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SenseTime

SenseTime (商汤科技) is a Shanghai-headquartered artificial-intelligence company building foundation models, AI compute infrastructure, and vision AI. Its developer-facing surface is the SenseNova LLM API service platform, which exposes large multimodal models (SenseNova U-series, SenseNova 6.x) for text, image, and video understanding, reasoning, and generation via an HTTP API. Developers authenticate with an Access Key ID / Secret Access Key pair (with OAuth2/OIDC available through SenseCore signin), call chat-completions, embeddings, and fine-tuning endpoints, and integrate with an official Python client library and CLI. SenseTime also operates SenseCore AI infrastructure, SenseFoundry vision AI, and native applications. This profile was surfaced as a Tiger Global portfolio company and enriched from public developer sources.

SenseTime is listed with 1 API on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Foundation Models, and LLM.

SenseTime’s developer surface includes engineering blog, documentation, pricing, authentication, CLI, and 12 more developer resources.

25.1/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 11/100 agent aware Front door AI 6/6 dominant Heartbeat 82/100 alive saas Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0 · Show this score on your site →
AccessFreemiumSelf serve⚡ Free to try
1 API
CompanyArtificial IntelligenceMachine LearningFoundation ModelsLLMGenerative AIComputer VisionLLM API

Kin Score

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scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0
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 could not be measured. We hold no machine-readable contract for this provider to read, so there is nothing to measure a write surface against. Excluded rather than scored zero: never-measured and measured-empty are different facts. Publishing an OpenAPI is what makes this facet — and several others — scorable at all.
The six quality facets above are damped to 85 points between them, because the conditional facet above carries the other 15. That is why each facet's contribution is shown against a damped maximum: raising a quality facet moves the composite by 85% of its nominal weight, not 100%. The full arithmetic is at apis.io/rating/.
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Agent readiness — checks not met, largest first (exact, from this profile):
  • Machine-Readable Contract +18 pts — api_specs includes an OpenAPI document
  • 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)
  • Stable Error Semantics +8 pts — OpenAPI $refs a shared error schema across 4xx/5xx responses (verified), else common[].type includes ErrorCatalog / ErrorCodes / DeclineCodes
  • A2A Agent Card +8 pts — a2a/-a2a.yml manifest, graded on conformance.grade against A2A 1.0.0
11 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.
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Markets this provider is in provisional

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MarketPositionDepthRegistered MCP serverDeclares compatibility
ONVIF Video Analytics (video surveillance, edge cameras, computer vision) undeclared - - -

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.

APIs 1

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

SenseNova LLM API

The SenseNova LLM API service platform exposes SenseTime's large multimodal foundation models (chat completions, embeddings, image and video generation, and fine-tuning) over an...

SenseTime API pricing

Prices published by SenseTime, read 2026-10-07 from www.sensenova.cn/en/token-plan.

PlanPrice
Free · Public beta ¥ 0/mo
Includes: 60,000 credits / 5 hours
Lite / Pro Coming soon

Plan details, limits and sources →

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Security Posture 2

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

Sensetime Authentication

apiKey/oauth2/openIdConnect · 2 schemes

SECURITY

Sensetime Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · DMARC

SECURITY

Scopes 1

OAuth scopes governing access to this provider's APIs.

Sensetime Scopes

3 scopes · authorizationCode/clientCredentials

3 scopes

SCOPES

Resources

Get Started 2

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Agent Surfaces 2

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Design & Contract 1

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Build 4

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Access & Security 3

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑
aid: sensetime
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: false
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: freemium
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: true
  public: false
  gated: none
  gated_source:
  - onboarding
  label: Freemium · Self-serve signup
  confidence: high
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  - scopes
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-06'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/sensetime.png
name: SenseTime
description: SenseTime (商汤科技) is a Shanghai-headquartered artificial-intelligence company building foundation models, AI compute
  infrastructure, and vision AI. Its developer-facing surface is the SenseNova LLM API service platform, which exposes large
  multimodal models (SenseNova U-series, SenseNova 6.x) for text, image, and video understanding, reasoning, and generation
  via an HTTP API. Developers authenticate with an Access Key ID / Secret Access Key pair (with OAuth2/OIDC available through
  SenseCore signin), call chat-completions, embeddings, and fine-tuning endpoints, and integrate with an official Python client
  library and CLI. SenseTime also operates SenseCore AI infrastructure, SenseFoundry vision AI, and native applications. This
  profile was surfaced as a Tiger Global portfolio company and enriched from public developer sources.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/sensetime/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- tiger-global
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-10-06'
tags:
- Company
- Artificial Intelligence
- Machine Learning
- Foundation Models
- LLM
- Generative AI
- Computer Vision
- LLM API
tags_raw:
- Company
- Artificial Intelligence
- Machine Learning
- Foundation Models
- Large Language Models
- Generative AI
- Computer Vision
- LLM API
- Machine-Learning
- Computer-Vision
apis:
- name: SenseNova LLM API
  description: The SenseNova LLM API service platform exposes SenseTime's large multimodal foundation models (chat completions,
    embeddings, image and video generation, and fine-tuning) over an HTTP API, authenticated with an Access Key ID / Secret
    Access Key pair.
  humanURL: https://platform.sensenova.cn/en/docs
  baseURL: https://api.sensenova.cn/v1
  tags:
  - LLM
  - Foundation Models
  - Chat Completions
  - Embeddings
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://platform.sensenova.cn/en/docs
  - type: DeveloperPortal
    url: https://platform.sensenova.cn/en
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: Plans
  url: plans/sensetime-plans-pricing.yml
- url: https://www.sensetime.com/en/news
  type: Blog
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/sensetime-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.sensetime.com
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://platform.sensenova.cn/en
- type: Documentation
  url: https://platform.sensenova.cn/en/docs
- type: Login
  url: https://platform.sensenova.cn/en/console
- type: Pricing
  url: https://www.sensenova.cn/en/token-plan
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/OpenSenseNova
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/sensetime-well-known.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/sensetime-authentication.yml
- type: OAuthScopes
  url: scopes/sensetime-scopes.yml
- type: Packages
  url: packages/sensetime-packages.yml
- type: SDKs
  url: packages/sensetime-packages.yml
- type: CLI
  url: cli/sensetime-cli.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/sensetime-conventions.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/sensetime-llms.txt
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-21'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 9
  pass: local-v1

SenseTime API — frequently asked questions

Does SenseTime have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 1 API from SenseTime, including SenseNova LLM API.

How do I authenticate with the SenseTime API?

SenseTime documents its authentication (apiKey/oauth2/openIdConnect · 2 schemes). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Sensetime Authentication.

How much does the SenseTime API cost?

SenseTime publishes its prices; its Free · Public beta plan is ¥ 0/mo as of 2026-10-07. APIs.io lists 2 pricing plans for SenseTime, with each plan's price, limits and inclusions under Pricing on this page.

Is the SenseTime API ready for AI agents?

SenseTime has a Kin Score of 25.1 out of 100 (emerging) and an Agent Readiness score of 10.8 (agent-aware), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.

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