Cloudglue

Cloudglue

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Cloudglue is a developer API that turns video into queryable context for AI. It transcribes speech, describes visuals, and extracts structured data so you can search or chat across hours of footage.

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About Cloudglue

What Is Cloudglue

Cloudglue is a video context layer built for developers who want AI to reason over video. It works as a video to text API and a broader video understanding API in one package. Instead of stitching together a speech-to-text service, a vision model, and your own storage layer, you call a small set of APIs that return transcript, speaker labels, visual descriptions, on-screen text, and audio details from the same video.

The product targets the messy part of video work. A two-hour recording is easy to store and hard to query. Cloudglue indexes it so your chatbot, search box, or reporting tool can pull specific moments with citations pointing back to the right timestamp.

Speed is its main selling point. The team says you can process two hours of video in about three minutes, and run queries across hundreds of files at once. The catch is that it's an infrastructure product with no consumer app. You need code, an API key, and a clear idea of what you're building.

Getting Started

  1. Sign up for a free account and copy your API key from the dashboard.
  2. Install a Python or JavaScript SDK, or connect through the MCP server if you use Claude, Cursor, or Windsurf.
  3. Upload a video, or point Cloudglue at a YouTube, TikTok, or Loom URL.
  4. Call the describe, extract, or search endpoints and read the structured JSON back.
  5. Chat across a whole collection once your files finish indexing.

Product Information

A quick look at Cloudglue's pricing, supported platforms, and performance.

Free PlanYes
Paid Plans$15 - $600 per credit pack
PlatformWeb (cloud API), Python SDK, JavaScript SDK
DeveloperCloudglue
CategoryVideo
Release DateJun 2025
Latest UpdatedJun 2025
Website Visits7.1K
Website Global Rank2.6M
API AvailabilityYes

Best for

The users, tasks, and scenarios where this tool fits best.

Users

  • Developers building AI products
  • Product teams adding video search
  • Data and research teams

Tasks

  • Building a video Q&A chatbot
  • Extracting structured data
  • Meeting and call analysis
  • Video knowledge bases

Scenarios

  • Turning a growing archive of sales calls into searchable notes
  • Making training or lecture videos answerable
  • Spotting specific faces or on-screen text in a large media library

Key features

Describe

Describe returns a moment-by-moment breakdown of a single video, covering transcript, diarization, visual descriptions, audio descriptions, sound, and on-screen text. It leans on multimodal AI to combine speech, visuals, and audio rather than text alone. You get the full picture of a video in one call, which saves you from running several separate models. It's the right starting point when you need every detail before deciding what to extract.

Extract

Extract pulls structured data out of videos using either a plain prompt or a custom schema you define. You can target one file or run it across a collection so every video returns the same fields. For teams that need consistent output, the schema approach is the difference between clean rows and a pile of paragraphs to parse by hand.

Search

Search adds semantic search over videos and segments using natural-language queries. Your users type what they're looking for and get back the clips that match, not just keyword hits. It runs on the same indexed corpus as chat, so you build the search layer once and reuse it everywhere.

Chat Completion

Chat Completion lets you build conversational tools that query, compare, and reason across hundreds of videos, with citations attached to each answer. That citation support matters when users need to verify a claim. A Responses API adds streaming, multi-turn support, and background processing for longer jobs.

Collections and Entity Schemas

Entity collections process many videos with a consistent schema, while media description collections organize footage for searchable multimodal transcription. Collection chat then works across an entire library. This is how you move from handling one file to treating thousands of hours as a single corpus.

Developer Tooling and Integrations

Cloudglue ships Python and JavaScript SDKs, an MCP server for Claude, Cursor, and Windsurf, webhooks for real-time processing notifications, and a browser playground. A built-in Schema Builder helps you design extraction schemas visually. The tooling keeps the integration light, so you spend time on your product rather than on plumbing.

Pros and cons

Pros

  • Multimodal by default, so transcript, visuals, and audio come from one pipeline instead of several.
  • Handles long videos and large collections without you managing infrastructure.
  • Full citations on answers make it practical for tools where users need to check the source.
  • Free tier with 200 credits and 25 minutes indexed, enough to test a real workflow.

Cons

  • No consumer app, so non-developers can't use it without someone building around the API.
  • Pricing runs on prepaid credit packs, which means you estimate volume up front rather than paying a flat monthly fee.
  • Model upgrades happen under the hood, so you don't pick the exact underlying model yourself.
  • Because everything depends on the API and your code, there's no off-the-shelf interface for quick one-off tasks.

Frequently asked questions

Cloudglue turns video into context AI can work with. Developers use it to build video Q&A chatbots, semantic search, and structured data extraction across large video libraries. It handles the transcript, visual, and audio layers so you don't build that stack yourself.