Visual Layer

aid: visual-layer
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: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source:
  - authentication
  - security
  generated: '2026-09-03'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/visual-layer.png
name: Visual Layer
description: Visual Layer is an AI-powered platform for managing, curating, and enriching large-scale unstructured visual
  data (images and video) at scales from gigabytes to petabytes. Its cloud and self-hosted products let teams organize, explore,
  deduplicate, quality-check, and semantically search visual datasets, then enrich them with vision AI models that generate
  captions, detect objects, and build embeddings for search. Visual Layer exposes a REST API — JWT-authenticated for the cloud,
  unauthenticated for on-premises — covering dataset creation from S3 or local files, visual and semantic search, enrichment,
  export, saved views with monitoring and alerting, snapshots, and task management. The company also maintains the popular
  open-source fastdup tool, is backed by Insight Partners, and was acquired by Camtek in 2025.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/visual-layer/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- insight-partners
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-21'
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-21'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 12
  pass: local-v1
tags:
- Company
- Computer-Vision
- Machine-Learning
- Data Management
- Dataset Curation
- Unstructured Data
- Image
- Video
- Semantic Search
- Artificial Intelligence
tags_raw:
- Company
- Computer Vision
- Machine Learning
- Data Management
- Dataset Curation
- Unstructured Data
- Images
- Video
- Semantic Search
- AI
apis:
- name: Visual Layer Cloud API
  description: REST API for dataset management, visual and semantic search, enrichment, export, saved views, snapshots, and
    task management. Cloud calls require a JWT bearer token; on-premises calls require no authentication.
  humanURL: https://docs.visual-layer.com/api-reference/api-intro
  baseURL: https://app.visual-layer.com
  tags:
  - Computer-Vision
  - Dataset Management
  - Semantic Search
  - Enrichment
  tags_raw:
  - Computer Vision
  - Dataset Management
  - Semantic Search
  - Enrichment
  properties:
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.visual-layer.com/api-reference/api-intro
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/visual-layer-authentication.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/visual-layer-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://visual-layer.com/
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://docs.visual-layer.com/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://docs.visual-layer.com/
- type: APIReference
  url: https://docs.visual-layer.com/api-reference/api-intro
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://docs.visual-layer.com/docs/introduction/introduction
- type: Quickstart
  url: https://docs.visual-layer.com/docs/quick-start/navigating-visual-layer
- type: Blog
  url: https://visual-layer.com/blog
- type: Support
  url: https://docs.visual-layer.com/docs/Help-Support/faqs
- type: Community
  url: https://discord.com/invite/tkYHJCA7mb
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/visual-layer
- type: SignUp
  url: https://app.visual-layer.com/free-trial
- type: Login
  url: https://app.visual-layer.com/login
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://docs.visual-layer.com/docs/terms-of-service
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://docs.visual-layer.com/docs/privacy-policy
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/visual-layer-llms.txt
- type: Packages
  url: packages/visual-layer-packages.yml
- type: SDKs
  url: packages/visual-layer-packages.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/visual-layer-authentication.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/visual-layer-problem-types.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/visual-layer-conventions.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/visual-layer-conformance.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/visual-layer-lifecycle.yml
- type: DataModel
  url: data-model/visual-layer-data-model.yml
- type: Components
  url: components/visual-layer-components.yml
- type: X-MCPServerCandidate
  url: mcp/visual-layer-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.'