
- aid: overshoot:overshoot-metrics-api
  name: Overshoot Metrics API
  description: The Metrics API from Overshoot — 1 operation(s) for metrics.
  humanURL: https://docs.overshoot.ai
  baseURL: https://api.overshoot.ai/v1beta
  tags:
  - Metrics
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/overshoot-metrics-api-openapi.yml
- aid: overshoot:overshoot-models-api
  name: Overshoot Models API
  description: The Models API from Overshoot — 2 operation(s) for models.
  humanURL: https://docs.overshoot.ai
  baseURL: https://api.overshoot.ai/v1beta
  tags:
  - Models
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/overshoot-models-api-openapi.yml
- aid: overshoot:overshoot-readyz-api
  name: Overshoot Readyz API
  description: The Readyz API from Overshoot — 1 operation(s) for readyz.
  humanURL: https://docs.overshoot.ai
  baseURL: https://api.overshoot.ai/v1beta
  tags:
  - Readyz
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/overshoot-readyz-api-openapi.yml
- aid: overshoot:overshoot-streams-api
  name: Overshoot Streams API
  description: Create, inspect, keep alive, and delete live video streams.
  humanURL: https://docs.overshoot.ai
  baseURL: https://api.overshoot.ai/v1beta
  tags:
  - Streams
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/overshoot-streams-api-openapi.yml
- aid: overshoot:overshoot-v1beta-api
  name: Overshoot V1beta API
  description: The V1beta API from Overshoot — 1 operation(s) for v1beta.
  humanURL: https://docs.overshoot.ai
  baseURL: https://api.overshoot.ai/v1beta
  tags:
  - V1Beta
  tags_raw:
  - V1beta
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/overshoot-v1beta-api-openapi.yml
- aid: overshoot:overshoot-chat-completions-api
  name: Overshoot Chat Completions API
  description: The Chat Completions API from Overshoot — 1 operation(s) for chat completions.
  humanURL: https://docs.overshoot.ai
  baseURL: https://api.overshoot.ai/v1beta
  tags:
  - Chat Completions
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/overshoot-chat-completions-api-openapi.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://www.overshoot.ai/
- type: CapabilityMap
  url: capabilities/overshoot-capability-edges.yml
  name: Overshoot Business Capability Map
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/overshoot-domain-security.yml
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://platform.overshoot.ai
- type: Documentation
  url: https://docs.overshoot.ai
- type: APIReference
  url: https://docs.overshoot.ai/api-reference/introduction
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://docs.overshoot.ai/quickstart
- type: Blog
  url: https://overshoot.ai/blogs
- type: Support
  url: https://overshoot.ai/faq
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/Overshoot-ai
- type: SignUp
  url: https://platform.overshoot.ai
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://platform.overshoot.ai/privacy.html
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/overshoot-llms.txt
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/overshoot-authentication.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/overshoot-problem-types.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/overshoot-lifecycle.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/overshoot-conventions.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/overshoot-conformance.yml
- type: DataModel
  url: data-model/overshoot-data-model.yml
- type: X-MCPServerCandidate
  url: mcp/overshoot-mcp.yml
  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.'
- type: Overlay
  url: overlays/overshoot-openapi-overlay.yaml
- type: Packages
  url: packages/overshoot-packages.yml
- type: SDKs
  url: packages/overshoot-packages.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/overshoot-rate-limits.yml
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/_index.yml
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-20'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 17
  pass: local-v1

Overshoot API — frequently asked questions

Does Overshoot have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 8 APIs from Overshoot, including Overshoot Billing API, Overshoot Healthz API and Overshoot Metrics API, and 5 more.

Is there an OpenAPI specification for the Overshoot API?

Yes. APIs.io indexes 8 OpenAPI specifications for Overshoot, each linked for download from this page.

How do I authenticate with the Overshoot API?

Overshoot uses bearer-token authentication (http · 1 scheme). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Overshoot Authentication.

Is the Overshoot API ready for AI agents?

Overshoot has a Kin Score of 36.4 out of 100 (thin) and an Agent Readiness score of 23.3 (agent-aware), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-02.

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