# Visual Layer

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/visual-layer/  
**Website:** https://visual-layer.com/  
**APIs profiled:** 1

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.

## Kin Score — 27.7 / 100 (emerging)

Scored 2026-08-17 under rubric 0.11.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 27.7).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 75.9 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 3.1 |
| Operational Transparency | 5.3 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 60.9 |
| Commercial Clarity | 34.2 |

## Agent readiness — 15.3 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| MCP Server | derived |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | documented |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | no |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: medium).

## APIs (1)

- **Visual Layer Cloud API** — 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...

## MCP servers (1)

- **visual-layer-mcp.yml**

## Security (2)

- **Visual Layer Authentication** — http/apiKey · 3 schemes
- **Visual Layer Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

## Tags

Company, Computer Vision, Machine Learning, Data Management, Dataset Curation, Unstructured Data, Images, Video, Semantic Search, AI

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